Hey f-list!! (^-^)/

As you can guess I'm back from my vacation. Actually I came back on Sunday night, but didn't have time to check lj at all! I'm sorry. I'll try to catch up with my f-list and various comments later (hopefully T__T) .....

Anyway, it was GREAT!!!
Thank you for all the nice comments to my last entry, they made me really happy :)

It was a short vacation, it was stressful for my body (in the end everything hurt - that's what you get for travelling to so many places in such a short time) and it was expensive, but WOW it was soooooo worth it!!
People who know me might already have guessed that I also took tons of photos (~ 2500-ish to be precise *coughs* ... in only ONE week!! o___o; .......). I'll gradually post the best of them, so I hope you're looking forward to that :)

Right now I only want to give you a brief overview of the places I went to, what I did, what I saw, my impressions etc.
Single entries to each city (or even every single day XD) follow when I have time to do so (T___T) .... GAH!!

Okay, let's start :)

First stop: Nagasaki (2 nights, 2 days):
I've never been in Nagasaki before (that goes for the other cities I've visited this time, too, by the way). I always wanted to go there. First thing I did was visiting the atomic bomb museum, memorial hall, peace park.
It was very interesting! Unfortunately not ALL the information was in English and maybe that's why I got the feeling that the Japanese see themselves too much as victims? I mean it's not like they were completely innocent, although throwing the atomic bomb at that time wasn't necessary anymore blah blah ... anyway it was INTERESTING!
I didn't know that the city I'm living in right now was one of the last few possible targets (it was among the last 11 cities they had chosen! Scary!!!)
.......



One of the various peace symbols/statues.

I COMPLETELY fell in love with Nagasaki! It's such a GREAT city! So beautiful and with a lot of charm - if you can say so. A lot of interesting buildings, nature, the ocean etc. You ABSOLUTELY can't tell that there was this disaster only a few years ago! Really, no way!!!! Amazing city. I also stand exactly where ground zero was, kind of ..... strange.

( More about Nagasaki, Kumamoto, Aso, Kagoshima, Sakurajima under the cut. )



On the ferry from Sakurajima back to Kagoshima.

Anyway, that was basically it :D
Since Monday I was busy with unpacking, paying bills, doing things that have gathererd up during the week I wasn't here and ... yeah.

Today is my day off, so I finally have some time to write these lines.


Okay,
gotta answer some e-mails, comments etc. now and then back to my Japanese studies!


More (hopefully soon)!


Bye-cha~

Broken Yolk
by attica
Rating: R Status: 2/? (A multi-parter)
Summary: “You know that love really isn’t what they say it is, right? In the books? In the fairytales? Nobody comes and rescues you from your tower. Nobody fights off a big bad witch or even slays a dragon.” A story in which everyone wants someone other than the one they’re with. G/D/Hr/H.
A/N: For my beloved sandi_wandi.  YOU BETTER LIKE, I HAVE STOPPED EATING AND SLEEPING FOR THIS.

Part 1 // Part 2.

Title: Memory Keeper
Author: __vintagebomb 
Rating: R
Summary: After the fall of Voldemort, Hermione Granger, the new Head Girl, begins the school year with no recollection of her relationship with Draco Malfoy. A heartbroken Draco uses a memory keeper, hoping to uncover Hermione's lost memories.
Author's Note: Two fic updates in one day! That's a first. As promised, a new chapter. Thanks again <3 to x_dazzled , my super BFF, who makes sure that I don't post something horrendous. And I might as well put down that I made a reference to a dream interpretation using this website.

Chapter 10
Older Chapters

TItle: A Fragment in the Light
Author: __vintagebomb 
Rating: PG-13
Summary: After a recent divorce with Ron Weasley, Hermione hoping to forget events that happened three years ago. All her plans for supressing those painful memories become futile when she runs into Draco Malfoy and his son at Flourish and Blotts.
Author's Note: I promised another chapter of Memory Keeper today, but this is what I cranked out instead. Although previously written, I changed a lot in this chapter but the events stay the same. It was emotionally draining for me and I hope it turned out okay.

Chapter 3
Older Chapters

 Last night, I just wanted to write something. By now, I'm finished a short story fic. It took a lot of energy, but I really like it. Please tell me what you think.

Title: Muddled Thoughts
Rating: T
Word Count: 1000-1200
Summary: The following story is a mix of jumbled thoughts that make no sense. You will not be primal to any realizations, as this is not an information book, such as those that talk about golfing and fishing and ice skating and knitting. Dramione. Hogwart's era.
Length: Short story

http://feeds.hpana.com/~r/HPANA/~3/370444075/news.20583.html

In an new article in German magazine 'Cinema' comes a picture featuring a behind-the-scenes image of Dumbledore in the Great Hall from "Harry Potter and the Half-Blood Prince."

I've (finally!) updated Shadowed Lives again with part 12 Comparing Notes.

