Akasha The Kitty's Domain

And my token spammy after-thought: Yay, risengrød tonight! OM NOM NOM! :D



Edit: I just now remember that they canonically all sleep in the same bed... O_O >_>'

It was Kupo's birthday on the 12th (and he had THREE birthday parties, the spoiled little brat) and I should do a pic spam, really, but resizing the pictures to fit my layout is a hassle. Maybe later. My head is heavy and my throat is scratchy, I really can't be bothered right now.

I've been taking a break from writing on Bracelet (I'm still trying to tweak this one big scene... think of it as the fic being childbirth. Everything up to that scene was a very troublesome pregnancy and now the kid is on its way, only the labour keeps slowing down and the baby and the mother may both be dying and there's blood and the midwives are fidgeting and the surgeon is getting out her scalpel and OMFG I HAVE PROBLEMS WITH IT, OK???) and to do something else, I am doing some betaing for the dmhgficexchange that I'm obviously not going to say anything more about. I'm not a very gentle beta, I find. Fortunately, they can take it. I think. Maybe. ;) But it'll be good, I think, based on what I went over thus far.

I've finished my dramione_advent fic. Again, not going to say a lot about it, but two things stand out to me in it: On one hand, it's sort of different from my other fics, which... is good, I guess. Diversity and all that. But on the other hand... it's very, very similar to almost everything else I ever wrote. I see some characterization habits that, while I don't find them OOC, I would like to break more often. I'm beginning to bore myself. These behaviours are not canon, per se, and they're not really my head canon either, so why does this always happen? Not being able to break such a habit is Bad Writing Skill imo. Blargh.

( I didn't sign up for Draco Big Bang... )

Life on its own is still stressful with the whole No Money And No Purpose. I'd written an application for a translating job, getting together all the relevant stuff and including a sample of my translation skills and then, before I could send it to all sixteen publishers I've found that were relevant to the application (what? Not going to just send to ONE, considering the low odds...), I found out that the book I sampled from was just now published in Danish translation. :-| It makes my sample useless. In my annoyance, I turned to making a sample from the prologue of Robert Jordan's Eye of the World -- which has managed to remain untranslated for nineteen years -- but, holy crap, that's harder. In a way also more fun but... also harder. AND IF IT'S SUDDENLY AVAILABLE IN DANISH TRANSLATION ON MONDAY I'M GONNA SMACK A BITCH!

I suppose this counts as my monthly "I'm Not Dead" and "No, FFS, Bracelet Is Not Abandoned, But Give Me A Fucking Break While I Get My Life And The Rest Of The Story Together" post.

(yes, someone reviewed telling me it was obviously abandoned. How fucking rude is that?)

Does this need more cuts?

Sometimes, I almost completely randomly remember something someone said one time and it bugs me all over again.

And it's dumb. But it annoys me. So I will ramble a bit about a review I got two years ago. Yeah, I know. Skip ahead to the baby pics if you like.

( Some rather frank discussion of sexual reciprocation )

That helped. Thank you.

Kupo pics, anyone?

( PIC SPAM! (resized as well as I could to fit my layout) )


That's all, folks. Now I need to reply to comments on my last post. Eh. Sowwie for the wait.

Dear whoever made the Gravitation anime (and possibly a manga too),

This is shounen ai, right? (shounen ai = slash; m/m romance--not porn--directed at a female audience.) I ask because I'm usually more interested in het and, in fact, I never tried watching shounen ai before. I was just curious, you see. And considering how HAWT those anime boys can be, well... why not?

But I have a problem with this.

See, this is the main guy.

The. Main. GUY!!!

Short, skinny, pink hair, round face, big blue eyes.... Not only does he LOOK like a stereotypical anime female but he ACTS like one too in all his naïve, blushing, weeping, bubbly glory.

Wtf?

This certainly lends credibility to the old adage 'if it walks like a duck and quacks like a duck, it's probably an imp in disguise.'

I am sooo disappointed. I wanted to see a story about two GUYS, not a guy and a stereotypical chick with an alluded-to-but-never-shown dick. In fact, I deem his dick mythical and useless, because CLEARLY Shuichi here isn't meant to be using it for anything at ALL. He is supposed to be the girl in this heteronormative relationship of male/female; seme/uke.

So why the fuck bother to give him a slightly deeper voice and call him a guy?

