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Once upon a time, I did a mini fill for the Dresden Files Kink Meme for a prompt that requested the whole cast as wizards at Hogwarts. And then I did a follow up, and another follow up, and maybe it got a tiiiiiiny bit out of hand. In all honesty, this needs a good edit, and at some point in the well intentioned future, I may do that and AO3 it. For the time being, in case anyone wants slightly easier access than trawling back through various posts on the meme, I’ve stuck it together on my journal.

The Hogwarts verse
Rating: PG-13
Word Count: 26000
Pairing/Character(s): Harry and John mainly, alongside quite a lot of the main cast.
Warnings: Potential liberties taken with HP verse elements, themes of bigotry regarding blood ‘purity’ as in HP verse. Rather a bit of swearing. Many words of fic in which not all that much actually happens.
Summary: Harry gets his Hogwarts letter. Featuring Harry Dresden as the world’s friendliest Hufflepuff, and Marcone the angry Slytherin.

( Harry at Hogwarts )

I feel like I have spent THIS ENTIRE DAY on the cusp of a sneeze. I kind of want to itch the inside of my face. Ew.

Anyway, an Id-fluff ficlet brought to you by my need for a brain cleanser on my lunch break.

1057 words of Hendricks and Gard playfighting, because that is my favourite. Matureish, no warnings required, sexual situations but no sex, build-up-but-cut-to-black-fic.

( Fiiiiiiiiic )

Crossposts: http://grenegome.livejournal.com/15991.html

Just finished reading the latest Dresden Files book, and my post-read flail is below the cut. I strongly recommend going in unspoiled, so look away now if you haven’t finished.

( Spoilers spoilers no really spoilers )

Crossposts: http://grenegome.livejournal.com/15640.html

In my request for prompts to write on the train, Luce asked for 'Epistolary sequel to the bonnet fic'. Here's a G rated no-warnings required ficlet that will make absolutely no sense unless you've already read Buckets of Bonnets.

( Epistolary Bonnets )

Crossposts: http://grenegome.livejournal.com/15535.html

In my request for prompts to write on the train, Binz asked for ‘Hendricks driving the Blue Beetle. For Reasons.’ Here’s a G-rated, no warnings required ficlet

( My two favorite allies )

Crossposts: http://grenegome.livejournal.com/15146.html

Title: A Little Touch of Harry in the Night
Fandom: Dresden Files
Rating: Explicit
Word Count: 1999
Pairing/Character(s): Harry Dresden/John Marcone
Notes: Written for the sleepy/unconscious square of kink bingo.
Warnings: None applicable.
Summary: Harry has had a long few days. Marcone helps him relax.

Crossposts: http://grenegome.livejournal.com/14582.html

I’ve spent the weekend gallivanting around my old university town with some friends I’ve not seen in aaaaages, and the last couple of days pottering about the peak district in an inept, city dweller fashion (why did no-one tell me cows were that intimidating?), so this is a slightly belated post! But, for Podtogether 2012, this is my reading of New Age, by Binz and Shiplizard:

Title: New Age
Author:

binz

shiplizard
Reader:

Grenegome
Author’s Rating: Teen
Word Count: 2148
Time: 0:13:13
Pairing/Character(s): Anastasia Luccio/Sigrun Gard
Author’s Summary: The story of Alicia Nelson as told by Captain Luccio (who was sent into her body) to Sigrun Gard (who chooses the slain) and what came of Luccio thereafter.

Fic and Podfic at AO3

Concrit totally welcomed, I have no idea what I'm doing when it comes to podfic, except for enjoying myself, which is probably an important way of measuring success anyway.

Crossposts: http://grenegome.livejournal.com/14141.html

Fic! And podfic! Tasty, tasty podfic!

This was fun to write, and even more fun to listen to :-) As part of Podtogether 2012, I’ve written a fic for Binz to podfic, and Binz and Shiplizard have written a fic for me to podfic. Podficcing is a pretty new arena for me, and listening to Binz read is alllllll kinds of cool. Go, download, enjoy! Binz is listed as an author on the AO3, so she’ll get notifications for any podfic feedback you’d like to leave :-)

Title: Idle Fancy
Author:

Grenegome
Reader:

binz
Fandom: Dresden Files
Rating: Teen and Up Audiences
Word Count: 5786
Time: 40 minutes
Pairing/Character(s): Sigrun Gard/Nathan Hendricks, John Marcone
Notes: Written for Podtogether 2012, and the vanilla square of Kink Bingo Round Five.
Warnings: None applicable.
Summary: Hendricks gets rescued. Gard has a birthday. There is wooing.

