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  <title>The Midshipman&apos;s Berth</title>
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  <pubDate>Sat, 14 Nov 2009 23:12:56 GMT</pubDate>
  <title>I HATE.....</title>
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  <description>FUCKING RACISTS&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;AKA MY MOTHER FUCKING EX&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Um...that is all</description>
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  <pubDate>Tue, 10 Nov 2009 21:38:26 GMT</pubDate>
  <title>Writer&apos;s Block: Famous last words</title>
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&lt;br /&gt;I love you&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;my boyfriend Syd&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;</description>
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  <pubDate>Sun, 18 Oct 2009 17:52:28 GMT</pubDate>
  <title>Jenson Button wins F1 Title!</title>
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  <description>&lt;span style=&quot;font-size: x-large;&quot;&gt;&lt;span style=&quot;color: rgb(153, 51, 102);&quot;&gt;CONGRATULATIONS TO JENSON AND EVERYONE AT BRAWN&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;http://pics.livejournal.com/nancybolitho/pic/00027hrw/&quot;&gt;&lt;img height=&quot;240&quot; border=&quot;0&quot; width=&quot;160&quot; src=&quot;http://pics.livejournal.com/nancybolitho/pic/00027hrw/s320x240&quot; alt=&quot;&quot; /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;strong&gt;&lt;span style=&quot;color: rgb(51, 153, 102);&quot;&gt;&lt;span style=&quot;font-size: medium;&quot;&gt;Also heartfelt congratulations to Mark Webber the actual race winner&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;http://pics.livejournal.com/nancybolitho/pic/00028pa9/&quot;&gt;&lt;img height=&quot;240&quot; border=&quot;0&quot; width=&quot;305&quot; src=&quot;http://pics.livejournal.com/nancybolitho/pic/00028pa9/s320x240&quot; alt=&quot;&quot; /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;</description>
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  <pubDate>Wed, 23 Sep 2009 07:56:07 GMT</pubDate>
  <title>I&apos;m in love</title>
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  <description>It feels great&lt;br /&gt;that is all</description>
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  <pubDate>Tue, 28 Jul 2009 23:26:47 GMT</pubDate>
  <title>Ok well,</title>
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  <description>I saw Potter today and was blown away by the brillience that is Tom Felton!&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;The movie is slow to start but once it pick up pace it is fantastic ans I cried like and idiot for the last60 mins of the film muc&lt;br /&gt;h to the amusement of my friend.&amp;nbsp; Really if you haven&apos;t seen it go and when you do take tissues.</description>
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  <pubDate>Fri, 24 Jul 2009 14:27:17 GMT</pubDate>
  <title>Grr...Bloody Men!</title>
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  <description>Why are men such egotistical idiots?&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;We are in the process of cutting down two trees in the back garden that had become unsafe.&lt;br /&gt;Next door have been keeping on about them for years to the landlord and my other half said he&apos;d do the job.&amp;nbsp; Please bare in mind that he&apos;s&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;A) working alone&lt;br /&gt;B) runs his own business so has to juggle the time he has &lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Anyway he was burning some of the wood yesterday and next door kicked off about the &amp;quot;knee deep vulcanic ash&amp;quot; the was in his garden I&apos;m sorry but WTF!?&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Threats were made by next door and egos grew.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;I think the lady next door and myself should go on holiday and leave them to it.&lt;br /&gt;end rant</description>
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  <pubDate>Fri, 03 Jul 2009 22:59:37 GMT</pubDate>
  <title>Ren update</title>
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  <description>Hades Star System&lt;br /&gt; Renaissance - Uliani&apos;s Quarters&lt;br /&gt; October 19th, 2388 - 0730 hours&lt;br /&gt; &lt;br /&gt; [ON]&lt;br /&gt; &lt;br /&gt; A man on a mission, Scarlet briskly passed the starfleet personnel that were&lt;br /&gt; just going to report for duty. He had to be quick. He wasn&apos;t about to track her&lt;br /&gt; down at work. He came to the door and for a moment he contemplated just over&lt;br /&gt; riding her security and letting himself in. She should be awake by now. No.&lt;br /&gt; Instead he used his good hand and pounded three times on her door.&lt;br /&gt; &lt;br /&gt; Uliani was awake and still feeling the glow of the previous nights amazing&lt;br /&gt; lovemaking, she had been up just over an hour having seen Nestor out and was now&lt;br /&gt; warming herself on her heated rock it seemed so much colder without Nestor&lt;br /&gt; around. Uliani sat up when the door chime sounded she shrugged, wearing just her&lt;br /&gt; dark green silk nightdress with the silver trim she called out come in figuring&lt;br /&gt; it was Nestor back to collect something after all he was the only person she&lt;br /&gt; knew crazy enough to be up so early. yawning she waited for the door to open.&lt;br /&gt; &lt;br /&gt; Hearing the call, Scarlet clicked the door open. He walked in quickly. As his&lt;br /&gt; eyes adjusted to the dimmer light, they focused on Uliani. &amp;quot;That the shrink&lt;br /&gt; couch you use on the really bad ones?&amp;quot; He then took a moment to notice exactly&lt;br /&gt; what she was wearing. &amp;quot;I guess so.&amp;quot; Without really waiting for her to comment,&lt;br /&gt; he walked over to her couch and sat down.&lt;br /&gt; &lt;br /&gt; Uliani took a deep breath she hadn&apos;t been looking forward to seeing the Captain,&lt;br /&gt; pulling on her robe she walked over to join him stopping briefly at the&lt;br /&gt; replicator for a pot of coffee and a plate of raspberry cookies setting the tray&lt;br /&gt; on the table she sat down to face him while pouring herself a cup then raised an&lt;br /&gt; eyeridge at him to see if he wanted coffee.&lt;br /&gt; &lt;br /&gt; As she did this Nemo bounced around her feet hoping for a cookie then he caught&lt;br /&gt; sight of Scarlet and hid behind her legs. &amp;quot;So Captain to what do I owe this&lt;br /&gt; pleasure&amp;quot; she said and was surprised when she found she meant it.&lt;br /&gt; &lt;br /&gt; &amp;quot;What do you know about yesterday?&amp;quot; Scarlet asked quickly. His eyes stared hard&lt;br /&gt; at her for a moment. &amp;quot;This is off the books. I find out there&apos;s any log or&lt;br /&gt; report of this conversation I will take you up on that offer to spar in the&lt;br /&gt; holodeck.