Date: 2008-08-18 22:54 Subject: Toot Your Own Horn Meme Security: Public Tags: meme

Tagged by Annie (roedhunt) to do this!


1. What was the first fic you ever wrote? (picture you drew, manip/vid you made - sub in your form of expression for all questions).

The first HP fic I wrote was around the time the second movie came out. I've never posted it in my journal, though I've decided if the pornish_pixies comm ever returns to LJ, I'll post it there. (It's called "Potions Lesson," and it's Snape/Harry, NC-17).


2. What's your most recent work?

I just finished posting my 3 part Drapery/Snarco fic, "Whoever Keeps Me" at hp_tarot.
On LJ: http://community.livejournal.com/hp_tarot/41178.html
On IJ: http://asylums.insanejournal.com/hp_tarot/41187.html

3. What do you think you're best at (genre, style, theme)?

I think I'm best at the dark angst with lots of sex, or maybe it just seems that way because it seems hard to do well for most people. (Then again, comedy is really hard, too...!) I am good at looking at things unafraid and unrepressed, which gives me a lot of freedom to write. I'm also good at defining the difference between consensual and nonconsensual in fic, and getting people who "don't like" or "don't read" BDSM fics to really enjoy mine.

4. What would you like to be better at?

Saying thank you. So when it comes to fic, I guess I wish I was better at responding to comments. I often feel like all I can say is "thank you" and it feels inadequate...!

5. Which of your works do you think best represents you as a writer/artist?

Burning Day is probably pretty representative. A mixture of plottiness and sexiness, with a dash of suffering, and the possibility for true love always there under it all, no matter how much trouble there is. That description fits a LOT of my fics.

6. What's your favourite story you've ever written (picture you've ever drawn etc)?

Ohhh, that's hard. I still have a serious soft spot for Amnesia among my H/D fics, but The Rematch, which was a Snaco fic I wrote for my very first gift exchange fest (merry smutmas!) is still way up there.


7. What's your favourite scene/chapter you've ever written?

It still has to be the "Moroccan Night of Passion" in Tempus. If you haven't read the fic yet, it's what happens right AFTER Harry and Draco go flying...

8. What's your favourite passage or line you've ever written?
( Cut because this is getting long... )

Date: 2008-08-18 19:13 Subject: Quick Summersmut recs Security: Public Tags: fic rec

A couple of lovely porny snacks from this year's hp_summermut:

Some art, some fic:

Art: Lucius/Severus, illustrating Nishizono's Bad Faith! The art is entitled "After the Bath":
http://asylums.insanejournal.com/hp_summersmut/39533.html#cutid1

The art could also very nicely accompany this Lucius/Severus fic from the fest:
"Comrades in Arms": http://asylums.insanejournal.com/hp_summersmut/37990.html#cutid1

A pretty, hot, and funny Rose/Scorpius comic: http://asylums.insanejournal.com/hp_summersmut/37652.html#cutid1

Here's a very short (2500 words), but very powerful and darkly beautiful one, "The Hand We're Dealt," which just the list of pairings will melt your brain: Lucius/Remus, Narcissa/Lily, Severus/Sirius, Lucius/Sirius. The Lucius/Sirius scene is soul-searing. http://asylums.insanejournal.com/hp_summersmut/34562.html#cutid1

Here's another plug for the porny and beautifully done Draco-centric Drapery fic that was written for yours truly! It's long, but so so lovely. Snape/Draco/Harry... and Draco is wonderfully in character except for the ONE part where he accedes the middle of the bed... ahem. http://asylums.insanejournal.com/hp_summersmut/38961.html#cutid1

I mentioned it in an earlier post I think, the Snape/Harry AU, well, sort of AU? you'll see when you read it: http://asylums.insanejournal.com/hp_summersmut/32366.html#cutid1

Finally, I have not read it yet, but this header looks very interesting. Can anyone recommend?

