I've been toying with the idea of setting this up for a while now, as some of my flist may know, so now I'm basically testing the waters.

In this post, I want to gauge interest in a possible Big Bang style challenge for HP fandom.  There's already one very successful version of it in the fandom and it focuses on Harry/Draco.  You can find it at big_bang_hd.  I found out about this kind of challenge last year through heroes_bigboom, (though due to my last laptop I never completed the challenge).  There's also spn_j2_bigbang in Supernatural fandom, svbigbang in Smallville fandom, sgabigbang in Stargate: Atlantis fandom and tardis_bigbang in Doctor Who fandom.  You can take a look at those communities to get a feel for what it's all about, or hey, they might appeal to you more than HP!

In short, in a Big Bang challenge, writers create a story of usually 20,000 words and up. Then at the end of the first draft period, these writers are paired up with artists and vidders, who create a piece of art or a vid to accompany the story.  It requires a lot of effort, but it's also a lot of fun and produces some great fanwork for everyone to enjoy.

The idea that I've been toying with is that there's a broader Big Bang for HP fandom, or one that would appeal to those who aren't part of the slashy sector of it :)

Do comment with ideas and opinions: if you really think we're over saturated with fests in this fandom and this would be one too many, let me know! There's no point doing it if the interest isn't there.

There's No Place Like Home Parts Two and Three

In which we discover how the Oceanic Six are rescued, what happened to those who weren't (sort of) and who is in The Coffin.

I'll be going through scene by scene talking about first impressions, whether I feel things worked or not, squeeing and maybe talking about what I feel will happen next or the relevance in the overall story.

All caps are taken from Lost-Media.

Well.  Thanks to Grey's freaking Anatomy I might explode by the time this finale is complete.  I need it, nooooow.

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For those who are interested, you might want to check out the trailer for the new Joss Whedon show Dollhouse.  It promises to be awesome, should Fox let it actually gain an audience.  *skeptical*

I'm now downloading The Office. I will be able to watch when my sister gets back from having her hair done (it's her prom tonight!)

Well, what the frak was all that about then?

Finally, I just wanted to wish a very happy birthday to the lovely trinaweena - I hope you've had a great day so far!

Know what pisses me off?  Being compared to a Harmonian.

Know what pisses me off more than being compared to a Harmonian?  Being compared to a Harmonian by members of a fanbase so similar to the Harmonians that it makes my eyes bleed.

Here's the thing.  Star Wars?  Totally influences the producers of Lost.  Harry Potter?  Also, totally influences them.  To the point that they barely go an interview without mentioning it these days.

Let's look at the central characters in these tales, shall we?

Star Wars: Here, our trio is Luke, Leia and Han.  Luke and Leia are siblings, but they don't figure it out for a long time: they have a certain connection but they don't know what it means.  Han loves Leia, and even at the very end he's willing to let her go to Luke if that's what she wants.  But no, Leia loves Han.  So, the trio consists of the hero, the heroine and their best friend and heroine/best friend is OTP.

Harry Potter:  The Trio, is Harry, Hermione and Ron.  Harry and Hermione are like siblings, as Harry attests to in the 7th novel: they have always got on well, but she pisses him off at times with her nagging, though they care for one another deeply.  Ron loves Hermione, but he is tortured by the idea that he is not enough of a hero for her, and although it kills him (metaphorically, you understand) he's willing to stay out of Harry's way.  But Hermione loves Ron, and always has.  So, The Trio consists of the hero, the heroine and their bestest friend and heroine/bestest friend is OTP.

On the basis of these classic 20th Century love triangles, would anyone like to take a go at the trio of Lost?  Too easy, you say?  I KNOW.

And yet, it seems some people just forgot to read their Joseph Campbell.

I so can't be doing with this stuff.  Why is there never a fandom that just gets along nicely?  At least at this point most people in HP fandom are pretty experienced with the whole thing and don't make me head desk all day.  Or in this specific little corner of HP fandom, where everyone I love/who is awesome hangs out anyways.

