So guess what.

[in_the_blue]

On the train trip this weekend, I reread Harry Potter and the Sorcerer's Stone.

I laughed aloud at a few of the parts and got a little nostalgic at some of the others (mostly at the snowballs enchanted to bash Quirrel's turban repeatedly). It was fun, so next, on to Chamber of Secrets when I'm not killing Darkspawn in Dragon Age (yes, I have a favorite character and you probably know exactly who it is) or writing for 100wordstories or working on ineedmyfics or hanging around in-character at outpost_12 or milliways_bar.

hfleming8, I'll wait for you if you want to read along with me.

I thought about this first on the way back from London, after meeting up with janeylou, finally. But I didn't have any of the books with me, so... now I do. I've slowly started moving my HP fanfic over to Archive of our Own. I started with Black Dog (Sirius and James) and the second one is Adventures in Curse-Breaking (Bill Weasley). I realize it's all the rage these days to write next-gen HP stuff and that this older stuff is looked on a little bit like people look on someone way behind the times: with a little bit of sad indulgent fondness. But I really don't give a shit. I don't see myself writing a lot more HP fanfic, if any, but it doesn't mean I can't appreciate the stuff I've already written.

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[h311ybean]

I'm not big on next-gen HP fic either. I still plan to write HP fics, but they're about either Viktor or my OCs and I haven't done any work on any of it in ages.

Hmm, this Archive of Our Own sounds interesting. I still have my ff.net account, but I hate the formatting on that site :-/

[in-the-blue.livejournal.com]

Archive of our Own (AO3) is very user-friendly. You can edit your stories to your heart's content after they've been posted. There's also a very wide fandom base that at least cruises by, although comments appear to be few and far between but I think that's the case everywhere these days.

Since the Quill went dormant, it's not a bad place for HP fics, I think.

[prplhez8.livejournal.com]

Sure! Wait for me! I'll grab my copy of Chamber of Secrets tomorrow and we can synchronize our reading for....whenever.

Hope your trip was fun!

That's a good idea for archiving fic...goodness knows I wouldn't want mine to disappear alltogether.

<3

[in-the-blue.livejournal.com]

HI HEZ. ♥ ♥ ♥

p.s. When Doves Cry.

[prplhez8.livejournal.com]

LMAO! YOu got my text!

I heard it and immediately thought of you (as I do whenever I hear Prince) and thought "I bet G really (rilly, rilly) wants to know that I'm listening to that song rightthissecond." :P

Right.

I'm too dorky for words obviously.

[in-the-blue.livejournal.com]

I read it at a stop light and didn't have a chance to text you back.

But I understood exactly why you texted it to me!

[prplhez8.livejournal.com]

Okay, began to listen to SS on teh way to and from work today - so I'll be caught up here pretty soon (aka hopefully by the end of the week)! Then I'll be happy to read along with you.

P. S. It always always keels me dead - the chapter where they're leaving Harry at the Dursleys. It always makes me want to jump through the pages and scamper off with him so he knows that not all muggles are like Aunt Petunia and Uncle Vernon.

[in-the-blue.livejournal.com]

I have to say, everything about the Dursleys cracked me up in a way I haven't laughed at them since the first time I read these books. So maybe taking... four or five years off is a good thing?

It's also really different reading them knowing the full story, and on that level it's a first for me. Let me know when you're done with SS and I'll get started on COS.

[erised1810.livejournal.com]

ha! I knew the bug would catch on. *rubs hands* nah. enxt-gen stuff feels a bit liek 'we dont' want this thign to end so we stretch it up a little more'. there is still so much unfilled about the other characters though. and if you're liek me you're soon sorting throug hyoru stuff seeign if you got thigns rightbeforeyo uread cannon. heh...

[in-the-blue.livejournal.com]

Yeah, I actually decided to start this before all those 30 days of HP memes started flying around, and I have to say I'm not really paying attention to those in much detail. Mostly that's because just about everyone I know is doing it, and it loses its impact seeing it everywhere.

I did meet an awful lot of people through that fandom, though, and for that I'm incredibly grateful.

Now, couldn't you say that all fanfiction is a bit like "we don't want this thing to end so we stretch it up a little more?" I do. In rereading my stuff on the Quill, some of it I think is great and some is kind of terrible, but all of it is borne of a desire to keep the flame burning beyond where it went out.

[erised1810.livejournal.com]

Yeah. For some odd reason no-one on my flist was doing it or perhaps one or two. I was most ly inspired because i was bout to finish my reread but i'm starting to loose touch a bit too. soem stuff is defiitly the same thigns i've seen in memes of years ago.
Hey, i realized that later on eons after i hit sent. after all i'm oen of those who had questions and didn't get answers in the books and started writing them out myself. i don't knwo why it feels sort of blah with the next-gen stuff though. i was subscribed to a podcast where they did a cool radioplay-like thing which was i believe written by arabella. ut for some reason they don't seem to speak to me the way the others from the book do. oh yes, i'm browsing throug hsome of my own stuff too. some thigns i guessed right 9and some stuff i seem to hve misread in cannon (argh)..