Title: The Lingering
Characters: Walden MacNair/unidentified female
Rating: NC-17
Warnings: necrophilia, character death, torture, noncon, snuff, spanking...
Word Count: 1075
Summary: People thought- wrongly, Walden knew- that methods not birthed in green light were just as final, just as crisp. But he knew how some bodies held something, he didn't know how to identify it, but something lingered.
Author's notes: So, this was written in 40 minutes in the middle of the Prison Break Ball at Azkatraz when I remembered today was my posting day at daily_deviant... And this did cause my poor girlfriend to have another squicked flail of "OMG! I dating pre_raphaelite1!" (yes, she uses my username for this flail.) This month's theme was necrophilia and once again, no one else had written it by the time it was my turn to post which means I had to do it, so blame all the other D_D writers for this one. :P

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"The Lingering"

I have just nearly been killed by a cheeseburger at Azkatraz' welcoming feast. It was completely raw on the inside and I do like rare beef, but this was raaaaaaaaaaaaaw. Squick.

I've gotten to see LittleBlackBow, Dacro, Amanuensis1, RedDwarfer, TwilightSorcery, Xylodemon, and tons others that I've currently forgotten in my post-raw ground beef haze. :P

And now, I'm about to head to the craft fair to sell my plush squid! Tomorrow are my talks and a panel on Monday.

Say hello if you're new! Or if you're old. :P

flesh/fleshdress has passed on hp_fairytales to yours truly!

I am toying with multiple posting options and will be generating a poll before much longer

Just wondering how everyone is! So, tell me. How are you? :D

Courtesy of imochan! Go over HERE and enjoy the Old School REmus/Sirius love!!!

And here, these are my recs from my start in fandom (mostly from 2005)!


wildestranger told me to come here and god, what love at the height of R/S insanity! So I'll throw a few recs from other old timers, all pulled from my first set LJ memories.

My favourite story ever: Mapmakers by Casira (Still makes me cry)

The rest in no particular order:
"And Then There was One" by citikitti.
"Masked Revels" and "Stealing Harry" by sam/copperbadge
"Bambi Springs", "Consequences", and "Suavant Latine" by shaggydogstail
"Collared" and "Domestic Bliss" by sethkyne_blue.
"Abner of Astlegate's Most Splendid Pox" by sheafrotherdon
"So we’ll go no more a roving", "A Thing of Dark Imaginings", and "A Satyr Against Reason" by wildestranger
"Oh, Night and Divine" by imochan
"Letters from the Dead" by fleur-de-liz
"Funny Thing" and "The Line is Fine" by kabeyk
"A Lesson in Palmistry" by _emeraldgreen
"In the Winter of You're Gone" by blacksatinrose

All of these were from the days where RemusXSirius wasn't filled with teenaged badfic writers.

I am in the midst of end of the quarter grading and have paused to share some gems with you. These span a couple of assignments but basically this class is about semiotics, analysis, and interpretation of fairy tales.



The Gentlemen are known as monsters because they kill people and take the hearts; this is one of the taboos that the society has acknowledged that is inhumane. Therefore, anyone who kills and takes the heart from another person is considered a monster.
There go my weekend plans.

( The circular logic... it burrrrrrns! )

More later, I'm sure.

Fucking, FUCKING California. SERIOUSLY. WTF? I wish I could get the energy to be livid but I'm just so goddamn depressed about this.

I'm wearing my PRincess Bride shirt today... it originally read "Death can not stop true love." But now? I've added a large label over "death" so it reads "The supreme court can not stop true love." Fuckers.

The only thing that's made today worth getting out of bed? This quote from a student's essay on LIttle Red Riding Hood:

"[The huntsman] cuts [the wolf] open, rescues Riding Hood and the grandma, then drags the dead carcass to his house to nail."
Necrophilia for the win.

For emiime's birthday. A bit belated but with extra adoration. I hope you enjoy it as it did its own thing.


Title: "Shoulders"
Pairing: Sirius/Harry
Rating: R
Warnings/Kinks: Nothing particular? Fixation on a single body part. A bit drifty (but on purpose!)
Summary: Sirius doesn't want to look. Doesn't want to notice or see. And most of all he doesn't want to think.


( Shoulders )

So I'm teaching two courses on fairy tales this quarter and while I'm used to teaching remedial college writing and this is actually the highest level in the writing program, my students are disappointing by and large. I have a couple really fabulous students, two who are impressive and one of the fun sorts who is content to intelligent snark in class (ie, someone just like I was in class).

This last student actually told me last class that I should take classes in stripping for exercise. I sort of stared at her for a moment then laughed and pointed out that I was not going to dwell on the implications of either the exercise portion of that, or that a student just told me I should learn how to become a stripper. My beloved Magpie was next to me and it was apparently all she could do to keep from commenting, "You're making a big assumption in thinking she doesn't know how." *knows nothing about pole dancing, stripclubs, or working as a professional dominatrix on the advice of her shrink*

In addition to that level of fun, I'm grading essays today. Six page analysis/interpretation of a child's picture book of a fairy tale. I've had an impressive one, one good one, two mediocre ones, and one complete shite so far. I wish I could give I, G, M, and S as grades sut to give myself sadistic glee. thegildedmagpie's mum was an English teacher for years, teaching high school, so we have great times talking and she actually just bought me two nice red pens for me, as I was muttering about the scratchiness of the one I had. Such a lovely woman!

