astolat

So since my LAST post:

- I caught a cold on vacation
- which turned into a sinus infection when we got home
- just as I felt better, husband caught a cold
- just as husband started to feel better, Hypatia caught a cold with fever
- right about this time I started having mysterious joint pain
- which was explained today when Hypatia's cold turns out to be FIFTH DISEASE and apparently I managed not to get it as a kid HA HA AWESOME

APART from the endless courses of disease I have also:

- (mostly) coded a webcam-based Python wand recognizer so we can use our Harry Potter Wizarding World wands at home to trigger IFTTT events

- ripped the bezel off a spare monitor and taken it to framing store so I can turn it into a wizarding family portrait

(NO REALLY IT'S GOING TO BE AWESOME LOOK:



- obtained (and now thrown out) a printer with invisible ink which instead of printing things in invisible ink just leaked invisible ink all over our lovely built-in office counter (fortunately, the ink is in fact invisible, so no one will ever know unless they tote along a blacklight for inspection)

PS if you think this is so I can print an invisible ink marauders map that will only appear in response to someone using their wand and solemnly swearing they are up to no good HOW DID YOU GUESS

(as I described all this in chat, elynross said, "I'm starting to get the feeling you have a deadline" HA HA HA it's like she knows me)

So yeah, I only just finished rewriting a script treatment a month and a half past when I said I would and have not touched my novel in a month. On the bright side when I finally reopened it today and re-read it, a quarter of the way through the first chapter I knew what was going to happen in the rest of the book, which I have been wondering for some time now, so that was nice.

Oh and I imported over sga_flashfic so if you have old links, update them! Also I banged in http://ao3.org/collections/sga_flashfic so please upload your stories to the AO3 and pop them into the collection! If you happen to be able to throw a few bucks at the AO3 for the fundraising drive that would be pretty cool too. I mention there is an AO3 HAT among the goodies and it says "You have already left kudos here" on it! <3 <3 <3

What I have NOT done: seen Fate of the Furious! So DO NOT SPOIL I!

GUYS how great was that show! SO GREAT! I have stayed up too late chatting and am wiped, but I am still buzzing and happy with how awesome the whole show was. There was not a single real dud for me, and I think it's because as I said after, even though not every vid was a vid of MY heart, it felt to me clearly that every vid came from SOMEONE'S heart.

My own heart-favorites were (unsurprisingly) sisabet's Clark/Lex vid in which they HAVE A BABY TOGETHER (it's not like that's straight from my id or anything cough), as well as the fantastic vid Satisfied for Underground by serrico, which was just a solid, straight-to-the-gut punch of a vid. Brilliant. I also really liked hollywoodgrrl's Aphrodisiac which spoke to my own headcanon of the Force as something vaguely scary you can turn on but you can't necessarily turn off, and also gwyn and cesperanza's Hallo Spaceboy Captain America vid, and milly's awesome The Martian vid to Pompeii.

But honestly, this year it's like picking from an embarrassment of riches. I can't wait to discuss ALL the vids tomorrow and I am full of glee. \o/ So much awesome Star Wars, all different! Jessica Jones! Scooby Doo! Dragon Age! haha I literally wept with laughter at the Sims vid. Such a terrific variety of types of vids also.

And here is MY vid, which will shock ALL OF YOU A LOT by being a Harry Potter vid (Draco POV, and Harry/Draco in my own head anyway).



Download link on the AO3, and tumblr post! Heaps of thanks to Ces for betaing, and as always all fb loved. :)

And now I am going to fall into bed! YAY

My story for the dracotops_harry challenge has been revealed (along with all the other stories, check them out at the AO3 collection)!



Newts (13926 words) by astolat
Chapters: 1/1
Fandom: Harry Potter - J. K. Rowling
Rating: Explicit
Warnings: Creator Chose Not To Use Archive Warnings
Relationships: Draco Malfoy/Harry Potter, Hermione Granger/Ron Weasley
Characters: Harry Potter, Draco Malfoy, Hermione Granger, Ron Weasley, Millicent Bulstrode, Minerva McGonagall, Luna Lovegood
Additional Tags: Post Hogwarts, except not, Epilogue What Epilogue, Professor Draco
Series: Part 5 of Harry Potter works
Summary:

“I’m twenty-eight!” Harry said. “I’ve been an Auror for ten years! You want me to go back to Hogwarts now?"

House Proud (23112 words) by astolat
Chapters: 1/1
Fandom: Harry Potter - J. K. Rowling
Rating: Mature
Warnings: Creator Chose Not To Use Archive Warnings
Relationships: Draco Malfoy/Harry Potter
Characters: Harry Potter, Draco Malfoy, Hermione Granger, Ron Weasley, Kreacher (Harry Potter), Horace Slughorn
Additional Tags: Post-War, EWE, Grimmauld Place, Malfoy Manor
Series: Part 3 of Harry Potter works
Summary:

His house liked Draco Malfoy more than him.

