everything smells a little like almonds...

1. I think I'm allergic to sleep, or have developed a psychotic aversion to it, manifesting in hives. I break out in hives in my feet, wrists and inner or back of the thighs only right before I am due to go to bed. No, sometimes I'm not even changed into my jim-jams, sometimes I'm in the shower, sometimes I'm just sitting at my desk and THINKING about going to bed. I also occasionally get them when I wake up, but most of the time it's the bedtime thing.

2. topgeargirl2 wrote me a bitching J/I drabble about "Hungry Like the Wolf". Go tell her how much she rocks. After you read it. MINE IS NUMBER ONE, BABY!

3. Talk Like a Pirate Day was one of Tianyu's favorite days. I'm staying inside and off the internets.

4. I OWE MEMES. I OWE THINGS.

I AM WRITING. I IS BUSY. I NEED MORE COFFEE.

5. Today is Hermione Granger's birthday, and in honor of that, the Hermione Big Bang has gone live. I have an offering, so no, no bodyswap today. Sorry, picnics.

Fic: 11th Hour

Okay, here we go. The hermionebigbang has gone live.

Title: 11th Hour
Author: Amand-r/amand_r
Artists: alienor77310 & redheadsarehot
Pairing/Characters: All canon characters through OotP. Canon pairings
Genre: Drama/Horror
Rating: R for violence
Warnings: Zombies?
Word Count: 49,500+
Betas: Many saw it in pieces: Tianyu, Victoria (steelvictory), Arsenic, Bigtitch. Only one saw it entirely: RaeWhit. Thanks, mum.

Author's Notes: This story was started in 2003, and for the sake of its original plot is NOT HBP or DH compliant (Horcruxes, Side-Along Apparation, bzuh?). Therefore it is a post OotP AU. This is also not 28 Weeks Later compliant. Thank you. I wrote this to massive amounts of techno, particularly e-nomine's "das testament." Lame ass author's notes at the end.

Summary: The infection starts in the Muggle world, but it doesn't stop there.

Firstly, I am not joking when I say that I've been writing this for six years. It's…I have a sentimental attachment to it. That said, it's a fantastic thing, really, with violence and crying and love and beheading and infection, and magic, and Hermione in the center of it all, being the most badass thing that ever badassed, but in a nerd way.

And the thing is, that I want to say, is you needn't have seen 28 Days Later to understand this. It has no characters from the film, just the disease. I will confess that there are a few events that I wrote when I was childless that are difficult to re-read now. So I guess that could be a warning. Or I could be a pussy.

AND ARTWORK! OMG this is my first Big Bang and I was rather steeling myself for not getting any artwork, because I swear every fest I'm in I don't get a fic or something, but TWO PIECES OF ART THAT ILLUSTRATE FROM THE STORY. LOL AND AWESOME. MAKE SURE TO CHECK THEM OUUUUUUUT.

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And over at the archive, simonsflower, who passed away this summer, has had her HBB story posted, and it's a crossover with Torchwood.

And because I love the idea: