lilacsigil

Title: Don't Know Where, Don't Know When
Author: lilacsigil
Recipient: such_heights for femslash11
Fandom: Doctor Who/Harry Potter
Pairing: Martha Jones/Nymphadora Tonks, Minerva McGonagall/River Song
Rating: Mature
Word count: 4200
Disclaimer: Not mine.
Warnings: Brief mention of the Holocaust.
Notes: Thanks to st_aurafina for epic beta reading.

Summary: In 2007, Martha Jones inadvertently invents a device that affects magic. In 1944, a battle-worn Minerva McGonagall has an assignation with a secret agent. In 1995, Tonks is sent to a field with too many owls. Grindelwald's defeat depends on someone stepping outside of time.

( Don't Know Where, Don't Know When )

st_aurafina and I have been in a bit of a creative slump, writing-wise, though we did make some great art-quilts, and planned a project for 2007. To get the writing mojo working in time for yuletide, we had a drabble-a-thon over the last few days. We selected 20 words from an old encyclopedia (via the 10th-word-on-the-page technique), and 20 characters we find interesting and both know. Then we pulled out the D&D dice and randomly assigned ourselves a word and a character each, then got to work, ten times over. It's an ex-drabble-ganza!

Spoilers only where indicated - most of the drabbles are not issue/episode/novel specific. All rated G, all gen, all 100 words except for two that just wouldn't be cut down that far.

( Early: Lisa Cuddy (House) )
( Long: Mundungus Fletcher (Harry Potter) )

( Mathematics: Inara Serra (Firefly) )
( Great: Minerva McGonagall (Harry Potter) )

( Emperor: Barbara Gordon (DC) )
( Habit: Mickey Smith (Doctor Who, spoilers for first three episodes of Ninth Doctor only) )

( Relative: Iron Man (Marvel) )
( Publish: Psylocke (X-Men) )

( Order: Emma Frost (X-Men) )
( Soon: Hiro Nakamura (Heroes: Spoilers up to Episode 9) )

Title: Nymphadora Tonks and the Mystery at Malfoy Manor
Author: lilacsigil
Femgenficathon 2006
Rating: PG
Fandom: Harry Potter
Warnings: Violence
Prompt: By the time I'd grown up, I naturally supposed that I'd grown up.--Eve Babitz.
Summary: The Malfoy family, accused of being Death Eaters, demand Aurors to protect them at one of their parties. Tonks is less than pleased to be assigned, especially when the party goes horribly wrong. Set during Order of the Phoenix.
Thanks to st_aurafina for reading the early versions!

( Part One )

It's fun to be someone else for a while: in the recent HP ficathon, reversathon, I became Magenta Mucklerooney (magentam), the Anti-Dementor.

The request that I received was:
Request: A gen story that shows Snape learning to respect Neville. Setting - post-HBP or post-war. The respect issue can be as major or unimportant as you like to the story as a whole. I just want to see Snape acknowledging Neville's worth, damnit! I don't think things look
very rosy for Snape after HBP, so I don't want him having it easy (perhaps he's living as something of a pariah, for example), but you don't have to have him under threat of execution or anything. I'm thinking drama rather than darkfic. Random prompts (which you can ignore if you like): sunshine, Slughorn, transfiguration.

Oddly enough, I'd never written either of these characters, even though they're two of my favourites. So thank you, lyras, for a great request. I'm reposting now in my own journal for archival purposes: it's gen, featuring Neville and Snape, post-war.

( Neville's Ark )

On the flip side, the delightful and talented krabapple, who had already written an awesomely cool HP/Doctor Who (Ten) crossover, wrote Remus & Greyback fic for me. It's the best kind of dark: philosophical, intelligent and ruthless. Poor Remus. It's titled Velocity of Motion and a wonderful exploration of both the wolf within, and the wolves at the door.

A piece of Christmas fluff for violet_quill's Make Yuletide Gay Challenge.


Christmas Wishes, Midnight Kisses

HP fandom, schoolgirl Christmas fluff featuring Lily Evans and Alice With-No-Maiden-Name (Longbottom). Guest starring Narcissa Black.

Content warning: contains scenes of schoolgirls aged about 12 and 15 kissing.


( Christmas Wishes, Midnight Kisses )

In other news, Christmas makes people strange, and so does hot weather. Still, we'll have a thunderstorm tomorrow, then a cool weekend. Lovely.

One drabble for hpgen100
The challenge is "The Black Family".
( Housework )

These two are for the Cat's Birthday challenge, hosted by mctabby, and my assignment was "Petunia discovers what Dudley saw when he was confronted by the Dementors" for jackoweskla

( Dudley )

These linked drabbles are for hp100 rather than hpgen100 because one of them is most definitely not gen.

Title: 100 Strokes
Author: lilacsigil
House: Ravenclaw
Words: 100 x3
Challenge: One Hundred
Characters: Bellatrix, Narcissa/Lucius, Andromeda, Tonks

( 100 Strokes: Bellatrix )

( 100 Strokes: Narcissa )

( 100 Strokes: Andromeda )

This one is for hpgen100

It follows book canon (or at least absence of book canon) and not movie canon in PoA.

Challenge: Bow
Characters: Justin Finch-Fletchley, Dumbledore
Words: 100

( Another String to his Bow. )

And the first thing I've ever written in the Harry Potter fandom. For hpgen100

100 words, Godric's Hollow.

( New Beginnings )