Been reading stuff over at a particular community, and I came across a particular challenge, which was to write a kind of summary about an event. You could use any idea, a canon event from that fandom, something made up, or even write a "summary" based on someone else's fic from that fandom or your own ( Read more... )

So who's going to what? Portus, Terminus, and is there an Accio in England? Anyone on my f-list going to any of these?

Thanks.

I didn’t think I’d have a good time at Dragon*con this year - didn’t think there was that much I wanted to see, or that everything I wanted to see was in the same time slot.

But! Fannish things that were really fun: ( Neville and the Weasley Twins )

So I've been very bad about checking my f-list which is the reason why I hadn't heard much about the new round of user-screwing by lj/Six Apart. Who's staying? Who's leaving? Is it time for us to go? bronze_ribbons (among otherse) left after Strikethrough '07; maybe she was ahead of the curve ( Read more... )

( could be considered spoilers )

...that's really quite truthful and not insulting or condescending. And there's a pic of Lucius, too.

ETA: Predictions from an Aussie newspaper, so I didn't get a lot of the references, but some parts are still pretty funny, especially the one about Osama bin Laden.

Hi, anyone on my f-list going to Phoenix Rising?

Crossover hell. Or maybe heaven. Pretty funny, even if I don't know who McDreamy is.

ETA: text below, for when the article goes away. ( Read more... )

An article talking about how Harry will survive, at least in fanfic.

The last paragraph reads:

Its hard to say why fan fiction is so popular but I guess that it has to do with satisfying the creative urge without having to invent characters and situations. That, and the fact that a true fan can never get enough of their heroes.The only thing I'd ( Read more... )

Pinched from terkey:

1. Post a list of 20 fandoms. [That's gonna be a toughie -- so I'm going to go with "fandoms or fandom-potential canon".]
2. Have your friends list guess your fave character from each fandom
3. When guessed, bold the fandom, put in brackets who got it and sentence why you like the character/person.

Okay, let's see what we got.....( Read more... )