the german pornstar

1. I'm a flirtatious flirt that's flirting. No, seriously.

2. I'm sleepless and reading The Enchantment of Lily Dahl, which, to be honest, up until now is just confusing me more. Not as in What is happening? but as in And the point is...? Huh.

3. I think I have a craving for prostitute!fic. Preferably Snupin, but Snarry would be okay too, or any Snape rarepairs or Remus rarepairs in which either is the prostitute. Anyone any ideas before I go harassing the communities? Rec me!

4. Go post to the_shack! I'm sure y'all have some awesome Marauders fic dating from school years to the end of the first war, right? Right?

5. I feel like there was supposed to be a point to this post, but apparently... it got lost in the depth of my brain. Which is like Suisse cheese today.

6. Oh right! I went to a HIM concert on Saturday, and Paradise Lost were there too. I'm just supposed to figure out the three songs I couldn't name for sure (all from the Venus Doom album) before y'all get the setlist uploaded for your listening pleasure. It was definitely fun, if a little weird because it was in Tempodrom, which is huge but also sells chairs. As in, you sit down. To a concert. Well, we did see what was going on at least and we made our own small party with what little space we had, but concerts are not made to be sitting at. Also, no smoking allowed. Which, wah. Not. My. Thing.

7. The End.

Huh. I have 20,000 words of finished ficcage lying around. That's... um. Er. Kinda much, for me? But I'm finally halfway done with the exchanges. (Mind you, those 20k are not spent on a single fic.)

I've been reading a whole lot of Supernatural fic these past ten days since I've been lured into it, and I'm asking you: why are at least 99% (judging from what I've read so far) of the fic in that fandom - SPN and related RPS - written in present tense? Not that I mind in the least because that tense, IMO, adds a kind of quiet intensity and/or urgency and/or sarcasm and/or deadpan voice, all of which I seriously adore, but. It's seriously troubling me. HP fic is probably 75% past tense or some such, which, granted, is probably because the book series it's based on is written in past tense and the "common" tense in novel-writing seems to be past tense (I'd kill for more published novels in present tense and/or more experimental technique of storytelling, like, say, The Virgin Suicides by Jeffrey Eugenides, or When I Was Five I Killed Myself by Howard Buten). Anyway. All I'm saying it's a real difference there, not that I mind it.

I'm also contemplating which exchanges I'm going to actively follow in December. I've come up with:
- due South Secret Santa
- harry_holidays
- merry_smutmas
- smutty_claus
- snupin_santa
- spn_holidays

Occasionally devoured will be snarry_holidays. And I'm sure I'm forgetting a couple or so.

Does that strike anyone as too much? *sigh* I'll really have to clear my December schedule... And all what I want posted this year (apart from my fic offer, and you can still request a ficlet from me a few entries down) will have to be posted by November 30, because there's going to be enough reading (and viewing!) material in December. That leaves a less over three weeks to write write write edit edit edit and post post post. Uh-oh.

I need an Albus icon. Ah well. -

I actually didn't want to talk about it, but it can't be helped. The thoughts need out!

( Reactions (to reactions) to JKR's revelation, and why it perhaps didn't appear in the books )

And, finally, an (older) art rec that will prove that OMG old!man sex can be HOT:
Scarred by matyas_adina (Albus/Severus, NC-17 and thus NWS)

Now, I think this commentary might be somewhat disorganised and jumping from point to point, but it's been a very long time since I've actually had to write comprehensible comments/essays - and to actually make sense I'd have to reread DH. Mmm. Whatever. Thoughts, comments, links and/or corrections? Shoot away!

Also, you can still request a ficlet from me, to be a posted at the end of December, here!