Title: Guilty Pleasure
Pairing: Severus Snape/Arthur Weasley
Rating: NC-17
Word Count: 7,883
Warnings: Restraints, orgasm denial, fisting, rimming, toys (dildos, cockring, and fleshlight).
Summary: Arthur and Snape start something. But Arthur knows it's wrong. It's wrong—isn't it?

http://asylums.insanejournal.com/hp_summersmut/30095.html#cutid1

Date: 2008-08-18 03:10 Subject: My gift fic at summermut is AWESOME!!!!! Security: Public Tags: drapery, fic rec, snarco

Fic rec! Fic rec! Fic rec!

I have no idea who wrote the fic for me at hp_summermut, but it feels rather like they totally stalked my journal and wrote the most wonderful piece of plotty, smutty Drapery!

The fic is long, but it doesn't feel long at all, it speeds by. I'm trying to think of what I can say that won't be too spoilery. The story feels a lot like if you took Deathly Hallows and all the things I really WISHED were in the book instead of what's there, that's what this is. The characters of Draco, Severus, and Harry are wonderful, and the writing is quite nice, and I don't say that lightly! Draco is so in character when he goes off onto worries about things and looking for plots and hidden meanings in everything, which of course when it's Severus he's usually right. Wonderful Slytherin/Slytherin/Gryffindor dynamics.

Oh, and did I mention the sex is lovely, too? Much brain-melting wonderfulness.

Oh, and you probably want a link to the fic. Here:

Title: Slytherin Love
Author: unknown!!
Pairing: Draco/Snape, Snape/Harry/Draco
Rating: NC-17
Word Count: ~27,900
Warnings: threesome (obviously), rimming; ignores most of DH
Disclaimer: All Harry Potter characters herein are the property of J.K. Rowling and Bloomsbury/Scholastic. No copyright infringement is intended.
Summary: There is a Potter-looking intruder in Draco's home, and Draco thinks that Severus is a bit too interested in the mystery of the captive's identity...

LJ: http://community.livejournal.com/hp_summersmut/50937.html

IJ: http://asylums.insanejournal.com/hp_summersmut/38961.html

Date: 2008-08-18 00:45 Subject: Musing and Inspiration Security: Public

First off, for those who haven't seen yet, a few people *have* taken up my challenge and written some things inspired by katerina's absolutely gorgeous Draco-in-rope-bondage art.

Violetage wrote a truly gorgeous smutty story to go with the art (http://violetage.livejournal.com/6260.html)

And jennybliss commited comment porn! (http://ravenna-c-tan.insanejournal.com/24701.html?thread=111997#t111997)

A few others have said they were inspired, too; I'm looking forward to more!

Meanwhile, about two years ago, when I was writing a LOT of fic, almost (but not all) Draco-centric, there was one night I was working on a Snape/Harry story, and Draco got a bit jealous. What resulted was not, strictly speaking, a fic, so it's not in my master list. But someone brought up muses recently and, well, I thought some of you would enjoy a reprise of the tale of what happened the night I got A Visit From My Muse.

Date: 2008-08-17 13:51 Subject: Fic: Whoever Keeps Me, now complete! Security: Public Tags: fic, h/d, snaco

Title: Whoever Keeps Me (Part 3 of 3)
Author: Ravenna C. Tan
Type: Fiction
Length: 21,000 words total; This post: 8654
Main character or Pairing: Snape/Draco, Harry/Draco, Draco/Death Eaters
Rating: NC-17
Disclaimer: Non-commercial fanfic, done for the love, not any money.
Warnings: Voldemort-won AU. Canon-compliant thru HBP. Heavy dub-con. Torture, gang-banging, sexual slavery, angst.
Summary: Voldemort gives a disgraced Draco Malfoy as a slave to Severus Snape. Draco is resigned to his fate, until Snape collars Harry Potter as well.
Cards Drawn: Death (reversed), Wheel of Fortune (reversed), Eight of Cups.
Card Interpretation: Death reversed is "holding onto something you know is over," such as a relationship you stayed in too long. The Wheel of Fortune reversed is taking control of your destiny. And the eight of cups is "Possibility of change in a stable situation. Flashes of excitement, movement." I also interpreted "death, reversed" as orgasm denial, the wheel of fortune as suspension bondage, and the eight of cups to be potions, so you will find all three of those elements in the story as well. Full notes and interpretations at the end.
Author Notes: clauclauclaudia was my wonderful beta. Any mistakes left are purely my own. Thanks to Gateway Girl for helping me wrestle a very recalcitrant Draco to the ground. Metaphorically speaking. Title comes from a Shakespeare sonnet. This story also matches up to my 7spells table for Snape/Draco/Harry.

