Lair of the Shadow Beast

You Are a Snow Leopard

You have learned that you must rely on yourself, and yourself alone, to live a happy life. You understand the world better than most people you know. You are very perceptive and intuitive. You need lots of space to think. If you don't get the space you need, you're likely to bite someone's head off. Because you are so thoughtful and solitary, people find you to be intense and mysterious. You're even seen as intimidating.

Haha! I think the 'biting someone's head off' is most accurate, even if its nothing I ever act on. :)

At any rate: news.

I'm all moved out of the apartment now. Still bitter about having to pay rent for July anyway, but...I'm relieved, at least. I was able to successfully wrangle a place for myself to stay at my Mom's house that's not the couch, so all is okay on that front for now. My sister is off at a retreat thing that's part of the church/temple/hybrid thingamajig her father, the Evil One, is a part of, so we'll see how it goes when she returns. I may have to make myself scarce, but...we'll see.

Mum and I are dog-sitting while they're gone, and poor Leo (the dog) was in terrible shape. His nails were so long they were twisting and curling, and he hadn't been brushed in who-knows how long. His teeth are rotting too, the poor boy.... We took him to Petsmart and got his claws taken care of, then gave him a good washing and brushing when we got home. What a difference! He seemed much happier, too! I feel terrible for poor Leo, what with the Evil One not taking proper care of him. And he has no excuse for not doing it, either...it's not like he has a job or anything. Grrr. I can't stand people who neglect or are cruel to their animals. It's like the quote “If you want to know what a man's like, take a good look at how he treats his inferiors, not his equals.” (J.K. Rowling...though I could have sworn someone else said it first ^_^; ). Now I'm not talking about nail polish and doggie-spas and knitted canine sweaters...nah...just love, food, and grooming. Really, is that so much to give?

Anyway, enough of my rant.
It's almost a new month, so I have several tasks I have set myself, in order of importance:

1. Book-in-a-month. No excuses.
2. Figure out once and for all what I'm doing.
3. Sell my old XPS laptop, and use the money to eliminate my dell credit card.
4. secure an apartment for August, if I decide to stay here for now.
5. Go to the Dentist. (I keep forgetting to make an appointment...grr!)

Of course, I'd also like to find some fellow Harry Potter fans here in town to go to a midnight show with, but I don't really consider that a HUGE goal. Although, finding folks who won't be embarrassed by me in my Snape costume may be a challenge, hehe.

In other news, I'm finally starting my new position at work this week. YAH!!! No more dealing with crazy, inconsiderate, rude, stupid people making returns. Woohoo! Now, I get to be Master of the Bargain department of the bookstore...hauling boxes, making displays, and occasionally helping out at the customer service desk. In other words...beloved manual labor! Woo!

In other venues, I may start posting a Final Fantasy VII fic I've been working on. FF7 has been my refuge of late, the fanfic rescuing me from the craziness circling my brain. The fanfic feels like crap so far, but I can't really bring myself to care. It's something, at least. Hopefully it will have warmed me up for my attempt at the novel-in-a-month.

Title: Heart's Price
Series: Kindred: the Embraced

 

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Title: Heart's Price
Series: Kindred: the Embraced

 

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Title: Heart's Price
Series: Kindred the Embraced

 

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Title: Heart's Price
Series: Kindred: the Embraced
 

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Fair Warning, it is 40 pages long. If you would prefer to read it in chapters, feel free to check it out at fanfiction.net The address is: http://www.fanfiction.net/s/4950693/1/Hearts_Price

Title: Heart’s Price

Author: Severitus

Series: Kindred: the Embraced

Pairing: slash, FH/JL

Rating: R

Summary: A few months after Archon’s death, San Francisco is hit with a series of brutal murders…bodies are found with their blood drained and throats torn out. Frank Kahonek is on the case; but he has problems of his own, such as the Kindred who don’t appreciate his new relationship with Julian Luna.

 

 

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As I disgracefully neglected to mark this day last year,  Double Happy Birthday Professor Snape!!

Ideally this post would have included a clever illustration, or perhaps a cute one-shot...but I'm feeling pathetically un-creative at the moment, so this will have to do:

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(It's supposed to be a birthday cake... ^_^;  )

     

Title: Moonshine

Pairing: SS/HP

Rating: R

Timeframe: very AU, Harry's 18

Summary: Harry's untimely capture by Deatheaters and a close encounter with a werewolf brings Harry back to Hogwarts, where Severus Snape has been waiting for the opportunity to seduce his former student.

Notes: Unbeta'd, and as this was written prior to OotP, likely riddled with silly mistakes. It's also a first attempt at a romance, so...it's probably pretty bad. Also...consider it VERY AU!  Also INCOMPLETE, though suggestions and comments would be appreciated

Greetings!

To begin my crusade to integrate myself into the world of LJ, I'm going to begin posting bits of fanfic here. Most will be old WIP's likely to never be finished, but do need a home somewhere. With a few exceptions, most of these will have never been posted anywhere before, and are unlikely to be in the future.

Also, THESE ARE ALL UN-BETAED. They are most probably riddled with silly mistakes, and will ignore a great deal of canon. Most were written prior to Order of the Phoenix.

Please bear in mind that I barely know how to use LJ, so I will be learning as I go along. Any help or suggestions, either for the fics or to help educate me on the wide world of LJ, would be much appreciated. : )   So without further ado, I present the first fic bit.

Title:  Depths of My Soul
Series: Harry Potter, (written prior to OotP)
Rating: PG-13
Pairings:  references to SS/LE, otherwise none.
Summary: AU. Spying has always been Severus Snape's contribution in the fight against the Dark Lord, but this time he's not the only one. This time, a little green-eyed boy is helping from within the Dark Lord's lair...

notes:  unbetaed, wip. Written so long ago I don't remember what I wrote.

