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  1. Dear anyone who remains. Nope. I actually haven't abandoned these stories. I did have some long term RL pursuits that had me keep fanfiction on the uber down-low. Will update as soon as AFF lets me. Captive Audience: about four new chapters. Writing on this at the moment. I know this story all the way to the end, with just a few questionmarks here and there. Precious Mudblood: This story is being a pain in the arse. I know what I want to write all the way to the ending but it doesn't want to be written like that. Feels wrong when I write it. Will get back to it when it lets me. That Which We Make For Ourselves: - ditto. I know this story all the way to the end but It's not calling right now, captive audience is. The first Horcrux: 2 new chapters. Possibly three. (Kind of more like ten chapters but they split and then veer off in different directions and i'm not sure which direction I like better. I do not know this story's end. It is writing itself. New Skin: New chapter and a half. Necessary sacrifices: New chapter. (there were actually three but I lost them and had to rewrite)
  2. Alright... alright. I'm uploading. Dang. I wanted to increase my buffer before putting anything up, because I know people will get antsy if there's a long break between updates again. I only have three more PM chapters stashed ahead of the writing horizon.
  3. Wonderful news! I have just fortuitously changed jobs and will now have TIME (ah glory of glories!!) to dedicate to writing. I look forward to resuming regular updates soon, starting with PM (since that seems to be the story that readers continue to review) Thank you to anyone who is still hanging in there!
  4. Ok. That time again (although i feel cheap replying to reviews when I haven't updated all stories in a long while but I have points to address and so needs must) These are not in order of reviewing but in order of immediate urge to respond. Precious Mudblood @Lyra Aphrodite Moon I agree entirely - This story grates against me at the moment because it feels like it is in three sections in my mind. Problem is that by the end of my storyline (yes I do have it complete in scratch form) it becomes essentially four sections and an potential epilogue in my mind. It irritates me because I want to rewrite it. I have actually had three lovely individuals approach me at various times offering to beta but I have either been far too busy or wimped out before I continued along that line. Technically I'd like to correct everything myself and probably a measure of rewrite will be involved - none of which will happen if I hand it over to someone else. Or worse - all of which will happen, but not as I was planning. Worse.. there are scenes in the immediate future which are necessary and which I have no real interest in writing. I put it on pause in order to prevent myself from coming up with an avoid technique to get around those scenes. It is so tempting to skip over them. As you say - there is more sex and gore in this story than strictly necessary. i find myself less interested in writing the sex and gore parts than I used to be and that is giving me a problem because both are required to get where I am going. @shannon Thank you so much! I am sorry if you are a bit confused in the later chapters (I assume from the jumps back and forth to draco and hermione in the future) - if you let me know what is confusing you, I will try to iron it out a bit. New Skin @KisaraP Thank you thank you thank you for your review. Reading it made me feel warm, proud and motivated to go and write. Which I did. And then I deleted. and then I wrote and then i cursed for a bit and walked around in a sulk and now I'm writing again. I hope this story continues to surprise you. The first Horcrux @krysania Thank you - I try. I'm not sure what AO3 is actually so I guess..no.. no I haven't thought of moving there. I'll google it. Keeps slipping my mind. Other related updates. I wrote two chapters of Necessary sacrifices - and I was actually pleased with them. Of course now they are somehow gone and I cannot find any copies. All i have is three or four copies of the earlier point that I stopped at. Can only imagine that i must have saved it over them accidentally when pulling out autosaved files. Drove me mad for a few days and the motivation to rewrite is never easy to find. I guess i'll rewrite and change things to make it bearable. Perhaps i'll post the chapter I have anyway. Till next time, M.
