everything but the girl

The one who seduced you, screwed you over, broke your heart in a million pieces, and laughed about it.
Heroes. I stuck with the damned thing until the very freaking end, and I am not unhappy that I did because my GOD the WALL-verse for Gabriel and Peter was exactly the arc they needed (well, no, the arc they needed would've been keeping them as brothers-and-possibly-twins but that lasted what, two episodes?) but there were episodes of the show that were so bad and it had such potential and the showrunners fucked it up. I will never regret anything I read or wrote or vidded, or my set visit of amazingness, but when I re-watch the Pilot or random S1 episodes, which I still do, it makes me headdesk.

The old flame you don't see very often any more but whom you still really enjoy getting together with for a few drinks and maybe a pleasant nostalgic romp.
Leverage. I'm almost the entire season behind as it aired while I was traveling, but I still read fic and am pretty well spoiled for the season and I am fine with that, and looking forward to a wonderful catch up marathon on planes in September.

The mysterious dark one whom you used to sit up with talking until 3 AM at weird coffee houses and with whom you were quite smitten until you realized s/he really was fucking crazy: Torchwood. I still haven't watched all of CoE, and while I'll happily read a crossover with something else I love, and I may very well watch all of Miracle Day at some point, I just don't trust the show not to hit one of my major squick points until it's been fully vetted to the end of the season.

The one you spent a whole weekend in bed with and who drank up all your liquor and whom you'd still really like to get with again, although you're relieved s/he doesn't actually live in town: I've just spent about three days reading massive amounts of movie!Thor fic (awww, Loki!) and I may not be done yet. Recs? And yes, I have a vidplot for when the dvd comes out, and may actually go see the Avengers movie just in hopes of Loki vs Tony interaction, flail.

The steady:
Supernatural. If it hasn't lost me yet, I don't think it's going to. To think, when I started watching back in January of 2007, nobody was sure it was going to make it through the summer! And Heroes was the big thing back then! Winchesters, I am with you til the end of the road, which I still hope will be an American Gods thing (as per lyra_wing) but I doubt that more and more with each episode, and I'm okay with that.

The alluring stranger whom you've flirted with at parties but have never gotten really serious with: While Collar. I read it often, especially things that xover with Chuck or Leverage, but I've never been tempted to write anything, and I haven't vidded to it yet. Back in June I was wondering if the end of S2 might lead to me doing a Neal-centric vid to Little Lion Man and I am pleased to say that at this point, I don't think it works as well as I thought it might back then. But, maybe someday.

The one you hang out with and have vague fantasies about maybe having a thing with, but ultimately you're just good buddies: Current Doctor Who. I respect and appreciate Matt, Karen and Arthur, as well as Alex and Mark and the storylines but it's just not Tennant and Tate. I'm not ruling it out forever, but I'm not there right now.

The one your friends keep introducing you to and who seems like a hell of a cool person except it's never really gone anywhere: Inception. I'm so happy you're all so happy, and the film was adorable but again, I'm not there.

The one who's slept with all your friends, and you keep looking at them and thinking, "How the hell did they land all these cool people?" Still the various Stargate shows. I think they were hitting it big while I was very busy with Harry Potter things, and having babies, so I've never seen a single episode despite the fact that I loved the movie back a million years ago. I would probably like it if I ever took the time for it, but I'm just not interested in spending the time. Um, sorry?

The one who gave you the best damned summer of your life and against whom you measure all other potential partners:
Harry Potter, always and forever, my introduction to fanfic, fanart, fanvids, fanfilms, filking and massive amounts of creativity and positive social change and good things. Also, a lot of crazy, but there's crazy lurking in so many random places on the Internet, we all just need to work around it. And ship Barty Jr/Regulus Black. No, btw, am not in Pottermore yet - still waiting on my email - but I am curious where I'll get sorted and what wand I'll get. I'm mostly unspoiled for the content, too. I really want to discover this on my own, with my son.

The one you recently met at a party and would like to get to know better: Oh, XMFC, you are everywhere on my flist, and I loved the film and I have preordered my blu-ray for the missing scenes and I cannot wait for a sequel set in the time of angst that was the late 60s and 70s.


The old flame that you wouldn't totally object to hooking up with again for a one night romp if only they'd clean up a bit: Ha, no clue. I was mono-fandom-ous from 1999 through 2006, so I don't have anything other than HP from that time period at all.

Your hot new flame: Hunger Games! I'm supposed to talk about fanfic/fanart for YA novels/films at Dragon*Con next week, so I'm, um, reading for research. I think I've read every Finnick-centric fic already though?

The one who stole your significant other: Bandom. :P Ah, fandommigration, you happen and then many migrate again a few months later, don't they?

( A photo of the panel with special guest Jason Isaacs )

So back on June 18, I looked at the schedule for Thursday at Comic Con and saw that Jason Isaacs' new show, Awake. We'd found out the week before that our Harry Potter fan panel was going to be that day, and the confluence of dates was too good to pass up, so I emailed Melissa Anelli of Leaky, and my longtime co-panelist, to ask this: ANY way to get him in the room for ours? Melissa asked around and...

Two weeks later, Evanna Lynch went with Jason on a short PR tour in Europe and she mentioned it and his reaction was, basically, yes I would like to do this! So at the London premiere, when I got to talk to him for a few moments, I said, "See you at Comic Con!" and he said, "Oh, are you involved with that?" I replied that I was the moderator and he said he really hoped to do it and would try to work the schedule out and we shook hands on it and I spent two weeks hoping....