Fic and Podfic at AO3

Crossposts: http://grenegome.livejournal.com/14011.html

Title: Home Brew
Fandom: Dreden Files
Rating: Teen and Up
Word Count: 2997
Pairing/Character(s): John Marcone/Harry Dresden, Bob
Notes: Written as a pinch hit for the Dresden Ficathon for

rubygirl29 . Thank you to Binz for a super beta at short notice, and Cyprinella who fields my “Is this phrase British?! How does America work?!” questions with great patience <3 Remaining errors and oddities are my own.
Warnings: Passing references to sex, swearing.
Summary: Harry and John spend a lazy Sunday brewing up trouble.

At the AO3

Crossposts: http://grenegome.livejournal.com/12424.html

Rounding up some more fic links for meme fills. Previous posts are here and here.

( Fic Below )

Crossposts: http://grenegome.livejournal.com/12156.html

Another link round up for my kink meme fills! Part 1 is here.

Conclusions from looking at the below 1) RIDICULOUS. 2) I have impulse control problems for prompts that look cracky/could plausibly involve Hendricks 3) I should totally be a bit more adventurous when exploring pairings.

( Kink Under the Cut )

When you see this, post a snippet from your works-in-progress.

Contents of my G-docs WIPs. This omits the things I have written in notepads, because that way lies madness.

WIPs

Filename: Vadderung/Harry
( aka, a sequel to my Vaddderung/Harry fill on the kink meme, probably better titled Vadderung/Harry/Marcone )

Filename: Don’t Blink Chap 1
( aka that genderswap fic. Snippet contains no actual genderswap )

Filename: Authority!Figure-OriginalLuccio
( aka, uh, this was supposed to be for kink bingo and seems to be pretty much finished, why isn’t it posted? )

Abandoned things that I doubt will get written:

Filename: Control (...this has no bearing on what’s actually inside it)
( aka a sequel to my fill on the kink meme where Harry and John meet before John takes over the city )

Filename: Harry/omc
( aka, I think this was supposed to be about Harry experimenting with a guy who moves back to Chicago after breaking up with his own scary mafia boyfriend in another city and Marcone quietly turning green with jealousy and the omc noticing and trying not to panic... I have no idea )

Filename: Somebodyplaysthem
( aka someone tries to force the Endgame between Harry and Marcone, but they aren’t that dumb )

Oh my god, I think the kink meme ate my brain. And as I’m now at the stage where I’m *forgetting* what I’ve written, I wanted to write myself a nice list for reference. Blanket spoiler warning for everything Dresden Files related ever because I’m lazy.

And I’m popping the links below a cut due to sexual references in the summaries.

( Fics Ahoy! )

I am a little late in bidding farewell to 2010 and hello to 2011, but if we begin years as we mean to go on, then late and disorganised is probably a fairly accurate start to 2011. 2010 was pretty good to me. I did fairly well at work, I’ve fallen in with a group of people whose company I find a hilarious joy, and I’ve enjoyed being myself with enthusiasm. Here’s to continuing in that vein.

In the fannish arena, I got a hell of a lot more active. At the start of 2010, I tripped over the Mentalist kink meme, worked up the nerve to post, and then discovered prompts were awesome. I picked up the Dresden Files, devoured the books, fell for Dresden/Marcone, devoured the fic, and then had fun writing my own. I learned to beta, and might be having a little bit too much fun doing so.

My minor victory for 2011 is that today I just finished the (very very rough) first draft of a Harry/Marcone genderswap fic whose tentative title is Don’t Blink, You Might Miss (I hate choosing titles so much). It currently clocks in at around 49000 words, which once upon a time might have brought me out in a panicky fit of what are you doing?! But now I just take a peek at

lucia_tanaka 's word count and it seems a lot more manageable :-D DBYMM still needs a lot of work doing before it gets anywhere near a beta.

To make these musings post-worthy, here’s a Dresden/Marcone established-relationship drabble written while I was voice finding for their particular brand of contentious domesticity. Set up is that Harry is temporarily staying at Marcone’s and for reasons that don’t need exploring at this juncture, he’s brought Mister and Mouse:

( Tiny PG-13 snippet of fic )

More self indulgent witterings. So, I am writing something, and apparently it is long, and this is a first for me, as I don't usually have the patience/stamina/skill for this kind of writing.

( Cut to save your flist from my ficcish musing )

So, in brief: LALALAHHHHHHH I HAVE NO IDEA WHAT I'M DOING.

p.s While I'm here, anyone know if there's a default font size for LJ posts? Because I keep copying over chunks of text from whatever I've been working on a post in without really thinking about the font, and it's made my LJ look kind of messy, with obvious jumps between font style and sizes between posts. I think it's Verdana I want to be using, but the point size escapes me. I suppose I can arbitrarily settle on a size for myself, but I like to know these things.

