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Title: Do Not Taunt the Happy Fun Horcrux!
Author: pen_and_umbra
Fandom: Harry Potter
Pairing: Snape/Harry
Rating: PG-13
Word count: 2,922 words (complete)
Warnings: Crackfic.
Disclaimer: I pour beetles down the waistcoat of the suggestion that I own these characters.
Summary: The Final Battle To Decide The Fate Of the World And ( Read more... )

Since the jedi__santa Secret Santas are no longer so secret, I can pimp this:

Title: Never More Beautiful
Author: pen_and_umbra
Fandom: Star Wars
Pairing: Emperor/Vader
Rating: R
Disclaimer: All various and sundry belong to George Lucas and Lucasfilm Ltd.
Summary: I could have been whole, with hands that would be warm to the touch and a heart that could skip a beat when ( Read more... )

I've been beset by work, yet again, and then I caught the flu from whichever level of Purgatory sadistic snotmonsters and Kleenex makers come from.

Ugh.

So I've been ill -- to the point where I had to admit to myself that no slashfest stories will get done this round, seeing as I had zero ability to form coherent sentences in my native tongue, let alone ( Read more... )

Title: A Thousand Seasons of Cold
Author: pen_and_umbra
Fandom: Lord of the Rings
Pairing: Elrond/Gil-galad
Rating: PG
Disclaimer: I pour beetles down the waistcoat of the suggestion that I own these characters.
Summary: On the elven lay that is called The Fall of Gil-galad and how one Bilbo Baggins, a hobbit, came to teach it to Samwise Gamgee.

Notes: Had ( Read more... )

"I am an omnivorous reader with a strangely retentive memory for trifles."

So said Sherlock Holmes in The Adventure of the Lion's Mane. Me, I can't claim to have a good memory, but I'm most certainly both a reader and strangely retentive at times. And, as anyone could tell you, a fan of Sherlock Holmes ( Read more... )

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Work has been several unmitigated and innovatively appalling levels of hell. I have been thisclose to stabbing the new business manager in the face with one of those wooden latte-stirring sticks several times this week. Cures have involved chocolate, booze, and plodding through The Brothers Karamazov (the fine line between "epic" and "tedious" is ( Read more... )

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Star Wars icons, emphasis on the (hopefully) funny. Mostly villains.

Teasers:

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