Carlin's Tid Bits

My One shot!

2009-10-17T21:08:47Z

Title: Pets aren't always as they seem
Author: Carlin Paddy
Pairing: Implied Arthur/Molly, Implied Lupin/Tonks, Implied crush
Rating: PG
Warning(s): AU, carnivors
Word count: 821
Disclaimer: Characters are the property of JK Rowling, et al. This drabble/fic was written for fun, not for profit.
Author's note: This is my first completed FanFic, I'm really excited to hear what you think
Summary: Lupin chats with Molly about what he's missed while presumed dead.

“I started out as a decent mum, I was a bit too young when I had Charlie, but I loved the world out of him and tried my best. Bill was a bit easier, and by the time I had Percy I finally felt like I knew what I was doing. I thought I was a disaster with Fred and George. I was so frazzled I told Arthur that five was enough; we had the big family that we wanted, but a year later Ron came just the same. Ron was normal again, I mean not that Fred and George weren’t, I mean…”
“It’s ok, Molly,” I say. “I don’t think any of your children are abnormal.” I found out it takes a rather lot to get Mrs. Weasley drunk, but I wanted to know about everything I had missed out on while I was presumed dead. Such delicate subjects and the shock of seeing me sent the poor woman to the drink. After, of course, a huge meal of French onion soup, kippers, chunks of bread, left over birthday cake, and anything else she pulled from the ice chest Arthur found and charmed so it actually “worked”. Thankfully I had been buried with my wand in hand; otherwise I wouldn’t have been able to send my patronus to Molly. Apparently I’ve been underground for two years. Teddy’s fine. I’m afraid Dora isn’t. Greyback had wanted to show off his new wand. Try it out on me and then tear me to shreds. He got the incantation wrong and sent me into a death like state where only I knew I wasn’t dead. Dora found us before his physical attack and the two died together at the hands of Bellatrix Lestrange.
I realize both Molly and I have turned to our own thoughts of grief. “So tell me a story that made you feel good about your parenting then, Molly. I’m sure you have a million.”
Molly blows her nose, and her eyes twinkle a bit. “Well, I don’t know about good parenting, but there was one time I was in here baking bread to go with the stew for dinner when Percy, uncharacteristically, comes running into the house with a lump wrapped up in his shirt shouting nonsense about keeping it. I take a look at what he’s got and it’s a rat!
“There’s no way I’m letting him keep a nasty disease filled rat, it’s a miracle that he hasn’t been bitten already. But I can’t tell him that so I say of course, let’s take a picture or you and your new pet and then I’ll get him a spot to eat while you wash up for dinner. All right?
“With that Percy runs off to get the camera and I’m looking at ‘Scabbers’ trying to think of what to do with him when I realize the perfect plot. I saw the post on its way, you see.”
Mrs. Weasley smiles here and I can’t help but think that she may have had a bit of Slytherin in her, but most likely all mums did.
“So I take the picture, I have it around here somewhere, and when the kitchen is left for just the two of us, I and the rat mind you. I shrunk the rat and offered it to the post owl for delivering the boys’ Hogwarts letters to us. The owl gulped the rat and cooed at me in thanks. I told the owl it must leave quickly before Percy came back.
“Poor Percy, he comes back in wanting to know what I fed Scabbers and sees the rat isn’t in here. I told Percy that a wonderful thing happened; that the rat had another home and the post owl recognized it and took it back home. So now its owners won’t miss it. I felt a little bad because Percy was so upset, but I asked him what he liked about the rat and promised to find him another pet that would walk right up to him and be petted. We found him a lizard. Nowadays he has a dog and I watch him while Percy’s at work.” Suddenly Molly’s smile brightens and she pulls out three pictures from a basket on the counter and hands them to me in a flourish. What I saw in those pictures made me sputter my tea and drop the cup, shattering it. There were three pictures of Percy with differing animals; a rat, a dog, and a lizard. The last I discard. But there in the hands of a young boy, is Peter Pettigrew, who moments later was disposed of to an owl. Pittance for disposing Lily and James to Voldemort. In the other, sat, who I was certain was Sirius, when I felt two strong hands clasp on my shoulders. I turn and stare into the most beautiful grey eyes on this green, green, earth.

Help wanted

2009-10-17T19:41:35Z

Hey all,

I just wrote an 821 word one shot, but I don't know how to post under a cut. Will someone please tell me how to do so?

