Life seems but a quick succession of busy nothings

The HP Beholder reveals are up. This year, I did Art.



I've never done art before. Whilst drawing for the Beholder, I did idly wonder why I never have done art before, and then it hit me: When I first joined fandom, my fannish tastes were very much slash-oriented. And while I enjoy writing slash, I don't particularly like drawing men. It's funny, I've never really realised it before: drawing women is so much more enjoyable than drawing men. And so I guess it never occurred to me to create fanart to begin with. As I was branching out in my fannish interests and started to focus on rare pairings, I somehow never thought of drawing them, because by that time I saw myself as a writer

And then I decided to create art for the HP Beholder, and I enjoyed it so much, I will have to take up drawing again.

For now, here are Merope Gaunt and Tom Riddle.

Title: "Triptych: Seduction - Vows - Conception"
Recipient: Albalark
Artist: Donna Immaculata
Rating: NC-17
Pairings: Merope Gaunt/Tom Riddle
Medium: Pencil, crayon, watercolours and charcoal on paper; collage
Warnings: None
Summary: Merope takes matters into her own hands.
Notes: Albalark had said she liked hopeful endings. This is as hopeful as it gets for Merope, I feel.

( Seduction Vows Conception )

I always knew that I would try to make it look period-appropriate. My initial idea was to create a surrealistic collage in the style of Max Ernst's Une Semaine de Bonté, but it was surprisingly difficult to find good backgrounds. Eventually I decided to use slightly kitschy art nouveau motifs as frames and create a collage against textured, coloured backgrounds. I was dead-set on collage to make the characters look disconnected - from each other and from the world around them. Also, I could try out different backgrounds and frames without having to draw the characters from scratch every time.

Merope in the Seduction piece was the first character I drew. I spent an insane amount of time on her and still have preliminary sketches lying around. Poor Tom, I fear, never got as much attention as she did. In the first picture, I still managed to put reasonable effort into creating some details, such as his posture and the cigarette, but you can see how I can't be bothered with male characters: in the second pic, he is a grey block, and in the third one, he his mostly hidden behind Merope.

Despite the fact that Tom looks stiff and unnatural in the Vows piece, I am reasonably pleased with it, because by that time he isn't himself anymore. He is an object that Merope uses. They never interact, not once, not even when they're physically close.

So. This, in short, is the rationale behind the pictures. Oh, I should probably add that drawing and water colours are the only techniques I am familiar with. I wouldn't know how to create art digitally if my life depended on it.

Title: The Spell that Binds
Author: Donna Immaculata
Rating: NC-17
Pairing: Ron Weasley/Gellert Grindelwald
Summary: The Auror Ron Weasley is sent to inspect Nurmengard
Warning: non-con of sorts, unpretty sex
Word count: 2600
A/N: You know how Harry saw Voldemort murder Grindelwald in the Nurmengard cell? Well, it's not true. Grindelwald lives.

Written for violet_quill's SLASH SUPERCHALLENGE for the pairing Ron/Grindelwald.

( The Spell that Binds )

Title: All Things Right and Proper
Author: Donna Immaculata
Rating: R for darkish themes, language, some sexual contents and allusions to drug abuse
Pairings: Petunia Dursley/Vernon Dursley, Augusta Longbottom/Frank Longbottom Sr., Minerva McGonagall/Aberforth Dumbledore
Word Count: 24,700
Warnings: Vernon Dursley as a lust object. Yeah, I know.
Summary: Glimpses into the lives of Petunia, Minerva and Augusta during the events of The Deathly Hallows
Author's Notes: This was written for the hp_beholder fest on IJ for lyras. She asked for character studies, women kicking ass, plot, characters who aren't black or white, 'fade to black' rather than PWP, UST, working around canon, angst with hope, and I tried to squeeze in as many of her requests as possible.
I did squeeze in appearances of Remus, Sirius, Snape, Kingsley and Great Uncle Algie, some Weasleys, cats, goats, obscure crossovers, and divers alarums.

Part I
( All Things Right and Proper, Part II )

I have been checking out the fic folder on my harddrive lately and have come across several fics that I have started writing at some point, liked the concept of, but never finished. This is one of them: I started writing it long before DH and have now adjusted a few details to make it fit into canon a slightly bit better. It's not exactly completely canon-compliant, but hey - it's just a PWP!

I have always been quite amused by the indignant outcry regarding Ginny's resemblance with Lily and how much Harry/Ginny smelled of unresolved mummy issues. Because if Ginny resembles someone, surely that someone is Molly. And there has been ample fodder for Harry/Molly in canon. To quote but a few instances:

GoF, Chap 31: "She bent down and kissed him on the cheek."

GoF, Chap. 36: "Mrs Weasley set the potion down on the bedside cabinet, bent down, and put her arms around Harry. He had no memory of being hugged like this, as though by a mother."

HBP, Chap. 4: "'You are sweet,' beamed Mrs. Weasley."

HBP, Chap. 17: "Mrs. Weasley sobbed harder than ever as she enfolded Harry in her arms."

HBP, Chap 19: "…now Mrs. Weasley seized hold of Harry and hugged him very tightly."