&amp;quot;&lt;br /&gt; &lt;br /&gt; From the tone in his voice, it was obvious he was deathly serious now, and would&lt;br /&gt; not hesitate to drag her kicking and screaming into the holodeck. &amp;quot;Well I know&lt;br /&gt; you are back obviously, I know you took loses&amp;quot; she said then added in a quieter&lt;br /&gt; voice laced with sadness &amp;quot;I know you lost Quinn&amp;quot;.&lt;br /&gt; &lt;br /&gt; A shadow crossed over Scarlet&apos;s face. &amp;quot;We did take losses. The mission was a&lt;br /&gt; success, but I don&apos;t like losing people.&amp;quot; He paused for a moment more. &amp;quot;Off the&lt;br /&gt; record right?&amp;quot;&lt;br /&gt; &lt;br /&gt; Then shaking the sadness away she said &amp;quot;I agree this is totally off record&amp;quot;&lt;br /&gt; &lt;br /&gt; &amp;quot;This is my first active command. I&apos;ve led squads into dangerous situations&lt;br /&gt; before, but that was different. This... I hold the lives of my crew in my hands&lt;br /&gt; alone.&amp;quot; He shook his head and sighed. &amp;quot;I guess I&apos;ve worked too long as a lone&lt;br /&gt; soldier. Even when I was stationed on the Andfriend, it was still as a&lt;br /&gt; specialist advisor to the crew. I told them what I knew, and they used it, or&lt;br /&gt; not. The final decision was made by someone above me.&amp;quot;&lt;br /&gt; &lt;br /&gt; &amp;quot;I don&apos;t know what I was thinking sending Quinn in the way I did.&amp;quot; Scarlet shook&lt;br /&gt; his head slowly, replaying the events leading up to the mission in his head.&lt;br /&gt; &amp;quot;She was a medic, she should have never been on the front lines, even if it was&lt;br /&gt; a damn recon.&amp;quot; He looked at Uliani then. &amp;quot;I should have made her stay on the&lt;br /&gt; runabout with Keesmatt. Ghelor had enough of us around him, he didn&apos;t need the&lt;br /&gt; personnal slave to pass himself off as a slaver.&amp;quot;&lt;br /&gt; &lt;br /&gt; &amp;quot;As far as we can tell, Ghelor has the same bug you had. Of course, we didn&apos;t&lt;br /&gt; know that before the mission. When things went apeshit we didn&apos;t have our men on&lt;br /&gt; the inside like we should have.&amp;quot; He gritted his teeth. &amp;quot;But, I can&apos;t blame this&lt;br /&gt; on Ghelor. He wasn&apos;t himself.&amp;quot; He paused then and chuckled. &amp;quot;Don&apos;t worry, I&apos;m&lt;br /&gt; not blaming you either. We don&apos;t know where this bug started, so I&apos;m not going&lt;br /&gt; to place that on your shoulders. Hell, you might have caught it from him.&amp;quot;&lt;br /&gt; &lt;br /&gt; &amp;quot;It&apos;s just that... Quinn shouldn&apos;t have died.&amp;quot; Scarlet said firmly. &amp;quot;If she had&lt;br /&gt; been wearing body armour, the worst that would have happened is a few stitches&lt;br /&gt; to the abdomen and she would have been back on duty within a few days.&amp;quot;&lt;br /&gt; &lt;br /&gt; Uliani listened to what he had to say and she could feel a little bit of pity in&lt;br /&gt; her heart, she also knew he had not come there for that so she straightened up&lt;br /&gt; and squared her shoulders choosing her words carefully she said &amp;quot;firstly I know&lt;br /&gt; it&apos;s damn hard, but don&apos;t blame yourself for the losses that won&apos;t bring them&lt;br /&gt; back and it won&apos;t do you a damn bit of good&amp;quot; She knew she sounded cold but she&lt;br /&gt; hoped it would get through, somewhere in the gruff shell was a troubled person&lt;br /&gt; she wanted to reach out to that person and help.&lt;br /&gt; &lt;br /&gt; Scarlet couldn&apos;t help but smirk. &amp;quot;If you&apos;re going for an impression of me, I&apos;d&lt;br /&gt; have to say you&apos;re damn good.&amp;quot;&lt;br /&gt; &lt;br /&gt; &amp;quot;As for Mr Ghelor, Cardassian flu is untraceable unless you know what you are&lt;br /&gt; looking for. At most Ghelor would&apos;ve felt sleepy but Cardassians rarely show&lt;br /&gt; such things even amongst themselves. As for him believing he was a real slaver&lt;br /&gt; that is a rather ugly side effect that really could not be helped&amp;quot;&lt;br /&gt; &lt;br /&gt; She looked Scarlet straight in the eye for the next bit. &amp;quot;As for Edna or should&lt;br /&gt; I say Draxa Rul? well I have known her for quite sometime, in fact we grew up&lt;br /&gt; together, she was a servant at home on Cardassia, but that is not the point, my&lt;br /&gt; point is I knew the woman and I am saddened by her death. When we were on&lt;br /&gt; Cardassia she was never an equal but one day she took a beating from my bitch of&lt;br /&gt; a mother for something I did, I was also beaten when I tried to stop mother in&lt;br /&gt; her rage by telling her to leave her alone.&lt;br /&gt; &lt;br /&gt; Later that evening she came to me and bathed my wounds and we became friends as&lt;br /&gt; fucked up as that is. I am once again straying from my point and I apologise,&lt;br /&gt; Edna was a woman who put duty first, she knew the risks and excepted said risks&lt;br /&gt; knowing there was a chance she would not come back&amp;quot;&lt;br /&gt; &lt;br /&gt; Uliani had to stop there as her words caught in her throat it would look&lt;br /&gt; unprofessional to weep right now she decided. Finally she said &amp;quot;ok David I have&lt;br /&gt; heard the rumours and the things Nestor had to say on the subject you tell me&lt;br /&gt; what happened&amp;quot;&lt;br /&gt; &lt;br /&gt; Scarlet was about to speak, but stopped suddenly and looked hard at Uliani.&lt;br /&gt; &amp;quot;Scarlet.&amp;quot; He said firmly. &amp;quot;Don&apos;t call me that other name.&amp;quot; He shook his head&lt;br /&gt; then. &amp;quot;Rumours are one thing, they can&apos;t be stopped.&amp;quot; His gaze became icy.&lt;br /&gt; &amp;quot;Since this is off the books I&apos;ll forget that you said Calis told you anything.&amp;quot;&lt;br /&gt; He stopped then, standing up and walking over to the window, watching the stars&lt;br /&gt; flash by.&lt;br /&gt; &lt;br /&gt; &amp;quot;The things Nestor told me weren&apos;t to do with the mission they were about Quinn&lt;br /&gt; and of a personal nature&amp;quot; she told him softly then added &amp;quot;that was how I knew&lt;br /&gt; she was here after all this time apart most of the time believing her to be dead&lt;br /&gt; already&amp;quot; she swallowed a sob but was unable to stop a single tear.&lt;br /&gt; &lt;br /&gt; He had to digest what he had just heard about Quinn, that it had been Uliani&apos;s&lt;br /&gt; family that kept her as a slave. &amp;quot;It could have just as easily been me.&amp;quot; He said&lt;br /&gt; cryptically. He looked back at her then. &amp;quot;How do you think I managed to get by&lt;br /&gt; on Romulus for so long?&amp;quot; He paused then. &amp;quot;A slave. Behind closed doors, I was&lt;br /&gt; free... but in public I was a slave. I wasn&apos;t worth the air I breathed. How&lt;br /&gt; often I wanted to show them exactly what I was, for no other reason than to wipe&lt;br /&gt; the damn smirks and scowls of their faces.