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To do this weekend:

- read Joseph Andrews and The Vicar of Wakefield
- read the rest of The Tale of Genji
- write-up outline on Japanese sources to turn in Monday
- read chapter on Japan
- read (quickly) Indian source texts
- write first draft of 8-page paper on Rituals in Asia
- study for post-poned midterm (four essays)
- draft paper on Joeseph Andrews, due Thursday

Writing projects I'll be able to start/continue after the 18th.

I have jury duty the 21st, and you know what that means. I'll be writing porn in a federal building!

- the next part of the skating!fic, which is partially written, just need the other half
- complete the John-screws-up fic
- John/Rodney porn for nufaciel
- John/Rodney explore Atlantis fic for thegrrrl2002 (no, I have not forgotten)
- original character sketches

Do not forget to sign up for the percy_ficathon!

This is odd. Is anyone else able to access their reviews on Fiction Alley?

Someone reviewed Your Friendly Neighborhood Death Eater there and I can't pick it up. I checked a few of my other stories, and a few by other authors, and it seems the review function has been turned off entirely.


ETA: Cool. Fiction Alley's review function is back up and running.

Yep. The story that wouldn't die. Now I have to decide if I force it to dabble along in real time or allow the time-jumps it wants to do.

The Albatross is here.
Part 1.
Part 2.



( Percy/Snape. Unnamed backstory from The Albatross: The truth comes out. Or at least some of it. )

Thinking out loud here...

The goal with the Percy archive is to provide a central place for Percy fics of all types, shapes and sizes. That means Het, Gen, Slash, all pairings, all warnings -- everything.

I reserve the right to reject any story for any reason. That said, this is at present the only active Percy archive. I want to see the shape and size of this fandom and encourage it to grow.

Naturally, the authors I persue and ask to house their Percy fics will only be those I prefer. But pairings I don't read are very welcome.

I want to avoid becoming an ff.net-style archive, however, plus we need to make sure the stories are Percy-focused. To that end I've hired little elfs to scan each fic (briefly) for a Percy focus, and to check for basic spelling, grammar, and punctuation errors. Stories with errors will be returned politely to the author for corrections. (If a story is returned, please don't ask the elfs to iron their hands. They are merely doing their jobs.)

Quality is important because an archive is not only for the writers but the readers as well. Percy readers are a delicate and discriminating lot, who may have palpitations and come to lasting harm should they encounter too many grammatical errors.

Do please have a Percy-level beta for your stories. With any luck, the elfs will never need to send back a single one.

I've been telling people there's a large planet-sized backstory to The Albatross. This is the beginning of it.

I've lost all ability to see my stories at the moment, still utterly demoralized from a bashing at a writer's group. I didn't know the editor was going to be reading the stories we'd brought (or I would have brought something other than Keego Harbor), nor did I know he was going to hold them up and ridicule them to the rest of the group.

How bad was it?

Normally I produce at least two fanfics per month. I haven't written a single story of any length since August. I'm generally a fast writer (Beg Me For It was written in six hours, not counting the outline). It is now taking me an hour per paragraph as I Scourgify each one, plop it on the table, and sigh that it's shit and should never see the light of day.

Anyhow, despite this, I've finally managed to cough up some fic -- largely because most of it was written before the writing group. Here you go. *Icarus heaves a sigh of depression.*

( No title yet, just the beginning of the backstory to The Albatross - Percy/Snape )

I almost lost this little story, written last June. I'm afraid it needs its larger context, since niko_molokov is an OC, paired with interiminister (Percy). But I rather like Niko's intensity.

ETA: Background. This is a backstory for hp_dungeons. Deep background in story form is here -- The Pensieve and here -- Fanning The Flames. (Note: since they're backstories, these are a tad unpolished.)

Following the events in those two stories, Percy realized he couldn't keep Lucius, and ran off to Lithuania with Niko (using all of his vacation time).

Niko's father passed away while Percy was there, so Percy stayed on to help Niko deal with the mess that was the Molkov family finances, changing careers to work for the International Confederation of Wizards. Niko's family was virtually ruined, and the only job the young ex-Death Eater could do was ... well, Percy looked the other way.

Then the political in-fighting among the various Lithuanian wizard families began. Niko, not much of a politician, resorted to threats and then Dark Magic, opening part of a competing family's lands to Faerie (something which can't be undone). The other families banded together and filed a lawsuit saying that since Niko was with Percy, he was to be considered in effect infertile and unable to produce an heir. That meant they could confiscate the Molokov family lands.

Niko kept all of his, er, self-inflicted troubles from Percy, but Percy found out anyway. So while Percy worked to endear himself to the Lithuanian notables, Niko sought a powerful alliance with the re-emerging ghost of Voldemort.

Or so he thought. In reality, Lucius Malfoy cooperated with Dumbledore and, using the link of the Dark Mark and blood, came up with a method to seal Voldemort in a ghostcatcher. Niko misread Lucius' vague letter requesting his assistance. He found himself confronted with Albus Dumbledore and a group of Death Eaters prepared to put Voldie away. Niko had no choice but to cooperate, essentially sinking the nails into his own coffin.

This is Niko's return home after that night.


( Catharsis, Niko/Percy, PG-13 )

A little ficlet to spread the Percy love, with a warm thank you to hydaspes. This story was really dull (and stuck) until your suggestion this morning that changed everything.

This story is completely HBP compliant, according regulation 471, section 8, dash 12.

( Dinner For Three )

In the news (am I the only person who visualizes a spinning globe as I type that>):

- HP Recycles is recycling Percy fics. Check out The Seduction of Percy Weasley. Oh yeah, I remember that one.
- hp_dungeons has more Percyness (I couldn't resist).

And it seems like a good time to launch Percyness: The Percy Weasley Archive.

But wait! How do I upload the stories from the Percy Fic-A-Thon (those of you who know eFiction)? I've tried to do it under Admin and it hasn't worked.