colorful_sin

Although I detest using LJ for a number of reasons, desperate times call for desperate measures.



Please, if you can, help Japan. I've offered up two 24-cookie sets of Original Nestle Toll House Chocolate Chip Cookies over here using an old LJ, if anyone's interested. I bake a TON and have had good experiences mailing these (as well as devouring a few gajillion in my short lifetime), so here's to hoping someone bites!

(Er, pun not totally intended.)

Title: All That Glitters
Author: colorful_sin
Word Count: 100
Rating: G
Pairing: Harry/Severus, if you squint really hard.
Challenge: Prompt #115 - "Holly" @ harry100
Warnings: None
Disclaimer: It's JKR's sandbox. I just like to build castles in it.
Summary: Harry hates the Ministry's Christmas Ball.

( All That Glitters )

The first semester of my senior year in college is FINALLY OVER. Thank fuck; this one was particularly ugly due to a certain professor, taking the LSATs twice, and having to go to so many damn doctors, but it's done! WOOHOO!

Of course, that means it's time to concentrate on other things. Like finishing and sending in all my law school aps, doing all my Christmas shopping (and shipping!), finishing the big cleaning out project of our basement I started over the summer, seeing MORE doctors, anddd hopefully finishing my fic goals for the year, which weren't at all large to begin with. Nine more 100(+) word drabbles before year's end. Let's hope for some random inspiration, shall we? I've got at least three prompts to fill, so I'll start there.

Title: Give and Take
Author: colorful_sin
Word Count: 100
Rating: PG
Characters: Draco, Narcissa
Challenge: Prompt #120 - "Uninvited Guests" @ draco100
Warnings: None
Disclaimer: It's JKR's sandbox. I just like to build castles in it.
Summary: The Ministry raids the Manor.

( Give and Take )

I'm not quite sure how this ending up coming to be, much less at 3:30am. And how did I end up writing something this long?

Title: Storms
Author: colorful_sin
Word Count: 1,000 (100x10)
Rating: PG-13
Pairings/Characters: Possible Harry/Ron/Hermione
Challenge: Prompt #96 - "Holiday" @ harry100
Warnings: Mental instability, unhappiness
Disclaimer: It's JKR's sandbox. I just like to build castles in it.
Summary: After the war ends, Harry, Ron, and Hermione find themselves in the midst of another. Only this time, the war is with themselves and the people they care about most - each other.

( Storms )

Title: Slip the Boy Some Tongue
Author: colorful_sin
Word Count: 200
Rating: S is for SMUT
Pairings/Characters: Severus/Harry
Warnings: Rimming, dirty talk, EWE, PWP
Disclaimer: It's JKR's sandbox. I just like to build castles in it. All characters in this fic are written to be of legal age or above.
A/N: This is for torino10154, since she answered my call for drabble prompts back in January with, "Severus/whomever you want, dirty talk." Finals put me in a rather... odd mood, and this is what came out of it. xD

( Slip the Boy Some Tongue )

Happy New Year, everyone! I hope 2010 is a happy and healthy one for all of you and yours. =)

The year's definitely going to be a crazy one for me. I've got LSATs and GMATs in store, I'll have to pick out business and law schools and figure out what in the world I might want to do with my life, I'll turn 21, start my senior year of COLLEGE (OMGWTFBBQ, when did that happen?!), and apply to post-graduate programs. I'm hoping to fit an international trip in there somewhere too, but that might have to wait until 2011, when it can be a mix of a 21st birthday present, Christmas present, AND a graduation present to myself. We shall see.

And because I'd like to be just a bit ambitious (seriously, this is about as low as ambitions can go here), two fandom resolutions. By the end of 2010, I'd like to have:
1) Written at least 12 drabbles. (100+ words each)
2) Obtain three more icons for this journal.

Baby steps, right? *g*

[EDIT] Help me reach my goals! Prompt me in the HP fandom, please? Leave a comment with a character or pairing and any sort of prompt you want, provided it's not one of my squicks. (If I have you friended, you can find my kink/squick list here.)[/EDIT]

In a bizarre twist of fate, even though I'm not taking any classes during winter intersession, I'm going to be staying at my dorm the entire break. I went home (which is about 30 minutes away) for Christmas Eve and Christmas Day, but it seems like that's all the time I'll be spending in my hometown this break. I'm not really sure how I feel about that. On the one hand, I'm not sure I want to be home... but on the other hand, I'm the ONLY person in my dormitory right now besides our resident director and the on-duty resident assistant.

=-/

One of my friends will be back late tomorrow/early Monday, but as far as I know, the both of us and the RD will be the only people inhabiting this dormitory until after the New Year. (Said friend is the on-duty RA through New Year's.) I wonder which one of us will end up killing the other first. xD

... I also wonder how many times my ego can stand losing miserably at Scrabble. He, I, and the RD were the only people here in the few days before Christmas, and he beat me by nearly 100 points. It was terrible.