Thanks,

~Carlin

Taylor Swift and Pickles

2009-08-25T19:39:00Z

Ok, so I was in the kitchen getting myself a pickle from the fridge which took longer than it should have. I have a jar of those huge, whole pickles and it had been put in the fridge without being opened so it gave me time to ponder randomly while performing the secrets rights of opening jars (dropping jar from height of 1/2" onto a dishrag) and realized a song I think sung by Taylor Swift makes her slutty.

She wears high heals I wear sneakers she's cheer captain and I'm on the bleachers.

Dunno the title and I hear it in my head but the order in which the lyrics go is past me but it talks about her hanging out with the guy but "why can't you see-eee, you belong with mee-eee" So anyway she's always with him, obviously she's his best friend, so what's it matter that they aren't "dating"? Then I realize it can only (I think) be due to sex. I mean really, I was best friends with a guy for over a year or two after being just friends since we were 6 and nothing changed between us after we started dating until we started having sex. Now he lives with me and still nothing's changed, so what's it matter if we wait til after we graduate to get married? (Except we won't have to privy our time between work AND college so we might have more time for each other)

So yes my pickle adventure led me to believe Miss Swift's song is about sex.

Writer's Block: To Infinity and Beyond!

2009-07-16T18:26:47Z

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Pern

Cancerous

2009-04-17T23:00:57Z

Calling all friends and friends of friends and aquaintences. I need a favour. A colonoscopy discovered that my grandpa has cancer. So I need lots of prayers and thoughts and begging to all dieties and whatever it is you do when a really great person is in trouble. He's going to go under the knife and probably have some chemo. So far I've only talked to my grandma over the phone and she tried to make it sound like nothing is wrong (failed) and didn't tell me if it was benign or anything. I'm being really selfish but I don't want him to die. I still need him, to talk to him. I didn't fucking waste 4 years of time I could have spent with him to lose him now. Especially not in such a horrible way as cancer. HE'S SUPPOSED TO WALK ME DOWN THE ISLE FOR GOD'S SAKE! His Name is Carl. That's his actual first name. (I'm sure by now you all have realized my given name isn't carlin and my boyfriend's name isn't Cale but if a real first name is what you need to help us I'll give it to you. I won't have internet for the time that I'm visiting him But I'll get online to email homework on Sunday if not earlier.

Animals!

2009-04-16T13:47:30Z

OMFG!!! I'm watching Raechal Ray and she has some animal guy on the set and he brought baby animals onto the set.

I so desperately want an Asian small-clawed otter!! And then he brought a Liger on the set you know, tiger lion mix. I heard they were like mules where you can breed babies, but the babies are sterile. I t was so adorable. I wish she had pictures of them on her website so I could share them with you!

Happy Birthday!

2009-04-14T13:36:33Z

Just wanted to congratulate </a>eruditefics</a> on another year of posting, friending and providing entertainment!

Info I was sent so I'm sending to help others from hackers

2009-03-09T14:12:30Z

It's official, the new hacking trend is targeting social networking sites more than ever (from Facebook to LJ). Thing is, they are not just taking your password and spamming your flist, especially with LJ, they use it to take over your flist's journals also by whatever means possible.

I've been seeing this stuff crop up more and more, and since it's a little scary (especially for those who have a lot more than fics/art/other stuff on their LJ) decided to warn the lovely flist. Though you may have already heard of this from other LJ users.

So here's some information I've ran across in the past couple of months since the first bot friended me:

* If you get friended by a journal in Cyrillic only that seems to have links and random pictures or was recently created, don't respond or add. Report to LJ Abuse immediately and they'll deal with it.
o I've done this a couple of times and most of the journals are suspended within a week
o I've linked to some great posts by [info]nympholept before. She has more information on the bots and how to avoid them
* If you have or had a Hotmail address (that you used to start up LJ) sign in to it and make sure you still have full control of it. (By the way, don't delete your old Hotmail addresses, they recycle them and hackers can use them to fool LJ's servers into letting them through).
o Check LJ's Email Management and delete your old email addresses.
o If you have problems with this, check out this wonderful post by [info]wistfuljane on how to bypass that.
* One of the scariest aspects of this hack system is that they can easily take over any communities you moderate/maintain and spam them too.
o The worst thing is that these hackers seem to prefer completely emptying out your journal and community entries (see [info]shoebox_project's warning about that).
o Then they post an entry that links to a key-logging site while posing as you. This seems to be the most common way of getting to your flist and hacking their journals.
o Here's an example by [info]upstart_crow who was affected.
o Make sure to report any hacking. Additionally, if you moderate any communities or you are listed as a maintainer make sure to notify any co-mods and have them remove you as co-mod. Also try and warn members to avoid clicking any links (especially those that link to a so-called "new archive").
* Do you have a security question? No? That's dangerous.
o Enable Security Questions as this may put off your hacker or keep them out of your journal when you attempt to retake it.
* BACK UP YOUR LJ!!
o I'm guilty of not doing this, it's a bother, but it's worth it. I'd hate to lose all my work because I got hacked.