And in OotP Harry leaves the party following Mrs Weasley upstairs in "The Woes of Mrs Weasley", which, as I'm sure everyone will agree, clearly indicates that wild cross-gen orgies were supposed to happen upstairs.

Reasoning thusly, I decided to write the sadly underrepresented pairing Harry/Molly myself:

Title: The Infernal Machine
Author: Donna Immaculata
Pairing: Harry Potter/Molly Weasley
Rating: R
Warnings: Harry/Molly. Set during DH, Harry is 17. PWP.
Summary: Exhausted from the hunt for Horcruxes, Harry wants to go home.

A/N: The title is plagiarised from Jean Cocteau, whose play of the same title retells the story of Oedipus.

( The Infernal Machine )

Title: Pure New Pleasure Seeker
Author: Donna Immaculata
Pairing: Ten/Novice Hame
Rating: PG-13
Wordcount: 1570
Warnings: Do you warn for cross-species in Doctor Who?
Disclaimer: The characters mentioned in this fic are not mine.
A/N: The epilogue was written before the fic and doesn't match its tone at all. But I couldn't resist using that last sentence. Just consider it some added bonus crack.
Is it wrong that I wrote this with the cat purring in my lap?

( Pure New Pleasure Seeker )

*is worried*

First thing I did this morning was write a ficlet for cordelia_v, who asked for "a sick, sacriligeous drabble. Bonus points if you can work in any of the following: his history as a member of the Hitler Youth; Ratzinger's pronouncement that all other religions are "deficient"; or a reference to the fact that (more than any other cardinal) he's worked hard to foreclose any possibility that women could ever become Catholic priests." I meant to link to it in my LJ this morning, but I forgot. Not a good sign.

Anyway, it's Joseph Ratzinger/Karol Wojtyla (aka Benedict XVI/John Paul II). Offensive subject matter, Nazi references and implied slash! Be warned! The original version in German is here. The translation (a very hasty and rough one) is ( here )

It's two more days until deadline, and I already posted the crossover fic I wrote for prurient_badger. That's a first.

Title: Crossroads
Crossover: HP/Narnia
Word Count: 3,940
Rating: R for disturbing contents and mild slash
Characters: Edmund-centric
Disclaimer: I own neither The Chronicles of Narnia nor Harry Potter.
Summary: While exploring the White Witch's house, Edmund has a strange encounter
Notes: I took liberties with the timeline in The Lion, The Witch And The Wardrobe. This story is set in the half hour between Edmund's arrival in the White Witch's house and their setting off after Peter, Susan, Lucy and the Beavers.

Beta-read by the fabulous rosina_alcona, who owns my heart, and, if she so chooses, my firstborn.

Crossroads

I made a pledge. Remember my pledge? It includes the sentence "However... given sufficient crack and an infinite number of monkeys, here's how a Remus/Molly shag might happen (though I sincerely hope it never does, and if it does, I just don't want to know)."

Well, this was a lie. Obviously, I am a sick, sick person, as I couldn't resist writing a fic based on my own nightmare scenario, without the help of crack or monkeys.

Title: Black Tears
Author: Donna Immaculata
Word Count: 2220
Pairing: Remus/Molly, Remus/Mrs Black (Yes, I am going to hell, why?)
Warning: dubious consent, character death (2x), possibly squick, alcohol abuse, adultery, general unpleasantness
Rating: N for nightmare
Disclaimer: This is not my fault. Minerva McTabby is to blame, as are fluffyllama and laurelwood, who made me do it.
A/N: completely and utterly unbeta-ed; this was supposed to be a humorous fic, but... well... it took a different direction; also, it makes slightly more sense if you read the aforementioned pledge first

Don't read if you: a) like Molly b) are easily squicked c) don't believe in Remus' Cock O'Doom believe that Remus is sweet and harmless

( Black Tears )

My §$#*% provider managed to fuck up my Internet connection again. I can't believe it. Well, everything has been going smoothly for more than two years, and that's probably as good as one can wish for when dealing with telecommunication providers. And they promised it'll be sorted out by tomorrow. Hm.

In fandom news this means I haven't been around much; but at least I managed to post my MWPP Fuh-Q Fest fic Man in the Mirror. Just in time. (My apologies to marinarusalka for being so late. It would have been sooner had I not been cut off from the Internet, honestly.)

It's not a particularly nice fic, so if you choose to consider MWPP as funny-fluffy-lovable pranksters with a heart of gold, you might not want to read it. But it's got Peter in in. And clumsy rape. I think that after what we saw in Snape's Worst Memory, it is legitimate to suppose that they had the prerequisites to make a very dysfunctional group. But this concept requires a more comprehensive post, and I can't be bothered to write it in an Internet cafe.

I have, however, employed my time quite well by writing 20 pages of Bill/Remus smut. The fic is thus finished (Thank God!), and as soon as my connection's back I will attempt to have it beta-read and posted. A nice, romantic story with lots of kissing and plenty of porn. And butter crumpets. I think Bill/Remus is my new OTP.

My second (and last) Squickfest submission is up, and it's Mary Sue/Ron's feet.

No graphic sex this time, nor too much graphic foot action, but it's got Mary Sue in all her glory, including name, hair, past, powers, and... a Dark Secret. Extra bonus: author's notes in the text and pop song lyrics.

And Ron's feet.

Come on, you know you want to.