Sticky post!

1) I'm moving to dreamwidth, permanently. Find and friend me here!

to) I'm moving my fic to AO3 here, though it's possible (probable) not all of it will be going.

#) I may be deleting my account altogether. We'll see if I'm brave enough to cut the cord. So go find me over there *handwave* already.


<3 thanks, ghost of LJ past.
Cor

Title: The Prisoner (4 of 4)
Author: corvidae9
Rating: PG13
Word Count: ~8590
Summary: Monsters, creatures and family. (Harry + like, everyone else in the world. Gen.)
Warnings: Latest in a series of Switchverse follow-ups, and therefore unrepentantly AU.
Author Notes: As with earlier chapters of Switch: if I left it out, it follows canon-- I feel like I needed to say that here because I absolutely am handwaving the entirety of the Shrieking Shack scene, which was my stumbling block for years until I realized that it was the one thing I wanted to hold on to in its entirety. Speaking of which, I am SO sorry for leaving you all hanging for... ohgawd. Ten years? I left the fandom in a flurry of drama, and left several fics about a hundred or so words and a proofread away from finished, and it is utterly my fault. I do in fact have entire chunks of Goblet and a few bits of outline for OotP written (and let’s talk about the AU-of-my-AU outtakes *cough*), but I have no illusions about when or if they’ll ever be finished. STILL! I did want to say that I love this universe, I appreciate everyone that has ever stopped to say they enjoyed it too. Thank you guys, seriously. I wanted to put this on LJ for everyone who was watching it, but everything is moving to AO3 going forward so if there are indeed updates, that’s where you’ll find them.
Disclaimer: No more than one or two very famous lines totally gacked directly from the original Harry Potter and the Prisoner of Azkaban, but the premise remains. Basically, if you recognize it, it belongs to JKR and her army of publishers, etc. and is nowhere near even resembling belonging to me.

Switch | The Stone | Interludes 1 & 2 | Switch v2.0 | The Chamber I | The Chamber II | The Chamber III | Interlude 3 | Interlude 4 | The Prisoner I | The Prisoner II | The Prisoner III



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...I need some Nick/Judy Zootopia fic, stat. Actually, I think I may need to write Nick/Judy Zootopia fic.

I mean, I don't even know why, since there is no way that it was not intended to be canon. But I can't stop being amused by their ongoing adventures in my head.

And yer getting old, just like the rest of us. ( HP & the Cursed Child spoilers here and in comments!Collapse )

ummm. There's more, I know it. I may have to dig back in for another read. :D TALK TO ME, HAAAARRRRRY POOTTTTEEERRRRRRR. TELL ME YOUR SECRETS.

In the meantime, you've probably ALL seen this BUT:

Checking in. Hi! I had to update my profile because I'm not thirtysomething anymore. I'll just leave 'lol' here and pretend I'm laughing. >.>

So let's see-- I'm parked in front of my laptop with a nine-week-old kitten in my cleavage (his name is Varric, and he's my official Anxiety Cat(tm)) while the Nikita cat gives as few shits as possible about this development from her position on the ottoman not far away. Our Darko cat left us for greener pastures thanks to bum kidneys, and Ghost the corn snake followed soon after from an unknown ailment, and they're both still missed.

Kid the Elder is about to turn 16, Kid the Younger is three and a half, and Mr. Cor has the privilege of now being the primary breadwinner of our home since I quit my stupid, soul-sucking job last year to go to school full time. As a result, I just graduated with a BS in Applied Math with an emphasis in Biology (no minor after all), and am starting a PhD program in the fall in Computational Science to continue to concentrate on Biomathematics. I ALMOST accepted an offer to NCSU's amazing Biomathematics program, and I have some thoughts on the subject that border on regretful longing, but I can't really bitch since I live in a postcard.

I wrote a ridiculously long fic last year after I finished playing Dragon Age Inquisition, and it stoked my creative writing fires crazily. Then I wept for weeks because I realized that my writing has clearly suffered in the time since I slunk away from the fandom. It's almost like I was much better at it when I was writing eight or more hours a day! Who knew? :P Since then though, I started a collaborative fantasy project with Elder Kid, went back to work on a story my mom requested years ago, started an entirely new fantasy story project, then a weird urban fantasy project, reread chunks of HP and wrote several thousand more words of Switchverse (but no, it's still not done). I'm also doing a writing project this summer with a group that meets elsewhere on the internet, started by a fellow mom/nerd/writer, which is nice since once school starts up again in the fall, I'll be lucky to get a haiku in edgewise.

