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elfflame
Date: 2008-09-13 11:11
Subject: Fic: Freely Given - Cedric/Blaise - R
Security: Public
Tags:challenge: d_d, character: blaise, fandom: hp: fic, fic: one-shot, ship: cd/bz

Title: Freely Given
Author: [info]elfflame
Characters: Cedric/Blaise
Rating: R
Warnings: Chan – Blaise is 15, Cedric 17
Kinks chosen: Frottage, Confession
Word Count: ~ 1000
Summary: A tryst on the Hogwarts grounds
Author's notes: My confession is that I did not complete the story I had intended to post today. But it will be completed or I’ll likely be skinned alive. This is for Cait, who has the most adorable Cedric, and helped inspire me late last night.


One evening in spring of 1995… )

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elfflame
Date: 2008-09-10 19:46
Subject: Long overdue Meme answers
Security: Public
Tags:character: blaise, character: draco, character: lucius, character: rabastan, fandom: buffy, fandom: dr who, fandom: hp: meme, fandom: lotr, meme

From this post way back when.

Harry Potter )

Other fannish )

Smut-related )

Other )

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elfflame
Date: 2008-09-10 07:30
Subject: Fic: Two Pets - SS/BZ, Carlo/Magira
Security: Public
Tags:challenge, character: blaise, character: magira, fandom: hp: fic, fic: one-shot, ship: carlos/magira, ship: ss/bz

Title: Two Pets
Author: [info]elfflame
Rating: R
Word Count: 669
Pairing(s)/character(s) : Severus/Blaise, Carlo/Magira (Casino Lily)
Summary: Severus goes to visit a friend in Vegas.
Warnings: D/s
Prompt: A lovely cross-over where Snapey and Carlo show off their pets.
A/N: Written for [info]snapelike’s Large Cauldron Collider Ficlet Fest. Thanks to Ceria and Wolfish Cat for the betaing.



Time for a play-date )

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elfflame
Date: 2008-08-29 17:46
Subject: Fic: Morning Light - Blaise/Theo - PG13
Security: Public
I am:cheerful cheerful
Tags:birthday, character: blaise, fandom: hp: fic, fic: drabble, fic: one-shot, ship: bz/tn

Title: Morning Light
Author: [info]elfflame
Pairing: Blaise/Theo
Rating: PG13 (with implications of more)
Wordcount: 422
Warnings: Pure, unmitigated fluff
A/N: Written for the Bunny for her birthday. She asked for fluff with our boys. So I wrote this. :D Happy birthday, hon. :D


Early one morning )

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elfflame
Date: 2008-08-23 08:57
Subject: Memetime!
Security: Public
I am:tired tired
Tags:about me, challenge: d_d, challenge: hp_creatures, character: blaise, character: draco, fandom: hp: links, fandom: hp: meme, meme: fic, rpg: ml

Seen a few places this week, and procrastinating on editing my Creatures fic:
That writing meme going around )

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elfflame
Date: 2008-06-07 19:34
Subject: Stuff + Sims pics
Security: Public
Tags:character: blaise, character: draco, computer games: sims, fandom: dr who, fandom: hp: sims, reading, recs: books, ship: bz/tn, ship: hp/dm: sims

Finally finished reading the first of the Anita Blake books.  You know how it is when you know too much about something before you read or see it?  I think that's the case with these books.  I know too much. 

Slightly spoilery behind the cut )

I intend to keep reading, though.  I enjoyed it enough, and I'm curious to see what happens next.  We'll see when she tips the scales.

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Dr Who this week--great episode.

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And now for pictures - Harry/Draco and Blaise/Theo.

Picture-heavy behind the cut )

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elfflame
Date: 2008-05-18 11:58
Subject: New slashy sims! H/D, Blaise/Theo
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Tags:character: blaise, character: draco, computer games: sims, fandom: hp: sims, ship: bz/tn, ship: hp/dm: sims

Been playing sims more.  Boys are in their second year at College, now.  And everyone's happily in love and doing well. :)  Just started snowing today, so I've taken a lot of pictures of the boys at play.  Beware.  This post is picture-heavy.

