Yay, a birthday!

HAPPY BIRTHDAY aramintasnape!!

Happy Birthday to a wonderful LJer! *hugs* You're so nice, and you make LJ a happy place. I hope your day is great!

Retribution

Title: Retribution
Rating: R
Pairing(s)/character(s): SS, RL, HP
Challenge: Dark Side of Snape/Lupin
Summary: Prompt: Answer violence with violence. If one of us falls today, five of them must fall tomorrow. – Eva Peron.
Disclaimer: JK Rowling, Warner Bros, Scholastic & Bloomsbury Books all own the Harry Potterverse. I make no money from this work of fiction.
Warnings: Character deaths (mostly offscreen, not the main characters), angst, violence, no sexual content
Notes: ~3500 words. A giant thank you to odddollstories for betaing, and lindahoyland for Britpicking.

This is a NEW fic, I promise. It's based on a dream I once had of Remus and Harry roaming a devastated urban area. It's definitely an experiment, and dark, and I hope you'll let me know what you think.

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scratches head/jumps for joy entry

Have just received an email dated May 27th of this year.

AND OMG HAVE JUST RECEIVED COMMENT FROM pen_and_umbra! I thought she was lost forever to the fickle void of RL!

*jumps about crazily*

While I was at Phoenix Rising...

I talked to a lovely woman from the Save Our Cemeteries group. She mentioned that there is a cemetery photo contest, and I decided to enter.

I've printed out the instructions, and am going through my pics (at the moment, just the digital pics) to see what I have.

I have a lot of cemetery photos. No, really. And this is just what I have on the computer, not what I have on film.

Narrowing it down to four is going to be rilly rilly difficult.

Just thinking about music in relation to fanfic

As I was writing Retribution this week, I was listening to a new Tori Amos song called "Bouncing Off Clouds" over and over again.

Even though the song seemed upbeat, there was one line which really seemed to go hand in hand with the story, and so I kept the song on repeat. Now, as often happens with Tori songs, I couldn't always make out the lyrics.

Imagine my surprise when I finally just sat down and read the lyrics for the song:

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My subconscious must have understood the words on some level.