Then I got to Comic Con and saw at the FOX booth that his signing was set for 5 - 6 PM on Thursday, which was the exact same time as our panel. My understanding is, when he also learned it was the same time, he told them that they had to push it back by half an hour, and they did. So Melissa and I plotted on how to get him into the room - I got everyone settled into the room, and she came in and announced that she'd found a big Harry Potter fan wandering the halls and there he was!

Someone towards the front filmed it and uploaded it to YouTube here, although I hope to have a slightly better quality version from my friend Leslie. I honestly don't remember all of the questions and answers, although I know he said Lucius's favorite ice cream flavour was "elf".

To wrap it up, I asked him about the future of the fandom - and made him cry and be sick! - and he said that one of the things about the series is, it encourages people to:

rise to the challenges that Harry, Ron and Hermione, and, I have to say, Draco and Neville [massive round of applause] do too, we all want to measure to those standards. It doesn't really matter if you pick up the books every year or if you dress like this every year or have a convention every year. What matters is, it's ten years of our lives ... over the decade we have been walked through this moral maze and the changes these characters went through, we went through with them. I think we'll stay in this forever whether we read the books and watch the movies, or not.

The rest of the panel starts here if you want to see what we talked about after. And yes, we hope to do it again next year!

Feel free to link back to this, and if you put it on Tumblr (or elsewhere) please share the links.

And a topic has come up in a few discussions of the film ( but it's spoilery )

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Everything fanfic writers, fan artists, videos, musical/play authors another creative fandomers can imagine.

The one that makes you most nostalgic for a fannish moment, creative work, event, person, place, ship or thought. Or your oldest one, or the one that makes you think of Harry Potter - the books, the movies, the fandom.

Bothering Snape was, for me, one of the first examples of animated fannish creativity that I saw, and possibly that there was in the HP fandom. Has anyone in HP fandom not seen it? If you haven't, it's here. It's not quite as catchy as The Mysterious Ticking Noise, which fans around the world do while waiting at premieres, or in the line at Universal for The Forbidden Journey, but it was original and ridiculous and I will always love it.

If I hadn't chosen this one, I would've used my "When Will I See You Again?" which mashes up the icons from most of the cons I've attended, with some Terminus thrown in because I wished I could've been there but my husband had had surgery that week, so I just read all the posts and looked northward with a bit of a green eye.

Oh, and did you see FictionAlley flash on the screen on the CBS Evening News last night? When I was 13 and 14, we had to watch the news nightly for my Debate class, and take specific notes and were quizzed on things large and small every Friday. Now, to have the site on the program that I watched conscientiously is bizarre and neat. (SQUEE for Jaida being interviewed for it about the Shoebox Project, too! Slash on the nightly news? O_O)

Ascendio would love to meet you this summer, as we gear up for an amazing evemt at Universal Orlando from July 12-15, 2012.

if you're coming to LeakyCon or live in or near Orlando, and want to learn more about Ascendio, register, meet some of the con team or be thanked for registering, join us at Jake's American Bar on the groud floor of the Royal Pacific on Friday, July 15 from 3:30-5 for margaritas and nibbles. If you can't make it then, we'll be sticking around a little later than that, and hanging out in the Orchid Court late Saturday afternoon, too.

You don't have to be registered for LeakyCon - or already registered for Ascendio - to stop by and say hi to us - and in September, we'll be at Dragon*Con, too, with some fan table and bar-side festivities! More info about location/dates coming next month.

See you there!

It's not the first time they've written about the HP fandom, or HP slash, but it is the first time they've put "fanfic" in quotes as if it's not a real "thing".

And I wanted to discuss the the Potterwars situation (which was going on just as I came info fandom), which I've been trying to write about for a long time because it happened when fandom was extremely small compared to how it grew as the films were announced and GoF: The Book was released.

It was a significant moment for many of us who were fandom newbies - inspiration for us to tell the corporation no, we aren't going to mark all our fics with gay characters as R-rated - but the perspectives encapsulated in the article were very, very limited. There is an interesting oral history of the HP fandom, but this NY Times article isn't it.

If you want to read the article, it's here.

It's not the first time they've written about the HP fandom, or HP slash, but it is the first time they've put "fanfic" in quotes as if it's not a real "thing".

And I wanted to discuss the the Potterwars situation (which was going on just as I came info fandom), which I've been trying to write about for a long time because it happened when fandom was extremely small compared to how it grew as the films were announced and GoF: The Book was released.

It was a significant moment for many of us who were fandom newbies - inspiration for us to tell the corporation no, we aren't going to mark all our fics with gay characters as R-rated - but the perspectives encapsulated in the article were very, very limited. There is an interesting oral history of the HP fandom, but this NY Times article isn't it.

If you want to read the article, it's here.

If you missed the announcements this morning, there's going to be massive amounts of McGonnagal backstory, ebooks, audio books, an interactive story, about 180,000 words of new content by Jo, and more.

But it won't be live for everyone until October, although a million people will be given access on July 31 (I don't know if I'd even be able to access it that day myself; I'll be in Naples, Italy).

More info here and discussions are starting in FictionAlley Park.

I am just asquee that there will be more content, even if it isn't in printed-book form. Like Andrew Sims at Mugglenet, here's hoping for an iPhone and Android app, too!

( Screenshots behind the cut )