First up:
Blaise & Theo )

Harry and Draco )

Draco in the snow (no slash) )

Harry's Snowman )

The great pillow fight )

Harry and Draco's snowball fight )


And that's all I have for now. :D

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elfflame
Date: 2008-05-01 21:45
Subject: New Sims 2 pics
Security: Public
Tags:character: blaise, character: draco, computer games: sims, fandom: hp: sims, ship: bz/tn, ship: hp/dm: sims

So, I started from scratch, because Pets was driving me bonkers, so I got rid of it, so the boys are starting in college. :)

Pictures behind the cut )

Still need to get Harry and Draco on the smooch-track, and then I'll get all four married and start them on their families. :D

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elfflame
Date: 2008-04-13 07:34
Subject: Fic: Ill Met By Daylight - Rodolphus/Blaise - NC-17
Security: Public
I am:tired tired
Tags:challenge: d_d, character: blaise, fandom: hp: fic, fic: one-shot, ship: rl/bz

Title: Ill Met By Daylight
Author: [info]elfflame
Characters: Rodolphus Lestrange/Blaise Zabini (yes, you read that right…)
Rating: NC-17
Warnings: Bloodplay, dub-con, rough sex, chan, dark
Kinks chosen: Salirophilia: Arousal by tasting salty body fluids.
Word Count: 2060
Summary: A trip to Hogsmeade leads to a dark encounter for Blaise Zabini.
Author's notes: Erm…this was going to be a Harry/Draco fic, but… Draco getting off on sweaty clothes just doesn’t do it for me. Less so than blood, apparently. Anyway, these two have had a few talks in private RPs between myself and [info]wolfish_cat, so this idea came to mind. It’s far more canon than we play then, especially her Ro. Still, I hope people will give it a look… Even if it is the third Blaise fic in a row this year… *headdesk*


Swift as a shadow, short as any dream;/ Brief as the lightning in the collied night. – A Midsummer Night’s Dream, by William Shakespeare )

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elfflame
Date: 2008-04-06 16:49
Subject: Drabble Dump
Security: Public
Tags:character: blaise, character: draco, character: severus, fandom: hp: fic, fic: drabble, rpg: fl, rpg: misc, rpg: ml, ship: bz/tn, ship: hp/dm: fic, ship: rl/bc, ship: rl/bz, ship: ss/cw, ship: ss/dm

For Wolfish Cat:
Ro/Blaise
This started out based on FL, but...well, it's going somewhere else, so we'll let it. Warning here for implied chan (Blaise is 15), and assumed D/s, though there isn't really any sex in the drabble.
250 words - PG13


A Nighttime Walk )


Florahart
Snape, Charlie, bubblegum.
214 words - PG


Dealing With Ego )


Lee West
Rab/Barty, around the Longbottoms' torture time, Law Like Love.
276 words - PG13 (Mention of chan and future torture, and manipulation)


Plans for the Future )


Robin
Harry/Draco
This one's based on the RP these two started in.  As I said in my note the other day, they've been playing together since 2006, and married in 2007, though we never actually played all of that out because we skipped forward several years.  So...this was my solution. :)
402 words - PG


Wedding Day )


Kaykayen
Pairing: H/D
Time Period: Post-war (but EWE, please)
Quote: "There is always some madness in love. But there is also always some reason in madness." Friedrich Nietzsche
325 words - PG


If Wishes Were Horses )


Zille
Blaise/Theo
A new pairing to me, and one I'm still sorting out in my head, as you'll see in the drabble.
233 words - R (Mention of Chan)


On Love )