Part One on LJ
Part Two on LJ
Part Three on LJ

Part One on IJ
Part Two on IJ
Part Three on IJ

Date: 2008-08-17 00:23 Subject: I committed fic! Security: Public Tags: more ded from guh

Please
by Ravenna C. Tan
Word Count: 350
Rating: NC-17
A/N: For katerina_black, inspired by THIS unbelievably hot art she did at my suggestion....

( Cut for Smexiness )

Date: 2008-08-16 23:11 Subject: Gorgeous Draco Art!!! (NWS) Security: Public Tags: ded from guh

OK, ignore the previous post on this same subject. katerina_black recently posted a truly gorgeous piece of rope bondage art (with a beautiful female subject). I commented that I'd worship her forever if she could do Draco in a similar vein...

And she did. Read my comment at 5am apparently, and couldn't sleep until she had made the new piece of art. (*worships*)

The price, my lovely f-list, for enjoying this fabulous art, is I want to see some fic and drabbles inspired by this art! Who put him in the ropes? How badly does he want to come? Doesn't this just raise all kinds of questions, or at least a steady stream of GUHHHHH.... ???

My other request... is there anyone out there with a decent color printer who could print it for me?

Clicky the thumbnail to see the whole thing. NOT WORK SAFE


ADDITION: I ficced it! Here: http://ravenna-c-tan.insanejournal.com/24701.html

ADDITION MORE: Violetage wrote a truly gorgeous smutty story to go with the art (http://violetage.livejournal.com/6260.html)

And jennybliss commited comment porn! (http://ravenna-c-tan.insanejournal.com/24701.html?thread=111997#t111997)

Date: 2008-08-16 12:45 Subject: *grumbles* Security: Public

IJ is still dropping notifications to me. Grr.

Date: 2008-08-15 20:22 Subject: Omnivore's 100 Meme Security: Public

Instructions:
1) Copy this list into your blog or journal, including these instructions.
2) Bold all the items you’ve eaten.
3) Cross out any items that you would never consider eating.
(go to the original post for Wikipedia links if you don't know what something is)
4) italicize ones you haven't eaten but WANT TO TRY
5) Leave the ones you haven't tried, but are indifferent about

( long list )

Wow. There are only a dozen things on here I haven't tried and they include the Jamaican coffee (hate coffee!) and the cigar with cognac (hate smoke!). The others I either didn't know you could eat (kaolin? the white clay?) or mostly have never heard of (bagna cauda? phaal?). Otherwise, yeah, I can and do eat everything.

Some notable things I find *missing* from the list if it is trying to be multicultural and broad-based:

spam sushi
fresh-picked morel mushrooms
lotus root
deep-fried twinkies (or oreos)
bacon-flavoured chocolate
...

Date: 2008-08-14 02:21 Subject: er, wtf IJ? Security: Public

IJ seems a little overloaded? I've gotten the "database busy" message several times tonight but worse...

It looks like I stopped getting notifications of comments about 24 hours ago?? Errrr... so if you commented on a post and it seems like I'm ignoring you... I'm not! I've just picked through and answered a bunch I found by hand! But, eep!

This happening to anyone else?

Date: 2008-08-14 01:36 Subject: Friending Frenzy Intro Security: Public Tags: terminus

OK, so the mad friending frenzy post Terminus is going on and so I thought I would post a little hello to all who are new to reading my journal and such.

I look more like this than my default icon:

There's a lot of hair hidden in the bun on the back of my head.