Hmm. I haven't been here in a while, have I. I suppose I just don't see the need for it really, other than to post to the occasion LJ group. Eh.

::WAVES:: Hi! I'm ALIVE! I swear!

::checks to be sure::

Yup. I'm sure.

I've been having a bunch of really weird dreams lately. The other night I dreamed I was a TV sales person trying to sell a guy a flat-screen to go in his billiards room. Then I dreamed I could fly and was soaring around the local mall, (which I never go to, incidently) and was laughing at all the people who had to take the escalators.

But last night…last night was the oddest of them all. It began semi-normally. I was at the bookstore where I work, listening to one of the supervisors. I couldn't hear what she said, but I knew she was telling me to do something extremely abnormal for a bookseller, that had absolutely nothing to do with books. When she was finished, I gave a salute, walked behind a secret bookshelf, and started arming myself with all the knives and handguns that had been hidden there. Next, the scene changed, and I was in the forest somewhere in northern Arizona. There was a big red-brick house ahead, and I knew beyond a doubt I had to seek and destroy the person inside. I made it to the house and leapt to the roof. I knew the doors were locked and the people inside armed and dangerous, so I naturally decided to go right through the roof. I started pulling away roofing tiles and eventually revealed a secret cubby hole. I was pleased to find a sniper rifle and a paintball gun hidden inside, along with a few knives that I strapped to my boots. At this point someone started shooting at me, only it wasn't bullets. I'm still not sure what it was….I looked out across the yard and spotted a teenage boy watching me from behind a stack of full gallon milk jugs. I was annoyed, so I picked up the sniper rifle and shot through a few of the jugs. Milk started to leak out, and the boy shrieked and ran off into the woods. At this point the door of the house below opened, and a tall man and his wife stepped out. I leapt off the roof and explained to him about the boy. He apologized and assured me the brat would be punished. And that, my friends, was the end of the dream.

Weird, huh? Bookseller by day…super-assassin by night! Hahaha!

I think I want to return to NAU next year. In fact, I'm almost positive. (I don't want to say definately, as something may come up) I am going to buy out a dorm room (or get a single) and get my English degree, as I had planned in the first place. Why? Because I've been dreaming about it. About the lush campus, the pathways, the shops, the graveyards, the dorms, the buildings....My only qualm with the place was the roommate deal. I've discovered I'm much too reclusive a person to spend that much time in another's presence. I'd do better as a neighbor.

Now, I'm researching scholarships. I hope I can snag something to aid me on my way, as my father is no doubt going to be frustrated at my constantly changing schools.

I don't want to go to UofA after all. It's too...busy. Too many people running around, too many cars, too many flashing lights and confusion. Much too long a commute...grrr.

I know I'll be lonely at NAU in a room by myself. I'll probably start to go stir-crazy. However, as a result of this, I'll focus on homework as a default. Hence, I'll do much better. :)

Now I just have to fill out the d@mn FAFSA and submit some scholarship applications...maybe I'll get lucky.

The question remains...how will I tell Dad and Gramma? And Susan? Maybe I surprise the last, as to hopefully not hurt her feelings...Hmm...we'll see.

Hmm. Job interview at Barnes & Noble yesterday. Not sure how it went, though I /think/ I did okay. ^_^; I'll be paranoid about it for the rest of the week now, waiting for a return phone-call. *sigh* Come What May, Night or Day, Pleasure or Pain, It can't always rain.....

Oh, and I stumbled across this quiz thing on Punisher's EasyJournal. I'm an architect! Yeah!

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And now I must stagger off to Japanese class...grr...Kanji quiz time....

Not going to Japanese today. *sigh* I hate when I do this. I let myself get behind on work, decide I don't want to face the teacher in class about it, so I stay home (or in a random library somewhere, i.e., now) Maybe soon my lab manual for the class will arrive in the mail, so that I CAN do half of the work I've missed. I don't know what I'll do during classtime...perhaps I'll go see 'Underworld' again. oooh, I loved that movie...hehe! Or, maybe I'll just occupy this chair for the next few hours and try and write on my fan-fiction, despite lacking a disk to do so. Maybe. Oh, I don't know. I'm in a very strange mood. It's been raining for the past two days straight (thanks, 'tropical depression Marty'). I'm a little...disoriented, you could say.

I'm still on the job-hunt too. The movie theatre is probably my best chance, but I'd rather not work there. Too much people interaction for me. I know without a doubt that I'd be embittered, anxious, and depressed before a month had passed. I'd love to work at a bookstore...but I don't know if I have enough 'experience' for that or not. Grr. Oh well, I suppose I can just try going through a temp agency if I can't get a bookstore job.

Okay...fading now, not sure what else to write. Maybe later. Time is dawning, fears are gnawing, and reality is so far away....

Don't wanna go into town tomorrow...grrr. I have to get all registered for university and whatnot...if I can, anyway. Hmmpf. I want to write! I want to stay home with a large glass of iced tea and write on my fanfiction...or finish my Sev/Lily picture...or...well, sleep. Grr. And then there's a 'sleepoever' I'm supposed to attend wednesday (that sounds so strange! I'm twenty, for Luna's sake! It needs a different name!) though I reeeeally would rather not. But, that's life I guess...I should feel lucky that nothing's gone down the drain yet. I'm on my toes though....NOTHING BETTER GO WRONG THIS YEAR, I MEAN IT!!!

And now I've got all these story ideas in my head...everything from SS/LE to more 'Harry Snape' fics...even some HP/SS slash...my head is spinning! But there's so much that needs to be done...desperately needs to be done, and I have to restrain myself....*sigh* Dangit.

Hmm...not sure what to write, but I wanted to put something up! Hey, lookit that! I Have an LJ!