  5. Hi Fleur, I thought I had responded to your mail specifically. ...Actually I responded to it on several occasions but often was interrupted. Perhaps I never managed to get one of them up at all. First - thank you so much for your kind and generous words. I was touched that you cared enough to respond to my rather ranty and self-pitying post. it brightened my day. I considered teaching overseas. I still consider it occasionally. The dynamics of the student loan system in New Zealand mean that I would have to pay massive amounts of interest if I left the country for longer than six months. Thus the money I might earn if I left would have to be not only considerable but also regular and reliable. None of the positions I have looked at have been able to tick all those boxes. (If i left for a year and came back, i'd still have to pay interest, even living here and thus my situation would worsen rather than improve) Nevertheless I did appreciate the idea and wanted to thank you! M
  6. I like taboos. That's ok. I was extremely rigorous in my Masters thesis. I didn't write these stories for others and I don't take them too seriously. I wrote them as a pleasurable escape from analysis of truly painful amounts of raw data. I wouldn't have started writing at all, had I not actually run out of fanfiction to read in the ships I like. I like to surprise people with things they have forgotten they read. But since it confuses you to such an extent. I'll throw away this one surprise and explain. Voldemort demanded Hermione make a horcrux, however she actually ended up making two, simply by virtue of the fact that he would not remove the magic suppressing bead. He even said as much at the time. This is the bead that she is wearing when she wakes up with Draco. The bead which we know Harry removed from her in order to force her to use her abilities, which resulted in her ending in the past. Draco is evidently lying to her - judging by the things he tells her when she wakes up; i.e things that we know did not happen, such as that she has been in some kind of coma since the attempt to make a horcrux - obviously Hermione hasn't. Thus nothing else he has told her can be entirely trusted. Beyond what is shown, we know nothing of what has occurred in the future after Hermione's departure. We do not even know how this bead/horcrux came to be in Draco's possession. Look forward to reading it then. I like your conceptualisation of Voldemort. I'm sure you'll write the scene better than I wrote it. It was a bit of a cop out at that stage in the story. It solved a problem conveniently at the time.
  7. I take it this is already closed. I don't check my mailbox for this site very often. If you are still looking for writers, let me know.
  8. Here (for the first time in twelve aeons) there will actually be review replies. I kind of lost track of reviews for a while so if you reviewed in the period when I was still AWOL - I apologise for not responding. But first: Thanks, Fleur K! I probably shouldn't have been pointlessly whining but I appreciate the sympathy and the advice. I can't teach overseas as I am a New Zealander and they have a system here to discourage students from jumping the ditch and running off - if I leave the country for more than six months I will be slapped with massive interest on my student loan. The salary (wage?) of tesol teachers in Taiwan (or any of the other countries) is not high enough to justify the added money I'd have to pay back. I would go anywhere in the world for a REAL job with a decent salary but I can't leave for anything else (unless I plan on never returning). My career goals are.. no.. *were* would be more appropriate.. My career goals were simple. I just wanted to be an analyst. I wasn't even picky about what manner of analyst as I've studied quantitative and qualitative analysis, political analysis, risk analysis and threat assessment, strategic analysis... Alas - the government here changed hands from the equivalent of democrats to the equivalent of republicans and massive numbers of public servants were canned - flooding the market with trained analysts with 3+ years experience. Now it is not even possible to get a position as a graduate analyst. My degrees? Not the wisest choices possible - but I was operating in light of a world with heightened security threat rather than an economic meltdown.. I have BSc Psychology with Honors (Spec forensic psychology and neuroscience), BA German, BA Russian (plus a couple of other languages), Honors in diplomacy and international relations, Masters in Strategy and Security (Spec - China and India) Oh for a time machine to go back and study medicine instead. MOVING ON.... Precious Mudblood Fan Reader, Bythefireside and Elizabeth - You were instrumental in convincing me to start writing again. Thank you! Your words reached me on a day when I was rather down and despondent and the warm feelings you evoked persuaded me to pull out my own stories and start reading through them. There are a lot of things I didn't like in them but in lieu of rewriting everything now and putting off new updates I think I'll keep writing and fix the problems when I am finished. Also - someone contacted me today asking if i was still looking for a beta - so perhaps some of the flaws will be ironed out sooner rather than later. LadyCandi - thanks! You make me feel all warm and fuzzy! Dru - the future part is in there for two reasons. 