...potions are the only magic...

Because everyone needs one of these, here is Rain's Master List of all Fic works to date. I'll update this as I go along and hopefully it will become a useful tool to point people in the right direction.

Currently unfinished due to the hour and my sleepiness.

Organized by Fandom

Harry Potter

Organized by Pairing

Sirius/Remus
"I'm Sorry" - G
Happy Valentines to my wife - PG-13
First Kiss - Drabble
Letters to a Friend - R


Snape/Sirius
Normal Day - NC-17
A Suggestion - NC-17
Gladly Give It - Hard R/NC-17
While You Weren't Looking (WIP) - R/NC-17

Snape/Remus
Who Is Your Family? - PG-13
First Kiss - Drabble
Here With Me - Drabble
It's cramped in here - Drabble R
Fighting in the Rain - Drabble R
Handmade Presents - Drabble
Lines Across My Face - NC-17 (Snape/Regulus Minor Pairing)
A Stubborn Solution - PG
Not What We Seem - G


Snape/Sirius/Remus
Welcome to Brookwood Manor - NC-17
The Triad Series (WIP) - PG-13/R
That's All Right - Drabble
Untitled - Drabble

Snape/Regulus
First Kiss - Drabble
Lines Across My Face - NC-17 (Snape/Remus Main Pairing)

Snape/Krum
As Good A Start As Any - NC-17

James/Remus
Late Night Fantasies - NC-17

Lucius/Snape
An Answer to the Darkest Times - NC-17

Neville/Draco
First Kiss - Drabble
Untitled - Drabble

Hermione/Tonks
First Kiss - Drabble

Sirius (needs no partner)
Untitled - Drabble



Fruits Basket

Yuki/Hatsuhara
First Kiss - Drabble



Weiss Kreuz

Schuldig/Farfarello
First Kiss - Drabble



Labyrinth

Hoggle
First Kiss - Drabble



Valdemar Series
Untitled - PG-13



Original

Akushin/Pride
Stovetop Popcorn - Drabble

Title: Second Life
Author: nwhiker
Artist: karasu_hime
Pairing: Sirius/Snape

I found this at the bigbangblackout which, because I've been horribly out of touch for such a long time with fandom in general, I completely missed. I went link hopping and fell headfirst into this one after a random click on to 12am_nosh.

The silly story of how I got there aside, this has been so absolutely amazing that I can't really even begin. There was so much honesty and truth in their relationship. Some relationships build quickly in fics, with the rush of sudden and passionate love. This was not the case with this fic, and while there is a great deal of passion (and the obligatory hawt smexy stuff) it's dampened by the horrible reality of the world around them. Years pass and they take the baby steps towards one another.

Really the entire story was amazingly beautiful. That can't be said without saying something nice about Karasu's artwork in the process. I babbled too much in my comment on the lj page, so I'll try to save myself further embarrassment by saying that she did a wonderful job capturing the mood and completely sweet moments of these two together. <3s ^_^

So if I haven't inspired you to read it, then I don't know what's wrong with you. :P



(I really need a good icon for stuff like this...not even a plain old boring Sirius one. O.o)

I didn't realize I missed the RS_Games sign ups this year, but it was probably for the best. So I'll wave my happy Team AU flag with glee. I'm about to squee myself silly knowing that these guys have all the good extra long fics to read. *_* Happy happy happy!

CS Wolfe is a really familiar name. Why do I think someone used it in a fic once?

Why is it that while I know it's not good, I still read it as much as I can?

...what if Voldemort wasn't evil, but just crazy. Multiple personalities...even one that actually hated what he became and what he did with his life.

That would make for an interesting twist. If I can make myself have some free time at some point in the future...I'd actually write something following that idea.

I haven't read Snack in ages...I really LOVE how Voldemort is written in Rats' Alley. Honestly...it's the only pairing that I'm willing to write dark stories for. Well the only one I actively write...never tried it with other possibilities. Regardless...rereading this stuff really just makes me want to write again. And of course...knitting needs to come first, then rebuild MC.com, then there's going to be Snupin Santa, start a freelance portfolio and pick up a few jobs...the list really does go on too long.

Well, I officially have internet at home once again. Yay me. Now...to find something to read. *sweatdrops* I really should be knitting...