SINCE I'M NOT AN EXPERT, BY ANY MEANING OF THE WORD, HERE'S SOME MORE LINKS BY PEOPLE WHO'VE POSTED ABOUT THIS AND HAVE BEEN AFFECTED.

* [info]copperbadge was affected and has a great set of posts on this.
* One of the most informative posts is by [info]acari , definitely check it out as she seems more coherent than I am

Also, please remember that they are not LJ staff and don't have all the answers.

CONTACT LJ ABUSE AND TECH SUPPORT, HECK EVEN GOOGLE FOR MORE INFORMATION.

REMEMBER TO RUN YOUR SPY DETECTION AND ANTIVIRUS SOFTWARE ON THE REGULAR TO MAKE SURE YOU HAVEN'T BEEN INFECTED.

CAPS LOCK OUT.

Sidenote: Yahoo had a recent article about the Facebook hacks if you're interested.

ETA: LJ has a comprehensive FAQ sheet if you've been hacked, refer to this if you suspect you've been a victim.

Look, pretty!

2008-12-09T13:52:39Z

Hey guys, I just wanted to update you on my dragons so you can see how pretty they are. Problem is, if the eggs don't hatch in .25 days, they die, so please clicky? Oh, and the hatchling will die in 5 days if it doesn't mature. I like what it says about the little baby!

carlinpaddy @ 2008-12-03T13:23:00

2008-12-03T18:26:29Z

Hey Sarcastro,
I won't beable to wish you a happy birthday on your birthday because it's my sister's birthday so I'll say it now. I haven't read the stories you sent me yet because it's finals coming up, but I can't wait to read them!

Hehe Dragons are addictive!

2008-12-02T21:27:59Z

Ok, so I got as many as I could, mostly because I don't want to start on my tax homework yet. So here's all that I have please clicky! Obviously, I was given the hatchling.
I also need a name for the hatchling, I don't know if it'll be male of female yet though but if anyone thinks of some names, tell me! I can't wait to see what they look like!

Dragon

2008-12-02T20:01:25Z

Another one because it was blue...

New dragons

2008-12-02T04:44:13Z

Ok so now that Kitty has taught me how to properly post, and gave me a second dragon, here they are, please click on them so they don't die...

I need a name for this one and he's my original

Thank you!

Dragon

2008-12-02T02:56:14Z

Yeah, so Akishathekitty got me interested so I decided to try out the whole Dragon egg thing, please clicky?
<a href="http://dragcave.net/viewdragon/Tzak"><img src="http://dragcave.net/image/Tzak.gif" style="border-width: 0" alt="Adopt one today!"/></a>
I hope this worked this time...

carlinpaddy @ 2008-10-16T13:31:00

2008-10-16T18:35:51Z

<a href="http://www.the-n.com/quizzes/quiz/3414"><img src="http://www.the-n.com/media/quiz/badges/pastlife_quiz/healer.gif" border="0" /></a>

Ok so I took this quiz and it said in a past life I was probably a Native American Healer because of my closeness to nature and wanting to heal people and animals. In all reality I was probably the Vet because I'm not very good at healing people....

Veela Fest!

2008-10-15T20:32:12Z

Hi to all of my friends! I've decided to help with the Veela fest and here is the list of events:
Schedual of the First Ever All Veela Fest

November 1st 2008 - Prompt submissions become open @ </a></a>do_me_veela

November 24th 2008 - Prompt submissions ends so that is almost a month of prompting.

November 27th 2008 - Prompts will become available to pick, just in time for Thanksgiving.

Christmas 2008 - Sneak preview of the fics that have been submitted by then, if there are any :D

February 14th - Posting proper shall begin, to celebrate Valentines day the Veela love way and all that :D

So anyone who likes to write about or draw Veela... come join the fun, the last Creature fest at HP_creatures was a lot of fun and I really hope this will be as well!

Stan Shunpike: Book vs Movie

2008-09-17T18:03:20Z

I know this is odd, but I'm doing my homework and I have the PoA playing on the tv, is it just me, or did Stan Shunpike not seem like such a prick in the book? In the book, I read him to be a nice jolly school drop-out, not rude boy who was making fun of "Nevelle Longbottom." I've thought this everytime I watch the movie.

Hell yeah!

