my hp_toujours gift got posted yesterday and since i can't even check my own flist properly, i read it almost a day late.

all right with me, james/regulus, pg-13. Timing. To achieve the right reaction in Potions, timing was everything.

SQUISHABLE REGULUS IS SQUISHABLE. and james is exasperating like only himself can be, but still squishable. a short fic designed to induce happy warm fuzzies. i know who the author is, and she rocks at writing the pairing. go read! :]

a belated birthday gift from fera_festiva: steampunk crossover art! tonks vs morgana swordfight! you know you wanna look.

music rec! 22by7 linked me to supernova kiss by nullsleep AND I FELL IN LOVE. it makes my little gamer heart happy. i've downloaded everything i could get from his website.

• i read hp fic today!! no man has ever, james/regulus, pg-13. by duck_or_rabbit. go read, it's only 1100 words. she writes the pairing like no one else i know.

• i got myself a flickr account. my username is -- don't roll your eyes at me -- headtilt. WHAT. I ADMIT I'M OBSESSED. anyway, i'm going through my photo folders right now to see what's good enough for uploading.

taking a break from the merlin and the angel!porn to bring you recs.

• naughty naughty james/regulus spanking!porn that red_squared wrote for me!

• two fantastic harry pieces by slanted_edges, PGish.

• dead man's robes by scat_catt, a haunting r/s fic set during DH, pre-r/t marriage.

recs from a bunch of places, including the kink meme. this is mostly for gryffindor_j, because she said she was interested and i said i would do it.

( recs: r/s, h/d, others )

woldy wrote me a lovely drabble! which i had completely forgot i had requested, but hey, even better, because it was a surprise. :D

'cos rules are made to be...
For James, it's the lure of the forbidden. james/regulus, nc-17. and how right is that summary.

guess who's finally working on their springsmut assignment. OH YEAH. i'm working sort of simultaneously with that h/d sketch i posted (which i had to re-draw because the original was one of the few things in my fanart folder i didn't back up. that slowed me down considerably). the h/d is looking way more tempting than the springsmut one, mainly because it's so much simpler. i don't know why i get myself into these problems, guys. ahhh.

i don't know how much i can talk about it, but i'll say two things:
-it involves more than two people
-one of the characters involved is one i've never drawn before. the others i have, just not often.

if you want to guess, give it a try! it's not like everyone and their grandma's pet cat won't be able to tell it's mine once it's posted. i can screen comments. and, you know, not tell you if you got it right or not. 8]

i still want to play mario kart a lot, though. and red steel. i should be better at it now that i've figured out the wiimote. we won't talk about the disaster that was my first attempt at that game.

other things. i found fleshdress's fic masterlist, which was great because when i tried to look for the fics directly in her lj there was some weird bug or something that directed me to a completely different post when i clicked on the cut. idek.

i finally could read this fic which i'd been wanting to for ages because YAY 4 crossgen!r/s, r/s with an age difference is my strange r/s kink and it's sort of hard to find, especially actual cross-gen. and also this one which, haha, reminded me that i had a thing for boys wearing girls' underwear, and this other one which is james/reg and hilarious, and yet another one that is AU and also james/reg and hilarious and hot and a bit adorable.

oh, and this other j/r (omg so happy -- me, not the fic) and lastly a nice bit of zelda gen (link, majora's mask) and this other hilarious link/sheik thing which cracks me up with every re-read.

today i woke up to a lovely surprise.

winkout drew me james/regulus!! as if i didn't have enough reasons to fangirl her already. it's so wonderful, please go check it out! (rated G) <3

some more recs from hp_yule_balls before they post the reveals.

( remus/sirius, harry/draco, james/regulus and more )

melusinahp wrote me another reg/james gift drabble :D the shiplove! it spreads like an STD!

madness, R. hot and desperate and so much internal conflict. i love this so. short, but packs a punch. :D

♥ thank you so much melusina! ♥ (yes, i *am* having too much fun with font colors, why do you ask)


FTLOG i really need an icon of these two but i have no icons and no space. :│

GUYS

GUYS

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carmine_ink wrote me the most wonderful james/regulus ficlet inspired by my art!!

a war of little kings, PG-13

i'm so, so sorry i didn't comment sooner, i completely missed it when reading my flist!

thank you so much! ♥♥♥

Several pairings. Some old, some new.

• What Is a Library For? by anonymous at hp_summersmut. Tonks/Percy, NC-17.
When Tonks and Percy are accidentally trapped in a Ministry library, they find ways to keep themselves occupied.

Funny, hot, playful and wonderful characterizations, particularly Percy (boy's got it going on!) This is my first Percy/Tonks fic and, honestly, thanks to this fic, I find myself shipping them a little. :D The best part is probably the little "I've had sex in a weirder place than you" competition that goes on right before the sex scene.

• Winter Come and Gone (People are Strange when You're a Stranger Remix) by melusinahp. Harry/Sirius, R.
Harry helps Sirius understand that there are fates worse than death.

I've said this before, but i have a difficult relationship with this pairing. As an abstract the idea is somewhat interesting, but most of the fic makes me sick in some way or other, no matter how well-written. This is not true for this one, which could sound weird, because the relationship here is anything but happy or loving or even barely functional. But that's how I like my Harry/Sirius.
This is a resurrection fic. Harry brings back a Sirius with no memories of his life, and nothing Harry does or shows him can get through to him (pensieve memories, photos, lust-inducing potions). Harry is desperate, damaged and obsessive, not realizing that he's holding Sirius prisoner in 12GP again. Sirius is... empty. there's no other word to describe him. All I wanted for him in this fic was death, again, to let him go back and rest. And I wanted to shake Harry and yell at him. I also detected a minuscule hint of R/S that I'm probably hallucinating, but that I liked anyway. ;]

• Untitled by losselen (the author is no longer active in LJ). Remus/Sirius, R.
Sirius comes back. With dementia praecox.

Another "Sirius comes back wrong" fic. I have this on my AU reclist, but it deserves a separate mention. I usually favor a more straightforward style, but here the language ("crack-floating-surrealist style" as one commenter put it) creates images that are as disturbing as they are beautiful (such as the ones referring to Sirius's appearance), and well worth the read. Note that, like the one above, this does not end with sunshine and happiness.

• Not Ever Coming Back by derryere. Regulus/James, R (for language)
In which James writes a letter and Regulus is constantly most decisively not ever coming back.

Poor James trying to be a dick, trying to not care and not quite managing it, and poor Regulus being emo and immature, jealous and troubled, threatening to go away forever and not quite managing it -- until he does. And James is at a loss. I loved seeing Regulus through James's eyes (I cracked up at several points in the story). To save you any possible confusion, the fic goes backwards in time, and the fate of the locket isn't canon-compliant.

• The "Things" Series by freudian_fuckup. Remus/Sirius, PG-13, later R.

What can I say about this? Both boys are so adorable and awkward and horny and complicated and frustrating and slightly crazy. Absurdly funny at times, amazingly introspective at some other times, and some other times both at once. I could never tire of this series. It's slightly reminiscent of Shoebox, only better.


rs_games recs maybe tomorrow.