I added a hair coloring tutorial to my Deviant Art page, so I'd thought I'd share.

I've done so much CRAP to my hair, but this is the biggest bleaching job I've ever done. IT WAS SCARY. But thank god the end result didn't leave me bald. Being a redhead is fun! I hate smiling in pictures, so don't mind the cheesy poses.

( I've inserted the tutorial under cut. )

 potterplace  's Variety Challenge reveal is out, and I cannot describe the *squee* that issued out of my mouth when I learned my little fic, Bound to Happen, was gifted an Honorable Mention! For my first participation in a challenge, I've had the best of fun! I'd like to send my many, many thanks to Madbrilliant, luvsev  and southernwitch69  for the beta help. I'd also like to thank all the incredible ladies at Potter Place for their hard work in putting the challenge together, for the endless pimping, and for the awesome readers, reviewers, and voters. Congrats to all the winners!

--I'm currently working on the sequel, Bound to Happen Again, which has turned the first Time Travel Fic into an MLC.

I cannot believe I am attempting the dreaded MLC...

On top of that I have a Severus Big Bang fic due in 10 days and a birthday gift due by the end of the month. If my hair wasn't already falling out from peroxide, I'd be losing it for sure. :STRESSED:

--Voting has opened for the sshg_awards  and there are so many great fics I need to go through! Deciding will be tough! Except, of course, for redskyatnight76 's intriguing little PWP, Sub-standard. I fell in love with this fic when I first read it a month or so ago, and since I've pimped it before, I have NO SHAME in pimping it again! Congrats on the nom, redsky!

--Been trying my hand at beta'ing the past couple of months, and I'd like to pimpsevibaby  's fics, which are now up at OWL and TPP. Her energy and ideas for a first time fanfic writer have been both fun and inspiring. 

--Months ago I made a post at snapeyluvshermy , DYING to find a story that I have searching for FOREVER. I made a post at SH forums over a year ago with no results and thought LJ might offer answers. My description of the fic was very vague, as can be read here, but dev4u6ka  was brilliant enough to understand my jumbled request. The story has been identified as Lyra Aphrodite Moon fic, Deliver Me. YYYYYYYYYYESSSSSSSSSSSSSSSS!

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--My boyfriend and I put together a Marvel couple costume this past Halloween. We went as Spiderman/Peter Parker and I was Black Cat. His costume was so much easier than mine! My sewing machine broke weeks before our Halloween party, making my once simple costume completely torturous. Not to mention that cutting and trimming that fuzzy shit made a mess of my forest green carpet. Pictures below the cut as well as my Halloween cupcakes I was so proud of! lol

( Halloween Fun )-

--Writing out this LJ post has actually felt very theraputic. It felt good to keep things in perspective and realize all the things in my life I have to feel grateful and happy about. I just found out a day ago that 2 old friends from my Disordered Eating Support Group have died this passed year. One passed away in May from suicide, and the other in September from various health related complications, with suicide not being ruled out. What I regret, more than anything, was losing touch with these incredible girls and wondering if they had the emotional support available, which sometimes makes all the difference. 

 Nin.com Ticktects for sale for tonight's last show in LA. click on tour, and scroll down to wiltern

GOGOGOGO

 A good friend of mine has finally got the ball rolling on his clothing company. King Street Studios is very LA based fashion and artwork. Cheap and functional.

And that beautiful asian gal on the main page is my friend Stacy. Sexy 30-year-old mother of a teenager (she HATES when I say that, lol).

Check them out if you are a huge supporter of local mom-n-pop businesses.

 The show was amazing. This was the smallest venue I have ever attended for NIN. I would never have guessed that Trent was sick, his performance was as intense as it always is. He never talks between songs, until he apologized halfway through for "sounding like an AM radio." As he spoke though, you could hear the strain in his voice. And for a two hour performance, I'm not suprised last night's show was cancelled.

