By now, you've heard a great deal about GG and Brighty's Holiday Fest. Good stuff over there! This was my little contribution for meghan70 

Title: Hold The Cheese
Author: Me
Rating: G
Word Count: 520
Summary: Remus muses and learns that dairy products are not as unassuming as one would think.
Disclaimer: Alas, I don't own anything.

Link to my journal

Title: Bringing in the Smell of Snow
Characters: Sirius, Remus
Rating: PG (just to be on the safe side. It's really as low as G to me.)
Disclaimer: Harry Potter and all characters is to J.K. Rowling and associates.
A/N: You might have already seen this from brightyfics because I drew this for the Holiday Fest for forest_rose . Because I'm dim, I sent the pic to brighty18 without coding. Anyway, this is another Christmas thing... and another hurt/comfort drawing. You can view it here at the fest itself  (and look at the other fics and art too!!) or click on the link to my journal here.

I have a character who wants to burn his fingertips off with acid so that he couldn't be recognised by his previously taken fingerprints anymore (he's not the sanest person on Earth). Sulfuric acid would apparently be strong enough to do this, but how would he go about not damaging himself more than necessary (how long to keep the fingertips in the acid, what to do afterwards)? I've read first aid instructions for sulfuric acid burns but they only tell to rinse the burn in a mild soap and water solution and then get help. My character can't involve hospital or other people, although he has lots of time and resources to prepare and is very intelligent despite the situation.

The technology and medicine are about at the level of the early 20th century (mix and match alternate history).

Also, for those experienced with acid burns, how would this feel aside from "hurts like hell"?

And, in case I've missed something obvious, is there a better permanent and dramatic way to completely get rid of your fingerprints?

EDIT. Thanks for the answers, seems like sulfuric acid was overkill. Now I like the idea of open flame better, it creates a nice visual and actually fits better on a symbolic level. Never thought you could lose fingerprints that easily.

Title: How Lily Potter Learned More Than She Needed To Know About Remus and Sirius' Sex Life
Author: remuslives23
Rating: NC17
Word Count: 2000
Summary: This is the story of how Lily Potter learned more than she ever needed to know about Remus and Sirius' sex life.
Notes/Warnings: m/m sexual situations including rimming and anal sex, language. Written for littlemissgg for Brighty and GG's Clandestine Nondenominational Holiday Fic/Art Fest Check it out for some fabulous fic and art!

Disclaimer: This fiction is based on characters and situations created and owned by JK Rowling and affiliates. No money is being made and no offense is intended. Characters are of legal age for sexual situations.

How Lily Potter Learned More Than She Needed To Know About Remus and Sirius' Sex Life

FICLETS:

archduck wrote By Moonlight for wandersfound
A dreamer is one who can only find his way by moonlight, and his punishment is that he sees the dawn before the rest of the world." - Oscar Wilde (Rated PG-13)

livinglibraries wrote Fighting the tide, and surrender for wandersfound
Recovering after the transformation, Sirius reads to Remus. (Rated G)

FICS:

crooked wrote No one saw us this evening hand in hand for glass_icarus
In which Remus' childhood bedroom and his tree fort will never be quite the same again. (Rated PG-13)

theatresweety wrote Persistence for charcharberry
Remus reflects on his school days and realizes just how persistent Sirius could be. (Rated PG)

When I was at university, my lecturer mentioned a Roman epic poem that was pretty much the worst surviving piece of classical literature and hilariously bad. I can't for the life of me remember the author or the title, I think it was some sort of attempt at a heroic pastoral, but don't count on that. All my googling for "roman epic" "bad" etc just gives me essays about morality in the Aeneid and so on. Does anyone have any idea what the poem I'm thinking of is?

Search terms: Pregnancy after 50, women in fifties pregnant, conceiving in the fifties
Setting: Wisteria Lane, 2015

Situation: The character is fifty-three years old. I've looked it up, and there are women who have conceived naturally in their fifties. How likely is it for the fifty-three year old to get pregnant? In canon, there's a pregnant forty-nine year old, so I was wondering about the possibility of the fifty-three year old getting pregnant naturally.