1. because sometimes I want a break from the events at scene and it seems to 'cleanse my palate' slightly when I jump somewhere else. 2. because it is relevant to something coming up. I think i've already explained this in the chapter I posted but the future Draco and Hermione part isn't purely to confuse, although I enjoy springing it on you without warning and making you adjust your mental frame for a moment - it ties in. The intervals in which it occurs aren't important but the information is - so I just skip there whenever I feel like it. Evita, Elizabeth - Thanks! I appreciate it and i'll try to deliver. Ricc, Fan Reader and venny christayani - thank you!! You posted massive compliments and I was glowing for hours after reading them! Thank you for your well wishes too. You made my day! brightneeBee - sorry about the dialogue format issues. Also that you can't really stomach HarryxHermione in any context (there's a bit of it but not that much, considering). My characterisation may flipflop - after all these chapters were written quickly in a short period of time while I was writing my masters (or avoiding writing my masters) - and it was my first fic. I originally never intended to post it so I suppose I was writing for my own satisfaction rather than public viewing when I was writing this story. This means that it will probably need to be beta'd to death now to appease my need for logic. (So much still irritates me now and I cringed while reading it. Nevertheless other parts were still satisfying to read. i don't know.) The overall structure is a bit inconsistent because when I started this one I had no plan at all. Curiously - it became harder to write it from the moment a concrete plan coalesced in my mind. From that point it became less like dreaming while typing and more like working on a report. In fact I can correlate the time I wandered away from writing chapters with the time that I completed the ending in my mind. I think the story was like a puzzle that i was working out for myself in a slow enjoyable way as I was writing it - but once I had 'solved' it in my own mind it lost all appeal. As a result, in order to get myself back on track with writing I have had to discard some of what I planned, in order to animate myself. Like saying - ok, that is ONE solution. What is another?" Even so - I hope you enjoy some of what I have written! Necessary Sacrifices Tres tres chic - Thank you for the compliment!! You made me smile. All my stories are twisted but this one even has tentacle porn. i worry about my mind! I will be updating this one too - in fact the other night I was thinking about this story specifically and where it goes from here. That which we make for ourselves Roseemilee - Thanks! I appreciate it. I'm glad you enjoyed the selfcest/threesome! I can't kill off Grindelwald just yet, sorry - he isn't finished being a nasty prick and complicating matters. Personally, i'd rather get rid of Dumbledore since he is far more inconvenient. I can't get rid of any of them unless the story runs to that outcome naturally. Besides - the story would be over in one chapter if I just wrote - and then everyone who ticked Tom off spontaneously combusted and he lived happily ever after with himself and Caedmon. I have had a writer do that in a story i was reading. It upset me more than anything else possibly could have. I felt cheated out of an actual progression of the narrative. The first Horcrux addiena saffir - if others listed above 'made my day' with their compliments - your review actually trashed my confidence. (sigh) I suspect you may not have intended it that way. The story is like a train wreck. To have Tom win and remain evil isn't an outcome you'd like to see (I'm not actually sure how you got to that outcome since he seems pretty non-victorious to my mind). Tom getting away with things upsets you. Technically he hasn't gotten away with much yet since he's been caught and had his magic taken away to prevent him from doing anything worse. Now he has it back because Dumbledore is indeed a manipulative old bastard but he will insist upon giving people a chance to make the right choice. Either that or he anticipates their responses and choices better than they do themselves. Tom raping Mione - well.. at some point early on i toyed with some variant on this idea. This was originally going to be a TR/HG fic but I changed it because the idea didn't appeal to me as much anymore. I don't know what will happen with them in the long run here. Things would have to change before I could see anything like that happening. Your complaint that Dumbledore was a lying, manipulative jerk - he is in the originals. Didn't you notice? I loathe dumbledore. In some of my fics i manage not to demonise him, but it is difficult. i dislike him almost as much as Ginny and Ron. unneeded - thanks! Glad to be back. I'll try and update you soon! Raven - sorry I didn't update on your birthday but, to be fair, I didn't know it was your birthday and I updated soon after! Hope you had a good day anyway! Roguelle - AAAAAARGH - YES I AM!! THANK YOU!! Don't know what I can promise re future pairings. Not sure if the Hermione I have written here would combine well with the Draco constructed here. We'll see what happens with them in the future. Krysania - Pleased to be back!!! The chapter was creepy? I found it a bit stilted myself but i'd boxed myself into a corner and needed a magical out. Now the question remains - will things go back to status quo or will I take a small, medium or massive step sideways?! Captive Audience Alliel - Don't worry, I won't. I'll get to this one too!! Sorry it wasn't first on the update list!
