This story is a bit of an orphan on a number of counts: first of all, it was originally begun as an auction fic for the wonderful rhetoretician  a year or so back (he requested h/g and 'infidelity'); second, last summer, I claimed the prompt 'fortnight' (surprise!) for hpgw_otp's Passage of Time challenge; and last, I'd originally thought that this might be part of my F Words series.

Oops! ^.^

In any case, here's a bit of flangsty H/G for y'all. (I'll have the second half of something slightly... less canon up in the next few days!)

Title: Fortnight
Rating: PG-13
Warnings: Angst. Parental exhaustion. Impllied parental nookie. Implied infidelity.
Length: ~3100 words
Summary: "Ginny just needed him here. The last thing in the world she wanted was for him to see her body, which hardly felt like hers. The next to last thing was him—or anyone—touching her. She’d had Lily pulling and chewing on her all day, and one or both of the boys tugging at her legs. All day, every day, for the last two weeks."

( Fortnight )

Here's another follow-up to a post-HBP Harry/Ginny/Luna story cycle! This one is part of the holiday-themed series that began on Christmas, 2005 with Flaming Nargles, and then continued on the first day of Hannukah, 2006 with Eight Flaming Nargles and on New Year's Eve, 2007 with New Nargles.

To those of you who celebrate the Orthodox holidays, S Rozhdestvóm Khristóvym!

To the rest of you, just remember—it's always a holiday somewhere. :-)

Title : Пылающий нарглы—Pylayushchikh Nargla

Rating : PG-13

Warnings : Implied threesome (gasp!). New parent weirdness. Ex-spouse weirdness. Holiday fluff. Follows HBP canon.

Length : ~1500 words

Summary : The holidays, after all, are about sharing love....

Note: As always, no Nargles were harmed in the writing of this fic.

Christmas, 2005 • Hannukah, 2006 • New Years, 2007 • Russian Christmas, 2009

( Пылающий нарглы—Pylayushchikh Nargla )

Happy New Year! May your 2010 be ten times better than 2009....

So, back in the pre-DH day, my friend and beta aberforths_rug  and I wrote a series of fics that took place on or around various characters' birthdays. Very imaginatively, we called them The Birthday Chronicles. Uncorked and With Feet Firmly Planted covered Harry's 30th (and the day after—both NC-17, H/G/L), Trick or Treat covered Pansy's 31st (R, Pansy/Luna), Simplicity covered Luna's 30th (NC-17, H/G/L) and Thirty-one, which was actually the first story written in the series, logically covered Harry's 31st (R, H/G). Oh, and Melancholia, a PG-13 H/G/L drabble, covered Luna's 42nd.

As it happened, I started another fic as part of the series about... oh... three years ago. And then I got caught up in other things—mostly Back to the Garden—and somehow this never quite got finished.

Well, it's finished now!

As for whose birthday it is... well, that would be telling. ;-)

Title: Birthday

Rating: Hard R/Light NC-17

Warnings: Pre-DH. Femmeslash, with some smutty bits. Implied polyamory. Obstetrics. Luna swearing. Kind of.

This story contains sexually explicit material. If you are under the age of eighteen--or the age at which such material may be legally viewed in your locality--please do not click on the link below.

Length: ~4500 words

Summary: Pansy needs to ask Luna about something, but Luna's focus seems to be elsewhere.

Harry's 30th, Pt. 1 • Harry's 30th, Pt. 2 • Ginny's 29th (TBA) • Pansy's 31st • Luna's 30th • Birthday ? • Harry's 31st • Luna's 42nd


( Birthday )

I have three bits of news that I hope will be of interest:

1. I received my gift over at the hp_triangle exchange and it's fabulous! It's a Harry/Ginny, Harry/Ginny/Luna smutfic from the ever-wonderful lunalovepotter: Three-Way Stop (NC-17). Have I said it's fabulous? Have I said she's wonderful? GO AND READ IT!


2. Erm... If you're still here, here's a fun surprise: PotterFicWeekly is discussing my F Words series on their podcasts! (It's the so-called Peons who're taking them on—the main podcast is in the midst of discussing Barb's post-GoF H/G classic, Harry Potter and the Psychic Serpent.)
   
   The current episodes takes on the first fic in the series, Friends. They have what I found to be a really interesting discussion of the story, and in particular Luna's role, both in the fic and in canon. The discussion of "Friends" starts at about 2h08m and lasts until the end of the episode (never let it be said that the PFW folks don't discuss in depth!).
   
   
   
   Standard Podcast: Play Now | Play in Popup | Download


3. So, you may have noticed that I haven't been about much. It's not because I don't want to be! This time of year is always a bit crazy Chez Antosha, but this year.... If you're like me, you probably come here to take a bit of a break from real life. Well, lately Real Life has been pointing at me any time I get near LJ or fandom and laughing and saying, "You think so, do you? FAT CHANCE!" My work situation has gotten very complicated (Translation: Workload up, security and income down) and I'm in a place where either family or LJ has to give.
   
   I love you all, I really do, but see, if I go on hiatus with you folks, I know you'll understand. I don't think my wife and kids would or should. So I'm going to sign off for a bit—probably until January, since by then the whole money-earning thing should have resolved itself. (Translation: Either the organization for which I've been working almost exclusively will have closed its doors or it won't.)
   
