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Early Sunday morning, I finished another part of one of my slow-writing HP WIPs that I am still working on for the time being. Before trying to post it, I played a couple more hours of Baldur's Gate, during which a fic idea that had been bouncing about in my head for weeks suddenly slotted into place, and I spent the rest of the day writing it out. I've now got both of them ready to post together.


Title: An Account of the Lives of the Weyard Sisters, and Fian Ollivander's Three Most Remarkable Descendents by Hermione Granger
Chapter: 6: Attracting Further Notice
(Author's Note, Chapter 1, Chapter 2, Chapter 3, Chapter 4, Chapter 5)
Fandom: Harry Potter
Characters: The Weird Sisters(the original, not the rock band)
Disclaimer: Nothing to see, move it along...

In the first days of her marriage, Nian's choice must have seen like the perfect one.


Title: A Short, Hard Debate
Fandom: Baldur's Gate III
Characters: Lae'zel/Astarion
Disclaimer: They both belong to Larian.
Warning: Sex, and while the POV character might not actually know about Astarion's issues, they are still sort of here
Note: Takes place in the universe of my ongoing playthrough. Where recent events include Astarion refusing to bite Oblodra in Moonrise Towers, the party finding the disk about Orpheus there, the Githyanki on the bridge ambushing the party when Lae'zel was in it, and my Tav, after forbidding Astarion to bite her again after the first time, relenting and letting him do it again the night before they faced Yurgir.

It was just the group of them, camped here in the bowels of this Gauntlet; noone else even near.

Sunday I saw the Harry/Draco lark I wrote back in 2000 on an alphabetically sorted list of the most popular 25 Drarry fics between 2000-2004, although how this judgement was made I have absolutely no idea. (At first I thought it was by AO3 hits, but it's much further down that list.) It's one that definitely has been popular, especially during the heyday of the series, but it honestly feels kind of ridiculous when it's never been my best writing, and it especially isn't now that I've since had twenty-one years to get better at writing. I'm not at Arthur Conan Doyle levels of aggravated over it, but still.
For my more current interests, I am now well into the back half of episode 24 of The Mighty Nein, which now carries a bittersweet feel. I have been anxiously awaiting Lucien's death since about the time he first talked to the Nein and revealed himself to be such a bastard, but now I'm wondering if it's going to be his or Molly's I first watch in full, although I've seen clips of the latter, and watching them both around the same time may feel weird. If it doesn't take the Nein another ten episodes to finally catch up with him and be in position to actually do something.

Spent most of my holiday watching skating. Thankfully, much of it was very good skating, and if this is the last significant big event we get this season, it will have at least ended well. Then this morning I opened this fic, and realized that I had in fact finished a chapter of it ages ago without realizing the chapter really was going to end there. So it's only going up now.

Title: An Account of the Lives of the Weyard Sisters, and Fian Ollivander's Three Most Remarkable Descendents by Hermione Granger
Chapter: 5: The Marriages of Nian and Dian
(Author's Note, Chapter 1, Chapter 2, Chapter 3, Chapter 4)
Fandom: Harry Potter
Characters: The Weird Sisters(the original, not the rock band)
Disclaimer: We're trying to claim it for ourselves, we really are.

( Unfortunately, the only real account we have of the confrontation between Dian and Gumboil of Wye is Dian’s. )

In the years since I completed the last part of this fic, I contemplated discontinuing it, or restarting it so it took place at Ilvermorny. But of course, then things have kind of become a huge trash fire, and I have decided there is room to continue a fic that completely ignores everything Pottermore and Fantastic Beasts claims about North America. Who knows, maybe I'll even get a few more readers at this point.

Title: New York State Wizarding School
Part: 5: Ernie's Letter
(1, 2, 3, 4)
Fandom: Harry Potter
Characters: Hannah Abbott & a bunch of OC New York State witches and wizards
Disclaimer: Rowling isn't really our Queen anymore.

( She finally read the letter back in her dorm, with Fran on the other bed. )

It's been a strange father's day for this immigrant's daughter, closing in on five years after her father's death. Considering what we're doing to so many mothers and fathers at the border, celebrating the day feels like mockery anyway. I escaped it for much of the day by going to see Ocean's 8, which now mom wants to see. It was mostly just fun. But another strange thing is to have a heist movie that one's of the better examples I've seen of women helping each other out.
Though the real event of our weekend was the cat needing medication. Today we even got a syringe from the vet, and had to figure out how to use it. And once we did that, we still had the problem that Ian was refusing to be medicated. Mom and I now both have new scratch marks on us from his claws, and we were only able to dose him with half a pill.
I also got the new edition of Fantasic Beasts and Where to Find Them, since my original copy vanished years ago. The new artwork alone makes the book worth it. Still, I miss the trio's annotations. The movie trailer was among those in front of Ocean's 8, and now I think I will ultimately see it, after all, despite the problematic things that have popped up in relation to it.

I have spent the week working on a figure-skating blog post for my sister's new blog on Fansided. She wanted it yesterday, and I delivered it, but I'm not sure when it's actually going up, or when the blog is for that matter. Between that and watching the Olympics, though I finished the latest part of "Their Duties to the Queen" last weekend, I didn't get around to posting it until I'd finish the next part of "All the Extras" too!

Title: All The Extras
Part: 6: The Prodigal Witch
(Part 1, Part 2, Part 3, Part 4, Part 5)
Fandom: Harry Potter
Characters: Harry, Ron/Hermione, the Grangers
Disclaimer: Like Rowling less than I used to, but she still owns it all.
Note: In fact, if there is anything on Pottermore or in Cursed Child that contradicts this, well, my give a damn's busted.

