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elfflame
Date: 2008-06-28 07:32
Subject: HP Vamp Fic: Guarding Malfoy
Security: Public
Tags:challenge, fandom: hp: fic, fic: one-shot, recs: misc, ship: hp/dm: fic, vampires

So, the HP Vamp reveal is up. And I wrote this for it -

Title: Guarding Malfoy
Author/artist: [info]elfflame
Pairing: Harry/Draco (Draco/Harry?)
Rating: Rish
Warnings: jealousy, angst and the eensiest smidge of blood-play
Disclaimer: The characters are not mine. I make no money. Please don’t sue.
Original request/Bunny:
Pairing(s): Severus Snape/Charlie Weasley (or Draco Malfoy/Harry Potter)
Maximum rating: NC17
Scenario: There's a new vampire in town and everyone's scrambling to become their blood donor and bonded mate. Charlie (or Harry) just wants a chance with the man he's been in love with for what seems like forever.
Cool things: Lots and lots and lots of suitors :D, just a dash of angst if possible
Squicks: scat, felching, wandplay, non con, extreme bdsm, ron/hermione, sirius/remus (should they think about making it into the picture)
Notes: As soon as I saw this, I got this humungous bunny. And then life got in the way. Perhaps someday I will write the full version of this fic, though I rather like it as it is. I don’t generally write Harry-fic. Usually Draco is the one who speaks to me. But this, I just couldn’t resist. Thank you to [info]ceria & [info]kabal42 for the beta help.


It's choice - not chance - that determines your destiny. – Jean Nidetch )

Also, a rec for the piece made from my prompt - Remembered Fire by Oldenuf2nb.  So rich, and so brilliant.  Five chapters of excellent H/D Vamp fic.  Just go read it.

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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: 2008-03-02 16:16
Subject: (no subject)
Security: Public
Tags:recs: misc, vampires

Just watched a new show, and I have to know...has anyone else out there seen it?  Being Human. Vampire and a Werewolf rent a flat that turns out to be haunted by the ghost of a girl who died there.  Rather cute, and has lots of potential.  I can't wait to see more.

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elfflame
Date: 2008-02-18 21:00
Subject: My Role in Fandom
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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: 2007-10-11 08:08
Subject: Fic rec!
Security: Public
Tags:challenge: d_d, fandom: hp: recs, recs: misc, ship: hp/dm: recs

[info]kabal42 wrote me the most gorgeous fic...  It's Harry/Draco, and based on V for Vendetta, and she really did an amazing job.  Everyone should go read it.

Say Just Words to Me

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elfflame
Date: 2007-09-09 16:58
Subject: (no subject)
Security: Public
Tags:challenge: hd_remix, fandom: hp: recs, gift, recs: misc

My HD Remix piece went up today, only the third of the fest, and it is the most beautiful thing.  It's based on my story, Snapshots (picture links to art by Hill), which is one of those stories I'm most proud of.  This fic blows it out of the water by a mile.  I read it with tears streaming down my face.  The writer did such a fantastic job.  Please go tell her how amazing she is.  This fic deserves a million comments.

Unbroken

And if my guess is correct as to who the writer is, I'm even more squeeful... :D

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elfflame
Date: 2007-08-30 21:10
Subject: Part of my fandom history
Security: Public
Tags:fandom: hp: recs, recs: misc, ship: hp/dm: recs

When I first started reading HP fanfic, I didn't consider myself a slasher.  I only read het or gen, and kept it at that.  Of course, the prevalence of slash in HP fanfic made it impossible to ignore, and so I began stumbling over slash fic with more and more frequency.  Finally, after reading the third or fourth piece, I decided to just get it over with, and went to search out some of the "big" fics of the time.  Now, this was in 2003, and fandom was probably reaching its peak. 

The first of the stories I found, was, of course, Rhysenn's Irrisistable Poison.  It was that and another fic that inspired me to start writing my own fic, and I always look back on it fondly.  Unfortunately, soon after she wrote IP, she stopped writing the pairing, and so when I saw that she was doing a new post-DH canon fic picking up after the last scenes of DH, but before the epilogue, I was thrilled.

And when I read The Debt, I was even more thrilled.  Even without this fic, I would love her, but the final chapter made me weep.  Not because it was sad, but because she took her own most famous scene, and worked it for this new canon, and the scene is so good...  The story left me smiling and teary in the best way possible.

