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Go and leave more prompts, guys! There're some great prompts there but I'm looking for something kinkier to bang out in a night (so to speak...)

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mini_fest
...a fun and easy Holiday fest for the Harry Potter fandom!

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mini_fest sign-ups are open! I love mini_fest; it's always relaxed and a lot of fun, plus the quality is really high - some of my favourite fanworks of last year's season especially were from mini_fest. Any pairing or gen is okay, so go and check it out!

I am going to make myself not sign up until I have finished my current, hideously late, fest fic. MOTIVATION.

SQUEEEEEEEEEEEEE!!!!



A whole fest devoted to my girl Pansy! *\o/* All the prompts I will give, guys. ALL THE PROMPTS.

I am so happy.

(Also: lemme know if you want the code for this - I did the code so the image is click-through.)

Prompting's open, guys! GO AND LEAVE ALL OF THE PROMPTS. I feel like there's an absence still of one-word prompts and one-line prompts. And also picture prompts.

RON/DRACO FEST. I AM SO EXCITED YOU'VE GOT NO IDEA.

Right, first off: chimera_fancies is having a massive Christmas sale of her pendants on Friday. Her stuff is unfailingly gorgeous – wearable fairy-tales! Go for it, says I: the sale starts at 12 noon PST. (Eight pm, for fellow Brits.)

I am painfully aware of how quiet I’ve been recently! It’s partly writer’s block, I must admit. I haven’t written regularly since I got back to uni in September, despite generally being a proponent of Write Something Every Day. At first it was simply impossible to find time; and even these last few weeks, when I’ve been able to make time for writing, I’ve just been blocked. It’s really horrible. Getting out of the habit of writing seems to have killed my muse with all the efficiency of a rock to the head.

(It’s also pretty annoying that I can generally write a hundred words or so before the block kicks in. So I open a document! I try! I feel like this could be the start of something! And then no.)

BUT. Emo is not the purpose of this post! Because I have been doin’ stuff! A lot of it seems to have gone from my head right now, but I have!

( I’ve done really cool stuff! )

You know what else we did? We had a committee meeting about diacon_alley. Which was a little scary – I mean, the committee is made up of clever, competent people (well, I am only one of those things, but everyone else is very competent!) but it’s still unnerving to realise OH WE HAVE TO DO ALL THESE THINGS. But it was also HUGELY exciting. We talked about programming, and the Victory Ball, and how our theme of the-war-is-over! is going to play out over the course of the con. And it all just filled me with incredible squee. SUCH COOL STUFF IS GOING TO HAPPEN, YOU GUYS. INSANELY COOL STUFF.

:D :D :D IT ALL MAKES ME SO HAPPY.

( Another cut for talk of this weekend and shiny London events )

Now I am going to go and read Fall of the House of Usher, because the downside of taking Gothic Lit is that sometimes you have to read American Gothic. Urgh.

I’m starting to hear increased buzz about Diacon Alley... so excited!

Two recs:

Check out graduate_maria, a comm to help an LJ user get through her final semester (more details, including checking-out details, at the comm). Some truly fantastic photography is up for grabs, as well as fics and a rainbow rocking horse.

Seriously, you guys, you must read treacle_tartlet’s hd_parallel fic, What Else Had I To Do But Love You? The fact that the title is an Oscar Wilde quote tells you everything you need to know: this is funny, charming, and has a witty, gay dilettante taking it up the arse from a secret-inheritance-having labourer named Harry Potter. It’s like a cross between The Importance of Being Earnest, Lady Chatterley’s Lover and A Little Princess.

Generally non-magic AUs are the one kind of fic I am guaranteed not to read, and AUs in general are not my thing. I especially avoid Victorian AUs because let’s face it, the more British among us do not always want to read about bloody Victorian London where it is somehow always Christmas and photogenic orphans are shivering in the snow.

This one’s set in Wiltshire, not London, because this Draco has been banned from the London social whirl – and Wilde and his crowd – by an incensed Lucius. He hangs about watching gardener!Harry work, and they fall in love despite the disapproval of Lucius and Reverend Snape. It’s a very simple and romantic story, with true love conquering all, and it is hilarious. treacle_tartlet has a hundred funny turns of phrase, and the banter is FANTASTIC. It’s ~6k and it seemed to vanish in a moment, leaving me with a grin on my face.

