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Took me long enough to get over RL mumbo jumbo, but I think I can just barely make a few challenges this month then begin NaNoWriMo and continue on my personal projects (CASA and the Color Series, which you shall see what it is). 

Any requests to inaugurate my return?  I will also check the old requests and crank 'em out if possible.

I have been extremely honored and proud to be nominated for two very excellent awards, in which I have tremendously talented company.  I'm frankly just flabbergasted but highly happy.

"The Art of Picking Up Faith" was nominated for Rare Femslash Pair for the Fang Fetish Awards.

"Sweet William's Poetry" was nominated for an Indigo Crypt award.  

I'm dancing on air.  In celebration, in addition to your regularly scheduled HP chapter this week, there will be a special Buffy fic.  Any member of my flist who would like to suggest pairings, characters, kinks or plots is welcome to do so.  

Oh, and just for the halibut - more April Bleach fic coming soon... though hopefully those of you who have friended me for "Nails" have a broad palette, because I believe my next will be either Yoruichi/Soi Fong femslash (because that's so incredibly hot) or possibly center around Mayuri... because he's so amazingly, awesomely evil it just sounds like fun to write him.  In anything.

Plus... original fic.  Oh yes.  Though that may be in May.

 Title: Sweet William's Poetry
Pairing: Angelus/Spike
Rating: NC-17
Warnings: comestibles, hot wax, dominance/submission, whipping, restraints, explicit m/m sex, quill pen/ink play.
Notes: The introduction is an homage to the fantastic writer Steven Brust, who is the first person I know of to use this particular (laundry note) trope. This is complete PWP, just the setting and the sex... (the way Angelus likes it.)

Mssr. Angelus -
We have enclosed the payment previously deferred for the laundering of [2] mens' shirts, white, [2] mens' waistcoats, one crimson, one black, [1] pair mens' trousers, brown, [1] pair silk stockings, white, [1] silk cravat, white. We humbly beg your pardon, but the damage to the clothes was so extensive that the means at our disposal simply would not restore them to proper form.

We found hardened beeswax on the trousers' belt band, which left a shine on the fabric. One shirt was drenched in whiskey and the other bore rust stains on the cuffs. Both shirts and waistcoats bore stains from zabaione, sugared peaches, India ink, and blood. There were deep blood stains on the cravat. The stockings were rust stained. There were gentlemens' stains on the trousers, which were removed, but these were also stained with ink and with minute drops of blood, which did not wash clean after several washings and rinsings...

 

Title: Of Nails and Nailing
Fandom: Bleach
Pairing:  Byakuya/Kenpachi 
Rating:  NC-17
Warnings:  explicit m/m sex, rough sex, frottage, violence.
Notes:  for the inauguration of sex_me_taichou .

 

My birthday fic from the divine Melanie is now up, and all I can really say is guh.  Lindsey MacDonald, knee-high boots and boot worship, riding crops, masquerades and candle wax.  Plus in addition to my request, some unbelieveably hot d/s crept into this.  It's just beautiful

Paper Faces on Parade

I come from Hawaii so it's fun to work with the Kahana Royale Macadamia liqueur.  

White Hawaiian

1 oz kahlua
1 oz Kahana Royale
Fill with milk.  

 

Title: Cold as Stone Angels
Chapter: One / Fire
Fandom: Harry Potter (DH Epilogue)
Pairing: Scorpius/Albus
Rating: PG
Warnings: Since movies are now rated PG for ‘scary situations’ so is this. It’s also getting slashier.
Notes: CaSA is a Scents-ibility fanfic, designed with the challenge of choosing new and interesting pairings or looking at existing favorite pairings through the lens of sensual aromas. The scents involved are Merlot and Sage.  Betaed by the absolutely smashing

smoldering_wit

 

 

Title: The Art of Picking Up Faith in a Hotel Room
Series: Angel the Series
Pairing: Faith/Lilah
Rating: NC-17
Warnings: Explicit f/f sex, bondage, knifeplay (of a sort)
Notes:  Set in "Five by Five."  The bunny would not let go of me.

but in the heartless jungle of a thousand dark regrets
full of morphine kisses and the burns from cigarettes

hypnotized, you draw to me the leather on your thighs
parted just to play for me the puppet I despise

and if I choose to draw cold fingers down your throat
open all your essence with a sanguine farewell note

then let you kiss the knife I pressed to tangle you in lies
you'll never see a drop of satisfaction in my eyes

for I am trapped in aftermath and drowning in perfume
an idiot to act this way, with this slave, in this room 

a useless pantomime designed to spark some lasting flame
futile as the echoes of a long-forgotten name.

Title:  Cold as Stone Angels
Chapter: Prologue
Fandom: Harry Potter (DH Epilogue)
Pairing:  Scorpius/Albus
Rating:  G
Warnings:  My God, I can't believe it.  It's funny and heartwarming.  Did I write this?
Notes:  CaSA is a Scents-ibility fanfic, designed with the challenge of choosing new and interesting pairings or looking at existing favorite pairings through the lens of sensual aromas.  The scents involved are oak-aged Merlot and Sage smoke.  Eventually, when this becomes more than pre-slash, these aspects of the characters will emerge.  The low-impact dazzle of a smooth, medium strength wine for Albus, with notes of oak, clove and leather.  The dominating, overpowering scent of sage, simultaneously sweet and bitter, whose strength is from fire and is associated with ritual and healing: Scorpius. 

Practice for my Cutler Beckett/Jack Sparrow epic. 
A flash fic, rated PG for sexuality and some references to violence.
 

So for starts, a few cocktail recipes. 

Sabaku Sousou

1/2 oz light rum
1/2 oz dark rum
1/2 oz brandy
Fill with orange-pineapple juices or orange-pineapple-guava juices mixed.
Shake.  
Serve in martini glass. 

Orange in Your Stocking

My Christmas drink, it turned out much better than expected.

One shot, or however you like your rocks drinks poured, Absolut Mandarin.
Fill with cranberry juice.
Stir. 

Waikiki Iced Tea

Brew fresh jasmine tea.  Chill.
Add 1 oz Kahana Royale Macadamia Nut Liqueur,
1 oz white rum
Shake with chilled white tea.
Garnish with fresh grated ginger.