Title: Remus Lupin and the Possibility of Snow White's Face Being Marred Beyond All Reason.
Author: i_dreadtothink
Pairing: Remus/Sirius
Rating: R overall
Word Count: 1752/??
Genre: Humor/Romance
Chapter: 2/??
Summary: Or, why Remus Lupin punched Sirius Black in the face.
Warnings: LOTS of swearing, Quills being harmed, more angst, Sirius being a tease
Notes:I'm having so much fun with this. So. Much. Fun. I have a LOT planned. Enjoy! :)
Disclaimer: Not mine.

In Which Remus Lupin Breaks His Quill and Sirius Black is Steve Irwin

http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/science/nature/8359744.stm

There was supposed to have been an actual post here, but I lost track of time and only had time to post an article. There may be a bit of rambling a little later tonight.

She has him on the View for her birthday...

He's not going with All My Children to California...

He's John Barrowman's friend too :P

The thing is, these days because of "Underworld", "The Vampire Chornicles", "The Vampire Diaries", "True Blood", "Angel", "Twilight" and the other titles that in any way involve "vampires" in any way, be it movie, comic book, book or TV show, people love vampires or hate vampires.

When they hate vampires it's becasue the vampires got too popular to be interesting. Two, three years ago vampires weren't so popular, and it was what was cool about them. Now characters that I don't consides as "real" vampires, like Selene, Michael, Edward and the others appear and poeple think that if these characters are "clueless, and act stupid" all vampires are like that. And these are NOT MY WORDS - I've checked out plenty communities and fansites to find out what poeple think of 'vampires", these days. And the thing is - most poeple think vampires are the most stupid, silly, worthless creatures ever... and ONLY becasue of how media portray them in the newest productions - I'm talking mostly about "Twilight" here. People start to bash them, becasue of the image that was created by media and they don't even try to find out these good, by true vampires (I'm taling about Dracula vampire types here!) that are worth of the attention, that the story of vampires is worth of chaking out, and I mean the older portrayals of vampires here, who are not so popular, but more true and more intersting from these we see now.

I hate Edward Cullen because this guy made poeple crazy. Becasue of him poeple call my OC who is half-vampire STUPID, just bacaouse he's a vampire! They look at him like they'd look at Edward - "stupid, sparkly emo guy" (as Edward was described by anonymous person on Edward-bashing site). My Mephisto has SIX years. I created him in 2003. Vampires were NOT very popular then, and most poeple didn't even know this whole Edward so how can they damnit compare these two? >.>

I hate "Twilight" for making poeple crazy. I'm going to hug my awesome OCs. See you.

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Title: Remus Lupin and the Possibility of Snow White's Face Being Marred Beyond All Reason.
Author: i_dreadtothink
Pairing: Remus/Sirius
Rating: R overall. PG-13 this part.
Word Count: 991/???
Genre: Humor/Romance
Chapter: 1/??
Summary: Or, why Remus Lupin punched Sirius Black in the face.
Warnings: Swearing, brief sexual content and implied sex, teenage angst, incoherent thoughts, overall ridiculousness.
Notes: Normally, I'm not a fan of Gryffinwhore!Sirius...but in this case, I was glad to toss aside my usual idea of Sirius for this fic. :)
Disclaimer: DO NOT OWN!!! D:

The First Journal Entry: In Which Remus Lupin Refers to Himself in the Third Person.

So, I'm writing more and more Glee posts. Awesome, isn't it?
So, let's get it started:

( Glee Ep. 1.09 )

Since it's been some time since I've made any recs list, so here is one Colby Granger/Charlie Eppes from "Numb3rs" ^^
These two really need more attention.


( Recs - Behind the Cut )

EDIT@08:16 UTC/GMT. Wow. That was ugly. I expected it to go for 30 minutes and have maybe 1 minute of broken connectivity. Instead it lasted over 4 hours and we had 10 minutes of downtime directly related to the load balancer upgrades and then another 5-10 minutes of downtime when our primary Pingback database server crashed and the secondary couldn't take over; which could have been indirectly caused by the network upgrade missing a self-VIP.

Anyways, we're up, we're working, the load balancers are barely breaking a sweat right now and I need some food and a shot of whiskey. I don't even *like* whiskey!!

Thanks mhwest and dnewhall for helping out!

