Guess what? The Petulant Poetess is celebrating its 10th anniversary by featuring ten stories every month representing some of the best each year had to offer. And my story, The Inheritance, is a featured story for the month of July, the year 2009. Woot! It almost feels like that is the last time I wrote at story. Not quite... but it has been awhile. Anyways, I'm mucho excited mostly because this was always one of my favorites, too.
I haven't written a fanfic since last smutty-claus challenge. Felt like a nice opportunity to do a little writing for fun. My entire life can't be about work and running the kids around to their activities.
I could live with the new friends page, except that every time I link to another site and try to come back it takes me to the top of the feed, rather than the one I was reading. Does anyone have an answer for this?? Did this post even make sense to anyone???
My student worker has been wasting time this week playing a very addictive game called 2048. I found a site that lets you 'customize' the game. So here is a Harry Potter version using art from deviantART.
Reveals for smutty_claus was today, so I can now share the fic I wrote.
Title: The Break-Up Pairing: Ron/Hermione, Rose/Scorpius Summary: Their daughter’s love life inspires Ron and Hermione to relive the outcome of their break-up. Rating: R Length: 1752 Warnings: N/A Author's notes: This was inspired and borrows a few lines from Justin Helpern’s, I Suck at Girls & The Sh*t My Dad Says. Big thanks to my Beta, B, who worked under a very unreasonable deadline. I hope it met both the humor and kink prompts requested by shy_of_reality.
I barely cracked 2000 words this year in HP fan-fiction writing. I haven't been inspired and it is probably a good indication that my fic writing days are over except for the odd exchange/drabble.
This year's stories were:
1. Turning Tables - Part II, Rose/Scorpius - Fic (800 words) 2. Fic for Smutty Claus exchange, X/X - (XXXX words) - I'll update this once the reveals occur
I only completed 1/2 of my 2013 writing resolutions.
2013 Writing Resolutions 1. Finish Dragon and Rose 2. Finish Turning Tables
2014 Writing Resolutions 1. Finish The Dragon and the Rose
I actually think I can do it this year. I've been stuck on what to do after the last chapter, but now I know what I need to have happen. Just need to write it.
Anyone have time to beta a R rated Ron/Hermione fic? I promised to have it turned in to the fest tonight so it would need to be a really quick turn around like by 10 pm (EST). Word count is 1700.
I recently read Sara Wood's Threat of Possession which was a pretty dismal read with its Alpha hero who is constantly saying stuff about how he is going to make the heroine want him sexually when he isn't trying to run her out of town.
However, the most yucky passage was when the heroine see the following sight - which gets her all turned on.
Yesterday she'd seen two slow worms entwined on a bed of moss. A bolt of desire plunged through her as her treacherous brain filled with the image of herself and Ethan, their naked limbs imprisoning each other.
Two entwined worms causing bolts of desire??? Seriously... she couldn't do better than that?
Recipient:i_am_girlfriday Title: Turning Tables - COMPLETED Author/Artist:drcjsnider Pairing(s): Rose/Scorpius Rating: PG -13 Warnings: Language Word Count: 1753 Summary: Rose and Scorpius are competitive and now they are both working at the Leaky Cauldron . Author’s/Artist's notes: I started writing this for i_am_girlfriday’s birthday in 2011 and posted half of it in 2012. I finally finished it this week. I’m such a bum.
I never doubted that equal rights was the right direction. Most reforms, most problems are complicated. But to me there is nothing complicated about ordinary equality. - Alice Paul
Today most people don't question the idea that men and women should have equal rights under the law. Even the U.S. military (one of the final holdouts) recently expressed openness to the idea of women in combat roles. The idea of an equal rights amendment, however, completely divided and broke apart the post-suffrage women's rights movement of the 1920s and 1930s. While women like Paul and Doris Stevens embraced the concept of equality for men and women under the law. Other women's rights activists including Eleanor Roosevelt did not support an equal rights amendment because it would have invalidated all the protective legislation that had been passed to protect working women (i.e. there were minimum wage laws for women at the time, but not for men, etc.). The disagreement between women about equal rights was so virulent that activist women on different sides of the issue actively worked to undermine the activities and causes of the other. Keeping the movement weak and fractured until the end of the 1960s. Although Paul and the equal rights supporters proved to be right for the future, I sympathize with those who were worried about working women before there were universal protections for all workers.
