Fic, Whine, Rights

Have just posted the monster fic in three parts over at ronlucius:
Fools Rush [Ron/Lucius, NC-17]

Only three days late and two-thirds un-betaed, *whistles*. I blame it on the weather - every time I had the time to cycle to the internet cafe, it started to pour down and I was lured by the siren song of 'well, I *could* edit it a bit more'.

I'm pretty insecure about it considering that the beta left me in the lurch without warning, so a lot less than I had expected remains unbetaed... So *if* there's someone out there with a severe case of masochism who could imagine ripping 28000 words of rarepair apart plot-wise and hitting me over the head with grammar errors, I'd be eternally grateful. If not, I *sure* don't blame you ;).

The 'Gay Rights' thing that's going round? Should we *need* them? The absurdity of dividing the world into 'lovers first class' and 'lovers second class' should be glaringly obvious. Should be. But then a lot of things should be obvious and aren't. Because the world sucks.

The Anonymous Twelve Character Meme: OCs

An original character variation of everybody's favourite meme, filched from snorkackcatcher:

Choose twelve of your original characters in any particular order. (NO PEEKING AT THE QUESTIONS AT THIS STAGE!) Then, answer the questions that follow.

1. Marius Higgs (Terence's brother, from 'Slytherin Lovers')
2. The Unnamed Assassin (carrying the PoV in 'Somewhat Lighter Sympathy')
3. Helene Lemarchand (Gregory Goyle's mother from 'The Right to Choose')
4. The Muggleborn Ravenclaw Ghost (narrator of 'So You Want to Go to Hogwarts?')
5. Angeletta Zabini (Blaise's aunt from 'Burdens')
6. Johannis Bellum (the Archivarius of Grindelwald town, from 'Burdens')
7. Magda Lativari (Harry's student at Durmstrang in 'No Desert')
8. Grizzle, the House-Elf (in the employ of House Malfoy in various fics)
9. Loman Humperdinck (Quodpot Supplies salesman from 'The Slayer and the Squib')
10. Abernathy Spudmore (Ministry clerk in 'And You Were Worried about Rodents?')
11. Moire Parkinson (St. Mungo's healer and mother of Pansy in 'And You Were Worried about Rodents?')
12. Theobald Wolfe (aide of Barty Crouch sen. in 'And You Were Worried about Rodents?')

Damn, I had to dig deep to find 12 OCs with something resembling a personality...

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Canon Musing... Grimmauld Place

I've just mused and wondered... why would the Noble and Most Ancient House of Black with all their emphasis on pureblood pedigree locate their ancestral home (or just their bloody townhouse residence) in the middle of a dingy, run-down, *Muggle* neighbourhood rather than in the wizarding parts of London?