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On Saturday the 14th at 4AM UTC/GMT we will be upgrading the operating system of our network load balancers to a newer version, one that will allow us to use both CPUs! Nifty, because multiprocessing is nice.

Since we have 2 load balancers, the plan is to upgrade 1 at a time, and there really should be very little impact to our website. Hopefully you won't notice a thing and I'll get to go back to the hotel and watch some wonderful late night infomercials.

We've got a lot of exciting projects coming up for 2010 and we're hoping that we'll be able to deliver them all to you, that you will find it useful/cool/lovely and then you will use the site even more. Behind-the-scenes work like this will give us the capacity to handle the anticipated traffic, so expect a few more maintenance windows especially in the beginning of next year as we've got some neat ideas to improve performance around here! We had the recent 30-45 minute outage yesterday due to one of our logging databases filling up disk space -- not so great design coupled with my human error in handling the initial problem -- and it looks like we're going to finally have some resources to eliminate stuff like that. I can't wait!

As usual, I will be updating status.livejournal.org before and after, just in case you are not able to reach our main website during the work.

Title: Winter Wonderland
Author: batmanboxers [Sarah]
Pairing: Remus/Sirius
Rating: PG-13
POV: Third
Word Count: 700
Summary: Sirius struts from beneath the canopy and leans against a very straggly looking tree, watching his boyfriend with mild amusement.
Disclaimer: I am not JKR
Warnings: Mild swearing
Author Notes: This was written for sopdetly to cheer her up. I hope you like it lovely :3 :3

His face is flushed from the cold and his hair has become a sort of fuzzy halo that Remus itches to run his fingers through.

Your results:
You are Leonard McCoy (Bones)

Leonard McCoy (Bones) 65% Will Riker 65% Uhura 45% Jean-Luc Picard 45% Beverly Crusher 45% Deanna Troi 45% Chekov 40% James T. Kirk (Captain) 30% An Expendable Character (Redshirt) 30% Spock 29% Data 22% Worf 20% Mr. Scott 15% Mr. Sulu 0% Geordi LaForge 0%

You are a pessimistic and bitter doctor, but you are skilled in the ways of medicine and science.

Click here to take the "Which Star Trek character are you?" quiz...

Title: I Think I Love You
Authors: ginsygee
Rating: PG-13
Fandom: Harry Potter
Pairing: Remus/Sirius
Summary: An incredibly fluffy one-shot. Night time MWPP era.
Author's Note: The start of moving things to this new comm. Comments are love. Please, also check out our community. <3

Link: I Think I Love You

Title: Sleepyhead
Artist: celestialsoda
Character: Remus
Rating: gen
Notes: Just a sketch - both digital and natural media...


( Sleepyhead )


(my server crashed, so I've deleted the old entry and re-uploaded the image to a different host - hope everyone can see it now!)

Title: The Prisoner's Remorse
Author: miss_morland
Pairings: Remus/Sirius, Dumbledore/Grindelwald
Rating: PG-13
Warnings (highlight to view): Angst, mind-fuck.
Wordcount: ~ 14 000 words
Summary: After Sirius Black's betrayal, Professor Dumbledore finds work for Remus Lupin as a prison guard in Nurmengard, where there are quite a few things to be learned.
Author's Notes: Written for the ownficfest, although I'd had the idea for quite a long time before that -- originally posted here. Many thanks to aurora_knight for carefully beta-reading the whole thing!

"It is a steady job, Remus. You will be handsomely paid for a year -- if you are careful with the money, it will sustain you for quite a bit of time after your tenure. There is nobody there who knows you, nobody to remind you of the past. Think of it as a chance to get away for a time, to clear your mind."

Megan likes random posts:

I love femaleshinigami and andrea_deer. And Supernopoly.