It certainly isn't to angst about being into guys. He mentions it twice in the 4 eps I've seen. First time went something like:

Friend: You're attracted to him.
Shuichi: N-no! He's a GUY!
Friend: So? You don't get to decide who you fall in love with.

Second time (after some sexing, which was fade-to-black so yes, his dick is still mythical):
Shuichi: *after being all happy and gushy* B-but he's a GUY!
Friend: Idiot. It doesn't matter if it's a man or a woman as long as it makes you happy.
Shuichi: ... Oh, yeah! It's all right! It's all right to like a guy! Wheeee!

(note: not transcriptions, just my impression of those two very short convos and, also, the friend is much hawter)

If I wanted to watch het, I would watch het! Truthfully! I do it all the time! Getting het disguised as supposedly m/m just pisses me off!

I WANTED BEEF, NOT CHICKEN!

Confused Love,

~Kitty

I ♥ you.

( Here's a cut to be nice to my f-list )

Love,

~A Slightly Crazed Kitty

So, it's Saturday morning. Kupo can sort of play by himself, but I put on TV just because he loves that and, well, I don't buy into the whole ZOMG TV FRIES THE BABY'S BRAIN mass hysteria. He likes his morning Disney shows and then music, so we're watching VH1.

This video had him stopping up and being extremely fixated, plus dancing a little:


Maybe it's because his dad showed it to him before. Or the many, many colours. I don't know. But I'm amused at my kid's music of choice.

Right now he's trying to eat one of his old shoes.

You know how I always drag my feet when it comes to reading fics? Like, really, drag my feet? How even stories I like, I'm afraid to finish, and my own stories, gawd, let's not even go there?

I had an epiphany.

When it comes to Draco/Hermione I am way too locked in on the canon characters and constantly so fricking wary of what others might do to them (or, in case of trying to reread my own fics, what mistakes I've made myself) that I can't relax and enjoy it. I'm simply too anally picking it all apart and cannot stop doing it no matter what I try.

I had the beginning of this revelation while skimming the first few chapters of a very OOC Harry/Draco with numerous spelling and grammatical mistakes and actually still being amused by the story.

Because I didn't really care that it was flawed. I could see what was good about it (even though, in this case, it was minimal).

So, I suppose the solution is to not even try to read Draco/Hermione until I can let it go. I have other ships I like to occasionally read. Almost anything with Draco, for starters. And Rose/Scorpius. I adore Rose/Scorpius and they are much less bound by canon.

Still, it's funny, isn't it? I can't read Draco/Hermione because it's my favorite ship.

Note to self: Do not look up Lazytown porn on FFnet. You know you'll find it.

Note the second to self: NO! DO NOT CLICK THAT! DO NOT! DO N---

Fuck, I hate fic-posting on LJ. It keeps fucking up formatting no matter what you do. In any case, here's a one-shot I've written on the side. I've sat on it for a while, but I guess I can post it. Anyone thinking about whining that I should update Bracelet instead or in any way, shape or form planning to "inquire": Shut the fuck up. You'll get it when you get it.

Title: One Wild Night
Disclaimer: JKR owns anything that is obviously hers. I own the rest.
Characters: Draco Malfoy, Hermione Granger
Genres: Smut
Warnings: Fairly Explicit Sexual Themes, More Talking Than You Would Think, Unrelieved Sexual Tension
Overall Rating: R
Summary: Hermione Granger is on a mission! It's a fairly simple mission. It really shouldn't be that hard. People do it every day! So ... why is she having so much trouble with it? Maybe it has to do with that annoying Draco Malfoy, yammering in her ear all night ....
Extra Note: An enormous debt of gratitude to margotlefaye bunney mazvn and little_dollface for betaing this for me with the toughest of love, and to little_dollface for making me the very shiny banner. You ladies rock!
Length: One-Shot, 13952 words.




One Wild Night @ kittyfics

I don't feel like posting anything. I don't know why; I just don't feel like it. I'm currently writing on chapter 92 (!!!) of Bracelet, plus I have a 14k one-shot betaed by some of the coolest people I know, that is just sitting around on my hard drive and even has it's very own banner, but... don't wanna post it. >_>

I remember a time where I was excited to post my writings! *sigh*

Anyway, I haven't written anything here on LJ in a long long long time and that's by design. Wasted several hours in here every day and don't want to do that. I'm also really bad at getting back to people, but that's honestly not really new. I just figure "I'll reply later" and then forget.

