heidi | Jan. 16th, 2005

SO many thanks for

inthesewalls for working with a dozen other FAPers to compile the List of Oft-Recommended Fics, Post-OOTP Edition, which you can now find at FA Park's Help! I'm Looking For... forum. It was, he says, a birthday present for me, and I am thrilled to have it as it's a great resource! And because he says it'll be updated again before the release of Book Six. Again, wheeee.

Also, I know I'm late to the party, but I had to rec an advertisement for Harry Potter by

hesychasm. Whatever any of us thought of the plotting or the ending of OotP, she's right - this is intense, rich, multilayered source material, and it is worth enjoying. On the flip side, I was very amused by

violet_quill's Good Omens-ish take on the LJ downtime situation. As I've been rereading Good Omens this week (I got a new reading copy as my old one was a US first edition which Teh Neil signed back in Sept. 03), it was a special thrill to giggle at it this AM.

Lastly, for the morning, crossposted from what I just did on TLC:

Yahoo's BUZZ reported yesterday that Harry Potter fanfic regularly pops up into the top searches list on Yahoo, but on January 14, it spiked 147% (this editor wonders if that was because of LiveJournal being down for much of Friday and Saturday).

So, which of you did searches for Harry Potter Fanfic on Yahoo yesterday? And can we find out if Google's numbers spiked, too?