How not to love Mark and Chris? <3 I think I'm in love with this vid. Mark/Chris, Kevin/Jenna... :3 Don't care how many poeple saw this already :P

My wizard rock band, The First Task Is Dragons, has a new Sirius/Remus song up called "Morning Light." We've also got another one called "Old Married Madness." You can listen to both here:

http://www.myspace.com/thefirsttaskisdragons

You can also download Slash Bash, the album that has "Old Married Madness", for free, here:

http://www.mediafire.com/thefirsttaskisdragons

No picture of my bruise today! I figure you guys are as sick of watching it change color as I am. It still hurts. It's still swollen, but not quite as Popeye-ish as it was on Friday. The arnica gel seems to be working. Unfortunately I didn't get to show off my battle scars at work today because one of my co-workers got her tires slashed just down the street from the school and I am no longer the drama du jour. Oh well. ;)

I discovered today that Build-A-Bear has Star Wars stuff! Dude. I think Ryan Bear needs a Jedi outfit! :D

I've been doing a lot of knitting lately. I'm short on funds this year, so I think a lot of holiday gifts are going to be handmade. I'm taking advantage of a short break in my classes to get as much done as I can!

As I've been knitting, I've been watching a lot of DVDs. I've been on a zombie movie kick lately. Gee, I wonder why. ;) Can't wait until Star Trek comes out so I can obsessively watch all the special features.

Speaking of Star Trek, Anton Yelchin did a yummy outdoor photoshoot for a magazine recently. Goodness, the boy is pretty! He's really starting to get his man-face.

( My favorites from the shoot are under the cut. )


And here's a video that I can't stop watching! The baby's laugh is infectious and the dog is so gentle and sweet.

Title: What Veritaserum did for Remus Lupin
Author: mezzopianoforte
Pairing: Remus/Sirius
Rating: PG-13/R
Word Count: er about 1500 for this one
Summary: It's awkward all right - a month after Remus' revelation, Sirius decides to just go for it.
Disclaimer: not mine, sob
Author Notes: IMPORTANT: If you want to read this, you'll have to add me as a friend so I can put you in my custom Harry Potter friends list heh - I want some slightly more smutty stuff f-locked but I'm pretty sure some of my flist won't appreciate the Harry Potter stuff :x I'll add you back immediately, no need to comment or anything ^-^

http://mezzopianoforte.livejournal.com/4527.html#cutid1

Title: Crazy Little Thing Called Love
Author: batmanboxers [Sarah]
Pairing: Remus/Sirius
Rating: PG-13
POV: Third
Word Count: 2,360
Summary: Sirius is so close to him and Remus desperately wants to reach out and take his hand, find some contact, but he can’t.
Disclaimer: I am not JKR
Author Notes: This is absolutely horrible but I wanted to write something to cheer my good friend soda_and_capes. He is brilliant and needs more marriage in his life, ilu! ♥

Sirius seems to read his mind though, because when the church turns to watch Lily step through, he drags a thumb down the inside of Remus’s palm.

I'm having a shit day... Not because of anything specific, just my mood in general, and I actually got called for two interviews... I didn't think that was possible, not today anyway.

Right now I am searching for a torrent of This is It... I can't open the one uploaded on LJ grrrrrrrrrrrrrrr.... Surprisingly (at least for me), I really liked it... MJ was super skinny at the end, which really emphasized the size of his hands (they actually looked bigger than JB's :P). It amazed me that he was going full out for the rehearsals and he was almost perfect... He was so nice to everybody (demanding, but nice), he did look sick, though. I've also been thinking about it, he couldn't have bleached his skin that colour... Who would want to be that white? He didn't look caucasian white, he looked chalk white, which is in no way a natural colour... I just... Wow...

Remember the nationwide contest I was talking about a week ago? Well, I just officially signed in. I'm still nervous as hell, but I'll stay hopeful. I already have 300 words out of 8500. I'm good :P I told my teacher about it. And you know what she said? "Keep writing, becasue I think I've found another contest you might enter. I'll give you more details later."
She's just... I can't find the right word now. She think's it's funny XD Yeah well, I was laughing with her and we spent 15 minutes of free time on talking about contests, lessons and other funny things like if I should give up on other lessons becasue of the writing *lol* I like this option, even if it's totally not possible to avoid all the other lessons in geodesy school.

Anyway, I want to thank you all for the support. I really needed it. I'm still not sure if I'll be able to write a good contest entry, but I may at least try.

I wondered if I can ask for your help from time to time, my dear f-list? Mostly with ideas and such... it'll mean a lot to me ^^

EDIT: I've just read the rules of this contest and you know what? It has to have max 9000 LETTERS, not words! *lol* My teacher is sneaky... she just wanted to scare me or something. I'll told her that tomorrow XD

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