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Looking at the world from the bottom of a well

Sun, 04 Mar 2012 16:12:35 GMT

Which is to say, I spent the last four days doing that thing I do a few times a year where I get sucked into a Harry Potter mega-epic and can't do anything for a few days but read it. (This time it was aspenlight's A Year Like No Other and A Summer Like No Other--I have managed to close the tab without plunging into the third story, which has been a WIP since 2008, but that was still a million-plus words of fic in four days.)

So that's meant no writing for four days, or reading anything else, or watching anything, or, um... well, the less said about the state of my apartment the better...

AND it means that despite writing myself a note I once again missed my LJ-versary, but, guys as of Friday I'd been on LJ and in LJ-based fandom for NINE YEARS. Nine years!

I guess I am really for real not a noob anymore. *g*

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Ahem.

Wed, 05 May 2010 19:33:49 GMT

I am on what could be Day 13 of a streak of writing at least 750 words every day, thanks to 750words.com - apparently all I needed was a sticker chart and some funny statistics! Hooray, positive reinforcement for nerds. (Every day it analyzes my writing and two days out of three it tells me my writing is mainly concerned with Death. Including the time I was writing about The Doctor cuddling a baby while chatting with Rose. IDEK.)

Anyway, the downside of this new spate of writing arrived last night, on Day 12, when I realized that this seems to accelerate the rate at which I write myself into a corner/decide everything I am writing is a terrible idea/come up with even more terrible ideas I could be writing instead.

( And so a poll, so I can go get a soda and some drugs for my headache and the rest of you can already be pretending you don't know me when I get back. )

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Monday rectification effort starts now.

Mon, 03 May 2010 15:24:00 GMT

Moving on to something more productive than the topic of my last post: you guys, sometimes I am really, really, really slow to realize things.

Like, for example, I just realized in a burst of light on Saturday, May 1, in the year 2010, that Neville Longbottom is pretty much the archetype of everything that makes my favorite characters my favorite, and that is why I like reading good, long fic about him so much and think glumly that there is too little of it.

And then, also this weekend, also in the year 2010, I read Night-blooming Heartsease for the first time (I know! But I'm slow and also I used to be a lot more averse to deathfic, I guess.) and of course it was fantastically brilliant and I should have read it a long time ago but now I have read it and I'm not aware of any other Brilliant Neville Epics that I have been putting off reading so I'm at a bit of a loss.

I have read all the Lust Over Pendle stories twice, and I have read Helen's Theft of Assets, Destruction of Property at least three times, and that one - Strange Bedfellows? - where Draco is Neville's secretary also twice, so, um. If anybody wanted to rec me fic where Neville is awesome and quietly competent and gets the guy or girl or whomever, that would be fabulous.

This entry is crossposted at http://dsudis.livejournal.com/553190.html.

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My new favorite fanfic until the next one.

Fri, 09 Apr 2010 13:57:01 GMT

(Icon irrelevant except that Amy is even awesomer than this fic and tomorrow is Saturday which = DOCTORDAY. AGAIN. AND EVERY WEEK FOR MANY WEEKS.)

Ahem!

The awesome fic is Harry Potter fic which I totally assumed, upon reading the title, was Harry Potter fic where Harry is raised by Vulcans, and you know what? I was not entirely wrong. This really is, I think, a lot like the story of what would happen if ten-year-old Spock found out he was, incidentally, also the Boy Who Lived. Or if Jim Kirk had been raised by Sarek and ~~Winona~~ Amanda after losing his parents and then found out he was the Boy Who Lived.

Uh. This was meant to be a fic rec, not a horrible-plot-bunny generator. MOVING ALONG.

This story also, not coincidentally, reminds me a bit of--was it synecdochic's?--story of what SGA might have been like if they had just turned the stupid-generator off. And God knows the world needs more stories of that variety, so here:

Harry Potter and the Methods of Rationality

...Yes, it's on ff.net, and yes, it's a WIP, and you know what, I don't care. But for my own fic-following convenience, I have attempted to turn the RSS feed option into a DW feed: hpmethods_feed. That should update when the fic updates. The link it serves up goes to the author's profile, where notes for each new chapter will appear, so I think that makes sense.

(The last time I attempted to create a feed of a blog it wound up bringing me every comment posted to that blog and I had to open a service request and let denise sort me out, so now I'm really skittish about feed-creating. But this one seems okay, so far.)

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