  9. Hi I'm alive. I apologise for making you wait an irrationally long time for updates. You see the problem is that when I started these fics i was writing my masters and was a full time student. That means that I didn't have to work; spent the entire day on the computer anyway; was highly motivated not to think about or work on my actual masters topic, yet held in place (by guilt) from actually going out and doing things. As a result, toward the end of my stressful dissertation I wrote prolifically. Most days i'd work on two or three stories in a row. Now however... I work in a badly paid, cognitively undemanding McJob for twelve hours a day (thank you recession. It's wonderful to know that attaining three bacheors, two hons and a Masters degree within six and a half years will get me about thirteen bucks an hour and sore feet.) and this leaves me exhausted, increasingly cynical and sometimes quite apathetic. They tell me that I don't have enough 'experience' and the market is flooded with those who do. I can't, however, even get unpaid job experience as I work shiftwork with no fixed hours and am essentially on call at any time day or night. So I stay where I am because it pays the rent and keeps the car running. Incidentally - if anyone can help in pointing me toward a better job anywhere in the world - i'd really love to hear about it! Seriously. If your brother's friend's second cousin knows someone who is looking, i'd be interested. You can email me at magentasouth@gmail.com. The following status updates based on my own chapter length expectations of between 7000-9000 wds Precious Mudblood - half a chapter done New Skin - quarter of a chapter done Captive Audience - quarter of a chapter done The First Horcrux - about to start new chapter after I post this message That which we Make - pending Necessary Sacrifices - pending I do have work for the next seven days straight but I will try to at least get two of PM, CA and NSk finished and posted this week.
  10. @ Nerys - just got the weirdest sense of deja vu. You remember ages ago we were talking about my fic 'captive audience' and whether I might have taken the idea from some other story that had a cage that I might have read (probably did, even if I don't remember it and had mostly been inspired by 'caged bird' a ss/hg fic with very different... well.. very different everything really. Her 'cage' was more of a 'cell'.) ANYWAY... i'm rambling. I was just reading a new fic in Fanfiction.net and I had the weirdest sense of holy crap - thats just like what I wrote! I'm not sure whether great minds think alike <smirk> or whether whoever this is actually read my story (flattering) and was so tickled by the idea that they put their own version of it into their story (weirdly enough - also totally flattering) - or maybe there's just a limited number of ideas in the world and its entirely random - after all, the rest of the story apart from that one little section is novel - haven't read anything like it thusfar. In any event - it made me think of you somehow and our discussion last year. http://www.fanfiction.net/s/5997364/3/Bound_By_Words First section: Hermione and Voldemort take a bath: ;-)
  11. @ Atlantean_Diva - (shrug) can be. I didn't mount a structured campaign. I see what you are saying - however precious mudblood was the first story I started - the first attempt. In the beginning it *didn't* have a plot therefore; it was just an experiment - so I guess it really does seem like it just swims around with things happening. I was kind of reading it as I was writing it. I started writing while I was working (or rather *not* working on) my masters dissertation. I was writing for my own enjoyment, not for that of unknown readers since I didn't think I would actually post anything i'd written. I was writing because I had read literally EVERYTHING in the ships I particularly gravitate toward, to the point that I was running out of stuff to read, and because I was getting frustrated at waiting for updates on stories I loved by other writers. That being said - with the exception of one, every story (unfinished though they are) does have a general plotline that is (at least in my own mind) developed to completion. In case you are wondering - the one where I really do not know where it is going is necessary sacrifices. I only started it based on a plot challenge that I considered a bit implausible from the start. Its more just a bit of fun. I only know where it is going about four or five events into the future. So the problem is not a lack of direction in plot stopping me writing - its really more a lack of focussed will. Writing is more effortful than reading. There are a number of stories for me to read now (although pickings are getting thin again at the moment) so its always easy to 'just read for a while and then write later' which doesn't end up happening. Also - I just changed to a very hours intensive job after my degree and before i went into hospital i'd just moved into a new apartment a week or two before. Things happening in the real world are distracting. @ Nerys Thanks! I hope all is going well in your life. - yes I know what you mean about just not finding the will to write. For some bizarre reason I am holding back chapters right now because I want to post an update on everything at once. Anyway though.. I was just about to turn off this music and go back to the chapter i was working on before I noticed a flame review that motivated me to wander into the forum and be all defensive and bristly. ;-) I hate it when the critique is a) justified and b) something i've already defended three or four times already. <sigh>
  12. hm.. *on* the topic of burning oneself out - i'm actually in the hospital right now. I've been here for a week already. Hopefully they'll let me go home tomorrow. (sigh) What should be great - giving me all this time to write - kind of doesnt do me any good at all since i'm so weak that I sleep most of the time. Today was the first day I was given food. being in hospital sucks.
