randomidiot

Heh, this doesn't really surprise me at all...

Mon, 26 Jan 2009 16:42:40 GMT

I took a quiz!

Your result for The Harry Potter Husband Test...

Mrs. Harry Potter

Your perfect HP man is Harry Potter.

You like a guy who's not afraid to fight evil when evil picks a fight. There's a lot to say for bravery in the face of overwhelming odds, even if it does come with a prejudice against people who don't fit into his conception of "good guy" and a penchant for hurling objects across rooms when he gets angry. But in fairness, for an orphan who's spent the better part of his life being hunted by the most evil wizard in existence, he's turned out pretty well. Just be prepared to name your kids after everyone he's ever lost, because he's got a bit of an obsession about the past.

(Fanart by hito 76 http://hito76.deviantart.com/ Used with permission.)

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What am I up to lately?

Tue, 16 Dec 2008 06:09:55 GMT

I've not been online as much lately, but snarry_holidays sort of lured me back. snarry_holidays has been awesome (the quality of fic and art has been great!), but now that the fest is over I'm missing my daily Snarry fix! So now I'm also following harry_holidays , hp_yule_balls , and hd_holidays (I still love Snarry best, but there's so much good Drarry out there too). Once the fests are all done I will have new authors to ~~stalk~~ follow :D

I also ran across this wonderful Snarry fic today: Yearning by geneticallydead . It takes place after the events of Deathly Hallows but disregards the epilogue. I've seen it recced several times now but only just got around to reading it, and I'm so glad I did.

Well, I'm done with my reading for the day. Now I've just got to decide if I want to make these cream cheese brownies with or without the Kahlua, so I know what to pick up at the market. :) I love the holidays - so many excuses to bake!

Thu, 04 Sep 2008 03:09:14 GMT

I'm so behind on reading that it's not funny, but today I discovered a new author I like! I found drachenmina by way of the story "Fly in the Ointment" (cracktastic vampire-Snarry) but am working through the longer Snarry stories. :) Eventually I'll probably link to my favorites on del.icio.us (am so far behind on that as well), but so far I love them all!

I shall probably never be caught up on my reading, but how wonderful is it that I find great stories faster than I can read them?

Does reading fanfiction count as reading?

Mon, 28 Jul 2008 02:42:23 GMT

from the NY Times: Literacy Debate: Online, R U Really Reading?

Of course there is much well-written stuff on the internet. And even material that I previously got in printed and bound form, I'll often get online for free (see Gutenberg Project, or any number of reference material sites) or will listen to an audio version (my public library has audio book downloads online, and I get free audiobooks from Librivox). And goodness knows I spend too much time reading fanfiction myself.

Unfortunately, if the girl in the article is only checking out social networking sites and fanfiction.net... I love fanfiction, but the trash-to-treasure ratio at ff.net is... not good. :( And fanfiction won't ever replace reading an actual, paper book for me.

On the other hand, I really do think the Internet has shrunk my attention span.

Free audio fanfic!

Sat, 19 Apr 2008 23:22:07 GMT

I spend 2-3 hours in the car everyday because of my commute, so I end up listening to a lot of audio books. Even when I'm at home, I'll often do something else while I have my text-to-speech software read me things from my computer to save my eyes. A fair amount of that will be fanfiction.

So I was happy to find an online service that will convert text to mp3 for me for free! There's even a Firefox extension so that I can just select the text I want converted to an audio mp3 file right in my browser, or have it convert the entire page with a couple of clicks. Unfortunately, neither of the British voices is as good as the best male American voice, but I don't mind my Snarry in American English.

With the free audiobooks from my public library, the free audiobooks at the Gutenberg Project and Librivox, and the mp3s I will surely be making from fanfiction (yay snarry_games !), I'll be very well entertained during my commute. :)

Medieval fanfic

Sun, 16 Mar 2008 17:04:19 GMT

This is awesome. The Got Medieval blog traces the history of fanfic all the way back to the middle ages, when enthusiastic Chaucer nuts wrote their own Chaucer sequels:

Chaucer seems to have attracted this sort of activity more than other writers--or possibly, we modern readers are more interested in tracking down this sort of thing when it's done to a writer we admire as much as Chaucer.

I would so write myself into Canterbury Tales. If I weren't reading all the slash that was surely around then...?

So, did they have fan fiction in the Middle Ages? The answer is "yes," though their tastes tended less towards slashfic ... and more toward self-insertion fanfic, the variety in which the author of the derivative work makes themselves a character in the original fictional world, usually a character who is so much better at everything...

So Mary Sues go back to to Middle Ages, although slash probably doesn't.

randomness!

