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The Act
ladyofthemasque72 Reviews | 7.0/10 (72 Ratings, 0 Likes, 147 Favorites )
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ladyofthemasque
Member Since 2005 | 37 Stories | Favorited by 1,485 | 368 Reviews Written | 1,311 Review Responses
I have to apologize to everyone, period. Real life swallowed me whole, as I have been struggling to make a living writing original fiction over the last 8 years. It has not been easy, & has been complicated by health issues. I hope people can forgive my long silences. Trying to make enough money to live on from writing is a lot harder--waaaay harder--than it looks. (At least I didn't leave any posted fanfics unfinished.)
Anyhoo...
These stories are works of parody (& thus are allowable under US law), and are not written for profit. Just for fun. I'm not making any money off of any fanfics, nor will I ever. I'm just playing around in other writers' universes.
...I am, however, making something of a living off my own stories. (If anyone wants to play around in my universes, you may visit my website, www.jeanjohnson.net, and look up my policy on Fanfics & Fanarts. It's reasonable enough and fairly easy to follow, too...)
~Lotm
Reviews for The Act
This is awesome, I just love it!
Hahahahahhahahah! Love the ending!
As Ron would say '' BLOODY BRILLANT''
I have no idea how I came to miss this, but I'm glad I found it,an MLC that gives the muggle born the power; brillant , as always.
That was pure enjoyment!
Great story!
This is wonderful! I don't think I've read it before, which is amazing given that I adore marriage law challenges. Thanks for the neat story.
- if she tried to bring her own extensive collection to such cramped quarters, they’d run out of air to breathe. An inconvenience, when breathing was very helpful if one wanted to keep reading.
LOL! Priorities and Hermione - always a winning combination! Then again, you're the person who had Hermione say after Sev had his nose reduced for a new identity, "I don’t know if this new nose is even going to reach my clit, let alone rub it in all the right ways!"
- an I’ll consider it from the man who was now her husband was a lot more encouraging than almost anyone else’s outright yes
Well said!
- “I’ll reserve judgement, if you don’t mind. At least until you’ve proved you can do it again. It might’ve been a lucky one-off, after all.”
The shock in his dark gaze was priceless.
rofl
- May all your children be Ravenclaws
good one
- With potentially bad hair and teeth, but there were plenty of Muggle and magical ways of fixing such things. One couldn’t, however, cure an inherited lack of intelligence.
something that every smart kid should hear from their parents but never repeat to their classmates
- As much as I love the Weasleys, you only have to look at them to see how they’ll inbreed themselves into utter stupidity in two to three more generations.
Good point, though I suspect that growing up with an imbecile like Ron and a delusional fangirl like Ginny might bias her opinion somewhat.
- the congenital defects clearly inherent within Bellatrix Lestrange and her cousin, Sirius Black....He was an immature arse....he still thought the man hung the bloody moon, rather than should be hung from it...
It's a pity that so many fics still have Sirius as a good guy. Mind you, I have no objection to him pursuing a career as a gigolo, as long as he slunk back into his kennel before dawn broke.
- You may bind me, you may spank me, you may tease me with your luscious body until I scream with frustration, but you will not cut me off from my books!
LOL! Bookworms of the world unite!
I like the way they both contributed to the Marriage Law. The MLC was a horrible, evil, idea, as anyone who came from a culture were arranged marriages were the norm would know, so it's nice seeing someone treat it with the disrespect that it deserves.
For once, a marriage law that makes sense - though saying that the Mudbloods will be in charge of the checkbook (and that the Ministry acknowledges that most of the Magicals are halfies) makes it clear that the fic is meant to be a parody of the MLC. But it sure is nice to see something different!Lol @ Hermione telling Dumbles to "Fetch me paper and pen"Umbridge is a Mudblood? Crikey crikey. (That's a double crikey, in case you didnt recognize it)- “Purple! You like the colour purple.I was greatly reassured of the intelligence of the students surrounding Ron when they heard this. How could anyone be that dumb? Just because he's male and Gryffindor and ... oh, right, that's reason enough already. No need to mention that inherited brains only go to the five oldest boys.- “I will not even begin to touch Miss Umbridge’s claim of her age, since her point was that she and Professor Snape are chronological contemporaries,” Hermione stated dryly, causing two of the wizards to choke, and Madam Philliston’ lips to twitch upward before it was struggled back down into firm neutrality...Ah, Hermione... a noble Gryffindor would never stoop to baiting her inferiors - thank Merlin you're a Slytherin in all but name!children who really should’ve been taught how to wield the English language a lot better than like some dunderheaded AmericanLOL! Though it does bring up the question - why have I never seen a copy of the New Yorker in a fic? Oh wait, I just remembered, I did see it in one Azkaban!Hermione fic, but really, one fic out of tens of thousands! Surely there must be greater overlap between New Yorker readers and fanfic writers!