  13. Hi everyone I am still alive. None of my stories (poor things) will be abandoned. I just started a new job and now I am essentially working ALL the stupid bloody time. As in - seven days a week most weeks - so it's hard to find the time.. no. that's not entirely right. I could find *time* to write - I just don't have energy to write, most days. I come home and fall into bed then get up and do it all again. Also - I just moved into a new apartment a week ago and so I have no internet at home at the moment (driving me up the wall living without it!) That being said - I have read the reviews you have left me and been incredibly happy that you like my stories enough to keep checking them even if I drop off the planet for a while. Tonight I am writing on captive audience. I have a chapter of necessary sacrifices which I havent had a chance to spell/grammar check yet. Most of precious mudblood's latest chapter has been sitting there for weeks and weeks now. Also half a chapter of new skin is done. My mind keeps circling around the first horcrux though. (sigh) and now I better go and drive home (internetless cold home) and write instead of hanging about here.
  14. It is irritating that when you want to search for a story that you haven't already read - you have NO way to filter results by anything other than pairing. Other sites offer far more comprehensive filters - in order to pick stories that are over a certain wordcount, or are complete or involve particular warnings or themes, or have only one character that you are interested in all pairings for, or genres etc etc etc. Please..please.. put a decent filter in. Searching by word is extremely primitive. Even fanfiction.net has a better filter than that.
  15. @Salon_Kitty Thanks for your massive review. Sorry to squick you with Draco.. Draco IMO would have a better body than Harry because Harry has been starved quite a lot while growing. Harry is relatively weak in That which we make - thats just the way I set him up, his friends have betrayed him or been killed, his upbringing and schooling have been rigged to leave him intentionally weak. In The last horcrux harry is stronger, but still not as smart as Tom. In new skin - harry is formidable. There is exactly zero probability that ginny weasley will ever be placed in the enviable position of being with both Lord Voldemort and Tom Riddle. In any story. Ever. I loathe the weasleys, as you rightly discerned. Ginny may count herself lucky if she survives my stories. I haven't clarified whether Harry has dated ginny in the last horcrux.. Draco just believes that Harry's never dated anyone. Writing atm. Will reply to all reviews from everything when I get these two (three? four? not sure how many it is in the meantime) chapters up. Next up in line for update are Precious mudblood and New Skin. After that will be probably that which we make and captive audience. Unless those reading the first horcrux are more vociferously vocal than those reading necessary sacrifices or that which we make. I'm easily swayed by reviews.
  16. Um yeah. Woah. Sorry about that - I was just reminded that it's been basically a month since I updated Precious Mudblood. I havent been writing as much lately as I used to due to annoying real world issues. Damn the real world. Its sooo inconvenient. In case you're worrying - No. I havent run out of story on precious mudblood - in fact the plot is written and completed. I know that story is just massively long but I have to break it to you - its not near the end. Probably I should break it down into three or four shorter fics. Maybe when its finished I will. Anyway.. there's a good few twists and turns to go yet, don't worry. I guess I wasn't in the right mood lately to write the next part of PM. I have been in more of a slashy mood lately - hermione hasn't been catching my interest as much and i've been writing on my three slashfics more. You can see that whole slash vibe erupting unbidden into necessary sacrifices (poor Draco.. I always torment the poor little spoiled brat) so I just gave myself over to it and wrote on slash for a while instead. But PM has been kind of in the back of my mind for the last two or three days so I'll get back to that now then. I have a chapter of first horcrux sitting finished and half a chapter of new skin too. By the way - yes whoever called me on it - necessary sacrifices is just a completely random meander through my mind. I don't know where it leads yet. I have a few different ideas.. but its not concrete like all the others where there is actually a decided, finished plot. If it feels a bit more all over the place - that's probably why. anyway. THANK YOU to everyone who has given me a review!! You have no idea how overjoyed I get when I find new reviews! (hugs and cookies and bunnies and sinfully..deliciously evil Tom Riddle clones to all of you!) It's been a while since I have rechecked and addressed comments individually but I will get to that - right after I finish a chapter of PM for y'all.
