Mia Ugly, that traitor

12:08 am: ( My Fiction Masterlist )

11:54 pm: Art rec
Anastasia Mantihora (the gorgeous artist behind the "Just Like Muggles" Snarry pic which totally destroyed my heart) has created an art piece based on my story "Rapture."  Check it out here.

I have to say - so much of the time when I see Snarry art, my eyes are all for Snape.  But the way she draws Harry is just ridiculous. I really - just - wow.

08:46 pm: SHERLOCK BETA humbly requested
Darlings, thank you so much for your best wishes/commiseration on my job situation.  All will be well will be well.  Or something.  I'm past the point of panic, well into the vicinity of fanfiction and wine (not the worst place to be).

I'm looking for a beta for a Sherlock fic (which is the first fic I've ever written for a fandom that didn't involve wizards making out.  It's a challenge, I know, however will I write sex without wands and lubrication spells?).  It isn't completely finished yet, but I've got nearly 40k, and it's almost there, and a second set of eyes would probably speed this process along.  Here comes the awkward part: (wince) North American (wince) highschool AU where one of our characters is still British and there will be sex and drugs and most likely rock and roll.  I'm looking for anyone willing to brit-pick/grammar-destroy/just give general feedback about whether or not teenage boys would be this mad in love with each other.  What is my life?

Love to all of you, and there is !Snarry! on the way, I swear to all the sexy wizard saints.

12:12 pm:  If I write some 'Inception' fanfic, is anyone going to read it?

Dammit, why can't I quit you?

12:06 am: poetry meme - when you see this, post a poem
 By the latest, greatest beat poet of them all.

Your Catfish Friend
If I were to live my life
in catfish forms
in scaffolds of skin and whiskers
at the bottom of a pond
and you were to come by
     one evening
when the moon was shining
down into my dark home
and stand there at the edge
     of my affection
and think, "It's beautiful 
here by this pond.  I wish
     somebody loved me,"
I'd love you and be your catfish
friend and drive such lonely 
thoughts from your mind
and suddenly you would be
     at peace,
and ask yourself, "I wonder
if there are any catfish
in this pond?  It seems like
a perfect place for them."

- Richard Brautigan (1968)

06:48 pm: This is a story about love.
 I cannot speak nor write about Haiti at this moment.  There are some things - I just have no words.  Please visit help_haiti and bid if you can.  I hear amand_r and eudaimon (heroes/objects of worship) are offering fic, among many others.

This has been kicking around my computer for awhile, and I haven't posted it until now, for some reason.  A long time ago, I participated in something miraculous called the Snarry Games.  At the end of my story, Rapture, two wizards made out in a garden.   This is what happened next.  It can be mostly understood without having read the first fic.  Mostly.

Dedicated to incomparable joan_wilder , the lovely djinn  (whom I owe expensive coffees) and fast9s - beta, muse, and constant darling.

( Blood (but also roses) )

11:03 pm: Thank you, thank you ziasudra_fic!

You are the sweetest! I wish I hadn't missed my chance to send some snowflakes in return!

12:42 am: Snarry Games Recs
Everyone probably knows that the Snarry Games are still going on right now.  I hope everyone also knows what fantastic artses and ficses are being posted this year by the valiant and ridiculously talented members of Team Snitch (ahem... my team... ahem...)

I shouldn't be drunkenly pimping (do not drink and pimp) but there are so many fics that blew my mind this year that I had to spread the Good News.

The Fourth Deathly Hallow by gingertart50If you've ever wanted to read the best HP/Sherlock Holmes crossover you've ever read in your life, now's your chance.  She is such an extraordinary author, and has created a completely believable and original world.  Though there is no sex (large sigh) the love story is completely captivating - heartwrenching, really.  I'm sorry I'm not more eloquent; I still haven't sufficiently recovered.

Rook Castling Kingside  by whitecottonI cannot begin to speak to the cleverness of this fic, or of its writer.  An HP what if? fic that makes perfect sense, seems more plausible than canon even.  You don't come for the plot, however, despite its brilliance; you come for whitecotton's exquisite writing and characterization and SEX!!!!  At one point during this story I lifted my hands to my face; I was physically moved by its beauty.  Gorgeous.

Come and read (and *cough* vote Team Snitch *cough*).  More recs will follow.  After sleep.  And caffeine.  And sleep.

09:58 pm: Snarry Games

I hope everyone is following the snarry_games posting.  There are some amazing stories and artwork  thus far, and I am SO HAPPY to be a part of it this year.  My fic has not been posted yet, but please - come on out and support these excellent writers and artists.  And of course, cheer for Team Snitch.  Remember it.  Team Snitch. 

Cause...you know...  Golden balls.

12:37 am: Hey everyone.  I know it has been a loooooog time since last I posted but I am looking for a beta for a new story.  Post DH Snarry, and only Part I is really ready to go, but the others will hopefully be along shortly, if I can get a little feedback.  I've got no deadlines, so there's no rush.  Let me know if you're interested.

Thanks so much!
Mia