Still tubby AF but alive, giggling, and planning a crazy summer with highlights that include making all of the things, arranging a little bit larger of a living space for everyone, flying to Seattle for a Statistics conference, and finally a long overdue Maui vacation before I get cracking in my quest for education that can warrant being referred to as "Dr. Cor" in order to properly get going with this mad scientist gig uh, so that I can have a job that doesn't suck. <.<

Oddly, I found my way back to LJ today because I was making recycled frankenclothes as a way to access my happy place, and after all of these years my first instinct is to head to the tshirtsurgery comm and discuss. I can't decide if that's weird or sweet. Either way, though, hi! Hope you and yours are happy, well, well-read, and safe. <3

Hi there! hp_reunion is singing a siren song and calling all the lost sailors home for a bit, so I figured I'd stop in. It's more than a little weird posting here. I went friends only for anything that wasn't fic a little while ago based on the sudden need to be less visible, but I'm glad to be around to say hello.

So, let's see. In a nutshell, I am *actually* back in university kicking ass with a light at the end of the tunnel (majoring in Applied Mathematics with an emphasis in Biology and a minor in Chicano Studies kthx), and remarried to a lovely gentleman; my amazing The Kid is now 14 and in (a very awesome charter) high school (you remember, the one who was in diapers when I started this LJ) and he's with me 100% of the time (dear ceiling cat huzzah), and I've got a new baby dragon 12 years his junior who is about to be 2 in January-- we refer to her as Ninja Marie, since she sneaked up on us so thoroughly (she can count to 20 and knows all of her letters, often speaks in (short) sentences, and gets very emphatic about "BOOK, READ! READ BOOK!", so we're doubly extra sure she's ours).

( Check it, they're adorable here blowing bubbles backstage at the local art festival while Mr. Cor & I were prepping for a swing dance flash mob:Collapse )

I've become a strategy (board/card) game addict, I work remotely 60% of the time and still hate my job, but it's cool because AHAHAHAA. Sooooon.

I do not fandom officially, but I Storium (ask me how!)(no, seriously! let's start some manner of fandom game or something). I still work on Switch (no, seriously!).

I still bellydance occasionally and took up swing dancing with the experienced Mr. Cor, but I did the same thing that I did when The Kid was born and currently manage to resemble a parade balloon more than a proper dancer. But that's also cool-- I'm headed back in the correct direction and I'm right where I need to be right now. Oh! and I joined a Nerdy Parents group and it's ridiculous, lol. I recently went on vacation in the Southeast US and while the weather was bullshit, I had a super awesome time and SAW NASA AND STUFF AND MET AN ASTRONAUT AND OHSHIT THE WIZARDING WORLD OF HARRY POTTER OHSHIT. DIAGON MFKING ALLEY OMG. OMG. Um, wow-- that was quite a capslock. Ahem.

Right, and I still garden, oh yes. My Volunteer Tree is still the faithful head of the Crow Plant Army and I have an eensy mini greenhouse which has to date started dahlias, tomatoes, herbs, and other amazing things, some of which have even survived! This year, I'm starting bat plants, more herbs and a pile of strange, exotic things I'm growing just to see if I can. The tiny pomegranate tree I started in my window back in the transitional apartment is now fruiting and the cutting pulled from my best friend the lemon tree back home (thank you internet for teaching me everything I ever needed to know for the ZA) is also flowering and fruiting happily and YAY! Green thumb!

Nature. Babies. Math. Dancing. Making stuff. Living in a beach town. What more does a girl need?

So yeah. I have no idea what else I'm going to be up to around these parts, but I hope you guys are happy and doing well, and I'd love it if you wanted to stop in and say hi back and tell me about it. Or tell me to get off my ass and come check out your own LJs or something. :)

!) I wanted to pop in and let you all know that my latest reinvention has been a smashing success, for once. I am happy, well, healthy, busy and in progress in a good way. The Kid turns 11 today; Watson, Justice and I have become tightly knit trio of giggling secrets, repeated shared sorrow/hope/triumph trifectas and too many margaritas; Boys have suddenly discovered I exist again (cute, nerdy, adult ones! more than one! wtf!); Work fails as hard as it ever did but I could give a shit, considering my plans are going exactly as I'm planning them; I actually performed with my bellydancing class last month, kicked ass at the drum solo, and have decided I'm not going to stop. I've been picking tomatoes, tomatillos, blackberries, strawberries, snap peas and basil from my garden regularly, and have been adopted by an orange tabby cat named Cesar. Kid an I are going on an epic two week camping break soon beginning with a visit to The Escapee and his family, and ending with an epic series of hops down the Cali coast. I had to start carrying my cross trainers in my car along with my swimsuit because I have actually become That Girl That Does All That Active Stuff.

I'm not even waiting for a shoe to drop anymore. It kind of makes me want to cry sometimes how glad I am for... I don't know. Everything. My house is cluttery, I'm kind of broke and I am not buying a proper bellydancing costume until Spring, and I'm OK with all of that. Again. :)

You guys. I keep considering coming back in a regular capacity, but Active Girl says we're busy. I hope you're happy and doing well, and I hope I see you all again soon. I promise I'll check in now and then! but in the meantime, be good, do anything I would do and then some, and make sure to take pictures while you're at it. Please find me at nueve cuervos [at][teh][gmailz][omg] anytime.