I feel like I'm saying good-bye to something, but I'm not.  I guess it's more that it just feels like things are coming full-circle.  If you're a fan of Rhysenn's or IP, you should definitely give it a read.  And if you've never read IP, I highly recommend it, and I promise you'll get so much more out of The Debt if you read IP first.

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elfflame
Date: 2007-08-04 08:39
Subject: (no subject)
Security: Public
Tags:fandom: hp: links, fandom: hp: recs, livejournal, recs: misc

Yes.  Just yes.

Read it.

Fiction vs Reality - JKR convicted of fictional murder

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elfflame
Date: 2007-06-18 10:16
Subject: Update of doom
Security: Public
Tags:challenge: d_d, challenge: hd_remix, challenge: pimp_my_3some, fandom: dr who, fandom: hp: recs, fandom: hp: spoilers, fandom: stargate, hpficlist, livejournal, movie, pbicons_dir, recs: misc, review, rpg: ad, rpg: gw, rpg: misc, rpg: ml

I just seem to be so distracted these days, I rarely seem to post anything but fic or memes.  So a list of my life of late:

* On Spoilers!  I know I've said it before, but I'll say it again.  I don't want to be spoiled.  Please, please, please!  Put stuff under a cut for those of us who want to actually read the book without prior knowledge?  Thanks.

many many many other things behind the cut, to save my flist from teh ginormous post of doom )

And I think I'll stop there.  And maybe try to post more often? :P  Hope everyone is having a good day.

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elfflame
Date: 2006-03-13 12:16
Subject: Quck Rec
Security: Public
Tags:fandom: hp: recs, recs: misc, ship: gw/hp

Springsmut piece that I can't rec enough:

May Contain Nuts
George/Harry, NC-17

I adore this pairing, but there just isn't much of it out there, and this takes the entire idea to the next level.  George is perfect, Harry is sweet, and the characters are all done amazingly well.  If you like either of them at all, and slash, particularly Weasley slash, you must read this fic.

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elfflame
Date: 2006-03-01 16:53
Subject: Quck rec
Security: Public
Tags:fandom: hp: recs, recs: misc, ship: lm/sb

[info]inell dedicated me a fic.

Irresistable Lucius/Sirius, R

Just gorgeously hot, and Lucius is utterly perfect. :D

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elfflame
Date: 2006-01-04 20:21
Subject: <lj comm
Security: Public
Tags:fandom: hp: recs, recs: misc

And apparently, what my recs say about me is that I really don't read het...

And so I'm only comfortable with familiar writers. :D

Or if it's Lucius. ;P

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elfflame
Date: 2006-01-03 21:58
Subject: <lj comm
Security: Public
Tags:fandom: hp: recs, recs: misc

Wow. I'm so blown away. And so behind. There are so many fics I'm still waiting to read, so if it's not one I rec'd, chances are I haven't gotten to it yet. My top ten pics of the ones I have read:

Denial of Little Things – Marks

            Remus/Harry. Remus is deep undercover in a werewolf brothel. Harry comes to give him information. Prostitution, Bondage, & Breathplay. - NC-17

Fidelius – Coffeejunki

            Harry/Draco. One-shot. *HBP Spoilers* Harry decides to remove the Fidelius he cast on Grimmauld Place for the last bit of the war, and hires a cursebreaker to help him when he can't. The cursebreaker who turns up is Draco. - NC-17

The Healing Touch – Inell
            Bill/Draco. Bill's been set to watch a now-mute Draco. - NC-17

The Hollow Wall – Nimori

            Sirius/Harry. Harry's alone, but he begins to find things in Grimmauld Place that he hadn't seen before. Underage, voyeurism. - NC-17

Intoxicated – Valis2

            Kingsley/Severus. Snape does something a bit less than smart after the latest Death Eater gathering. Voyeurism, Minor Character Death. - NC-17

La Langue – Wordplay
            Harry/Draco. Draco's been off in France for far too long, and Harry's had only his voice and his memory to keep him company - NC-17

Reprieve – Furiosity
            Harry/Draco. Harry's at the head of an investigation that seems to be leading straight to Draco. - NC-17

Sanguine, a Serpent Knotted Sable – Amanuensis

            Lucius/Harry, Severus/Draco. After Lucius escapes Azkaban, he does everything he can to save his son. Non-con, BDSM, Needleplay. - NC-17

The Streslsau Waltz – Ellid

            Draco/? Narcissa is desperate for Draco to marry, so she has someone cast a spell that will help him find his soulmate. Genderbending. - NC-17


What Black Hours – Catrinella

Harry/Draco. Draco is under Bellatrix's command, when he's given a very interesting present. Dub-con, bloodplay, bondage. - NC-17


And of all of them, my ultimate picks are The Healing Touch, Sanguine, A Serpent Knotted Sable, and The Streslsau Waltz. Amazing fics, all. And to all of the authors: Amazing job this year. Just gorgeous stuff. I can't wait to read the rest.