Sometimes I look at my life and realize, damn...I need friends. *headdesk*

It's 8:45 PM and I'm about to get kicked out of the library. My laptop no longer has a battery and has to remain plugged in always during use for fear of destroying the hard drive. I'm tired of fighting with my wife when we both know that there are outside problems and we're just snapping at one another in frustration over the things we cannot control. I miss my best friend and he said that he intends to move here, but I have a sneaking suspicion that he isn't going to look for a job and/or will not be able to get one, preventing him from finally moving here and then I'll be without him even more.

I want yarn. Yes, that's what I want. Knitting and yarn will make it all better. *goes to find the pair of socks she was working on*

If Harry Potter was an anime, who would you want to be the seiyuu (voice actor) for Snape?

My pick would have to be Koyasu Takehito. *_* He would be perfect! I'm telling you he'd be great. XD

The first five people to respond to this post will get something made by me! My choice. For you.

This offer does have some restrictions and limitations:

- I make no guarantees that you will like what I make!
- What I create will be just for you, and it will be a one-of-a-kind item.
- It'll be done this year.
- You have no clue what it's going to be. It may be a story, I may bake something, or I may make a craft item - knitting, hand-made cards, cross-stitch - for you something and mail it to you. Who knows? Not you, that's for sure!
- I reserve the right to do something extremely strange.

The catch? Oh, the catch is that if you sign up, you must repost and make the same offer to your flist in return. We can all make stuff!!

It's enough to make me want to bang my head against the wall. I've been having the WORST week. My job isn't as wonderful as I had hoped. I've been a manager for over two months now and I'm still making minimum wage. I've applied for other jobs and gotten some responses and then silence. I hate waiting like this. I've supposedly got another job lined up that I would really like, and I'm just sitting here staring at the phone like it's going to wisk me away to happy land again. >

Wish me good luck. I've been fighting with work and can not manage to hold off any longer. I've got a job interview tomorrow and hopefully another two lined up. Once I can secure a GOOD PAYING JOB, I might be able to have internet at home again. I sound so poor saying that ;_;

I feel the conflicting desire to give up on ever finding something useful in this fandom, burning them all for their stupidity, and wanting to vomit all over everything I see.

WHAT THE F*CK PEOPLE? HARRY/EDWARD CULLEN? *headdesk*

I'm in the mood to blog more again. I think I made the mistake of looking up knitting blogs and oogling all the pretty pictures and whatnot. XD I'm not very interesting in general. *shrugs*

*rubs hands together* Let's see what kind of novel I can put together for you. I'll start with my super *_* news. So the weekend before the holiday was a small convention in Atlanta (Super...something or other that wasn't really all that super). It was essentially a convention about Adult Swim and Anime. Dana Snyder and Doc Hammer are extremely funny so their game show panel amused the crap out of me. XD But that's not even why I went. I went because of this super cool lady...



That is none other than, Samantha Newark. She did the vocals and voice acting for Jem/Jerrica of Jem and the Holigrams. *_* I met her. She signed a CD for me! Heee! She's freaking cute as hell! Of course I stood there in front of her and went completely blank. Thankfully my wife has some sense in her head and said that we loved the concert that she did. (I have pictures but I need to upload them, d'oh!) We (okay mostly my wife and her) chattered for a while and then I shuffled off cursing my wife. She continued to taunt me for the rest of the day about how cute I acted all star struck. :P I should give you and extra large one. :P

If anyone's interested in her CD I'll see about zipping it up and uploading it somewhere. It's all her stuff, but I really wish I could find some of her other stuff now. There's a song that she did at her concert that I LOVED, but its not on her CD. ;_; I just need to convince my wife that it's totally cool for me to download the two covers that she did on iTunes later. ^_^

Okay so in more real life news. I'm almost officially the cafe manager in my store. *dances* I'm so excited. I start this week taking on the duties and then hopefully by the following week I'm going to get to the pay to go with it. *eye rolls* I still have to talk to people about what is going on.

