>VERBOSE

http://harrypotter.bloomsbury.com/funstuff/vote

Over the course of seven bestselling books Harry Potter has met a huge cast of incredible characters . . . and now you can vote for your favourite! Whether it’s a wizard, a Muggle or even an owl there are 40 much-loved characters to choose from below.

Simply select the character you would like to vote for and click the SUBMIT button. If your favourite character doesn’t appear, then select the OTHER button and type in the name of the character you would like to vote for.

The poll closes on Friday 26th August 2011 and the favourite character will be announced on Tuesday 30th August 2011.


Go forth; you know what to do.

(Someone on The Potions Master's Muse suggested we "vote the hell out of Severus". I replied that perhaps we should at least keep some of the hell in him...)

Philosophical question:

Should every shippy fic be capable of selling the ship to an "unbeliever" or someone who is lukewarm (assuming a sufficiently open mind on the part of the reader, and not rejection out of hand to begin with)? Or is it okay if only existing fans of the ship are likely to be able to suspend their disbelief far enough to enjoy the fic? Does your answer change based on the likely display setting of the fic, e.g. personal journal, ship-centric fest, fest on some other theme (like the various seasonal things), archive of some sort...?

Fanfiction.net appears to have added a character to the Harry Potter section called "Sirius B. II".

...whodaheck?

...Are we talking about Phineas Nigellus's brother, here? Or has "Sirius B." been reappropriated to that person while the "usual" Sirius Black is now "Sirius B. II"? If so, wouldn't it make more sense to say "Sirius B." (as the very well known character) and maybe "Sirius B. Sr." or something?

(This kind of thing happened with "Lily Potter" a while back. They appear to have appropriated the internal ID number of "Lily P." to be "Lily Luna P." and for a while I saw some fics apparently unintentionally pairing Severus with Harry's daughter.)

Yanno what AO3 needs? Roll-your-own RSS feeds out of search queries. I would be a very happy camper if I could get a feed of "contains character: Severus Snape" like I can on FFN.

Does anyone out there have a spare AO3 invite code I could have?

I might be... a little crazy. http://community.livejournal.com/hp_commonroom/2822.html?thread=886022#t886022 lol am I even speaking English any more? This is probably the closest thing to one of those GQMF/BAMF things I've ever done. It's a strange (but fun) mode of communication.

It makes me so happy that the very first in the giant stack of comments on that post (~1300) for "completely pimp out your favourite character [...] Pimp out your bias as much as you want, tell people how cool he or she is or how they can totally pwn someone's ass. This post is for you to become little Dobbys and fangirl/boy over your favourite character", was this: http://community.livejournal.com/hp_commonroom/2822.html?thread=528390#t528390

Aw yeah, he takes over wherever he goes. RECO'NIZE!

Aaaaages ago I asked people to give me Fandom Top 5 questions. This was torino10154's:

Five favorite pairings and why. ;)

(not sure why the winky face -- maybe because some of mine are obvious?) ( Read more... )

Regarding this old post of mine that I happened to come across:

A year and 9+ months on, the structure of this part of my bookmarks is still nearly identical to what it was then.



I dropped the estimated reading times because while I figure I still probably read at about 300 wpm when I'm actually paying attention, the number of fics which I skim some parts of or read just a bit of and then decide I don't care to finish has increased, so the estimate isn't necessarily accurate or useful.

The "unexplored archives" folder has vanished because I managed to work through what was there (although it spawned many stories into other folders, naturally); the replacement "fic sites" is various archive sites (such as Skyehawke and Sycophant Hex) I check every so often to see what's new.

Semi-miraculously, and probably due to having more than two weeks off work this end-of-the-year-period, there's currently nothing residing in the <5k and 5-10k folders, although I'm sure that'll change once I go back to work next week.

However, this doesn't mean my "time debt" (as coined in that other post) has decreased; not at all. It's increased. In fact, it's increased quite a lot. (Some of the blame here might go to my getting into Snarry, as I've been trying -- and failing -- to keep up with Snarry Games. I tried once to also keep up with Harry-Draco World Cup but decided I just didn't give enough of a damn and deleted a whole swath of bookmarks which would otherwise have likely added another 400k or so to my outstanding total.)

Ya wanna know the damage?

Then: "65 stories. 2,118,209 words. 117 hours and 40 minutes -- that's nearly 5 solid days."

Now: 178 stories (not counting the one I have open in another tab right now -- a Snarry Games entry, natch). 10,368,248 words. Even taking a higher speed of 400 wpm due to increased skimming, 432 hours plus a few seconds -- 18 days. (18 days even, I note with perverse amusement; 432 is apparently a clean multiple of 24.)

Oh, and "Soul Play", the only resident of "really epic shit" at the time of the old post, isn't part of the Long Count (if you will) anymore, since it's vanished off the net. Nine other stories of 250k or more -- two of them over 400k and one of them over 850k (!) -- have taken its place in that folder.

Yiii.

Is every character getting their own Big Bang now? I've seen Sirius, Severus, Ginny, Hermione, George (I think? might be wrong), I could swear there was a Weasleys-collectively one, and now Draco. Sheesh.

Is there anywhere on the net one can still find hill_'s art? I have, like, one piece saved through sheer luck, but it's been frustrating reading posts from a year and a half ago (and on back; o woe, why did I not come into fandom sooner?) which are pathetically image-naked.