  17. Dear everyone, I realise that updates have been less frequent than desired. I haven't given up on any of my stories. Its actually ticking me off no end to not be able to write on them right now. I have had to work on my masters (which is almost finished.) So it might be a few days more till I can next update, assuming that I can go back to writing for pleasure on monday. I generally write about a chapter of something a night when real life doesnt intrude. That being said - I *do* check for reviews way way too much and every time I get one I am overjoyed to a completely silly extent. So if you've reviewed - thank you!!! I feel guilty at not being able to provide immediate relief. Miss_nen_yim - If I tell you whether or not the preg tag refers solely to Ginny you'll be disappointed. Either way. If I say no - i.e. that Hermione isn't going to be pregnant, you'll be all aww-but I wanted her to be! If I say she yes - you'll be waiting for it impatiently and it will be a let-down if it does happen because you'll have built up anticipation. I'll be honest. I have a number of paths for the story in my mind although I know the gist of where i'm going and where it ends, I haven't decided yet and go back and forth on that issue. I've never written a pregnant character before. I'll see. Thank you for your compliments! I agree totally that this ship is underappreciated. I've mentioned before - I only started writing because I was frustrated at running out of new LV or TR stories to read. (hint hint!!) On the matter of OOCness in stories - Personally, I can handle a lot of OOC, provided its reasonably elegantly written, consistent and reasonable for the context introduced. I cannot read a story that is full of spelling and grammar problems. My own stories have them in places (mostly because i type them in the dark, without enough attention and sometimes submit without reading them through. When I eventually read them through I usually fix the error if I can be bothered). Ugh.. four am again. Sleep!! Can't think!
  18. LiLlAdYeX - Why does Hermione let other wizards push her around? She doesn't like pain?! It makes no sense to provoke punishment unless there is a gain involved. The times she has tried to stop wizards pushing her around have resulted in worse pain than if she'd just submitted. In this case it would be Tom who would be punished. But it isn't as if she could gain anything significant. Grindelwald is much like Lucius. He would simply get vicious. When her magic was unbound in the past - why didn't she go back to the future? It took a lot of power to do it the first time and she isn't sure how she did it. Harry was in her head. Her travel back in time was a product of his force and her longing. She's not sure whether she might not make everything worse if she tries. And then there was the whole losing power issue. There is a significant upside to having her magic bound. She was much much more powerful in the future each time her magic was unbound. She healed severus effortlessly. When her magic is bound - although she still has an attracting effect on others, her magic (and the magic she absorbs) collects. It pools, rather than dissipates out to all her connections. Why cant she track rodolphus if he can track her and other people can sense their bond? Other 'people' can't sense their bond. Other vampires can. Vampires need to be able to sense whether a given human is the blood slave (i.e. property) of another vampire. Asking why she can't track the vampire who 'owns' her is much like saying why can't she control him in the way he controlled her. They are different species, in a sense. The relationship is not balanced, with both sides inheriting equal powers over the other. Its a vampire and a blood slave. The vampire needs to be able to track its property, but if the blood slave could track the vampire - it would make it quite simple for the slave to become a weapon against the vampire. Hope that answers your questions.
  19. Raven and Unneeded and everyone else following What we make for ourselves Sorry if the chappy was short. The simple reason for that was that it was half finished. It's been half finished for a while. My chapters tend to be between 8000 and 12000 wds. I got caught up in captive audience - where i've been preoccupied for almost a week now. I wouldnt have posted the half chapter except for the extra heart twanging request for more of first horcrux - the chapter of which is only about a quarter finished and not postable. I have no idea why i'm so preoccupied with captive audience right now. Sorry. I've got what amounts to 4/5ths of the latest chapter of necessary sacrifices sitting there just waiting on finishing.. half a chapter of new skin.. Still supposed to write this masters. (sigh) Ah well.
  20. Whoops sorry. @Raven - I didn't mean to upload a chapter of first horcrux that was already up. I found it and thought I hadn't uploaded it yet. Sorry. I'll upload a chapter of that which we make for ourselves to compensate. @everyone else. Thank you SO unbelievably much for your reviews - I was thrilled to read them and i'll reply later I hope. I'm not at home right now so writing and uploading is a bit tricky but i'll get around it Also - HARRY BIRTHDAY RAVEN!!