Lilian Cho:
Severus/Draco or Severus/Draco/Harry, your choice.
Either during DH or post-DH with Snape surviving =DDD
Mmm...prompt: "We're not really enemies, we love each other, really."
Or if that's too sappy, "enemies" *g*
370 words - PG


Demands )

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elfflame
Date: 2008-04-04 20:39
Subject: State of the Elf again
Security: Public
I am:busy busy
Tags:challenge: d_d, challenge: hd_cup, challenge: hpvamp, character: blaise, character: draco, fandom: hp: recs, fandom: hp: rp, fandom: hp: writing, icons, politics, recs: misc, rl: job, rpg: misc, ship: hp/dm: rp, writing: fic

* Job is...nuts.  They've been getting twice the work I'm able to do in a day.  And have no one else doing it.  And I'm scrambling to be able to do as much as I am.  Plus, I'm not really doing it the way they want to end up having it be done.  Someone else does a bunch of lookup and callbacks that I couldn't do yet because I didn't have access to the relevant system yet.  So eventually they want to have three of us doing the lookup, callbacks, and entering all at once.  Which would slow things down incredibly much.  I don't think they're quite cognizant of that just yet. :P

* Have been wibbling back and fort on a reclist of Anj classics.  So...the question is, would there be any call for it, or does it seem redundant or silly, and I should just keep my big yap shut?

* Have not been playing in my games at all of late.  I suck.  Mostly because I can't really at work without feeling like I'm breaking rules, and by the time I get home, I'm wiped.

But I have been able to rp a bit through email and a few private rps... 

Harry and Draco have been together since September of 2006, and got married in 2007 (realtime).  One private ceremony with just very immediate family (Lucius, Severus, Sirius and Remus) in the Netherlands where it was legal for males at the time (the rp took place in 2002 at the time, I think), and one public ceremony several months later in the summer that was just for show.  And now that we've moved them to "today," Harry's asked him again, now that it's legal for men to be able to marry each other in England.  So he's been working on that.

And my Blaise has finally gained a Theo.  We set it up that they were together in school a bit and then separated by the war.  And now they're engaged to be married.  My Blaise is very much of the "love doesn't exist" mindset because of his mother, but his friends and lovers have convinced him otherwise, and so now he's shocked, but very happy.  It's odd, but sweet.

* Writing - finished my HP Vamp fic, but for the editing, which will begin this weekend.  Need to start my D_D, and have ideas for another fic as well that wants to push the D_D right out of the way.  And if I finish all that, I might claim another prompt at HP Vamp.  Oh, and I have drabbles to do, too. :)  And I have this amazing fic idea that I *have* to find the time to do, too.

* Also…have been having an idea that I’d like to do one of those “commentary tracks” for one of my fics.  Anyone have any preferences for which?  I might do a poll at some point.

* [info]hd_worldcup.  If you’re not watching, why not?  I haven’t had much chance to read what’s been posted so far, but I have enjoyed what I’ve read.

* Politics - I'm starting to get annoyed with both candidates.  I was so thrilled when they both ended up as frontrunners, because I thought it meant we could avoid the “vote for me because I’m a …” argument.  Why they couldn’t just run on the issues…  Well, I suppose I know: they’re too close in most beliefs, so they need better ways to separate themselves.

* Have been considering switching my default icon to something different.  Not sure to what yet, though.

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elfflame
Date: 2008-03-15 16:21
Subject: Drabbles!
Security: Public
Tags:character: blaise, character: draco, character: severus, fandom: hp: fic, fic: drabble, ship: bz/hg, ship: bz/hp/dm, ship: hp/dm: fic, ship: ss/bz, ship: ss/dm

Evinyatar15
Blaise/Severus (mainly because I've been wanting to read this ship). Severus knows Blaise's mother. Blaise gets the wrong idea. (could be established relationship/affair, but definitely needn't be.)
464 Words, R

Never Enough Time )

