I spent the last few days judging Romance and NC-17 fics for the Hourglass Awards. Two things:

1) I'm astonished at how normal most of the sex in Harry Potter fanfiction is. Sure, there are plenty of squicky/strange/Squid-related fics out there, but for the most part it's just very, very normal sex, with the occasional contraceptive charm or conjured lube or simply misused motor oil. After spending the last few weeks immersed in pon farr/touch telepathy fic, it all just seems insanely straightforward. Not that it's a bad thing or anything, but I kept half-waiting for people to meld, or someone's eyes to turn golden and make shit explode.

2) I dislike most sappy NC-17 fics, but good God, overly sappy Sirius/Remus fics annoy me more than sap in pretty much any other ship. I don't mean the cute, clichéd, shit-we-had-inadvisable-drunken-sex-and-I-realised-I've-been-in-love-with-you-all-along kind; it's the "I wuv you, Siri-poo" ones that make me want to claw my fucking eyes out. Ugh.

But then again, maybe the excessive ~puppy love~ doesn't annoy other people as much as it does me. So: poll!

Poll #1427435 Marauder nicknames
Open to: All, detailed results viewable to: All, participants: 56

Which of the following Marauder-era nicknames would you willingly use in a (non-parody) HP fic?

I'm ridiculously excited for U2's new tour—their first concert was full of hiccoughs (e.g. they failed spectacularly at One and With or Without You, which they've been playing for years), but they seem to have sorted themselves out, and things are looking good! They even played Electrical Storm twice! (Well, except for that godawful I'll Go Crazy If I Don't Go Crazy Tonight remix. What are they thinking?)

I'm on holidays, which is totally brilliant :D I'm in São Paulo for the HBP release, and I've been hanging out with friends whom I rarely see, so yay!

Gah. I've been reading too much Harry Potter fic. I miss Star Trek and Merlin. *twitches* Withdrawal. Seriously. God, this is sad.

In other news, I'm completely in love with the icon I used to make this post.

ETA Guys, guys, Kali set out to explore Twilight-esque purple prose, and managed to come up with a true wonder of Doctor Who cheesefic, hosted here. It is without a doubt the worst piece of fanfiction she's even posted—and yes, I'm totally counting the find-replace "Harry Potter" one. ♥ It's a work of art. You're an amazing goddess, Kali. I...have no words. *snerk*

I'm officially obsessed. I've been known to watch a bunch of Youtube videos, Google interviews, rewatch DVDs etc. for hours on end whenever I really love an actor/show/movie/whatever, but this Star Trek thing is quickly spinning out of what little control I ever manage to have over my (admittedly far too frequent) obsessions. I love this fandom! It's exciting! And so shiny! Yay lens flare! There's Quinto talking about zeitgeist, Pine's fucking aplomb, and then Urban goes and talks about the Kirk/Spock/McCoy triumvirate and that's it, I'm screwed, and totally, totally hooked.

I never thought I'd be so girly—Jesus, I've been having lengthy discussions with my roommate, wendybarrie_, on the relative merits of Karl Urban, Chris Pine and Zach Quinto's bloody EYEBROWS. *has clearly lost her mind* I've watched more interviews than I could possibly remember, and I've been following ontd_startrek posts like a deranged lunatic. (A deranged lunatic who knows way too many GQMF macros, e.g. this and this, for her own good, which may or may not make the whole thing much worse.)

So yes. I'm watching TOS (and loving it!) and reading Trek fic and ogling Pine/Quinto picspams when I should be reading Hourglass Awards fics. *headdesk* Yay. I CHAIN-WATCHED HEROES exclusively because of Sylar (okay, and Eccleston), man, this is a new and alarming low. Next thing you know, I'll be renting The Princess Diaries 2 because of Chris Pine. If I do that, someone please shoot me. Please. I'm begging you.

Speaking of which: sarahtales's Star Trek parody, which cannot be pimped enough. :D

There's a new True Blood episode coming this weekend! Should be interesting. I couldn't care less about Sookie/Bill, but more Eric = happy Chris, so yay season 2!

Via sullensiren: Men Who Stay Up All Night to Watch Girls While They Sleep (graph)

Merlin crackfic rec: Best Intentions Aside, by derryere (Modern!AU, Merlin is a Harry/Draco fanartist and Arthur finds out.)

...Shit, I think I've become a Trekkie.

The new Doctor Who spoilers made me happy. I wasn't all that pleased with the casting news we got a couple of weeks ago, but this makes it much better :D Also, several endings being filmed = awesome DVD extras next year. Yay!

Oh, I got a couple more Dreamwidth invites yesterday. I'm pretty sure everyone who wanted a code already got one, but if not, feel free to let me know, and I'll send it over. Gone now!

