rambling.ink

To rant and whine and b*tch.

2008-05-14T03:44:23Z

Oh dear, the date charges onward leaving a trail of heartache and nervous twitching. Yes, it is once again time to embark into the wilds and camp. And fish. And read. And play Harvest Moon. It wouldn’t be so bad if, for example, I actually wanted to spend days outside in the bright, with the bugs and dirt. But I don’t- and trust me- that’s sad. Alright, I leave in two days and need some ideas in how to keep sane (beyond playing Harvest Moon, which is quite the opposite of sane for the obsessive tendencies it brings out). Mom is snappish, Aunt has decided to go into a technologic panic, Nannie is disapproving in our lack of preparation this year, and Pop-pop is telling the same seven stories and three jokes I could dictate verbatim when I was eight.

Gosh, I need to get Mars’s oil changed, cleaned and vacuumed. I need to be up tomorrow at bright:thrity to load the camping gear into Pop-pop’s beast of a truck. I need to call work. I need to do massive amounts of laundry. I need to clean my room (alright, maybe not need, but sorta-possibly-might-have-to in order to locate everything needed to this ‘vacation’) and program my iRiver and find batteries and headphones and happy blue pills. I need to respond to a wedding invitation (which I managed to miss the bride-to-be's girl's-thing-thingy, also known as a Bridal Shower) before the RSVP deadline comes and I'm SOL. I need to call some wacked-out campus security number on account of an idiot losing a laptop with my blasted social-security number and all manner of other assorted identification information (this is why we’re supposed to be using only our Z-Number, morons!) and switch banking accounts or move all my money under a mattress I wont see in weeks! *wails*

Thusday. I leave Thursday afternoon.

This isn't going to be fun; pass the aspirin.

Edit (because I'm to lazy to hit the post button, yeah, I know) 1:16 Wednesday:
A rec of sorts. Potter Puppet Pals, because I've apparently degraded to a five year old boy...

Sweet Myrddin, Morgane, and Nimue! I’ve done it.

2008-05-06T06:33:51Z

I’ve done it. And it’s horrible! Unthinkable! Unimaginable! Un-bloody-believable! I haven’t even read the blasted books and what do I do? What happens? Damnable plotbunnies decided to scout out fertile land, out of the dry dustbowl of the Who universe and into Harry Potter. Harry Potter! I’ve barely made it to the half waypoint of the Philosopher’s Stone and suddenly I’m writing fanfiction?

Not only that, but I enjoyed it.

*sniff* It’s wrong I tell you. Wrong. Right up there with kicking puppies. The only thing that makes it somewhat bearable is the terribly vague writing style (on account of drawing my knowledge from the movies ~~and various wikipedia articles~~) I employed… and the basterization of cannon relationships and gleeful disregard of the epilogue to Deathy Hollows.

Oh dear, this is worse than falling off the wagon. I’ve jumped ship and swam to distant shores.

What'll I do?

At least I didn't pick on Neville.

nonsensical whimsy that amuse

2008-04-14T03:02:30Z

I grew bored as the day marched onward and started a narration that grew with duration. From mind to lip to hand I created a rhythmical land filled with wonder and fiction before stopping my diction. Disclaimer and warning became the quick following:

Chaotic ramblings of a deranged mind, nonsensical whimsy that amuse; a study in sincerity and truthful recollection now question and confuse. Pay no heed to the written word found within for it came as a babble inked in sin. Prideful yearning of lawful right keep me from claming all in sight. This was all in good fun, so of course may it harm none, now let it be over and done.

And if that wasn’t enough, next came this awful stuff:

she dreams of darkness while the sun warms her skin
and cringes from their bark of laughter,
never a'fore come she to this land of men
limbs trip then fumble with pressure.

she dreams of darkness while walking in a crowd,
shivering and cloaked with such fear,
suffocating walls, enclosure pressing down;
flesh and bone and blacked eyes leer.

she dreams of the darkness while posed on display
degusted by their sweating hands;
bile rises and she succombs to dismay
learning of hate ruling the lands.

What's a few things more? Go ahead 'n snore (know that I did, so please don't fib). They follow a scheme that many do deem an ancient wisdom that set the tradition:

freedom's illusion
shattered 'neeth the open door
once a gilded cage

and she became a
spectator watching from the
sidelines forgotten

And here's something old brought out to fight mold;

burnt out firefly
hiding beneath rain dew night
discarded, alone

who needs common sense, anyway?

