E-mailed to my co-writer:
Your beta wanted to know why the villagers were rising up against Ambrosius at that point in time. I think I have an answer. Wouldn't you be a little annoyed at the guy who has explosions and toxic waste?

GIP: RTFM n00b. Nibiki the demon-kitty (sooo cute!) and my scratches, retouched by hcolleen. The answer to myrrhianna's obvious question: "Why did you pick her up the second time?" is "Because occasionally, I r vry smrt."

I read the poem to the group. Enthusiastic response. It actually did follow the 5 pages of angst that hcolleen read. We were done way early. There was a new person who had poetry to follow mine. And all was good.

Darkside showed up in my dreams; I found myself answering questions with enthusiasm, and showing off to cadhla, who was mightily impressed that she had been an example, and excited and amused about my general happiness. There was something about a campus, and a play? but most of that vanished in the happy lazy waking-up.

Toilet. Large carnivorous lizard. No injuries!

pornish_pixies: "About Face" -- Harry/Draco. Crackfic.

fryadvocate writes "The Best Part of Breaking Up" -- Barbie, Ken, et cetera. Crackfic.

underpope spawns "Braiding the Monkey" as a new phrase (or euphemism) of dubious meaning.


Last night I turned off the soup and put it in containers in the refrigerator. It had started to stick to the sides in the most disconcerting way. I do not think that I have the spare time it takes to properly tend a perpetual soup! Not at the moment. I am still not sure how many hours I am working tomorrow. For that matter, I'm still not sure how much I'll be working today...

Pretty Magical Princess Trixiebelle skipped down the forest path. She was going to go visit her friend Tommy. Her mommy had told her to stay out of the woods, because a great Hairy Monster and his Grim Black Dog lived in there, but she didn't listen to them. So when the Grim Black Dog started chasing her, she got very scared and ran into a nearby gingerbread house. The dog followed her. She got brave and pushed the dog out a window. When the great Hairy Monster came and saw that his dog was dead, the Hairy Monster made such a ruckus. While the Hairy Monster yelled to himself (in capslock), Trixiebelle ran away and hid with Tommy. Soon, they would slay the Hairy Monster too.

I figured out how Harry's going to wind up joining the ranks of Voldemort's supporters.

He's going to be munching on some Bertie Bott's Beans, right, and he's going to pick up one that looks like licorice...

...but, in some rare cases, there is that one rare flavor...

Yep, Harry Potter's going to inadvertently become a Death Eater...