Kupo is teething again! Look at this:



Those ages are later than we learn around here. Kupo got his teeth by the (Danish) book. His lower central incisors at 6 months (began getting them at 6 months, anyway, but as is the case with all his teeth, it took a bit) and his upper central incisors came in around 8 months. Now his upper AND lower lateral incisors are coming at the same time with the upper lateral incisors getting a head-start but the lower coming in quickly (at 9 months). This teething "schedule" of his has been rather grueling, but fortunately the first molars shouldn't come in until he's around 15 months old, so we get a reprieve. Also, the worst seems to be over for this time. He doesn't wake up crying like every half hour all through the night anymore. Yay!

Don't you feel edumacated?

Now a Kupo vid and then off she goes.

CORMAC MCLAGGEN CAN MAUL ME UNDER THE MISTLETOE EVERY DAY OF THE WEEK, TWICE ON SUNDAYS!!!



THAT IS ALL!!!



P.S. I ALSO THINK HE CAN MAUL MAZ!

P.P.S. NOT VERY SILENCIO-COMPATIBLE, IS IT? HOW VERY INCONSIDERATE OF THEM.

P.P.P.S. NO, MY CAPS LOCK IS NOT STUCK.

P.P.P.P.S. SAY WHAT YOU WILL ABOUT RON, BUT RUPERT GRINT TOTALLY PWNS THAT ROLE AND MAKES IT HIS OWN. HELL, IF CORMAC SHOULD NEED A BREAK...

P.P.P.P.P.S. I ASKED MAZ FOR A GIGANORMOUS COKE AND HENCE JUST HAD MORE CAFFEINE AND SUGAR THAN SHOULD BE LEGAL FOR ANYONE TO CONSUME IN ONE EVENING.

P.P.P.P.P.P.S. GUESS IT WASN'T ALL, THEN!

P.P.P.P.P.P.P.S. LJ SUCKS ASS!

Title: The Bracelet
Author: AkashaTheKitty
Characters: Blaise Zabini, Draco Malfoy, Ginny Weasley, Harry Potter, Hermione Granger, Pansy Parkinson, Ron Weasley, Theodore Nott (whew)
Genres: Drama, Friendship, Hogwarts Years, Humor, Romance
Warnings: HBP Spoilers, although slightly incompatible.
Overall Rating: R
Summary: When Hermione Granger loses a bet she was sure she'd win to Draco Malfoy, it's the beginning of her own personal hell. And his.

Go here if you didn't read previous chapters.

 

( The Bracelet, Chapter 83 )

We're in Berlin.

Idk if anyone remembers but Maz's parents own an apartment in Berlin that we can freely use. We are currently using it until the 28th. I was going to write more about that plus maybe post pics of the place etc except I am much too depressed to do so.

The trip to get here was hellish, but I guess travelling with a baby often is.

And now my laptop is broken. It must have taken a hit on the trip and it won't boot. Maz took it to a shop and they poked a bit at it and said it would be 200 euro to fix.

200 euro to fix a 2½ year old laptop (which was a free upgrade from a one year old laptop that kept giving us problems) is too much. It's simply not worth it.

So that leaves me with no laptop.

Which leaves me with no gaming computer.

Which leaves me with no stress relief.

And to anyone who is a selfish bugger: No, I did not write on the laptop anymore. I write on my netbook. While I did lose some documents, it wasn't too much, mostly references that can be gathered fairly easily again, I suppose. And maybe I lost the original Silencio docs but who cares, right?

No, what I mostly lost was personal stuff, my games, and my fucking COMPUTER. The one I had 95% of my fun on.

Can't afford a new one. A good gaming laptop is at least 3 times as expensive as a normal gaming computer (last time I shopped for it it was 2000+ euro) and don't have room for another desktop at home. Not that we even can afford a desktop what with living on a single grant for at least six months.

And certainly won't go into (more) debt for this. I'm not a moron.

Way to kick off a holiday.

My rant yesterday was WAY overdue. Today I finally had an epiphany about what to do about a future scene that was difficult for me to fit in. I don't get why I hadn't thought of this before, it's the ONLY thing that MAKES SENSE!!!

But, in any case, today is a good day. I let off steam and have been feeling the love both in comments, chats and shinies.

