Night Island

I've always wanted to do one of these! I got this from nay when I was trying to kill time before the Tonys started last night.

Rules: list the first lines of your last 10 published stories. See if there are any patterns yourself, or have other people say what they notice. (Tumblr
memes always include tagging, but here I'm setting it free for anyone else who wants to play!)

( Here's a reminder that I should try to write more than just drabbles for once )

These are all Night Vale and Harry Potter fics, which makes sense since those are fandoms I always returned to when I'm not really into any others. Reading over these first lines kinda makes me want to go back and tweak them. I feel like I use a lot of adjectives and adverbs, but I'm not sure if I totally enjoy the effect on second glance. Since most of these are drabbles, the opening lines all seem direct and to the point. I was surprised that I used dialogue on several occasions to open the stories, but again, it makes sense for drabbles. I actually like opening a story with dialogue and should try to do it more often. Some of these probably could have been expanded into longer stories, but I was sticking to drabbles at the time to get back into the habit of writing. Also, it is really obvious that I'm a Snape fangirl.

From now on, I will try to post on a more regular schedule at least once a month if I can help it. Without looking it up, I can't even remember when I posted last. *sighs* If I post more often, I won't feel like such a guilty teenager slinking in after curfew every time I post after months of journal neglect.

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I... will probably participate in this. I haven't had the best luck with writing as of late, but a fair few of the prompts have caught my eye...

Now that the sorting quiz is back on Pottermore, I finally took it. I was a member of Pottermore before the quiz got taken away, but I never got any further than getting my wand. This time I started fresh (there was the possibility to link your old account to your new account so that you can keep your wand and original sorting), and I got Gryffindor. I am surprised and a little disappointed because I can no longer call myself a Ravenclaw. :( Gryffindor seems overrated and gets too much attention from the books. I believe that I got Ravenclaw when I took the sorting quiz on other sites that claimed to have all of the possible sorting questions, but it has been a while. Anyway, here are the questions that I got on Pottermore and my answers:

( Pottermore sorting questions and my answers )

Those are the questions that I got, but I believe they were in a different order. I found the full list of questions and answers over at the Pottermore analysis tumblr. If there's a more up-to-date resource, I'd sure like to know about it.

I may try to get access to my old account in order to see what my old wand was (I believe it was still dragon heartstring) and do the sorting ceremony again. This time, I got ash wood with a dragon heartstring core (probably my least favorite core, but whatever) 10 1/4 inces and a hard flexibility. more information can be found here. It sounds like it would be a very loyal wand. I will probably post more about my wand later, but I'm feeling a bit bored and tired now.

All right, my first week of the semester is over! It seems that my last semester at this college will be somewhat low-key although I really must put a lot of effort into my intermediate Spanish class if I want to improve. I have mixed feelings about the semester already. Since this is my last semester, I am already starting to miss the college that has become my home over the last five years. It was the college that I never wanted to attend at first and that I often wished I could have been done with faster as I took my time to ease myself into the demands of college life, but I hate to say goodbye now. I will miss everyone and everything that has become familiar to me, especially favorite guy. I hope that I will be able to see him a lot before the semester is over and that I will get the chance to see him even after that because the idea of possibly never seeing him again brings tears to my eyes.

I didn't really feel like doing anything this morning, so all I did was do some Spanish lessons and goof off on the Internet. There were plenty of things I should have been doing, though. I still want to continue with snowflake_challenge, but I will probably get to that later today.

It sucks that Alan Rickman had to die this week. :( Unlike with David Bowie's passing, I was familiar with Rickman's work. I am an unabashed Snape fangirl, and Alan Rickman is at least 50% of why I started loving the character in the first place. He will always be remembered for the way he bewitched our minds and ensnared our senses. From that first Potions' class onward, I became a Snape fan instantly.

They're doing a HP reread over at Tor.com. I may look into participating even though I am already planning to do a reread of The Tale of the Body Thief at vc_media. Like the first reread post says, I'm sure Rickman's death will affect the way I read that book now that he and Snape are gone. If I do participate, it will be my first reading of the book since I read it when it first came out. My, how time flies.