'Loten' is an Old English word, meaning moonlight bright enough to see by.

January 14th 2016: RIP Alan Rickman...

PTL hit 3k and there will be two one-shots for it... eventually, I swear...

I currently have a few half-finished things I don't intend to work on for a little while. I'm going to be working on something a bit different instead, something I will hopefully actually want to finish. It's a shorter project so it hopefully won't take as long. Sorry guys, I know a lot of you want to see more from me. I do too, believe me! (I'm also going to try not to forget to update this profile, oops...)

You should check out my blog, link below. The HP stuff has started but our other stuff is pretty good too.

I run a blog now! With my partner Mitchell (Explopyro). Here it is: pointstick.wordpress.com. You should stop by and browse - we have book reviews, some HP stuff just starting and a lot more coming soon, some rambling, some serious topics, all sorts. You can follow it for updates via email too, I believe (I'm still figuring out how everything works, hush.)

If anything should ever happen to my account or my stories, check it out and I shall post to let everyone know what's going on and where I will be moving to. You don't need to be a member of the site to see it. Until then, this is the only place I will be posting my fics. If one appears somewhere else, tell me, because it wasn't me.

Random trivia: In Scandinavia, the days are all named for saints; April 30th is St Severus' Day and September 4th is St Hermione's day. More random trivia: Severus of Avranches (one of the St. Severi) is the patron saint of migraine sufferers. Appropriate, no?

Disclaimer: I accept no responsibility for anything that occurs whilst reading my fics, including but not limited to sleep deprivation, funny looks incurred by involuntary loud noises, tasks not being completed whether academic, social or any other, and general insanity.

I have a deviantArt under the name Loten with a few bits and pieces on it. I still play a few virtual pet sites, though not much. I have a Pottermore beta test account, too (obviously I'm in Slytherin!) but I don't play enough for it to be worth giving out my username there. Fun fact - my Pottermore wand is rowan and dragon heartstring, the wand I gave Severus in PTL long before Pottermore ever existed and will continue to give him in any fic where his canon wand is broken.

I'm 28, I'm female, I'm a Gemini, I live in south Wales and I graduated from a Welsh university in 2008 with a degree in zoology. I'm either unemployed or working short temporary jobs, and I'm wasting a very expensive and pointless education by happily writing fanfiction. I have four tattoos, so far, and I wear glasses. I try not to take life too seriously and I'm nowhere near as complicated as I like to think I am.

I will always reply to every single signed review unless you have private messaging disabled. You took the time to review, the least I can do is answer.

I will always gladly answer questions about my fics or discuss anything about the fandoms I write for. I've been known to offer writing advice when asked, too, although how much help I've actually been is anyone's guess. Don't be afraid to message me, I don't bite.

For every 1,000 reviews for a story, I offer a prize to that reviewer, a one-shot of their choice - within limits.

I will never abandon a story half way through. I will never upload the first chapter of a story unless I have a rough draft of the entire story already completed. I will never upload the first chapter of a story unless I am happy with the rough draft and confident that I can complete it to a standard I am satisfied with.

The only things that would ever stop me completing a story are computer issues or serious real life issues. When uploading a story, I will do my best to update it every few days; once a week at the longest. I know how horrible it is to be left hanging for months waiting for an update. If I ever do stop updating, there will be a message at the top of my profile explaining why. If there isn't, and I don't reappear within a fortnight, I'm probably dead.

There isn't much I won't read. I truly hate mpreg and noncon/dubcon and I don't like incest much; I also don't see the humour in most crackfics. I won't read characters from my OTPs paired with anyone except each other, but apart from that weird pairings of any sexuality are fine as long as it makes sense in the narrative.

Finally, I'm sorry to disappoint, but Severus and Hermione will never have children in any of my HP fics. I've seen it done well, but mostly it's done really badly and OOC, and it doesn't work with my personal versions of the characters. My Severus seriously and truly dislikes children and my Hermione isn't remotely interested in being a mother, and my Severus is too emotionally damaged for it to be a good idea anyway. Hermione understands him and can deal with him, but a child wouldn't be able to. If I can't make it believable in my own head, I know I can't write it. Other authors can and have, and good luck to them, but it's not going to happen in my writing.

Awards: yes, I'm a show-off. So sue me, I'm pleased and proud that people like my work enough to nominate and vote for it!

