Brain Flotsam V2.007

• my best friend really really really wants me to read Twilight.  sigh. I probably should read it just so I'll have a point of conversation with my younger cousins, who aren't readers but have apparently all finished the series.
  
• she also spent some time discussing the ways that she thought my characterization of Draco Malfoy in Far Away as Moonshine echoed that of Michael Corleone in The Godfather series.
  
• and we spent our lunch talking racebending and white-washing in film, something she's been aware of and talking about for longer than I.
  
• good times, despite the sparkly vampire complication.

• Friday evening I actually went out. Yes, really. Had dinner and then drinks with friends. I visited a new bar I'd never been to, and had some lovely Scotch.
  
• The lightning on Friday was apocalyptic.  Made me wish I had a camera with instant shutter speed, to capture it.
  
• Saturday morning at the gas station, a lady saw my "I'm blogging this" t-shirt and said, "Hey, can I ask you about blogging?"  So we ended up having a conversation about social media while my tank filled. Bizarre.
  
• Spent Saturday evening at my aunt's house. We had dinner and conversation and played two rounds of Scrabble.  Fun times.
  
• Today Mom and I made a HUGE dent in my cleaning. We moved the sewing cabinet, and put away almost all the books, although actually really they're all thrown willy-nilly onto shelves, not actually organized.  It'll take me weeks to get them organized.
  
• I hung two more pictures on the walls, too.
  
• Baking soda really is a miracle cleaner.
  

• I have two more bigbang arts to do, and then a fest to illustrate before Snupin Santa hits.
  
• I'm working on a concept for a series of fairy tale illustrations in Prismacolor and ink, for my Advanced Visual Arts studio class this semester.
  

I have this unfinished WIP that was really close to my heart - and still is, in its way, and I'm wondering now whether or not to finish it.  It's a one-shot featuring Harry and  Luna, in my Far Away as Moonshine ''verse, which I love to pieces despite the extreme rarepair-ness of it.  :P

I also have a bunch of prompts to fulfill for my now-defunct but still inspiring table on Luna.
Haven't been feeling the writing bug lately, but now that my ApolloCon stress is mostly done for the year, and I'm gearing up for Azkatraz, HP is back on the brain. (And I just can't do fic for Merlin yet. It took me years to work up to it in HP, maybe someday.)

To write, or not to write? Maybe I'll just keep drawing...

And oh crap, officially less than two weeks to the Con and I need to frame my art for the Gallery and Auction!
And print postcards... And test my DVD cable... And move all the pr0n off the  laptop that's traveling with me.  Yeep.

Title: In Two Words
Author: zephre
Pairing (if any): Draco/Luna
Word Count: 100 x 4
Rating: PG-13
Warnings: none. sticky sweet fluff.
Prompt: draco100 #27: Be Mine
A/N:  part of the Far Away as Moonshine universe.

( oh, the sugar below )

Title: Dreams
Author: zephre
Rating: PG
Wordcount: 716
Characters/Pairing: Harry/Luna, OC
Disclaimer: not my characters, no profit intended, just fan fun
Prompt: #15: chestnuts roasting on an open fire
A/N: written for adventdrabbles.  Directly follows The Return.

( Dreams )
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Title: The Return
Author: zephre
Rating: PG
Wordcount: 1350
Characters/Pairing: Harry/Luna, OCs, mention of Rolf Scamander
Disclaimer: not my characters, no profit intended, just fan fun
Prompt: #14: fruitcake
A/N: written for adventdrabbles.  OMG, it's like the Drabble That Ate Cincinnati!  This follows a year on from Children's Christmas

( The Return )

Ok, playing catch-up after a few days of feeling low...

Title: Children's Christmas
Author: zephre
Rating: G
Characters/Pairings: Harry/Luna, Ron/Hermione, war orphans
Wordcount: 489
Prompt: #10: Father Christmas
A/N: written for adventdrabbles.

( Children's Christmas )

I have been obsessively rereading A.J. Hall's Lust Over Pendle universe for the last couple of months.  I have a very few other sources for the Draco/Neville pairing, but it's really my only reliable source for finished stories at the moment.
Anybody know another source to feed the random obsession?  Like Snape, Draco is a character I can pair with many people depending on the situation and characterization, and who is writing.

