This was my 7th year doing the Lusty Month of May over at the http://asylums.insanejournal.com/pervy_werewolf/ community. I was disappointed last year at the lack of art in the competition, and I have NO artistic talent in order to fill that void. But after tweeting with one of the participants last year, I came up with a plan: LEGO vignettes. It's the only visual medium I can muster, though my photography skills are less than steller.

Nonetheless, I bravely embarked on a month of creating Remus Lupin porn using LEGO bricks. I had planned on just writing a small paragraph or a few lines with each image or series of images. But as the days went on, I found it harder and harder to not write whole fics to go along with the images. So this year I ended up doing BOTH art and writing. There were some close calls and a trip to New York and back during the month and some pretty busy days. But I still managed to get the one piece posted every day before midnight to qualify for Classic Tier 1: Stamina placement. W00t!

I also managed to completely freak myself out several times. I'd seen LEGO pr0n before in the back room at cons but I'd never tried my hand at it. I definitely didn't realize I could go to such wrong places with it, but I'm pretty proud of some of the pieces, actually. It was hard to do a whole vignette every day, and also tell a story with the LEGO pieces. I was even able to do a scene in LEGO for each one of the 6 years of stories I've written for previous LMOMs (2005-2010). And I'm not sure I can look at a yellow antenna piece the same way ever again.

Please note that the links below go to very graphic, adult material. NC-17! Very very NSFW! Don't click if you're not ready to be impressed (and laugh your arse off) at Remus' pervy exploits as a LEGO minifigure this month:

Day 1: Intro & Polishing His Wand (PG-13, Remus)
Day 2: On the Rooftops of London (R, Remus/Sirius)
Day 3: The Man's Talent (R, Remus/Snape)
Day 4: Libri Interuptus (NC-17, Remus, James/Lily)
Day 5: What Dreams May Come (NC-17, Remus/Sirius/James/Peter)
Day 6: The Morning After Surprise (R, Remus.Sirius)
Day 7: Secret keeper (R, Remus)
Day 8: Almost Out of the Closet (NC-17, Remus/OMC-Robert Alverts)
Day 9: Building Memories (NC-17, Remus/Sirius)
Day 10: Losing Memories (NC-17, Remus/Sirius, Remus/OMC)
Day 11: Making New Memories (NC-17, Remus/Sirius)
Day 12: A Balanced Mixture (NC-17, Remus/Snape)
Day 13: Takes Some Getting Used To (NC-17, Remus/Bill)
Day 14: Where, When, Why, Who & Howl Part 23 Reloaded
(R, Remus/Horatio Hornblower)
Day 15: Dynamics (NC-17, Remus/Neville)
Day 16: Merry Month, Moony! Reloaded (NC-17, Remus)
Day 17: Someone's Coming (NC-17, Remus/Sirius)
Day 18: Prove It (NC-17, Remus/Snape)
Day 19: Precious Minutes (R, Remus/Sirius)
Day 20: Orange Reloaded (NC-17, Remus/?)
Day 21: It's In His Kiss (NC-17, Remus/Sirius))
Day 22: Like a Rabbit? Reloaded (NC-17, Remus/Sirius)
Day 23: Nightmare (R, Remus/Sirius)
Day 24: Toss Me (NC-17, Remus/James)
Day 25: Almost (NC-17, Remus/Snape)
Day 26: Bowing (R, Remus/Sirius)
Day 27: WRock Reloaded (PG-13, Remus/Sirius)
Day 28: Songs of Attraction (NC-17, Remus/Charlie)
Day 29: Collared Reloaded (PG-13/R, Remus/Sirius)
Day 30: We're Dumbledore's Men Through and Through (NC-17, Remus/Kingsley, Lee/George)
Day 31: Need a Holiday (R, Remus/Snape)


Don't say I didn't warn ya :-)

I have an item up on help_japan now!
4 Packages: A Year in the Life of a Fangirl with Too Many Hobbies
http://tinyurl.com/helpjapankk

I'm completely flattered and thrilled that the bidding is currently at $105! I started it at $20 thinking no one would bid. Who knew all my fandom obsessions and hobbies that have me collecting books and heading out to random historical places could be so interesting to other people? I'm SO excited about putting together these packages every season now and am so glad I can do a little to help this awful situation in Japan.

Also, I'm still in the winning spot for a couple items I've bid on and I'm stalking a couple other items. Yay. Fandom auctions are my favorite. You get neat stuff AND you help an important cause. There is NOTHING better (which is why I'm in the HPA, don't you know).

Anyway, if you want to buy me in a box (actually, 4 boxes), head on over and bid! http://tinyurl.com/helpjapankk

Happy Christmas Eve, flist!

Who can resist a video about Teddy Lupin? I know I can't (and I still can't make it through without crying; that hat gets me every time).