This was also the best NIN crowd I'd seen. No one stopped moving, and many slam danced (myself included). Under the cut are pictures of my battle wounds. I went down twice in the pit and got trampled, but everyone was quick to help me back up. I wish I took more pictures of the performance, but I never wanted to stop pitting. By the end of the night, I REEKED>lol.

AMAZING SHOW!

( Proof of how much fun I had... lol )

 Well, seeing as I had no choice, I finally broke down and bought a new laptop. Nice, spiffy Dell.

My old, evil laptop is in the shop. Hopefully, I'll get all my files back. I realized that I did in fact save more than I orginially thought, but so much information is still lost. :CRIES!:

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On a more upbeat note, I thought I'd share some fun surf music. My boyfriend's Los Angeles based band, The Volcanics, are a great bunch of goofey guys who write their own music. Videos made by UDFMV.

The Volcanics "Girls Girls Girls


The Volcanics in "Hurricane" (A mock movie trailer)

Yup, my laptop haz it.

Why, OH WHY, did I not learn the first time and back up my hard drive? I have nearly 20,000 words of ss/hg fic being held hostage by this piece of crap computer.

Everything I am intending to finish is now on a hiatus until I can somehow get my computer up to snuff.

:cries:

 I like to take this time to wish a very happy birthday to the awesome emmeline33  . I hope you have a great day, dollface!


Other business:

>The drabble series I had written for the between2snakes  community as a gift for the wonderful lady_karelia , The Tale of No, is featured this month over at The Petulant Poetess! SQUEEEEE!!! I cannot begin to explain how excited I was to see that. I'd like to once again thank luvsev  for the beta!

>While browsing the Top Fictions page over at Ashwinder, I came accross a PWP which I had never read before, redskyatnight76  's smutty BDSM fic Sub-standard. I was utterly blown away. How did I miss this fic? This SUB-Severus fic has been out for months! 
        ---What I liked most about Sub-standard: First and foremost, it centers around an EWE Severus who is even more of a snarky bastard not seen in the books. His unfeeling treatment of Hermione (his nurse) almost makes you wish she'd slap the crap out of him... until things get naughty =D. I had never read a sub-severus like this before, and as I told redsky in my review, there is so much more complexity and feeling to this than a simple PWP. So those of you who haven't read it yet (which cannot be that many seeing as I seem to be the last one to find it) please read and review!

 I hate, hate, HATE earthquakes. They freak me out so bad, I cannot explain.

Right now I'm visiting my parents in Fontana, CA (i.e. very, very close to the San Andres Fault Line... i.e. anticipated site for the next 10 pointer which scientists have been saying is supposedly due).

If I wasn't up and drinking already I would never be able to go back to sleep (lol). Hell, I still remember the Northridge quake, even though I was very young.

I HATE QUAKES!

 --Just got back from a mini-vacation. Drove up the coast of California to attend a wedding in Santa Maria. Like many South Cali natives, I've NEVER driven 'up north.' It was beautiful, of course. And I'm ashamed to admit that I never knew California had... um farms. Country living. Miles of nothing in every direction. Clear skies. Sad, isn't? 

--Been catching up on all of the awesome gifts for lady_karelia  over at between2snakes . A :gasp: happy drabble series I'd written, The Tale of No, can be read there. Without the advice and gentle knudge of southernwitch69 I would have chucked the story out the window and written something typically depressing. 

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Art rec: Sweet potato pie! If you haven't already, YOU MUST take a gander at Mrs-Severus-Snape's photo manips over at Deviant Art. If you like SS/HG, HG/LM or any combination of the three, you'll love these. Here are some of my favs:

ALL ARTWORK IS NWS.

Snape

Lucius

Snape and Hermione

Snape, Hermione, Lucius!!

And OMG!

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( Fic update and other junk )

 ~Promised myself I'd make more of an effort to update these things. Excuse my rambles.

~Been spending some of my time (more than some) nosing around the True Blood/Southern Vampire Mysteries/Sookie Stackhouse fandom. If you have never read these books by Charlaine Harris you are seriously missing out! Especially if you've taken the time to read Twilight. As if the entertainment industry needed another vampire love story ATM... but these books came out before Twilight and are COMPLETELY geared for adults. Smutastic!