2008-09-04T16:19:08Z

WHO ARE YOU SCREWING AT HOGWARTS??
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You scored as Draco Malfoy

If you went to Hogwarts Draco Malfoy would be doing you...not the other way around. He's mean, rich, and dark. But those aren't the only parts parts of him you love. He had you on your back the second he threw you down and had his way with you. And you loved every minute of it. The two of you have fucked just about on every surface of Hogwarts...including that rediculus Harry Potter's bed. Go head girl go head get down.

Draco Malfoy

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Ron Weasley

85%

Victor Krum

80%

Cedric Diggory

80%

Harry Potter

65%

Fred and George Weasley

55%

Percy Weasley

40%

No one, your a prude

25%

carlinpaddy @ 2008-05-25T12:08:00

2008-05-25T16:10:37Z

Snagged from </a></a>ceirdwenfc ;).

Leave a comment and I will:

a) tell you why I friended you,
b) associate you with something - fandom, a song, a color, a photo, etc.,
c) tell you something I like about you,
d) tell you a memory I have of you,
e) ask something I've always wanted to know about you,
f) tell you my favorite user pic of yours,
g) in return, you must post this in your LJ.

I got this from Elie_kat89
I may not beable to do this immediately but I will do my best if you comment!

Babies!

2008-04-28T15:34:15Z

I MAY BE A NEW STEP AUNTIE BEFORE THE DAY IS OUT!!!!!
I just called my dad to tell him that I aced (got a 100%) on an exam, and he said he got a call that my step brother took his girlfriend to the hospital this morning and she may have the baby before today is over. It's WEIRD! I graduated with this girl and now she's having a baby? We aren't old enough for kids yet.

Carlin's Tid Bits

2008-04-03T21:12:33Z

Getting there

2008-02-28T16:50:14Z

First off, it is Petite's birthday, one week from today so happy birthday! Anyone wanting to wish her a happy birthday as well you can find her on my f list! She is a lovely Ravenclaw with a couple Slytherin tendencies and the person who swears I'm a Hufflepuff. I admit I have the 'Puff's loyalty when I make a friend, but the majority of quizzes I've taken call me a Gryf, one called me a Puff and the others call me Ravenclaw... not that I'm smart I just think to much! Mostly about the stupid stuff helping people/kittens brought upon. Like trying to save my guy from drowning and getting ran over by an ATV while doing it (the ATV was on him in the water hole) Or getting stepped on by the horse trying to buck off my sister, or saving my kitten from two Rottweilers. I knew the one Rotty, but never met the other before but damn it they sent little Spooky up a tree, and apparently pulling a dog's chain/leash between his back legs doesn't effect them the way it would a human male. I apologize for rambling, I'm getting the biting butterflies back. You know the ones that cramp your stomach? I have a doctor's appointment concerning my wisdom teeth (will I be healthy enough to have them removed) This Saturday the First and then, seven days, one hour, and 48 minutes from now I'll be going to sleep by some sort of chemicals and will hopefully awake about an hour after that missing four teeth, none of which have actually appeared above the gumline but attempting to enough that it really hurts most of the time. My future-hubby will be in the waiting room for me to take me back to my apartment. I'm getting nervous, I didn't do well after the last time I was put to sleep. It scared me to death and in the process I scared a poor older nurse to near-hysteria. The machines I was hooked up to told her I was awake, but if I don't know where I am when I first wake I don't open my eyes until I recognize the place. So I didn't respond to her when she tried talking to me, but I didn't know her or where I was so I let her get upset, not a very Hufflepuff thing to do but I was thinking of ways to get "home". Finally, I decided she wasn't going to hurt me, so I tried to ask her where I was so I could figure out how to get away once I found the exit. I couldn't talk, I didn't know why. I had to fight my own throat and pain to untold times to ask the simple question. She said the fifth floor. I don't think I will ever forget that her only responce was the fifth bloody floor. The fifth floor of what! Where is the fifth floor located and if she said between the 4th and 6th floor I would poke her with my I.V. drip needle (poke, not stab, I'm not evil) I attempted not to panic, the machines said my pulse went up and I was losing oxygen in my red blood cells anyway. I asked a few more times, my head cloudy enough to not know how to word the question differently. Finally, my Ravenclaw kicked in and I asked, "The fifth floor of where?" Then the silly broad told me the name of the hospital and everything came flooding back including the wondrous nurse who actually saw the fear I was hiding and gave me a motherly kiss on the cheek. At that point I saw my pulse skyrocket with worry over wondering if my grandma knew I was out of surgery and when could I show her I was awake, and well. I asked the nurse where she was, she looked confused as to why I asked for my grandma and not my mother. I didn't have the heart to tell her my mother only acts as such when she has something to gave from it... in this case the praise for being a doting mother while her baby was under the knife. The nurse's answer, "the third floor," made since, the first time. I'll tell you, nothing heals a tear in the skin like a lack of nourishment and a disgruntled, noisy, complaining hospital roommate. It was thought previously that I may spend the night in the hospital. I spent three hours post-surgery tops. It may have been two or less, I do not remember. My Ideal Lady made beef stew for me. My mother picked the celery out of it; good for flavouring, not for eating; and my grandma put it in the blender for me. That was the best beef stew created in the history of any life-holding planet in any galaxy, I'm sure. At that time it tasted better than deer steaks and squirrell gravy, but since then I realized that if I were on death row, I would still want the steak and gravy for my final supper. Maybe the stew for lunch. Which reminds me, I need to borrow that blender this week so I'll have it next Thursday when my guy takes care of me. Hmm, I'm getting hungry. I may see what the school has in the cafe before I go back to the apt. Funny if they have their delicious beef stew, wouldn't it? I pales in comapirson but still tastey. I don't want to go into surgey next week and I don't want another post surgey check up Saturday either. May I pout? No, I shall call on my Slytherinness and refuse. I'm just going to go feed my rumbling stomach. Love you all, thanks for reading.

