The Varied Insanities of Melfina the Blue

( Master Fic List Current as of October 8, 2008 (And going back to July 10, 2007) )

This journal is more my fandom and writing journal than anything else. My LJ is much more rambling and personal. If you want an archive, go hit up the melfinastories comm on LJ). You might also try the petulant poetess or just hit the Master List above, and the monthly writing roundup tags for anything written since the Master List was last updated.
Oh, and for a bit of pimpage...

Because I participated 5 times (snerk)

Also, My 25 prompts table for more Malfoy goodness.

So, um, not dead. Just haven't written in over a year, and life as a caretaker is kinda boring. There's been much knitting, some World of Warcraft playing (and blogging), and some trying to be a better person.

I am twittering, mostly because I found this neat extension that sticks twitter inside chrome. Most of my twitters seem to involve coffee. I blame the time-change and late-night raiding. I am melfina the blue there too. If you also twitter, feel free to add me and I'll add you back.

I have signed up for the lucius big bang because well, it's a fest involving Lucius. How could I not sign up? I do not expect it to be a repeat of the magic that was luciusfqf, but it will mean I get at least one fic out of my brain and on to paper. I am vaguely alarmed that the protofic is threatening to turn epic, but I am hopeful I can squash that.

In other news, I live in one of the top ten most affluent areas in the USA, and one of only 2 in the Southeast. I find it rather amusing that a) I am broke, and b) if I hadn't lived here my entire life, I couldn't afford to live here. I am also highly amused that about half the list is in California, the disaster state. It really does seem like every year, and sometimes more than once a year, there's some disaster there. Fires, earthquakes, mud slides.... At least in GA we manage to spread our disasters out a bit more.

Still job-hunting, grad school applying, and wowing. Occasionally knitting, but mostly my free time is wow. I appear to have lost more weight, judging by the increase in loose skin.

I saw Alice (I got a free pass for standing around outside the theater in Victorian dress) and I liked it. It was not the greatest thing ever, and I am not overly thrilled with the new subtext, but it was visually enjoyable and Depp's changing accent actually seemed intentional to me, a way to signal a personality shift.

Ooh, and I finally saw Peter Pan with Jason Isaacs (yes, I fail as an Isaacs fan, but in my defense I like to spread out the happy). Hook and Lucius have a lot in common, and it did lead me to the conclusion that I like his villains best. Next on the list is the Patriot, though I may need alcohol to get through that.

The Poem meme. I grabbed my quotation book, and this was the first poem (or possibly excerpt) that I came across, so I figured it worked. He's noy my favorite poet (TS Eliot) or my second or third favorite, but the words are powerful.

From thee all human actions take their springs,
The rise of empires, and the fall of kings!
See the vast theatre of time display'd,
While o'er the scene succeeding heroes tread!
With pomp the shining images succeed,
What leaders triumph, and what monarchs bleed!
Perform the parts thy Providence assigned,
Their pride, their passions to thy ends inclin'd:
A while they glitter in the face of day
Then at thy nod the phantoms pass away;
No traces left of all the busy scene,
But that remembrance says - the things have been!
Samuel Boyse

Dear Muse,

You appear to have jumped the shark. You have taken a nice post War Lucius/Harry with a possible side order of Lucius/Severus/Harry and turned it into well, I don't know what.

I admit I had something to do with it. I probably shouldn't have watched Cloverfield while trying to write. But I am fairly certain the world does not need nor want a Harry Potter/Cloverfield crossover. Granted the idea of a monster attacking London does have some appeal, and it is by no means a stretch to assume that the Ministry would blame Death Eaters and lock them all back up, but really, Harry outing Lucius and then quitting his job as an Auror to take care of him after the other Aurors do horrible things to him? And why, oh why, does Lucius now have a long braid like that guy from Gundam Wing? Yes, I know they both have the same hair color and they both wear masks, but that is not the point!

I am not feeding you any chocolate till you give me my nice simple post war fic back.

Sincerely,
Melfina

PS-> the tentacle idea is RIGHT OUT! I've prompted over at the tentacle fest and someone else will write it. Not me. Are we quite clear on that?

PSPS->And no, I will not write a crack fic along those lines either. Nor will there be a magical accident, uncontrollable tentacles, and random penetration. Did you see what I said above about jumping the shark? It's not a good thing!

