heidi | W0W!

What a response to the poll! It was a lark, and I certainly didn't think that many people would've voted! Am amazed.

But yes, I had a few gaps, and so I've made a followup post, which I backdated so it'll come out as "yesterday" when I do my blogbinding - feel free to vote again in there, or make an anonymous post in that LJ with all your answers. Should be interesting!

Also, if you've recently friended me (like at any point this year) I'd appreciate a minibio or something - I've realised that it's a great way to see who's around!

I've been busy reading all the answers and trying to catch up with LJs, and trying to clean my desk so I have enough space to put down a soda can, because now, it is far too overcrowded for that. Wibble.

In passing around LJ and FAP in the past day, I found some things which may be of interest:

lupercali posted about an auction for UNC where a script for PotC is among the items up for bidding.

copperbadge has updated the amazing Stealing Harry and if I did a summary of the *finally* chapter, I'd give too much of it away. Even if you're not a fan of AU's or Remus/Sirius fics, you really should give this one a try, because it's a damned fine read.

Both

icarusancalion and some posters on FAP are dealing with the question of properly creating magic in the Potterverse, so I thought it was a good moment for a minirant from me.

Back before OotP came out, I would read fics which said things like "Mobilibook" and "Mobilidoll" and the like, and I would think, "oh that is lame." It just didn't seem as creative as JKR would do, and it always tripped me out of the story, even just for a moment. Then, when OotP came out and Tonks said, "Locomotor trunk!" I just closed the book and said, "lame." I couldn't believe JKR had utilized such a weak and uncreative manifestation of magic there, and for that moment, I thought that her story would sink into fanfic-style terms and cliches. In retrospect, I don't think it did, and I think that her magic-ology improved after that - I'm not even irked by Tonks' metamorphimagic and Legilimency is very similar to something I'd already concocted for SoC, so it's probably self-centered of me to be comfortable with that, but it was a *bad* moment there, last June. Erk.

I've signed up to do the

scribbulus_ink challenge of writing HP characters into the plot of Emma. Those of you who've known my SOOPERSEKRIT intentions about this for a while are probably thinking I'll never do it, but haha, I wrote three paragraphs yesterday! And finalized the cast of characters. Now, I just need about a dozen or two hours of straight-on writing time.

But it won't be now, as now, we are off to bebeclass.

Have great days, everyone!

ETA: Also, the How To Write Like a Wanker article? V. funny. V. accurate.