2008-04-11T16:50:57Z

Small table of ideas for, what I hope to be, creative digital (if not quite photoshoped) artwork... Because I need to draw

Who needs common sense, anyway?
PROGRESS: */12

1. Dancing with the daffodils

2. If I step into a puddle, will I fall into the sky?

3. Houses bigger than the moon and higher

4. We can paint the world bright, any colour

5. Faster than fairies, faster than witches,
Bridges and houses, hedges and ditches;

6. Anything can happen, anything can be

7. Farewell, illusion. Fingers dance, homework is left behind;

8. A pocket of rye and twenty-four blackbirds

9. Where heaven is a wild-flower

10. The swing swung, and she f l e w

11. In summer, the children run along the railway tracks, wind on their bare feet

12. Spouting violets under the locomotive

limerick

2008-04-11T16:05:50Z

There’s a hamster that rules in m'head

Who frolics all day out of bed

He jumps with such glee

While directing me
Now ignore what the shrink just said!

HP: Hermione/Viktor; because it's cannon!

2008-04-11T00:20:33Z

Little posting of links to find fanfiction on the cannon pairing (though not necessarily set during cannon events within Goblet of Fire) of Hermione Granger and Viktor Krum. Why? Because every now and then cannon can be a good thing... and because sometimes- just sometimes- a shinny distraction in the library can do a bookworm good.

Hermione/Viktor recommended story tag: here

bethalaina's tag pages of her Hermione/Viktor stories

And of course, the big link for today:

VicktorKrum/HermioneGranger LiveJournal Community
and it's 'Memorable Entries' page

rambling_ink @ 2008-04-08T18:48:00

2008-04-08T22:43:59Z

hp: contraband list of Hermione smut/romance with a kick (of kink)

2008-03-23T06:53:00Z

Contraband List of Hermione Smut/Romance With a Kick (of kink).
       - All stories (and listed characters in [brackets] ) are paired with our golden-maned heroien.
       - Consider (because of the 'kink') all stories Adult.
       - This is my 'kink' of the moment, it shouldn't offend.

Tag Page: Hermione/Fred/George at LJ Community Books_Freckles (or the other way 'round, keep getting it switched)

WIP: Hermione's Final Year by Wickedswanz at 'Granger Enchanted'; [humor, pwp, romance] Hermione has returned to Hogwarts for her final year. The war is over and all is back to how it should be...or is it? A game of dare and her three very sexy professors make her final year unforgettable. But can her three very different lovers save her from the darkness that tugs at her? Can they keep their hands off her long enough to notice that she's falling? A funny, sexy, and slightly twisted fanfic. [Draco, Remus, Severus, and Sirus]

WIP: Take Two by Wickedswands at 'Granger Enchanted'; [action/adventure, angst, drama, fluff, post Hogwarts, pwp, romance] After defeating the Dark Lord an accident lands Harry and Hermione in a familiar new world where the war still rages. Hermione finds herself caught between two very different men, the dark and jaded James Potter and the handsome and charming Sirius Black. Will she find the love she seeks or will the war claim them all again. [Harry, James, Sirus]

Complete: A Highter Law by Nynaeve80 at 'Granger Enchanted'; [romance] New laws are in effect that will change the course of two people's lives forever. [Hermione/Remus]

Complete: A Living History by MistressMalfoy at 'Granger Enchanted'; [time turner, everything] It was a forbidden love born in a war of blood. Given a choice to save the world or let history repeat itself, will she succumb to pressure and do what's right, or do what is easy? Winner for best Pairing Quill to Parchment. [James]

Complete: To Let You Go by CharlotteBlack at 'Granger Enchanted'; [time turner- sort of-, angst, drama, romance] On the morning of Remus and Tonks wedding Hermione falls victim to one of the Weasley twins’ experimental inventions and is accidentally thrown 20 years into the past. Not knowing whether she will ever be able to go back to her own time she decides to start to make a new life for herself. But, what happens when she returns and her new life and old life must combine? How will she cope? [Remus/Hermione]

Complete: Hermione's New Life by Nynaeve80 at 'Granger Enchanted' [romance] Hermione tries to start her new life and she gets a visit from an old friend [Viktor]

bsg fangirling, a new cat, and oddly normal conversations

2008-03-21T05:14:40Z

Because BSG rocks, here's a witty summary of Battlestar Galactica from the start (2003miniseries) to what we have so far (season three). This can actually be found at the SciFi Channel's offical website under the same name as the page cut- YouTube as well. If you know everything, it's still good for a laugh... if you know nothing, catch up now!

Also Quote/Conversation of the Day:

Me: I had no idea that pixilated manslaughter was paramount to your mental health.
Mom: Where've you been the last twenty-odd years?
Me: Playing with my cardboard box.
Mom: How's that working for you?
Me: Well, I've made it to Pluto but due to a misunderstanding at Planet-Side Border Patrol my passport's been confiscated and The Man's after me for being an illegal alien.