TAMORA PIERCE, IMMORTALS
Teacher: Fourth place in Knighthood of Ficship Summer 2009.
Power: Second place in Knighthood of Ficship Summer 2009.
Divine Intervention: Fourth place in Knighthood of Ficship Winter 2009.
Lost & Found: Third place in Knighthood of Ficship Winter 2009.
Little By Little: Second place in Knighthood of Ficship Summer 2010.
Affirmation: Fifth place in Knighthood of Ficship Summer 2010.

Bonus Feature! Mark Oshiro of the "Mark Reads.../Mark Watches..." review sites was commissioned to read chapters 6-8 of Divine Intervention and his videos of that reading can be found here: markreads (dot) net /reviews/2013/05/mark-reads-divine-intervention-chapters-6-8/

HARRY POTTER
Post Tenebras, Lux: Winner of the 2013 Hp Fanfic Fan Poll award for Best SSHG Legacy.
Chasing The Sun: Second place in the 2013 Hp Fanfic Fan Poll award for Best SSHG Legacy.

Fan Art: (let me know if any of these links no longer work)

Post Tenebras, Lux
After Darkness, by RaShelli: RaShelli.deviantart (dot) com /#/d39o9q2
Fan Art, by Frusie: Jeanswear.deviantart (dot) com /#/d3btyba
His Patronus, by Frusie: Jeanswear.deviantart (dot) com /#/d3b76ak
Post Tenebras, Lux by Tempted Sacrifice: CaughtBy.deviantart (dot) com /#/d3ccede
Untitled, by Kumo: tinyurl (dot) com /bv56m2j
Banner, by EreshkigalGirl: tinyurl (dot) com /3kqequ5
Untitled, by Kimber: tinyurl (dot) com /3zuruas
Thank You, by A Colourless Rainbow: tinyurl (dot) com /cm2v86f
Post Tenebras, Lux by RaShelli: rashelli.deviantart (dot) com /#/d3eiq0m
Post Tenebras, Lux (Colour) by Ridgley Warfield: therapist-in-a-box.deviantart (dot) com /#/d3eurh9
Post Tenebras, Lux (Black and White) by Ridgley Warfield: therapist-in-a-box.deviantart (dot) com /gallery/#/d3eurwj
After Darkness Light by kayeita: ravelry (dot) com /projects/softnshiny/after-darkness-light
The Order of the Phoenix, by BulletTimeScully: bullettimescully.deviantart (dot) com /art/Post-Tenebras-Lux-The-Order-of-the-Phoenix-300453086
HP Fanfic Fan Poll Nomination Banner: hpfanficfanpoll.files.wordpress (dot) com /2013/10/ivebeennominated-2013fallwinter.jpg
HP Fanfic Fan Poll Winner Banner: hpfanficfanpoll.files.wordpress (dot) com /2014/01/snermione-legacy-1-posttenebraslux-loten.jpg
Czech translation banner by Solace: hpkizi (dot) sk/images/topics/post_tenebras1.jpg