Job insecurity

2008-02-07T15:47:08Z

I've been looking up local organizations at work (and yes that is what I was assigned to do today) for the past hour and three quarters and realized I don't know what my boss actually wants on this topic. I actually like this job so I hate wasting time. I thought a quick post might clear my mind while I wait for him to email me back. I may post the great news I had the night before last before disaster struck if he doesn't email me soon.

arrrgh

2008-02-06T22:20:50Z

Ok, so 2 weeks ago I was having nose bleeds at least once a day, last week was PMS week ( I forgot to tell people the last month of the 3-month shot period one does experience the usual cramping and such, perhaps a little lighter) and this week I'm bleeding like a stuck hog! It's annoying, its why I went on birth control in the first place! I hate cramping up like getting trompled by a pony, actually the pony wasn't as bad. I left my tampons at my grandma's and had to resort to my back up pads. Even the last set of three months, the last month wasn't this bad, I barely dribbled, now I'm bleeding like I use to and if I stand up too fast I get dizzy. Anemic I think? I'm sorry to all of my friends I shouldn't post this, but I feel so icky. Class this morning wore me out, thankfully my guy came over and would arrange the heating pad over my aching back and butt for me. But now I have to get redressed for my night class and it hurts. I think I'm staying in my pj bottoms, I'll put one of his shirts on so I can be cozy and hope that the herbal midol I just took kicks in pretty fast. Thank you, to those who read my ramblings. I hope you all know that I read each and every one of yours, even if I don't reply.

carlinpaddy @ 2008-02-06T17:07:00

2008-02-06T22:07:42Z

"If you're on my f-list, I want to know 34 things about you. I don't care if we never talk, or if we already know everything about each other. Short and sweet is fine ... You're on my list, so I want to know you better!
BE HONEST! COPY FROM HERE THEN SEND DIRECTLY TO ME IN A COMMENT, THEN REPOST THE EMPTY QUESTIONS."

1. Are you currently in a serious relationship?

2. What was your dream growing up?

3. What talent do you wish you had?

4. If I bought you a drink what would it be?

5. Favorite vegetable?

6. What was the last book you read?

7. What zodiac sign are you?

8. Any Tattoos and/or Piercings? Explain where.

9. Worst Habit?

10. If you saw me walking down the street would you offer me a ride?

11. What is your favorite sport?

12. Do you have a Negative or Optimistic attitude?

13. What would you do if you were stuck in an elevator with me?

14. Worst thing to ever happen to you?

15. Tell me one weird fact about you.

16. Do you have any pets?

17. What if I showed up at your house unexpectedly?

18. What was your first impression of me? (hmmm...careful!)

19. Do you think clowns are cute or scary?

20. If you could change one thing about how you look, what would it be?

21. Would you be my crime partner or my conscience?

22. What color eyes do you have?

23. Ever been arrested?

24. Bottle or can soda?

25. If you won $10,000 today, what would you do with it?

26. What's your favorite place to hang at?

27. Do you believe in ghosts?

28. Favorite thing to do in your spare time?

29. Do you swear a lot?

30. Biggest pet peeve?

31. In one word, how would you describe yourself?

32. Do you believe/appreciate romance?

33. Do you believe in God?

34. Will you repost this so I can fill it out and do the same for you?