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And now, announcing the masterlist of fics and drabbles from the 2013 Summer Remus/Tonks drabble/drawble meme! Thanks to everyone who played along. A couple of these even incorporate, or nod at, some of the new information from Remus's bio on Pottermore.

Also, more is always better, so if anyone wants to get another fic or drabble -- or some art? -- added in here, just post a link in the comments.

( Masterlist )
Shall we do this again for the year-end holidays? ;)
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I've been trying to use the summer R/T drabble/drawble meme to force me to finish a new Kaleidoscope chapter. And I am so close, but not quite there yet. (I've actually broken 5000 words on this one, which is unusual for me, but it needs at least one more edit. And a title. I hate titles!)

So -- apologies to people like

huldrejenta who worked fast this weekend to actually make the original Sept 1 deadline (and her piece is very sweet, if anyone is looking for some new R/T to read), but I think I'll hold off a few more days before posting the masterlist. At least two of us are still going... Let's say, maybe Friday for the masterlist? I'm hoping I can get my fic posted in the next day or two, but it's always good to leave a margin, lol.

Anyone else who would like to add something to the meme, just link it over there in the comments thread and I'll be happy to include it in the masterlist. No drabble is too short! (Or too long, heh.)
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The Fire and Hemlock book discussion entered something of a lull before we all got around to trying to figure out what the heck the ending of the book means and where all the pieces in that climactic final scene came from. I'd been thinking about giving the coals a poke to see if we could get any new flames to shoot up, but -- even better --

gilpin25 has been back and has posted about the ending, the age difference, the opal, the horse, and other thought-provoking things. So do jump back in if you have thoughts to provoke.

And, while I'm posting -- remember that Remus/Tonks drabble/drawble meme? There have been a number of drabbles and fics posted for that already (hooray), but here's a reminder that the masterlist will go up on or near September 1. There's still almost a week to get inspired. :) (And more links can always be added to the masterlist after September 1; life is flexible around here.) I think I'll have the first HBP chapter of Kaleidoscope done in time...
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I know, I know -- there's stuff going on at

pulped_fictions and

bujold_fic, and there's the Fire and Hemlock book discussion right here, and people are traveling, and all.

But

huldrejenta and I were thinking that this would be a perfect time to take advantage of the current Remus Lupin buzz, and see if we could get just a little more Remus/Tonks fic or art in the world.

Summer 2013 Remus/Tonks drabble/drawble meme:
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Then what?

I'll make a masterlist of all drabbles/drawbles inspired by this meme on or about September 1. (I can also add additional links after that date; we're all flexible around here.)
If you'd like your drabble or drawble included in the masterlist, just post a comment here with a link to your work (or you can post your entire work here as a comment).

Note: We're calling this a "drabble/drawble meme" to make it super-easy to participate, but there's no requirement to keep it short. Novel-length fics and giant murals are also completely welcome. ;)

Also, for anyone who's thinking, "wasn't

shimotsuki supposed to post a masterlist from the last R/T drabble/drawble meme?" -- you're quite right, and I've just posted it tonight (backdated so it shows up close to the actual meme post in my journal archive): Holiday drabble/drawble meme 2012 masterlist
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Here is the masterlist of drabbles and fics that were produced for the Remus/Tonks holiday drabble meme 2012. Thanks to everyone who came up with something!

( Masterlist )
Anyone who would like to add a late entry to this list -- just comment here and let me know.
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For the Remus/Tonks holiday drabble meme! Happy holidays to everyone.

And to All a Good Night (700 words | PG | AU)
Teddy starts asking questions about Father Christmas. The answer he gets is completely unexpected. (Brief reference to incidents in my OotP Christmas fic, The Things We Remember.) AU, in the Warp and Weft ficverse.

( And to All a Good Night )
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When I joined LJ almost exactly six (!) years ago, it was so that I could post at the January 2007 event at

rt_challenge. And every December after that, there was an event going on at

metamorfic_moon. So this is the first holiday season I've faced without a Remus/Tonks event -- and I'm going through a certain amount of withdrawal, lol.

And so, I thought this just might be a chance for a little R/T drabble (or drawble) meme. There are no rules, because I'm just making this up right now, but ( here's how I thought it could work: )

Blame

katyscarlett76 for this, because she was encouraging me to do it. ;) (And yes, I'm still working on Kaleidoscope Ch 3, and totally planning to post by the end of the year!)
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In celebration of the fact that I'm taking tonight off (whee!) and that I finally finished my 2010 fic-in-review post (discovering, along the way, that my 2009 fic-in-review post was apparently likewise finished in April 2010), I'm irresponsibly borrowing this meme from

avanti_90 and

philomytha.

Maybe this will wake the muses up, because classes are over in just two more weeks and I do hope can get some longer pieces done in the near future!

