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A 2008 Retrospective Meme
So, there's a very dull meme going round in which people post the first line of the first post they made each month this year. I thought it would be more fun to make this a quiz. So I shall post the title of the first post I made each month this year and there will be drabbles or icons for anyone who can remember/guess what the post was about. Obviously, you are all on your honour not to look! (Or at least to lie about it if you do look.) Some of these are easier than others.
January: A science experiment
February: Flabbergasted
March: The Vampire's Kiss Guessed by ![[livejournal.com profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/external/lj-userinfo.gif)
tdu000
April: My favourite April Fool
May: The internet has got another think coming Guessed by tdu000
June: If you can read this... Guessed by tdu000
July: I know it's a bit late but...
August: Am I the only one left?
September: Because all knowledge is contained on LJ...
October: Christmas
November: Always cite your sources Guessed by megan29
December: Meme!
January: A science experiment
February: Flabbergasted
tdu000April: My favourite April Fool
tdu000tdu000July: I know it's a bit late but...
August: Am I the only one left?
September: Because all knowledge is contained on LJ...
October: Christmas
megan29December: Meme!
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"Another think coming" was about what an odd phrase this is and whether "thing" made more or less sense.
I think that June's post was about preparing for Moonette's birthday. I think it went on to say something along the lines "then you aren't Moonette."
Surely your first post in July should have been about Wimbledon but it doesn't look as if it was?
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stalkermost committed LJ reader. I expect that means you deserve three drabbles. Would you like to give me prompts?Wimbledon isn't until a little later in July.
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Three drabbles! Hooray!
I'll have a seventh year Lily and James one, because you actually manage to make them funny; a blue-eyed Charlie one, because the similes are more poetic than brown like shi-; and a Mary Sue HP drabble of your own chosing!
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Lily was standing with her hands on her hips and her lips pursed. James caught the edge of her glare and knew that he had some work still to do.
'We knew it would be perfectly safe,' he tried. 'We'd tested it and everything.'
'You'd tested it.'
She was actually tapping her foot now. He wondered if she'd got that from McGonagall.
'Well, Sirius tried it out on Peter and it didn't seem to do him any harm.'
This didn't seem to reassure her. If anything, Lily's expression became more outraged. 'You let Sirius experiment on Peter? You let him, Potter?'
Oh dear, she'd reverted to calling him Potter. Fleetingly, James wondered if she'd still be doing that in fifty years time. He tried what he hoped would be a winning smile. 'Technically, Sirius makes his own decisions.'
He deserved the withering glance she gave him then. Oh well. Time for another tack. 'You've got to admit it was funny, Evans.'
'Oh, hilarious,' she replied bitingly. 'I'm sure Severus thought so. And those first-years who sprouted cherub's wings were simply splitting their sides with laughter.'
'We didn't mean for them...'
She stepped forward then, waving her finger at him and interrupting him. 'That's exactly the point, Potter. You didn't mean it but still people got hurt. Severus was in the Hospital Wing for hours having those lipstick marks removed. And poor Cynthia Johnson is hardly going to be able to show her face tomorrow now that everyone's seen the contents of her underwear drawer. And what for? To give the Gryffindor four a good laugh? It's not good enough, Potter.'
'Wasnwhaiwafor,' he muttered.
'What?' Lily asked coldly.
James lifted his head and stared straight into her beautiful eyes. 'That wasn't what it was for.'
She didn't say anything then, just lifted one eyebrow slightly and waited.
James took that as his cue to sit on the sofa and tug Lily down beside him. He kept hold of her hand and began to explain.
Five minutes later and Lily was red in the face and wheezing with uncontrollable laughter. 'You mean you...' she began, then dissolved again into giggles. 'It was supposed to...'
James nodded, a small smile playing about his own lips. 'It was going to be the final flourish. The Valentine's Day gift that would go down in history. In years to come, men would quake at the thought of having to live up to the great James Potter. Girls would dream of being the object of such a romantic gesture.'
'You are an idiot,' Lily told him, now that she had recovered her composure. But she didn't sound cross any more and, James noticed with some pride, she was still holding his hand.
'I know. Do you mind?'
Lily heaved a loud and dramatic sigh. 'I suppose you can't help it.'
James grinned. 'It's your fault, you know.'
'James Potter, if you think you can turn this around...'
He leaned over and kissed her quickly. 'If I didn't love you so much, I wouldn't have to find such spectacular ways of showing it.'
'Oh James,' she murmured between kisses. 'You don't have to find spectacular ways to show me. Next year, just send a card, like a normal person.'
'Next year,' he breathed. 'I'll remember that.'
Lily kissed him again and carefully stifled the tiny premonition of doom that had assailed her. Even James couldn't get things too badly wrong with a card. Could he?
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As the infant was currently quite red in the face, eyes screwed up in deep wrinkles and ears flapping against an almost bald head, he wasn't quite sure how to take that.
'He's got your nose, see.' She traced a gentle finger down the curve of the baby's face. 'And he has your eyes.'
'My eyes are brown,' Arthur protested.
Molly brushed that away as an irrelevance. 'Healer Carroll says that all babies are born with blue eyes. It won't last.'
'Bill's are still blue,' he pointed out.
Molly gave him That Look. 'Charlie's going to be a proper Weasley. You'll see.'
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'He looks like you,' Charlie announced with deep satisfaction as he studied the tiny child curled safely into the crook of his arm.
Christy laughed wearily. 'Don't be silly, Charlie. His hair is already red. And he's got the Weasley nose...'
'Prewett nose,' Charlie corrected. 'Mum's brothers both had it. She still gets cross when Dad points it out. But maybe you're right. His eyes are blue like mine, too.'
She smiled softly. 'They can still change, you know.'
Charlie looked down at the newest little Weasley lying in his arms. 'They won't,' he whispered. 'You'll see.'
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I think that the November post was a tongue in cheek comment about a story that had web links for almost every other word contained within it (I remember it, b/c there were lots of links to Romanian geography).
September post must have been a poll - but I don't recall which one. Does it count? You do put up a lot of polls!
And I'm gonna go out on a limb and say that the October post was the one where you asked us if we were interested in having a Christmas gift exchange.
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There was a poll in the September post, but there was quite a lot of actual content too, so I'm going to say you need to be more specific.
You're almost right about October.
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