Chasing The Sun
Agony, by RaShelli: rashelli.deviantart (dot) com /art/Agony-260991601
Your Ocean, by Ukirra: arriku.deviantart (dot) com /#/d4dkfhx
Elemental Magic, by frusie: jeanswear.deviantart (dot) com /gallery/#/d4flsxg
Hobbies, by Ukirra: arriku.deviantart (dot) com /gallery/#/d4h83ud
Late Night Brewing, by RaShelli: rashelli.deviantart (dot) com /#/d4ih3tj
Hallelujah, by BulletTimeScully: bullettimescully.deviantart (dot) com /art/Hallelujah-Chasing-the-Sun-277337333
Chapter 28, by RaShelli: rashelli.deviantart (dot) com /art/Chasing-the-Sun-Chapter-28-276887565
Waiting for the Mediwitch, by Peanut: gloriouspeanut.deviantart (dot) com /art/Waiting-for-the-mediwitch-277280898
Black Mood, by Ukirra: arriku.deviantart (dot) com /art/Chasing-the-Sun-Black-moods-278947703
At The Gates, by Noweia: noweia.deviantart (dot) com /art/At-The-Gates-279410263
I'm Free, by RaShelli: rashelli.deviantart (dot) com /art/I-m-free-281125614
Plotting Revenge, by RaShelli: rashelli.deviantart (dot) com /art/Plotting-the-Revenge-on-Umbridge-282085860
A Sign of Change, by doll-fin-chick: doll-fin-chick.deviantart (dot) com /art/Loten-A-Sign-of-Change-282075209
Fox Patronus, by doll-fin-chick: doll-fin-chick.deviantart (dot) com /art/Fox-Patronus-282075421
A Surprise Patronus, by Lilandriel: lilandrial.deviantart (dot) com /art/A-surprise-Patronus-282884296
Snape Duelling, by lucife56: lucife56.deviantart (dot) com /art/Snape-dueling-283288051
Snape Duelling (Coloured), by lucife56: lucife56.deviantart (dot) com /gallery/#/d52w885
Safe and Sound, by shamandaliewolf: shamandaliewolf.deviantart (dot) com /art/Safe-and-Sound-284883628
Patronus, by djfox31: ravenwing31.deviantart (dot) com /#/d4qk9o6
Chasing the Sun, by kitty-gurl1: namara-ashina.deviantart (dot) com /art/Chasing-the-Sun-288870688
He Was Never Truly Yours, by PickedYou: pickedyou.deviantart (dot) com /art/He-was-never-truly-yours-284108001
Snape, by Noa: flyingninjapig.deviantart (dot) com /gallery/#/d4mpnzs
Fox Patronus, by FionaTyne: fionatyne.deviantart (dot) com /gallery/?catpath=scraps#/d592335
Portrait of Hermione, by frusie: jeanswear.deviantart (dot) com /art/Portrait-of-Hermione-317932334
The Otter and the Fox, by TaraSindar: aquasindar.deviantart (dot) com /art/The-Otter-and-the-Fox-Chasing-The-Sun-318311312
Morning Hair, by nene27: nene27.deviantart (dot) com /#/d59qq45
May God Have Mercy, by AngelicFayth: angelic-fayth.deviantart (dot) com /art/Chasing-the-Sun-May-God-have-mercy-on-my-soul-319463662
Banner, by Solace: tinyurl (dot) com /b35cv7m
German translation cover by upac: ffcdn2012.fictionpressllc.netdna-cdn (dot) com /image/713173/180/
HP Fanfic Fan Poll Nomination Banner: hpfanficfanpoll.files.wordpress (dot) com /2013/10/ivebeennominated-2013fallwinter.jpg
HP Fanfic Fan Poll Second Place Banner: hpfanficfanpoll.files.wordpress (dot) com /2014/01/snermione-legacy-2-chasingthesun-loten.jpg
I See No Difference, by Sophie Nobody: phia-nobody.deviantart (dot) com /art/I-see-no-Difference-426861607
Expecto Patronum, by diAngelo57: nukasclaw.deviantart (dot) com /art/Expecto-Patronum-507109182

Silence
Heated Silence, by RaShelli: rashelli.deviantart (dot) com /art/Heated-Silence-324282685
Featured Author banner from the SSHG quiz on livejournal: ic.pics.livejournal (dot) com /morethansirius/10616016/169999/169999_original.png

Crossroads
Czech translation cover by Lupina75: hp.kizi (dot) sk /images/topics/rapidez.jpg

A Winter's Tale
Featured Author banner from the SSHG quiz on livejournal: ic.pics.livejournal (dot) com /morethansirius/10616016/344977/344977_original.png

Translations by some wonderfully talented people.
I'm always happy to grant permission if you want to translate anything I've written (though if you take on one of the long ones, make sure you have time to finish it, please). If it's not on this list, I haven't authorised it. If you happen to notice that any of the long translations haven't been updated in a while, let me know - if I can't get hold of the person translating, I'm happy to let someone else take over.

Cyberrat has translated Post Tenebras Lux into German: http://www.fanfiction.net/s/8254290/1/Post_Tenebras_Lux
This is also archived at fanfiktion (dot) de/s/506710c30000149e067007d0
She has also translated the PTL one-shots. Summer is here: http://www.fanfiction.net/s/8662774/1/Post-Tenebras-Lux-Sommer and here: fanfiktion (dot) de/s/51101f020000149e067007d0
Acceptance is here: http://www.fanfiction.net/s/8669318/1/Post-Tenebras-Lux-Akzeptanz and here: fanfiktion (dot) de/s/512c7f030000149e06701389
And The Search is here: http://www.fanfiction.net/s/8684440/1/Post-Tenebras-Lux-Die-Suche and here: fanfiktion (dot) de/s/511b7d120000149e067007d0

sevmia has translated Feeding Time into French: http://www.fanfiction.net/s/9043880/1/Feeding-Time

flower0719 has translated Post Tenebras Lux into Chinese on a private forum for Chinese speakers, PM her if you want to log in and look at it.