Princessjessia
PAIRING: Blaise/Hermione
PROMPT: The worst sin towards our fellow creatures is not to hate them, but to be indifferent to them: that's the essence of inhumanity.
100 words, PG

Silent Imposition )

Foodie
Draco's reaction post DH to finding out about Snape's outcome. How's that?
Quote by Shakespeare
121 Words, G

Survivor's Grief )

Lilian_Cho
Severus hates James Potter, but all the annoying things that he hates in James Potter somehow become mere quirks in Draco Malfoy.
115 Words, PG

Gratitude )

Ladybahiya
Character: Draco
Prompt: cowlick
176 Words, PG13

There Was a Little Curl )

Alisanne
How about a nice Blaise/Harry/Draco?
Prompt: Whisper. :)
136 Words, R

Night Whispers )

Kaykayen
Pairing: Harry/Draco
Prompt: "What does your heart tell you?"
164 Words, PG

After so Long )

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elfflame
Date: 2008-03-13 06:47
Subject: Fic: The Punishment of the Golden Prince - LM/BZ - NC-17
Security: Public
Tags:challenge: d_d, character: blaise, character: lucius, fandom: hp: fic, fic: one-shot, fic: sequel, ship: lm/bz

Title: The Punishment of the Golden Prince
Author: [info]elfflame
Characters: Lucius/Blaise (implied Blaise/Draco, Harry/Draco, and Lucius/Harry)
Rating: NC-17
Warnings: BDSM, breathplay (wtf?)
Kinks chosen: Corsets, Penetration toys
Word Count: 2778
Summary: Blaise disobeyed his Master. Now he must be punished.
Author's notes: Shockingly, another Blaise-piece. Quite different from the last one. Set in the same universe as The Tale of the Golden Prince (as can be inferred from the title). I have a few more ideas for stories in this universe, all one-shots. We’ll see if they ever get written. Can be assumed to be EWE, but the first story was written before DH came out. Huge thanks to both [info]ceria and [info]kabal42 for their help with this story.
*warning of a different sort* This fic depicts a M/s relationship, but it is not one I in any way consider a healthy relationship. Not only was Blaise too young to understand what it was he was getting himself into when Lucius first seduced him, but there is almost no give and take in this relationship. I would even go so far as to say it’s abusive. He did consent, yes, and he expects to play, and enjoys playing, so it is not the BDSM so much as Lucius’s actions that make it abusive. I just wanted that clear.


You risk tears if you let yourself be tamed. – Antoine de Saint-Exupery )

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elfflame
Date: 2008-03-11 13:08
Subject: *In angst mode*
Security: Public
Tags:character: blaise, character: draco, character: severus, fandom: hp: writing, fic: drabble

No, nothing specific is wrong. Just needing to find a way to deal with whiny muses. So I'd like to offer a small amount of dabbles with an angst bent. Any of the pairings listed here are welcome, but especially something that involves Draco or Blaise or Severus. I need a pairing (or character), and some sort of prompt, whether it be a quote or a picture or just random words. I'll do the first ten prompts I get.

Any takers?

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elfflame
Date: 2008-03-01 15:02
Subject: State of the Elf
Security: Public
Tags:challenge: d_d, challenge: hd_cup, challenge: hpvamp, character: blaise, character: draco, fandom: hp: misc, fandom: hp: writing, reading, rl, rl: family, rl: job, seattle, ship: hp/dm: misc, vampires, writing: fic

Soo...  many things.  Again.

* Grandmother moving this weekend.  Didn't actually do anything cause I have no car, and so have no way of transporting her, just realizing that she's much further away from me now.  Moved across the water to Bel-Red Road over in the East side, if you know where that is.

* Job front - Meant to announce this before, but with job stuff and the Cup fic which I've been struggling to do, I haven't had the time.  I am now a real employee at the place I've been working on and off since July.  about two months there, then a couple not, then back in late November, I think it was.  And I've been there ever since.  It's  a bit odd.  I hadn't realized how long it had been since I'd had a "real" job.  I quit my last back in 95 to go back to college.  Just kind of wierd.  But it's good, so far.  We'll see how stressed I get.