&amp;quot; He shook his head and smiled&lt;br /&gt; slightly. &amp;quot;I learned to keep my head low and still see everything.&amp;quot;&lt;br /&gt; &lt;br /&gt; His mind went back to his days on Romulus. For a split second he could have&lt;br /&gt; swore he smelled the exotic scents. &amp;quot;By the time I was pulled out, I was so used&lt;br /&gt; to this double life that it took a long time to get back to myself. But I still&lt;br /&gt; remember, the looks, the laughter, the hatred... all of it.&amp;quot;&lt;br /&gt; &lt;br /&gt; &amp;quot;So in a way this slave business still haunts you?&amp;quot; she asked.&lt;br /&gt; &lt;br /&gt; &amp;quot;I wish it was that simple doc.&amp;quot; Scarlet said with a sigh. &amp;quot;If I had been in&lt;br /&gt; Quinn&apos;s place... if I was ordered to do what she did, I wouldn&apos;t have questioned&lt;br /&gt; it once. I would have done exactly as was asked. Hell, even if the task was&lt;br /&gt; asking for volunteers and I had a choice... I probably would have done it.&amp;quot; He&lt;br /&gt; smiled in spite of himself. &amp;quot;I would never order my crew to do anything I&lt;br /&gt; wouldn&apos;t be willing to do myself.&amp;quot;&lt;br /&gt; &lt;br /&gt; Uliani nodded slightly, &amp;quot;A sign of a good commander of course however, with&lt;br /&gt; command comes the added issue of needing to ensure everything else goes to plan&amp;quot;&lt;br /&gt; she told him knowing full well he wouldn&apos;t want to hear it but simply that he&lt;br /&gt; had to hear it.&lt;br /&gt; &lt;br /&gt; He paused then. &amp;quot;But, it wasn&apos;t me.&amp;quot; He shook his head. &amp;quot;There&apos;s a difference&lt;br /&gt; when you die with a rifle in your hands. You&apos;re in the line of fire and it&apos;s a&lt;br /&gt; risk you take. With Quinn...&amp;quot; His eyes snapped onto Uliani&apos;s as he growled. &amp;quot;She&lt;br /&gt; was a damn medic... I should have NEVER put her in that position.&amp;quot; He looked&lt;br /&gt; back to the window and slammed his fist down onto the bulkhead. &amp;quot;I should have&lt;br /&gt; never let her do it. I knew she would though, I knew she&apos;d be good at it. Her&lt;br /&gt; past, her attitude... I knew she could pull it off. She was the perfect choice.&amp;quot;&lt;br /&gt; Looking down toward the deck, he sighed and was silent for a long time before&lt;br /&gt; continuing.&lt;br /&gt; &lt;br /&gt; Uliani walked up behind him and placed a gentle hand on his shoulder, &amp;quot;Yes&lt;br /&gt; Captain she would have been good at it and while she was a medic she knew how to&lt;br /&gt; serve, she always did. Her past made her the perfect person for the job, you&lt;br /&gt; knew that and I&apos;m sorry but YOU are the CO which means you can&apos;t be in that&lt;br /&gt; position no matter how much you wanted to be&amp;quot; She paused waiting for his&lt;br /&gt; reaction.&lt;br /&gt; &lt;br /&gt; &amp;quot;Yeah,&amp;quot; Scarlet muttered. &amp;quot;I know that as well. But it still doesn&apos;t help with&lt;br /&gt; this feeling that I should have done more. I&apos;m just arguing myself in a circle.&lt;br /&gt; I&apos;ve been doing that all damn night.&amp;quot; He looked back to Uliani then, there were&lt;br /&gt; no tears but the expression on his face told the story. &amp;quot;If Quinn had died in a&lt;br /&gt; firefight, I could be confident that I gave her the same opportunity as anyone&lt;br /&gt; else. She didn&apos;t without any armour, without proper support... without anything.&lt;br /&gt; I should never considered that part of the recon mission. Never.&amp;quot;&lt;br /&gt; &lt;br /&gt; &amp;quot;Captain what did happen, the rumours are a mine got her but somehow she still&lt;br /&gt; managed to do her work besides being in agony, is that true?&amp;quot; she needed to know&lt;br /&gt; suddenly, suddenly it mattered&lt;br /&gt; &lt;br /&gt; &amp;quot;Yes.&amp;quot; Scarlet said half to himself, running the images through his mind. &amp;quot;She&lt;br /&gt; worked her best right to the end. It&apos;s probably because of her that the&lt;br /&gt; operative survived.&amp;quot;&lt;br /&gt; &lt;br /&gt; &amp;quot;I swear that if anything is going to come out of his tragedy, it&apos;s going to be&lt;br /&gt; that.&amp;quot; Scarlet said firmly. He smiled slightly at the irony. &amp;quot;You&apos;re the only&lt;br /&gt; person to ever punch me and not get what&apos;s coming to them. And it&apos;s you I come&lt;br /&gt; to when I&apos;m tired of beating myself up. Go figure.&amp;quot;&lt;br /&gt; &lt;br /&gt; Uliani smiled at this. &amp;quot;The offer of a spar is still there anytime might help&lt;br /&gt; your frustration&amp;quot; then with a wink she added &amp;quot;I&apos;ll go easy on you&amp;quot;&lt;br /&gt; &lt;br /&gt; The joking was brushed aside in seconds as she said &amp;quot;when is the funeral Sir?&amp;quot;&lt;br /&gt; &lt;br /&gt; &amp;quot;Tomorrow.&amp;quot; Scarlet said with a grim nod. &amp;quot;It&apos;ll be a ceremony for everyone we&lt;br /&gt; lost.&amp;quot; He looked down at his PADD and sighed. &amp;quot;I have to go.&amp;quot;&lt;br /&gt; &lt;br /&gt; &amp;quot;Thank you for listening Uliani.&amp;quot; Scarlet said with a quiet nod.&lt;br /&gt; &lt;br /&gt; Squeezing his shoulder again she said &amp;quot;A pleasure my door is always open for&lt;br /&gt; off the record chats, just remember that ok&amp;quot;&lt;br /&gt; &lt;br /&gt; Walking over to the door, he smiled slightly and turned back to face Uliani once&lt;br /&gt; more. &amp;quot;You should congratulate Calis too.&amp;quot; He pulled out his PADD to show her.&lt;br /&gt; &amp;quot;Once Odos signs off on this, he won&apos;t be a private anymore.&amp;quot;&lt;br /&gt; &lt;br /&gt; Uliani smiled broadly at this, &amp;quot;I will congratulate him when I see him next&amp;quot;&lt;br /&gt; then with a teasing grin &amp;quot;providing you let him have the time off for it I know&lt;br /&gt; he&apos;ll be busier now&amp;quot;&lt;br /&gt; &lt;br /&gt; Outside the councilor&apos;s quarters, Scarlet looked around and adjusted his jacket.&lt;br /&gt; That had been the first time he had really opened up to someone in years.&lt;br /&gt; Quinn&apos;s death was still on his thoughts, he probably would never be able to&lt;br /&gt; fully forget the chaos back in Hades 4, but this was a step in the right&lt;br /&gt; direction.&lt;br /&gt; &lt;br /&gt; As her door slid shut, her tears began to fall, for him but mostly for Quinn. &lt;br /&gt; Walking to a table she picked up her comm badge tapping it she said &amp;quot; Theska to&lt;br /&gt; Dixon is there any chance I can come to see you Sir?&amp;quot; then she waited for him to&lt;br /&gt; answer as she slowly started to dress for work.&lt;br /&gt; &lt;br /&gt; [OFF]&lt;br /&gt; &lt;br /&gt; Captain David Scarlet&lt;br /&gt; Marine CO&lt;br /&gt; Played by Austin&lt;br /&gt; &lt;br /&gt; Ens. Uliani Theska&lt;br /&gt; Counselor&lt;br /&gt; Played by Becky</description>
