Mischief Managed

The rest of England seems to be underwater but Hull is not (yet). Yay! I'm not sure why as it doesn't seem to have stopped raining for the last three years. I can't remember the last time I saw some sky.

emony just mentioned that she's sad that she's not going to Peg3 this weekend and so am I really. :( I've got no conventions lined up this year at all which is just not on. I know that the usual suspects have mentioned having a meet up at some point which I think we should definitely do.

( SGA "Quarantine" Spoilers )

For the first time in ages, I stayed up late on a school night reading McKay/Sheppard fic: Forget Me Not by maisierita. It's in five parts, pretty long, and it sucks you right in. It's prison fic and amnesia fic, but manages to make the clichés work really well. I sometimes forget that I love long and plotty stuff.

niannah and gambits_rogue collaborated again on an artword project which resulted in an amazing fic by niannah (and I'm not just saying that because I betaed it!) and video trailer for the fic by gambits_rogue. It's SGA and it's Ronon/Sheppard and McKay/Sheppard. The fic is gorgeous and I want to watch the vid repeatedly, and not only because the first shot of Sheppard is really, really hot...

(I wanted to title this post "fic and vid rec" but it made me look like I was terminally unable to complete a word.)

'tinternet seems to be a bit better this evening. Can't get through to ntl though so I'll have to try again tomorrow.

I'm going to take a break from my busy schedule of lifting bits of burnt stuff and generally getting covered in muck (my hair has never been washed so much - having a dirty scalp is not my idea of fun) to rec a fic by niannah: Survival. It's a beautiful piece with Ronon learning about different kinds of survival. And I always like seeing my OTPs from an outsiders point of view - in this case, McKay/Sheppard. gambits_rogue also did some beautiful cover art for it.

Ack. The skin on my hands is so rough that it's catching on my dressing gown. Moisturiser!!

One day I'll catch up with reading my f-list. One day.

• Yay! I'm off on a wee holiday for the rest of the week. I'm heading off down south with a couple of friends until Sunday and we're going via Salisbury so that we can see Stonehenge as none of us have ever been before. I'd better finish packing my toiletries and remember what else I've forgotten to get. So far I've remembered I have no toothpaste to take with me - but I do have camera film. D'oh.



• niannah's just posted a lovely series of interconnected Sirius/Remus drabbles that hurt: To The End



• To the new folk I gathered yesterday - hello and goodbye! I would have done a 'hello, this is me' post but I haven't got time now. Actually, that's a lie. I wouldn't have because I'm far too lazy.



• Why can't the predictive text on my mobile spell 'Luddite'? Rubbish.

ETA: Little cat Bean has just discovered her pink jingly ball again. I'd forgotten that by the time it gets to bonfire night, she has decided that it's too cold and scary to go out in the evening so she tortures us all chasing that ball up and down the hard wood floor.

While I'm on a cat update - we haven't seen the field cats for a week or so. Apparently some crazy lady at the bottom of the hill is feeding them. Perhaps she doesn't realise that these cats have luxury as far as farm cats go - they have their own caravan and a fluffy basket for goodness sake! They're still around - people have seen them and the food is being eaten - but I saw a few rats last week so they're obviously not around enough.

I'm pretty monogamous when it comes to HP fic - mostly nothing but Sirius/Remus for me (as if you didn't know) and nothing Trio era at all. But I just read the most amazing Cedric Diggory fic and I love it so very, very much and it makes me so very, very sad for what happens to him. What is Right and What is Easy by hackthis. Wow.

I've finally finished sorting my bedroom out now. My giant desk, giant shelves on my giant desk and my giant chair are all tidy and up and running. (and how can I forget my giant bed that I've had nearly a year now). I have candles too. And also the last of my bottle of vanilla vodka. And some long Sirius/Remus fic that the lovely niannah recced to me. And my fossil ammonite on the shelf in front of me. (Why does this Semagic spell check not recognise ammonite as being a correct word? Bah.)

I should post pictures of my giant furniture. And the stone painted like a cat that my friend got me for my birthday. I also should do a phone post one of these days so you can all marvel at my dreadful accent.

Yis folks, it's true, I've been at the vodka. Can you tell?

ETA: niannah has just posted a gorgeous Sirius/Remus ficlet - Three Consecutive Octobers. Marauder era getting together fic. My favourite.

I've got tickets to see Serenity in Nottingham on the 20th of September!! Yay! How cool is that!

Another rec from me: I finally got around to reading prankstersguide. It's a (mostly) Marauder era collaboration with fics centered around a book the Marauders wrote called the Pranksters Guide. It's hilarious in some places and quite poignant in others. And one of the only places where I've seen Peter as Scabbers fic.

I finally got my mp3 player replaced yesterday and spent ages yesterday putting all the music back on. Hopefully this will last a bit longer than eight months... I'm a bit worried because as I said a few entries back, it seems like I'm not the only one that this has happened too. Bugger. I still love the little thing though and it keeps me entertained on the bus to work.

I think I may try and ride Oscar tomorrow. He's got some shoes back on, I've been giving him anti-inflammatory stuff and the ground is a bit softer now so hopefully he'll be ok. We'll see.

I've just looked back at my entries for the past month or so and none of them are much longer than a paragraph! I quite clearly suck at journalling. And I still don't have anything to say despite realising that. Ah well. I never seem to really say anything much about my personal life any more. Then again, I've never pretended that this journal was anything more than shallow fannish squee. I kept wanting to say something about the terrible devastation and tragedy that Hurricane Katrina left in its wake but I just didn't have the words. I can't understand how the rescue operations took so long and were such a mess but I'm very glad to see that the people are finally getting help.

I know I only just linked to a Sirius/Remus crack fic the other day but I just read Harry Potter and the Missing Text by minnow_53 and laughed my head off.

A senior editor at Bloomsbury has recently admitted that she often pressed the Delete key by accident when scrolling down text to be revised in the Harry Potter books. We can now bring you certain passages that were cut as a result, and show them in context at last ...

1. Prisoner of Azkaban, p. 252.

‘Next moment, he had walked to Black’s side, seized his hand, pulled him to his feet so that Crookshanks fell on the floor, and embraced Black like a brother.’

Sirius returned the hug with enthusiasm, deepening and extending the contact between the two men until their mouths met in an ardent, hungry kiss that seemed, to the watching children, to last forever ...

Mwah! I seem to have done an awful lot of fic reading in the last week. It's great.

Urgh. Back at work. I still feel rather shitty and keep coughing a lung up every so often but I do feel better. In protest of being back at work and having to spend an hour (!) going through email I just did a wee bit of fic reading. I just read musesfool's last offering for dogdaysofsummer - Seasons - Sirius/Remus of course and it's just lovely.

I'm up for reccing science fiction novels this month over on cracked_spines and I've started with Use of Weapons by Iain M Banks. I think I've just about decided what else I'm going to pimp but I keep changing my mind!

And just in case you missed it: the massive Sirius/Remus fic rec list that I posted yesterday.

ETA: And bloody hell, it's August already. How the hell did that happen?!