Fic I wrote for hc_bingo:

Title: Unavoidable
Author: KateKintail
Prompt: body dysmorphic disorder
Medium: Fic
Fandom: Harry Potter
Pairing: None… exactly
Rating: PG
Warnings: See the prompt
Summary: For most of his life, Remus John Lupin had perfected the skill of avoidance.
Notes: I have never written anything like this before. I tried to treat the prompt with respect; I hope it’s all right but I apologize if I f-ed anything up.

( story under here )

It's LiveStrong day today. And though I spent the morning in Washington DC, volunteering at the AIDS Walk, I'm reminded that there are so many strugges out there to fight. Check out these websites to find out what you can do to help and get involved:
www.livestrong.org
www.teamlivestrong.org

I like Livestrong's approach:
We empower the cancer community to address the unmet needs of cancer survivors. To do so, we encourage collaboration, knowledge-sharing and partnership.

Then, we develop evidence-based solutions to address both the common and unique problems survivors are facing around the world.

I'm packing now (Gods I hate packing; I get so anxious and worried) and getting ready to head to Hogwarts on the train tomorrow!
I'll try to blog every day (one post a day is my goal), but I won't know if I'll succeed at that (some of the nights on the schedule have us going until 2am easily). Follow my adventures at Infinitus and the Wizarding World of Harry Potter and beyond here: http://kintailscape.com/travel/
The only things I'm really nervous about are getting all my baggage to Union Station, getting to/from Nerdapalooza on Sunday, the part of my drive home that requires serious driving and long hours, getting my rental car back in time, and the $3,000.00 that has gone MISSING between one of my bank accounts to the other. I am hoping that All of things turn out all right, but cross your fingers for me! Oh gods oh gods oh gods where is my money?!

On an only slightly-related note... THANK YOU to everyone who voted for the Harry Potter Alliance for me! It's not finalized yet, but it looks like we won $250,000 for the charity, due to wonderful fans and excellent nerdfighters. Every vote was important (we kept going back and forth between first and second place) and I am in awe of the support the charity received. We're going to be able to do SO much good toward literacy, LGBT rights, and human rights with this. *cries with happiness*

I love you all, flist *hugs* Could you spare just 5 seconds to do me a quick and important favor?

The charity group I volunteer with, The Harry Potter Alliance, is in the running to win $250,000 but needs more votes to get it there. All you have to do is head to this page: http://bit.ly/hpaFTW
Click the big green "get started to vote" button, hit the Like button, and then hit the green "Vote" button. None of it will show up on your profile (unless you want to show people how awesome you are and tell it to).

Please take 5 seconds to click a few buttons. It will help me out a lot and help my charity do a lot more good. So far we've donated more than 55,000 books to charities worldwide, we raised more than $123,000 to Help Haiti Heal, we've helped hundreds of people get registered to vote, we've phone banked for LGBT rights, we've lit candles for Rwanda, and much more. If you want more info about the HPA (or how you can get involved) let me know. But I would really appreciate if you would vote for it now and help us win. Thank you!

Hey, everybody! My local BookCrossing group is raising start-up funds for our upcoming convention in Washington, DC. So we're doing a silent auction with some awesome themed boxes you can bid on. You don't have to be a BookCrosser to win; you don't even have to live in the US.

The boxes are really neat, and I thought some of you might be interested in them. Up right now is the Books to Movies box, where you get a copy of the book and a copy of the movie on DVD (so you can enjoy both and see which you like better). You also get movie theater-type snacks. (The current bid is $31. For 5 books, 5 DVDs, and goodies, that's a steal!)

Starting after midnight tonight, there's the Harry Potter box--with tons of great Harry Potter items including a poster I'm told goes for $50-$65 on eBay, a book autographed by Pottercast's Melissa Anelli, Harry Potter LEGO, bookmarks, a Scene-it DVD game, Ministry of Magic Wizard Rock CD, and more. Starting bid on that is $15

Some of the other boxes include a beach lover's box, baby shower box, a cooking box, a sampling of 1001 books to read before you die, a Visit D.C. box, and a box perfect for curling up on the couch and reading.

You can find all the details, including detailed descriptions, photos, and the full schedule here: http://www.bcindc.zoiks.org/?page_id=13

Please consider bidding to help us out if there's something that catches your eye. And if you know of someone in your life or your flist who would be interested in bidding on them as well, please send the link and spread the word!

I was in perpetual Squee mode all day today. It was the first ever Northern Virginia Wizard Rock Festival. That's 13 bands all together doing their awesomeness.

