Inverarity is not a Scottish village

Alexandra Quick returns to Charmbridge Academy angry and in denial. Unwilling to accept the events of the previous year, she is determined to fix what went wrong, no matter what the cost. When her obsession leads her to a fateful choice, it is not only her own life that hangs in the balance, for she will uncover the secret of the Deathly Regiment.



Awesome banner made for me by JCCollier, of Mugglenet Fan Fiction. You should really read JC's story, Marissa and the Wizards.

The summary above is a rough draft. What do you think? (Keep in mind, it needs to be short. In fact, I need an even shorter version to fit fanfiction.net's measley 255-character limit.)

In other random news of randomness:

• Fandom Wank always brings the well-deserved snark, especially when it's Snapefen.
  
• I totally had the Monster Manual with that succubus picture. And you wonder why in the 1980s, mothers thought Dungeons & Dragons was going to lure their children into devil worship?
  
• WTF Netflix? I just finished the first episode of Children of Earth, and then discovered that while you can download episodes 1, 3, 4, and 5 instantly, episode 2 is disk-only! What is the purpose of a licensing arrangement like that? It's not going to sell DVDs, since I just put it in my regular shipping queue. Grr. (I'm still lukewarm about Torchwood after seasons one and two, but the start of CoE actually made me eager to see the next episode.)
  

Umm, not so much with the AQATDR progress lately. (176K words.)

I am, in fact, still working on chapter 27, and my current outline is for 31 chapters total (+1-2 chapters likely, given my usual word count inflation). So I'm actually getting close to the end. But I'm suddenly busier in Real Life, and also certain things just aren't fitting together quite as neatly as I like, so I'm not sure whether to force my way through and revise, or take a step back and think about it for a while. (Obviously, for the past few days I've been taking the easier route, which is Option B.)

So, while I'm talking about completely unrelated things, apparently much drama can be had by the act of friending or defriending someone on LJ. Read my profile, folks. I actually have different ways of organizing which LJs I read how often, and I don't necessarily friend everyone I like, nor does the fact that I've friended someone necessarily mean that I actually know that person. Sometimes I friend a LJ I find interesting and then "defriend" it when I no longer find it interesting -- or when I've decided to put it in my RSS feeds instead.

Holy crap, one way to feel really old (and back in high school) is to lurk LJ drama threads.

Speaking of feeling old and back in high school, ebilgatoloco has depressed me because I realized that there are now high school teachers who are not as old as some of the Dungeons & Dragons books I have in my closet!

And now I am going to totally go off on a long geeky tangent about role-playing games, Netflix, Torchwood, ereaders, and the secret origin of Alexandra Quick...

( So much nerdery you'll probably turn into a pimply virgin by reading this )