Marlene McKinnon

( Warded to the Order )

( Warded Private )

TROUBLE AT THE FUCKING MILL. i'm not sure where I'm at, there's an alley and it's on fire and I can't apparate and there's a lot of rubbish bins and some doors and i don't know what else, it's dark and I can't see anything else

[Private to Remus]

Bradley? Really?

[Warded Private]
WHY DO NONE OF THESE FUCKING DRESSES HAVE SLEEVES. THEY ARE NOT GOING TO BELIEVE THIS IF I GO IN THERE IN SOMETHING SLEEVELESS BECAUSE GOOD LITTLE PURIST GIRLS DON'T GET CHOMPED ON BY PSYCHOPATHIC WEREWOLVES.

[/Private]


[Warded to Remus, James, Caradoc, and Aberforth]

Okay! Suit up men. Here's the plan. I'll get there just before 7 (because I think it's pretty much a death w a bad idea to show up late to things like this, especially when one is trying to work their way into Narcy's good graces). I'll have the talky end of one of the listening devices, so if someone starts walking back in the direction of the study, I'll cough twice. One of those obnoxiously dainty little coughs, it'll be hilarious. Then once you guys are done and out of there, Caradoc, if you don't mind, you can pretend to be Danish Brother-in-Law Alvin, come to collect and escort Athena back home.

..What am I forgetting?

[/JRAC]

[Order]

Question about the wards up on the safehouse: If one was to build something new, say, perhaps a greenhouse so that we would all have food that we would know for sure hadn't been processed and poisoned with death juice, on the property there, would stuff built on the property get sucked into the wards around the place too, or would there just be a random greenhouse hanging out if someone walked by?

Second question - there've been a few people who've expressed interest in doing something with Resistance Radio who aren't in the Order. I'm not sure what the best way to go about this is so that we don't end up in a bad situation, especially now that all the media's being controlled.

( Warded to the Order, Charmed to flash obnoxiously at them when they open their journals until they pay attention )

A year ago today, we were throwing a birthday party for my niece Holly. Her birthday was actually on the 21st, but we had to knock it forward a few days because of Cameron's job. Lissy didn't see what the point was of having a party for a three year old. She wouldn't remember it. Three year olds barely remember anything. I think maybe she was just jealous that she was stuck at school.

Cameron and Sophie went all out, and rented a pony (even though they could only afford it for half an hour) for the little neighbourhood kids, and Cameron had one of those muggle film cameras so that she'd be able to watch the film of it when she got older, and pretend that she remembered the party. I don't think Holly ever actually went on the pony. Harlan did, and made sure that Cameron was picture-taking while he did it. Then after the horse left, he ended up running the kids around the yard on his shoulders. And then it started raining, and Sophie was having such a meltdown about the kids tracking mud into her house.



It's amazing, the dust that accumulates in six months, yet the house still smells like those candles mum used to order out of the catalogues. And yet the "government" is totally okay with the fact that the person who openly admitted to murdering all of them is out of Azkaban but THAT'S JUST FUCKING FABU

OKAY, WHO STOLE MY AWESOME BOOB SHIRT!?

[Order]

Just an update on the Listening Device Channels, since it's been a bit since I reported back on this. There hasn't been much at all on the ones we hid in the muggleborn clinic in Hogsmeade, except for a little bit of discussion about whether or not they should keep it open. It's been really quiet, so maybe they did. There's been some other mentionings that I have logged, but it either didn't make sense or seemed routine. Hestia, how goes analysis on the vaccine?

Nothing really to report on either the one that Narcywarcy herself has, except apparently she and Luci are really sappy about the fact that they're expecting a fetus, and there's been some yellings at house elves, but that's about it. The only thing I've got from the hag is her offering to get someone a wand who needs one, but that could be anybody since I couldn't hear the other side of the conversation.


Also, does anybody know a guy who knows a guy who knows a thing or two about greenhouse building? Or maybe just carpentry in general? I could probably get Mr. S. to help out with the actual greenhousing, but the building's the thing I need to worry about getting set up.

