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Project For Awesome!

2011-12-17T18:26:10Z

It's Project for Awesome Weekend! P4A is a way to use the power of YouTube to promote charities. Visit: www.projectforawesome.com for more info, videos, etc.

I made my first P4A video this year! It's not super great because my video editing software is whatever came with my computer, but I got a kick out of the final result:

Check out all the videos and comment/like them to promote them. Let charities take over YouTube for a weekend and spread the word about awesome ways to decrease world suck!

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HP FICLET: Nothing

2011-12-13T03:47:30Z

Title: Nothing
Author: KateKintail
Fandom: Harry Potter
Pairing: Remus Lupin/Sirius Black
Rating: PG-13
Disclaimer: JKR’s characters. I play for free and for fun.
Summary: Remus and Sirius spend a day together.
Notes: Written for the hpdaisychain.

( Nothing )

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HP FICLET: Chocolate Frog Card

2011-12-06T03:20:27Z

Title: Chocolate Frog Card
Author: KateKintail
Fandom: Harry Potter
Pairing: Albus Dumbledore/Remus Lupin
Rating: R
Disclaimer: JKR’s characters. I play for free and for fun.
Summary: Chocolate and sex.
Notes: Written for the hpdaisychain.

( Chocolate Frog Card )

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HP FICLET: How It’s Done

2011-11-29T04:45:02Z

Title: How It’s Done
Author: KateKintail
Fandom: Harry Potter
Pairing: Lucius Malfoy/Albus Dumbledore
Rating: PG-13
Disclaimer: JKR’s characters. I play for free and for fun.
Summary: Lucius comes to Dumbledore for help.
Notes: Written for the hpdaisychain.

( How It’s Done )

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HP FICLET: Courted By Both Sides

2011-11-22T04:56:12Z

Title: Courted By Both Sides
Author: KateKintail
Fandom: Harry Potter
Pairing: Lucius Malfoy/Horace Slughorn
Rating: R
Disclaimer: JKR’s characters. I play for free and for fun.
Summary: Horace has a somewhat expected visitor.
Notes: Written for the hpdaisychain.

( Courted By Both Sides )

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HP FICLET: Curiosity Killed the…

2011-11-15T03:49:12Z

Title: Curiosity Killed the…
Author: KateKintail
Fandom: Harry Potter
Pairing: Horace Slughorn/Ginny Weasley
Rating: PG
Disclaimer: JKR’s characters. I play for free and for fun.
Summary: Ginny has an unexpected visitor.
Notes: Written for the hpdaisychain.

( Curiosity Killed the… )

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HP FICLET: A Happy Ending (Snape/Ginny)

2011-11-08T01:09:08Z

Title: A Happy Ending
Author: KateKintail
Fandom: Harry Potter
Pairing: Severus Snape/Ginny Weasley
Rating: PG-13
Disclaimer: JKR’s characters. I play for free and for fun.
Summary: Ginny brings up a suspicion at the wrong time.
Notes: Written for the hpdaisychain.

( A Happy Ending )

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HP FICLET: Orders of Merlin (Fudge/Snape)

2011-11-01T03:17:07Z

Title: Orders of Merlin
Author: KateKintail
Fandom: Harry Potter
Pairing: Severus Snape/Cornelius Fudge
Rating: NC-17
Disclaimer: JKR’s characters. I play for free and for fun.
Summary: Snape knows what he wants.
Notes: Written for the hpdaisychain in a few minutes.

( Orders of Merlin )

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HP FICLET: Clueless (James Potter/Cornelius Fudge)

2011-10-25T02:45:44Z

Title: Clueless
Author: KateKintail
Fandom: Harry Potter
Pairing: James Potter/Cornelius Fudge, James Potter/Lily Potter mentioned
Rating: PG
Disclaimer: JKR’s characters. I play for free and for fun.
Summary: Fudge is not known for being observant.
Notes: Written for the hpdaisychain.

( Clueless )

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HP FICLET: Gnorwlla (Ron/James)

2011-10-04T04:06:29Z

Title: Gnorwlla
Author: KateKintail
Fandom: Harry Potter
Pairing: Ron/James
Rating: PG
Disclaimer: JKR’s characters. I play for free and for fun.
Summary: Ron is back at Hogwarts and confused.
Notes: Written for the hpdaisychain. Written in, like, 10 minutes.

