I wasn't kidding about the random restless posting! (work:slow :: flist:spammed)

Ah, Harry Potter. You were my first real fandom. The only one I ever wrote for. In fact, if you're super bored as I am today, find me on ff.net (the shame is too great for me to link directly, sorry), and then spork your eyes out over the Percy/Oliver fanfiction I wrote mostly in high school. (Okay, fine, here's the one that made it on to lj when I first got one. Enjoy. It might not even suck that much, but I have no idea because I physically cannot re-read it.)


Anyway, stumbling across the Harry Potter fic below was awesome for many reasons, largely nostalgic. It took me back, man:

1. The age requirements to find the porn! (It's like being carded at a bar! Only it's on the internet! And they serve NC-17 fic instead of alcohol! And the bar would probably have a name like It's Five O'Clock Somewhere IN MY PANTS.)

2. The gleefully juvenile portmanteau ship names! (I feel like Harry Potter was patient zero for this fandom phenomena, though I could be wrong?) FYI Albus Severus Potter/Scorpius Malfoy is apparently also known as ASS.

3. The complex fics built around minor characters that were in one scene together and have no canon relationship! Complete with fanon characterization metastasizing into every single fic none the less!

4. Everyone's gay!! Because with HP you can have 5 different slash OTPs and have them all in the same story, no problem.

5. Sex + Magic = LOL

NEVER CHANGE, HP FANDOM. DONCHA DO IT. <3


On to the rec:

Basically I stole this from faynia's Compilation Post of ASS recs.

So by the time Book 7 came out- and more specifically, by the time I'd stayed up all night to reach the last chapter- I was in a weary, fevered state of soul-scraping exhaustion.

Anywhoozle, I don't remember the epilogue so well. The impression I have is that sunshine and rainbows beamed down on Platform 9 3/4 and everyone loved everyone else predictably and then the train was pulled away by a team of unicorns while a fairy skipped around and waved her magic wand and then it faded to black and the last word was "scar." (Right?)

What I'm trying to say is that was the only lingering canon knowledge I took into the fic below was that Harry and Draco had kids with stupid names.

THAT SAID, this fic is really good, just what I was in the mood for. Albus and Scorpius (and I'm clearly going to have to get over the names thing if I'm going to keep reading this stuff) have very distinct personalities. They're not just Harry/Draco 2.0, as I originally feared. It's set eight years after their time at Hogwarts in a not-quite-so-rosy future, a generation after the original series. The author does a great job of creating a palpable sense of *history* between everyone without shoving it down your throat.

So if you're worried that this is a cracky teeth-rotting Harry Potter fic, no worries, this one is definitely adult, and kind of...screwed up. In a deliciously dysfunctional way that skirts the line of being gratuitous and over-dramatic (which, let's be honest, are some of my favorite things) without quite crossing it. Recommended, yo:


A Wizard’s Guide to Pocket Dwelling by hollycomb (Albus/Scorpius, NC-17)
Summary: Eight years after Hogwarts, Albus and Scorpius are flatmates in London. Albus is a bit of a disaster. Scorpius is in love with him, but remains an innocent bystander until he has a not so brilliant idea.

( Yes, I am one of those assholes who got that copy of Deathly Hallows, read it in a day- and that was a pleasurable reading experience, let me tell ya- and is now posting about it the day the book gets published for realz because I'm an asshole who couldn't hold it in any longer. SPOILERS FOR HARRY POTTER BOOK 7, PROBABLY IN THE COMMENTS TOO, STAY FAR, FAR AWAY IF YOU DON'T WANT SPOILERS. )

Phew. I needed to get that out. Also, JKR is doing a publicity tour in September of 10 U.S. colleges and there's a (slight) possibility that William and Mary and my Harry Potter Club might get picked to host her!!!!!!!!!! I'm coming back for it, if it happens. *crosses fingers*

( HARRY POTTER MOVIE 5 )

Book 7, come on already!!

It's been forever since I've posted, but NYC is awesome, though somewhat exhausting. My program is pretty intense.

And, instead of the job hunting I REALLY should be doing, I took a break to read an (extremely random for me) CSI/CSI Miami crossover fic that started out okay but devolved into one of the characters sobbing on the floor into the carpet at the prospect of a long distance relationship. But sometimes you're just in the mood for long, sorta plotty, badly-written fanfiction, you know? Especially on Sundays.

Also, who's excited about Harry Potter? Meeee. Though I really want to have a talking to whoever decided it'd be a good idea to release the Hairspray movie the Friday that they're releasing the seventh book? Because every teeny bopper who would have been there opening weekend to drool over Zac Efron will be reading instead. (Not that I fall into this category, mind you. I just think he's adorable. And he winks!! Oh man.) Must contrive a way to see both.

OMG.

Someone recced my old Percy/Oliver fic on the crack_van. Wow, I've like...arrived, or something? So very, very cool. And they called it a romp! I love romps!

So cool.

HAPPY BIRTHDAY, gilenaki!

This is really late from when I promised it to you, but I figure it can count as a birthday present. :) Enjoy!!