[Warded to MWPPML]

Dealing With The Card Thing, in List Form

Birth certificate - Shouldn't be an issue, except for the fact that I'm me.
Citizenship papers - All set there.
Marriage license with change of name - This might be a problem.
Your current residence - Same with this one.

Issues with card itself -

Might be a listening device - we have them, they might too.
Tracking device?
Lined with some sort of slow-working poisonous toxin that will eat away my fingertips upon touching it.

Issues with going -

I'm me, and they don't like me
...That pretty much is what opens up a whole other kettle of worms.

[/MWPPML]

[Order]
So I've been thinking (a dangerous pastime, I know). For these card things, I think we should try to get one for each bloodtype, just to see if they're marked up different. And while it might be dangerous as hell to try doing it, maybe we could try comparing what they'd give someone who is totally unsuspected vs someone who the death eaters have had, uh. Issues with in the past. But that would involve going in there, and it's the Ministry and it's big and it might lead to Certain Doom. But basically everything might lead to Certain Doom now, so... I dunno. It's risky, but I guess I'd rather run into Certain Doom trying to do something than hiding out somewhere eating crackers and twiddling my thumbs.

[/Order]

I love it when I try to get official news and the paper turns out to be nothing but lies and gossip. Good times.

Settle a debate for us, folks: Barbeque Sauce - Red or Brown?

Fuck your bullshit, Prophet. It h
You were just supposed to be a prick, Smith, not be working w
NO ONE IS ACTUALLY GOING TO BELIEVE THAT S
..No one is going to believe it, ar

[Warded to the Order]

Fuck this. I'm going live with the radio tonight. People need to know what actually happened. I don't even care if they fucking believe it, they need to know.

I'm dragging the stuff out into the middle of the woods tonight and broadcasting from there. If anyone wants to come with or to help keep watch or put of wards or to help me set the equipment up, you are more than welcome and I'd appreciate it, but I'll do it on my own if I have to. The voice-changing potion should be done, right Damocles? I don't think I'm even going to bother with it; everyone is going to know that it's me anyway, but I want it there anyway just in case.

I don't even know what else to do. Should probably start writing out a script or something or else I'm going to hit the broadcast switch and just wind up screaming in frustration.

[Remus]



...I want to say that I have a present for you but I don't think this really qualifies.

[/Remus]



Gosh, I wonder why I haven't gotten my newspaper for a few days. HMM. WHAT A CRAZY RANDOM HAPPENSTANCE. I hadn't cancelled my subscription last that I'd checked.

( Private )

( Private to Caradoc )

Some weather we've been having lately, huh?

( MWPPML - added later )

( Order )

( Remus )

[Private]

1980, you DIDN'T LISTEN.

What the fuck are we going to do?

[/Private]

[Private to S
[Pri
[Private to Snape]

You're a Death Eater.

[/Private]

[Order] Added after this.

I d I don't think that Dorie's going to be checking in.

( Private )

Well, I for one have made a few New Years Resolutions. I'm not sure if they're the sorts of things you're supposed to share, though. Like birthday wishes -- if you tell, they don't come true. Maybe that's why no one ever keeps theirs.

I hope that this year is better than the last. I'm think it has a pretty good chance.

[Warded to the DMLE]

Um. Hi.


I got owled a finger and a lung from some anonymous source, and I think there are other things inside the lung but I obviously don't want to look because it's really really gross.

Direction please and thank you?

[/DMLE]

[Remus]

Hi. I'm going soon. The le If anything happens, look in the bot Just to let you know.

[/Remus]

( Private )

( MWPPML )

( Caradoc & Hestia )

Lungs were so much funnier back in March.