( Gnorwlla )

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HP FICLET: Buns in the Oven (Luna/Ron)

2011-09-27T02:52:19Z

Title: Buns in the Oven
Author: KateKintail
Fandom: Harry Potter
Pairing: Luna
Rating: PG
Disclaimer: JKR’s characters. I play for free and for fun.
Summary: Luna and Ron at home.
Notes: Written for the hpdaisychain

( Buns in the Oven )

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HP FICLET: Discovery (Hagrid/Luna)

2011-09-20T02:26:28Z

Title: Discovery
Author: KateKintail
Fandom: Harry Potter
Pairing: Hagrid/Luna
Rating: PG
Disclaimer: JKR’s characters. I play for free and for fun.
Summary: Many years after Hogwarts,Luna goes to Hagrid for help.
Notes: Written for the hpdaisychain

( Discovery )

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HP FICLET: In Hagrid's Hut (Peter/Hagrid)

2011-09-13T01:07:38Z

Title: In Hagrid’s Hut
Author: KateKintail
Fandom: Harry Potter
Pairing: Peter/Hagrid
Rating: R
Warning: creepy!Peter
Disclaimer: JKR’s characters. I play for free and for fun.
Summary: Wormtail fantasizes.
Notes: Written for the hpdaisychain

( In Hagrid’s Hut )

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9-11

2011-09-11T05:37:01Z

For years now, I've noticed this wonderful thing that happens like magic whenever someone mentions 9-11. The mood in a group or conversation completely changes. It softens. The memory hurts us all. And then, suddenly, people start sharing where they were when it happened and how they found it. Ten years later, people still talk about it. We have a need to share--with friends, with family, even with people we've just met. And we have a need to listen. Even if we didn't know anyone personally who died, it still touched us--and continues to touch us. It's something we all share and something we all have to remember. There is power in remembering.

Please feel free to comment here with your own story.

This is mine.

I was in Operating Sytems class, taught by the head of the Virginia Tech computer science department that morning. After class, I walked over to McBride to meet with my adviser. I ran into him in the elevator on the way up to the CS floor. Someone said that a plane had just hit the World Trade Center. Someone said it was a small plane and possibly the person in the plane had died. It sounded like some accident involving faulty navigation or a noncommercial plane. When my adviser and I got to his office, we tried to pull up CNN and then all the other news sources, but everything timed out with too much traffic overloading their servers. My adviser and I had a super quick meeting, thinking nothing more of it. Afterward, there was something to sign--a form or timesheet for my graduate research hours or something like that. So we headed to the main CS office. And that's when we realized something was very wrong.

One of the office interns was in tears. Everyone was listening to the radio or scrolling through news stories. The plane had not been a little one.

I headed home, but I needed to get gas to get 1 mile up the hill to my apartment. I stopped at the gas station at the bottom of the hill, just off campus, and tried my credit card. The reader was down. That was odd. I tried again with a different card. Still nothing. Luckily, I had $3 in cash, which was enough for gas to get home and back.

I got to my apartment and turned on ABC just as the second tower fell.

Fom then on, I was glued to the television set. Peter Jennings was like my lifeline. I called my mother up in Northern Virginia. She said my dad (a government employee) was fine. I can't remember now if he'd been sent home and was on the beltway somewhere or if there was a lockdown for a little while. But I remember being worried about him until she called me and told me he was home safe. That was after the towers fell. And after the plane hit the Pentagon. And after the plane went down in Pennsylvania. Every single second of the day, I watched the news. I'd turn the volume up so I could hear it from the bathroom even. I just sat there watching and crying and hoping.

I remember that night, when my boyfriend and I finally ventured outside. The streets were empty. We drove over to our favorite Japanese takeout place for dinner. We ordered and then sat there watching the TV that was on. Other people were sitting at the little tables, silently eating and watching the news coverage as well. I had this sense that, though the news was just showing the same thing over and over, there was something about watching it that was reassuring. It was quiet and strange. Maybe it was just that no one had words for it yet. No one knew how to talk. So we all just watched and waited for it to make sense.

I remember sleeping in front of the television. I remember waking up repeatedly to updated death & missing totals.