I write Snape-Harry-Draco in any and all combinations and I'm allergic to fluff and schmoop. Give me the NC-17 stuff that makes me have to change my panties, please. I write dark and I write kink, too, though not all the time.

I'm the mod of the hp_tarot comm, and it looks like I'll be the main conspirator in starting a Snarco & Drapery Smut Fest of some kind, thanks to discussions that grew out of Terminus.

I try to mirror all my posts on LJ and IJ, though once in a while I get distracted midway through the process and only hit one or the other. I've found it impossible to check that I have everyone I want friended in both places! I also have a JF account but hardly ever use it.

On AIM I can be found as "veileddraco" or "pinstripepen", but I don't always chat much since I'm in the middle of a dozen things at all times.

I am a Ravenclaw. But apparently in a group like Terminus-attendees, which in some respects is made up of people who would be more Ravenclaw than the general population, among *them* I become a Slytherin. (It made sense to me, anyway...)

I forgot my camera at Terminus so if you have pics with me in them, please send me copies! And yes, it's totally OK to label them with the name "Ravenna C. Tan" if you post them.

Date: 2008-08-13 20:26 Subject: Terminus Drabbles Security: Public Tags: terminus

Terminus Drabbles

This first one was done for HOUSE POINTS! It turns out I am a house point whore and any time a Terminus staff person who was giving out points suggested something, I'd do it. Sing, write, whatever...

She requested Harry/Ginny, gen, and here's what she got:

( After, Harry/Ginny, PG )


Then came the two drabbles I wrote after the Bon Voyage Ball, sitting in the elevator lobby with r_grayjoy, gatewaygirl, and a bunch of others. Amazingly enough, these are both gen, also! I know, what's wrong with me? Heh.

( For the prompt 'approval,' Draco, PG )



( For the prompt 'Rainfall' – Draco & Scorpius, PG )

Date: 2008-08-13 19:47 Subject: Writeups of more Terminus programming: Snape panel Security: Public Tags: terminus

Two things I went to that I didn't crack out the laptop for were fiona_fawkes roundtable on Controlled Substances in the Wizarding World and a great panel about Snape that featured goseaward, djinnj, bethbethbeth, and femmequixotic.

Actually, wait, I *did* write up the Controlled Substance one in my post about day four.

So, Snape... and his depictions in fanfiction. ( Read more... )

Date: 2008-08-13 18:42 Subject: Leftover zines! Security: Public Tags: terminus

I have about 10 left of the zines I made for Terminus. There are two things. "The Erotic Harry Potter" which includes Mijan, Kabal, GatewayGirl, Bronze Ribbons, and Alchemia Dent. (Er, and me.) It's $7, and is 44 pages of non-stop HP smut, with some additional illos by oldenuf2b and venturous!

Then there is the collection of 5 minibooks I made, "5 book for 5 bucks."
Tied (Harry/Draco, NC-17)
2 Boys, 100 Words (H/D drabbles)
Sleeping Beauty (Snarry, NC-17)
Fine Lines (Snarry drabbles)
Desideratum (Snaco, NC-17)

Get them both for $14.50 including the shipping within USA and paypal fees.

I just about broke even on printing "The Erotic Harry Potter," so I am psyched, but figured I'd offer the copies that are left to LJ at large!

( Under the cut, purty picture of the zines and my Paypal address... )

Date: 2008-08-13 01:25 Subject: Snape/Draco/Harry Fest Thoughts? Security: Public Tags: drapery, snape/harry/draco, snarco

So, a bunch of us sitting around in the Room of Requirement at Terminus re-named the OT3 of "Snarco" to "Drapery." I can't remember who said it first, but it came from alisanne and djinnj's end of the table.

After all, if Draco + Harry is Drarry (for some; I prefer "H/D" m'self...), if you stick some Snape in there, you get Drapery. Of course the best illustration of this concept is Alisanne's header art in her InsaneJournal (http://alisanne.insanejournal.com/). Perhaps we can say that Drapery is the sensual side of Snarco (which is the snarky side, of course)?