This post is me wittering on about my fic. About posting, writing, prompts, commenting, kink memes and kink bingo. Mostly Dresden Files with a pit stop for the Mentalist:

I hate posting fic. Not in a will people like this/will they comment kind of way, but in a copypasting/remember the headings/is this too long for the character limit/where do I put a chapter break/remember to link to all the chapters/have I done the cut-tag right/what the hell size font is this/oh crap tags kind of way. Essentially, it’s fiddly, and I’m a deeply lazy person with a fundamental objection to the kind of careful checking I need to do to make sure I don’t cock everything up. And sometimes I cock it up anyway :-D

I’ve been wondering if posting to the AO3 instead would solve some of this fussing (I’ve never tried it, but if it’s set up by fans specifically for the purpose of posting fic, it MUST be more user friendly). But I have a sneaking suspicion that people comment less there? (And I’m a shameless comment whore, regardless of content. Seriously, you can just be pointing out I’ve abused punctuation and I’ll light up.) I may be entirely misguided in that assumption though. But the kind of commenting I like, that can segue off topic into fannish squee about something completely irrelevant, I kind of feel I shouldn’t indulge in that there. Because it isn’t a blogging forum, it’s an archive for stories and feedback on those stories. I think. Perhaps people do use it in this way and I just haven’t hung out there enough to notice.

I shall continue in my pondering.

Ficcishness

My Redjohnloves you fic seems to actually be done on time. Which is a little, well, scary to be honest. I’m amused that I wrote for the prompt that I took one look at and thought “can’t do that”. Except I kept coming back to the idea. And poking it. And then somehow it got written.

( Ramblings on writing to prompts and kink bingo under the cut )

Slightly overexcited to receive my copy of Dark and Stormy Knights today, as I've been looking forward to reading Jim Butcher's short story from John Marcone's POV like you wouldn't believe.

I REALLY enjoyed this. I was worried I might have hyped it up to myself too much for it to be anything but an anti-climax, but it rocked.

A slightly rambling response to the story lurks under the cut. As well as spoilers for Even Hand, there's an allusion to White Night.

In no particular order:

( Spoilers spoilers spoilers )

Title: Twist and Shout (2/2)

Fandom: The Dresden Files

Rating: NC-17

Pairing: Harry/Marcone

Warnings: Swearing, sex.

Spoilers: Up to Small Favor.

Disclaimer: These aren't my characters, I'm only playing with them.

Summary: Harry's kind of bad at taking things slow. (Or: Flirt, flirt, flirt. Sex.)

Notes: This follows on from A Hard Day's Night, and With a Little Help From My Friends. It picks up about a minute after the end of the latter.

Huge thank yous to

beachkid for being a fantastic beta and being generally awesome. Remaining errors and oddities are my own.

Concrit: Welcomed. I'm off on my hols from Tuesday, so if you don't get a response for a week I'm not being rude!

Wordcount:10146

Part 1
( Part 2 )

Title: Twist and Shout (1/2)

Fandom: The Dresden Files

Rating: NC-17

Pairing: Harry/Marcone

Warnings: Swearing, sex.

Spoilers: Up to Small Favor.

Disclaimer: These aren't my characters, I'm only playing with them.

Summary: Harry's kind of bad at taking things slow. (Or: Flirt, flirt, flirt. Sex.)

Notes: This follows on from A Hard Day's Night, and With a Little Help From My Friends. It picks up about a minute after the end of the latter.

Huge thank yous to

beachkid for being a fantastic beta and being generally awesome. Remaining errors and oddities are my own.

Concrit: Welcomed. I'm off on my hols from Tuesday, so if you don't get a response for a week I'm not being rude!

Wordcount:10146

( Part 1 )
Part 2

Title: Breaking Curses, The Traditional Way
Rating: PG-13
Fandom: The Dresden Files
Pairing: Harry/Marcone
Warnings: Language, blasphemy
Spoilers: One for White Night, if you read between the lines.
Disclaimer: As you suspected, I do not own the Dresden Files.
Summary: Faeries should not be allowed to read fairy tales.
Notes: This is unbeta'd, as it's short and was intended as an excercise in writing Marcone's POV, but then I realised people might enjoy it anyway.
Concrit: Very welcome.
Word Count: 988

I sat down with the intention of working on bits of a sequel to my earlier fic, but started messing around and came up with this instead.

( Fic Below )