I stayed up until 3:00 this morning reading Harry Potter fic. It's like I've traveled back to 2006. And now I'm feeling all nostalgic, for the characters I used to love, the communities I used to be a part of, the feeling of being so entirely enchanted with a fandom. It wasn't the books for me so much, or at least, it wasn't the books alone. I ( Read more... )

I love how this meme ignores the "one" part of OTP, which is good because I always find myself listing about fourteen per fandom. Stolen from a couple people:

Name a fandom that I am familiar with, and I will tell you ( Read more... )

I was going to do a Thanksgiving list of things I'm thankful for, but it would be ridiculously long. I'm thankful for so much right now, I wouldn't even know where to begin. For my family. For friends who take me in when my family is far away. For having a warm home, with books and tea and a computer and a ridiculously audacious kitten. For being ( Read more... )

My sister, who likes to be read to before bed, was visiting last week; I got through about fifty pages of The Fellowship of the Ring before she left. I first read the trilogy (on my own - I'd had it read to me before that) when I was eleven or twelve, and I read it once or twice a year after that, until college; I don't think I've read it since ( Read more... )

There have been two main metafandom discussions going on this week; one is about rape, the other about warnings. This is kind of about both of them, and also about fandom in general.

NOTE: impertinence has written an incredibly brave essay on sexual assault, triggerings, and warnings. If you don't have personal experience with triggers, you should read this ( Read more... )

This is just a quick and random list off the top of my head, but:

Poll I have to admit, I'm rather ridiculously (and embarrassingly) fond of well-done cliche fic, particularly when it comes to hypothermia or accidents or really anything in which characters are worried for or protective of each other. I started looking through some of my old del.icio.us ( Read more... )

When I first started getting into fandom - eight, nine? - years ago, I was in high school. I read Harry/Ginny, and Ron/Hermione, and was very scandalized when I ran across my first non-PG story, because people were doing WHAT to my characters? Or rather, they were doing WHAT! to each other? Don't laugh, I was a shy and sensitive teenager. Or at ( Read more... )