Also, today I created a wholly awful and traumatic scene from the Far Away as Moonshine universe in my head while driving, and I am reluctant to actually carry it through to print. Nobody dies, although it's a very close thing, but it puts Draco through such an emotional wringer that it hurts me to relive it. I'm sure the other authors on my list know of what I speak.
Maybe I'll try transcribing it later.

Title: A Charming Wreath
Author: zephre
Characters/Pairing: Draco/Luna, OMC
Rating: PG
Wordcount: 930  (yeah, I got a bit carried away)
Prompt: #8 wreath
A/N: written for adventdrabbles. another scene from the Far Away as Moonshine universe.  I wrote this in my head in morning traffic. It may make no sense. ;)

( a Hogwarts tale )

Title: The Naming of Names
Author: zephre
Rating: PG
Fandom: Harry Potter
Pairing/Characters: Draco/Luna
Wordcount: 456
Prompt: #5: icicles
Disclaimer: Fan work for fan enjoyment, not for profit.
A/N: written for adventdrabbles. a scene from the Far Away as Moonshine universe. Also, for those not well-versed in mythology, Danae is the mother of Perseus. As far as I know, she does not actually have her own constellation.

( story )

I've posted my epic Draco/Luna war and post-war fic, Far Away as Moonshine, to my personal website as a single file, for those who prefer not to click through chapters.

Here's a recap of the header:
Title: Far Away as Moonshine
Rating: R overall
Prompt: 100quills table 50.2
Word Count: approx 46,600
Main Pairing: Draco/Luna
Summary: For Draco Malfoy, the war was one endless nightmare. Until Luna Lovegood gave him a reason to hope. Can he find his courage, make his luck, and become more than a pawn to those in power?
Warnings: (for whole fic, highlight to view) *mature themes, imprisonment, mention of rape, abuse, battlefield violence, various canon and other character deaths, sexual situations*
Notes: The title is from the song "Street of Dreams" by Oysterband.

The post-by-post chapters and table of contents are still available in all their typo-filled glory. Just click the "fic: far away as moonshine" tag.

I may have asked this before, but I don't remember the answers and they have probably changed anyway.

Where do you fic writers archive or post your stories, outside of Livejournal?
I know a few people have set up their own archives, but they still post to other places for readership or whatever.
Someone recommended fiction alley to me, and someone else said OWL, both of which sound like they're pretty good, but what do I know?
I also am working on an archive version of my fic, since I have to re-think it given character limits on chapters.

Anyway, I'm just curious, if you are an author, do you distribute your fic more widely than just LJ/IJ/etc, and if so, where?

Cheers.

Title: This is the Way the World Ends
Author: zephre
Rating: NC-17
Word Count: 1,630
Challenge: The Large Cauldron Collider Ficlet Fest
Prompts: An old letter, spanking (there goes your smack) and..."I would feel more optimistic about a bright future for man if he spent less time proving he can outwit nature and more time tasting her sweetness and respecting her seniority" -White
Notes: Er... yeah, so I wrote crack fic.NC-17 crack fic. Bizarre.


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Title: Far Away as Moonshine, Epilogue: The Hogwarts Express
Author: zephre
Rating: PG (R for whole fic)
Prompt: 100quills table 50.2: Sunshine
Word Count: 1,996
Summary: For Draco Malfoy, the war was one endless nightmare. Until Luna Lovegood gave him a reason to hope. Can he find his courage, make his luck, and become more than a pawn to those in power?
Warnings: (for whole fic, highlight to view) *mature themes, imprisonment, mention of rape, abuse, battlefield violence, various canon and other character deaths, sexual situations*
Concrit Wanted? Sure! Please alert me to typos or errors of continuity.

Chapter Index:
Part I:   1 | 2 | 3 | 4 | 5 | 6 | 7 | 8 | 9 ||
Part II:  1 | 2 | 3 | 4 | 5 | 6 | 7 | 8 | 9 ||
Part III: 1 | 2 | 3 | 4 | 5 | 6 | 7 | 8 | 9 ||
Epilogue


In which Alice Longbottom gets quite a surprise.

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( Street of Dreams )

Title: Far Away as Moonshine, Part III: Seven Years Later
Author: zephre
Rating: PG (R for whole fic)
Prompt: 100quills table 50.2: Soft
Word Count: 1,985
Summary: For Draco Malfoy, the war was one endless nightmare. Until Luna Lovegood gave him a reason to hope. Can he find his courage, make his luck, and become more than a pawn to those in power?
Warnings: (for whole fic, highlight to view) *mature themes, imprisonment, mention of rape, abuse, battlefield violence, various canon and other character deaths, sexual situations*
Concrit Wanted? Sure! Please alert me to typos or errors of continuity.