( Post a single sentence from each WIP you have (or as many as you want to pick). No context, no explanations. No more than one sentence! )
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Here are the results from the International Women's Day drabble meme! And they're almost all true 100-word drabbles; I only got carried away on two of them. ;)

Harry Potter

Luna Lovegood, for chococoffeekiss (100 words)
Lily Evans, for carnivalgirl (100 words)
Hermione Granger, for wildeagain (100 words)

Chalion

The Provincara, for mrstater (100 words)
Betriz, for bookish_brownie (200 words)
Iselle, for katyhasclogs (100 words)

The Thief

The Queen of Attolia, for gilpin25 (150 words)
Heiro (and Themis), for marbleglove (100 words)

This may be a really bad idea, given my progress so far on my list, but I haven't tried drabbling in a while, and it's so much fun. Plus, this week is Spring Break, dangit. So.

Meme borrowed from

mrstater and

chococoffeekiss, in honor of International Women's Day:
Name a woman in one of my fandoms and I will attempt a drabble about her.

I guess "my fandoms" would be:

Harry Potter
Chalion
Vorkosigan
The Thief
Earthsea
Trixie Belden?? (lol)

Or if there's something else you think you can make me write, suggestions are welcome!

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Stolen from

ladybracknell. Because I go on vacation tomorrow (it's a working vacation, but still), so why not write a few...drabblettes? drabblinos? subdrabbles?

...I think I like "subdrabbles".

Give me two characters and one word and I will write you something using no more than 30 words. (In fact, I'll try for exactly 30. Ha.)

Fandoms:

Harry Potter [SB, GW, stymied] [RL/NT, hula] [LE, RL, look] [RL/NT, questionable] [JP, RL, fear] [RL/NT, sugar] [AB/TT, courting] [RL/NT, first steps]
Chalion/Paladin [prayer] [bump] [duty] [lessons]
Vorkosi-verse [trouble]
The Thief (as spoiler-free as I can manage)
My original characters Allison and Nathan from pulped_fictions [rain]

Note: I may not actually finish these until this evening or tomorrow. We'll see how the dreadfully boring editing of a departmental policy document goes this afternoon. ;) ETA: And please don't mind if I do them out of order -- blame it on the muse!
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Apparently this meme began life as a WIP meme, but

duck_or_rabbit and

paulamcg have created a variation with excerpts from completed fics. Well, today I was (finally) finishing a year-in-review fic index for 2009 that I started in, um, January, so it was kind of fun to look over some of those stories and grab snippets while I was at it. I'm following the no-explanations rule, but at least I can say that all the excerpts are from fics that were posted last year. ;)

Post a paragraph or a scene from as many of your fics or WIPs as you want, with no explanation attached.

The teachers all knew the password to the stairs that led to the Headmaster’s office, as a matter of policy, but he had tried to make it clear at staff meetings how little he liked to be disturbed when he was up here. Merely, of course, because it was easier to do his jobs—both overt and clandestine—when he was alone. His preference for solitude had nothing to do with the looks of loathing and wounded betrayal in the eyes of teachers who had once been reasonable colleagues.

That was irrelevant.

( eight more snippets )

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If anyone's wondering why I'm still behind with my reading at

metamorfic_moon, late with f-list comments, and making no progress on the Great Arthur-Percy Row Scene for "All Will Be in Order," you can blame it all on

bratanimus for tagging me for what has to be the most fun meme I've ever seen:

Make yourself a Mary Sue in the Harry Potter universe and describe your perfectly perfect cliche-self, embracing the long, proud tradition of self-insertion and Mary-Sueism. Then tag five people on your friends list to do the same.

( Harry Potter and the Seer of Salem )

I hereby tag (apologies if you've already been tagged, and feel free to ignore this if it's not your cup of tea):

gilpin25,

jncar,

mrstater,

wildmagelet,

hrymfaxe, and

eltea.
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I'm not sure I've accumulated enough stories yet for this meme to work, but it looks like fun, so let me try it and see what happens:

Leave a comment to ask any of my characters, from any of my stories, any question you want, and "they" will answer you! (Warning: there may be story spoilers in these comments.)

Hope everyone's Meta fics are proceeding apace. Mine, well ... I might make it by Sunday ... I hope.
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I've been out of town for a long weekend, and I came back to find the Jumble results at

metamorfic_moon (!!!) and all these "writer's memes" on my flist. This is a great meme, because now I have lots of new links for fics to read, which I'm really looking forward to -- once I finish reading and reviewing all the Jumble fics at Meta, of course.

Since I was tagged by

bratanimus, I'll give this a try myself.

WRITER'S MEME: Sometimes it's ok to pimp yourself out. Post a list of the top five favorite fics you've written, regardless of fandom or the reason you love them. This isn't about the BEST things you've written, but what you LOVE most. Then tag five other people to do the same.

A lot of my fics are either little drabbly things, or works in progress that haven't yet seen the light of day. But let's see.

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And now, literally everyone on my flist has already been tagged by someone else, so this is the end of the line.