[Order]

Guys guys guys guys guys THEY WORK. The listening devices work and that hag lady is WARDING SHIT and since she's using the dictaquill we're at least getting her half of the conversation. I don't know who it's warded to, obviously, but one can assume, and it came in right after the rest of her entry from the other day, and we can see THAT but not the rest and I'm slightly giddy right now, if not totally nervous now. I keep getting vague snippets of conversations other times, but usually the other half is muffled when she has the quill put away, which is a problem. ANYWAY, what she said is as follows:

"If this bill passes and you need any muggle hunting equipment, you just let Peggy O'Nell know. I have clubs, ear daggers, goedendags, caltrops, plançon à picots, francesca, bills, guisarmes, cutlasses and even man catchers. Most are cursed or have extra spikes and barbs especially for muggles. If Peggy doesn't have it, Peggy can get it for you."

I don't even know what half this shit is, and I have a feeling that even if they don't get that bullshit thing passed, we should still keep an eye out for the stuff she's talking about. Or find out where she's storing them; that would probably be a better plan, since the other one would be like... waiting around to clean up the mess. Maybe someone could pose as a buyer? I dunno if there's anyone who wouldn't look totally out of place hanging around Knockturn Alley except for maybe Dung, but...yeah.

Thoughts, ideas, input, etc?

[/Order]

Random question for the journalling populous: If you could read minds or know the future, which ability would you rather have and why?

[Private to Caradoc and Hestia]

Obviously there is SOMETHING going up with those clinics, even if I don't care enough about their drivel to read into the entries of the purist girls. Probably can't see most of it anyway because MERLIN FORBID they not look perfectly proper in public. I think our super sneaky break-in should happen before the year is up. Knowing them they'd probably find reason to "celebrate" the new year and enact it through the clinics.

I probably won't reply to this til morning by the way. I am not thinking clearly because of Christmas presents of an alcoholly nature, but I also didn't want to forget to bring this up.

[/Private]

I love people. I also love my Christmas presents. People hshould talk to me. What's on your minds, London?

Warded against anonymous comments, SORRY! HAHA.

I WANNA ROCK!

Birthdays are stupid things. You spend all your life trying to remember all of these dates for all your friends and family so that you know when to buy presents, when to make cakes, and usually only succeed in mixing the numbers up.

And then when you don't want to remember them anymore, you can't get them out of your head. Funny that.

[Private to Remus, James, Sirius, Ted, Dedalus, A Bethy, Mr. Zeller]

Just so you wonderful folks know, the puppies are (Sadly, for us here) ready to leave their mum and head off to their new homes. Let me know when you'd like to arrange an appointment to have them picked up.

OW.

Okay so. Apparently I at least need a refresher course in the ways of vampires, as obviously I, uh, haven't had as close of run ins with them, thankfully. You always hear about garlic and how it's Very Very Bad for them, and I remembered Uncle Gilly saying once that vampires were allergic to it or something. Something about not liking munching on Italians, and I remember something on that stupid wireless drama that I used my mum used to listen to that said the same thing, that garlic will knock their arses down. Did anyone else listen to that show? This girl, Amanda Sinclair, wrote these novels and then they started coming true, and she fell in love with this vampire named Luigi Consualo but Luigi wasn't interested which drove Amanda BATTY (hahaah batty, he's a vampire and she's not) because she'd written him to fall in love with her but he wouldn't so she-




Anyway.

She attacked Tibby's dad. Now she went after someone named Holly, which is ma People's family getting attacked makes me tetchy. Is there anything that would help beyond jabbing them in the chest with a pointy piece of wood? (If that even works. I don't even know.)

"If you don't want a man unhappy politically, don't give him two sides to a question to worry him; give him one. Better yet, give him none. Let him forget there is such a thing as war."

"'Stuff your eyes with wonder,' he said, 'live as if you'd drop dead in ten seconds. See the world. It's more fantastic than any dream made or paid for in factories. Ask no guarantees, ask for no security, there never was such an animal. And if there were, it would be related to the great sloth which hangs upside down in a tree all day every day, sleeping its life away. To hell with that,' he said, 'shake the tree and knock the great sloth down on his ass.'"

