Oh. my. god. I cannot possibly recommend The Taste of Magic, written by romaine24 and illustrated by raitala for hp10k_showcase, highly enough. It's set in a world where magic, like other natural resources, is running out. I don't want to give any more away, but just- it's amazing and intense and and I broke down and cried reading it. Seriously. Read this fic.

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I know, I know, it's all I freaking post lately. I haven't had time for proper writing, what can I say. (Can you tell I don't want to do my history reading? I bet you can.)

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I am back on campus for another year of Learning Stuff. Oh joy.

I now impart to you, oh flist, a random assortment of fic recs from my memories, because obviously what everyone needs when school is about to make them all busy is a bunch of distractions. And because I felt like it.

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Everyone should be watching this. Especially if you enjoy any of the following: silliness, musicals, Joss Wheadon's writing, Neil Patrick Harris, and Nathan Fillion.

Go! Go and be amused.

You guys, this was so mind-bogglingly good I nearly imploded. Counting Shadows in the Dead of Night at hpvalensmut, NC-17, Remus/Harry and Teddy/James. It's luminous, it's a mindfuck, it's despairing, it's beautiful. Incredibly, incredibly beautiful.

"Well," Remus told Harry, his body glowing translucent in the moonlight, "if you're wondering why you're ( Read more... )

...I have one! And it's also (thus far) a really interesting read. Priceless: On Knowing the Price of Everything and the Value of Nothing, by Frank Ackerman and Lisa Heinzerling. I'm reading it for a class of mine; it's about the use and abuse of cost-benefit economic analysis in environmental policymaking in the U.S. Despite dealing with economics ( Read more... )

The Last Night of the World, by fourth_rose.

READ IT. NOW.

OMFG REC!!!!!!!!!!!!

Avacados and Pears and Slytherin Sweaters, by ms_semicolon. Best H/D I've read in a VERY long time. *flails around*

Also, reminder: hp_ficathon prompts for this Saturday are up.