Complete With a Water Slide

After Gilmore Girls and the Rory/Logan ship, so was Harry Potter and Draco/Ginny my first fandom. It was the fandom I wrote my first fics in (if you look, you'll find them, but I won't link you because it's horrible stuff. Really, truly, horrible stuff. All my D/G fics are truly crap.) But time flies and you move on from one fandom and into others.

But the last week I’ve been going on a Draco/Ginny fic reading spree. And to do so I’ve just checked out old rec list, and I’ve realised that the Harry Potter fandom is getting… if not exactly old (there are after all much older fandoms), but oldish. There are so many links that are broken, fics that have been taken down, authors who have deleted everything and vanished, old “classics” of the fandom, gone forever! And that makes me sad!

But it has also been really fun. I’ve read fics that was written in the Great Gap between GoF and OotP! Fics where Ginnys name is thought to be Virginia, and it’s so annoying that I almost can’t handle it. Fics with tropes that was new and fresh in the 00s, that are old and used up now, but so good and all that I want. (Arranged marriage fics 4evah!!!)

But it makes me wonder, all these dead links, and silent forums… Is the D/G fandom dead? Is the fandom producing new things? Are there new “classics” that should be read? Does anybody know?

Rec me your favorite Draco/Ginny fic!!

Thanks to Remix I have finished writing something this year! I am so happy and proud of myself. Of course, it's utter shit, and I'll have to redo it later, but right now I'll just sit here and be happy with myself.

- So it's summer. I am tan.

- I have two fics to write. One of them is nearly done.

- lizzie_marie_23 is finally home, and I'm rejoicing!

- Football: The worldcup has been on, and I couldn't give more of a shit. Since Norway didn't qualify (we weren't even CLOSE to qualifying, cause our team is shit.) I don't have a reason to watch. I think watching football on the TV is very boring. BUT, I am rooting for Germany, because of ayascyte who does care. (With reason too!)

- THIS IS THE COOLEST PLACE ON THE INTERNETZ RIGHT NOW. YOU NEED TO BE THERE:

I am almost finished with my new fic. It got really long, but I'm really pleased with it.

I have also been watching tv the last two weeks, but I can't seem to formulate an interesting post about it. Doctor Who: I agree with the jacket!theory (I actually a 100% sure that this is true! Tell me what you think?). Also, I will never get tired of the forehead touching! (Look at my awesome new icon!)

Supernatural, since I'm really not all that invested in this show I'm just enjoying the ride. And I'm really loving both Sam and Castiel at the moment.

Glee, oh Glee! Why did you go and break my shipper heart like that? JESSE! (Does this mean that he is actually legit?) Hopefully this will fuel more fic, though. (Yes, I totally have my priorities in order!) I also adored almost all the songs. Total Eclipse of the Heart and Run, Joey Run is going on repeat in my head.

Awesome Rachel/Jesse fic is awesome: a season ticket on a one-way ride by marketchippie
they are talented and attractive and life should be their musical—but only if they get a set that doesn’t suck.

(I think I might end up writing a Jesse/Rachel fic... Maybe, possibly...)

These have also been posted at the main Lingua Franca post, but I'm making one here too, because, a) this is eating my brain and I need to organize it, b) PEOPLE HAVE WRITTEN FOR MY SHOW and you need to read it, and c) I am shameless, so I'm pimping my fics again.

Fanfic written by me:

Lemon Tea; John is pissed because their rooms aren't ready and Liv got everything under control, except for the damn lemon tea.

A Conversation of Magnitude; (Liv/Christian) Christian's problems at home is resulting in him shouting at innocent people. Liv demands to know what is going on.

Three Sentence Fics written by other people:

Lingua Franca, Melanie & Jenna, girl power written by minkhollow

Lingua Franca, John Hawthorne, better than anyone written by ayascythe

I am totally obsessing about Glee. I've listened to the soundtrack non-stop all day. Except for the awesome music in my ear, my day generally sucked, so the first thing I did when I came home was to read some awesome Puck/Rachel fic to cheer myself up.

Glee: Puck/Rachel fic recs:

A Tale That Can't Be Told by waldorph; See, the thing is? Now there's a baby, and college, and shit. and a mini sequel with no name, which I have decided to call If Rachel Berry wants peace in the Middle East, there WILL be peace in the Middle East

if you know you can’t beat them, then by ohladybegood Someone has been spreading the rumor that Puck is the new Defender of the Weak, and he is NOT pleased:"“You’re like Narnia,” Artie tells him one day, trying to look all pathetic just because he’s in a wheelchair. “On the outside you’re this big, scary cupboard but once you go inside—wham. It’s a dream-world of magic.”"

