The problem with not posting for a week is that you (or rather, I) end up with ten mentally half-written posts with which you have to try not to spam people. So apologies if this gets long.

lgbtq_recs is reccing LGBTQ films, books, music and anything else the reccers may come up with throughout June. There are lots of interesting recs already; I need to go ( Read more... )

I've not done a books post for ages, but this morning, having woken at 4 am and spent the next three hours immersed in my current book, seems like a good day for it.

That book was The Story of Forgetting by Stefan Merrill Block. I mainly picked it up because it's about early-onset Alzheimer's, which is something (or something similar to what) I'm ( Read more... )

1. Making progress on original writing and fanfic, yay.

2. Lots of Harry/Ginny goodness at the Changing Seasons masterlist, yay.

3. I've been so busy recently with theatre-going and generally having a social life, I thought maybe I wouldn't be that bothered about the writers' festival this year. But then they released the programme. John Burnside ( Read more... )

My wizard_love gift was posted, and it's Neville/Ginny! It's long, too, at 15,000 words, and Neville is just lovely. It does start off with a bit of Harry/Ginny, but that is quickly disposed of without bashing either Harry or Ginny. The story fitted me so perfectly that I went back and looked at my requests, and the writer has pretty much written them all to ( Read more... )

Well, I was praying for sunshine for our friends' wedding. On Saturday, it poured down intermittently (including at 7.30 am, where I got caught a kilometre from anywhere with no cover except my beautiful Christmas present pashmina. It took my trainers three days to dry out), until the wedding was due to start, when the sun came out and suddenly ( Read more... )

Two very different stories for you!

The Other Fellow, yet another excellent story to come out of hp_holidaygen (I wish I'd had more time to read there, because everything I've come across has been of a really high standard) by sciathan_file. How would the events of Deathly Hallows appear to the Muggle Prime Minister? sciathan_file does a wonderful job here of showing us his viewpoint ( Read more... )

Got one horrible bit of work out of the way, after working all weekend (I think I worked all last weekend as well, but I can't actually remember) and then until 2 am last night ( Read more... )

I've been beta-reading fics for hp_holidaygen (and I can tell you that there is stuff to look forward to there!) and reading other fic, and suddenly I have this terrible urge to write Book 8 fic, or post-series Harry/Ginny. Either of which would be great fun to write, but I do have, er, other things to be working on ( Read more... )

WTF is this Snap thing? Talk about bloody irritating ( Read more... )

I still seem to be working 12-14 hour days. *cries* In lieu of a proper post, that book meme, borrowed from thistlerose, erastes and quietliban at the last count.

Name...

Three books that have marked your childhood...
The Chalet School in Exile by Elinor M. Brent-Dyer
Anne of Green Gables by LM Montgomery
A Dream of Sadler's Wells by Lorna Hill*

...and your teenagehood:
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