With heaps of thanks to lim and cesperanza! <3

OK, finally I can finish fandom snowflake day 4 and post a fanwork! Voila, the Harry/Draco timeshare story. Heaps of thanks to lim and cesperanza for beta! \♥/

Timeshare (14158 words) by astolat
Chapters: 1/1
Fandom: Harry Potter - J. K. Rowling
Rating: Mature
Warnings: Creator Chose Not To Use Archive Warnings
Relationships: Draco Malfoy/Harry Potter
Characters: Harry Potter, Draco Malfoy, The Dursleys, The Malfoys
Additional Tags: Canon What Canon, Summer, timeshare
Summary:

“It’s not for long,” Hermione said. “By the time we get back to Hogwarts, the Unfettering Brew will be ready.”

“Listen to you!” Ron said. “He’s got to get through a month with the Dursleys and a month at Malfoy Manor. With Draco Malfoy.”

“Yeah, thanks,” Harry said, because he hadn’t just spent the last week contemplating just how much more horrible his summer holidays were about to be than they’d ever been before.

IMPORTED SO FAR:

- all the missing AI:RPF fic and Glam RPF
- all the missing Merlin
- all the Stargate: Atlantis
- all the Harry Potter
- all the Entourage
- two Sherlock Holmes (bookverse)

106 stories! GO ME!

...also I seem to have backed up the mail queue, um. sorry? :P

Still to come: M&C, House, LA Confidential, Gladiator, Buffy, Sentinel, Highlander, Battle of the Planets, X-Men, ST:TNG, and a bunch of one-offs.

There is a live Haiti fundraiser webcast going on right now, sponsored by a bunch of Harry Potter fansites, with donated prizes from fans and sff pros and all sorts of other neat places:
http://www.thehpalliance.org/haiti/

You can donate (to Partners In Health) on the prizes page, and choose which prizes you want your donation to make you eligible to win (I *think* the idea is, you donate via the appropriate link and they will randomly choose one of the donors via that link to win):
http://www.thehpalliance.org/haiti/prizes/

\o/

late > never! I love this meme. <3

( Stories )

( Vids )

( End of the Year meme )

( Poll! )

When you see this, post a little weensy excerpt from as many random works-in-progress as you can find lying around. Who knows? Maybe inspiration will burst forth and do something, um, inspiration-y. gacked from halcyon_shift.

This is wildly self-indulgent because some of these may never get done, but I give in to temptation this far to reward myself for slogging away towards the deadline when really I want to be working on these. :> Also omg, how is it Vividcon in a WEEK.

( One SV, one HP xover, and eleven SPN )

Some history for this. Back in the year 2000, after Goblet of Fire and before the first movie, I had a few happy months in HP fandom, and among other things I wrote several connected stories in what I'm now calling The Scholomance Series. These stories didn't stand alone, the last one ended kind of brutally with blithe promises for a quick sequel, and from this I learned a very important lesson, which is that I can't post WIPs of any kind, because I cannot trust myself to stay in a fandom long enough to finish them.

Anyway, for the last seven years I've been trying to finish this last story -- I had about a quarter of it, and then it gradually got up to a half, and every so often I would take it out and noodle on it some more, usually after I got some fresh canon to get the motor running; at one point I even tried starting from scratch; but it just wouldn't go very far. I was about ready to give up, and earlier this week, resonant8 started clearing out her HP locker, and I decided yeah, it was time, I was going to just post it, whatever, and then I opened it up to do some formatting, and then boom, I finished it after all.

*takes victory lap, raised fists in the air*

(Oh, and then I turned the started-from-scratch version into an extra side-story.)

So, here it is, the whole thing (I suspect the new stories won't make sense without the old ones). Diverges wildly from canon after Goblet of Fire. Adult, explicit (in Prodigal), and bloody. Harry/Draco, Ron/Hermione, hints of other pairings.


The Scholomance Series

⊕ A RARE DESCENT ⊕ PASSING THROUGH ⊕ THE ELEVENTH DOORKEEPER ⊕
⊕ THE SEASONLESS WORLD ⊕ THE LAST VISIT ⊕ PRODIGAL ⊕

And here are the two new stories, with many thanks to, I am ashamed to admit, more betas than I now remember, although I know elynross looked at Prodigal along the way, and cesperanza has gone over them for me now. ♥

The Last Visit (588 words)
It has nothing to ask you. It has only something to say.
(Note: this story fits into Prodigal -- I think it works better read first, but it's not a standalone.)

Prodigal (13,850 words)
...his greatest terror was that someone would respond to him.

omg yay