  21. Hi Fleur - I was actually writing more on that story this morning before I felt guilty about the other stories that I hadn't updated. :-/ To be honest.. i'm not really feeling like writing on the others so much right now. Maybe I should just go with the muse.. (sigh) So much time.. so little to do. No...wait. Scratch that. Reverse it. ;-)
  22. Hi all. I'm kind of.. somewhat.. back. I still have my masters to write this week and my mother has an operation so there won't be superfast updating really yet.. but it might seem like there is because I have almost all of my stories ready to update now. (some of them twice I guess..but then i'm back to the event horizon of writing again.. so there'll be a pause.) I wanted to really thank everyone who has reviewed. Its huge every time I get a review - I rush to go and look like a kid at christmas. (Captive Audience) - GEOFEO (and also Nerys for posting the review for her) I'm sorry I haven't allowed anonymous reviews. I wasn't really thinking much when I set the settings. I didn't consider how many people dont have AF accounts. Maybe I should go and change the settings.. I'm a little worried that if I allow anon reviews i'll suddenly get a million flames somehow. Your review was epic. And I do not overuse that word in my everyday language. Wow. I think Hermione has stockholm syndrome to a certain extent too. I wanted to write a StSy story after the StSy in precious mudblood was all explained away with Hermione's problematic condition. Thank you for liking my Voldemort. I'm never sure about him. Any of them. Don't get too upset about the chapter I just posted... (gulps) It's not the end. Not nearly. Yes.. the voldemort in this story is quite capable of feeling some emotions. He just...has them completely under control most of the time...channels them to his advantage. He is rather cold blooded though in this story.. Possibly more cold blooded than i've made clear yet. re molly - yeah I think i'm a bit anti-weasley. Maybe i have something subconscious against gingers that I wasn't aware of. I just seem to end up being rather cruel and insulting to everyone in the family. This was the first time I killed Molly though, I think. Usually Ron and Ginny end up bearing the brunt of my ire. I'm going to TRY to write a story in which they aren't demonised. Someday. really. I quite like Luna actually. I think she's very useful. But she is clever and I needed someone that Hermione wouldn't mind TOO much killing. In this story Harry had no godmother (as is usual - godmother and godfather) - just two godfathers, Sirius and Remus. There was no real reason for it I guess. i could have gotten along as well without it. But it's just how it gets arranged in my mind subconsciously. I think I was a bit unfair to Hagrid actually. I don't think he'd actually have ever physically lashed out at Hermione.. And possibly he wouldn't have discussed her down the pub either.. probably. But I gave him a very humane death so i'm not going to feel too bad about it. Poor Minerva should have been so lucky! Yes.... I fully agree. Voldemort knows EXACTLY what makes Hermione tick. He's conditioned much of it himself. She is..useful to him. He is not the type to miscalculate on important matters. Every event is according to HIS plan.. He knew Minerva pretty well. Well enough to have a good idea of the kind of things she might say to Hermione, given the option. PureFaith91 - I'm pleased I managed to move you. I hope the latest chapter doesn't upset you too much (s). Yeah.. I think Hermione would be incredibly upset if she had to lose Voldie forever. Now that she's figured out just how much she would rather be with him. Much more to come. Ok... maybe not seventy chapters of more. but enough more to be significant anyway. DarkLadySnape - Yep, she totally does. Don't worry -you'll get your wish soon. Just don't shoot me. (Precious Mudblood) April - Yay - hope you enjoy the new chapter! Blossoming Art - I'm sorry - I probably WASN'T busy writing when you wrote your review. But i'm kind of somewhat back now. Don't worry Rodolphus isn't gone forever. I'll let you wait and see about the others! It would be a shame to ruin the surprises. Yeah.. I'm more into the cruel than the lovey dovey too. There will be more of that... Sadly - I had initially taken the latest chapter with grindelwald in a completely different direction.. with more of the cruel and nasty - before I blinked and realised that it wasn't anything like i'd written him behaving toward Hermione thusfar. I rewrote half of it. But dont expect him to stay nice. He isn't nice. (Necessary Sacrifices) Keleals - Glad to hear it. Thanks! Paparazzi - I always feel great when someone tells me they joined AF just to review. Good for you! Now you've joined you can get sucked into writing like I did. (g) Sorry i've been dragged off by real life lately. I'll try to update more so you don't have to wait so long. Koolgirl18 - You don't like? How could I have everything end right here?! And you don't