I'm just gonna nab questions I think are interesting from other people who are doing the December meme. If there's anything in particular you want me to talk about, feel free to drop your own prompts, but I make no promises. I'll answer the fannish ones here and the non-fannish ones on jedusorFirst up, I'mma talk about my first fandom. By my own standards ( Read more... )

reena_jenkins has posted a recording of my Founders-era Harry Potter fic about the origins of the Sorting Hat, If You Can't See Where It Keeps Its Brain. I think this is the first time anyone has recorded one of my non-bandom fics. It's certainly the earliest of my fics that has been recorded--there are a few authorial decisions in there that make me wince a ( Read more... )

(This little bout of nostalgia brought to you by gala_apples' post about accidentally introducing her mom to slashficBetween the ages of 13 and 16, the only real ongoing fight I had with my mom was over me reading slashfic. She's generally really cool about sex and she's not homophobic at all--I think it was mostly just an initial overreaction to the shock of ( Read more... )

Harry Potter, G, 250 words. Gen. 'Cause devjoe thinks I post too much bandom fic.Mr. Granger met his wife in a library. They were both studying for exams, and saw each other amid the stacks so often that Mr. Granger knew his future wife's major, favorite author, and study habits before he knew her name. He also knew that she too planned to become a ( Read more... )

This is supposed to be a post-one-a-day meme, but I don't like spamming, so I'm consolidating.

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Meme from zarathuse: Post the names of all the files in your WIP folder, regardless of how non-descriptive or ridiculous. Feel free to ask about anything and I'll tell you the premise or paste you a tidbit for any of these.Bandom ( Read more... )

Harry Potter, PG, 2400 words. Hogwarts Founders, slight implication of Salazar/Helga. Title from an Arthur Weasley quote in HP2, about Riddle's diary: "Never trust anything that can think for itself if you can't see where it keeps its brain."

( The Sorting Hat has its own agenda. )

Harry Potter, R, ~1,250 words. Voyeur!Myrtle, Harry/Draco. Warning: underage masturbation and sex.

( Myrtle is either sixty-eight or fourteen, and she has never had an orgasm. )

Harry Potter, NC-17, ~1,000 words, vague spoiler for PoA. James/Peter.

( James is perfect, and Peter isn't. )

Harry Potter, PG, ~2,000 words, blatant spoilers through OotP and subtle through DH. Gen.

( The damage is already done; there's nothing Remus can do about it now. )