The ever-lolarious creatore_magico and son_of_darkness have FINALLY DONE what they’ve been planning for ages: they’ve set up a Youtube account for Harry and Ron! They have lots of hilarious plans so you should totally subscribe... Hermione and Draco will both be around.

The first video is here, and you should NOT BE DRINKING ANYTHING WHILE YOU WATCH IT. (Especially around 2:20). Because if you do, you will be DED OF LOL.

Harry and Ron make sexy faces! Ron does a pointy-fingers boyband move! Harry broods and makes an ANGST FACE! There is a SURPRISE DRACO! Ron cries then FALLS OVER IN SLOW MOTION! It is all set to the Backstreet Boys!

I don’t want to overstate the case, but I firmly believe YOUR LIFE IS BUT A HOLLOW SHELL if you have not seen this video.

GO AND WATCH IT!

1. Basked in the joy of being back in Norwich, in Miss Godfrey’s House of Queers. I got back on Saturday, as did Violet, and we went to the gay bar and danced a lot and hung out with some of our lovely friends. (And yes, I wore a very short dress. >.< Certain People can remain silent.)

2. Hugged Miss Godfrey madly, when she got here on Sunday. The three of us spent five hours talking and catching up. Then we got Indian takeaway and talked some more, and then we watched three Buffy episodes. It was a lovely day.

3. Made a comm.

Wait, what?

Yes! There is now a rondraco community here on Dreamwidth! And I have made it! I’m really happy, because I made it ten minutes ago and I’ve been writing Ron/Draco porn today and I just want to roll around in their pureblooded, rodenty love.

But the comm needs members! And love! And content!

I, of course, can channel some love and content in there. But it’s not my personal DW, it’s a comm, and I’d really love to see lots of stuff over there that has nothing to do with me at all. (It’s getting rather embarrassing at the Harry/Draco comm, which is a barren wasteland of me and slashpervert).

So, um, head over there please? Reposting of old stuff, or posting recs, will also be welcomed with slobbery love, like Sirius when he smells Remus’ James’ crotch.

YAY COMM!

I’ve been playing at the drabble-a-thon over at karmic_sunshine. Some gorgeous things have been written for my requests – guardians_song wrote me funny all-dialogue James/Sirius, which ends with a darkly comic character moment. And she wrote me Crouch!Moody/Draco about-to-be-non-con, which is just delicious. A Question of Time by ms_antrophy is kinky fun with dark!Draco/Neville.

Some quick reccing of my favourite other drabbles over there:

Doing Him In by pretty_panther -- Harry/Pansy with stockings and a lovely rhythm to the writing.

Practice Makes Perfect by grander_fanfics -- Draco/Ginny, but I can go with the pairing for 200 words. Specially when it has SurpriseDomme!Ginny.

Howl by l3petitmort -- Sirius/Remus, with a fantastic extended metaphor involving the motorbike.

Acoustics by l3petitmort -- Fred/George from Molly’s perspective. This is a fabulous encapsulation of messed-up family dynamics.

Here are the four I’ve written:

arobynsung requested Kingsley/Narcissa, a bit of power. Rated NC-17:

( Love Letter )

serilla requested Rabastan/Draco, waiting. The wordcount was a BITCH on this one. Includes non-con and is rated NC-17:

( Waiting )

jaydestarlight requested Cho/Marietta, focus. Rated PG:

( Best Friends )

phoenix_core requested Draco/Luna, because blondes have more fun. Here be G-rated fluff:

( Dizzy )

I just put up two offers: to write fanfic or original fic of 5000 words, and to write four sonnets. I'm pretty nervous, and I feel a little ridiculous to be acting like people would pay money for one of my stories! But I also feel much better - this is such a good cause, and I was starting to feel so guilty that I wasn't one of the many, many fandomers who've offered to help! I'm lucky enough to be able to marry a woman if I choose to, and I want to share the luck around!

Seriously, guys. I'm assuming and hoping you've all seen this already, but go and look again! There's the most amazing stuff on offer.

Right, I'm going to go and have a nervous breakdown at the idea that I've just posted to say '£££ or I won't write for you'. Yes, I know it's for charity. That doesn't make me feel much less anxious.