I Am My Own Evil Twin

All are exchanges

The first I sadly can't link to since it was for Yuletart (Like Yuletide Treasures, but for fanart and not reserved for rare fandoms (though there is a 'no Harry Potter' rule).)

The second is here, for MAX.

The third is here, for MRCaEX on LJ.

I also have a picture for myself and one for mirisa_ardruna in the works.

The Yuletart picture has seven named characters and a bunch of extras. The MAX picture has two. The MRCAeX has three with a background. The one for me has six, and the one for Kim has two with a real background. That's a total of 20 characters over five pictures, many of whom aren't just standing there. (The picture for me does, but people are at least waving.)

I have gone insane. At least I was told on the MRCAeX pic that my art had improved markedly over the last year or so, some of which is because I try not to draw people standing there looking at the camera with their typical expressions. It makes me miss webcomicing, since that was an excuse to make myself do difficult poses, since I had to tell a story with the pictures.

(In other news, writing Yuletide fic. Ended up writing for a fandom I nominated and had on my wanted list, for a couple I asked for. It makes me want more fic with them, except the fandom is essentially one page on the Pit of Voles. Also makes finding a beta difficult if I want one to check fandom-specific stuff.)

Put your MP3 player on shuffle, and write down the first line of the first twenty songs. Post the poem that results. The first line of the twenty-first is the title.

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Title: If You Ask Me Why
Author: Don't ask us who!
Giftee: proftlb
Word Count: ~6820
Rating: NC-17
Pairing: Harry/Snape
Warnings: Death (not a main character), M/M sex scene, possibly chan with Harry as 16, angst.
Disclaimer: All Harry Potter characters herein are the property of J.K. Rowling and Bloomsbury/Scholastic. No copyright infringement is intended.
Summary: “If you ask me why, I couldn’t answer. I don’t know what possessed me to do it. It just happened.” A love story.
Author's Notes: Thanks to B, E, and Y for the beta. This was inspired from a recent death in my family, my grandmother who passed away recently. I was quite close to her and so dealing with that was hard. In a sudden hit of inspiration, this came out of me. I don’t quite know how, but it did. So I hope you enjoy it, and Merry Christmas for 2008.

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( If You Ask Me Why )

Putting this here because my tags are more organized than my bookmarks: http://gamesmeister.com/doomtown/viewforum.php?f=18&sid=7ec7315a2f9ab62abc174dfed1503c26

::uses Tonto icon to have something vaguely Western themed::

::thinks this icon should have a "bitch, please" variant::

Title: The Day Severus Snape Woke Up In Hell and Spent Seven Minutes in Heaven Before Life Interrupted His Happily Ever After
Author:
Giftee: gatewaygirl
Word Count: Including the Title? One Miiiiiiiiiiiiiiiillion! Not including the Title: 8665
Rating: PG-13
Pairing: …Is this a trick question? *glances suspiciously at mods* Snarry and a little bit of Ron/Hermione.
Warnings: DH spoilers, massive sentient objects, the tiniest bit of exposition, Hermione's bag of tricks, EWE, slightly-out-of-his-mind!Snape, and shocked-speechless!Harry
Disclaimer: This is a work of fiction set in the Harry Potter universe. No person or corporation is profiting from this story; it is for entertainment purposes only.
Summary: When Hogwarts throws a hissy fit, it's up to Harry to awaken its Headmaster. However, nothing ever goes as planned when Harry is involved.
A/N: Heartfelt thanks to all those without whom this fic would not have been finished. You know who you are. More heartfelt thanks to L for the beta and to E for the title. gatewaygirl, this actually started from one of your prompts (Harry and Snape have to work together) and then took on a life of its own. I sincerely hope you enjoy it! Happy Holidays.


( The Day Severus Snape Woke Up In Hell and Spent Seven Minutes in Heaven Before Life Interrupted His Happily Ever After )

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Title: Coming Back
Author: Dreaming of a White Christmas...
Giftee: perverse_idyll
Word Count: ~12,200
Rating: NC-17
Pairing: The obvious plus past Harry/Ginny.
Warnings: Epilogue compliance
Disclaimer: All Harry Potter characters herein are the property of J.K. Rowling and Bloomsbury/Scholastic. No copyright infringement is intended.
Summary: Harry's been looking for Snape for a long time. Snape doesn't believe him.
Author's Notes: This has been scary and exciting and educational and I'm so happy to be done. Love and thanks to my dearest Elizabeth, who spoke of My Fair Lady when I was stressing and gave this fic her much-demanded attention, and to Emily, who was a last-minute angel and is owed a ton of H/D wallsex. I really hope you like it!

Coming Back

asylum_adoption

For people who want to give away Asylums they have created but no longer want

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Your Song is a present day RPG that takes place at the fictional Presley School for the Performing Arts in Yonkers, New York, just outside of New York City.

Students must audition for a specialty (dance, music, art, technical theatre, drama) to obtain a coveted spot at this prestigious academy.

All characters in the game are based on famous songs!

Characters are in their junior and senior years of high school, and must be pursuing some career in the arts.

So why don't you tell everybody that this is your song by placing a hold today?

MANY songs are still available, and almost any song will be allowed as long as you can create a character that is in the essence of the original song.

Launch Game Information in New Window

Presley School for the Performing Arts ♫ Game Rules
Characters ♫ Holds ♫ Application

your_song ♫♪♫ your_mods ♫♪♫ your_ooc

The internets saved a family's home!

neutralground Via liferphoenix I dare you to do something different.