   I have some of my non-fandom writing that I need to finish, but I also know that I owe a few of you (rhetoretician , irislock and one or two others... as well as the hp_triangle giftee that I seem to have left in the lurch); I'll work on your stories, I promise! And do keep commenting! I'll still get comment notifications (when LJ isn't spazzing out) and will try to answer them. I'm always happy to get emails, but until January, treat each other well, and I'll see you all later.

I wrote this for the Quidditch Pitch's Imagination Inspiration Drabble Drive. It was inspired by the lovely artwork (a preview of which is visible above) Dressing Room by the wonderful mudblood428, who didn't know that Luna was just out of frame. ;-)

Title: Finding Your Spot
Words: 2 x 100
Rating: R
Warnings: Polyamory. Suggestions of sexiness.

( Trousseau )

This is what happens when I travel! Here's the ninth and final installment in my F Words series.

This was written as a response to the catchmysnitch July challenge, fireworks, and is the "epilogue" to Fortune; like that fic, it is set about thirty years post-DH (about eleven years post-epilogue).

Title: Fireworks
Rating: G
Word Count: ~1150
Warnings: Wedding. Some fluff. Some surprises (hopefully!)
Summary: "Harry sat there, waiting for the fireworks.

Thanks to catchmysnitch mod stmargarets for the wonderful prompt, which showed me how to tie this series up! Thanks too, as always, to aberforths_rug. She didn't beta this, but I thank her anyway. Because good friends can never be thanked enough.


Friends • Fame • The F Word • Family • Fume (Drabble) • First • Forever • Folly, Act I • Folly, Act II • Folly, Act III • Fortune • Fireworks


( Fireworks )

Here are my responses to the Drabble Meme:

• There Are Few Things in the 'Verse Scarier/Light on the Ceiling (PG13—Firefly: Mal, River, Jayne; Mal/Kaylee-ish for rodlox  )
• Favor (PG—LOTR: unrequited Legolas/Arwen for cassandra63  )
• Empty (G—HP: Molly gen for holyfant  )
• Punch (R/NC-17: HP: Pansy/Ron for queenb23  )
• Am I Doing All Right? (R—HP: Ginny/Luna, implied Ginny/Harry for tomscribble  )
• Together, Pt. I (PG-13—HP: Hermione, Harry/Ginny/Luna for ap_aelfwine  )
• Together, Pt. II (PG-13—HP: Ron, Hermione, Harry/Ginny/Luna not for madderbrad  )
  ETA:
• Something's Up (PG-13—Firefly: Mal/Inara UST)

There are still a few spaces for prompts left, if you want to play!
But you're supposed to respond if you want to request! Here are some of the wonderful drabbles/drawbles I've had created for me:

• Cinco de Mayo Nargles by plaidphoenix  (R/NC-17—Harry/Ginny/Luna)
• It's a Vilena by tomscribble  (Semi-worksafe—HP: Luna/Ginny/...Harry? Here's an alternate link, if the art doesn't show up properly)
• With Absolute Certainty by queenb23more  (R/NC-17—Ron/Pansy)
• And a couple more still on the way.... :-) ETA:
• The Wedding by ladywanderer (PG—Tortall: Thayet, Alana/George)
• Il Appartient à Moi! (He Belongs to Me!) by ap_aelfwine (PG-13—HP: Harry/Ginny/Luna, Gabrielle, Fleur; 10xdrabble)

Go, read/see!

And request! Many of us still have requests available, and we're happily awaiting your prompts!

Here, finally, is the last "act" of Folly, the seventh installment in my F Words series.

This was written as a response to the hpgw_otp Fortune Cookie challenge; the prompt was "There is a crisis looming, be ready for it."

Title: Folly (3/3)
Rating: PG-13
Word Count: ~4700
Warnings: Folly, of one kind and another.
Summary: "There is a crisis looming, be ready for it."

Thanks to aberforths_rug for the beta, for realz....


Friends • Fame • The F Word • Family • Fume (Drabble) • First • Forever • Folly, Act I • Folly, Act II • Folly, Act III • Fortune • Fireworks

( Folly, Act III )

Here's the next installment in my translation of allain92800's Ginny/Luna, Ginny/Harry fic, La fougue et le rêve.

Note the adjusted chapter total!


Title: The Flame and the Dream (La fougue et le rêve): Chapter Four—Missing Out

Author: allain92800 (translated from French by antoshevu)

Rating : PG-13 (for some mild sexual references)

Warnings: Femmeslashiness; love triangle; flangst.

Length: ~2500 words

Summary: Ginny searches for a way to deal with the consequences.

Chapter 1 • Chapter Two • Chapter 3 • Chapter 4

( Chapter 3 - Holding On )

The first TEN people to comment in this post get to request a drabble or a sketch of any pairing/character (from one of my usual fandoms). In return, those ten people have to post this in their journals, regardless of their ability level.

Here's the third installment in my translation of allain92800's Ginny/Luna, Ginny/Harry fic, La fougue et le rêve.


Title: The Flame and the Dream (La fougue et le rêve): Chapter Three—Holding On

Author: allain92800 (translated from French by antoshevu)

Rating : PG-13 (for some mild sexual references)

Warnings: Femmeslashiness; love triangle; flangst.

Length: ~2500 words

Summary: Ginny and Luna talk. Can they come away unburned?


Chapter 1 • Chapter Two • Chapter 3 • Chapter 4

( Chapter 3 - Holding On )