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Aug. 16th, 2008 07:04 pmHave been offline for most of the last two weeks -- my landlady in London was switching phone providers, and [numerous expletives deleted] BT have been cocking up putting in a replacement line, hence the lack of Net access except at weekends down in Devon. So my apologies if I've missed anything I should have commented on!
A couple of things seen in passing and noted with the old mobile phone camera. First, a photo of Brangelina at some event that was taken by one of the snappers where I work and put up in the lift (the dimness of which is why the flash left a bright spot, Mr Pitt isn't auditioning for Twilight as far as I know):
Why am I bothering to post this? Well, I wondered if it was just me, or does it remind anyone else of the Arnolfini Portrait in the National Gallery? I suppose it's just the pose and colour of the dress that does it.
Photo #2 is an advert for one of the evening free papers seen on a van:
Well, I liked it, anyway. Although as far as the paper's concerned I usually prefer its rival thelondonpaper, which has a cryptic crossword that is (at least in principle) solvable between Victoria Station and West Norwood. Which segues nicely to a mention of:
Title: Solving the Clues
Rating: PG-13
Length: 8,550 words
Summary: Kingsley Shacklebolt had never expected his habit of solving the Daily Prophet crosswords to uncover a security leak. But when the Potterwatch passwords started to appear in them as answers to clues, he had little choice but to investigate who was behind it ...
Link to the ficjournal version, also up now in the usual places (Checkmated, FA, FFN).
And finally, on the subject of fic, can anyone take a look at a recently-completed one (titled A Law of the Medes and Persians) and give me some extra critical feedback before I post it anywhere? Unfortunately, it's novella-length (about 29K words), set in the first couple of weeks after the Battle of Hogwarts, with baby Teddy falling foul of some old werewolf-related laws. Harry POV, rather an ensemble cast (Trio, Ginny, Andromeda, Kingsley, Umbridge, Amos Diggory etc), and due to its length and setting contains a reasonable amount of the old Plotty McPlot, with subplots including Ministry politics, Harry/Ginny, and some passing Ron/Hermione (it's matched up with my earlier In The Bleak Midwinter without quite committing to definitely saying they're set in the same version of the Potterverse). It would therefore be useful to get an opinion from someone who is at least indifferent to these ships. :)
A couple of things seen in passing and noted with the old mobile phone camera. First, a photo of Brangelina at some event that was taken by one of the snappers where I work and put up in the lift (the dimness of which is why the flash left a bright spot, Mr Pitt isn't auditioning for Twilight as far as I know):
Why am I bothering to post this? Well, I wondered if it was just me, or does it remind anyone else of the Arnolfini Portrait in the National Gallery? I suppose it's just the pose and colour of the dress that does it.
Photo #2 is an advert for one of the evening free papers seen on a van:
Well, I liked it, anyway. Although as far as the paper's concerned I usually prefer its rival thelondonpaper, which has a cryptic crossword that is (at least in principle) solvable between Victoria Station and West Norwood. Which segues nicely to a mention of:
Title: Solving the Clues
Rating: PG-13
Length: 8,550 words
Summary: Kingsley Shacklebolt had never expected his habit of solving the Daily Prophet crosswords to uncover a security leak. But when the Potterwatch passwords started to appear in them as answers to clues, he had little choice but to investigate who was behind it ...
Link to the ficjournal version, also up now in the usual places (Checkmated, FA, FFN).
And finally, on the subject of fic, can anyone take a look at a recently-completed one (titled A Law of the Medes and Persians) and give me some extra critical feedback before I post it anywhere? Unfortunately, it's novella-length (about 29K words), set in the first couple of weeks after the Battle of Hogwarts, with baby Teddy falling foul of some old werewolf-related laws. Harry POV, rather an ensemble cast (Trio, Ginny, Andromeda, Kingsley, Umbridge, Amos Diggory etc), and due to its length and setting contains a reasonable amount of the old Plotty McPlot, with subplots including Ministry politics, Harry/Ginny, and some passing Ron/Hermione (it's matched up with my earlier In The Bleak Midwinter without quite committing to definitely saying they're set in the same version of the Potterverse). It would therefore be useful to get an opinion from someone who is at least indifferent to these ships. :)