"Everyone must leave something behind when he dies, my grandfather said. A child or a book or a painting or a house or a wall built or a pair of shoes made. Or a garden planted. Something your hand touched some way so your soul has somewhere to go when you die, and when people look at that tree or that flower you planted, you're there. It doesn't matter what you do, he said, so long as you change something from the way it was before you touched it into something that's like you after you take your hands away. The difference between the man who just cuts lawns and a real gardener is in the touching, he said. The lawn-cutter might just as well not have been there at all; the gardener will be there a lifetime."

~ Ray Bradbury

It smells like rain outside. I'm not sure why, when it actually hasn't rained much. There's just been lots and lots of snow. A nice cozy favourite bl

( Private )

I went to take Sammie for a walk this morning, and there were little kids at the park playing Aurors Vs Death Eaters. I have no idea how I feel about this. I'm glad, at least, that the kids playing the Aurors seemed to be wi

[Warded to the Order, Riley, Jo, Leon, Stubby, Mary, Grady, Kingsley, Xenophilius Lovegood, Elladora Guffy, Carlotta Pinkstone]

I've heard from a friend of a friend that Resistance Radio is going to making a comeback tonight at midnight. Spread the word, but just tell the people you trust- the password is 'hedgehog.' "cockweed fucker." Sorry for those of you with delicate sensibilities and all that, but it's been concluded that our chances of this not getting out to the wrong sorts would probably be best done if the passwords are swear words. Half of them have got their journals charmed so they can't see bad words, and most of them won't say them, so hopefully that'll help a bit.

Thank you and goodnight!

LILY! Guys! Let's go carolling.

( Private )

[Order]

So uh. Should we change the duress codes again?

Also um. I'm not effected by this personally, but what if our secret present giving friend is no longer... around, in any sense of the word?

[/Order]

[Pete]

PETER. What are you doing tonight?

[/Pete]

They're getting so big. That's Sammie and the runt. He seems to run on a different time schedule than all the rest of them, which seems amusingly appropriate. They want to nap, he wants to play. I think in about a week I can take them to get their shots, so people who have claimed puppies, Begin Your Preparations. I still have two who are looking for homes. If anyone is interested, please let me know!


I reeeeally need to go presents shopping soon. Catalogues don't really have the same ummph. Sometimes I kind of miss living in Diagon Alley, since everything was right there.

Then again, sometimes change is good.

( Private to self )

Does anybody know if one was to use growth charms on a plant, would that have the same effect as using dragon dung fertilizer? The growth would be more immediate, that's for sure, but I'm not sure how the plant's health or strength would fair from it. I got a new toy in from Australia via Mr. S for Christmas, but I don't want to test things out and accidentally ruin the poor thing.

...Need to keep this in a room away from the puppies.

[Agnes]

They caught the shebeast.

We'll light one up for you tonight.

[Remus]

So would you care if I got fat?


Also are we going to this thing on New Years?

The Rudolph the Rednose Reindeer film is on the telly.


It's going to be a long month.

[Order]

I'm almost starting to think they're using the weather as some sort of secret code.

Speaking of which. We've been using the same duress codes for months. Is it really safe to keep doing that, even if we haven't actively used them much? Maybe we should switch them up soon, just to be safe, and not anything like "The pingpong ball just rolled down the stairs" or "Do you remember where the matches are?" because if that gets thrown in while someone is watching I THINK they'd realise that hijinx are afoot.

[/Order]

It's really strange to think back on how much things have changed in the last year. This time last year we were setting up the holiday displays at S&Js, putting all the really pretty green and red potions closer to the glass, as if for some strange reason the time of year made Gravidaste and Shrinking Potion more festive. I remember all of us also getting ridiculously aggrivated that SO many people would come in looking for magical mistletoe. Granted, we HAD some, but considering it was mostly tiny little girls coming in looking to trap their cootie-affected friends-that-are-boys under it...

I've never really liked winter. It's hard to grow anything, and it's hard to get the right environment charms to stay focused in one particular area unless you have ready access to a greenhouse.