Which leads me to this question which I would like to pose to the populace at large. I know there are a ton of fests, and everyone is signing up now for all the big winter Holiday fests right now... but... would anyone be interested in a Drapery & Snarco Smut fest at some point? I'll gladly mod or co-mod it. Please let me know the following in feedback comments here:

- Yes or no to the existence of a Drapery & Snarco Smut fest?
- Would you personally participate in it? Art or fic?
- Should it be a gift exchange? If not, what format?
- When should we do it if we do? (ASAP? Valentine's Day? etc?)

nishizono posted back in April that she wants to do another snaco_exchange, but hadn't made any firm plans about it. I'd want to not conflict with that, of course. January and February are both busy months for me (one of my major projects is always due around Feb 15th, and the Fetish Fair Fleamarket this year will be Feb 13-15th in Providence), but modding isn't *that* time-consuming for me so wouldn't necessarily be precluded...

Date: 2008-08-12 20:13 Subject: post-terminus stuff Security: Public Tags: terminus

To stave off convention crash, I've been reading all the Terminus con wrap ups on my flist! I feel a bit strange having already blogged the con so extensively, I don't have a lot to add now though I do still have to type up my notes fro the Snape panel that I took by hand, and type up my drabbles.

Meanwhile, the LJ comm "post_terminus" has ben created, for all slashers to connect and picspam and so forth, and also there is a mass friending meme thread to post to at tracey_loo_who's LJ:
http://tracy-loo-who.livejournal.com/63536.html

Date: 2008-08-12 03:25 Subject: Summersmut! Now posting! Security: Public Tags: fests

By the way, now that I'm back from Terminus, I noticed that hp_summersmut is posting! The gift fic for me hasn't appeared yet (and I have no idea what I asked for, but maybe it was Snaco?) and I guess I can't say anything about whether my story appeared yet or not... but I think I wrote a really kick-ass one this time and I am dying to post about it. Argh.

Date: 2008-08-11 13:33 Subject: New Fic! "Desideratum" (Snape/Draco, NC-17) Security: Public Tags: fic, snaco

So here's the fic I wrote for the Snaco meetup at Terminus. I felt like since I had made a mini-book for the H/D meetup, and I had made one for the Snarry meetup, I really had a moral imperative to do one for my own meetup and my #1 ship! Eeeeeek! The problem was... I didn't have ANY short Snaco stories! (Except drabbles.)

So my challenge to myself here was to write a Snaco (a smutty, GOOD Snaco, that is) that could fit in a minibook, meaning around 1500 words. I ended up making it 1800 and leaving my bio out of the book to make it fit. :-) Anyway, here it is:

Title: Desideratum
Author: Ravenna C. Tan
Pairing: Snape/Draco
Rating: NC-17
Warnings: Bondage, first time
Canon-compliancy: Takes place during DH.
Disclaimer: Uses trademarked characters of J. K. Rowling and various corporate entities. Non-commercial use.
Summary:</b> Snape returns to his bedchamber after another hard day as headmaster.
A/N: Title is Latin for "desired thing." Written for clauclauclaudia, who is my Draco's very own Snape. First printed as a giveaway zine at the Terminus convention. Now that Terminus is over, I am posting it.

( Desideratum )

Date: 2008-08-11 10:40 Subject: Terminus Wrap Up Post! Security: Public

Back in the room after the Leaving Feast, which was a breakfast. Everyone is bleary eyed but that's to be expected.

It's sad to see it's over, but these things must end.

Last night's Bon Voyage Ball was a blast. The dance floor was packed with close to a thousand dancers for much of the night, people costumed and dressed to the hilt, there was an incredible dessert buffet (which I was too full to eat), the ballroom was incredible, probably one of the most ornate and beautiful rooms in the city, and overall it was just an incredibly good time. Look for the picspam from people who, unlike me, remembered to bring their cameras!

After the ball I settled on the eighth floor in the elevator lobby with r_grayjoy, Val, gatewaygirl, lesyeexverts, and some others whose LJ names I have either forgotten or at the moment I am too fried to remember, and we drabbled/drawbled for a while.