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Title: The Prisoner (3 of 4)
Author: corvidae9
Rating: PG13
Word Count: ~7300
Summary: The plot thickens, as plots tend to. (Harry + like, everyone else in the world. Gen.)
Warnings: Latest in a series of Switchverse follow-ups, and therefore unrepentantly AU.
Author Notes: I know I'm rambling now. :D juice817 has taught me more about finding and attempting to avoid my own grammatical shortcomings than pretty much anyone ever, and then goes and digs through these things to make sure I've learned my damn lesson. Love her, people. I do!
Disclaimer: No more than one or two very famous lines totally gacked directly from the original Harry Potter and the Prisoner of Azkaban, but the premise remains. Basically, if you recognize it, it belongs to JKR and her army of publishers, etc. and is nowhere near even resembling belonging to me.
Please note: The series is now on AO3, and any updates after The Prisoner will be posted there exclusively: Switchverse on AO3

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Edit: I apologize - there isn't a part four posted; it's half-written on my hard drive and every couple of months I add a couple hundred words to it. One day, I do plan to finish this, and I totally acknowledge that it's a pain in the ass to those of you left hanging, but we'll get there eventually. Thanks for reading all of these, by the way. :)

So, it was juice817's birthday a couple of days ago, and I wanted to do something different and fun for her because she loves me too much and always looks out for me, and so I made this and omg. I have no idea. I am ridiculously lucky to have you in my life and I'm sorry I fail and it's late. <333 (But you can even share it with Libby, should you so choose! :D) ♥♥♥ LOVE!OMG! ANDMANYMOAR!

Anyway. ok, this is a ficlety, AU fanmix-with-bad-cover-art that (hopefully :P) (HOW WOULD I KNOW FOR CERTAIN? SHE'S USUALLY MY BETA! :D) (Never mind. I know. Senior VP of Crack Production saved my ass, as usual.) relates early key moments in a relationship between two boys who crash into one another and manage to figure out that they're sad, sick, hopeless and meant to be. And smoking hot, let's not forget that. >.> It was supposed to be brief and descriptive. Then things got out of hand. O:) Hope it's sweetened to your taste, doll!


Two halves of a srs bznss OTP [Fictional] Wizards [well over the age of consent] Walk Into a Pub...
A Bill/Oliver Mix/Fic/Artsy Fartsy Monstrosity Extravaganza Collection
(Adult, NWS, ~2800 words altogether)

( That's definitely a line. I'm not ashamed. [featuring music by the Beastie Boys, Ani DiFranco, Morcheeba, Dave Matthews Band, Eisley, and James Brown, among others.]Collapse )


The HP universe belongs to JKR, WB and friends and is totally not mine. Clearly, Josh Hartnett and Keith Urban also belong to themselves, and I'm just borrowing them because they're pretty (though admittedly, my favorite Bill Weasley PB will forever be Damian Lewis)(LOVE. CRIKEY)(Who should then by rights belong to Kingsley, but again, different story)(*COUGH*). Once I saw Keith Urban on eBay and I almost bought him for Juice but then Nicole Kidman beat me to it. So I guess maybe he belongs to her. But I think Josh still belongs to himself. Probably. Dunno. I ended up trading my voice money to the Sea Witch to get legs. Anyway, According to our buddies at RIAA or somewhere similarly fascist, you can keep downloaded music for 24 hours without buying it in order to sample it, after that, it self-destructs. You should also know that there's a popping sound before the firebursts here in the forbidden swamp, and that lightning sand looks a lot like bad industrial carpet. R.O.U.S.es, I can't help with. Maybe don't carry cheese around and don't say they don't exist? Walk softly and carry a big stick? HTF would I know? All I know is that they feed on fluff. Good luck with that. DO NOT BLOODY WELL FOLD, SPINDLE OR MUTILATE; THIS IS OUR JUICY'S BIRTHDAY PRESENT. BEWARE, YO.



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Title: The Prisoner (2 of 4)
Author: corvidae9
Rating: PG13
Word Count: ~8000
Summary: A perfectly good story about quidditch continues to be interrupted by murderers on the loose and bastard upperclassmen. Rude. (Harry, Draco, Hermione, Ron, Pansy, Neville, Hannah, Vince, Greg, Anthony, Daphne, Luna, Remus, Ginny, Fred, George and like a hundred other people that won't shut up)
Warnings: Latest in a series of Switchverse follow-ups, and therefore unrepentantly AU.
Author Notes: Switch!PoA in full 360 degree theater in the round! Now with more ramble! ...It's possible that I'm far too fascinated with this 'verse. juice817 continues to destroy worlds with her awesome beta skillzors. ♥
Disclaimer: No more than one or two very famous lines totally gacked directly from the original Harry Potter and the Prisoner of Azkaban, but the premise remains. Basically, if you recognize it, it belongs to JKR and her army of publishers, etc. and is nowhere near even resembling belonging to me.
Please note: The series is now on AO3, and any updates after The Prisoner will be posted there exclusively: Switchverse on AO3

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