Edit: Sorry about the funky font, folks.  Should all be gone now...

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elfflame
Date: 2005-12-16 16:05
Subject: OC's -- the trod upon
Security: Public
Tags:fandom: hp: recs, recs: misc

So, I'm very Mary-Sue/Gary-Stu shy, because, like everyone who writes fanfiction, at one point, I wrote Mary Sues almost exclusively.  And I think some of us who dislike Mary-Sues stay away from all Original Characters because of this dislike.  I would like to propose something to do something about this.  I want everyone to tell me which they think the best Original characters out there are.  I'd like to create a list of those everyone mentions, and spread it far and wide in the fandom. 

So, I need several things from you all--
Name me the fic, the author, and the character (or characters) you feel worthy of attention in that fic, and why, and provide a link.  A rating would be good, too.
If you want to submit anonymously, that's fine, but I hope you will pass on the word, at least.
And THEN...I want you to tell everyone on your flist to do the same.

To start things off... )

Now, go add your favorites, and shout it to the net!

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elfflame
Date: 2005-10-10 13:53
Subject: Fic to read!
Security: Public
Tags:conventions, fandom: hp: recs, recs: misc

So, [info]xylodemon had a little mini-fic-a-thon for those who didn't get to go to TWH, and I signed up.  Never did quite find something I thought I could do justice, but someone did my request! :D

[info]manraviel wrote me this: Six Suggestions for Slave Masters - By Professor O.O.C. Lockheart.   My request: Master!Lucius, fluffy. Don't much care who his slave is, but I'd prefer a Gryffindor.

It's perfect.  Lucius/Harry, R.  For those of you who need those sorts of things.  Very fluffy. :P

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elfflame
Date: 2005-10-06 17:29
Subject: Luciusfic
Security: Public
Tags:challenge, fandom: hp: recs, recs: misc

Go read it right now!

Scream for Me by [info]snapelike but warning - very dark, violence, bloodplay, rape, and more.

Written for me cause of my House challenge.  Anyone else want to take me up on it? >D

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elfflame
Date: 2005-09-20 13:21
Subject: Update
Security: Public
Tags:birthday, fandom: hp: recs, gift, recs: misc

Okay, all recs and birthday posts done, now off to read my birthday prezzie from [info]millieweasley :D

Will be back shortly to post my vacation rambling.

ETA: The fic is Without Permission.  It's great.  Go read.  Especially if you like Blaise/Ginny, or either of the characters by themselves...  But be warned, it is Adult.

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elfflame
Date: 2005-09-14 10:00
Subject: Vacation
Security: Public
Tags:recs: misc, vacation

I'm off to spend the rest of the week with my sister in California.  I will be checking in periodically, but probably nothing in-depth.  If you post something you wish me to read/respond to/etc, please post a link here, and I will be sure to do so as soon as I possibly can.  Once I get back, I will be scanning as much of my flist as possible, but that doesn't mean I'll catch what you post, as my flist is impossibly out of control. ;)

Obviously, as I've stated before, there will be no recs here or at my recs journal while I'm gone, but I will start on the 20th to update my recs journal once more, and I already have a few new ones for my Sunday recs, so there will be reccage, just not this week.

I hope you all have a lovely week, and see you when I get back!

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elfflame
Date: 2005-09-09 16:46
Subject: <lj user
Security: Public
Tags:computer games: sims, fandom: hp: recs, recs: misc, ship: rw/hg

A sims Drabble.  With Ron/Hermione subtext.  Go read it.

(yeah, yeah, that's not ron or hermione...  but it's the closest I've got in sim form in an icon...)

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elfflame
Date: 2005-09-06 14:09
Subject: Help!
Security: Public
Tags:fandom: hp: recs, hd_directory, recs: misc

So, I'm working on Olivia Lupin's Bio for the H/D directory.  If you read her fics, which would you say are her best-known?

I mean, I know which of hers are my favorites, but that's not the same thing...

Any help would be appreaciated.

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