I did two in the time I was there, but I shall post them a bit later, as I have not transcribed them yet from my notebook.

Breakfast was a bit of a blur. I signed a lot more people's books, which meant writing a lot more haiku, until the last few I just had to do yearbook style (my apologies, anyone who wanted a haiku and just got a "hi, I love you" message instead... comment and I'll write one when I have more brain cells!).

Kohilo House ended up winning the Tempest Cup, though Brubu House (my house) did win in overall accumulated points from random sources. Kohilo had a lot more volunteers and people in the Quidditch and such, though, so they won the overall thing.

As it turned out, I won the silent auction item I bid on, a 1945 edition of Barchester Towers by Anthony Trollope! So I went to pick that up, and I bought an Aeolian University messenger bag while I was there, since my longtime travel/computer bag actually developed a fairly fatal hole in it sometime this weekend. (Some seams are actually giving out.) I've been carrying the previous one for TEN YEARS, and I got it FREE at a trade show, so I'd say I got my money's worth out of it...

We got late checkout, but I'm not going to the slashers pool party at 11am. (That's 5 minutes from now.) I don't want to get wet--I'm too tired for that--and I realize if I stop now I've probably managed to avoid any tearful goodbyes.

There was a young 'un last night (I'm guessing he was 18? If that?) who was blubbering as his friends dragged him from elevator to elevator, that in his school he's the "Harry Potter nut" and here everyone loved and accepted him and was like him and now he had to go back to the real world.

I had my own "OMG, it's over" moment at the ball. At one point I was up on the balcony looking down on everyone and realizing it. It's just like the end of summer camp, or a lot of other great experiences I've had, and it made me appreciate how really lucky I am. The "real life" I go back to is not all that different from the conference in a lot of ways. I've surrounded myself in my life with not only the sort of people who go nuts for Harry Potter, but who accept me for who I am and support the fact that I go nuts for Harry Potter (and other things).

I'll still bawl if something hits me right, but it'll be a happy, emotional-release kind of crying, not grief. I'd still like to avoid it--I'm getting on a plane and being stuffed up is the last thing I want. (And I forgot to pack enough allergy meds. Oops.)

Time to pack!

Date: 2008-08-10 20:43 Subject: Terminus Day Five Security: Public Tags: terminus

Terminus Day Five

Last day of Terminus! I'm soooooo tired. Slept like a stone last night, but only seven hours or so. Didn't go to as many presentations, since a two hour slot was taken up in the morning for the keynote that I didn't pay to see. And then clauclauclaudia and I had a leisurely breakfast so I missed the presentation on wizard dueling I had been interested in.

( First up, Latin for Wizards )

I then landed in the Room of Requirement with a lot of the friends I made, drabbling and drawbling in each other's friendship books. I wrote a LOT Of haikus for people this weekend. Most of them smutty or suggestive, of course. No, I don't have copies of them so if you want to read them, you'll have to beg people like bethbethbeth, chibitoaster, gatewaygirl, djinn7, amanuensis1, ze_dragon, alisanne, jin_fenghuang, nimori, and sassy_cissa to post them. (I've lost track of all the ones I've done...) We also coined a new term for "Snarco," which is "Drapery." Yay!

( Then, LOVE IS A BATTLEFIELD: Authorship, Ownership, and Fan Appropriation )

At 4pm I was too tired to go to One More Panel, so I landed back in the Room of Requirement to do some more haiku, and then got ready to go to dinner.

Later, just got back from a fabulous spanish dinner with much sangria, paella, and tapas with silver_ariel (who had been to the restaurant before), and lesyeuxverts, Val (eeek, what's your LJ name again?), claudclauclaudia, jin_fenghuang, chibitoaster, and gatewaygirl. Now we're getting dressed for the Bon Voyage Ball. Tomorrow there's a goodbye breakfast, and then the con is done! We'll probably spend the afternoon in Caribou Coffee where there's free wireless before we go to the airport. If there are no delays, I'll be back on the ground in Boston just after 9pm!