And finally, the reason I opened up my journal here, this line from the current essay:

[Sleeping Beauty's dress] accents the princess' small waste, which is extremely attractive in society's average male.

*sporfles and falls off the bed*

Oi. Anyone looking for a fun bit of RolePlaying? Something with a low level of required play? Somewhere you can bring ANY character from ANY fandom?

Check out bearandbarnacle!

I'm the co-mod there and we've got characters landing in present day Margate from HP, Turchwad (sorry, it's Sam's fault I call it this), Slayers, Buffy, Canterella, Mary Poppins, and Shakespeare to name a few. Each character comes from their own idiosyncratic universe from whatever point in time you choose so you can bring in YOUR Harry or YOUR James Bond or YOUR Elphaba and see what happens.

There's no lengthy mod-decided plot or heavy goal. It's there for some fun and creative play. Every month the mods offer up one topic and one event for people to respond to. You can pick one or the other! If you play multiple characters you can rotate months for them! Currently the topic is "Technology" and the Event is Age Play!

So come play with Iago from Othello, Xellos from Slayers, or Cesare from Canterella! How about Mary Poppins or Sherlock Holmes or the Joker? We have quite a few HP characters as well, like a postwar Lucius and a 6 year Tonks.

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I... just read a couple fics on LJ's RemusXSirius... Why?!

*whines and rinses brain with soap*

I really thought- "Hey, maybe it's gotten better? Maybe it's not all crap." And maybe it's not. But the three I just read? Crap. *siiigh* I feel dirty now.

It's really a shame. It has SUCH a high number of members (nearly 4,000) and I'll admit to being a bit of a feedback whore. But more than that, I am fairly confident of my R/S and think many would actually ENJOY my fics.... For the good of puppyshipping kind and all that. But the whole comm still seems awash in BADfic... and a lot of readers/writers don't seem to be aware of this.

*grumbles and clings to iJ*

Incidentally, I should go do a couple posts at the iJ RxS... though I think everyone there is on my F-list. :P

Title: "What's Your Problem?"
Pairing: Remus/Sirius, with side dishes of James, Peter, and McGonagall's knickers
Rating: NC-17
Warnings/Kinks: Dirty Talk. Drunkenness. Exhibitionism. Ridiculous Marauders. More drunkenness. Masturbation, mutual masturbation, fingering, fisting.
Word Count: 2700
Summary: Remus shrugged a little before continuing. “But regardless, James is right. Your arse is, so far, very useless. I think that needs to change.”
“It is not! It does perfectly normal arsely things. There is no need for change. None at all,” Sirius asserted with a slightly uncordinated flail of his arms and some odd curling of his hands which Remus took to be Drunken Black Sign Language (By no means Universal) to mean “arsely”.
Author's notes: Oh to be ficcing again after hp_april_fools! This was one of those fics that did its own thing and used me as its typing bitch. So all silliness is the fault of the fic. And the drunken Marauders. *nodnod* Okay- it's totally my fault but at least it's not Hagrid/Fang snot fic? Again.

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"What's Your Problem?"

I am back among the blogging living. hp_april_fools is over for another year. That shit takes it out of me. It's awesome and wonderful and exhausting. I definitely need to recruit another mod for next year. *nodnod*

I am not doing Lusty Month of May this year which feels a bit odd. I might run again next year, with more BPAL ficlets, but this year I just have too much going on.

I am, however, going to Azkatraz in July and am starting to get excited! I've done done an HP con since 2007's Sectus. *twitches from withdrawl* I will be there with girlfriend thegildedmagpie and best friend clumsy_goddess and will be in costume every day. This means I've sewing to do... including 3, yes 3, Quidditch costumes. *headdesks* I'm giving two lectures this year, one on Victorian Womanhood in HP and one on Fairy Tales in FanFic. Then I'm apparently playing on a Motherhood panel as well. When I'm not flouncing about in shiny, swishy clothes or beating people with brooms or giving exciting lectures which will no doubt involve me saying 'fuck' at least twice; I will be hosting a Squid-adopt-athon at the craft faire. You too want your very own Giant Squid "stuffed" by pre_raphaelite1.

I think that's the current news.

Oh, and thanks to wildestranger, I also have a Dreamwidth account. So feel free to add me over there if you like. I'm not planning on moving. What about you lot?

Also, who is going to Azkatraz?

So, I am teaching two uni courses on fairy tales this quarter and in the course of a discussion on Little Red Riding Hood and social taboos, I found myself asking my class the following:

Why is it okay to eat Jesus and not your grandmother?!