Done, and with two minutes to spare.

New Diary entry up.

It's worth mentioning that some folks who are easily squicked may want to tread carefully with this entry. It wasn't a pretty scene.

Dearest spammers:

This morning, I noticed that a difference in my daily spam. It seems that a number of you have switched to offering anti-anxiety medication, possibly in response to the sheer number of competitors in the Viagra field. The drug of choice, according to the majority of messages in my inbox, was Valium.

Darling spammers, I was offered Valium once, five years ago. They offered it to me because someone was going to cut my corneas with an amazingly sharp knife and vaporize part of my eyeballs with lasers, all while I was awake. I turned it down.

What makes you think anything that you or anyone else could possibly do would top that as a stressor, hmm? Then again, you seem to think I have a penis, too, so.

Toodles, darlings.

XOXO,

Camwyn.

Behold! HP fanfic using actual HP characters!

As some of y'all know, I read deleterius and marysues from time to time. I've got pottersues on my friends list. There's something bracing about reading really bad fanfiction; it's a reminder of what I mustn't ever, EVER do in my own writing.

Lately there's been a surge of bad fanfic centering on Hermione. The poor girl's been subjected to every kind of indignity, but most of them center around the theme of 'Hermione gets a makeover during the summer and comes back to Hogwarts looking like the kind of ho-bag Professor McGonagall wouldn't let into her classroom if the alternative was being Dolores Umbridge's shoeshine girl'. A body can only take so much of that without snapping. I therefore present to you my take on the Hermione Makeover theme; I like to think that it's at least moderately possible, given what we know of the girl...


( If A Thing's Worth Doing. Gen. Harry, Ron, Hermione. No book spoilers. )

The start of a Harry Potter fic I've been considering for a while...

So many, many cruddy authors insist on spelling Mr. Malfoy's name as "Lucious" that when I happened to glance at the sports section of the paper and saw a New Jersey Net named Lucious, I had to read it twice and ensure I wasn't seeing things. I'm afraid I've since been saddled with an idea that just won't go away. I've mentioned it in my journal before, but this is the first time I've had a chance to work on it.

( What I Did On My Summer Holidays: Introduction. OotP spoilers. Contains only Narcissa and Draco Malfoy at this point. )