It took them about a week after they arrived in Australia to track Hermione’s parents to Brisbane, where just after lunch they found themselves walking to the front door of a comfortable house in a northern suburb called Wavell Heights.

Title: Their Duties to the Queen
Part: 12: Parting Ways
(Prologue, 1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 7, 8, 9, 10, 11)
Fandom: Star Wars
Characters: The handmaidens
Disclaimer: Now Disney owns them.
Warning: Some shooting
Notes: I am relying on a single EU/Legends source which claims that as Queen Padmé had 13 handmaidens, and the five we saw in TPM were merely the ones with her at all times.

When Yané departed Piyoeré with Pamé Vollenna roughly twenty minutes later, their speeder was dragging behind it a sledger currently folded up into a long rectangular capsule, with a jury-rigged anti-grav on the bottom allowing it to float behind them and without using up any of its own energy, a last minute extra idea of Schrulek’s.">

Just watched Elden Henson's recent half-hour panel, and wow, is this guy entertaining. It was kind of strange, since he was pretty bland in the promotional materials and such for the first season, but then, he did have the personal issues at the time. It is an interesting contrast, to hear he still hasn't read the comics, in contrast to Charlie getting devoted to them and Jon carefully reading his way through all the Punisher-related ones fans told him was important, but to each their own.
Also took a gander as Draco & Scorpius Malfoy this morning. Rowling's comment about Scorpius and the girls is amusing, especially since it's impossible right now to tell whether or not she's trolling us, but one can't deny his father's looking handsome in his ponytail-growing adult years.
But meanwhile, it seems it's time for certain people to start slamming fandom again, and act as if the people protesting a Rule 63 Ghostbusters and the people protesting a Hydra Captain America are the same people. Ummmm, not really. You don't get to pin the antics of a bunch of spoiled fanboys on my crew, thanks.

A couple of weeks ago, when the Great Pottermore Resorting happened, I, wanting to get a wand that fit my personality more(I'd originally gotten a spruce wand, which was described as being "near disaster" in the hands of someone of my temperament), took the new sorting quiz, trusting that, like the last one, and like most internet sorting quizzes, it would put me in Ravenclaw. Instead it put me in Slytherin. In a manner befitting of my new house, I promptly made another account using my older email address, and this time tried to reclaim my old info, but it turned out to be lost. So I tried to quiz again, trying to alter my answers a bit, and ended up in Slytherin again. I haven't been back to Pottermore since; I think I may ultimately use it without an account.
At first I thought there was something wrong with the quiz. Certainly I don't have the ambitions one would expect of a Slytherin(I did say I wanted to be remembered for my accomplishments, but I meant the ones in the creative line...). But since then I've been wondering: has the determination to make it in the world, to get mine, if I can, turned me into a Slytherin?
Being a young scared autistic woman in our day and age can make you feel desperate, far more than I ought to, probably, and the possibility of Trump being elected and taking everything I've worked so hard to earn away from me doesn't help. Soon the primary will come to Virginia, and I don't know which of Hillary or Saunders I'll vote for. If I had my druthers, I'd see the latter in office, but I'm terrified of what happens if the main election is him versus Trump. Hell, him versus Cruz might be even more dangerous, because Cruz is someone mainstream voters could be scared into voting for is the smears they'll no doubt throw at Saunders stick.

The chicken is in the oven to go on the table at 5 PM; neither mom nor me care much for turkey anyway, and I'll have time to get plenty of sleep before the NHK Trophy starts after midnight. I just finished episode 7 of Jessica Jones, ( and the end was odd for me... ). Mom and I went for a walk during the heat of the day, when we ended up taking our coats off. The variances in the weather aren't nice for my sinuses, but they aren't causing any me serious issues right now. There are various things I can be thankful for, from general good health to getting promoted, but I find this year I think of one thing above all others.

For me, 2015 has been the year I seriously took the plunge back into fanfic and fandom. I was never fully disconnected, but in recent years I haven’t had much to do with it; I was focused on other things. I was inching in already, thanks to the MCU in general and Agents of S.H.I.E.L.D., but movies don’t come out often enough for me to go full-blown, and Agents of S.H.I.E.L.D. wasn’t the show most suited to it either(at least at first). But then Daredevil landed, and I took the plunge back in. I’ve written more in the past six months than I did during some years, and what I put on the backburner in favor of trying to become a published novelist, I now feel differently about. For better or for worse, I am a fanfic author, that is my identity in life, and I’m learning to embrace it, once and for all. I’ve never been ashamed, but now I’m proud. Let the world scorn me or dismiss me for not being a respectable published woman(though I still might self-publish a book that is essentially Jane Austen fanfic anyway); I don’t give a damn.

( And I've discovered, much to my delight, that the world I came to isn't the world I drifted out of half a decade back. )

Title: All The Extras
Part: 4: To Australia
(Part 1, Part 2, Part 3, Part 4)
Fandom: Harry Potter
Characters: Harry, Ron/Hermione, the other Weasleys
Disclaimer: Rowling is our Queen!
Note: I plotted out the World Cup storyline before we started getting information about it on Pottermore, so all such information will be ignored in this fic.

( The day before their trip to Australia may have been a hectic one, but even so, the entire family, which included Bill and Fleur, who were there and helping out, turned up to sit in front of the radio at one in the afternoon to hear the announcement of England’s World Cup roster, even if Hermione, while sitting there, might have been paying less attention to her surroundings than to the maps she’d been constantly studying since Fred’s funeral. )