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I GOT INTO H/D HOLIDAYS!!!!



Lots of other stuff, good and bad, is happening - I had an interview on Tuesday for a 21-hour-a-week job and it went well, the rioting is continuing and people are too busy "confronting and defeating" to acknowledge we can look at the root causes as well, and my stomach has hurt massively from tension for two days.

But right now I am just aglow with that first part. I GOT IN TO hd_holidays!!!

So you know how I was all pleased because my RL deadlines were over with and I could spend the weekend writing? Yeah... that didn’t happen. A new RL deadline for this Thursday has sprung up. It wouldn’t be very arduous, except for one thing which is going to make it incredibly hard: I’m spending Monday to Wednesday in Amsterdam.

( HUZZAH, right? )

sugareey is awesome. You know how I know this? Because I commissioned her and got some FANTASTIC art! I asked her for Snape and Draco from either DH or HBP. You can actually interpret it as either one – Snape’s lecturing Draco, and you can see his desperation – OMG that mouth, nearly a snarl – and Draco just looks trapped and miserable and SO PRETTY. *fondles his hair* Also EYELASHES. Draco’s pout v Snape’s mouth says so much.

I ♥ commissioning art, you guys. *cuddles the lovely art* Especially art like this. I love the Snape/Draco relationship, especially because stuff like this – where I interpret it as entirely platonic – is still angsty and powerful and awesome.

( cut for Time To Go by sugareey )

So: here a link to where sugareey posted her art for me so you can leave her glowing feedback. I’ll be back Thursday night at the earliest. Have fun and don’t break the internet!

So, this weekend I was at Crucio, the Potter fan meet-up in Edinburgh! It was FANTASTIC.

NB: if you're here from the comm, I'm the one with dyed black hair in a short skirt who laughs really loudly.

Getting there was a bitch – there was a signal failure at Stevenage, a station which almost every cross-country train from King’s Cross passes through. We arrived in Edinburgh three and a half hours late. It was still only about six-thirty so we could eat and hang out and everything, but still. LAME, and it meant that son_of_darkness, dora_the_nymph and I had to sleep in a dorm with seven other people instead of getting a three-person room at our youth hostel.

The youth hostel was super-cheap and had murals involving a dragon groping a pink-haired girl, though, so I forgive its ELEVENTY-BILLION STAIRS and snoring roommates.

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I saw Marina and the Diamonds, a sold-out gig, for free on Tuesday! It was fantastic. She’s AMAZING live – I’ve never been at any gig where they sounded so much better than on the CD!

I feel it’s only a matter of time before I get sucked into something a little bit Tory, a little bit Lib Dem. (Actually, wouldn’t that be a great theme for a Cameron/Clegg fic? Something old, something new, something borrowed, something blue. The something borrowed being power, of course.)

Miss Godfrey got officially together with her boy last night, in the back of an ambulance (they’re both fine). The Boy shall be nicknamed Johnson here. Although he is not awesome as Johnson in Peep Show.

I am in a strange mood, I know. Quick promos:

Reccing for the H/D Bookshelf closes very shortly! Go and rec things! You have three options. Perhaps you could use one to rec your favourite H/D fic of mine. *coughs* More seriously, there’s a whole bunch of great fic that hasn’t made it onto the list. Obviously there had to be a limit on how much any one person could rec, but still. IF YOU HAVEN’T, GO SUGGEST YOUR FAVOURITES NOW. Between The Shadow and The Soul by aoifene is a huge favourite of mine and not up there!

Can I suggest you go here? READ International, a charity that works for child literacy, had a short story competition. The stories that made the second round are up now and can be read free! They’re all good quality, so if you like original short stories, go for it!

The stories with the most votes go through to the next round. You can vote as many times as you want, but each vote costs 50p (75 cents). All the money goes to help child literacy!

Also, um, my friend Nicholas Mellish wrote one of the storiesthere – it’s about time-travelling smugglers and has a whiff to Douglas Adams about it. Nick is fantastic in many ways and a big Doctor Who fan. HE DESERVES YOUR VOTES.

First: I’ve signed up to play in the ficadron. It’s basically the Ron/Draco equivalent of the Harry/Draco World Cup, I think, only much smaller because it’s a small ship. It looks to be lots of fun.

In the grandest tradition of my decision-making fail, I cannot choose my team. Apparently we’re fighting to decide who’s the top dog in the ship, and I can’t bear bottom!Ron, particularly not when he’s with Draco. Only, while I’m very fond of Ron, Draco is my boy, y’know? It feels all wrong to sign up for Team Ron!

What do I do, flist?

Also, I’ll be away for the weekend. Because

( MISS GODFREY IS COMING TO VISIT! )

Miss Godfrey is, therefore, practically perfect in every way. She came to university pretty much unaware of the internet. Since she met me (and some of our mutual friends) this has changed. She now has an LJ! comradesarnie, ladies and gents. So I thought I’d share with all of you a very funny conversation we had over MSN at two in the morning, after a meal out.

We’d been with, among other people, morettaallstar, who is also a hilarious writer – this one writes slash and sings musical numbers with me on buses. *hugs her* Anyway, I think comradesarnie was feeling a little left out. So we had this awesome conversation, ( during which an internet virgin was introduced to fandom )

Back from Norwich! And now I shall tell you all about Azkatraz instead of the shared ridiculousness that is me and my flatmates.

Okay! So I shared with lavillanueva, bewarethesmirk and tray_la_la. Which was ridiculously awesome. Smirk dresses a lot like me, and EXACTLY like me a few years ago, which was cool but weird. Tray is extremely beautiful and clever and funny. But then you are all very gorgeous, I feel cheated: the internet promised me its denizens were all ugly old men! And Lav is all cool and classic-dresses-wearing and I CAN’T BELIEVE I ACTUALLY MET HER IN PERSON AT LONG BLOODY LAST.

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First, some pimping. Check out 1sentencepr0n, you guys. Harry Potter fandom has an entry. Join the comm, and comment on the entry with one sentence of smut! THE ONLY H/D THERE IS MINE. And I did Hermione/Padma first! (Which was totally woldy’s fault, btw.) So go and play! I’ve asked to mod an entry for Buffy/Angel, so hopefully that will be up soon!

And in the name of one-sentence-smut, I’m finally doing that category meme.

( Write 10 different categories of fic, in as few words as possible. )

WE DID IT!

$50 250 for marriage equality!

Oh, and guys?

( Find out a very cool thing! See my teal deer of squee! )

So today I went to see my grandparents (parentals and sisters in tow). I’d actually forgotten we were going to see them, and I think my eloquent reaction to lavillanueva over MSN was ‘CRAP!’

But it turned out to be fairly fun, mainly because my Australian relatives – an aunt who emigrated, who brought her husband and two younger sons on this visit – were there, and they’re brilliant. The older sons are pretty brilliant too, from the sound of it:

AUSTRALIAN AUNT: He likes biking. Mountain bikes – jumping and going downhill very fast...
GRANNY: How dreadful.
AUSTRALIAN AUNT: *laughs* He plays lead guitar for his band too – rock guitar, Mum.
GRANNY: Well that sounds much more civilised.
ENTIRE FAMILY, INCLUDING GRANDPA: If you say so…

You've still got a day left to sign up for the cross-gen fest, guys! If you still haven't signed up, what are you waiting for? The deadline comes a month after the summer fests, so you'll have lots of time to write and draw!