I remember going to Creative Writing class the next afternoon. We didn't talk about the current assignment. We didn't talk about the class at all, actually. The professor (a graduate assistant, I think, or maybe he was just a really young teacher) waited for us all to sit down and then he said that the lesson was canceled but we could just sit and write or sit and talk about it with each other. And so people shared. We talked about where we'd been and what we knew so far. We talked about how we all watched the news or listened to the news. We were a small class of people who didn't know each other because it was mostly non-majors taking this for a core requirement, but we all had this shared experience. We reacted to it differently but also in the same way. It was cathartic to be away from the television and talking about it. It was nice having a chance to share our emotions and thoughts with other people who understood.

I can't remember how long it took me to stop watching the news coverage 24-7. I can't remember turning off the television or switching the channel. I just remember life stopping and the whole world holding its breath in shock, then crying. The images of all those flyers of people missing. The president saying stupid things about going shopping. The seriousness even the Daily Show had. Everything was suddenly categorized as Before or After. I wasn't alive when JFK was killed, but soon 9-11 became an actual term everyone used, and then it became the defining event.

I visited Ground Zero for the first time a few weeks ago. I ended up following a group of a few hundred (a few thousand?) motorcycle riders there for a remembrance ceremony. I was amazed at how far along the construction of new buildings is. But I appreciate the displays and museum (which wasn't open yet). And I appreciated having a chance to just be there to quietly reflect. On the drive back home that same day, we passed the Pentagon. And it's rebuilt and functioning. For all the horror and loss and suffering--the lives lost on board the plans, in the towers, in the aftermath; the families destroyed; the first responders now developing illnesses; the soldiers and casualties in the Middle East--we're still here. We all still remember.

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My Dear Mr. Potter Project!

2011-08-24T01:59:10Z

Perhaps you’re heard about the book, Dear Mr. Potter, which is a series of letters from Harry Potter fans around the world. If you don’t already have a copy, I highly recommend you get one because it’s great and inspirational and all proceeds go to benefit the Harry Potter Alliance! Find out more: http://thehpalliance.org/dearmrpotter/

I’d really like to make my copy of Dear Mr. Potter special by asking every Harry Potter fan I hang out with online or in real life to write a short letter I can insert into the book. It can have art, words, photos—whatever you want as long as it’s flat and can be inserted into the book (i.e., not a poem on a giant cloth banner or a wooden wand or a 50 page book). I would be honored if you would make a Dear Mr. Potter page about your experience as a fan and/or what Potter means to you (check out the book and the website for examples).

You can e-mail it to me as an attachment.

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HP FICLET: Unexpected Similarities (Peter/OMC)

2011-08-23T02:47:21Z

Title: Unexpected Similarities
Author: KateKintail
Fandom: Harry Potter
Pairing: Original Character/Peter Pettigrew
Rating: R
Disclaimer: JKR’s characters. I play for free and for fun.
Summary: Peter meets a Death Eater and finds out something they share
Notes: Written for the hpdaisychain. Additional notes at the end.

( Unexpected Similarities )

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HP FICLET: Bella's Initiation (Bellatrix/OMC)

2011-08-16T03:25:50Z

Title: Bella’s Initiation
Author: KateKintail
Fandom: Harry Potter
Pairing: Bellatrix/Original Character
Rating: R
Disclaimer: JKR’s characters. I play for free and for fun.
Summary: Bellatrix gets to know all Death Eaters
Notes: Written for the hpdaisychain. Additional notes at the end.

( Bella's Initiation )

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HP FICLET: All You Need is Love (Hermione/Bellatrix; also Hermione/Ron)

2011-08-09T02:11:47Z

Title: All You Need is Love
Author: KateKintail
Fandom: Harry Potter
Pairing: Hermione/Bellatrix, Hermione/Ron
Rating: R
Warning: Non-con (no explicit rape, but you could definitely read it as implied. Hermione is of-age but please don’t read this if that sort of thing bothers you)
Disclaimer: JKR’s characters. I play for free and for fun.
Summary: To Bellatrix, there’s no difference between pain and love.
Notes: Written for the hpdaisychain

( All You Need is Love )

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HP FICLET: Something Different (Cedric/Hermione)

