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It's far, far too early to be up. Gnah? Feh.

Is anyone at all interested in what I think about "the realistic presentation of gay men in slash"? No? Didn't think so.

Need to write an entry for the "real" journal. Need to write the First Kiss story (except it won't give me a fucking bunny beyond George going "I saw him first, dammit" and for the love of fuck, Weasley a) you can't call dibs on a person, and b) It's supposed to be about a first kiss, not about TWins Issues, no matter how much I want to explore that in a story some day.) Need to work on the Marcus/Ginny. Really want to write at least two more stories before November and NaNoWriMo, when you lot can expect me to drop off the face of the earth for a month while I attempt to write 1,700 words a day. Ow.

Must go shower and get ass in gear. Blar.

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Feel like week-old, thrice-warmed-over ass. Hey kids, guess who's probably coming down with another stomach infection and will therefore be living off toast and soup and no coffee (er, after this mug) for the next three days? That's right, me. Expect cranky!Melle to make an appearance. Or two. Hundred.

FCA-L people continue to amuse me with their catfights. Plus, there's an actual interesting discussion going on, and I want to post my three cents in here, except I can't be arsed to be coherent right now, and hey, who asked me, anyway?

Today's moment of self-importance: someone on FCA-L asked where the term "RealPeopleSlash" originated, and I answered that as far as I know, it originated somewhere in the first few months of RS-X. Yo, at least I didn't add that to the best of my knowledge, I coined the acronym "RPS". So there.

Random annoyance of the day: I hate it when I'm in the middle of reading a rather good HP story, a rather good H/D story, even, and I'm thrown out because there's a reference to the drinking age as being eighteen. Drinking age in the UK is sixteen, people. Please, please, please do your research. There's enough British people online who will be more than happy to help you.

Was talking to Molly yesterday about how I really want to read a good, long, kind of happy kind of sad kind of really dark post-wara story, something character-driven and relationship-driven, not necessarily slash, but something exploring the people and interpersonal dynamics and how war changes people and their perceptions of others.

Am pondering my War!Bunny, and what everyone would be doing in it. So far, all I have are the twins, Harry, and Draco. Not that good, is it

In which I pimp.

So, on a random whim, I decided to do some more reccs. All HP, mostly slash. In case you don't know my predelections, a list of things that make me consider a story "good" ("brilliant" if it manages to get four or more of them):

• Good Draco characterisation -- and by "good" I mean he's the same snarky, spoiled, aristocratic bastard we see in canon;
• Good Harry/Draco -- in the sense that I'd like to see their relationship develop, realistically, from what we see in canon;
• Humour and wordplays and quotable lines;
• Darkfic -- as in, really dark fic;
• Unexpected pairings that work nonetheless;
• Beautiful prose, prose with a rhytm, prose that's almost poetry;
• Long, epic, character-driven stories;
• War!fic;
• Post-War!fic;
• Non-cliché AUs;
• Good use of secondary characters;
• Digging into the backstory and theories of Magic; bonus points for bringing old (Celtic) myths and legends into it.

( Reccs )

Right then. That's a lot more reccs than I'd expected. Maybe there's some hope for this fandom after all.

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*kicks things*

Still nauseous. Trying to write a LN H/D drabble. Not working. Trying to write any fucking thing right now. Still not working. Fuckers.

Hate life.