really want me to put Harry in Voldemort's grasp just now, do you!? If he got his hands on him, he'd definitely kill him. Oh.. he might think about it for a little while.. but it'd end in Harry croaking. You want me to do that to the poor little idiot? Besides.. theres a number of things that have to happen now. Cennaka - Oh don't worry. Dumbledore knew exactly where Harry was. But he also wants Hermione back. She is observably very useful to Voldemort. With some tweaking, she would be very useful to the order - i.e. him, too. He had the perfect opportunity to have Draco under his thumb and possibly replace Severus who he lost.. then it got better when the two tried to run. He knew Harry couldn't get out and therefore allowed it, hoping for exactly what occurred. Voldemort was foolish enough to bring Hermione with him to the edge of the wards. Dumbledore very nearly got her back AND managed to sabotage Severus' mind in the process. Pity he lost the thing he needed most by losing track of what was happening to Harry. Iheartskittles - Thanks! good to hear! Sarahdaye9 - pleased you like it. I think hermione really actually deserves what happened to her. She was an idiot who was nearly captured because she didn't listen and didn't pay attention and certainly didn't react quickly enough. April - At the moment, I think Tom would still see more value in simply killing harry than using him against Dumbledore. After all - he can destroy Dumbledore himself but the only one who can vanquish the dark lord is Harry, ostensibly. Why take the risk?! (The First Horcrux) Thank you so much to Romanticfae, RAVEN and mrequecky! (New Skin) Thanks again Romanticfae and Warriorbookwyrm. Cinder1013 - its hard to tell. Harry is not entirely stupid in this story. He might have real feelings.. then again he does need something from Tom. And we saw the extent he was willing to go to to get what he wanted from Draco. Who knows at this point?! (That which we make for ourselves) Tacita18 - sorry about that. I had some real life issues drag me away from the computer. I've been promising an update on this story for ages now it seems like. I keep getting dragged back to one of the other stories. But i'll try to update today. Hopefully you haven't become totally disillusioned and given up.
  23. Hi everyone I just want to apologise for the long delays in updating. Its been a bit real-life-intruding-ish. I don't want to be a major downer so I won't go into detail. I had job interviews, finals and my mother is now in hospital with a life threatening condition. Now with the canterbury earthquake (many of my friends live there - I lived there myself up till about a year ago) it's all been a bit stressful and I haven't had time or energy to dedicate to writing as I previously had done. I will update everything.. except the first horcrux and new skin possibly... tonight or tomorrow I think. All the chapters for everything else are almost ready. CrazySue - I just got your messages - if you're reading this - Sorry, I wasn't snubbing you or anything. i just didn't check this forum for a while due to aforementioned issues. I'm really pleased you're enjoying the stories. You brightened my day! Everyone else who has reviewed. You are all awesome and I really appreciate your feedback!! I'll get back to y'all soon! M.
  24. @ Nerys I can't... I'm somehow still bummed out about the poor quality of PM and the perfectly valid critique I got and its kind of getting in the way of my motivation to write. I've written half a chapter on new skin.. half a chapter on that which we make, half a chapter on PM and I have a chapter of Necessary sacrifices sitting waiting but I'm just full of meh. I've been reading a really exhorbitantly long Snarry fic and distracting myself instead of writing. I'm supposed to be packing my stuff to move tomorrow.. (sigh).. @ everyone else who reviewed for anything - you all rock. thank you massively. Especially Koolgirl, tesgura and unneeded - and anyone else who inexplicably hasnt flashed to the top of my memory right now who I nonetheless really appreciated hearing from. Koolgirl - re betaing. Fully up for that. However I'll try to get a chapter of everything updated before I maybe send you something, ok? Otherwise i guess it will be even longer before anyone can read any more. So.. early next week? I have a lot on till monday afternoon so probably not a lot will happen before then.
  25. Queenruby - I'll try. I tend to kind of veer away from writing on a given story after a negative review. When I do write in that state - I end up trying to 'fix' everything that has been criticised. PM would be finished now if I'd given over to that urge last time - and you probably wouldn't have liked where I took it in the end. Incidentally - I'm LOVING the plague. Gosh that sentence sounds so wrong somehow. You updated twice today. I was ON that within minutes - keep writing please!! Your brand of sexual tension is so addictive!!
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