Three Cheers for the Fandom!

[heidi]

And four cheers for nascosi! She's done more for the fandom this weekend than I think anyone could've predicted when she first made the challenge earlier this week.

I love threads like this. I love our new board on FA. I wish every fanfic site in the fandom would join in on this monthly project - it's a terrific way to share recommendations and perhaps learn that you're not as squicked by something as you thought you were. Or at least, you learn whether you really don't like something because of its merits or lack thereof, and not becuase of prejudgement (I am loathe to use the word prejudice, but I can't think of a good substitute now...).

Our of the four fics I read this weekend (and I still need to read one of nostrademons' fics) - one was just poorly written (Hermione/Lucius) and the writer knew it - one was cleverly created and well written and though I won't add it to my all time favorites list, I'll recommend it if anyone ever asks for a Snape/Dumbledore fic - one I'll keep reading (and I'm having a great correspondence with the author about it) - and one was so far from being my cup of tea, partially because of the superbly bad grammar where there shouldn't be bad grammar. And that's all I'll say about that.

I miss the days, two years ago, when I had the time to read everything with an interesting summary - I need to spend a few days getting back to that and just putting things on my palm pilot and reading in unexpected moments.

Now, that, for me, is the Unexpected Challenge.

See y'all next month!

(ps - anyone want to make a banner or two?)