Shut Up, and Let Me See Your Jazz Hands

Hey, happy (early) Independence Day! Computer lab'll be closed tomorrow, so it's my only chance to say it. And for anyone trying to call me, my phone is crazy; even with the Internet Issues, it's best to just email.

My paid account runs out the 5th and I am broke, so! Beneath the cut's a short poll on HP, to help me with the reccing.

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Also, HOMG, LIFE WINS. I just found the first Hermione/Snape story I ever read! The archive was down, and then it change hands, and I just found out it's back up and the story's there! It has been driving me crazy for years, not being able to find that. All kinds of crazy stuff happens. It's got Harry/Draco, and Hermione and Snape drinking absinthe, and Viktor Krum the attempted rapist, and the creepiest curator ever, omg. All the Death Eaters who got Kissed end up in a museum display and the curator fixates on Lucius Malfoy, who, unbeknownst to anyone, cast some spell that keeps him aware, but in the semblance of the Kissed. And then there is Bad Touching. See for yourself.

I will say, though, that it has been years and it may be less awesome than I'm recalling. Also, it was WiP in those days and it now finished.

Am reading much HP fic for the rec set. Just read a strangely hypnotising fic called "Big dick, come quick." It was kind of crazy. It'd begun life as a three-part PWP, and then the author deicded to make it an actual story, so there are some annoying internal contradictions. And the sex is not entirely to my taste ("squelching" is not a sexy word, thanks). But I don't know; I couldn't seem to put it down.

Anyway. Off to save as much fic as I can for tomorrow.

No, really, this good mood is strange and inexplicable considering:

1) My car is thirty miles away.

2) I have no money.

3) My cell phone is missing.

But! My stint at rec50 is over and I didn't completely fail, so I will take what joy I can. Also, today there was okra and pan-fried chicken and seriously the best jello ever (strawberry jello cubes, served with diced strawberries and pear slices). Oh, okra. Oh, fruit. So much love.

Hey! My birthday's on the 20th. Thought I'd mention, because I, personally, am the suck at remembering birthdays (btw, Alyssa? happy birthday? I'm worst friend ever and you should feel free to completely ignore my natal day?).

God, I miss money. I want books, and new clothes, and Taco Bell, and maybe a paid account.

Anyway. Good mood. So you guys get random observations! Because I'm a giver.

1) Something that never fails to make me laugh? Stories where even the Death Eaters are looking at Voldemort and going "that bitch is crazy".

Sometimes it's just an observation, sometimes it makes them form anti-Voldemort cabals, whatev. I find it hi-larious. Because dude, bitch is crazy

2) BtVS is my favorite fandom for wild-ass pairings. I would never in a million years buy about half the pairings I've read, but by god, I've enjoyed reading them. Because Dawn/Illyria is brilliance and you cannot tell me otherwise.

3) Huh. I am possibly more disturbed than I generally like to admit. Apparently a large part of my H/D shipping foundation is that they can both be such bastards. To each other and to other people, and basically, bastard + bastard = YAY in my head. Also? OMG, I LOVE UNDERWATER LIGHT AND IT IS FINISHED AND THE AWESOMENESS ABOUNDS.

4) I have apparently picked up a new omg-wtf threesome: Harry/Ginny/Tom. Yeah, I'm disgusted with myself, too.

5) Anime fandoms are the hardest for me to start cold with. That has not stopped me from lately trying to read Prince of Tennis and Death Note.

6) I think the reason I'm able to buy such a wide range of characterizations in my HP fic is that these are children's books written in third-person limited. The narration isn't necessarily accurate because we know what Harry knows, and because they're children's books, there is far more black and white than you'd find in a real situation, or even an adult novel.

7) In a lot of pre-HBP fic, I kinda want Harry to just say fuck it to the manipulation and form his own side. Like he's kind of doing in Gentry Green, and like he did in In Memory I. It's the same part of me that kind of wants Atlantis to say fuck it, we're a colony, call a spade a spade, SGC.

8) I don't get people freaking out because they recc'd with a caveat. Because you know what? That still means you did good with something. Most things aren't unadulteratedly good and I don't see why it's better to pretend they are.

9) You can read all 50 of my HP recs here, and all 40 of my finished Xander recs here.

10) Most of the original slash I've read desperately needs a good, hard beta. I just read a story that I mostly really liked (the end was a little rushed, but it was overall pretty good), but I kept getting thrown out of the story because of the malapropisms. Violation in place of volition, horn instead of hone, and on and on and on. Are people just less willing to check origfic? It be crazy.

Totally spaced on my rec50 obligations. Double-checked my tentative rec sets last night, added the six or so missing recs to the Xander set (which is kind of surprisingly different from the 50 Zeppos list), and just posted the first pair of HP recs to the comm. Have roughly two weeks to post the other 98. Christina? Loses at life

Tried to avoid sounding like an overexcited 14-year-old. Am now afraid things ran rather too far the other way.

I've made my (empty) HP table public, so as to have a place to link the authors to when I tell them they're being recc'd. I've also made the beta-version list of recs friends-only, so now people who aren't Laura can see it. Check out the hp tag and have a look-see.

Why don't more people tag their entries? It's so easy, and it's much more readily accessible than the memories feature sometimes. Every time I see someone tag their fic or their icons or their meta, it makes me heart them. So yay for people who tag.

So. I have lost both my sanity and my sense of self-preservation, apparently, as I'm officially signed up for two rec50s, and am unofficially doing at least three more. I say "at least", because I really, really want to do rec50s for, not more fandoms, but for things like "femmeslash" and "polyamory" and "'cest fic" (it'd give me an excuse to rec that Hardy Boys story!).

I therefore feel the need to keep a running tally of the madness. Because a few minutes ago, I started thinking about the scope of this ill-conceived project and my brain went "bibble".

Date :	Stories Chosen :	Stories Recc'd :
02/25/06	131/250	0/250

I just started filling up a fourth rec50 table. I'm signed up for one! You're not even allowed to do more than two!

What is wrong with me?

I just keep thinking "Pshaw. I've got more than fifty stories for that on my computer. How hard could it be?".

I'm signed up for BtVS's Xander Harris. In my spare time, I am apparently also doing BtVS: General Series, SGA: General Series, and General: Crossovers.

I blame the prompt table. It's all small, and compact, and full of prompts like "Kink" and "Threesome" and "Teamwork".

Godammit. My brain just keeps going "Ooh, ooh! Where Is Thy Victory = Dark." And "Hospitality = AU." And "Idle Flights of Fancy = Dream." "Pulling the Strings = Kink." "Seven Things That Didn't Happen at Hogwarts... = Love."

By the way, if you didn't notice, I'm apparently also going to do HP now.

Stupid brain.

Stupid addictive fanfiction.