So watching OotP again while drunk has put some interesting ideas in my head...

Does anyone else hear Lucius say "I can show you everything." and immediately think "And yes you can, preferably with Severus' able assistance. It's amazing how many things they leave out of sex ed. Oh, and Draco may want to join in, but since you've been having fun stalking him, I assume you have no problem with that." -> Obviously I am severely warped, but it is fun. *giggle*

And I so want to write a fic where Harry calls Lucius Lucious. Just because I can. Now back to the movie, the wine, and downloading Lucius wallpapers. I have a computer with no Lucius pictures. If that's not a crime against fandom, I don't know what is.

Title:My Life Among the Death Eaters, part 1 of I have no idea
Characters:Lucius Malfoy, Abraxas Malfoy, and whoever else decides to show up
Warnings:Will likely turn smutty. May turn violent. I blame Lucius, and I don't really know where he's going with this.
Plot Summary:Near the end of his life, Lucius decides to put pen to paper and set a few things straight. This is the result.
Author's Note: This popped into my head and demanded to be written. I'm not sure how long it'll be, or where it's going, or anything about it really. I do see it more as excerpts rather than one big continuous whole.
( Fic here )

Okay, need to get back in the habit of checking comments. Anyway, inamac requested pictures, so here you go...
( Pictures )

In practical terms I've lost 90 pounds, gone from a 2x top to a large top and from a 3x bottom to a 16 bottom. My shoe size has changed, as has my ring size, and I've lost some hair (it's starting to come back). Also, yes those are just finished socks I'm holding.

Okay, so this place is a bit more dust-filled than I remember.

Let's see, in the past six months I've...
dropped to under 200 pounds
got a dog
started seriously looking for a job
knitted some socks
played a lot of WoW
started updating my tech skills
joined a Revolutionary War reenactment group

and done very little writing.

I may have a puppy!


Precious Prudence
Adult Female
Cavalier King Charles Spaniel

Precious Prudence is a 6-year-old, 23-pound Cavalier King Charles Spaniel. She has a beautiful black-and-tan coat and a sweet disposition. Prudence came to us from a large-scale commercial breeding operation in another state. She is easy-going and gentle. Prudence is a happy girl who along well with other dogs and enjoys the company of people. She is calm, loving, friendly and affectionate. In short, this is one lovely dog who will make someone a great low-key companion. It’s time for her to find that special quiet home where she will be loved and appreciated for years to come.

We saw her at Petco today and fell in love. Oddly enough, it was a complete spur of the moment thing. Mom and I had gone to Whole Foods, and as we were leaving we heard barking. Petco has adoption saturdays, so we decided to go look. She was the first dog I saw.

App is in, and I should know sometime this week. She's a puppy mill dog, which brings an interesting set of challenges, but she is such a sweetheart. She's shy of people approaching her and will flinch a bit when you reach to pet her, but loves being talked to and held. Her name will be changed, so feel free to offer suggestions.

Title:Penance
Characters:Draco Malfoy, Lucius Malfoy
Rating:PG-13 for spanking
Summary: Draco has a lot of things to work out when he comes home after 6th year.
( Read more... )

There was fic this week. I know you're all stunned. But fic is on lappy, and I am on desktop, so that will come later. Instead, I am swiping a vid from asnowyowl because I laughed so hard I hurt myself.
( Warning, not WORK SAFE, but hysterical )

In other news, the remix redux is going on, so you should go sign up. I will not be because the muse appears to be stress-driven right now, plus I want to get Iron Torturer and the Janitor Globe fics written.

I did get to see Star Trek and it was awesome and they had a promo box thing for the new HP movie and I squeed. Draco learned the Lucius look! YAYS! Now, if you'll excuse me, I need to get back to plotting how to kidnap both of them....

Healing well, sick of soft food. The slope of my upper stomach is now concave instead of convex, which makes me happy. I'm going with slow and steady is a) better for me, and b) more likely to stick.
I have been doing some writing, and wowing, and reading, and knitting, and um, walking. Way too much walking.