Mom: Try Neptune.

(pause)

Mom: Naw, go for Saturn. You wouldn’t want to spend the rest of your days working in a bar.

Me: (thinks) Oh, as long as they’re not sexually challenged saxophone players, I’d be shinny.

This evening was made of win!

Oh, also (also2) we have a new cat. It's official, he's a black and white short hair named Jinxs (formerly known as Mitty... honestly, 'Mitty'?). He arrived Sunday and managed to find a home in my beloved scoop-chair, and I haven't the heart to displace him. It's odd having a cat that actually wants attention again, even odder that it's a black and white. I keep looking over and thinking he's far to dark then having to remind myself that Jinxs is not Spike.

TV rots my brain... good thing there's fanfiction!

2008-03-18T22:54:20Z

Okay, so the SciFi channel was doing a Battlestar Galactica marathon today; season three, Maelstrom and Crossroads I & II among them. And my gods, I still can’t believe how much in love I am with the story, the characters, and the forth season teasers. SciFi wants to brake my brain. It’s not enough that the radio at work is set on some old rock station and All Along the Watchtower has been playing for the last two months at least once a day… oh no, it’s not nearly enough. The acoustics were wrong, as was its timing and vocal inflictions. Eastern pipes and electric guitars, BT4 (whichever band you are) rocks (and Bob Dylan I suppose for being the mind who created the lyrics).

Seventeen days left until the final season starts. Seventeen days until the story picks up for the last time. Seventeen days until the fallout.

I haven’t been this psyched for television since Saturday morning cartoons on mom’s shinny-new largescreened tv in Florida when I was eight! One of the many reasons I'm far more inclined to learn about fandoms via fanfiction; the imaginations of my fellow obsessed fangirls far out ranks paid writers. Unless you come across bad fanfiction. Then the only avenue left is to drink it better. Ah drinking games. I wonder if there is a community that focuses on this aspect of ze bad!fic. Take a shot every time eye color changes, one for every unexplained gender change, every time you come across the word ‘teh’ excreta, excreta and so on and so forth. Specifically tweaked for each ‘verse, of course. Hm. Perhaps in the summer, when I’m rather bored, I’ll look into this.

With the teasers, the marathons, and rewatching the first season downstairs (a ploy to trick my lazyass on the treadmill) comes fanfiction. Not the writing of it, thank you very much, but the reading of it which progressed into the watching of fanvids.

And so I have a small colleciton of recommendations for today; fanvids. Go watch!

All by: super_kc

BSG: Scratch by [music: Little House by The Fray]; a wonderfully pieced together vid focusing on Kara “Starbuck” Thrace; angsty, complicated, poignant, paralleling the climatic episodes leading up until the end of the third season. It showcases a thorny storyline with shots and lyrics that does nothing but spread my love for this character. But then, she is my favorite…

BSG: Meant Well: The Occupation [music: Hide and Seak by Imogen Heap], episodes 2x20-3x4. A surprisingly emotional and haunting fanvid looking at the effects of captivity during the Cylon occupation of New Caprica.

And because I couldn’t resist:

BSG: Battlestar Inferno [music: Disco Inferno by 50 Cent]; up to and including 3x19. It’s like a crack!vid meets a tame PWP!vid and illustrates perfectly the reason I won't be introducing this show to my grandparents. But, whowa, it’s priceless. The world as you know has ended, the President of the Colonies wants everyone to make babies, and really… what else is there to do when confined in a small area, in eternal space, with Cylons only occasionally showing up to get shot at.

To Read List| Draco/Hermione| Coloured Grey

2008-03-13T04:57:51Z

Because there's a fine line between love and hate, I give you an almost-mini-posting of 'yet to be read' links to a romance that will never be:

Completed Fan Fiction Entertainment Recommendations

Harry Potter; Draco Malfoy/Hermione Granger

Snatched from Coloured Grey

A Quest of Paladins: complete in seventeen chapters. Several months after the events of the Astronomy Tower, Draco Malfoy and Severus Snape are on the run in Eastern Europe. Circumstances turn them homeward.

Deadfall: complete in twenty-five chapters. Draco and Hermione trapped together without escape. A Dark Lord who will stop at nothing to possess a secret power one of them has. A former Professor who must protect them at all costs.

Relinquished: complete in twenty-nine chapters. An encounter neither is expecting, leads to what they both need...each other.