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  <pubDate>Wed, 01 Jul 2009 09:48:22 GMT</pubDate>
  <title>Seven wally</title>
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  <pubDate>Thu, 25 Jun 2009 23:26:33 GMT</pubDate>
  <title>And So....</title>
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  <description>&lt;br /&gt;First I would like to wish Nana Visitor a very happy birthday for which i made this&lt;br /&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;http://pics.livejournal.com/nancybolitho/pic/0002583k/&quot;&gt;&lt;img height=&quot;240&quot; border=&quot;0&quot; width=&quot;319&quot; src=&quot;http://pics.livejournal.com/nancybolitho/pic/0002583k/s320x240&quot; alt=&quot;&quot; /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Seondly to any of you that read the long bit of OC fic writing I put up about Uliani Theska and Nestor Calis well there be more on the way.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;</description>
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  <pubDate>Tue, 23 Jun 2009 13:13:45 GMT</pubDate>
  <title>Who is that masked man?</title>
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  <description>&lt;a href=&quot;http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ifrtlC4NTys&quot;&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;Who is that masked man? The Stig is revealed&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=O0RsyGYX8wc&quot;&gt;www.youtube.com/watch&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;</description>
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  <pubDate>Tue, 23 Jun 2009 13:08:13 GMT</pubDate>
  <title>Michael Schumacher is The Stig!?</title>
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  <description>Somehow I really doubt it, I mean the Stig has been around for years and when exactly would Herr Schumacher have the time to take a break from his F1 career to drive &amp;quot;Reasonably priced cars&amp;quot; around a bloody airfield when he should have been testing god knows where?&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;However, I do like the idea that he has taken on the role since retirement from the F1 circus.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;My other theory is that the Stig is in fact Captain Slow himself Mr. James May!&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;In other thoughts is it just me or does &lt;h1&gt;Michael Schumacher&lt;/h1&gt;have a certain amount of sex appeal?&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;http://www.michael-schumacher.us/pictures/Michael-Schumacher-photo-8.jpg&quot;&gt;&lt;img src=&quot;http://www.michael-schumacher.us/pictures/Michael-Schumacher-photo-8.jpg&quot; alt=&quot;&quot; /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;</description>
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  <pubDate>Thu, 18 Jun 2009 18:59:13 GMT</pubDate>
  <title>Made this today</title>
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  <pubDate>Sun, 07 Jun 2009 18:41:14 GMT</pubDate>
  <title>Wallpaper meme whatsit</title>
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  <description>Copied from &lt;span class=&apos;ljuser ljuser-name_lady_drace&apos; lj:user=&apos;lady_drace&apos; style=&apos;white-space: nowrap;&apos;&gt;&lt;a href=&apos;http://lady-drace.livejournal.com/profile&apos;&gt;&lt;img src=&apos;http://l-stat.livejournal.com/img/userinfo.gif&apos; alt=&apos;[info]&apos; width=&apos;17&apos; height=&apos;17&apos; style=&apos;vertical-align: bottom; border: 0; padding-right: 1px;&apos; /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;a href=&apos;http://lady-drace.livejournal.com/&apos;&gt;&lt;b&gt;lady_drace&lt;/b&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&amp;nbsp;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;01. Anyone who looks at this entry has to post this meme and their current wallpaper at their LiveJournal. (Err... no, you don&apos;t have to... really.) &lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;02. Explain in five sentences why you&apos;re using that wallpaper. &lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;03. Don&apos;t change your wallpaper before doing this. The point is to see what you had on. &lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;So here&apos;s mine.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;http://pics.livejournal.com/nancybolitho/pic/00023rg4/&quot;&gt;&lt;img height=&quot;240&quot; border=&quot;0&quot; width=&quot;320&quot; alt=&quot;&quot; src=&quot;http://pics.livejournal.com/nancybolitho/pic/00023rg4/s320x240&quot; /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;So this is Lucius Malfoy.&lt;br /&gt;Played by the talented Jason Isaacs.&lt;br /&gt;Hr looks good in a long blonde wig,&lt;br /&gt;And has a sneer to die for&lt;br /&gt;very hot indeed!&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;</description>
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  <pubDate>Fri, 05 Jun 2009 08:17:56 GMT</pubDate>
  <title>Draco Malfoy</title>
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  <description>If he was a real person today would be Draco Malfoy&apos;s 22nd birthday.&lt;br /&gt;So for fun I made this&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;http://pics.livejournal.com/nancybolitho/pic/000228cw/&quot;&gt;&lt;img height=&quot;240&quot; border=&quot;0&quot; width=&quot;320&quot; src=&quot;http://pics.livejournal.com/nancybolitho/pic/000228cw/s320x240&quot; alt=&quot;&quot; /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Enjoy!&lt;br /&gt;Now where did I put that pack of party poppers?&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;</description>
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  <pubDate>Wed, 03 Jun 2009 22:31:36 GMT</pubDate>
  <title>Eye Candy</title>
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  <description>Ok I am a wee dit early as his birthday is not until Saturday but I can;t wait to show this off&lt;br /&gt;So without further ado &lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;span style=&quot;color: rgb(0, 0, 255);&quot;&gt;&lt;strong&gt;&lt;em&gt;&lt;span style=&quot;font-size: xx-large;&quot;&gt;HAPPY BIRTHDAY &lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;span style=&quot;color: rgb(255, 0, 0);&quot;&gt;&lt;span style=&quot;font-size: smaller;&quot;&gt;(for Saturday)&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;JASON ISAACS&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/em&gt;&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;http://pics.livejournal.com/nancybolitho/pic/00021ygp/&quot;&gt;&lt;img height=&quot;240&quot; border=&quot;0&quot; width=&quot;255&quot; src=&quot;http://pics.livejournal.com/nancybolitho/pic/00021ygp/s320x240&quot; alt=&quot;&quot; /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;</description>
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  <pubDate>Wed, 03 Jun 2009 21:25:50 GMT</pubDate>
