So, um, I signed up to do merry_smutmas back in October, received the most wonderful gift fic ever from snapetoy (whom I had not met, but need to go fangirl wildly now!), and was in the process of writing my fic for my poor recipient, when my real life imploded. The amazing cluegirl (of Mort o Merce fame, the newest Snape/Black goddess in my personal pantheon) ( Read more... )

Real life sucks. Especially in the winter when you cannot sail. I was going to rant about various things that have kept me in LJ exile, but now that I've written the above few sentences, I think that pretty much says it all, and the details would only be boring. But I'm back, and I missed you guys, much! It will take me a little while to get caught ( Read more... )

I'm alive, but still in self-imposed LJ exile while I attack a frighteningly long list of RL tasks. I MISS YOU ALL! Will be back this week, I hope!

I'm headed out of town to the land of no internet access, and will not be back until the 28th. Am drowning in RL, and will need to do a massive catchup on all the wonderful stuff I see flying across my flist but cannot stop and READ.

Happy holidays to all of you! See you when I get back!

Heh, someone shipped me and cathexys, here on sociofemme's LJ, some way down from whoever matched up isiscolo and idlerat. This and isiscolo's post have inspired me to confess that I do indeed ship you all with each other, but I don't ship your usernames, I ship your icons.

( Here's the True Icon Wuv I want to see )

I got my merry_smutmas gift today! Squeeeeee! I love it! Here's what I wished for ( Read more... )

It's been a dark icky morning here, 33 degrees and raining/sleeting, and I just walked through it for half an hour. I and all of my stuff are cold and wet. Brrr. However, now I have some hot coffee, I'm drying off a little and I think I've unfrozen enough to type. So for anyone in need of a warm-up or a quick work break, here are a few recent and ( Read more... )

HAPPY BIRTHDAY CATHEYXS!!!!!!!! (for whom I have a teeny pressie but it's not finished yet.)
Have been intrigued by the "what HP character am I like meme," but I have a sneaky feeling we are most of us either Remus or Hermione here in this LJ-world, with perhaps the occasional Luna or Tonks. In lieu of that, here's another silly and highly ( Read more... )

Here are two neat discussions of fandom in general:

Fandom as a part-time job with benefits in prillalar's journal

Fandom as all things to all people in movies_michelle's journal, which I found through metablog. Her theory of two very opposite types of fan is intriguing ( Read more... )

( Three unpopular opinons, recs and pointers, Wensleydale cheese, and so forth. )