who asked for something with Draco and somebody; silliness; romance?

Through no fault or deliberation of my own, the prompt inspired a very surprising 'somebody'. I didn't sit down to fact-check at all, so I may have inadvertently taken inappropriate liberties with the ages (and maybe hair colour; I forget). This is just a teaser, mainly because I need to know whether this works any before I get too invested in it and in the characters; they're already whispering to me like they were Dru's pixies. (Also because I got inspired earlier but am still nauseous and lack the energy to write more right now.)

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So, what do we think?

Yay, An Archive of Our Own has opened its doors!

( At least for browsing for now, as it's a little rough at the edges. )

( I've been planning to write about poetry. )

Hey, guys (whoever is hovering around, that is)! I'm officially back on the screen with the writing of ch. 11. I'm sorry it took so long to get this up, but I was unfortunately mired in some emotional issues. Anyway, I will be getting into contact with my betas (seems like I might need another one :\) for ch. 10 which I sent around the time I disappeared, so it should be done... Anyway, to those who are wondering/worrying, this fic will not be aborted! I will stay the course, though it would take a while to finish. thanks for you all who stuck by me, I will try to speed it up, but I'm taking some pretty heavy courses this term and I don't know if I can keep it up in the air. I'll try my best!

Less than a month until NanoWriMo! Anyone else on my flist participating besides ceirdwenfc  and I? If you are please post the link in a comment so that I can add anyone to my buddy list.

My info: http://www.nanowrimo.org/eng/user/224463

And if you're wondering what the heck NaNoWriMo is, it is short for Nation Novel Writing Month (the month is November of course). The object of NaNoWriMo is to write a 50,000 + word novel or just 50,000 words of a novel (fanfiction is alowed) in the course of a month. The idea is to just write, pretty much balls to the wall, so what you get in the end is a rough draft; they are not so much abut quality . If you're interested or just curious head over here to check stuff out.

Personally, I think that the person who decided that Andy Serkis was a good choice to play *Capricorn* in the Inkheart movie needs to receive a lifetime ban from the casting world. Basta, maybe. Capricorn, so not. **Sniffs**

So this dress I'm making, that I remade patterns for, it's hideous. Terribly so. My neck is a bit short and so I look like I have no neck, the sleeves are kind of too big, I pleated the skirt to the outside of the bodice because I really did not feel up to messing any more with it (the funny thing about waists is that they aren't really straight, and are much higher in the back than you expect them to be from the dress, laid flat).

The plus side is: all that's left on the dress is buttons/buttonholes and finishing the skirt (straight lines - lovely, lovely). Also, the apron draws the eye away from the dress (awesome) and also covers most of the bad spots aside from my neck.

NB: get around to making a dummy, because that would have made this ten times easier.

I've also found a holy crap local reenacting group. I know, right? Nobody seems to do this sort of thing in eastern upstate. (Buffalo and Rochester, on the other hand ... is there something in the water over there?)

I was going to email my mom and be all, hey, where are my corset pictures, but I think I'll just take more, as I've got the petticoat finished as well.

Stolen from everyone.

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Well my school didn't win the competition yesterday, but I was still happy. We came in third place out of four bands, which admittedly isn't great, but it was an improvement for us. At the last competition, we came in last place with a score of 76.4 points, and this week we came in third with a score of 83.00 points. I don't know if anyone who reads this is involved in band, but to jump almost seven points between two competitions is a huge deal. We don't have another competiition for two or three weeks, so hopefully we'll be able to get somewhere around 87 at the next one.

I was so tired yesterday. In addition to suffering from super annoying allergies, I woke up at 4:30 in the morning by accident and I couldn't get back to sleep. Ugh. I didn't even have my alarm set for 4:30; I just happened to wake up that early. Why couldn't that have happened on a school day? That wouldn't have been so bad! As it was, I spent like three hours on the computer doing nothing, because absolutely nobody is on Facebook before 10 am. I was miserable during the day because, like I said, I had allergies, and I was practically falling asleep on my feet. I tried to make the best of it, however, and for the most part I had fun. Things were still awkward between Heather and me, though. I regret confronting her about her hypocrisy concerning Singers on Friday, but I don't regret telling her how I felt. I should have gone about it in a different way, though. My mom suggested yesterday that I pull her aside at some point and tell her that I miss our former friendship (and I do; less than three months ago we were best friends and now we barely speak), that she and I both have good voices (even though I personally think her voice sucks because it's nasally) and that it would have been a lot of fun being in Singers together (and it would have been!). My mom also said that I needed to make it clear to Heather that, even though we're friends, I do have self-respect and I refuse to allow myself to be walked all over and I'm not going to tolerate power-trips. Obviously, I would use words that are a little less aggressive. Maybe I will talk to her about it eventually, but for now, I don't really feel like I'm missing out that much by not being friends with her. Whatever. I hate drama!! Ugh.

I'm so excited for youth group tonight. I get to see Christian! I hope he had fun at homecoming. We were going to go to homecoming together, but he's kinda sorta two years younger than me so his parents aren't comfortable with us dating, even though his sister Jessie is dating a guy who's two years older than her. Whatever. We can still be friends. I wouldn't have been able to go to his homecoming anyway because I had that band competition. Any-hoo, he went with his friend Sophie whose boyfriend couldn't go. I really hope he had fun. It would totally suck for him if he didn't. Oh I like that guy so much! lol

Well... I"m bored and I have nothing else to write about so byes!!

love kara xoxo

November is National Novel Writing Month (aka NaNoWriMo)!

My mother sent me a recipe.  Forgive the double negative; I couldn't NOT try it.

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There were many ways of spending a Sunday morning and this was probably one of the best of them.

Attila rode the grey to the door of Teja's forge, towing the spotted horse behind him, and listened to the sound of movement inside. If he had timed it right Teja wouldn't have fired up yet.

He urged the grey into position, then swung his foot and gave the door a good kick. "Teja," he shouted.

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