You know what pisses me off?  daily_snitch and their recs.  I don't think I've ever seen them rec het, femslash or gen.  It's always bloody slash, and it's usually Harry/Draco or Harry/Snape.  That's not a fandom newsletter, that's a slash newsletter.  Which is why I love quibbler_report so so so so much.  *hugs it*

Oh and a big thank you to all of you who commented on the anon meme, you made me feel fuzzy and nice and etc.  I was shocked at the lack of drama as I often annoy myself so I assumed that would also be the case with my flist, lol.  I think that one thing is clear though, and that's that I need to reconnect with many of you.  And guess what?  I will be able to from now on, as I'm handing in my last essay today!

Also, if you haven't seen the Twilight trailer yet, then go watch it right now.  lusushi I am looking at you.  You will come with me to see it.  For the lulz.

I was apprehensive about it, I'll admit.  But in the end, it was better than I expected.

ETA: I wrote a short fic as my own little companion to the episode.  It's Kate-centric:  Secrets Best Kept

I just wanted to post and say that I've updated FangirlWear with some new products.

I've also opened three new stores:

Team Edward

Team Jacob

I Heart Sylar

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ETA: The entry keeps deciding to spaz on me different ways every time I try to post/edit it.  Gah.  I'm sorry if it has been eating your flist/you've been spoiled.  I'm trying to fix it!

This is stupidly late, but I wanted to voice my thoughts anyways. :)

Back from the convention.

I had an absolutely awesome time.

I don't have much time to write an entry, so some quick points:

• I met night_sky_dream, as well as some people you guys might know from various Lost forums: Marystat, Lyly Ford, Mylene, Pauly (formally Polar Bear on LF) and Boarexpert.
• Andrew Divoff bought Sam and I breakfast on Saturday morning.
• Fredric Lehne is extremely lecherous in a fun way. :)
• Ade M'Cormack is hot.
• Fracois Chau is obsessed with Gillian Anderson.
• Bought a gorgeous notebook.
• The Skaters were all so awesome.  We had a great time chatting and speculating about Lost.  We partied like anything, and I think we were having the most of anyone there (I'm biased).
• Also, the Skaters are the hottest Lost fans :D

How are you all?  Good weekends?

Now ... dissertation!

A while ago I read someone musing on Hermione and the tendency of sections of fandom to pair her with anyone and then to have her as a sort of idealised half of the pairing.  (I can't remember where this was, if it was an entry or comments on an entry, else I'd link it.)  It was remarked that perhaps this has to do with so many of us identifying strongly with Hermione: she is bookish, not stunning, but highly intelligent and loves her friends; this is obviously a picture of a large percentage of fandom and I think women and girls in general find it easy to identify with her.

On the other hand, would I say I identify most with Hermione?  No, certainly not.  Because whilst highly intelligent she's also overly stubborn, close-minded at times and overly serious.

It's easy to state Luna as a mirror of Hermione; they're opposites and this makes them friends.  Luna is imaginative, willing to accept things others might not understand and is misunderstood herself; again I think many members of fandom would say that they identify with this.  I certainly do and strongly at that.

Then, outside of this opposition but constantly in comparison we have Ginny, the third of the most prominent females of Harry's generation.  She's as stubborn as any of her family, but more of a tomboy than either of the other girls here.  She's combative, forward, yet she's often trapped by those around her and over-protected.  Despite her tomboy status she's often described as fairly feminine and beautiful, probably in an attempt to make her a viable choice for Harry.  She's probably the least obvious of the three for fandom to identify with, yet we write about her a lot.  Is it that we're not as easy to put in a box as it seems, or rather that we're living vicariously through her?

Personally, my dilemma here is that I can't identify myself as one of these three ... I hesitate to call them 'types', because that's probably a disservice to the characterisation of Luna and Hermione in particular.  I see glimpses of myself in each of them and I really like all three of them (though I'm aware many have problems with Hermione and Ginny - more so than I've seen it with Luna anyway).

So tell me, who do you identify with most? Do you identify with any of them?  Do you see fandom as a whole as aligning themselves with one of these three, or does it simply depend on who you want to ship them with?  Any thoughts, basically.

And a poll...

I completely forgot to make a post last week, but I liked 4.6 a lot.  Ben creeps me out and Juliet is pretty.

Anyways, on to this week:

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I'm feeling full of cold but better today.  Tried on loads of clothes that mum got me and it was awesome.

I'm getting my hair cut later.  Which is good because I have horrible split ends.  Then tomorrow I'm getting it chemically straightened.  In between these events, it's all about the fic exchanges, of course :)

I watched Across the Universe last night.  It was a bit choppy and weird at first, but then it was really very good.  I liked it a lot.