I found this drabble/beginning of a fic while cleaning out My Documents this morning, and I'm not sure where it was meant to go, but it's funny. So, I'm posting it. If you want to write more of it, feel free. Personally, I'm a bit too distracted by WoW (dude, I'm raiding) and the Arthur Weasley shouldn't run an economy fic. But the Draco/Harry interaction of this one cracks me up, so I must preserve it for posterity....

"Look Potter, you're the one who lost the bet. Just deal with it."

"I feel like an idiot."

"Well, that's your problem, not mine. After all, if you didn't want to do this, you shouldn't have let me choose the stakes. You're gay, my father is gay, and since the Cannons lost the cup, you have to go on a date with him."

"Does it ever occur to you that setting your father up is more than a little twisted, not to mention immoral?"

"Morality is for lesser creatures. I'm a Malfoy."

"You're cracked is what you are."

"Doesn't matter. I have my reasons and you're doing it."

"He's married!"

"Divorced, depressed, oh and his best friend died. He needs some cheering up and you're just the person to do it."

"This is so far beyond insane. How the hell are you going to get him to agree to this?"

"I have my ways. Now, Friday, be at the Manor at six. He hates tardiness."

"It's not like I care what your father thinks of me, Malfoy."

"If he doesn't have a good time, I am entitled to a forfeit. And I think parading you around in a schoolgirl costume would be a lovely one."

Harry blushed bright red.

"You wouldn't dare."

Draco leaned forward.

"Not only would I dare, I'd vanish your underwear."

"You're sick."

"Just do it, Potter."

"I hate you so much, Malfoy."

"It's mutual, Potter. Now, try to wear something semi-decent, will you? And wash behind your ears."

Harry sighed.

"Yes, mum."

"Potter, if I was your mum, I would have drowned you at birth. Just be there. Now if you'll excuse me, I have a meeting to get to."

Draco sauntered off, and once again Harry swore never ever to drink to excess. When he was drunk he did stupid things, like make an unwinable bet with Malfoy. Damn Malfoy.

Hi guys. Yes, I know I've been away forever. There has been no writing, sadly, or much else. Just studying for the GREs and trying to figure out the surgery thing. And WoW, which is doing an excellent job keeping me sane, especially after bombing on the GREs (I HATE THAT TEST!)

It's been a great spring, so instead of an actual life update or fic, I give you one perfect bloom.


More pretty garden pics thisaway

I need to face up to some things. I'm not coping, and I haven't been for a while. Hiding will not solve anything, I know that. But when it takes all my energy just to make a few phone calls, it's hard not to hide. I try writing, and it sucks. (Okay, so it may not really suck, but articulate communicative Harry is a problem, one I can't seem to fix).

I've thought for a long time that I was doing fine, getting better in fact. I think that had more to do with the terrific support I have now than anything else. I think also that the stress from my job was hiding this. Without my job, I have to deal with it.

I have drs' appts set up. As much as I don't want to be on meds for my screwed-up brain for the rest of my life, I need to accept that may in fact be the case. I'm trying to make some positive changes in my life, and meds are probably going to be a big part of that.

I don't know what I'm going to do about fests. I have completely screwed over dearsanta, which I feel horrible about. I've screwed up a lot of things, and I need to fix them, but first I need to fix me. If I struggle with the simple act of getting out of bed in the morning, I'm not going to make any headway.

I guess what I'm trying to say is that lj or ij may not see much from me for a while. If anything big happens I'll let you know, but unless I write something insanely silly to cheer myself up, there is unlikely to be any writing for a while.

Hugs to all of you!

(PS-> I may or may not hide from email for a bit. So if I don't answer comments right away, please do not be alarmed.)

Merry Christmas to all and to all a good night!

And to me more beer and higher serotonin levels.

Stupid brain.

I got nothing. Or rather I have many things, including the wonder that is hulu.com, a great deal of alcohol, and a Lucius/Harry where Lucius seduces Harry in 3rd year (because he'll be damned if he touches Draco but young boys are so hawt), and goes on from there. There is a great deal of the use "arse slut" to describe Harry. This, like most of my fic ideas, exists merely to entertain me, since if I tried to write it, Lucius would probably be all angsty and "God, I do not want to be my father" instead of ooh, porn!
I also have two blogs (one knitting, one WoW) and a twitter account. Where I talk about WoW. It is probably very sad that most of my accomplishments on a day to day basis involve WoW, but since I have had a bottle and a half of wine, I do not care. Should you actually care about any of the aforementioned things, I give you...
The WoW Blog
The Knitting Blog
or The Twitter thing

I sincerely hope that all of you have a merry holiday (whatever holiday you prefer) and a Great New Year!

