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Title: The Entirely Wrong Way (1/2)
Rating: PG-13 (I seriously thought it would be more, but alas, no go)
Pairings/characters: Hermione/Blaise, Draco/Ron, a few spatterings of others. Various persons pop up here and there.
Summary: The Honorable Hermione Granger always seemed to get into the most horrendous scrapes. A Pirate!AU with Captain Draco Malfoy at the helm of The Tidy Squall, and Mr. Blaise Zabini at his side.
The Long List of Important Story Notes and Warnings!!!!
I hate research. You're lucky I even bothered with a few details in this *grins winningly*
~ "Old coat" is an old sailor, not a misspelling of "old coot" - just to clarify.
~ The Abacos Islands are a string of largely uninhabited islands in the Carribean, however I doubt they were called Abacos when this story takes place - I'm not even going to bother to pin down a date, but 16 or 17 hundreds thereabout - but I don't care. I'm calling them Abacos. Blue Cay is completely fictional.
~ Good King Wenceslas was written far after this adventure as well, but I liked the idea of Hermione's father singing that particular ditty, so I left it in.
~ The ages of everyone are mixed up for the purpose of some accuracy to the time period. And I use the phrase "some accuracy" quite loosely. Draco and Blaise are early 30's, Hermione, Hannah and Ron are barely 17 or so, and everyone else it doesn't much matter. You can just imagine for them.
~ I purposely abuse the word "aye" because I love it so. Also, I take full advantage of the "Pirates" poke from PotC - which I shan't explain but you'll be able to pick up on it, I'm sure.
~ Some of you may hate me for my characterization of Harry in this. I apologize in advance.

Lastly!! This turned out incredibly fluffy, everyone is OOC, my language is much more verbose - I think it's my inner romance novelist coming out - because, oh yes. This has Harlequin stamped all over it. I wrote this entirely for my own amusement. Hopefully some of you will enjoy it as well.
And it's open-ended, nothing quite completely wrapped up, because I might possibly write in this world again :)

( The Entirely Wrong Way: Part One )

Title: Imitating Life
Pairing: Hermione/fanon!Blaise
Rating: PG
Summary: In which Hermione is tortured with 80s movie references, Seamus and Lavender argue over James Spader, and no one remembers the end of One Crazy Summer. Non-magic AU.
A/N: I am completely insane. This proves it. The style, the rapid back and forth, is a product of reading too many Sports Night fanfics. I apologize for the utter unredeemability of this piece. Seriously. Also, it really helps to know your 80s references in reading this.

( “Ladies and gentlemen, we’ve just evolved from Sixteen Candles to Pretty in Pink.” )

( Looooong four-day weekend )

Boring as all hell but soooooo busy. Thank god it's over. I swear my week at Christmas better be filled with sleeping and eating and not much else, or someone's gonna die. And it ain't gonna be me, folks. Just saying.

Working on my old Ash Zabini cookies turned ficlet for those who remember it at The Jar. Draco is purposefully OOC. Currently not in a Christmasy enough mood to write more of my D/G, but we'll see how the week goes.

( My father's in love with you )

So. I was a little productive. Of course, not with anything that actually needs to be done. *shrugs*

Well, haven't heard back yet about the house. Didn't expect to, though, but I really hope they decide soon or I'll go crazy :) Thanks for all your well-wishing!

I've decided to resurrect my defunct Blaise/Hermione gift fic that is no longer a gift fic since I submitted my other one instead. Which is actually freeing, so I can just do whatever the hell I want to it. The flow is still really wierd, so I'll probably only post it here, and some things may still give it away to the author so I can't post it in its entirety until after the middle of December. And after it's done, of course, since I'm still in the process. But here's a cookie-ish raw thingamagig that won't give stuff away. Yeah. Oh, and I've made it into an AU, so if anything seems wierd, that's why.

( On New Years, Harry rang )

Does anyone know if the term "dating" is used in brit-speak?

First things first... a link back to my Halloween story: Halloween Treat.

I'm not a huge fan of Halloween. My two best friends and I went trick-or-treating up until our first year of college, but that's because our neighborhood (they were my neighbors growing up) is decidedly kid-empty, so everybody loved us. My parents get maybe one kid if they're lucky now-a-days. Of course, we live on a culdesac in the woods :)

So now that I can no longer trick-or-treat, and neither my apt. nor my parents' house get any kids... well... not very exciting. We don't even decorate anymore.

Yesterday, though, I went with Brownstone and Sheila and baby Nat to Storybook Land in NJ. Nat was so cute dressed as a bunny, and it was a fun day... long and a bit rainy, but fun.

Brownstone and I got to discussing how annoying Britney Spears' Curious commercials were, and then got on the subject of celebrities "creating" perfumes... it's not like they actually made it. And then Monster Mash came on the loudspeaker at the park and we got hysterical, picturing Britney in her "lab"... "Brit was working in her lab, late one night when her eyes beheld an eerie sight... she did the mash, she did the perfume mash..." Okay, it was funny to us, but then, we're weird.

And now I'm sharing a bit of raw Nighthawk Nine.

( Blaise loved Christmas )

So. I'm seriously struggling with Don't Let's Start. I don't know why... I just can't get into the grove. And I'm afraid to even occupy my mind with a challenge cookie, because it's been way too long since I updated DLS. I have to just force myself through this blockage.

Anyway, I did take a bit of a tangent today, although I didn't write anything new. elphaba_at_17 got me thinking about my defunct Mutiny! sequel. It was going to be something grand, about the marrying of Hermione Granger, and it kind of fizzled out. I really didn't like the way it was progressing. So for the curious, I'm posting the unfinished ficcy.

( The Marrying of Hermione Granger, Parts 1-4 )

Yeah, lame-ish. And I leave ya hanging. I just felt the need to entertain you all...