I spent most of the day yesterday trying to make sure that the whole cafe was perfect and I think I managed to make someone just shake their head in confusion or roll their eyes or something where I'm pretty much just annoying. I'm nervous because this is the first time I've been given a management position. I'm trying to ensure that I have everything together and know all of the answers to the 1000001 questions that haven't been answered yet. I'll probably calm down in a bit once I know that I'm not doing too terrible. It also doesn't help that my mind goes faster than the rest of me. I've already been told that I'm "stressing out" but I wasn't exactly given the opportunity to explain that I lost track of where my mind was going because I got distracted and it was frustrating. It's not stressing so much as sighing over my overactive mind. *shrugs*

I'm also back to my knitting! *dances* That's exciting I know. I'm finishing up a lap blanket for a girl that I used to work with. Pretty simple garter box, but it still takes a while to get it finished. XD Then I'm working on a cardi for myself and I really need to start working on a baby blanket for my youngest brother's first. (*insert wangst about not having a baby in my house*)

This is the second time I've attempted to make a cardi for myself. I'm not very varied in my knitting. I've got a ton of hats and scarves in my closet that i've made, but nothing more substantial than that. The biggest project I've completed so far was the baby blanket I made for my middle brother's first kid. I had only done that pattern so that I could outdo my retarded aunt's trapazoid. None of the sides were even and my brother was the one that asked if a blanket was supposed to be like that. (Yes it's terrible to say that about an elder, but she's an alcoholic idiot that's bleeding my uncle dry and is generally not liked by the family.)

The first time I tried to make myself a cardi I lost it. In the worst possible way. I took it with me to the movie theater because I enjoy knitting while I'm watching my movies. Then I...LEFT IT THERE! *wails* I called them the next day but they had already thrown it away. I was so depressed that I didn't touch the thing again. I lost the whole back piece and I just didn't have it in me to go back and finish it. I will be going back I think once I finish my second attempt, because I'm having way too much fun doing this.

I'm about halfway finished with the back piece of my new cardi. It's got a cute eyelet pattern on it, but I've already decided against going with most of the pattern. The bottom and the sleeves have ribbing and I just don't like ribbing so much. I did the bottom of mine as moss stitch and then the body is supposed to be reverse St st and I said ick and will just sew it all together on the other side. It'll look nicer that way. Or at least I'll like it better that way. Maybe next time I'll try out the ribbing, but it just doesn't do much for me. Of course there's also the obvious difference of materials. I'm using Red Heart again and I can hear the chorus of screaming knitters from all over. I just don't see why it matters so much. Yeah sure it would feel nicer to knit with something softer, but it won't make my wallet feel better. I can't bring myself to spend $60 just to make a cardigan. Hello? For that I'll go get one at Kohl's for $20. In fact, I'll get three and spend the same amount. I like knitting and I don't mind using less expensive yarns to make the same nice things that other people enjoy.

That I bring my personal computer to the library and get told that I can't read Snupin because it's considered pornography. >

So...yeah. I was fired from my main job last week. It wasn't completely surprising. I went into work every day fearing that it would happen and it did nothing for my morale or my nerves. So it's done and I feel a huge release of tension. I had a second job so I wasn't going to end up flat on my ass. Just not in a completely good position. I went to my other job and did what I could to let them know that they could schedule me whenever and yaddy yaddy yadda. Well at the end of the week we've suddenly got a change in management and my store manager is telling me that there's a good chance that I'll be promoted now instead of months from now. *dances* This is perfect. It's not what I was getting before really, but it's close. I work for a bookstore and that's what I've wanted the most for the last few years. I'm happy here and I'm ready to kick butt through the holiday season. It'll be a bit rough with the transitions and the new people we're trying to cram in here at the last minute, but who knows. We could have a good season and I could get promoted again in a few months, and I'm just trying to stay positive.

I did finish my Snusa fic and I feel good about it. I'm trying to take a breather and then I'm going to finish my fashion story. I've only been working on it on and off for the last year, so it'll be good to finish it. ^_^ Other than that I'm reading a lot. I've got Richard Belzer's new book I'm Not a Cop and I'm reading Gone With the Wind for the first time. I get easily distracted by other books working here so I never did finish reading Imriel's trilogy. XD Oh well. I've got so many new books to read now that I've been working at the bookstore (yay discounts!!!), I'll never be without a good book again.

I hate Jacob Black. He's almost enough to make me swear of werewolves forever.