(x-posted to dracomalfoyfans and draco_hermione)

http://feeds.hpana.com/~r/HPANA/~3/370035252/news.20582.html

To celebrate the 10th anniversary of "Harry Potter and the Sorcerer's Stone," Scholastic, the U.S. publishers of the series, will hold at their headquarters in New York City, the "Harry Potter Cover to Cover Day" event starting at 8 am on Tuesday, September 23rd. The event will include opportunities for fans to sit in the throne used by J.K. Rowling while she visited New York in 2005 and 2007, view the event on a webcast and for those attending receive a free even commemorative souvenir.

http://feeds.hpana.com/~r/HPANA/~3/369924569/news.20581.html

We previously told you that "Harry Potter" actor Daniel Radcliffe was taking part in the "New York Times" staff-moderated "TimesTalks" event in New York City on Tuesday, August 19th. Last night at the event Dan spoke of many things, including "Equus," "Half-Blood Prince," Deathly Hallows," fellow actors and much more. Update: Two additional articles from the event courtesy of MTV are now online.

http://feeds.hpana.com/~r/HPANA/~3/369485010/news.20580.html

Alan Horn, president of Warner Bros., has issued a statement for fans in direct response to criticism of the company's choice to delay the release of "Harry Potter and the Half-Blood Prince" until next July.

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So, uh, yeah, I'm needing a beta with my 3/4 completed mini-ficlet.  I've been suffering with it for about 2 weeks now, and I need someone to look over it and help edit and all that fun orgasmic stuff.
:D

I've posted about the first couple pages here a while back, so you've probably already seen it before.

Title: Erfquake
Word Count: 3,216
Rating: R-ish, for language.

Please reply to this post with your email addy if you're willing :DDDD

Behold the smirky goodness:



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Hey I'm looking for a story.


I'm pretty sure it is done and I'm also pretty sure that its like novel length. 30 chapters or so. its Draco and Mione.

In the begining I think that Hermione comes home to two death eaters standing in front of her parents dead bodies. I think she finds out that the order knew that they'd be there and did nothing to protect her parents. So she is angry and wants revenge.

later on she lives with her grandmother (i am THINK) and lucius goes to visit her and later on she becomes a death eater.

i think she stops being friends with ron and harry and close with draco malfoy. they become lovers. i think she even becomes close with bella because there the only girls...and i think rabastan likes her.

i also think that there is a new dark arts teacher that is a death eater.....him and lucius and bella teach the young death eaters stuff...hermione doesnt want to kill a kid and breaks down


there is a sex scene where hermione sneaks in slytherin and climbs in dracos bed. the others are still awake and become aroused because those two are so loud lol.....then in the middle of those two screwing.......the death eaters are all 'called' and hermione falls off the bed, landing on her ass and gets hurt. lol. she doesnt have any clothes or her death eater robes so she borrows clothes from draco.......she cant walk in her damn heels so draco and blaise help support her.

hermione goes on a muggle killing spree and does some kind of spell to protect her grandmother, so nobody can kill her. and she also saves some muggle kids by apparting them away..


I'm pretty sure that draco and hermione care for each other.


i think at the end her and draco may change sides. im not sure. that is why i keep saying 'i think'
i read so many stories so im confused.
LMAFO the is why I also made that one part 'red' because I KNOW that its definately in the story lol.



if you know of the url, title or author name please let me know....id rather have the url though, please?

thanks


(sorry someone gave me this url and said that I could post this here. )

Title: Memory Keeper
Author: __vintagebomb
Rating: R
Summary: After the fall of Voldemort, Hermione Granger, the new Head Girl, begins the school year with no recollection of her relationship with Draco Malfoy. A heartbroken Draco uses a memory keeper, hoping to uncover Hermione's lost memories.
Author's Notes: Just as promised, a new chapter of Memory Keeper right after I got back from vacation. :) A lot of this was written while I was away, but I found that it wasn't long enough. Thank you so much to my BFF dazzled_x who beta'd for me.

Chapter 9 at my LJ
Older chapters here.

So, I was looking for some Dramione LOLcats but didn't fine any specific ones I was looking for. (Though I did find some funny HP ones - some quite cheesy, but still funny).
If you guys have any recs of artists who's done any Dramione lolcats, help me out? :D



Did you guys check out the news about the HP script which leaked out?
E: Meh. (Link if anyone wanted to read)

I'm not sure if anyone else posted about this...but I recalled a long ago comment on a feltbeats post where a person said that Tom Felton reportedly was mad that his videos "got leaked."

Well, he said something quite different in the new scholastic interview:

You've posted some music videos on YouTube where you play the guitar and sing. Are those all original songs, and how long have you been writing and performing?

And here's what Tom said:
I won't lie. This is the first time an interviewer has asked me about that. A friend of mine, a good musical friend of mine, moved away about a year and a half ago, and she was always very keen to hear new music. And we just figured the best way to do that was to put it onto YouTube — under an alias, obviously. But it didn't stay hidden very long, and now it's very much sort of in the public domain. So it was never really intended to be an advertising spin by any means, but yeah, they are original songs and obviously not sort of developed by any means but just sort of a little early draft, if you will. Just a bit of fun! But it seems to have a positive response, so I'm enjoying it.

the link for the rest of the interview: http://blog.scholastic.com/ink_splot_26/2008/08/tom-draco-felto.html?ESP=KIDS/ib/20080813/awa/tomfelton/tout1/flash/stackshome/tout////

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On the suggestion of easy_peasy_24, this time I made some otter (Hermione's patronus)/ferret manips. They were harder than I thought, and they're not as good as I'd like them, but - hope you like!

Teaser:



Click!

x-posted to hp_manips

EDIT: A bonus! I felt like drawing a BS'ed Hermione. :P

Teaser:



Click some more!

So I've been looking for a PG-13 or 15+ or however you rate these things (nothing dirty!) dramione fic, preferably completed, not a one-shot, that's set while they're still at hogwarts, maybe they're Head Boy and Head Girl or something, I'd prefer Draco not be a death eater, so not following HBP. If anyone has any recs send them my way!