Wish me luck... and rec me Snarry, Drarry, or Spork to help me get through? I've read maybe 5 fics in the Potter fandom in the past month, and I've read quite a lot of Star Trek (2009), but seriously, anyone got anything good?

*goes off to search through flist for recs*

*points to shiny new icon* Yeah, about that...

51,000+ WORDS AND DONE!

This is the THIRD time I've finished NaNoWriMo, and OMGWTFBBQ WHERE THE HELL DID THIS COME FROM. I am super high on adrenaline, it's almost six in the morning, I've been up all night, and um, by the way, HAPPY THANKSGIVING!

Let's hope I get 6 hours of sleep before I have to get up and cook, y/y? xD

(Yes, I'm a bit of a nutter right now.)

25,000 WORDS, BABY!

Yes, I'm going to keep going until I hit 50,000 and finish this thing, because I can't quit now. I'm absolutely nuts, but I have to keep going.

And many thanks and a big hug to torino10154; thank you so much for your support, dear!

NaNoWriMo has stolen my soul. Word count? 18,157 words. I just finished part one of four, which was supposed to be 11K of the 28K I had planned out. I really should be used to things not going as I plan, but I am in total shock. I'm writing. I'm writing A LOT.

Um, all right, so... I'm kinda-sorta doing NaNoWriMo. And I think I'm kinda-sorta nuts. Or possibly more than kinda-sorta, because really, WTF?! I haven't written ANYTHING fictional besides a handful of fanfic drabbles since 2006, which is when I finished my last novel. I've written two novels already through NaNoWriMo - and since this last one, I hadn't been able to write just about anything. Fanfic ideas came and went, and I had NO original fiction ideas that I was really enthusiastic about pursuing, and now...

I WROTE 4,220 WORDS TODAY. While I realise that this may be a paltry sum for many of you, this is more fiction than I've written in YEARS. I used to write all the time. I started trying to write books when I was in first or second grade. Nothing was finished until I started doing NaNo, and actually finishing a book completely changed my life. Finishing two was absolutely crazy.

And now... I've only committed myself definitively to 25,000 words, which is equivalent to half the NaNo goal. But - I have a feeling I'm going to get suckered into writing another novel, a full 50,000 words before the month is up. I mean, I use scene cards. As in, before I begin, break down the entire story into scenes and set an approximate word count to be met for each scene. I wrote three scenes today which were supposed to be 1,000 words, 500 words, and another 500 words. The 1,000 word scene went over by about 300 words no big deal), but both of the 500 word scenes decided to nearly triple themselves.

... I'm pretty terrified right now. It's such a high, writing again, and... I don't want to lose this, but I'm terrified of reaching out and really grabbing this again.

Somebody hold my hand, plz? 0.o kthxbi

Hope it was a good one for all of you!

So, I was in the study room of my dorm a little while ago, and a guy wearing five-inch heels walked in, took his stuff off the printer, bitched a bit on how it was printed on colored paper, and walked back out. Seriously, I love my university.

The problem with LJ/IJ/DW: we all think we are so close, but really, we know nothing about each other. So ask me something you want to know about me. Something that should be obvious, but you have no idea about. Ask away. Then post this in your journal and find out what people don't know about you.

'Kay, so, this is going to be a totally random, all-over-the-place post, because... I don't know.

My birthday is in two weeks! I'm somewhat excited and somewhat weirded out. I'll be two whole decades old, which feels odd, and I'll also not be a teenager anymore, which also feels odd. I really couldn't care less about turning twenty-one in another year, so I suppose I'm one year closer to the time when I can legally rent a Rent-A-Car in the U.S.? Eh, hopefully it'll be fun. I'm planning on going out to eat with some friends and maybe going clubbing the weekend after. We shall see.

Still have absolutly no inspiration for fic writing. However, I've been thinking a lot about starting the massive task of editing and rewriting my 2006 NaNoWriMo novel. It's been quietly sitting among all my other e-mail files for years, untouched. I've read it over a few times, but I haven't been able to bring myself to find the inspiration to start really whipping it into shape. I'm contemplating doing an abbreviated pseudo-version of NaNoWriMo this year, re-doing the whole thing for the first time. I don't know whether that'd be the best idea between midterms and finals, but... I'm considering it.

Are there ANY Star Trek reboot or even old-school Star Trek fans on my flist? Because I may have possible fallen headfirst into a new fandom. My school has some sort of deal going on where it gets films three to five months after they're released in theaters, and they hold four free showings of them during a designated weekend. (I'm sure the showings aren't actually free; the money for whatever deal they have probably comes out of the massive Activities Fee we have to pay in addition to tuition, just like every other school.) Two weekends ago they held the showings of the new Star Trek, and OMFG I AM OBSESSED WITH SPOCK. Or rather, Spock/Kirk. And Spock's eyebrows. And the actor who plays Spock, Zachary Quinto.