2011-08-02T04:05:34Z

Title: Something Different
Author: KateKintail
Fandom: Harry Potter
Pairing: Hermione/Cedric, various canon Yule Ball pairings
Rating: PG
Disclaimer: JKR’s characters. I play for free and for fun.
Summary: The Yule Ball comes with unforeseen complications.
Notes: Written for the hpdaisychain

( Something Different )

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HP FICLET: Finally Admitting It (Harry/Cedric)

2011-07-25T22:46:36Z

Title: Finally Admitting It
Author: KateKintail
Fandom: Harry Potter
Pairing: unrequited Harry Potter/Cedric Diggory
Rating: PG
Disclaimer: JKR’s characters. I play for free and for fun.
Summary: Harry finally admits some things to Ron.
Notes: Written for the hpdaisychain

( Finally Admitting It )

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Meme Fics (4: Merlin, NCIS, Firefly, Harry Potter)

2011-06-21T04:36:52Z

Fics I've written lately for Running Hot, the fic comment meme

Title: Veritaserum
Author: KateKintail
Fandom: Harry Potter
Rating: PG
Pairing: past-Ron/Hermione mentioned, past-Snape/Lily unrequited mentioned, Snape/Hermione
Disclaimer: Not my characters or world. I don’t make a knut from this.
Prompt: Harry Potter, Snape/Hermione
Snape is ill; Hermione is nursing him. Snape confesses he loves her while delirious, but Hermione thinks he's talking about Lily.
Notes: This is my first ever Snape/Hermione. Thank you so much to perfectly_n0rml for the beta!

Link: Veritaserum
OR Link: Veritaserum

Title: Doctors Do Get Sick
Author: KateKintail
Fandom: Firefly
Rating: G
Pairing: little bit of Kaylee/Simon
Disclaimer: Not my characters or world. I don’t make a buck from this.
Prompt: Firefly, gen or Simon/Kaylee
The crew has been passing around a bug for weeks, and Simon can only avoid it for so long. He tries to ignore it and ends up even sicker than the others did, spiking a high fever, etc. Kaylee (and possibly others) take care of him.

Link: Doctors Do Get Sick
OR Link: Doctors Do Get Sick

Title: Falling for It
Author: KateKintail
Fandom: NCIS
Rating: G
Pairing: Gibbs/DiNozzo
Disclaimer: Not my characters or world. I don’t make a buck from this.
Prompt: NCIS
Tony and Gibbs are on a stakeout. Tony doesn't feel so good. Gibbs tries to help. Father/son or Tony/Gibbs, anything goes.

Link: Falling for It
OR Link: Falling for It
Sequel forthcoming

Title: Revealing
Author: KateKintail
Fandom: Merlin
Rating: G
Disclaimer: Not my characters or world. I don’t make a buck from this.
Prompt: Merlin, Arthur/Merlin
After being scratched by a magical creature in a fight, Merlin comes down with an unnaturally high fever. Magic reveal when Arthur figures out that no ordinary person could burn so hot without dying. Bonus points for delirium and all that.

Link: Revealing
OR Link: Revealing

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LMOM 2011 Recap

2011-06-01T05:16:36Z

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 :-)

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I need your help to get pink hair!

2011-03-26T12:16:29Z

My run-off vote for hair color ends tonight, and pink isn't anywhere close to winning! Purple is fine, but I really want pink Tonks hair. Please donate (even $5 or $10 helps) and vote for pink! http://www.bcindc.zoiks.org/?page_id=844

You'll be helping me stay out of debt, you'll be supporting a great convention, and you'll be making sure I get to embarrass myself in front of a hundred convention-goers (and everyone in my normal life) in proper Harry Potter fangirl style.

Please donate & vote Saxon today! Er, I mean, vote pink. That's it. Pink.

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Helping Japan!

2011-03-24T05:43:33Z

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

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FIC for HC_Bingo: Galu

2010-12-27T05:14:02Z

Fic I wrote for hc_bingo:

Title: Galu
Author: KateKintail
Prompt: minor illness (cold, allergies)
Medium: Fic
Fandom: Lord of the Rings
Pairing: Legolas/Gimli
Rating: PG
Warnings: none
Summary: Legolas is ill and Gimli makes a suggestion.

( story under here )

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