Dramione Awards' Best of 2008 round just concluded and there were shinies in it for me!

( Shiny talk )

And congratulations to floorcoaster for getting first place in Best Draco. From what I've read of your stuff, I don't mind losing that one to you. ;)

I would also like to congratulate somandalicious, bunney, ilkee and nikkilicious377 (in no particular order) with their wins. Great going, ladies. :D somandalicious revealed to me she had never won first before, but considering that she got THREE this time, she's certainly making up for lost time. :)

As for another kind of shinies, little_dollface is forever in my debt because I am the spawn of Satan and she is addicted to me and thus I can call upon her to be my slave whenever I feel like it.

In other words, she's making me story banners.

( The other kind of shinies )

Now I just need banners for Master, You Change My Mind, In The Darkness, The Nymph Hunt and After The End...

*smirks* Good thing I own her soul for all of eternity.

( And now, Kupo! )

And, YES, he is always laughing like that at people. ;)

All right, I'm done.

See, not always angry.

Reader rant ahoy. I have to warn you, though. It's that time of the month.

Been a while since my last Bracelet update and there's a perfectly good explanation for that.

I. Am. Turned. OFF!!

By no means by the story but by the readers. Some of them, in any case. Not all of you, obviously.

Here's why:

( GTFO if you're just going to get butthurt! )

TL;DR: Two weeks is NOT a long wait for a chapter. Pissing the author off will not lessen the wait but may actually lengthen it indefinitely. Why the fuck do you want updates anyway if you hate the story enough to dictate how it rather should go?

Title: The Bracelet
Author: AkashaTheKitty
Characters: Blaise Zabini, Draco Malfoy, Ginny Weasley, Harry Potter, Hermione Granger, Pansy Parkinson, Ron Weasley, Theodore Nott (whew)
Genres: Drama, Friendship, Hogwarts Years, Humor, Romance
Warnings: HBP Spoilers, although slightly incompatible.
Overall Rating: R
Summary: When Hermione Granger loses a bet she was sure she'd win to Draco Malfoy, it's the beginning of her own personal hell. And his.

Go here if you didn't read previous chapters.

( The Bracelet, Chapter 82 )

 

I felt like posting something. Let's see if I think of something to say.

If I can't, I'll just spam. Yay? ;D

When I promised to post that drabble to my comm I totally lied. I'll get around to it eventually. But tbh, I ended up not liking it post submitting it. XD I'll get over it sometime.

Been sort of sick. And tired. And then sick again. I don't think it's over, but at least I've been able to do a little the past few days (who am I kidding? I have been AWESOME SUPER MOM! And I'm modest about it too!). Although posting Bracelet updates is beginning to not be worth it, LEMME TELL YA! No, people are not mean to me. I'm beginning to believe I'm immune to that particular thing by now. No, it's the sheer FIGHT to get the time to make it work and then the FIGHT to make Word / FFnet / LJ / Life / Baby / Whatever cooperate with me long enough to MAKE IT HAPPEN! Seriously, last time took me two days straight AFTER I began doing final edits to get it out.

No, really, it is SO not nice when I'm one look-through and three clicks away from posting (after I WAS ready the day before but ffnet's doc manager went DOWN and there was no back-clicking so I had to do the A/N and preview over) that the baby decides to poop all over the place. A warning to all you childless people: Anyone who claims that a baby wearing clothes and a diaper could not possibly shit himself up to his neck is either lying or hopelessly naïve!

So, suddenly, I have to abort the mission in order to undress him, preferably without smearing stuff everywhere and, strangely enough, I feel a sudden urge to give Kupo a bath and start a load of laundry.

Posting really is exhausting (yes, all that happened PURELY because I was posting! I'm sure of it!)