Actually, I'm really embarassed to say that I have his Facebook page fanned. x.x' I feel really odd friending/following/saying things to/about celebrities, because they're just... people. And I know that having no privacy and getting harassed by rabid fans is part of the job, but I guess I almost feel guilty. So many people want so much from them, and they're all only human. I like to try and respect personal space, no matter whose it is. SOMEONE TELL ME I'M BEING RIDICULOUS?

Oh! And I got to spend half a night in the emergency room on September 10th, which was expressedly Not Fun. Apparently, I have some sort of undiagnosed lung problem. I kind of knew this - I actually spent my summer going to a variety of different doctors - but I didn't, because while we knew there was a problem, we didn't know if it was really my lungs or my heart or my gastric system or WHAT it was. Then I got a sinus infection/chronic sinusitis. My whole face was swollen. Severe allergies + the chronic sinusitis aggravated whatever lung issue I've been having, and so I couldn't breathe. It was really scary; since I'm at school, we had to find one of my roommates friends to drive me to the hospital (my campus health center will only get you an ambulance to one hospital, which is the sort of hospital that if you're dying and you go there, they'll only kill you faster), and then her and my roommate had to stay with me until my parents could get to the hospital. Thankfully, since I go to school so close to home, it only took them around an hour and a half. The emergency room staff was amazing though - I had an EKG done within five minutes of walking in the door, and within twenty minutes I had two different doctors working on a diagnosis and two different nurses doing routine tests. I got a nebulizer treatment soon after, and when they determined that it wasn't a blood clot in my lungs and that the nebulizer had done enough for me, they released me with prescriptions for oral steroids, a steroidal inhaler, and a steroidal nasal spray. I got strict instructions to see a pulmonologist ASAP, to return if anything got worse, and to take all those medications PLUS my allergy medicine twice a day PLUS saline nasal spray twice a day PLUS multivitamins PLUS 1250mg Vitamin C a day PLUS the stuff I'm on normally. It was crazy, but they did handle everything very well and answered all my questions. It could have been a much worse experience.

How are you all?

As of this past Thursday, I've officially passed the two-year mark here on IJ. I moved over here from LJ after much delibaration after Strikethrough '07, and in truth, I'm glad I did. Fandom may not be as big over here, but I've found that it's generally plenty big enough for me. And I do miss my old LJ flist, who it's been really hard to keep up with, but I also made some new fandom friends here who I really like. =D

... I should probably try to post more than I do now though. I've turned into such a lurker. 0.o'

On another note, ( I chopped eight inches off my hair this week! xD )

... Am I the only one not even remotely excited about HBP?

Unlike so many people I know, I'm NOT going to see Potter at midnight, and I don't actually have any plans to see it in the immediate future. In the past, I've gone to see all the Potter movies the day they came out, but I think Warner Brothers totally killed this one for me. As ridiculous as it is, I can't stop being extremely bitter about them pushing the release date back so far on such little notice with such little consideration for their fans. As much as they said they were going to use the extra time to make improvements to the film, I really doubt the improvements were worth the wait, and I am SO pissed off that the main reason they seem to have pushed it back so much was because they didn't have a summer moneymaker to fit in that spot. I know that's business for you, but I'm not sure it's business I can bring myself to support. I think I'd actually feel gross and guilty going to see it.

Er, anyone on my flist want to do me the favor of making me NOT feel guilty by telling me how awesome and amazing it was after they go see it? :D Provided it is awesome and amazing, of course.

Visiting Hours by rickey_a, Snarry, NC-17. If you haven't read it, go NOW. Right this second. GO!

Have all the LGBT allies on my flist heard about the Rainbow Lounge raid that took place in Fort Worth, Texas a few days ago? If you haven't, Google "Rainbow Lounge" - it should come up with 500+ news articles on the raid which contain one or both of the stories going around.

According to the bar patrons, the FWPD and TABC showed up there with a paddy wagon and started randomly arresting people, charging them with public intoxication. Patrons who asked questions were shoved, ignored, brushed off, and in some cases threatened with arrest. Among the people who were arrested was a designated driver who hadn't been drinking at all, a patron who'd stopped drinking earlier and was just drinking water, and another who claimed to have had just two drinks that night.

According the the FWPD, the raid was a simple routine inspection, and no one was mistreated - until officers were groped by patrons.

Chad Gibson, one of the bar patrons that was arrested, ended up in the ICU of a nearby hospital in critical condition because of a blood clot on his brain. The FWPD asserts that he was one of the men that groped an officer - which apparently was reason enough for FIVE officers to slam him into a wall, cuff him with plastic zip ties, and then force him to the floor, smashing his head in the process. Other bar patrons assert that the officers were given a wide berth ("We're gay, not stupid!"), and neither Gibson nor any other bar patron groped them.

I. Am. Sickened.

[EDIT] In case anyone wants them:
Rainbow Lounge Raid - Facebook group about the raid, containing more info from patrons, including those arrested
Recent Updates on Chad Gibson's condition - from the Dallas Voice
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