manelor has translated Chapters 1-5 of Post Tenebras Lux into French: http://www.fanfiction.net/s/7355516/1/Post_Tenebrax_Lux
This was continued until Chapter 17 by DarkSev: http://www.fanfiction.net/s/7664112/1/Post_Tenebrax_Lux
Both of these have been abandoned, and Aesalys has started again from the beginning: http://www.fanfiction.net/s/11212563/1/Post-Tenebras-Lux

Lupina75 has translated Chasing The Sun into Czech/Slovak at hp.kizi (dot) sk/modules (dot) php?name=News&new;_topic=193
She has also translated Second Year: hp.kizi (dot) sk/modules (dot) php?name=News&file;=article&sid;=3320
And Feeding Time: hp.kizi (dot) sk/modules (dot) php?name=News&file;=article&sid;=3450
And Crossroads: hp.kizi (dot) sk/modules (dot) php?name=News&file;=article&sid;=3449
And I Beg To Differ: hp.kizi (dot) sk/modules (dot) php?name=News&file;=article&sid;=3593
And Silence: hpkizi (dot) sk/modules (dot) php?name=News&file;=article&sid;=3731
And Here I Am Not: hpkizi (dot) sk/modules (dot) php?name=News&file;=article&sid;=3831
And Picture Perfect: hpkizi (dot) sk/modules (dot) php?name=News&file;=article&sid;=3817
And Summer: hpkizi (dot) sk/modules (dot) php?name=News&file;=article&sid;=4075
And The Search: hpkizi (dot) sk/modules (dot) php?name=News&file;=article&sid;=4115
And Post Tenebras Lux: hpkizi (dot) sk/modules (dot) php?name=News&file;=article&sid;=3867
And Acceptance: hpkizi (dot) sk/modules (dot) php?name=News&file;=article&sid;=4277
And A Winter's Tale. Part I: hpkizi (dot) sk/modules (dot) php?name=News&file;=article&sid;=4367 Part II: hpkizi (dot) sk/modules (dot) php?name=News&file;=article&sid;=4371
And Perception: hpkizi (dot) sk/modules (dot) php?name=News&file;=article&sid;=4388

upac is translating Chasing The Sun into German: http://www.fanfiction.net/s/9236867/1/Chasing-the-Sun

keren-happuch has translated Crossroads into German: http://www.fanfiction.net/s/9912032/1/Crossroads
This is also located here: fanfiktion (dot) de/s/52a57f0e0001b43736e5120e/1/Crossroads

SnarkyG is translating Chasing the Sun into Polish:
https://www.fanfiction.net/s/10022414/1/Goni%C4%85c-s%C5%82o%C5%84ce

vjcrystalising has translated A Winter's Tale into German: https://www.fanfiction.net/s/10917346/1/%C3%9Cbersetzung-A-Winter-s-Tale-Loten
And Picture Perfect: https://www.fanfiction.net/s/11644700/1/%C3%9Cbersetzung-Picture-Perfect-Loten

Magri is translating Chasing the Sun into French: https://www.fanfiction.net/s/11598954/1/Chasing-the-Sun

Cyberrat intends to snag the German translation of my next (currently non-existent) fic.

Speculative translations (I haven't heard from most of these in a while, feel free to claim them if you like):

Telda will be translating I Beg To Differ and Perception into German.

Disincanto294 will be translating Post Tenebras Lux into Italian.

vampirehunter99 will be translating Chasing the Sun into Chinese.

Darcy91will be translating one of my long fics into Dutch.

Polypocket will be translating I Beg to Differ and Silence into French.

MimiKs will be translating Chasing The Sun and the one-shots into Russian.

And now for something completely different... on my blog, linked at the top of this profile, my partner and I are doing a sporking of the Harry Potter series. This spork is being translated into Chinese by lanmenglu.
Link One: tieba.baidu (dot) com /p/3367563664
Link Two (registration required): thelosteden (dot) net/forum (dot) php?mod=viewthread&tid;=583&extra;=page%3D1

Future fics, a.k.a. Attack of the Killer Plotbunnies.