* Writing -
Cup fic is done, and in the editing process.  Lots of helpful people, so I'm very excited.  Could well be my best fic ever.  Okay, maybe not, but I'm very fond of the bunny, even now, and saying that after having finished it?  Not usually the case, so I'm feeling good about it.
D_D for this month has been started.  Starring Blaise again, shockingly enough.  Usually Draco doesn't let anyone else go more than a month at a time, but he's shockingly happy and sated these days. ;)
HP Vamp is having their Free Range fest again, and I have several bunnies I'm thinking of claiming.  I just really need to remind myself that I can't.  Maybe one or two at the most, and certainly not until I have at least 1000 words done for D_D.

* Cable guy was here today, and after much hassle with finding a modem that would work, we are connected again.  All I can do is hope that this will be the end of our random cut-offs when we're trying to load pages or chat with folks.

* Have someone new that's kind of been percolating in my head since JKR made the Post-warts family trees: Lorcan Scamander.  I don't know why he specifically is calling to me.  Possibly the geeky name.  He's pretty different from most of my usual muses.  Not sure if anything will come of it, but you never know...

* Posted all my H/D stuff over at Skyhawke now, aside from unpublished.  So there's a ton there, now, and the ratings system seems interesting to me.  I've stuck most of my drabbles in Ship-related "stories," one chapter per drabble, just to keep from having a hundred teensy little stories on my page, but anything over 500 words has its own story.  I'm not so good to sticking to under 500, I've noticed. ;)  So...the question is, what ship should I do next?

* A request: Have been reading chaptered stories at work, but it's getting hard to find things I should have read that aren't long-one shots (rather prohibitive with the amount of time I have to read, so anything over 10,000 words as a one-shot is too much.).  So...  I'd love suggestions.  Particularly H/D, or next-gen, though Regulus seems to be popping up in my mind a lot lately.  I don't suppose there are any chaptered fics about him?

And how is everyone else out there?

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elfflame
Date: 2008-02-18 21:00
Subject: My Role in Fandom
Security: Public
Tags:challenge: d_d, challenge: nanowrimo, character: blaise, character: draco, character: rabastan, fandom: hp: links, fandom: hp: recs, fandom: hp: rp, fandom: hp: writing, recs: misc, rpg: fl, rpg: misc, rpg: ml, ship: hp/dm: rp, writing: fic, writing: misc

So...this is something I've been meaning to re-do for ages now.  But especially since the move to IJ in August.

My number one priority in fandom is, has and always will be, fic.  Writing it, and still occasionally recing it.  I post the 13th of every month to [info]daily_deviant, and participate in random fests here and there.  And, on great occasion, I write something just because it desperately has to get written.

Modding -
I am an editor at [info]potter_prophet, which I contribute to each Sunday.
I mod the asylum [info]blaise_zabini, which accepts all fic, art, icons meta or other entries having to do with the dark-skinned Slytherin.
I also mod [info]hp_nano, which is a gathering place for those in the HP fandom participating in the yearly NaNoWriMo Challenge in November.

RP -
I co-mod the game [info]founders_legacy, where I play Draco and Blaise.
I also RP in a slightly different form at [info]rp_bad_boyz as Rabastan and Blaise.
And there's also still an older Draco in my head who snuggles with K's Harry.

Then there is [info]true_revenge, which [info]foodie and I have been slowly posting all our stories that started with a simple little idea I had about how Lucius might have proposed to Narcissa.

And [info]shadowhunt, which is the beginning of a pseudo-rp surrounding an idea [info]foodie had where Hestia Jones starts up a bounty-hunting agency after the war.

