For the first time ever, Denial is in the SSHG Quiz! Squeeeeeeeeee!

Go take the 'Snape has a child' quiz, people!

http://community.livejournal.com/quiz_sshg/

And a massive hugs for mollyssister  for my loverly banner. :)

Nicked from keladry_lupin:

Your result for The Social Persona Test (What kind of man/woman are you?)...

The Renaissance Faire Wench (QLAF)

 

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Well, I get to go online so little these days, I only noticed two hours ago that we'd had the 'Big Reveal' at the Exchange.
Yes ... quick off the mark ... that's me.

I only got to read the first few stories at the exchange before life sort of went supernova, but what I read, I enjoyed. I'll try to get through the rest of them over the summer.

I just wanted to say thank you to ladybirdington for my wonderful story, To be Lived, which you can find here:
http://community.livejournal.com/sshg_exchange/149631.html

I was so lucky to receive a fab prompt fromjemags_brown , and the result was Affected Recollections, which I only had four days to write. Thus, it was a short tale, but it really was fantastically good fun to write. I know most of you have read it already (thank you for your kind reviews), but if you're VERY bored, you can find it here:
http://community.livejournal.com/sshg_exchange/155130.html

I've posted the first chapter on the various archives in the past hour, so you can find it there, too.

Hugs and kisses to all, especially to lady_karelia , who, as always, worked her beta magic. :)

I have the next half hour all to myself! Can you believe it?
I haven't done a meme since before Christmas! Yay!
And I feel so guilty about never getting to play on LJ anymore that I will make
this comment-free, so that you don't all have to say nice things and then I won't feel bad. LOL.

 

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I just checked my e-mail and found out, much to my delight, that Denial has won 'Best non-canon Romance' in the 2008 QSQ Awards over on Mugglenet!!! I'm so delighted! I had completely forgotten about that nomination, so it was quite a surprise. After the noms, the awards were decided by a panel of judges rather than readers' votes, so I feel doubly honoured to have won. Here's teh pretty, made my YourWildestDreams:




A huge thank you to sarahandcocoa  and phoenix5225  for their kind nominations, and congratulations to the other winners, a list of whom can be found here: http://www.fanfiction.mugglenet.com/forum/showthread.php?p=323184#post323184


Squeeeeeeeee!

Hello, my loves. Yes, I am still alive, but only managing to make it online about once a week at the mo.
Thought I would share a hilarious current news story with you in relation to Brian Cowen (our Barrack Obama/Gordon Browne).
I'm pasting directly from the RTE NEWS website www.rte.ie/news and here, first, is a little guide for some of what goes on in the story.

Taoiseach = Prime Minister/President (pronounced Tea Shock)
RTE = Radio Teilifis Eireann. (Irish Radio and Television)
Garda/Gardai = Police
Fianna Fail = Political party currently in power
Fine Gael = The main opposition political party

If you have a minute, do read. It's very funny.

( LOLZ ... )Fair balls to that teacher, I say. May he live long and prosper!

It is pelting snow. In Dublin. In March.
This is entirely unacceptable.

Guilt: I feel so guilty because I haven't been keeping up with your journals, your lives, your stories and now I've fallen dreadfully behind with the exchange. I've literally managed to get online once all week, for about twenty minutes. I've missed soooo many birthdays of people in the fandom who are very dear to me. Please, please, please forgive me. :(  Where the hell did I manage to fit a PhD in? Is it any wonder the bloody thing nearly killed me???

Prague: Yesterday was Dr. Beloved's birthday! The kids chipped in to get him a lovely big speaker dock thingy for his new i-phone, so we spent hours being subjected yesterday afternoon to his idea of music. Radiohead? Fucking whalesong, if you ask me. And as for Coldplay, could they not cheer the hell up? And Led Zeppelin? Is that how you spell it? God, I can't stand them. That bloody voice. It's like nails on a blackboard. ANYWAY. I digress. It made him exceptionally happy, and that's what matters. :)

After Joe's swimming training session, we went to Dr. B's favourite restaurant, where I surprised him with his main present, which is a trip to Prague for two on Valentine's Day. Mam and Dad have agreed to mind the boys for three nights, and I've booked a fab (I hope) hotel in Wenceslas Square. It's rated five stars, but as with lots of things in the Czech Republic, it is incredibly cheap. When we got home last night we started googling, and so far we've booked in to see a Dvorak opera in the Prague State Opera on Feb 14th, and we're going on a river cruise dinner with jazz band on feb 15th. Neither of us have ever been to Prague before, so does anyone have any advice on what to do or where to go?

Love y'all! *hugs*

Just thought I'd quickly re-pimp the sshg awards, and my own stories! I have been a very bad girl - I haven't even finished my noms yet, and there are only two days to go. But I WILL finish them!!! Please take the time to nominate. I know Shug works her ass off for these awards, as does everyone else involved, and she has received so few noms this round. GO DO IT!

Sorry I haven't been around, my loverlies. Had oral surgery on an impacted wisdom tooth last week (oh, joy!) so I was out of action for a while. 'Tis better now. :)

Anyway - make your noms here: http://community.livejournal.com/sshg_awards/20235.html

I only have three eligible stories, on various archives. I think I linked to TPP last time, so I'll link to SH this time:

Denial (epic): http://ashwinder.sycophanthex.com/viewstory.php?sid=17017

The Closed Doors of Consciousness (drabble series) (includes exciting alternative endings!!!): http://ashwinder.sycophanthex.com/viewstory.php?sid=17828

The Ring of Fire (oneshot): http://ashwinder.sycophanthex.com/viewstory.php?sid=19102

Go nominate all your favourites. There were some truly wonderful stories this year, so we're all a bit spoiled for choice! :)

Gotta go work for Dr. B now.

Hugs and kisses! xxx

Using the picture I took of the little park in Kensington Square, phoenix5225  has made me the most beautiful Denial banner!




Thank you, honey. :)

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This is the Peter Pan statue in Kensington Gardens, at which Hermione gazed and thought of Severus.




Peter Pan statue, Kensington Gardens



Kensington Square, where Severus & Cordelia and Hermione & Lance & Moe lived.



No. 18, Kensington Square: Cordelia and Severus' house, with the John Stuart Mill plaque



Cordelia & Severus' house



Lance and Hermione's house, Kensington square



The park at the centre of Kensington square. You can see the bench where Lance first told Hermione that Cordelia and Severus were 'playing pretend'.



The house in Belgrave Square where the marriage candidates attended classes during the early chapters of the story.

I am on time with one birthday, and shamefully late with two, so I would just like to say

Happy Birthday!

to the following lovely ladies:


lalaranel 

m_mcgonagall_65 

and

marisol31180</lj> 

Have a good one, girlies!