Time Will Tell: complete in twenty-seven chapters. A magical clock, a secret message, time travel and a murder that must be prevented. Draco/Hermione. Nominated at 'He Had it Coming', 'Dangerous Liaisons', 'Quill to Parchment' and 'The Dramione Awards'.

The Symmetrical Transit: complete in twelve chapters. He believed the world was screwed up because a lack of balance. Everything in the world had it's equal parts -- love, hate; right, left; sun, moon; drive, laziness -- but no one ever grew up with these parts in the same proportion, which made them off. People were either forced to live discordant, or they were lucky enough to find that balance through someone else.

You Change My Mind: complete in ten chapters. DARK FIC: Sometimes, your enemy is the only friend you have. Other times, he is no friend at all. When you have absolutely no one to turn to, can you turn to the one who is theoretically the cause of it? Or will he then try and turn you against everything you believe? DMHG.

A Dowry of a Single Galleon: complete in twenty-two chapters. My take on the Marriage Law challenge. Draco, after a confrontation with Hermione in Diagon Alley, claims her as his new bride, much to her dismay.

Out of the Silent Planet: complete in thirty-nine chapters. Post-Hogwarts - Hermione Granger fulfills Severus Snape's final wish, to journey to Japan to ‘retrieve' something of importance and from there begins a long journey of discoveries, angst and much self introspection. Set eleven years after HBP.

War Orphans: complete in nine chapters. Hermione is sent from the Ministry to solicit funds for war orphans from the devil himself. Wait, it's only Malfoy. Armani wearing Malfoy...

grossly inappropriate humor

2008-03-13T03:39:51Z

Alright, this is grossly inappropriate for any audience, anywhere, at anytime. Unless you have a sense of humor, then you might want to click on the link and have a ten-minute brake laughing your ass off.

YouTube: Ahmed the Terrorist

Don't say I didn't warn you. ;p

preposterous hilarity in minute form

2008-03-05T23:12:50Z

I stumbled upon something rather hilarious earlier today. The ‘thing’ in and of itself was actually rather innocent in nature. An icon. Of Professor Snape. With the catchphrase: Secret Agent Man. The laughter was loud, long, and didn’t go unnoticed in the library’s dungeon. The specific reason for the humorous (rather gleeful) moment of insanity is still unknown. The oddity of coming across such an icon isn’t.

Yes, yes. I’m rather an icon whore, supposedly, peeking under the unsuspecting LJ’ers profile for the immediate gratification of ogling a person’s iconage.

But why should I go looking through the profiles attached to communities belonging to characters of a book I’ve yet to actually design to read? It is quite simple (and possibly as hilarious as the icon); I have somehow grown quite fond of Harry Potter fanfiction.

Le Gasp!

In the movies I’ve always found myself quite drawn to the character of Processor Snape- a man of quick wit, sharp tongue, and rather awkward persona when exposed to children, with heavy shoulders of self appointed sense of duty and brilliant intelligence (it is of course, my opinion that he is, in fact, not dead- though I won’t ever read the book with the purpose of compiling proof for such a belief). In fact, if there was any other character I enjoy as much as Severus, it’d have to be Neville (and I can’t quite explain that one either).

And so I’ll leave you with this:

Secret Agent Man ::hums::

Also; I've cut my hair- good buy braid, good buy tension headaches, good buy paint brush...

(".) wait, where'm I gonna put my writing implements of destruction now...?

We Learned The Sea

2008-03-05T22:23:19Z

- Dar Williams Lyrics

the first foray

2008-01-28T02:37:12Z

There isn’t much to say, I suppose, other than this: I’ve tentatively taken the first few steps into the foray of fanfiction some months ago and would like some place to put the stories when they are done. Hopefully journal will prove a space for the prompts and challenges I hope to participate in.

Current obsessions and general procrastination fandoms and their pairings: Battlestar Galatica (Lee/Kara); Doctor Who (Jack/Rose; Jack/Nine/Rose; Nine/Rose; Master/Rose); Firefly (Jayne/Kaylee); InuYasha (Miroku/Kagome; Sesshomaru/Kagome); Rurouni Kenshin (Aoshi/Kaoru; Battousai/Kaoru; Battousai/Kaoru/Kenshin; Sano/Kaoru); X-Men (Logan/Rogue; Colossus/Rogue).

I will probably have more recommendations than stories, but hey, I’m doing this for my amusement after all.

Beyond that, expect random ramblings, rants, and raves that will border on tedium for those of you who either don't know me or don't care. To this is say: "Bah! It's your own dang fault if you're so inclined to continue reading". Oh, and quizzes. And quotes. And... and... well, anything else that takes my fancy. Ha!