Scales and Tales

So, I know there are a few of you on my flist who are also caught up in Dragonmania.

Do you think "Midwinter Madness" is actually a plot intended to drive us all mad? Or is that merely a side effect of a devious plan to make us all Very Sorry for ever daring to complain about the ubiquity of certain Common eggs?

Eithe way, it's working. *stabs Cave with dagger*

In lieu of actual content, I give you a meme. A-at least it's a fannish meme? *quavers*

The Big Fannish Meme; set dial to Harry Potter!

( 01. First Character I fell in love with )

( 02. Character I never expected to love this much )

( 03. Character everyone else loves but I don't )

( Character I love but everyone else hates )

( 05. Character I used to love )

( 06. Character I would shag anytime )

( 07. Character I want to be like )

( 08. Character I'd like to slap )

( 09. A pairing I love )

( 10. Two pairings I hate )

( 11. Favourite character )

( 12. Six favourite characters )

( 13. Five least favourite characters )

Oh my word. You guys, I have SO MUCH STUFF in my Kirk/Bones folder! *stares*

I'm still working on the Big Rec Post, but, uh, this is gonna take a while... especially considering I don't have another day off till Wednesday. *facepalms* Sorry, sorry, sorry to everyone who was hoping I'd hurry up.

Project for tomorrow Wednesday night: round up all my Bones/Kirk links for the flist-er who was interested!

Does anyone know when the Archive of Our Own might be open again for accounts? It seems like I went there months ago with the intention of signing up and it was in "closed beta" then; maybe I'm imagining this, but I'm definitely not imagining seeing that message yesterday, with no indicators of when it will be open again.

So, anyone know anything?

Thanks to allzugern for alerting me to this:

Ebay user doctor_beth2000 appears to be selling "fanzines" for profit... without the consent of the artists and writers used.

One of the works listed for sale was discovered by the artist and has now been pulled, but there are 450 listings for this person's account, and I bet that there's more stolen stuff than just that one "fanzine"...

If you're an artist or writer in Smallville, Star Trek, Stargate, Due South, or and inform other Fen to go to this ebay page and also check to see if their work is being sold at her store: doctor_beth2000. There are 744 Zines offered there. 744!

There is fiction being offered from an astounding variety of fandoms. In five pages of browsing, the list of fandoms on offer contained:

( partial list of fandoms )

I also see at least one original work, "Solace" by Alexa C -- anyone know this person, and whether this is an authorised production?

Some of the zines look authentic -- one gave a publication date of 1996 and had some water damage. However, many had no date at all, which makes me very suspicious. Artists and writers, please, no matter how obscure your fandom, do a title+description search for your fandom within this seller's items. (I've noticed a lot are listed only by acronym, so search "MFU" as well as "Man from Uncle", etc.)


I don't know what a word would be worth from me, since I am not a writer, but at least one author has submitted a complaint to Ebay (I think; and I know allzugern has), so let's see what we can do, folks!

So, uh, I promised an RL friend I'd send her some of the "hot" fics I liked. She's a het reader, and I'm primarily a slash reader (she doesn't know this), but I figured I've read enough het that I could come up with some offerings even if they were from my "older" days in fandom. Then I went digging through my bookmarks, ... and I found one. ONE. Which was a broken link, but I emailed the author and got a copy.

Either I have read a lot less het than it feels like, or I have done something unfortunate to my bookmarks, but either way I am feeling a bit sheepish. Is all my porn gay now?

So I was hoping you lovely people on my flist could help a slasher out and point me at some good NC-17 het for the following fandoms:

Harry Potter
Pirates of the Caribbean
FF7: Advent Children
Lord of the Rings


Thanks SOOOO much, you guys!

Forgot to crosspost here, but -- it's fixed! Huzzah for internet! :D

In sum:

There was a sort of hurricane, it ate my power, and I am now at my parents's house. I'm alive and safe and my flat is undamaged, so really: much to be grateful for; but my internet access is going to be a bit sporadic till I can convince my laptop to get along with their modem.

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