...hmm, on second thought, this might be too obscure to make sense to anyone but me.

Is it wrong that I want to find a way to connect Sosai Z[ed] (and how much do I love that if you google "Sosai Z", Google asks you if you meant "Sosai X"?) with Lord Zedd?

Y'all can blame this on Power Rangers Take Flight, which is Joe Rovang's "Jetman into Power Rangers" virtual series. There are condors and swallows and swans, oh my! :D And this screen cap, which is an entrance the Gatchaman team used plenty of times (it was in their credits, even).

Title: To Perish Twice
Author: Bribery has been known to work.
Giftee: jadzialove
Word Count: 5k or thereabouts
Rating: NC-17
Pairing: Harry/Severus
Warnings: forced bonding, epilogue-compliant (more or less), happy endings
Disclaimer: All Harry Potter characters herein are the property of J.K. Rowling and Bloomsbury/Scholastic. No copyright infringement is intended.
Summary: Severus had had five years of very bad sex with Potter, once a year and regular as clockwork – he wasn't about to go on like that for the rest of his life.
Author's Notes: Thanks to S and R for the beta, and apologies to Robert Frost for butchering his poem. :) I hope that I managed to hit at least some of your kinks, jadzialove, and that you enjoy this! A very Snarry Holiday to you!

( To Perish Twice )

...that I didn't pick up the mail yesterday. So, I did that.

What should be in the mailbox but two boxes from Amazon that I didn't order? ^___^

So now I have It's a Very Merry Muppet Christmas, which is the best Christmas movie ever, and one of the YA novels (about horsies!) from my wish list, courtesy of princess_kessie ::hugs her Kessie very tight::, and also Chrono Cross (!), thanks to a very naughty holiday elf who disguised their identity so I can't properly thank them. ::hugs the Mysterious Holiday Elf anyway:: So now I can battle my emo with Muppets, and if that doesn't work I can go save the world. Yaaaaaaayyyyyy! /Kermit arm flail

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Please take a look and join us if you like the Wainwright/McGarrigle family!

Posted on the 30th of every month--except February, then it's on the 28th.

This Monthly Meme Report is a double--that is, it's last month's MMR as well as this month's MMR.

Stats:
Members: 163
Watchers: 166
Memes: 73
Total Posts: 101
Total Comments: 1,536

(Number of memes taken from number of memories.)

Asylum News:
artistoboule posted Friend Me's first non-fandom meme, fans of pets.

October Meme(s):
-Fans of Shiho Sugiura's Silver Diamond

November Meme(s):
-Fans of Pets

October/November Meme of the Month:
(The November meme with the most comments at the end of the month)
-Fans of Pets with 9 comments

Most Popular Meme to Date:
-Fans of Harry/Snape with 552 comments

Under-Commented Memes:( Under-Commented Memes )

Complete Meme List:( Complete Meme List )


November Birthdays:
(Birthdays are taken from each user's profile)
noukran (November 4), seldarine93 (November 5), aaronlisa (November 7), chrysalis (November 10), sleepdebtfairy (November 15), bubl (November 18), nat (November 20), phoenixsong71 (November 21), jencatd (November 23), turelietelconta (November 24), creamsicklesky (November 25, mwrgrana (November 25), darkhorse488 (November 30)

Happy Belated Birthday!

December Birthdays:
(Birthdays are taken from each user's profile)
yayforjae (December 18), kaesa (December 31)

Happy Birthday!


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I'm not looking forward to going to work tomorrow. Not because of anything I have to do -- I'm in the 'advisor wants a report that we can start editing into a paper' stage, which is a good one. Plus, I'm already starting on another project, or picking up an old half-finished one, rather. I had planned to have both of these done, so I could do the final bit for my thesis over my fifth year (possibly edging into my sixth if I had to). I think I also have a meeting for student government but that just means I have to spend an hour and a half talking about money and eating free food.

But, I happened to have an office across from Ed Salpeter, an emeritus professor, and he passed away over the holidays. He was a pretty nice guy -- I mean, the man was in his eighties and officially retired, but he still hung around the department and went to functions. And, since we worked in the same place, he would say hello to me occasionally. The grad student group hosted a dinner for him just last month and he and his wife sat down and talked about the history of the department. She also asked us to do something about the Styrofoam cups the department used, because we're in 2008, and they should know better.

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Title: Everybody Knows
Author: ...
Giftee: togsos
Word Count: ~28,000
Rating: NC-17
Pairing: Erm, Snarry?
Warnings: Harry is 17; bottom!Snape; graphic violence
Disclaimer: This story is all mine, but is based on characters and situations created and owned by JK Rowling and Bloomsbury/Scholastic. No money is being made and no copyright or trademark infringement is intended.
Summary: Harry has grown tired of the wizarding world. He just doesn't have a good enough reason to sacrifice himself.
Author's Notes: This is AU from mid-HBP; beta admirably performed by H; greatest of thanks to the Snarry Holiday mods!

Everybody Knows

I just tried to post my wish list to holiday_wishes, but semagic did something...weird. The asylum is moderated, I think, so until the post goes through moderation I can't tell if it arrived successfully. Umm, if you happen to see a stray wishlist wandering around somewhere it shouldn't be, you'll tell me, right? Okay, it showed up where it was supposed to; I don't have to worry I mortally offended another asylum.

Happy: Still missin'. Headache: firmly in position. Eyes: dry and itchy. Ears: sore.

hexennacht/rpg_nacht

The Ministry was invincible. It would always exist, and it would always be the same. -hexennacht mwpp since 2005