Don't laugh at me guys - it's my hormones!

Well, I'm very tired, so don't expect coherence.

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Title: We Belong to Nobody, and Nobody Belongs to Us.
Author: butterfly_kate
Pairing: Blair/Chuck
Rating: R
Author's Notes: A big thanks to supergirlscafe for the beta! To loudxmusic, I hope this is what you were looking for *worries*

Summary: Blair is all alone on Valentine’s Day, forgotten by the world. Whatever will she do?


For the ggfic_exchange, my first foray into Gossip Girl fiction, and the more I look at it the more I sort of hate it.  *sigh*  This always happens, I'm sure I'll like it again tomorrow! :)

I liked this better than last week.  I love this feeling - liking each episode better than the one that went before!


In other news:

I'm now 10,000 words into my dgficexchange fic.  Not sure how I feel about that fact.  I think it's not working, but having got this far I'm going to take it through to the end and then edit like hell.  (Anyone up for betaing? it won't be for a while yet but it's sure as hell going to need some work and a bit of back and forth I reckon.)

I'm pimping altusargentum a new fic journal set up by Amortentia, who I've been beta reading for for a while, and her friend Wizzardt.

I'm 21 in only 4 days.  Freaky.  My gift from RTD is Martha Jones in Torchwood, then on Thursday it's my Luau.  It looks like it's going to be mostly the biggest drinkers I know who come to the SU, and other mates coming just for drinks and stuff before.  Little do they know the Mai Tais are so strong they'll be coming to the SU with us. Bwah ha ha.

Went to pilates this morning.  It canes.

First, I need to reply to comments on my entry from yesterday, but I probably won't have time til later (She says, as she wastes her time on a meme, I only just got up!) but I will be replying because yeah.

Second, I commissioned some Luna/Dean art from maria_abagnale   for my fic The Last Time (yes I'm vain, whatever) Anyways, YOU HAVE TO LOOK AT IT BECAUSE IT'S GORGEOUS.
Just look at it! They're so beautiful!

And now a meme that I stole from Katie and Nicole:

1. Pick 15 of your favourite movies.
2. Go to IMDb and find a quote from each movie.
3. Post them here for everyone to guess.
4. Strike it out when someone guesses correctly, and put who guessed it and the movie.
5. NO GOOGLING/using IMDb search functions.

( Quotes )humbuggirl 

4. Do you guys remember a couple of years ago when that guy was lighting homeless people on fire in the subway?
Cloverfield guessed by attilatehbun 

5. I am very, very sorry for the terrible distress that I have caused you. I am very, very sorry...
Atonement guessed by bofbanoff 

6. Shania hates mayo all right, and she can't eat chicken salad, thats no joke. We gave it to her once, she threw up in the limo - the lady hates chicken salad. So I bring out a bunch of tuna fish sandwiches - she still doesn't believe me - I say, Shania, I'm allergic to mayo - which, by the way, is a lie. Shania still doesn't believe me so I eat two of the sandwiches in front of her to prove it. So she eats one and a half sandwiches, one and a half sandwiches... before she realizes, its chicken salad.

7. I have foreseen it. His compassion for you will be his undoing. He will come to you and then you will bring him before me.
Return of the Jedi guessed by 823freckles 

8. I write this sitting in the kitchen sink.
I Capture the Castle guessed by donkeyloff 

9. And he had one thing you haven't got.
What's that, sir?
A great, big, bushy beard!
-Hot Fuzz, guessed by night_sky_dream 

10. I want adventure in the great wide somewhere. I want it more than I can tell. And for once it might be grand, to have someone understand... I want so much more than they've got planned.
Beauty and the Beast guessed by mirai_noah 

11. Life is like the surf, so give yourself away like the sea.

12. This dress exacerbates the genetic betrayal that is my legacy.
Romy and Michelle's High School Reunion guessed by champagnexdream

13. My name is Zarnoff. This is Zabu, Zellnor, Zelbor, Zelmina, and, uh, Jeff.
Dude, Where's My Car? guessed by otherashley 

14. Let's go get the shit kicked out of us by love.
Love Actually guessed by attilatehbun 

15.I just don't know what I'm supposed to be.
You'll figure that out. The more you know who you are, and what you want, the less you let things upset you.

So yes - guess away :)