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Holy carp, I just randomly wrote something again.

If this keeps up, I'm going to be very confused.

I'm also behind on comments again. Gah, I suck!

Only sortof feel like writing a real update. Will probably sleep instead. Work tomorrow; if cold continues to clear up, will actually do so. Merf.

Still, writing! I have the vague urge to post it just to celebrate having written it, but it's so in the middle of something strange that everyone will just be like, dude, WTF?, and I'll be like, dude, whatever, and they'll be like, dude, yo crazy, and nothing will come of it. But writing!

Writing meme stolen from, oh, the entire HP fandom...

Top Ten Signs That You're Reading Arkadyfic:

10. If it's gen, it's probably at least dripping with angst from unexpected characters, if not quite violent.

9. If there's a pairing, it's probably at least tension-filled (if it's popular), likely quite unusual, occasionally the first or only time you'll ever see said pairing.

8. If there's sex, it's probably kinky. And not SSC pre-negotiated kink, either, but random, impulsive, violent, sometimes borderline non-con kink.

7. The characters it focuses on are probably obscure or those not often written about, and if they aren't, they're probably seen by an unexpected or unusual, or at least unusually intense, light--at least I hope, because I strive so hard not to write the obvious.

6. Only slightly fewer dashes per paragraph than the doyenne of dashes herself--Emily Dickinson.

5. And sentences are relentlessly headed by conjunctions. Any conjunction.

4. The narration-to-dialogue ratio is higher than the crowd at a Bob Dylan concert.

3. An aching, burning lack of plot. Nothing but the shifting motivations of characters or the unmarked passage of time. No plot, no climax (except the orgasms), just an existential mess of nothing.

2. Loooooooooong sentences. Endless, flourishing, over-poetic, carried-away sentences that probably need to be read aloud just to make sense out of them. See number one.

Aaaaaand the number one?

1. Semicolon abuse. No, seriously; look around any of my fics and you'll see them, those poor overworked semicolons, whipped to within an inch of their lives, comma-tails quivering in dismay, cowering between unrelated clauses, straining to hold together overweighted hundred-word sentences, because we're not just talking one or two; oh, no; we're talking serial semicolons, serial semicolon abuse!

Also, have cookied. Moofle!

EDIT: Not to totally spam you today, will edit it on here:

I JUST GOT MY FIRST REAL BPAL LAB ORDER OMG SQUEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEE!

Bottles of Shanghai, Emyreal Mist, and Holiday Moon (and first sniff of that, even with my stuff-up nose, is HEAVEN), and an ASSLOAD of frimps on top of the six I originally ordered. Total imp haul? Greed, The Lion, the infamous Snake Oil, Kabuki (mmmmm, smells so good even through the imp), Fallen, Ode on Melancholy, Wolfsbane, Whip, Xiuhtecuhitli, Dublin, Venice, Delight, Euphrosyne. So seven frimps as well as the original six-pack! Dear lord, YAY! OMGOMGOMGOMG SQUEEEEEE!