Then there's something that's not strictly fannish, but which I haven't mentioned in my journal until now--[info]writing_linkz.  It's nowhere near complete, and probably never will be.  It's invite-only to join, but anyone is free to watch.  Mostly, it's a place where I stash links that I think will be helpful in my writing.

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elfflame
Date: 2008-02-13 06:43
Subject: Fic: First There Are Kisses - Kingsley/Blaise - R
Security: Public
Tags:challenge: d_d, character: blaise, fandom: hp: fic, fic: one-shot, ship: ks/bz

Title: First There Are Kisses
Author: [info]elfflame
Characters: Kingsley/Blaise with mention of others
Rating: R
Summary: Blaise wants someone. But does he want them enough?
Warnings: Erm…very very slight dub-con?
Kinks chosen: Satyriasis
Word Count: 4407
Author's notes: Written with huge help from both Ceria and Wolfish Cat, both in helping develop the bunny, and in keeping it going. A very different story from my original intent, but I quite like it. Title from the lyrics of the Crying Game: “First there are kisses/Then there are sighs…” I couldn’t resist. It’s always been Blaise’s song for me.


One day soon I’m gonna tell the Moon… - “The Crying Game” – Boy George )

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elfflame
Date: 2008-01-26 12:14
Subject: And something else
Security: Public
Tags:character: blaise, fandom: hp: meme, meme: fic

This is nicked from [info]kabal42, who posted it in his journal...

Quoting:
"[info]das_dingsi came up with the Asylum Meme. The point basically is that you post something to an asylum you are a member of. The interesting point, however, is that you do this to an asylum that has low activity/looks like it needs a crash cart to survive ;-) The idea is to remind people that it's there and alive and can be used. It's a great idea!
To quote the creator himself:
Cross-post one of your fics / artworks / icon batches / meta posts / reviews / insert here to a suitable IJ asylum that doesn't have much activity. Even if it's an old post, or already mirrored on your LJ or whatever, and especially if you think "Uh, but then I'm the only one posting there / in the spotlight", because the bad part is that probably everybody else thinks that, too, keeping the asylums in eternal limbo. That sucks."

You can link to [info]das_dingsi's post here.



So how am I going to join in?  I'm going to try to get [info]blaise_zabini up and running.  So I've started a recycling challenge, and just now posted my first-ever Blaise story over there.  I'm going to slowly post all my Blaise fics there, I think, and hope that it will encourage others to do the same.  Please, if you like Blaise, if you have fic about him/with him in, or art, or icons or meta you'd like to get opionons on?  I'd love to see some actual activity there.

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elfflame
Date: 2007-12-30 17:16
Subject: End-of-year fic round-up & meme
Security: Public
Tags:character: blaise, character: draco, character: lucius, character: remus, character: severus, fandom: hp: meme, fandom: hp: recs, fic list, fic: story: chrysalis, meme: fic, recs: personal, ship: hp/dm: recs, ship: lm/dm, ship: malcest, ship: rl/rb, ship: ss/rl

Fic in review can be found by looking at my fic list tag.  I'm not quite up to doing that a second time. ;)

Counts )

The Meme Questions )

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elfflame
Date: 2007-12-16 16:06
Subject: The PB list
Security: Public
Tags:character: blaise, character: draco, character: rabastan, character: remus, character: severus, fandom: hp: rp, icons, rpg: misc

This list is opinionated, selective, subjective, and will likely never be complete.  That said, I am also ALWAYS open to suggestions on the characters listed here. :)  Who do you like/use/have seen used for these characters?

Starting with my pups, in order and by game:
Blaise Zabini )

George (and Fred) Weasley )

Padma (and Parvati) Patil )

Draco Malfoy )

Remus Lupin )

Severus Snape )

Rabastan Lestrange )

Wow...looking at all that...I think I'll stop there.  I do have opinions on other characters.  Just...those are the ones I've played, and therefore feel strongest about.  Maybe I'll do a second bit at some point.  Mostly I just needed the distraction.

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