I know there a lot of risks (That I'm thinking of using) in pregnancies for women in their forties and fifties, but I'm hoping the woman can go full term. Would that be possible?

Thank you in advance!

Setting: Modern day North America
Googled: "casket lock" "casket lock how common"

This is more of a personal-experience question than anything. I've got two characters temporarily trapped in a casket and am trying to figure out the likelihood of a lock mishap being the cause of their confinement. How common are locks on caskets in North America, and is it at all likely they would snap closed on their own if the lid slammed down?

Title: The prisoner of Azkaban

Author: Lady Blakh

Pairing: Remus/Sirius

Summary: An AU story. Remus finds Sirius down by the sea after his escape from Azkaban. What is he going to do?

Rating: NC-17 all the way, baby!

Title: Tradition, Upheld
Author: snegurochka_lee
Pairings: Bill/Teddy. Implied other cross-gen m/m pairings. A bit of Bill/Fleur. Some Charlie.
Rating: NC-17
Word Count: ~6,000
Warnings: Teddy is 18, but there is insinuated underage sex in other pairings. Infidelity which is part of open marriage; implied infidelity in other couples which is not.
Summary: Over too much beer the next two nights, Charlie told Bill more than he'd ever wanted to know about this particular holdover of Roman Wizarding tradition. Years later, when he was forty-five years old, the way the kid across the table from him was looking at him made Bill want to do every filthy thing Charlie had told him about all those years ago.
Notes: Written for the Jan. 2010 theme of "catamites" (young men used as personal lovers for older men) at daily_deviant.

( Tradition, Upheld ) - link goes to IJ

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FICS:

emilyia wrote MCMLXXXI for sea_shtick
The only thing he notices, really, is the recurrent figure of Mundungus Fletcher, who brings him cases of Firewhiskey and takes the gold pocket watch Sirius bought him last Christmas in payment. (Rated PG-13)

liseuse wrote When We Kiss They're Perfectly Aligned for susan5124
Getting drunk leads to misunderstandings and hiding under beds. (Rated R)

mayberry_rose wrote Hot Chocolate for cherie_morte
Of awkward, cuddling teenage boys, and hot chocolate in cracked mugs. (Rated PG-13)

Title: Emotions from Azkaban
Chapter 1
Rated: R, possible NC-17 for future chapters
Genre: Hurt/Comfort, Angst
Summary: Sirius has been staying with Remus for about two weeks, when he does something that Remus did not expect.
Warnings: RS Slash, slight violence, angst, depression, themes of self mutilation. Thanks to my beta, Katya Black et Rachel Lupin from FF.net ( Read more... )

Very simple: I just need some English words translated to Russian for one of my characters. I've tried Googling, but most of what's available in the area of translation and dictionaries are in Cyrillic, and...I can't really use that. (I also don't trust most internet language sites, due to inaccuracies.) Along with the words below, I'd also like to know if there's an endearing term a mother or grandmother might use for a young son/grandson. The boy's name is Brandon (he has an American father, so that's where that came from), he's about nine years old and very intelligent, living with both maternal grandparents and his mother. They live in Moscow and this takes place in present times (2004, exactly), if that helps. I've looked in the tags as well, and couldn't find what I'm after.

What I need:

Grandfather (and familiar variations)
Grandmother (I know "babushka", but that seems formal--are there other variations a young child is likely to use?)
Mother/Mommy
Hello (I've been told there are many variations on this, based on to whom a person is speaking and how familiar they are. Specifically, I need a greeting in person to an unfamiliar person, a greeting in person to a familiar person, and a greeting in answering the telephone)

I also need:

"Don't tell your grandfather."