Response from ladyofthemasque (Author of The Act)
Yes, yes, the Yenta Livery Challenge was definitely set up as a reaction/counterbalance to the MLC. Frankly, the MLC would never work. There'd be a rebellion overnight by far too many people, a bloodbath of epic proportions, wizards and witches fighting so furiously, you'd never be able to conceal it from the Muggle public...~Lotm(kidnapped and held ransom for the last year by plot-bunnies and house-buying elves)
Response from lucyferr (Reviewer)
I thought the MLC wouldnt work coz mudbloods would just emigrate.
The biggest mystery of the MLC is why so many writers took it up. Must be some strange thing about women born in Western cultures yearning for more constraints in their fantasies. As one born & mostly bred in a non-Western culture, I assure you, I never had such urges - social limitations in real life were more than adequate, thank you very much! :-)
Love it! Great story.
Oh ick. Dolores Umbridge. GAG ACK BARF. Go Hermione! Fun story so far. Love the bit of humor Snape shows with his note about Chapter 6.
Response from ladyofthemasque (Author of The Act)
*ahem* I am NOT cleaning up your hairballs.~Lotm
Response from ladyofthemasque (Author of The Act)
*ahem* I am NOT cleaning up your hairballs.~Lotm
omg to cute the love makeing book for dunderheads was brilliant i lmaothank you for making the story short and sweetit gave me a chance to read a whole story while the baby napped yours trulyjulie
Response from ladyofthemasque (Author of The Act)
You're welcome. I don't always write huge thousand-plus-page epics... *snerk* ~Lotm
What a great story! I had read the first chapter before but for some reason I had never read the second. Definitely a story to put in 'my favorite stories.'Thank you for writing it and I eagerly await more. (That's my not-so-subtle hint, lol!)
Response from ladyofthemasque (Author of The Act)
I'm working on it! Contracted work has to come first...but once I've got book 4 completed and sent off to my beta-ladies, I can get to work on my current SS/HG WIP...soon-ish...~Lotm
I don't even want to know how you get papercuts on your you-know-what...ah, nevermind. That was devilishly funny, and a wonderful distraction from my own writing. Now if I only had the self dicipline to get back to work...
Response from ladyofthemasque (Author of The Act)
*whaps you with a plot-bunny nunchaku* ...Does that help? I know it's rather fluffy at times, and that lessens some of the impact, but I could always whap you a few more times...not that I'd enjoy doing so... *not-quite-innocent look**hugs*~Lotm
Oh how I love your writing. Devilish good smut.
Response from ladyofthemasque (Author of The Act)
Thank you! I've been enjoying your own writing as well, lately...~Lotm
Great laughs over many of these scenes. I most appreciated the final tongue-in-cheek revenge of our favorite underappreciated spy. ~
Response from ladyofthemasque (Author of The Act)
Response from ladyofthemasque (Author of The Act)
Thanks, Casey!~Lotm
Great laughs over many of these scenes. I most appreciated the final tongue-in-cheek revenge of our favorite underappreciated spy. ~
Lovely role reversal -- witty and sweet! Well-written as always, LOTM!
"Hasn't he suffered enough?"It's a good thing I'm not eating as I read this, or my death by asphixiation would be on your shoulders.Hermione's determination is something too many authors neglect. Smashing first chapter!
Response from ladyofthemasque (Author of The Act)
...You should have realized by now that I pull this sort of crap on my readers all the time, tsktsktsk--heed the warnings for Frogs in Winter, if you haven't read that one already!~Lotm*giggling evilly, and yet deeply pleased and flattered, too*
"Hasn't he suffered enough?"It's a good thing I'm not eating as I read this, or my death by asphixiation would be on your shoulders.Hermione's determination is something too many authors neglect. Smashing first chapter!
Response from ladyofthemasque (Author of The Act)
I'm not responsible for anything that happens due to your reading my stories, sorry. Nope nope nope! (Though I am glad you didn't choke!)Hugs,~Lotm
What a lovely story! It was a great read; hot and a lot of fun too. The paper-cuts and Hermione's speech in the court room had me lmao ^^Thanks!
Response from ladyofthemasque (Author of The Act)
Make sure you're standing on a totally separate section of the stairwell when you say that...~Lotm*snerk*
Excellent. Fluffy. Just lovely. :-)
very cute
very funny and very sexy! i just loved the ending and all the references to 'sex for dunderheads.' great story!
Very amusing. I haven't been reading much recently as I've been busy writing, so it's pleasant to come back and be so enjoyably entertained.
Response from ladyofthemasque (Author of The Act)
Cool, same here; this was a WIP that I managed to finish just recently, in a break between working on my original stuff.What are you writing, if I may ask?~Lotm