Dear coffee shop customers,

I understand that literacy can be a difficult skill to utilise correctly at 5.47 in the morning. However, our operating hours are posted on our front door, courtesy of a rather large and neatly lettered sign, and we tend to adhere to them when it comes to things like scheduling and task planning, regardless of the fact that you lot obviously feel they are more like guidelines than actual rules. With that in mind, I would greatly appreciate it if -- when I've let you in a full thirteen minutes before we actually open, because you were hammering on the door like the Devil himself was at your back -- you did not get huffy because the coffee hadn't finished brewing and our full selection of muffins were not yet in the bakery case.

Tiredly yours,

Me

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Today has been long, and it's only noon. Time for large amounts of beer and possibly a NCIS marathon.

I'm still taking fannish top fives, if anyone is up for it.

Here. Have a meme, because I cannot sleep. Also, I like to hear myself talk.

Ask me my fannish Top Five. Any top fives. Doesn't matter what, really! And I will answer them all in a new post.

*hugs*

Title: Anatomy of a Prank
Characters: James, Peter, Remus, Sirius
Rating: PG-13
Words: ~28,000
Summary: Step by step instructions in the fine art of pranking, for those wishing to emulate the incomparable Messrs Moony, Wormtail, Padfoot, and Prongs.
A/N: In which the masters show you how it is done, and also there is comentary from the Slytherin peanut gallery. Many thanks to themostepotente for the beta, and to furiosity and midnitemaraud_r, both of whom read the first section of this, then promptly demanded I finish it at all costs. I believe Lisa may have threatened me with violence.

( anatomy of a prank )

Bored and exhausted.

I just did that meme thingy where you plug the first line of your last ten fics into the Translation Party and wait for equilibrium.

Only, I may have cheated, a little. I did my last twelve fics, and I also did the titles, because they were far too ridiculous not to add.

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01. Hell Radioactive Material (Road) Goodwill Remix:

Jemuzupotta girl was trouble. Generally not, anyway.

( moar )

aa. Bonus first line, from the ridiculously long MWPP I just sent off to beta:

This method was supposed to occur.

OMFG.

I just sent 28K of Marauders fic off to beta.

*twitch*

28K.

*collapses*

Can I tell you how much I am enjoying dogdaysofsummer?

Firstly (and most importantly), it's got me writing, again. I honestly think I've done more writing in the last fortnight than I've done in the last nine months. If not the last year. At Azkatraz, I told several people that I'd been wanting to get back into fandom, but every time I tried I felt like of awkward and at loose ends. I hadn't written in such a long time that I kind of felt like I'd forgotten how; I'd open one of my half-finished fics, then blink at it for a half hour. After that, I usually ended up sprawled on my couch watching NCIS and complaining to frontbits on the phone that my creative spirit had finally crumbled under the weight of my emo, or whatever.

It's also allowed me to exorcise some of the random snippets that have been bouncing around my head for the last four years. Like the one where Remus and Sirius have a disturbingly domestic moment with baby Harry, or the one where James tries (and fails) to flirt with some girl he met at the pub because he's naffed off at Lily, and also Peter accidentally cockblocks him while Sirius and Remus laugh behind their hands. Both of those are scenes I've kinda-maybe-always wanted to write, but I never got around to it, because they didn't (or wouldn't) necessarily fit inside a proper fic.

Unfortunately, I've managed to get myself a good two or three days behind. My failboat: let me invite you aboard! The prompt for day 14 was a video, and my woefully jurassic internet connection acted -- well, fairly predictable about the whole thing, really. I think I've figured out a way to proceed without actually watching it; I just need to, you know, do it.

♥

Also, the new Cobra Starship album is aces. ILU GABE SAPORTA.

I'm blaming this one on werewolfsfan, because she thought Sirius would look fetching in a tiara. Sadly, I didn't manage to get him drunk first.

diamond necklace

( princess | remus/sirius | 650 words )

I'm afraid this one is more 'Remus, Sirius' than 'Remus/Sirius,' if you take my meaning. Three cheers for accidental gen! *\o/*

summertime clothes

( laundry | remus/sirius | 450 words )