Best moment? Well, it was amazing to FINALLY see the Blibbering Humdingers live. I've had their CD for a long time but while listening to one of their songs live, I was in serious tears. SO beautiful and good and spoke right to my heart. I totally didn't expect that (especially since they're a hilarious group and it followed a most awesome song about Snape's underpants LOL). And Snidget reduced me to tears as well for the lullabye for Luna (but that's no surprise; I always tear up at that one as well and Snidget sings it soooo beautifully. I managed to make it through her Colin Creevey song without crying, though). Oh, and seeing R get up and dance to Draco and the Malfoys (okay, so only one of the two Malfoys, but Brian's awesome and played almost all my very favorites) was a highlight. And Swish & Flick playing My Dad is Rich (on a boat) brought down the mother-fucking house!!! Seriously, I would have been SO sad if they hadn't played that. SO awesome. Oh, and the chica from Baltimore and hasn't been able to make it to any of our meetup group meetings came and totally enjoyed her very first taste of Wizard Rock live (though, how could you NOT with the lineup we had?) And one of my friends got Fred and George the Band to draw a sketch of me as a Hufflepuff and she surprised me with it. I'm totally framing it and probably putting it up at work. OMG so squee-worthy. Undesireable #1 sang one of Whompy's new songs before I could even hear Whompy sing it, so that was pretty funny. And I Speak Tree seems like the sort of person I'd want to be if I were a WRocker. I expected a little more from Bella and the le Strangers; they were really great and I'm still glad I bought their CD (I'd have bought it just to own Breakout, honestly), and their costumes were friggin AMAZING, but I wasn't totally blown away by them as I expected to me. After hearing the Dumbledore's Army band I knew immediately I had to have their CD- great songs! And Apparation Nation was fantastic! I wish he'd had a CD; I look forward to seeing much much more out of him in the future. Madame Pince and the Librarians did a parody of Astoria Greengrass that totally rocked my world (and Whoohoo for books!). And Hawthorn and Holly were fantastic- they even gave me a poster when I bought one of their CDs. Yay! I loved when all the WRockers went up on stage to play/dance with them for several songs. I think I have a thing for more than one WRock group at a time. I am a SUCKER for good duets and collabs. Seriously, I expected a few groups (especially the smaller/newer ones) to have lower standards/quality but was pleasantly surprised that every single one of them sounded professional and excellent. Okay, so Undesireable #1's songs were mostly covers, and one was kind of odd, but they were good covers, so I didn't mind. And it was just wonderful to be able to share it with almost all of my Harry Potter-loving friends all day long!

But I still haven't reached the best moment. The bestest best best best favorite bestest moment was during Nagini's set when she freakin PLAYED A SONG FOR ME!!!!!!!!!!! She said, "This song is for my new friend, Kate, and it's the title song to my latest album..." That's right. Nagini played the 'Captain Jack Harkness misses his Ianto' song because I requested it and she remembered!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! Live and in person! And I got to introduce myself to her properly (she signed a CD for me at the first Wizard Rock Festival in New York but that was years ago) that morning. Anyway, she sang the Captain Jack Harkness song for me!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! Seriously, I think that made my entire month right there. *loves* I totally teared up, as well. Well, yeah, it's a song about Capitan Jack at the end of COE, so, yeah, obviously I teared up. But the moment was SO great. And she played the Remus & Snape song, which I've actually had in my head a couple of times while writing this month's epic LMOM fic, since it's Snupin-y for the second half of the month.

Did I mention I helped run a charity raffle? It was a joint effort of the DADA and Carpe Futurum. We're giving proceeds to the Harry Potter Alliance and to the National Wildlife Fund to help with the oil spill cleanup. So I got to go on stage and help announce the winners and give out the prizes. That was cool. Yay for great music AND helping animals at the same time!!! We were pretty successfull and maybe we'll even get some new members to join our adventures in the future because of it.

Sonorus was fantastic. Here was the lineup (sorry if this isn't the right order, I didn't write down the changes and I'm too lazy to get my camera out):
The Dumbledore's Army Band* $
Fred and George the Band*
Apparation Nation*
Nagini
Snidget
Undesireable #1*
I Speak Tree*
Madame Pince and the Librarians* $
Bella and the le Strangers* $
The Blibbering Humdingers*
Brian Malfoy
Hawthorn and Holly* $
Swish and Flick
*= first time I've ever seen them live
$=I bought a CD from them today (I bought two from Bella & Trix because, well, it was only an extra $3 for the holiday CD and I had a $10 bill out anyway LOL)
And I got some new pins for my steadily growing WRock pin collection. Please note that the ones who I did not buy CDs from either were not selling CDs today *sad* or I already owned their CDs so I felt no need to buy them a second time. I did try to press upon my friends the importance of buying them though, since they're some of my favorite albums. Sometimes even a Hufflepuff has the urge/craving to listen to Slytherin music, it's true.

Did I mention that Nagini SANG A SONG I REQUESTED?! SQUEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEE! Such a great day. A big thank you to Matt & Grace for organizing it. And thank you to everyone who purchased a raffle ticket. You're helping out lots of people and animals!

Title: Collared Part 28
Author: KateKintail
Rating: NC-17
Warnings/Kinks: Mentions wanking
Pairing: Remus/Snape
Disclaimer: This story is NOT of JKR’s making. I make no money from this at all. I also do not condone the keeping of werewolves as unwilling sex slave love pets.
Summary: Unable to make ends meet after the war, Remus submits himself to the Ministry’s program for werewolves.
Word Count: 1,758
Notes: Written for pervy_werewolf’s Lusty Month of May 2010

( Collared- Part 28 )