Chapter Index:
Part I:   1 | 2 | 3 | 4 | 5 | 6 | 7 | 8 | 9 ||
Part II:  1 | 2 | 3 | 4 | 5 | 6 | 7 | 8 | 9 ||
Part III: 1 | 2 | 3 | 4 | 5 | 6 | 7 | 8 | 9 ||
Epilogue


Chapter 9: In which Draco has an epiphany over a beer.
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I don't think I've actually written 25 individual fics, so I will just list lines until I run out!
( ten, ten first lines, ah ah ah )

Title: Far Away as Moonshine, Part III: Seven Years Later
Author: zephre
Rating: PG (R for whole fic)
Prompt: 100quills table 50.2: Passion
Word Count: 2,098
Summary: For Draco Malfoy, the war was one endless nightmare. Until Luna Lovegood gave him a reason to hope. Can he find his courage, make his luck, and become more than a pawn to those in power?
Warnings: (for whole fic, highlight to view) *mature themes, imprisonment, mention of rape, abuse, battlefield violence, various canon and other character deaths, sexual situations*
Concrit Wanted? Sure! Please alert me to typos or errors of continuity.

Chapter Index:
Part I:   1 | 2 | 3 | 4 | 5 | 6 | 7 | 8 | 9 ||
Part II:  1 | 2 | 3 | 4 | 5 | 6 | 7 | 8 | 9 ||
Part III: 1 | 2 | 3 | 4 | 5 | 6 | 7 | 8 | 9 ||
Epilogue


Chapter 8: In which Draco finds that reality is quite different from dreams.

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Title: Far Away as Moonshine, Part III: Seven Years Later
Author: zephre
Rating: PG (R for whole fic)
Prompt: 100quills table 50.2: Ghost
Word Count: 2,510
Summary: For Draco Malfoy, the war was one endless nightmare. Until Luna Lovegood gave him a reason to hope. Can he find his courage, make his luck, and become more than a pawn to those in power?
Warnings: (for whole fic, highlight to view) *mature themes, imprisonment, mention of rape, abuse, battlefield violence, various canon and other character deaths, sexual situations*
Concrit Wanted? Sure! Please alert me to typos or errors of continuity.

Chapter Index:
Part I:   1 | 2 | 3 | 4 | 5 | 6 | 7 | 8 | 9 ||
Part II:  1 | 2 | 3 | 4 | 5 | 6 | 7 | 8 | 9 ||
Part III: 1 | 2 | 3 | 4 | 5 | 6 | 7 | 8 | 9 ||
Epilogue


Chapter7: In which Luna encounters one Malfoy after another.

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Title: Seeing the Future
Author: zephre
Rating: PG
Characters/Pairings: Rowena gen, mention of Salazar/Helga
Word Count: 781
Summary: Sometimes the future is unexpected.
Concrit Wanted? Sure!
Notes: Part of the Beginnings Series:
The Bringer of Hope (c. 1068, Salazar/Helga)
The Wolf and the Spy, Part 1 (c. 1070, Snape, Remus, Luna, others)
I have made some linguistic changes for this series, explained in more detail elsewhere, and I have used 10th century naming conventions while trying to keep everyone recognizable.

( seeing )

Title: Far Away as Moonshine, Part III: Seven Years Later
Author: zephre
Rating: PG (R for whole fic)
Prompt: 100quills table 50.2: Flattery
Word Count: 2,161
Summary: For Draco Malfoy, the war was one endless nightmare. Until Luna Lovegood gave him a reason to hope. Can he find his courage, make his luck, and become more than a pawn to those in power?
Warnings: (for whole fic, highlight to view) *mature themes, imprisonment, mention of rape, abuse, battlefield violence, various canon and other character deaths, sexual situations*
Concrit Wanted? Sure! Please alert me to typos or errors of continuity.

Chapter Index:
Part I:   1 | 2 | 3 | 4 | 5 | 6 | 7 | 8 | 9 ||
Part II:  1 | 2 | 3 | 4 | 5 | 6 | 7 | 8 | 9 ||
Part III: 1 | 2 | 3 | 4 | 5 | 6 | 7 | 8 | 9 ||
Epilogue


Chapter 6: In which Draco visits Hogwarts.

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