  <title>Update on silly cow</title>
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  <description>The boys have just come home from work shattered from a &lt;u&gt;&lt;strong&gt;&lt;span style=&quot;font-size: large;&quot;&gt;13 hour day of heavy lifting.&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/u&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Que the bint &lt;br /&gt;She just called at &lt;u&gt;&lt;strong&gt;&lt;span style=&quot;font-size: larger;&quot;&gt;10 15pm&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/u&gt; and asked&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;span style=&quot;font-size: x-large;&quot;&gt;&lt;em&gt;&lt;strong&gt;ARE YOU MOVING MY STUFF TONIGHT?!&lt;br /&gt;FUCKHEAD!!!!&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/em&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;</description>
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  <pubDate>Wed, 03 Jun 2009 19:34:17 GMT</pubDate>
  <title>Argh....I cannae take any more!</title>
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  <description>It seems that my close circle of friends have set out to drive me to distruction this week.&lt;br /&gt;Well one of the bloody has at least. check under the cut for tears, tantrums and a cataloge of utter fuck ups.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;a name=&quot;cutid1&quot;&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br /&gt;This all started a month ago when my friend decided she wanted to live closer to her bf which I thought was sweet.&lt;br /&gt;IT&amp;nbsp;WASN&apos;T! she got the bf to help her look.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Please bear in mind said bf has never left home so they looked and she whinned on at him and long story short then she decided &lt;br /&gt; &lt;br /&gt;After a month of hunting she found a place closer to him but miles away from her work and her folks.&amp;nbsp; To make things worse the place itself was a death trap with bare wires hanging out of the walls, no SMOKE&amp;nbsp;ALARMS and MOST importantly (according to her folks)&amp;nbsp; NO&amp;nbsp;LOCK on her bedroom door.she hated it there and has decided to move back where she was but not before her idiot father got the health and safety people from the council in&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;So on monday we had to move her in a hurry as we were unsre how the guy that owned el death trap would react to H&amp;amp;S coming over as it happened we moved her the day before.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;And that is where I started to get just a LITTLE pissed off with her.&amp;nbsp; It seems while the rest of us (Myself, my bf Mark, Craig, Dave,Gav AND my mum) worked our asses off moving her (Her father could not be there to help as he had a meeting at the church yep after dropping us all in the shit he couldn&apos;t be bothered with clean up) &lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;So I recruited my mum (who can&apos;t stand her) to drive us up to the place where her stuff was the van was loaded and the syuff brought to Mark&apos;s storage unit..&amp;nbsp; I helpped unload the van as di Gav and the others what did she do?&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;SHE STOOD THERE EATING FUCKING ICE CREAM!!&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Then we went back to my place where she watched as the lads shiftws the last bits of her gear unable to contain it any longer I let rip&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;I told her that she should be helpping not just standing there eating ice cream when people had taken time out of their own lives to help her.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;I pointed out that her father had dropped her in the shit and left us to pick up the mess!&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;I told her to fucking well look at me when I was speaking to her.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;I told her to pull her finger out and help&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;I told her I did not know why she was staying with us as her folks have 2 spare rooms (she had been with us 4 nights as it was)&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Then I told her not to speak to me again that evening.&lt;br /&gt; &lt;br /&gt;Thankfully the cow has gone to her folks now but man I am stressed beyond reason&lt;br /&gt;That is all&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Oh and if she had sneered at me once more I would&apos;ve knocked said sneer off of her face.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;</description>
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  <pubDate>Wed, 27 May 2009 04:26:44 GMT</pubDate>
  <title>Harry Potter fic</title>
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  <description>&lt;br /&gt;&lt;img alt=&quot;&quot; src=&quot;file:///C:/DOCUME~1/SEVERU~1/LOCALS~1/Temp/moz-screenshot.jpg&quot; /&gt;&lt;img alt=&quot;&quot; src=&quot;file:///C:/DOCUME~1/SEVERU~1/LOCALS~1/Temp/moz-screenshot-1.jpg&quot; /&gt;&lt;br /&gt; When he got there, it seemed like everybody and their brother decided to go into the common room. So Draco decided to just go to sleep. I mean, what else could he do, right?&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Taken from a story calle Fall for me by a talented new Potter fanfic writter called &lt;a href=&quot;http://hp.adultfanfiction.net/authors.php?no=1296870224&quot;&gt;mademoiselle&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br /&gt;You can find the story here&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;http://hp.adultfanfiction.net/story.php?no=600022564&amp;amp;chapter=1&quot;&gt;hp.adultfanfiction.net/story.php&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Summary:-&amp;nbsp;&lt;em&gt;&lt;span style=&quot;font-size: medium;&quot;&gt; Draco bets Hermione that he can make her fall in love with him. Will she stand her ground? Or will she fall for him? And why does he care whether she loves him or not anyway?&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/em&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;A great read.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;</description>
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  <pubDate>Mon, 25 May 2009 17:54:59 GMT</pubDate>
