Akasha The Kitty's Domain

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.

( Bracelet, Chapter 84 )

 

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*mumbles to self* This time I will read and review, this time I will read and review, this time I will read and review...

Reader-people that know of good next-gen, please go nominate stuff for me to read (and look at, it's art too). :) We all know that I won't make it through all of them but maybe I'll manage a few categories.

Also, just please participate. Exchanges and awards are awesome and I'm always glad that everyone is not as scatterbrained as me. :) Although I did manage to beta on two awesome dmhg exchange fics and you should totally check those out. Also, I'm looking forward to different pairings. I like many nextgen combos. :D

Yay, next-gen, yay! Can you tell that I'm slightly sick of Bracelet? Well, I sort of am. It's just so hard to write. But I'm writing. In fact, I'm off to write right now as Maz and Kupo go swimming. I so frigging hope to be done soon. I feel like I'm stuck in limbo. A limbo that needs frequent editing and rewrites but is currently 596 word pages long. O.o

Note to self: Less. Words. Next. Time.

Icon chosen, because... well, we all know that Motherhood is in the boobs!

Also, I like it. Those are good boobies. I approve.

Allrighty, then! On to business...

( Here are a LOT of pics! Careful if you're on dial-up )

That enough to last you a while? ;)

Note: Due to the personal nature of these pics, I'll f-lock this post in a few days.

It's just been pointed out to me that I am a dunce.

Well, not really, but sorta.

See, I don't really check my f-list because I get sucked in so easily and it hadn't even occurred to me that some might make Happy Birthday posts/mentions in their LJs. And now it's too troublesome to backtrack because I have more than 200 friends and it's been 5 days.

If you made a post/mention and I didn't comment, could you perhaps just comment here and I'll go stalk you? Thanks.

In fact, just generally, if you there's something that you think I might be interested in knowing about, I'd appreciate a heads up.

And, yeah, sorry for being a dunce.

I'll make up for it with some kind of Kupo pic spam but, alas, Maz has the camera with him right now and I'm not sure when he and Kupo will be back. I was supposed to have looked after Kupo today but then I became sick. Really sick. Like, headaches, ear aches, sore throat, snot, and loss of appetite.

And nuked cocoa tastes like donkey butt.

It's my birthday and the world celebrates! :D

Thanks to everyone for the virtual snowflake cookies I've gotten lately, softobsidian74 for the "bundle of gifts" and little_dollface for the really generous gift of another year with LJ perks and icons. Awesome! :)

It's really nice to know that even though I'm somewhat absent these days I'm not being forgotten *snuggles* I haven't forgotten you either, promise! I'm just scared of being sucked back into LJ. I can't afford that kind of time waste :S Not if I want to, you know, try to find a way to be able to eat as well as spend time with mazvn and Kupo and finish Bracelet.

Kupo has learned to unwrap presents (in Denmark gifts are exchanged on the evening of the 24th). He likes it. A lot. In fact, he likes it so much that we had to move our presents out of his reach. XD Course, I don't blame him. After a few times of discovering awesome toys behind the wrapping paper, I'd be eager to get MOAR too.

My brother has been mostly civil and even gave Kupo a fun toy for Christmas and me a nice perfume for my birthday. My father has been a bit of a douche, but we'll see whether he's over that when he gets here for my birthday. He just needs to learn that his childish attempts to blame my mother for everything, half of it nothing she ever had anything to do with in the first place, are annoying and not something I'm about to waste my time with.

Tomorrow (the 26th) we're going to see Maz's family and there will be MOAR presents for everyone. Cuz Kupo is not spoiled enough as it is. XD

Anyhoo, I guess I'd better go. People were invited for lunch and it's 11:50 now. Not that it's at all certain when they'll get here. For one, my dad is not really the most reliable of people and for another, it's snowing fairly heavily. Again.

Just a post-and-run. My fic was posted yesterday (the 12th) on dramione_advent. I mean to X-post it to kittyfics at some point, but who knows when I'll get around to that?

Title: Seeing the Light
Author: akashathekitty
Rating: PG-13
Word Count: 3453
Prompt: Candles
Warnings: EWE?, implied sexual relationship
Summary: Hermione breaks it off with Draco. Not that he’s bothered. He doesn’t need her. He doesn’t care if she finds someone else. Wising up is a painful process.
A/N: Thanks to little_dollface for betaing. :) I hope my use of the prompt was satisfactory. >_>

This takes you to it.

Dear ignoramuses,

It is true that the boys can't enter the girls' dormitories at Hogwarts.

It is also true that the girls can enter the boys' dormitories at Hogwarts.

Your insinuations that the reason this is so is to prevent sexual activity makes me want to smack you across the face. Or, you know, wherever I can jump start some brain activity.

Here's the deal: Girls want sex too. No, it's true. Shocking, isn't it? Girls don't just put out to appease the boys. If boys act like sex maniacs in your society? And girls are trying to protect their precious innocence from the wolves? It's because your society programs them that way. It's the expected behavior of them, and most human beings are extremely simple -- they behave as they are expected to. Changing expected behavior (both as a person and a society) is a long and painful process, true, but that doesn't mean that everyone is like you.

But just to make my point clear: The next time you treat someone as a thug or a sex maniac based on looks or sex alone? You may be the problem.

There is no reason to think that the wizards and witches are programmed by American Muggle society in that way. There is no reason to think that the young wizards will try to act like sex maniacs because it's expected of them that they do so at every chance they get.

There's every reason to think that the boys aren't allowed to enter the girls' dormitories because they are obnoxious, attention-seeking teenage boys who will relentlessly prank the girls just because.

If you get this wrong? If you honestly think this is the wizards' genius solution to prevent teenage hanky-panky? We have nothing to talk about.

No Love,

~Kitty

It's December 1st! That means counting down for Christmas has begun. In Denmark 'Christmas calendars' with 24 episodes are airing on TV from December 1st to December 24th, and you can buy calendars where you open a window each day to reveal pictures, chocolate, or whether today is the day that will make you a millionaire.

And, as most of you probably know, this is also the day for dramione_advent to kick off. :) Direct link to the clicky calendar where yummy Dramione goodness will be revealed every day until Christmas.

They also seem to be needing a couple more pinch-hitters, so if you fancy yourself a writer and think you can manage a seasonal one-shot of 500-2000 words not that you aren't allowed to mangle that word count, but who would do such a thing -- I certainly didn't breathe a sigh of relief when she made the post that the word count wasn't set in stone. And I would NEVER have turned in a fic of almost 3500 words! by December 10th, you should concider pinch-hitting. :) (EDIT: Artists are very much welcome too! I just sort of never consider the possibility of artists... sorry :S)

A calendar like this is only fun with 24 entries, after all.

( Just a short random ramble before I'm off )

In any case, I don't really have time to post here. So see ya.

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 )