( New gadget! And sales people annoyances. )

( Kupo and daycare ramblings. Fact stuffing ahoy! XD )

Before you ask: No, I don't think I have any new pics of Kupo right now. Well, maybe I do technically, but I prefer to post pictures that I JUST took and I didn't take any recently. Maybe Maz did but he's asleep. Next time. Maybe. ;P

And now you're all bored. :D

We're going to Germany next month. Berlin. 9th through 28th. We even have the tickets. It still hasn't really registered in my brain. No, we're not rich. Maz's parents have an apartment there (third floor--fourth floor to you Americans--no elevator. Oh, joy XD), so we'll live there for free as the spoiled brats we are and apparently common groceries are cheaper in Berlin than where we live, so the only real expense we'll have is the trip and whatever we want to do. We're boring, so we probably want to go to museums and stuff. :D

Any Berliners wanting to show us anything fun? XD

Oh, and there's internet and stuff. No worries. Not that you'd really notice me being gone with all the gone I've been lately. XD

Have to get Kupo a passport before we leave, though. How stupid is that? In the Old Days babies and young children were written into their parents' passports. Now he needs his own. At 8 months. With a real passport pic. And it'll be valid for 2 years. Yeah, cuz, you know, he won't change at ALL in 2 years. O.o

Oh, and I ♥ little_dollface. It just had to be said. She's making me some very shiny stuff and I can't WAIT for her to be done so I can show it off and then do my "MINE! MINE! AAAALLLL MINE! MWAHAHAHA!" thing.

Ficcing-wise: don't worry. I haven't had that much time to write where I have had the energy to actually go over it and correct the worst mistakes, but the well isn't running dry just yet. Not at all. I'm not that easily gotten rid off. I'm like a cockroach. Nuke me and I'll still be writing. You might as well get used to it.

I'm sure there's stuff I ought to have mentioned that I didn't. But, seriously, enough is enough. XD

Until next time.

Hey, at least I didn't mention every single baby thing I bought since last I did a post...

Sorry if my cuts aren't enough and you still have to scroll.

Title: The Bracelet
Author: AkashaTheKitty
Characters: Blaise Zabini, Draco Malfoy, Ginny Weasley, Harry Potter, Hermione Granger, Pansy Parkinson, Ron Weasley, Theodore Nott (whew)
Genres: Drama, Friendship, Hogwarts Years, Humor, Romance
Warnings: HBP Spoilers, although slightly incompatible.
Overall Rating: R
Summary: When Hermione Granger loses a bet she was sure she'd win to Draco Malfoy, it's the beginning of her own personal hell. And his.

Go here if you didn't read previous chapters.

 

( The Bracelet, Chapter 81 )

 

This be a bragging post. Be warned.

First... ART! Unsolicited art is awesome, y/y? According to the artist (don't know her handle, actually, but she signed off as Lara...) this is inspired by chapters 49/50 of Bracelet "if they hadn't ended in disaster" XD



I love this! :D It's rare I get good art, considering that I am very adamantly against commissioning it. Not in the mood for a discussion of right or wrong. You get to pay monies for fan stuff and I get to play my extended trials of various games I refuse to support for one reason or another. AND I get to get awesome art like this made for free! XD

And then there's THIS shiny:



Uh-huh. Some poor deluded suckers nominated me again. ^_^ I actually think voting should be up today? Huh. I thought it was tomorrow. I keep forgetting it's Monday because it's a Danish holiday today. XD Anyway, yeah, voting will be up at dramione_awards -- don't be sheep, vote for the deserving ones, not your BFFs.

Anyhoo, In The Darkness was nominated for Best Smut and Most Creative. The second one threw me a bit. Creative? XD I don't think I should count on placing there. As for the Smut category, I think some people must be seeing red when it comes to In The Darkness being eligible for that for the third time (even if this IS a "Best Of..." round). Idk, this will be interesting?

The Nymph Hunt was nominated (yeah, this in itself threw me) for Best Short Story and Best Draco. I know I have to get over people actually liking this cutesy little fairy tale rip-off. XD Don't get me wrong, I like it, I like everything I put out there on some level or it wouldn't leave my hard drive, but I don't think I love it. Even though I did my best, I think it lacks in intensity. Cute and intense are hard to juggle in the same fic. XD In any case, now it got a shiny nominee banner which is WAY more than I thought it would. :D

In other news, I signed up for this week at nextgen_drabble because little_dollface was a meanie and made it Rose/Scorpius. I'll link the drabble in here once it's all over if I remember. In any case, I'll post it on kittyfics, so if you're curious, check that in a week's time.

I'll post a Bracelet chapter soonish but not today. I hung onto it for too long so my betas are only just looking at it now (which is silly, considering that I'm currently about to start writing chapter 85...)

And now I'm off cuz I promised mazvn I'd play Carcassonne with him. Yes, I lead an exciting life, you may envy me now.