Icarus

Title: Dead Letter Scrolls
Author: icarus, i.e. icarusancalion
Recipient: Sarka
Pairing: Neville-centric, Neville/Snape Gen
Rating: PG-13
Disclaimer: Totally, totally clean.
Author's Notes: Still in the mood to write, I asked Sarka for a prompt. acid asked all the right (write?) questions and shook the moths out of my writing.
Summary: Neville had ten different visions of how he’d thought his tenure as professor would begin: none of those included clearing out Snape's deadly office.

(Neville had ten different visions of how he’d thought his tenure as professor would begin: none of those included clearing out Snape's deadly office.)

I've never written Neville before (except as a side character). If someone has some time off... I sure could use some beta help. It's short, about a thousand words.

Title: The Empire Strikes Who What Now?
Author: icarus, i.e. icarusancalion
Recipient: DorothyOz
Pairing: John/Cam, friendship
Rating: PG-13
Disclaimer: Totally, totally clean.
Author's Notes: Four years ago DorothyOz wanted John/Cam. I gave her Peter Grodin (it's complicated what happened, but it was supposed to the first story in a three story series and... well, it fell apart when the writer of part two dropped out of the Secret Santa and, oh, it was too ambitious). Thank you to esteefee, sian1359, and wyomingnot for the beta.
Summary: John glinted at him like a bad kid in high school who dared you, and got you sent to the principal’s office for the first time in your life.

(John glinted at him like a bad kid in high school who dared you, and got you sent to the principal’s office for the first time in your life.)

Title: The Empire Strikes Who What Now?
Author: icarusancalion
Recipient: DorothyOz
Pairing: John/Cam, friendship
Rating: PG-13
Disclaimer: Totally, totally clean.
Author's Notes: Four years ago DorothyOz wanted John/Cam. I gave her Peter Grodin (it's complicated what happened, but it was supposed to the first story in a three story series and... well, it was too complicated). Thank you to esteefic, sian1359, and wyomingnot for the beta.
Summary: The Atlantis expedition exchanges Christmas gifts, banter, and inside jokes.

(John glinted at him like a bad kid in high school who dared you, and got you sent to the principal’s office for the first time in your life.)

Am seeking a beta who can tell me if:

a) My story is plot-less and
b) If I have Cam's voice right

Any takers? It's short, only ~700 words long.

Yes. I wrote A Thing.

Tutoring last night was rough. I had new students and students who'd been with other tutors suddenly switched to me, so my structure for the sessions couldn't be used.

Then my last session... oy vey. An AP US History teacher was behind, so his student needed to be taught US history, from scratch, from WWII to Reagan. At the same time, I had my ESOL student who's trying to take advanced AP Language English, at the same time, I was trying teach the SAT essay, and we have a new grader who's harsh-yet-vague in his comments, holding high school students to a college standard. That isn't how you help young writers, and I couldn't get across how these comments were Not At All Helpful.

The session was a disaster, I was upset, and I had to admit -- I couldn't do. I haven't felt this incompetent in a long time.

I had a friend on Facebook, the evil Facebook, who had cancer. An old childhood friend, and I followed her there to keep up with her health. Other friends, nuns and monks, my mother, were also Over There. So I disappeared for a time down the FB rathole. The algorithm's the worst. Any mood you're in gets intensified, you "like" one political post and then that's all you see -- although the Russian trolls have learned to leave me alone on my politicians' pages (if they annoy me, I call my representatives and tell them what great jobs they're doing--then I tell the trolls I called. They don't like that).

So refreshing to be back on DW, to read about your lives, your cats, your garden drainage problems. It's like coming home to humanity.

Doing puja to prevent war and tame back, well, Trump, really, but also all the corruption in our government that came with him.

https://www.tara.org/videos-from-kpc/

I know what mine are.

"Can we all open our eyes, wake up and realize that our government is being turned into something very different and we are not resisting. We are accepting. We must be proactive about our views. I don’t know what you’re views are, but I know what mine are.

Please be awake and proactive and out there."

- Jetsunma Ahkon Lhamo

I found this in comments on copperbadge's post. Here you for all you might need to stay connected to your Tumblr friends: https://conuly.dreamwidth.org/2785963.html