*insert chorus of angry Remus-lovers-muses in my head*

I'm almost afraid to start book four. Though I do have the Kushiel series which is making up for it. I'm almost finished re-reading all of Phedre's trilogy and then I'll be back to Imri's. I hope that the second reading of Mercy won't hitme as hard as the first one did. It was somewhat unsettling for me. ;_;

Title: Letters to a Friend
Rating: R
Warnings: sexual conversation topics and some minor language
Summary: A series of letters written by Sirius as he attempts to move forward with his life.
Wordcount: ~8,900
Author's Note: From RS Games - Non-magical AU. Thanks Brighty18 and Aunty Marion for tackling the beta work of this project. It was a different direction for me and I hadn't expected it. I think it worked out a lot better than I had hoped.
*waves flag * Go Team Post Hogwarts! XD





( Letters to a Friend )

I just finished off all of my obligations writing wise so I thought I'd try to play with a drabble meme. ^_^

I will write a drabble for the first five (or so) commenters to request one. In return, they have to post this in their journal (if they want). You may request the character and/or the pair from the fandom list and give me a prompt.

I'll give a random one for the time being because I'm just starting to get into way too much anime as of late. ^_^

Harry Potter
Fushigi Yuugi
Tsubasa Chronicles
Kushiel (NEW BOOK NEW BOOK NEW BOOK GOING SHOPPING MUST BUY MUST BUY MUST BUY!!!!!!!!!!!)
Black Jewels Series

Yay for random. Now hit me! XD

My wonderful grandmother (crazy, but I love her) sent me this chain mail story today. It was all about this guy in America that was trying to find a job while enjoying all of his products that were made out of the country. The notion was that the dope had stuff made in China, Japan, etc, but didn't understand why he couldn't get a job. Well this left me with rather annoyed.

Now if you're currently trying to get a job, this blurb isn't intended to come off as insulting to you personally, but this is a general thought about Americans as a whole.

Now I spend all day long on the phone with people that complain about their jobs. A common complaint is that they aren't getting a raise or their not making as much as their peers. The truth of the matter is that Americans believe that they are entitled to be paid a VERY LARGE SALARY. Now ignoring things like cost of living, it's rather simple. Why in the world does everything end up being so expensive. The reality of a situation is that for many things production costs are very low and they don't require a lot of man power.

My favorite example is books. Did you know that the reason why books actually cost so much is Barnes and Noble and Borders and all of those big chain stores? Hardcover books actually cost a fraction of what we actually pay for them. But because these book companies thrive on their "remainder" sales they cause the publishing companies to raise the price of their books. Books cost up to $30 for a regular hardcover or an oversized paperback. These chains have found that if they buy ridiculous amounts of books from the publishing companies (knowing that they will only actually sell 10% of them) they can return them back to the publishing company for a complete refund. A REFUND that is then used to buy back the books when they are put on auction just so that the publishing company can get rid of them. When you go to the store and buy the "Clearance Books", you're actually perpetuating the idea that these big chains can continue to do this. (How to stop this on a limited budget...I'm still working on it. Thank you library for your help.)

Why in the world would these big chains feel that they should do this? Simple. B&N and Borders believe that they are entitled to having the largest paycheck they can manage.

Another example was a story my mother told me. She told me that she actually bought Italian Leather Sofas. Immediately I went "wow!" That sounded all expensive, until she told me it wasn't. In fact, buying the American made sofa was actually MORE expensive. She questioned the sales person, who was honest with her. The Sales Person said that the American sofa would be cheaper, but the employees believe that they deserve a HUGE paycheck. They're Americans and all that nonsense. So the American company has to charge a higher amoung because of the cost of production and then of course to pad their own wallets. The Italian sofa is probably made by one or two people that actually care about what their making, while the American sofa required an entire team that probably spent more time at the union contract table then actually putting the sofa together.

So why is it that we have such high unemployment and high cost of nearly everything? It all comes down to this notion of being entitled to a high paycheck. I'll admit that I have had times when I look at my check and thought, I should be making more than this. I can do more than I'm doing right now and I should have been given the chance a long time ago. Well maybe I'm just as bad as everyone else, but I hope that wanting to at least do more than what I do says something. (Probably not, but at least I can admit to my weaknesses...they're numerous really.)

We don't have to have higher paychecks to be compensated appropriately, but the likelihood of this ever stopping is ridiculously small. If we could stop the executives from their feeling of entitlement then maybe we could make a difference, but I'm not holding my breath. Cut their paychecks, cut the cost of products, and suddenly it's like getting a second tax refund check in the mail.

I think I lost track of where I was going there at the end, so that part probably doesn't make sense...well it's a thought, how well thought it is...well that's the questionable part.