I'm sure that life will be so much nicer in however many years when we are all forced to survive via oxygen provided by gas masks because all of the trees have been torn down to supply the parchment fuelling a never-ending propaganda war. Our children will be so thankful for the shape that we left the planet in. Cheers.

[Remus]

Not pregnant. You can stop worrying.

[/Remus]

The trampoline: Children's play toy? Or UNBELIEVABLY vicious backyard killer? You decide.

OH MY GOD, MY EYES, MY EYESSS.

( Private )

( Warded to the Order )

It will still be a few weeks yet until the puppies are old enough to leave their mother, but at this time I am accepting applicants for anyone interested in providing them with a good home. Your request will be reviewed and considered through a high-intensive decision-making process, and whomever is decided to be the best fit will be contacted accordingly. Thank you!

We have tw

[Order]

We have two indoor pools. AND a hottub.

HA.

Will be back sometime Monday!

[Remus]

Psst. Let me know when you're awake.

[/Remus]

Puppy says HI JOURNAL READERS!


You can see the toe of my awesome and impressively fashionable slippers in that shot. Feel honoured.

( Private )

[MWPP + MAL] [MWPP + Lily + Marlene]

So from what I'm deducing, Frenchy and his stepford wife aren't in the country right now. Apparently r And Al's going to be able to give us a heads up if Pryce tries anything. Bellatrix is probably still laid up. I know there are other people out there that we've gotta keep watch out for, but... I dunno. I'm getting antsy.

Can we go act like kids tonight, as long as we're still careful?

[/MWPP+LM]

Where would one go about purchasing a door?

So that's that.



I thought that I would have more to say. First times for everything and all that, yeah?

I had a goal in mind when I started this picture posting thing. Words only seem to get me in trouble, so why not let the images do that talking instead? There is so much hurt and so much pain in the world anymore, that I thought it might be nice that if just for a moment we were able to open our journals and see something nice, something that we all have in common. Fruit, flowers, seasons, nature. We all experience them. It doesn't matter who you are, how much money you have, or what your bloodline is. They're just there, and should be allowed to exist for what they are, just like people should.

The goal got interrupted.

The world lost an amazingly beautiful person and soul on Monday night in a show of power and irrational entitlement. Agnes loved life, loved people, didn't discriminate -- she was a better person than most of us who are left. She liked to argue, she liked to smoke, she liked to swear, she liked to fuck on kitchen counters and that was okay because that's just part of what made her Agnes. She was a tiny girl with a loud voice that you couldn't help but listen to. Maybe the world wasn't ready for Agnes. It seems like it's getting less ready every day. She's able to go on to better, nicer places now, and won't be trapped in a world that is consumed by hate and pain.

She was my best friend. No one should feel loss like this, no matter who you are. People should not have to grieve silently out of fear while more people who don't deserve it are murdered to prove a pointless point in an unending bloodwar. Children should not lose their parents before they're out of nappies. Parents should not have to bury their children before their time. Is that really the world that you want?

People are people. Apples are apples. Seasons change. Live and let live.

MacArthurs park is melting in the dark
All the sweet green icing flowing down
Someone left the cake out in the rain.
I don't think that I can take it
'Cause it took so long to bake it
And I'll never have that recipe again!
Oh, no-o-o-o!

( Private to Agnes )


I look to the sea, reflections in the waves spark my memory
Some happy, some sad
I think of childhood friends and the dreams we had
We live happily forever, so the story goes
But somehow we missed out on that pot of gold
But we'll try best that we can to carry on

[Remus]

Let's go. Let's do it now.

[Lily]

Are you okay with light blue for bridesmaid dresses?

( Private to Snape )

( Private to Lily )
How to you organize a spacey party?
You planet.

I never liked Astronomy. I only liked the lame jokes the professor would make. It was too much memorisation of things that I couldn't touch. Herbology wasn't as big.


I think I need new boots. It's going to snow soon. Or slush soon.

( Private )