( HP Fic Recs for Gilene )

( HPB Spoilery Links )

Also, in other HP news, someone please *please* stop me from writing the definitive P/O post-OoTP (and now all the way through HPB) fic. I've plotted it out. It's beginning to eat my brain. Never mind that with my writing speed it will take, oh, THREE YEARS before I finish it.

The day I hoped would come at last has come. At last.

So far, Day O' Dorkdon is going splendidly. Acting on a tip from the Harry Potter Club Historian from school, Lini and I dragged our asses out of bed to get to the Borders at 9 am, so we could get our numbers early for HPB. Numbers 13-15! We are so going to be those annoying people at the HP release party in the first 25 that everyone else *hates*. Bwahaha!

Now, to commence with watching SGA episodes and preparing for Sci-Fi Friday (eee!) which I so need, because it will be enjoyable and entertaining, while HPB on the other hand, will probably be awful and heartbreaking. After the Sci-Fi geekery, will be back off to Borders to get book, which I will receive shortly after midnight because, wait, what was it? Oh yeah, top 25, baby!

*runs around in a circle* Wheee!

Hehehe. I am *so* tempted do some of these. Especially #4.

Also, GIP! Lovely new Trio icon by photoshopranger.

So, HP was my first real internet fandom, the one that sucked my life away for over 2 years, long before I really branched out in my multi-fandom whorishness. And I drifted along from pairing to pairing, as you do in big fandoms like HP, going from first Harry/Draco (for like 5 minutes before I hated it), Harry/Ron, then Ron/Draco. And I picked up Percy/Oliver, and then in the adult era I first liked Snape/Lupin, because I decided that I didn't like Remus/Sirius fic, probably because every else liked them and I have moments of contrariness in that way (again, see Harry/Draco).

Finally though, one day, I came across Snape/Black fic. (Or rather I was bored and decided to like Snape/Black.) The first fic I read in the pairing were by fabularasa. I was sucked in, just like that. And then she kept on writing! And they were all fabulous and plotty and gripping and I devoured them like the wonderful fic-crack they were. And then I tried to get all my friends to read them- I bet y'all remember that- and even though nobody was sold, I still loved her stories, and when I finally drifted away from HP (mostly thanks to Book 5-still bitter and dreading Book 6, thx), fabularasa was my favorite author from HP. And then I guess she disappeared from fandom for awhile.

But dude, now she is back and she's fallen under the spell of SGA! I feel vaguely like a stalker squeeing about this in my lj, but come on! It's like all of my favorite authors from every random fandom I've ever dipped my toe in eventually write SGA. Woah.

It's like SGA has this enormous awesome-fandomy mass which means it has this ridiculous gravitational pull, so it can suck in all sorts of folk irrespective of how far away they are, fandomly speaking. (See, it even makes me dredge up the formula for gravitation force out of my brain, all the way back from my high school physics classes!)

In conclusion: go SGA. *huggles fandom*

I'm not much in the Harry Potter fandom anymore, at least not online, and I don't really read much HP fanfic, but it's amazing the things you'll find on lj when you're avoiding doing something else.

The Love Song of Sirius Black by kaydeefalls

My favorite poem of all time + a "Five Things That Never Happened..." fic + Sirius Black = GENIUS

Memes!

( Harry Potter )

( due South )

( LoTR )

( Sports Night )

Hmm...that's all. For all my multi-fandom whorishness, I'm not really deeply invested in a lot of fandoms.

Winter Break is almost over. It's been a peaceful, quiet one, and complete with annual basement wallow. Right now, I feel like I have a lot of crap to get done and not enough time to do it. Bah. Whatever.

Also, in another disturbing incident of the Harry Potter movie franchise putting characters in pink that SHOULD NOT EVER, EVER WEAR IT, I give you this link.

Um, no.

Another installment of HP nerdiness. Go here. Feel the love.

Ron & Draco + HP Literary nerdiness = a wonderful essay by firebird5 that makes Mere very happy.

For anyone interested, my P/O manifesto went up today on ship_manifesto. Check it out!

Title: The Blind Date
Author: Merelyn25 (merelyn)
Pairing: Percy/Oliver
Rating: PG-13
Disclaimer: The characters, universe, etc. in this story don't belong to me. They belong to JKR and Warner Bros. I'm just borrowing. :) No copyright infringement is intended, and I'm makin' no money off this.

Notes: Still not OoTP-compatible. Here's Chapter One, Chapter Two, Chapter Three, Chapter Four, Chapter Five, Chapter Six, and Chapter 7a.

( Chapter 7b )

*drum roll* Yes, the final chapter. *sigh* My little baby's going out in the world.

Title: The Blind Date
Author: Merelyn25 (merelyn)
Pairing: Percy/Oliver
Rating: PG-13
Disclaimer: The characters, universe, etc. in this story don't belong to me. They belong to JKR and Warner Bros. I'm just borrowing. :) No copyright infringement is intended, and I'm makin' no money off this.

Notes: Still not OoTP-compatible. Here's Chapter One, Chapter Two, Chapter Three, Chapter Four, Chapter Five, and Chapter Six.

( Chapter 7a )