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.

Comments

[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 :-/

[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

[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...