12/14/08
Hello, there. I'm Minna. I hail from sunny (muggy, sticky) Florida. I'm a Hufflepuff over on the Beta Boards, and I write fiction and poetry on here, as well as making graphics over on the boards. I have been audiofic'd, won a few QSQs, even finally managed to place higher than third in a few challenges, which took several years of membership to happen, but by far the strangest thing that's happened on here is that I seem to be (as of this writing, Oct 2014) on the Top Ten Most Prolific Authors list on here. Thanks, PA!
Despite that title, I am a very slow writer, and several of my chaptered fics are unlikely to ever be updated and I mostly keep them around just in case. Um, sorry about that. If that kind of thing is going to annoy you too much, perhaps stick to my one-shots and poems.
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We Rise and We Fall by minnabird
Rated: 6th-7th Years •
Summary:
"Death doesn't discriminate
Between the sinners and the saints
It takes and it takes and it takes."
Cedric Diggory lies dead, and Oliver Wood was in the stands when it happened. Before everything went wrong, behind the scenes, Oliver and Cedric tried their hands at love. What they had was gone, but it is not forgotten.
The night of the catastrophe, Oliver remembers.
The Not-So-Fast and the Furious by minnabird
Rated: 3rd-5th Years •Summary: It's Halloween, and the mismatched team of Scabior and Greyback are at it again. A simple visit to a Halloween party to scrounge free food turns into a chase across Orlando. Why does Scabior stay with Greyback again?
Joint winner of Best General Story in the 2015 Quicksilver Quill Awards.
The Weird Sisters - B-Sides and Rarities, Vol. 1 by minnabird, Hypatia, eternalangel, the opaleye, Nagini Riddle, Kinnu, Al Clark
Rated: 1st-2nd Years •
Summary: Welcome back to another rousing round of rambunctious rock!
However, a new act has edged into town and bumped ol’ Celestina off the stage for a two-night-only event. Rocking their way into the main event are the boys with the noise, the fellows with the cellos: The Weird Sisters!
Wrocking Wordsmiths out there have taken songs from many genres of rock (from light rock to metal, and everything in between) and give it a good Potter treatment to bring you songs that might make it on the Wizard Wireless Network’s rock station.
The Mirror Cracked by minnabird
Rated: 6th-7th Years •Summary: 2000. Voldemort and his Death Eaters have been in power for seventeen years, but the fight continues. In France, a strange man turns up on Fleur Delacour's doorstep and turns her life upside down. In a different world, what were the odds that Bill and Fleur would still end up fighting side by side?
Nominated for Best Alternate Universe Story and Best Canon Romance in the 2014 Quicksilver Quill Awards.
Password's Moody by minnabird
Rated: 1st-2nd Years • Summary: Static buzzes, and then a familiar voice sounds. Potterwatch, that wildly subversive radio show, is back with a new broadcast. A jazzy little poem.
Nominated for Best Poem in the 2014 Quicksilver Quill Awards.
Voices of the Brethren by minnabird
Rated: 1st-2nd Years • Summary: An aisling on the state of wizards' relations with the so-called "magical brethren" depicted in the Ministry Atrium.
Milk & Black Spiders by minnabird
Rated: 1st-2nd Years •Summary: Yolanda began life meek and mild, but she much prefers being a black widow. A glimpse into the mind of Blaise Zabini's mother.
Voices from Beyond the Veil by minnabird
Rated: 3rd-5th Years • Summary: It's Halloween night - the night when the veil between this world and the next is thinnest. Deep below the Ministry, in the Department of Mysteries, Millicent Bulstrode might finally find some answers about her former partner.
This story was nominated for Best Dark/Angst in the 2014 Quicksilver Quill Awards.
The Butcher Pirate by minnabird
Rated: 6th-7th Years •Summary: The year is 1717. Marja de Draak receives word that her brother has gone missing and takes a fast ship to Cochin, determined to find him. Once there, she finds more danger than she ever anticipated: all along that coast, travelers have learned to fear the name of Joris Janszoon, a pirate who believes he cannot be killed. And N. Vikram, the man investigating her brother’s case, is determined to see justice done. Fate has brought them together; now what does it have in store for them?
The Cookie-Cutter Life by minnabird
Rated: 1st-2nd Years • Summary: Dudley looks, clear-eyed, back on his childhood.
This poem won joint first for Best Poem in the 2014 Quicksilver Quill Awards.
Ashes of the Past by minnabird
Rated: 1st-2nd Years • Summary: Viktor carries the memory of Grindelwald's path of destruction, passed down to him in the form of stories. He will never forget.
Nominated for Best General Story in the 2014 Quicksilver Quill Awards.
Marauders Three by minnabird
Rated: 1st-2nd Years • Summary: A quick, fun bit of verse in honor of the creators of the Marauder's Map.
The Dying of the Light by minnabird
Rated: 6th-7th Years •Summary: Florean is not the name I was born with: my parents called me Alric.
At the close of his life, the man known as Florean Fortescue remembers. There is much to remember from a life spanning ten centuries, but his mind drifts back to the very beginning of that life, and to his time with Merlin - a relationship that changed him irrevocably.
The Great Escape by minnabird
Rated: 1st-2nd Years •Summary: The twins' last great triumph at Hogwarts in bouncy verse.
Ebb Tide by minnabird
Rated: 6th-7th Years •Summary: Treasures are found where others might not seek to look. Bill/Fleur.
Nominated for Best Poem in the 2013 Quicksilver Quill Awards
I Love You As I Live by minnabird
Rated: 1st-2nd Years •Summary: A lullaby, Aberforth to Ariana.
Nominated for Best Poem in the 2013 Quicksilver Quill Awards
In Dreams by minnabird
Rated: 1st-2nd Years •Summary: Rowena discovers the grounds of what will be Hogwarts and is surprised to recognize it.
Nominated for Best Poem in the 2013 Quicksilver Quill Awards