Wed, 19 Dec 2007 04:50:56 GMT

Gakked from joanwilder

In 1m 54s

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Hey, I shocked myself.

How on earth did I miss this?

Tue, 23 Oct 2007 12:27:09 GMT

"TIME" magazine article: "Oh, my god," Rowling concluded with a laugh, "the fan fiction."

Word.

Fun comic

Mon, 27 Aug 2007 00:27:31 GMT

I'm catching up, so this is a couple weeks old, but I found a comic by kokiri85 . Spoilers for "Deathly Hallows":

Black and Snape review "Deathly Hallows"

It made me laugh out loud. :D

Post "Deathly Hallows" fic

Thu, 26 Jul 2007 17:47:18 GMT

All stories (except one) have spoilers for Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows.

Summaries & pairings are hidden, just in case (select with mouse to view).

"The End" by pir8fancier
*Harry and Draco discuss the end of the last book. Sequel to Draco Malfoy: Fangirl.*(HP/DM, humor, 664 words)*

"Harry Potter and the Crack That Follows" by Fourth Rose
*Now that all is said and done - what do those who got offed in the process have to say about it?*(Humor, 1512 words)*

"The Hawthorn Wand" by scrtkpr
*The return of a wand.*(pre-HP/DM, words)*

"Stoned" by Cruisedirector
*Harry should know better than to litter in the Forbidden Forest.*(HP/SS, 1928 words)*

"Dawning" by myashke
*A Snarry fix to DH.*(HP/SS, 1582 words)*

"Scratching The Itch" by Samael
*Good old fashioned H/D slash.*(Harry/Draco, NOT DH-compliant, 11886 words)*

"New Kid In Town" by perfica

*After the Epilogue.*(HP/SS, 688 words)*

"A Common Bond" by lovely_slyth

*Takes place the day after the DH Epilogue.*(Genfic, 1500 words)*

"Letters Home" by ms_semicolon

*A Hogwarts student writes letters home.*(ASP/SM, 2714 words)**

Thoughts and questions that remain after reading "Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows"

Sun, 22 Jul 2007 15:46:04 GMT

Worth the wait? God, yes. And definitely worth the effort of staying unspoiled.

Some reaction off the top of my head...

So many of the things that I thought would happen did. But none of them in the way I expected... And even though I really think the story is over and that there shouldn't be any more books, I was left with questions. Perhaps J.K. Rowling will write a short story or a novella some day that might answer some of them...

Did Harry ever contact any of the Dursleys again?

Did Hermione find and disenchant her parents?

What do Harry, Ron, Hermione, Ginny, Draco, Percy, George, Luna, etc. DO after Hogwarts? Assuming that they finished their schooling.

What did James, Lily, Sirius, Remus, Peter, etc. all do for a living?

Did Harry give the Invisibility Cloak to James? Or the Marauder's Map? Or maybe to Teddy?

Is Harry's first son's middle name Harry? Do all firstborn wizard sons get their fathers' names for middle names? Or is that a British thing?

At what point in his career did Dumbledore and Flamel work together?

How did the first conversation between Harry and Draco go? Did he return Draco's wand?

What really happened with Rufus Scrimgeour?

What made Regulus change his mind?

Is the Hog's Head bar still around?

How did Dumbledore end up with Fawkes in the first place?

Did Hermione pursue a career in the cultivated fungus trade? (only kidding on that one)

Is Harry no longer a Parselmouth?

Did Harry's Patronus change its form?

Why didn't Severus Snape appear in a portrait in the Headmaster's office?

Things that broke my heart:
Hedwig
Petunia Evans
Mr. Lovegood
Albus Dumbledore
Rufus Scrimgeour
Mr. & Mrs. Lupin
George Weasley & Fred Weasley
Draco Malfoy
Regulus Black
Dobby
Severus Snape

I loved so many things about this book! I loved Snape's character because it was so interesting and complex. Turns out it wasn't as complex as I thought after all - it was love. Not that it makes me love him any less, of course. Oh, goodness, I could write about him all night. Now we know why that was Snape's worst memory...

And there were SO many other things I loved, starting with Kreacher and Neville and Molly (and Bellatrix's death!) and Ron and Hermione and Ginny and McGonagall and Wormtail's fate and Luna... but most of all I think I loved that Harry won with his soul intact.

Well, this book referred back to the first book of the series more than any other. And of course with all the revelations I need to go back and reread the whole series. Especially Book 6 - the way this one picks up in media res, they really need to be read together as one book, I think.

I'm off to bury myself in rereading the series. Maybe then I won't have to think about the fact that it's over.