Thanks for any help. I'll probably need some more in the future :)


Edit: I think I've got what I need now! Thanks, guys :D

I didn't go to Starbucks at all over this past holiday season, so I don't know: did they have the Eggnog Latte this year, or not? I just went today and they still have three holiday drinks available, but none were the Eggnog Latte. Trust me, this is story relevant.

Hey all :) New member here (a friend very kindly referred me to this comm, and it looks brilliant for fiction writers!)

Anyway here's my question. 

Setting is present day. My character's been performing a lengthy heart massage on a man (but it failed and he didn't survive). Question is, would bruises from the heart massage appear on his chest, post-mortem?

I've been looking it up all around google and all I could find is answers that don't reassure me fully:

One source says that bruises can appear post-mortem (apparently a body that had drowned had a bruise appear on its forearm from being grabbed out of the water).
Another source says that post-mortem bruise needs great force to appear, so I'm wondering if a heart massage would be enough to make bruising appear. But since the other website seems to say that grabbing someone out of the water created post-mortem bruising... I don't know what to think any more.

So um... help? Please? :)

Well, as Twelfth Night approaches and the Holiday Season comes to an end, so must our Clandestine, Nondenominational Holiday Fic Fest. All will be revealed tomorrow night, but here is the final list of fabulous fics and art.

( Holiday Fic/Art Fest... )

A meme, from lanyon:


Pick any character I haved RPed and I'll tell you:

♰ why I decided to play this character
♰ my favorite scene or bit of interaction concerning this character to date
♰ my favorite original aspect about this character (world-building for ocs or head-canon for fics)
♰ the last thing they did "off screen"
♰ what their last words would be if they died tomorrow

Okay, I've scoured erowid.org, justice.gov/dea, NYC, DC, and Houston DEA branch websites, and the obvious - Wikipedia and Google. Google search terms involved quote marks around various combinations of 'cocaine', 'kilo', 'seizure', 'transport', 'distribution', 'consistency', and 'qualities (of)'.

I have learned more about cocaine than I ever knew possible (including some details that help my plot along) - except for the main three things I need.

1. When compressed into kilo 'bricks' for overseas transport, what is the texture and consistency? Does it break down easily?

2. A dealer-slash-transporter makes off with a little less than 1 kilo. By the time he could have access to it, I'm assuming it would have already been broken and separated out into smaller packages, is this correct? Or would he be able to obtain a full brick?

3. Disposal. Character (very reluctantly) has to dispose of about half of the coke - situation is rushed and profit be damned, at this point he's just trying to save his skin. I currently have him emptying and flushing everything down the toilet (assuming it's already been separated out, as above), but am not sure if this would fly. How would one get rid of this much in a hurry? No one's beating down the door, but it needs to be within a few minutes. Stashing it anywhere is not an option; it has to be gone.

Any help at all would be appreciated. Or if you know of a drug enforcement agent who would be willing to answer these questions, please let me know.

Oh, and setting is current day USA; character obtained cocaine on west coast.

Setting: London, UK, 1916-1925

Situation: My MC (a young, educated, unmarried woman from the upper middle classes) is attempting to contact a dead writer in the hope that his spirit will help her complete his unfinished stories.

Googled: Any and every variation on Edwardian/postwar mediums/psychics, contacting the dead, automatic writing.

The problem: I can find a lot about the general existence of mediums in the 1900s, but none of it is particularly detailed: what would these visits involve? How large a group would be present for a single seance? Could I have my MC and the medium in a one-on-one session, or would that be unrealistic? How accurate is the stereotypical image of people holding hands around a rocking table? How much would a trip to a medium cost?

Relatedly, I've read that mediums/psychics became extremely popular after WWI and that their activities were the topic of serious scientific study - would there be any kind of social stigma attached to visiting a medium, beyond generally thinking the MC was superstitious and a bit of a flake? 

Any help would be appreciated beyond belief

ETA: YOU GUYS ARE AMAZING. AND FAST. VERY, VERY FAST.