a snippet, out of freakin' nowhere. A prophecy.

"Don't you touch me!"

The girl skittered away from him, hands raised in some twisted form of angry supplication, warding him off but trembling and clenching in his direction. "Don't you touch me," she snarled. Bitter blue eyes blinked too rapidly, and her shoulders heaved and shuttered in time with her breathing "You'd actually do it. I can see it in you, Harry Potter." Her lips trembled, her voice changed and she spat the words like an old woman.

"You will kill them all, Hary Potter. You will cry yes and the hearts of the Death Eaters will stop, and their children's hearts, and their granchildren's hearts--"

"No."

"--and you will not stop, you will not falter at their screams or the screams of your comerades--"

"No!"

"--and you will drink death of the blood of Voldemort's followers, unto the last squealing child."

It's the oldest meme on the planet. And yet, I've never done it for LJ nor seen anyone else do it.

My List of All Time Most Favoritest Songs Ever

- With or Without You, by U2
- Glycerine, by Bush
- 1979, by The Smashing Pumpkins
- Lightning Crashes, by Live
- Everlong, by The Foo Fighters
- Wonderwall, by Oasis
- The Messenger, by The Tea Party
- Come As You Are, by Nirvana
- It's All Coming Back To Me Now, by Celine Dion
- Against All Odds, by Phil Collins
- Somebody To Love, by Queen
- Scarborough Fair: Canticle, by Simon & Garfunkel
- When I Come Around, by Green Day
- Hey Jude, by The Beatles
- Beyond The Sea by Frank Sinatra
- Goodbye Yellow Brick Road, by Elton John
- One Headlight, by The Wallflowers
- Margery Dreams of Horses, by The Counting Crows
- Miss You Love, by Silverchair
- Promise, by Eve 6
- Take It To The Limit, by The Eagles
- Into The Void, by Nine Inch Nails
- Best Of My Love by The Eagles
- You Can Call Me Al, by Paul Simon
- Can't Help Falling In Love (Fools Rush In), by Elvis Presley
- Dream On, Aerosmith
- All I Need Is the Air That I Breathe (And To Love You), by The Hollies
- A Pirate Looks At Forty, by Jimmy Buffett
- Valparaiso, by Sting
- The Rose, by Bette Middler
- Blue, by Yoko Kanno & The Seatbelts (Cowboy Bebop OST)
- Greenbird, by Yoko Kanno (Cowboy Bebop OST)
- 2nd Hungarain Rhapsody, by Liste
- Bittersweet Symphony, by The Verve
- 1812 Overture, by Tchaikovsky


This is it. The Top 32. They will never lose their place, ever. They shall forever be immortalized in the blood of my veins as the music to my soul. I didn't number it because there is no particular order or max amount, but this is it. It takes a lot to get added to this list. Not many do. There's many more that I love so dearly, but this is the creme de la creme of my musical preferences. If anyone rolls their eyes at Celine Dion, I'll give you the finger. As wank-worthy as she otherwise may be, that's a freaking a-maz-ing song. I've got some old classics worked in there too, you might see. They have endured the test of time and the test of being written before my birth, and worked their way onto the Top Tippidy Top Ranking anyway. I know all the words to every song on here. And if you think there aren't any words to Liste or Tchaikovsky, you just aren't listening hard enough.

Beta Appreciation Day?

I have no betas.

Because I'm a crackpot fanficcer who can't take criticism worth a damn unless it comes unasked.

I tried. I really did. And they were kind. But I just couldn't handle it. I'm weak that way. I didn't need them to tell me what was wrong, because as soon as I'd give it to someone to beta read, my self-esteem would plummet and I'd want it back and I'd panic and all sorts of horrid things. It left me way, way too stressed. The last time I had something beta-ed by two different people, I couldn't even bring myself to read the second beta's response. I was so tied up in nerves (despite the way professionalness of the first beta's review) that I tabled the whole fic, and it has not to this day seen the light of the internet.

So I don't have a beta. But to the three or four people out there who once tried for me, thanks. Too bad I'm such a nutball that our enjoyable working relationship could go no further.