Rec:

Before I head in to work (sans shower due to this fic), you all simply must go read the story I received at smutty_claus on journalfen. War Wounds which is Neville/Lavender. OMG, I'm aflail. I requested the pairing on a lark. To be honest, I needed a third pairing in my request and, after scrambling, I thought, huh, well, Neville/Lavender then. This story is post-DH and is simply made of win. The way that the mystery author has characterised Neville and Lavender, the way they deal with their insecurities and the scars (SCAR LICKING, did I mention it had scar licking?) and Neville's sudden-ish popularity, everything about this story is made of win.

They're not perfect in the story, they're real. Neville isn't hung like a horse and Lavender isn't so amazing that she might as well be a Veela. The sex is fumbly first time and it's brilliant, absolutely brilliant because it's hot just the way it is.

There was even a quick cameo mention of Seamus!

This author totally hit all of my favorite kinks (and, dude, I was only expecting like one of them let alone almost all of them). Heck, she/he even hit my secret kink of handholding! This is just absolutely brilliant beyond words and takes me straight into flail mode.

Please go read and tell the mystery author how much you love it!

Dude, I've been getting so lucky on festfics! I'm not sure what I did to deserve all the shiny but whatever it is, I really want to know so I can keep it up. This is, at least, two in a row! Last time was Observances by acromantular and now this one! I cannot wait to find out who this is so I can shamelessly fangirl them.

Random Fandom Babble

I don't know how I feel about the SUP buyout of LJ. I have to admit that the first thing I did when I heard about it was to check fandom_wank and 6a_cornfield over at JF. Must admit that I'm mildly disappointed that it's only on otf_wank. *woe and alas*

However, between the buyout and the suspension of a mod at a comm for the contents of a post, well, I wibbled over the hd_worldcup last night. A lot. Poor xylodemon had to put up with quite a bit of it. After talking with xylo and a bunch of other people, I emailed Feei late last night and then today, we decided to move the whole thing, kit and kaboodle, to IJ just on the off-chance anything should happen in the future. I figured since we hadn't started pimping it yet and the invitations hadn't gone out and applications hadn't opened and............. that now was the best time to do the move. This way, maybe we'll get even more artists interested in participating.

So far, the response has been positive to the move. Now, hopefully, that positive response continues into participation levels (artist, writer and reader).

I created my first RSS feed. Of course it was for the worldcup. Add it - here.

Have I mentioned that red_rahl is doing the artwork for all the banners? She is made of win. The banners and such are turning out awesome so far and I cannot wait to see the final products :D:D:D.

I'm going to start making use of my IJ. I'll start by uploading some of my favorite fics I've written and then move on from there. Some of it won't get posted anywhere else as some of it is painful when looking back at it.

I've also started archiving at The Quidditch Pitch and have uploaded my first fic. You can find me here. The upload process was a wee bit confusing but I think I did it right. At least, it looks right to me. I'm going to upload my second story tonight. I keep hearing wonderful things about TQP.

I'm over 44k on that deamus and 3k on each of my daily_deviant fics. The January one is sort of a cracktacular pairing and scenario but I'm hoping people will give it a try anyway as it really is serious and angsty.

I've been doing fairly well at my "reading and commenting" request. So far, so good. Haven't skipped a one though there was one that sat open in a tab for a couple of days while I thought of what to say.

How's everyone?