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  <description>&lt;div style=&quot;text-align: center;&quot;&gt;&lt;span style=&quot;font-size: x-large;&quot;&gt;&lt;span style=&quot;color: rgb(128, 128, 0);&quot;&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Sign ups for the Severus Big Bang Birthday Bash &lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;strong&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;span style=&quot;color: rgb(102, 102, 102);&quot;&gt;&lt;strong&gt;start in ONE&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;span style=&quot;font-size: x-large;&quot;&gt;&lt;span style=&quot;color: rgb(102, 102, 102);&quot;&gt;&lt;strong&gt; week. Don&apos;t miss it!&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;b&gt;Sign ups will run from June 1st to June 30th.&lt;/b&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;You can sign up for these Categories here&lt;br /&gt; &lt;a href=&quot;http://community.livejournal.com/severusbigbang/26054.html&quot; name=&quot;Cateagories&quot;&gt;community.livejournal.com/severusbigbang/26054.html&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;b&gt;The Big Bang &lt;/b&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;b&gt;The Bang &lt;/b&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;You can sign up doing:&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;b&gt;Fic:&lt;/b&gt; drama, romance, slash, het, songs, parodies, poems, drabbles, angst, humour, fluff, pwp, AU...&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;b&gt;Art:&lt;/b&gt; painting, drawing, conventional, digital, photomanips, videos, stick figures, tableaus, comics, illustrations...&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;b&gt;Crafts:&lt;/b&gt; jewellry, plushies, knitting, sewing, quilting, stitching, glueing, paper-mache...&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;b&gt;Beta reading:&lt;/b&gt; wield the whip and strangle punctuation, wrestle with grammar and add the semicolon...&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;b&gt;Cheer leading:&lt;/b&gt; keep people motivated, discuss the plot, bring drinks, give massages...&lt;span style=&quot;font-size: x-large;&quot;&gt;&lt;span style=&quot;color: rgb(102, 102, 102);&quot;&gt;&lt;strong&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</description>
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  <pubDate>Sun, 17 May 2009 22:34:05 GMT</pubDate>
  <title>Lucius Malfoy ...You thoughts please</title>
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  <description>So I posted this at &lt;span style=&quot;color: rgb(51, 51, 0);&quot;&gt;&lt;span style=&quot;font-size: large;&quot;&gt;Veritaserum&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt; &lt;span style=&quot;font-size: small;&quot;&gt;but I thought I would put it up here to just for prue interest.&lt;br /&gt;I look forward to your views&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;b&gt;Do you think if given the oppertunity Lucius would have taken his family and asked for Dumbledore&apos;s help and in doing so agreed to help the OotP OR would it have taken Voldermort to harm either Draco or Narcissa to make him act?&lt;/b&gt; &lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;I have of course read the book but I was just thinking over possible endings for the Malfoy family and I wondered what you all might think. 			 			&lt;br /&gt;&lt;span style=&quot;font-size: small;&quot;&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;</description>
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  <pubDate>Sat, 16 May 2009 05:08:02 GMT</pubDate>
  <title>Um... Liberace</title>
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  <description>Well I&apos;m not too sure if&amp;nbsp; wishing someone who has been dead for the last &lt;strong&gt;&lt;span style=&quot;font-size: large;&quot;&gt;20&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/strong&gt; years a happy birthday is the correct thing to do.&lt;br /&gt;However, this Birthday is deserving of a mention as it is in fact Liberace&apos;s &lt;span style=&quot;font-size: large;&quot;&gt;&lt;strong&gt;90 th &lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/span&gt;birthday or at least it would have been.&lt;br /&gt;That really is all.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;img src=&quot;http://www.judyschristmas.com/Liberace.jpg&quot; alt=&quot;&quot; /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;</description>
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  <pubDate>Mon, 11 May 2009 15:33:35 GMT</pubDate>
  <title>Severus Big Bang Birthday Bash</title>
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  <description>So the rules went up today.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;i&gt;&lt;b&gt;&lt;a name=&quot;general&quot;&gt;General Rules&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/b&gt;&lt;/i&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;1. The Severus Big Bang Birthday Bash revolves around Severus. That means that he is in the center of things; be it fic, art, crafts, music or whatever else it is you create. &lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;2. The preliminary sign ups are from June 1st to June 30th. Help will be provided for all participants, whether you need a beta reader or cheerleader. We will provide a semi-private participants-only environment to give you the freedom to interact and ask detailed questions. If you find that you can&amp;rsquo;t get your work finished or encounter a massive case of writers/artists&apos; block, you can drop out painlessly. &lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;3. The entries must be new, that means they cannot have been posted elsewhere before. Exceptions are the &amp;lsquo;developing&amp;rsquo; of a drabble or short ficlet into a longer story or a quick sketch into a painting. &lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;4. At the sign ups we ask for an indication of what you will write or create. It&amp;rsquo;s not binding, but helps us estimate how much assistance we need for a certain genre or ship. If you change your mind and want to do something else entirely, just let us know. &lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;5. Gen and all pairings are welcome. Crossovers are welcome; however RPF (real person fic) cannot be accepted. Subject matter and rating are up to the participant. &lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;6. All participants and audience must be 18 years and older. If you aren&apos;t 18 yet and can read this, you lied about your age! &lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;7. We don&apos;t restrict kinks, but sexual situations have to be restricted to characters 16 years old and older (the age of consent in the UK). Please keep in mind that many archives don&amp;rsquo;t allow sexual situations for characters under the age of 18. Keep also in mind that you are bound by the laws of your own country if those are more restrictive than our rules.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;8. We will post all entries on the communities, beginning on January 9, 2010. We ask you not to post your work, or pieces of your work, on your journals or other archives until February 15, 2010, to give people time to read and review on the community. After February 15, 2010, you are free to post anywhere you wish. Several archives are providing categories for the Severus Big Bang, check them out here: &lt;a href=&quot;http://community.livejournal.com/severusbigbang/26436.html&quot;&gt;Affiliates and Friends.