~My OTP for True Blood is Eric/Sookie. Bill should have been staked five books ago. At the moment the best piece of fanfiction I have read is Eric by deedee. I noticed that with canon pairings, it is very difficult for me to enjoy fanfic unless the story and/or story delivery is very similar to the original author's style and is mainly canon. This is such a story. Whereas the books are from Sookie's POV, Deedee's fic is written from Eric's and completely focuses on his relationship with the telepath. An excellent smutty read!

~Now back to the good ship! I believe my favorite Deviant artist is currently Protowilson. Her series of artist-versus-Snape comics are hiliarious. She needs to explore this slash relationship with Remus that she's been insinuating.

~The next chapter of my WIP is finally complete, which melusin  is currently beta'ing for me. Her WIP, Epiphany, has finally been updated! Can be read here, here, and here.

~And I've been given two invite codes to dreamwidth if anyone is interested.

~Now the best part... Sock puppets!

MY WIP IS NOT ABANDONED! 

Based on some reviews I've been receiving, I just thought I'd throw that out there. Been working continuously on the next installment, which I hope to put out as soon as possible. Chapter 29 of Vain Wisdom All and False Philosophy has reached 31 pages on word and it will not flippin finish!

:sigh:

This fic is reaching the last arc of the tale now... (Yup, 200,000 words in, and there IS an end in sight. melusin_79  is somewhere a continent away doing the "happy dance".) But the majority of all these scenes I had written two years ago in a very rough-get-idea-out-of-mind format, which cleaning up has been a bitch and half. 

But it's coming! The end is near!

Now for some sock puppet nonsense. Do not watch if you have a fear of sock puppets.... obviously.




( Apologies and rant like excuses under cut )

 :Does the happy dance:

Completed. Finished. Saved. 

I'm so relieved that I have finally completed the fic and sent it to my beta. I know it still needs some work, but this isn't as horribly last minute as I feared it would be.

It might have been stressful, but it was great fun. And I LOVED the prompt. The mods are certainly talented with the matching. 

Now back to the WIP! I apologize to those of you who have reviewed my story and still haven't received a response. I was hoping to use those responses as an alert for "Guess what! I finally updated!"

But that still won't be for a week or more. 

Now for some pointless spam:

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Have I mentioned I found a new obsession? What with Carnivale, Harry Potter, and Twilight, I was shocked to find room in my demented little mind, but there it is... True Blood!

Tagged by 

maddie50  
 
A. List seven habits/quirks/facts about yourself.
B. Tag seven people to do the same.
C. Do not tag the person who tagged you or say that you tag "whoever wants to do it."     

1. I love to dance. Of course this means I go out too much and spend too much money, but I cant help it.
2. The tips of my acreclic nails are green.  Next week they will probably be blue.
3. I enjoy reading more than I love to dance. Sometimes I'd much rather be alone on a sat night with a good book.
4. I only eat 'yellow' candy. Starbursts, Mike & Ikes, Gummi Bears... yellow only, please.
5. I HATE cherry flavored anything. 
6. I own a gas-guzzling-ozone-killing SUV.  
7. Reading SS/HG fanfiction is my dirty little secret.

Now I pass the buck to:  calumfan, emmeline33, melusin_79, septentrion1970, earthtree, sylvanawood, beffeysue.                                                                                                             

I have not updated my LJ in forever but I'm fairly excited at the moment, so this is as good a time as any.

The OWL Nominations are out and I am shocked that the first and only fanfic story I have written has been nominated for four different categories. My immediate thought is to send a public thanks to my beta,

melusin_79 for her awesome beta work and guidance. I was VERY green before she gave me soo much help. And I must thank all of you have nominated me!

