Ah, the end of another Exchange
So I go away for like 5 minutes, and the mods put the SS/HG Exchange reveal up, and then suddenly I have a new friend on LJ, and then...SQUEE!
It turns out that the exquisitely funny 'Whom the Gods Annoy' was given to me by the famous dickgloucester, who is a marvellous writer, quite without peer, and my new friend. :-) If you're reading this, thankyouthankyouthankyou again for the wonderful gift, and clearly we must chat sometime about Richard III. I will now proceed to read ALL of your stories in all of the archives I can find.
Tremendous thanks also to msavi for the gorgeous 'No White Flag.' A perfect, moving one-shot that made me smile a bit tearfully at the end. It wasn't my prompt, but that's one of the great joys of pinch-hitting: another beautiful gift to savour!
Some of you (such as angel_mischa, you sly creature) may have suspected that I was the author of sc010f's gift 'Tyranny (of the Majority)'. I wanted sc010f's prompt like a kid wants candy, so I was super-pleased to receive it. I wrote most of it in the run-up to the British general election in May, so there's a fair amount of... ambivalence, shall we say, about the role of government and the whole democratic process. I can see voting'n'stuff as something Hermione would be really passionate about, but then she also knows that individuals and groups can be really poor decision-makers.
I don't want to get too political-it can be such a buzzkill-but I did want to highlight, in this day of the democracy-fetish, that democracy is a means, not an end in itself, and should be seen in that context, rather than in a 'oh, well, we can vote now, so all of our problems are solved' kind of way.
I also did the art 'Writer's Block' for neelix_2000 as a pinch-hit. At first I wanted to do one of her story prompts (put Snape and Hermione in classic novel!), but then I looked at the photo I used, and it was too good to pass up! Her letter-writing prompt was, in a word, awesome.
neelix_2000, if you're reading this: I actually designed the art to be printed with metallic spot-colours, so... if you want a hard copy, PM me with your address and I'll post it to you! As long as you don't mind having what is, at its base, a picture of my husband. ;-)
Unfortunately, work got hella busy round about June, and my dedicated reviewing dropped off around then. But, like shiv5468, I intend to finish reading and reviewing them all. Especially given some of the glowing recs flying around LJ at the moment!
Finally, a GIANT thank-you and 10,000 hugs to the Exchange mods: shiv5468, ginny_weasley31, and scatteredlogic, you ladies are amazing. I don't know how you found the time, the energy, and the dedicated to sort, match, mod, and manage one hundred and fifty-six submissions. You give all of us participants an extraordinary gift every time you hold the exchange, and for me, the Exchange is one of the best things of all about being involved in fanfic. Thank you.
It turns out that the exquisitely funny 'Whom the Gods Annoy' was given to me by the famous dickgloucester, who is a marvellous writer, quite without peer, and my new friend. :-) If you're reading this, thankyouthankyouthankyou again for the wonderful gift, and clearly we must chat sometime about Richard III. I will now proceed to read ALL of your stories in all of the archives I can find.
Tremendous thanks also to msavi for the gorgeous 'No White Flag.' A perfect, moving one-shot that made me smile a bit tearfully at the end. It wasn't my prompt, but that's one of the great joys of pinch-hitting: another beautiful gift to savour!
Some of you (such as angel_mischa, you sly creature) may have suspected that I was the author of sc010f's gift 'Tyranny (of the Majority)'. I wanted sc010f's prompt like a kid wants candy, so I was super-pleased to receive it. I wrote most of it in the run-up to the British general election in May, so there's a fair amount of... ambivalence, shall we say, about the role of government and the whole democratic process. I can see voting'n'stuff as something Hermione would be really passionate about, but then she also knows that individuals and groups can be really poor decision-makers.
I don't want to get too political-it can be such a buzzkill-but I did want to highlight, in this day of the democracy-fetish, that democracy is a means, not an end in itself, and should be seen in that context, rather than in a 'oh, well, we can vote now, so all of our problems are solved' kind of way.
I also did the art 'Writer's Block' for neelix_2000 as a pinch-hit. At first I wanted to do one of her story prompts (put Snape and Hermione in classic novel!), but then I looked at the photo I used, and it was too good to pass up! Her letter-writing prompt was, in a word, awesome.
neelix_2000, if you're reading this: I actually designed the art to be printed with metallic spot-colours, so... if you want a hard copy, PM me with your address and I'll post it to you! As long as you don't mind having what is, at its base, a picture of my husband. ;-)
Unfortunately, work got hella busy round about June, and my dedicated reviewing dropped off around then. But, like shiv5468, I intend to finish reading and reviewing them all. Especially given some of the glowing recs flying around LJ at the moment!
Finally, a GIANT thank-you and 10,000 hugs to the Exchange mods: shiv5468, ginny_weasley31, and scatteredlogic, you ladies are amazing. I don't know how you found the time, the energy, and the dedicated to sort, match, mod, and manage one hundred and fifty-six submissions. You give all of us participants an extraordinary gift every time you hold the exchange, and for me, the Exchange is one of the best things of all about being involved in fanfic. Thank you.