&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;9. While this fest is rather easy going, there are two strict rules: &lt;font color=&quot;red&quot;&gt;&lt;b&gt;no shipping wars&lt;/b&gt; and &lt;b&gt;no concrit&lt;/b&gt;&lt;/font&gt;, as well meaning as it might be.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;--People like their ships and this is a multi-ship/gen event. Please be respectful of other people&amp;rsquo;s tastes. &lt;b&gt;Ship bashing will not be tolerated.&lt;/b&gt; &lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;--Concrit can be helpful, but only if the author/artists welcomes it and asks for it. A fest like the Birthday Bash is not the right place for it and we cannot monitor the levels of concrit different authors might welcome. You can sign up as cheerleader or beta reader if you want to help writers or artists with tips, suggestions and concrit if they want it.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;i&gt;&lt;b&gt;&lt;a name=&quot;fic&quot;&gt;Rules for Authors&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/b&gt;&lt;/i&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;1. The due date for drafts is &lt;b&gt;October 1st, 2009&lt;/b&gt;. That draft helps us to prepare the posting of the stories and should have the approximate length and chapter number. Of course, there can be changes, but the draft should give us a good idea about the finished work. An entry can be a sequel or prequel to other fics, but the Big Bang entry must be able to stand on its own. Stories must be finished, have a closure. This means no &amp;lsquo;to be continued&amp;rsquo; in the end. Please see our &lt;b&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;http://community.livejournal.com/severusbigbang/27551.html&quot;&gt;FAQ&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/b&gt; for a more comprehensive explanation of what is suitable content for the fest.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;2. You are committed to the completion of your piece once you&apos;ve handed in the first finished draft. The due date for the finished work is &lt;b&gt;November 15, 2009&lt;/b&gt;. If you find that you have problems with finishing your draft or with the word count, talk to us. We cannot accept admissions later than that, unless circumstances are truly unforeseeable and unique. &lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;3. We expect fic to be formatted, spell-checked and punctuated for clear reading on LJ and IJ. In particular, dialogue should be punctuated appropriately, canon capitalisation and italicisation of words should be used and paragraphs should be separated by an empty line. British or American punctuation and spelling are both acceptable. &lt;font color=&quot;red&quot;&gt;&lt;b&gt;We strongly encourage you to use a beta-reader.&lt;/b&gt;&lt;/font&gt; &lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;4. We reserve the right to return stories that have multiple and/or consistent errors in spelling, punctuation or formatting for re-editing. If this happens, we also reserve the right to both insist that you use a beta-reader and ask for evidence that you have posted fic online before. This is for your and our benefit, so we can support you appropriately. If you are unable to find a beta-reader then let us know and we will endeavour to find someone for you. Check out our &lt;a href=&quot;http://community.livejournal.com/severusbigbang/25000.html&quot;&gt;resource page&lt;/a&gt;, too.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;5. We will provide a forum where you can brainstorm with fellow writers, talk to beta readers, get plot advice and find resources. &lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;6. The finished version of your submitted fic should be HTML tagged and ready to post. This means tagging italicised, bold and centered words and including scene dividers where necessary. &lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;7. Please include the words &amp;quot;Bash for Severus&amp;quot; in your sign up post to demonstrate that you have read the rules. &lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;i&gt;&lt;b&gt;&lt;a name=&quot;art&quot;&gt;Rules for Artists&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/b&gt;&lt;/i&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;1. Fan art and craft contributions: what we want are those pieces for which the submitting artist has done all the work. This means that the artist has started with a blank slate and perhaps a reference (e.g. a pose, character, location) and proceeded to draw, paint, compose or otherwise create every line and place every color with their own hand. For example, if you use a reference image in Photoshop or similar, remove the original layer completely when you&apos;ve finished and leave your own handiwork! Photo manipulation is acceptable as long as both the model(s) and the photographer(s) have given permission for the image(s) to be used in this way. General guidelines for the use of stock images are given below.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;2. The same philosophy applies to music and fan-video. We really welcome submissions in this form but they should be original. Compose your own piece about Snape using traditional or electronic means. You could write and perform a rap or poetry. You could compose a Snape Sonata! Make your own film using, for example, cosplay or animation. Can you top the Potter Puppet Pals? Write and perform your own voice-over and avail yourself of stock music sources if you need to.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;3. When copying from an established source (a famous painting, for example) it is considered good etiquette to credit your source. Also, please note that precisely duplicating an existing work by directly tracing or reproducing every single detail so that it is difficult to tell your work from the original isn&apos;t very cool, so please try to add your own personal touches and style. Please don&apos;t feature screenshots, official artwork from a video game, scans from an art book, a photograph of a famous person or music released by another artist or band.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;4. There are thousands of stock images available for use, particularly on sites like DeviantArt. Please follow the instructions for use given by the image provider. For example, make sure the resulting image(s) can be posted on websites other than where the sources were posted. If the image provider specifically says they don&apos;t want their image used for fan art or for sexual contexts, respect their wishes. All required credits should be given in the artist&apos;s comments about their submission.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;5. Traditional and digital imagery, ceramics, crafts, film and music are all encouraged! This community is designed to generate new work, so all art and craft should not have been previously displayed on other archives or online galleries. You are obviously free to archive your work after February 15, 2010.