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 melfinastories (which gets updated every so often or hit 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.

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.
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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*

Pimping things...
One, snapedom. Awesome comm, and they're now doing a Yule party. If you love Snape, you should be there.
Two, drapery/snarco fest. Yes, I signed up for another fest. Yes, I am an idiot. But Snape and Draco and Harry just go so well together.
Three, I can now claim my dark_fest fic. I think I will attempt to do a deconstruction of it at some point, since I have quite a few things to say about it. It is INCREDIBLY dark, and a tearjerker. Or at least it made me cry.
Four, yule_balls is ongoing. Go forth and read!
Fifth (not really a pimp, but I know someone will be interested)
Star Trek Steampunk Wallpapers.

And I figured I'd do this again... Guess which fic I wrote for Yule Balls and I'll write one for you. I think I'll do this for every anon fest I do from now on. Note, Yule Balls fic may or may not have appeared yet.

My victories may be small, but cool nonetheless.
( The latest saga under cut )
Long (very geeky) story short, I made Ubuntu install and work on my laptop. With no knowledge of the terminal interface beyond ifconfig (and my basic networking commands like ping).

In other news, Yule Balls has started. Next up for me is dear santa (research is underway) followed by Wizard Love (unless my email is lying to me and I've forgotten a fest). We're not going to discuss how possible that is.
Oh, and while doing research I finished my election scarf and took a really bad picture of it.

Okay guys, since I have been remarkably uninteresting of late, I offer a challenge. Dark_fest has finished posting, and I am curious to see if anyone can identify my fic. Reveal is up on Wednesday, so you have between now and then to guess, and the one who gets it (or comes closest) gets a fic. You pick the pairing, you pick the prompt, and I'll even wander outside HP fandom for you.

If multiple people guess right, then I'll do my best to write something for all of you! Please leave guesses in comments to this post (comments will be screened).

I thought this might amuse someone...

I'm applying to grad school, and one of the things I needed was my GRE scores. I knew I had taken the exam one summer, but couldn't remember my scores.
Thank god for LJ. I posted them (though not my writing score) and my post also indicates test date. Now if only I had one of the 4 magic numbers I need to order score reports. Like 4 years later I still have my admissions ticket. I will have to call them tomorrow.
D&D last night was fun, but my stomach was not so thrilled later on. SIgh, figures. Sure was yummy at the time.

Title: Platform 9 3/4
Author: Melfina the Blue
House: Ravenclaw
Word count: 320
Characters/pairings: Lucius, Scorpius
Challenge: Platform 9 3/4
Authors Notes: 100 word version here for Malfoy 100. I can't decide which I like better.

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The christmas meme thing, because I am too nauseated to make sense. And yes, I am pagan. Christmas for me is a secular holiday.
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I wish I could say I was feeling better. I'm trying to stay optimistic and hopefully, but it's not going so well.
I've having trouble stringing sentences together, and I know I'm making mistakes. I keep having to try to write something, stop after a paragraph, and then come back to it two hours later to grammar and spell check. Then I can't think anymore, so I wait another two hours before I write the next one. Lather, rinse, repeat, and you can guess how my apps are going. And fics, and everything.

Spent alot of time just catching fish in wow. Easy, no brain required. There been some knitting,but mostly of the plain stockinette thick yarn variety, because again, brainless. There has also been a great deal of sleep.

The last time I felt anything like this was just after I'd had my ankle reconstructed and I was on heavy-duty painkillers and anti-nausea meds. I spent most of my time then playing Diablo 2 or sleeping. Forget reading or writing.

I don't know if it's the meds, the illness, or a combo that's making me feel like this, but I REALLY DO NOT WANT! I shouldn't have to start a damn blog entry at 7 am, and not be able to upload it till 2, just to make sure that it's semicoherant. It should just come out coherant. Sigh.

I'm gonna go watch Aah! Real Monsters! now. Someone uploaded it, and I love them forever for it. Anyone else remember that cartoon?

It's been, well, two steps forward, three back. Which is why I haven't posted. You guys don't need to hear me whining.

I'm back to constant nausea, and have managed to do something to my back on top of it. It feels weird, with the occasional burn. I know the swelling disc in my back is lower down than this new stuff, so I'm not sure what's going on. If it doesn't get better, well, that's another trip to a different dr.

Mostly what I've been doing is playing wow. Farming mostly, since a) it doesn't require any thought other than "fire on first target, switch to next target and fire, kill second one while pet kills first, loot both, repeat until I get the damn vanity pet". Plus, the way my computer is now set up, I recline (or sit against a wall) on a bed, which I can arrange with covers and pillows for maximum avoidance of ow. And brain does not work so well with muscle relaxants and painkillers.

Sadly I can't manage to knit at the moment, and I am completely and totally incapable of just sitting and watching something. Seriously, I can't. I will start reading or eating or channel surfing. Thank you ADD. Makes wow a nice compromise. I'm actively doing something, but not anything strenuous.

I am doing a bit of writing, but it's for a fest. Speaking of which, I can now claim...

An Ideal Bachelor from the cross gen fest as mine. I think it's one of my best fics to date and you should all go read it. (the link goes to the fest over on lj. If you want to read it here, it's the entry before this one)

Oh, and there have been some INCREDIBLE entries at the dark fest comm, and you should ignore the fact that I can't manage to find a link right now and go read them.

ANd because I keep seeing the dragons over on Ij, I give you my dragon...(or one of them anyway. I have a matching vanity pet but didn't have a screenshot)
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