Every TV series I watch is now on hiatus—so weird. (Nevertheless: Chuck, Dollhouse, Castle and Lie to Me were renewed! Which made me very, very happy! Alas, Kings won't make it, but I never thought it would.) I will, of course, end up start watching a new show or two, and end up being forced to give up on half of these by the time the next season comes along. Because that's just how I roll. *headdesk*

Also, I think I've officially run out of time on the emailing Hourglass nominees thing. I can't seem to find emails for a bunch of them, and it's driving me nuts.

*sighs* Can any of you give me a hand? I have the list of email-less authors, and maybe they just require some more clicking around. I just—gah.

Hey, Harry Potter fandom!

Do you have any great fic recs? This year's cycle of Unknowable Room's Hourglass Awards is well underway! Head on over to nominate your favourite fics—any era, any ship, any format.

If you're feeling particularly fandom-loving, you should definitely volunteer to judge a category or two, too! It's great fun :D

PSA now done, I'll go back to emailing the nominees we've already received. Yay, only 120 emails to go! *grins* Oh, the joys of fic-archive-adminning!

When I first joined the Harry Potter fandom, I was kind of insanely anti-slash. This certainly had a bit to do with my über-religious upbringing—I just felt like slash didn't belong in Harry Potter. I saw no signs of it in canon; HP was a children's book, really, and any kind of NC-17 fanfiction was just a bit too odd for my liking. Adding gay sex to the mix was just an extra squick.

It's kind of hilarious to look back now.

( My (tl;dr) thoughts on yaoi, let me show you them. )

...Whoa, long entry is long. Sorry about that.

Unsurprisingly, I'm christycorr over at Dreamwidth. *grins* I'm not entirely sure what I'll use that journal for, but I'm definitely not abandoning LJ. So...yeah. If you have an account there, please let me know and I'll be happy to add you!

The 2009 cycle of the Hourglass Awards has started once again at Unknowable Room—nominate your favourite Harry Potter fics, and if you can, volunteer to judge! Nominations end in a month, and judging will take place until July 15th.

Considering the amount of alcohol I've imbibed in the past few hours, I'm typing extraordinarily well. Yay, go me!

The new U2 album, No Line on the Horizon, was leaked two weeks early and I have it and oh my God it's AWESOME. I've been squeeing with firstlightofeos for a while now. I'm ridiculously happy right now. *dances*!

My poor roommates will have to live through two months of me listening to this on repeat every single day. Oh well. Sorry, guys. I feel bad for you, I do, but...yeah.

There's a verse in Unknown Caller that goes "Force-quit, and move to Trash." I'm so amused. ("Force quit" is Mac-speak for "control-alt-del.") *snerk*

Also, there's a track called Magnificent—a word that in and of itself reminds me of Donna Noble—and it starts something like this: I was born to be with you / In the space and time / After that, and ever after / I haven't had a clue. It cracked me up. Okay, so maybe it's 'this' space and time or whatever, maybe I misheard it, but it still made me laugh a great deal *grins*

afterthree gave me five topics to ramble about, so I'll get to that before I forget.

Comment on this post and I will give you five subjects/things I associate with you. Then post this in your LJ and elaborate on the subjects given.

( UR.org )

( Dumbledore & Albus/Gellert )

( Runi )

( *actions in asterisk* )

( Mac )

[11 reacts to his casting]

I was a bit relieved to read afterthree's post about the recently announced Eleventh Doctor. I thought I was the only one who had thought of Edward Cullen's haircut upon seeing this guy for the first time *grins* He also reminds me of what's-his-face, the so-called Dream Team Edward. Gaspard Something.

Anyway.

I'm not crazy about him or anything—he surely has a shitload of chin, his nose would put Nine's to shame, and his voice...eh—but I'm still looking forward to this. Moffat Can Do No Wrong, after all. *laughs* Except for River Song. Ahem. I'll miss Tennant, of course.

We'll see. *shrugs* Should be interesting, anyhow. And the wank's always fun to watch.

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Also, something discreetly did caused UR to implode for some reason. We're hoping to get everything working again within a few hours.

I've just posted chapter 10 of Hopelessly Addicted. Hee. It's been, what, a year and a half? It feels so weird to get back to this.

My fic exchange fic, on the other hand, is nowhere close to being done. *headdesk* firstlightofeos finished hers in just a few hours today! *feels incompetent*

Damn it.

Sign up! You'll receive your prompt via e-mail in a couple of weeks; fics will be due on December 27, so there's plenty of time.

*nudges* Go! I know many of you haven't been all that into HP fic lately, but come on, fic exchanges are always fun :)