I'l also like to congratulate those in my OWL Favlist who have also been nominated. Some of those I had nominated are grouped together in multiple categories, so voting is going to be so difficult. 
( Update and Carnivale Rec... )

Hello all,

My dark SS/HG fic Vain Wisdom All and False Philosophy has been
updated at OWL. We're now on Chapter Fifteen and hopelessly AU to
both HBP and DH. This chapter is over 12,000 words, with the first
half up.

http://owl.tauri.org/stories.php?psid=5180

Chapter Summary: Hermione’s discussion with Dumbledore leads her to
demand answers from Severus. But is she truly ready to hear what he
has to say? A routine visit to an underground werewolf pack forces
Remus to confront the demons of his past.

Story Summary: With the climax of the next great battle drawing near,
the key players who have the ability to halt or bring about potential
destruction take center stage, as they always have in every great war
since time began. And Dumbledore knew all this, but not when it truly
mattered. Eventual SS/HG. Alternate Universe, HBP death disregarded.

Also updated at:
http://www.thepetulantpoetess.com/viewstory.php?sid=5063

http://ashwinder.sycophanthex.com/viewstory.php?sid=15552

http://www.fanfiction.net/s/3444097/1/Vain_Wisdom_All_and_False_Philos
ophy

I must send my immense gratitude to my beta,

melusin_79, and all of
the admins at the various archives who take the time to post each
chapter of my story.

 

-Lissa

I still haven't acquired the habit of using LiveJournal regularly or in updating it. Like everything else (deviant art, archives, WIKTT...) I prefer to lurk, read as much as I can, but remain silent.

Anyways, Chapter Fourteen-The Palpable Obscure of my SS/HG fic Vain Wisdom All and False Philosophy has been submitted to OWL, TPP, and Ashwinder. It should be up in a few days. I must send my love to melusin_79for her incredible dedication to me and my story by beta'ing it hours before she was due to go on vacation.

Now... the art recs! I posted something similar on my journal at Deviant Art, forgetting that I had this journal as well.

The sole purpose of my deviant art account was to view and collect all the wonderful HP universe artwork floating around out there. I became a fan art lover over at Illusions (SH) before I learned the joys of fan fiction. I've had this account for about a year and worked on my fanfic during that time.

So, much of the wonderful imagery has left a burning fire in my belly, inspiring my mind, moods, characters and even very specific scenes.

With all that emotion flowing through me it hurts keeping it all to myself.

I wrote the Prologue before I saw this, but I love it nonetheless In the corner by obfuscatesart

My dream sequence in Chapter Seven inspired by Black Asylum by sweetmoon

First scene in Chapter Eight completely inspired by  The End by comfortablylaura

My "desk" scene at the end of Chapter Eleven (Part 2)inspired by  Unsatisfied, you little girl by  kara-lija 

Macnair-Heart by madcarrot was in mind when I wrote his brutality in Chapters Four and Eight

How I imagined Greyback in Chapter Four Taste by madcarrot

All of my absolute favorite images of Severus Snape are by the same artist. This is what I imagine when I read, and of course, write him. In the Potion's storeroom, Dark, and Master by Perselus

The dedicated, passionate, and loyal emotions I get when writing Hermione reminds me so much of Mine by Cruel-Crush 

Harry and Ginny by tolueno sums up how I am writing their angsty relationship

I LOVE this Luna. Exactly how I imagine her in fanfics. Luna Lovegood by wycked

For anyone reading my story, you must agree that I've warned you, 'snivellus' by wycked says so much about the way I am writing Sirius.

The following are all of my Lupin favorites, HP: R. J. Lupin by azmin,

In the Shrieking Shack by Magsby,

and Lupin Wallpaper by usagistu 

It's hard finding images of a Pansy who isn't sneering. Thus far my favorite is 7th-Year Pansy by yurchan

***But of course, a Disclaimer is in order. None of these pieces were made for me or my story~I just wish they were! They are all incredible ideas, living proof that my fanfiction isn't as original as I would love it to be.***

I have yet to find any Remus/Pansy art. I have made up my mind to seek commissions, and the first scene I would want, would be a Remus/Pansy one.

Hope you enjoyed the recs and all of the incredible artists.