Words... what do they all mean?

Well, I didn't win last week, but I wasn't eliminated; with only three entries it had me nervous. So now it's time to do it again! The remaining three in the semifinals.

Vote one, vote all, vote great, vote small...
It's Round 5 Challenge 3. Click the banner to go to the voting post and vote for the final three left standing, because there can only be one and the odds are made by your favour. The subject is Dark Creatures (Thestral) and Severus Snape with a canon character of choice. They're less miserable than the usual tripe, Snape would say, because that means the best.

Eeeee, omg, I won!


(that's my writing-only journal)

Pic is a link to the results post, which in turn has a link to the voting post which now has author names revealed.

Eeeeeeeee!

I may be crazy for signing up for this while also planning to do NaNoWriMo. We shall see.


Click the banner to take you to darkarts_ldws 5th Round, Dark Creatures, and sign up for a hard-driving LDWS that allows you to use all your cunning and ingenuity.

Thank you who voted in deatheaterdrabs Round Five (Voldemort). My drabble took runner-up overall and best crack!

My piece is here and the above link takes you to all the submissions. All worksafe this time.

deatheaterdrabs Round Five voting is up here. Our subject this time was Voldemort himself, and the entries range from really cracky to serious and creepy. Good times!

The next challenge has been posted for sign-ups over at deatheaterdrabs and they've gone a bit outside the box with this one.

Challenge 3: Evil!Weasleys!

I expect lots of yummy crackfic.

Voting is up over at deatheaterdrabs for the Fenrir Greyback challenge! Not quite as many entries as Lucius, but still a pretty good bunch to choose from. I'm already excited to see who we get next!

Now that NaNoWriMo is over I can actually get back to reading! Also now that I've taken my one final and the semester is therefore over. Wheee!

So the book was enjoyable, but I felt a little disappointed. I thought there would be more to it; either more details in the stories we already knew from DH, or more stories, perhaps ones that weren't already mentioned. I know, I'm horribly ungrateful. If I were Rowling and I gave this lovely little gift to my fandom, and they bitched about it not being enough, I'm not sure what I'd do. But the fact remains that I didn't find it quite up to expectations from all the hubbub about it - either in its original special edition, or after hearing reports that _preorders_ for the standard edition outsold Twilight.

"Dumbledore's" notes and commentary throughout were a nice little surprise, though they don't give much deeper insight to the wizarding world (which are the parts _I_ enjoy about the HP books. Aside from, y'know, the Malfoys).

Title: The Tales of Beedle the Bard
Author: JK Rowling
Pages: 107

28 / 36 books. 78% done!

I can't find it anywhere on the Lexicon but I could have sworn I remembered reading that the Ministry of Magic had a uniform, or at least robes of a certain color. Anybody else remember what that was?

To add to the WTF-ery of the colossal FAIL at casting Narcissa, I found this picture of Patrick Stewart while looking for ones of Helen McCrory that might possibly convince me that she will be a decent Narcissa. I have no idea why he showed up in my search results. ((ETA: Ah, 'cause she was in this show with him))



Patrick Stewart does spaghetti western? WTF is going _on_ with the world today?!