I have to say I absolutely loved this movie. I have found the key to enjoying the Hobbit movies is go into it with the mindset that this is how the book would have been if it had been written for the same audience as LOTR. I'm not enough of a fan to know what was combed from the Appendices and other notes and what Jackson and his team wrote, but I ( Read more... )

Okay, so I am posting a Lucius Malfoy/Hermione Granger story. In general the reviews are positive, but I have this one reader who seems unable to get past the fact Lucius Malfoy was a horrible person. Here was her latest review ( Read more... )

Okay, while not earth shattering, I have had this computer since June of 2009, which honestly is really good for a computer and I'm not sure how much longer it will last. I'm on my second keyboard and 3rd hard drive (the one that was shipped with the computer was part of a bad batch, so that was replaced with in the first few weeks of owning the ( Read more... )

So, I'm going to try to recruit my daughter. At 7 I think she's ready. I love Ten the most and was thinking of starting there, but then I started thinking about how the Christmas Invasion might not make that much sense. I could start with New Earth. I did also consider just starting from Nine because that's how I saw it and it leads to less ( Read more... )

So I almost managed to finish writing the next chapter in my fic, but life happened. We did some travel for summer vacation and then there was getting Katie back to school. She has seemingly entered a new realm of defiant lately, so that's been sucking a lot of energy out of me. I have one chapter that's back from beta and the one I had to ( Read more... )

So, having two kids and a husband in the military, it's tough to find time to get a haircut. My hair was getting really scraggly on the ends and I was sick of it, so I took matters into my own hands now that Katie's back in school and did a self cut. I started off making a ponytail on top of my head and pulling it close to the end to try to get the ( Read more... )

So writing has been going pretty well. A little minor writer's block on one chapter, but hopefully that will pass soon. I am working on a series of 100 word drabbles that fit together, too. I've even sent the first part of my Lucius DH 1st person fic to my beta. Still need to write the second and possibly third parts, but it was cathartic to me to ( Read more... )

So in the novel length HP story I'm working on (found here - and sorry you need to be registered on that site, I'm working on posting it to AO3, but only one chapter is up presently), I've introduced a new character. My beta thought it would be a great idea and so did I. Only now I'm trying to figure out how to deal with this new character. Because ( Read more... )

So, I've been trying to use my iPad to go through some of the backlog of TV since my laptop is now the media server and thanks to how my desk is set up, I can't see the living room TV from here without weird contortion. I still have a lot of things I need to catch up on, but I have made progress. Of course I also stumbled upon a few other shows I ( Read more... )

I'm still alive. I've actually done some muse corralling and have them working on my 2009 NaNo fanfic. I've also got a wonderful beta who is helping keep me motivated this time along. Of course along with new motivation has come new ideas and I've ended up adding 4 new chapters and whole lot of pages to the part of the story that I thought was ( Read more... )