Can you tell that I've had a bottle and a half of wine because gorram it, no painkillers on Earth were touching these cramps? Serious, the stuff that puts my mom to sleep in 5 minutes flat did nothing. (For those wondering, I had all drugs at least 6 hours before I touched the wine. I like my liver, after all.)
Hugs to all and to all a surfeit of good alcohol and/or a good night!
(I would wish you all a surfeit of Lucius, but I understand that there are some heathens who do not see the wonderful squee of him. To those I wish a surfeit (hopefully involving nudity) of the character(s) of your choice.)

These are the top 106 books most often marked as "unread" by LibraryThing’s users. As in, they sit on the shelf to make you look smart or well-rounded. Bold the ones you've read, italicize the ones you read for school, underline the ones you started but didn't finish."

Jonathan Strange & Mr Norrell
Anna Karenina- I've tried three times. I figure reading War and Peace, the Sebastopol Scetches, and Resurrection counts
Crime and Punishment
Catch-22
One Hundred Years of Solitude
Wuthering Heights
The Silmarillion
The Name of the Rose
Don Quixote
Moby Dick
Ulysses
Madame Bovary
The Odyssey
Pride and Prejudice
Jane Eyre
A Tale of Two Cities
The Brothers Karamazov
Guns, Germs, and Steel
War and Peace
Vanity Fair
The Time Traveler's Wife
The Iliad
Emma
The Blind Assassin
Zatoichi
The Kite Runner
Mrs. Dalloway
Great Expectations- I've tried. Evil evil book
American Gods
A Heartbreaking Work of Staggering Genius
Atlas Shrugged
Reading Lolita in Tehran
Quicksilver Exposition
Wicked
The Canterbury Tales
The Historian
A Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man
Love in the Time of Cholera
Brave New World
The Fountainhead
Foucault's Pendulum
Middlemarch
Frankenstein Also read for class, but read for pleasure first
The Count of Monte Cristo
Dracula
A Clockwork Orange
Anansi Boys
The Once and Future King
The Grapes of Wrath
The Poisonwood Bible
1984
Angels & Demons
The Inferno I read the Purgatorio of my own volition afterwards
The Satanic Verses
Sense and Sensibility
The Picture of Dorian Gray
Mansfield Park
One Flew Over the Cuckoo’s Nest
To the Lighthouse
Tess of the D’Urbervilles
Oliver Twist
Gulliver's Travels
Les Misérables
The Corrections
The Amazing Adventures of Kavalier and Clay
The Curious Incident of the Dog in the Night-Time
Dune
The Prince
The Sound and the Fury
Angela's Ashes
The God of Small Things
A People’s History of the United States
Cryptonomicon
Neverwhere
A Confederacy of Dunces
A Short History of Nearly Everything
Dubliners
The Unbearable Lightness of Being
Beloved
Slaughterhouse-five
The Scarlet Letter
Eats, Shoots & Leaves
The Mists of Avalon
Oryx and Crake
Collapse
Cloud Atlas
The Confusion
Lolita
Persuasion
Northanger Abbey
The Catcher in the Rye
On the Road
The Hunchback of Notre Dame
Freakonomics
Zen and the Art of Motorcycle Maintenance
The Aeneid
Watership Down
Gravity's Rainbow
The Hobbit
In Cold Blood
White Teeth
Treasure Island
David Copperfield

I played Movie potluck yesterday. Basically you show up at a theater and pick a movie there based mostly on showtimes. My choices ended up being Twilight and Nobel Son. I picked Nobel Son, and it was wonderful.

It's well, hard to sum up. You have an arrogant philandering professor who wins the Nobel Prize. And then his son gets kidnapped. The plot twists and turns and is really clever. A good cast, and Alan Rickman! And he has such wonderful lines, like "I want to rip all those clothes off" or words to that effect.

But even if you aren't a fan of his, you should still go see it. There's a bit of action, but mostly it's a clever psych movie, where no one is quite what they seem at the beginning.

*wanders off to keep working on job apps*