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;6. Depiction of sex involving anyone under the age of 16 &amp;ndash; the age of consent in the UK &amp;ndash; is strictly banned. While trying not to be restrictive, we do reserve the right to return submitted images we deem inappropriate due to their content or flagrant copyright issues. You may edit and resubmit if you wish.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;7. Any image or video that draws complaint for which there is any potential legal basis will be removed immediately and questions asked later.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;8. Art, craft, film and music participants should email a description of their project including where relevant details of the final number of images or the place where film/music entries will be hosted and in all cases a description of the state of progress to snapeartist AT gmail DAWT com by &lt;b&gt;October 1st 2009&lt;/b&gt;. This enables us to develop the final posting format and schedule in parallel with the fanfic. If we don&apos;t hear from you by October 1st we will assume you have decided not to participate. If we do hear from you, we assume you are committed to participation. If your plans change dramatically between October 1st and November 15th, please inform us by email.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;All final art and craft submissions should be emailed by &lt;b&gt;November 15th,&lt;/b&gt; but you can send us your final images/craft photos as early as you like. If you desperately require an extension, you must email the moderators at snapeartist AT gmail DAWT com Please note the dedicated email address for art and craft enquiries. If you do not meet your revised deadline, your image(s) will not be posted to the community. &lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;9. The maximum size for submitted images is 1024 pixels high by 1024 pixels wide. The maximum file size is 1.5MB. JPEG and PNG file formats are acceptable. Images/photos will be displayed on LiveJournal and InsaneJournal with a click-through to a larger version. Images should be emailed to: snapeartist AT gmail DAWT com. Please note the dedicated email address for art and craft submissions.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;10. Because of the potential file sizes and the more specialist requirements, we are asking participants to sort out the hosting of film and music files themselves. Fanvids and music should be uploaded to a sharing host and a link provided, along with information on embedding, by emailing snapeartist AT gmail DAWT com by &lt;b&gt;November 15th&lt;/b&gt;. We do not take responsibility for the hosting sites or their format requirements.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;11. Please include the words &amp;quot;Bash for Severus&amp;quot; in your sign up post to demonstrate that you have read the rules.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Please read our &lt;b&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;http://community.livejournal.com/severusbigbang/27551.html&quot;&gt;FAQ&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/b&gt; and/or contact us at anytime for further clarification of the rules.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;</description>
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  <pubDate>Sun, 10 May 2009 22:38:58 GMT</pubDate>
  <title>More on Lucius</title>
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  <description>&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;ok more Lucius in the form of a new desk top.&lt;br /&gt;Enjoy &lt;br /&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;http://i722.photobucket.com/albums/ww229/luciussnape/Luciwp.png?t=1241993821&quot;&gt;i722.photobucket.com/albums/ww229/luciussnape/Luciwp.png&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Also I found a picture of the lad who is to play a young Lucius Malfoy in the new movie&lt;br /&gt;Got to say he&apos;s cute.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;http://harrypotter.wikia.com/wiki/Tony_Coburn&quot;&gt;harrypotter.wikia.com/wiki/Tony_Coburn&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;I am so having issues imagining the flowing golden locks here but he is cute.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;In other news my idiot friend may have made my rabbit sick they fed her lettuce&lt;br /&gt;Rabbits cann&apos;t eat lettuce it causes dihorrea in rabbits and can result in death I am praying I caught her before the rabbit ate much&lt;br /&gt;I took all of the lettuce she put in the cage out but I don&apos;t know if Flopsy has eaten any of it so looks like a long night nursing tonight.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Finally a picture of Flopsy&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;http://s722.photobucket.com/albums/ww229/luciussnape/?action=view&amp;amp;current=flopsy.jpg&quot;&gt;s722.photobucket.com/albums/ww229/luciussnape/&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;</description>
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  <pubDate>Sat, 09 May 2009 18:59:57 GMT</pubDate>
  <title>And So</title>
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  <description>made this today enjoy&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;http://i722.photobucket.com/albums/ww229/luciussnape/fameisnteverything.png?t=1241895178&quot;&gt;i722.photobucket.com/albums/ww229/luciussnape/fameisnteverything.png&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;</description>
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  <pubDate>Sat, 09 May 2009 07:20:28 GMT</pubDate>
  <title>Wallpapers</title>
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  <description>I am a member of&amp;nbsp; &lt;a href=&quot;http://www.veritaserum.com/forums/index.php?act=idx&quot;&gt;Veritaserum&lt;/a&gt; and I have been for quite a while and today I made these for a couple of the groups I am a member of.&lt;br /&gt;So for your viewing pleasure (or Not) here goes.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;http://pics.livejournal.com/nancybolitho/pic/0001zwc7/&quot;&gt;&lt;img height=&quot;240&quot; border=&quot;0&quot; width=&quot;240&quot; src=&quot;http://pics.livejournal.com/nancybolitho/pic/0001zwc7/s320x240&quot; alt=&quot;&quot; /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;And for fans of Draco&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;http://pics.livejournal.com/nancybolitho/pic/000207yw/&quot;&gt;&lt;img height=&quot;240&quot; border=&quot;0&quot; width=&quot;240&quot; src=&quot;http://pics.livejournal.com/nancybolitho/pic/000207yw/s320x240&quot; alt=&quot;&quot; /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;</description>
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