These ideas may not necessarily all become fics, so don't get your hopes up. HP fics have priority, I'm not sure if/when I'll ever get around to stories from other fandoms.

Harry Potter: All SS/HG unless explicitly stated otherwise.
The Mark of Cain: AU post-DH EWE. After the war, Snape survives and is punished by the Ministry for his crimes, but the details are kept secret until Harry stumbles on the truth and asks Hermione for help. Quite dark in places. First draft was half finished, but it needs a lot of work and keeps changing on me. I think I know what I'm doing with it now.
Seven: Dark AU post-DH EWE. Canon compliant until the final battle. The Boy Who Lived... didn't. Nor did most of the Order. Hogwarts has fallen. The few surviving members of the Order are still trying to fight, but it looks hopeless until they are contacted and realise that someone else is still fighting alongside them. Probably going to be quite dark.
Edicius: AU, post-DH EWE. Life has not been kind to Severus Snape. Once the war is over, he sets about changing that, and he doesn't intend letting anyone stop him. And then Harry does something everyone will regret. Shorter and less heavy than some of my other stories. On hold at the moment.
The Winding Stair: AU post-DH EWE. The world is changing, and for two people there doesn't seem to be a place for them any more. Pushed aside by the new way of life within the Order, they decide to find another way to win the war. This one needs a lot of thought but I do like the idea.
Foxfire: (working title). AU post-DH EWE. Bored and lonely in her post-war existence, Hermione finds solace watching the local urban wildlife, but she doesn't understand what she's seeing. I can say with complete confidence that this story has never been done before; nobody else is this insane.
Gargoyle: (working title). AU post-DH, EWE. It's easy to be forgotten down in the deep cells under Azkaban, but sometimes life has a way of making sure that things aren't that simple. This promises to be quite a strange one; I'm not sure where it's going just yet. I may even dismantle it and use the ideas I have for it in other stories instead of trying to make it hang together as a full story.
Untitled 1: Slightly-AU DH. Dumbledore was smart enough to tell the Order about Snape's vow before his death. What is Snape going through, and how does it affect the Trio's task? Because cluelessly flailing around in the woods was really, really stupid and it never made any sense for none of the Order to know that Dumbledore asked Snape to kill him. Things would have been easier if they'd known and could help, and we all want to know how the new Headmaster coped.
Untitled 2: AU post-DH EWE. Harry and his Auror colleagues need Snape's help, but he wants nothing to do with any of them. Hermione has a private history with him that might be enough to persuade him. I like the initial idea but it needs more of a plot to go with it.
Untitled 3: AU post-DH EWE. No plot summary because no plot. I just really want to write Hermione finding and using the Resurrection Stone to give Lily and the Marauders a piece of her mind, because God knows nobody else ever bothered to tell any of them off for how they treated Severus. One-shot.

Tamora Pierce
Lacunae: A collection of one-shots and missing scenes from between the books of the Immortals series. This is never going to be truly finished; I'll keep adding to it whenever inspiration strikes.
Black and Gold: Some stories about Arram's time at university and how he arrived in Tortall and became Numair. This is a very long way down the priority list at the moment - I may well beat Tammy to it, though, especially since Exile has once again been delayed... I have a few tentative notes, but that's it so far.

Trudi Canavan
Bitter Glass: The High Lord, rewritten from Akkarin's point of view. This needs a great deal of work. I had written about half of it, but looking back I don't like the writing and in some places I'm not happy with my grasp of his character. I have started rewriting it but it's not a priority. Title is only tentative.
The Sound of Silence: I want to try my own take on the 'what-if-Akkarin-didn't-die' theme that is so popular in this fandom; I've got some ideas for this, but I don't want to start it until the first story is finished. It's going to need a bit of work; I'm not sure what I want to do with it yet. Title is only tentative.

Wheel of Time
Nothing concrete, but I'm tentatively batting around a few ideas for short Lan-based pieces. Because Lan is unbelievably cool and really doesn't get the attention he deserves. This is probably just going to be a little side project, something I'll work on to get over writer's block or to stop me getting too bogged down in any of my very long intense fics from other series. Not sure where I'll be going with it. Also I have now concluded that in Randland's future, Malkier will rule the world.

...God help me, part of me really wants to try a novelisation of the first three Thief games, too. (The fourth one doesn't exist, shut up.) Why do I do this to myself?