And one about Kurt. This one has his voice down pat: The Ones that Entertain also by waldorph Kurt? Is going to make this fabulous


I am listening to Sweet Caroline on repeat, because listening to Puck sing my name in his sexy voice makes me feel better.

I watched Anastasia twice on Sunday. Once in English and then in Norwegian. While John Cusack's voice is terribly sexy and perfect for Dmitri, I think Dmitri's Norwegian voice will always be Dmitri to me. On the subject of Anastasia, I'm working on another fic (yes! another fic!) but it's just not working with me.

It's been a while since I asked, and I've gotten a few more friends since then: do any of you have AIM? If yes, add me! caramelsilver

Three Sentence Fic-A-Thon has 2280 comments! Isn't that just amazing?

Narnia fandom really has two fandoms. If you don’t believe me, then you are not in the Narnia fandom. It took me awhile to understand this and it took me even a longer time to get to terms with this. As a reader I think it’s great, but as a writer it makes me very frustrated because I don’t know which camp I’m in. Let me explain:

There is the original fandom on fanfiction.net, the fandom that write fics based on the books and their fics are nice and pretty sugary. With straight off battles and the good people are good and the bad people are bad, and there are not many grey-zones. There’s no… meta in their fics. Here, Peter is a nice guy, and Lucy has never been drunk in her life. You get my drift.

Then there is the fandom that sprung up after the movies came out, on LJ. They talk and interpret and are not satisfied with the Narnia C.S Lewis wrote about. They talk politics, economy, law and how it really would be to rule a country. Their fics are magnificent.

Why is this relevant? Because I have a confession to make: I am really struggling with my Narnia fics. I don’t know which part I’m part of anymore. One part of me wants to keep writing fluffy pieces because I don’t want to offend my old Narnia friends and my beta, and the other part just want to say screw it and stop posting my stuff on ffnet. Because I really feel that my recent fics (An Art to It and For Duty’s Sake) really clash with what they want over at ffnet.

And what’s the main thing that’s holding me back is my beta. She’s brilliant! I admire and fangirl her so much (you have no idea how happy I was when she offered to beta for me!) but I feel that my view of the characters has changed so much from her view of the characters. (I blame bedlamsbard ) I’m actually really considering changing beta because it’s really cramping my writing and I feel so horrible!

So what I’m working up to say is this: I have been writing this fic for awhile now (it was supposed to be for the femgenficathon)

(and it’s really, really not going to fit well over at ffnet, and I’m not sure if my beta is going to like it and I don’t want her to have to beta this bigass fic that she essentially don’t like, so… )

But the thing is that I’m stuck! And I’ve also lost the second chapter when my comp. died. And… would any of you like to just read it and give me some reactionary comments? Not a fullblown beta, don’t need that just yet, I just need to know that what people think and maybe make some comments on if you think the characters are acting like they should and stuff?

Okay this was rambly and confusing. But it was nice to get that off my chest at least.

Also, read my semi-meta on why I don’t like Peter/Susan.

*I finished the first draft of my genderfuck Star Trek Kirk-as-a-girl/McCoy fic. YAY me! I've been writing this fic since early June! So nice to finally have finished it.

*I so want to go see Peter Doherty 6th of December. I'm not really a huge fan, but I just really, really want to go. But the stupid thing is that all my friends who loves music is not old enough. (You have to be 18 to get in.) I think I'm gonna try and convince K to go with me, even though he might not like the music. It's TWO days before my birthday! Surely I can get him to come with me as an early birthday present?

*FIVE DAYS UNTIL LONDON, PEOPLE!! Can't fucking wait!!

I'm writing fic!! And not the fic I should be writing (I should be writing my narniaexchange fic!) But Star Trek fic. So I've decided that Kirk/McCoy? I SHIP IT! So then you all are asking, "So, C, are you writing your first Slash Fic then?" and the answer is no. I have no idea how it happened but I'm writing genderfuck fic where Kirk is a girl... Yeah. It was supposed to be short and sweet and smutty, but it's turned into two thousand words and it's threatening to develop a plot! I'm watching the movie again tonight so hopefully that will help me finish this fic and let me get back to my regular scheduled Narnia fic writing.

(Would anyone be interested in reading a girl!Kirk/McCoy fic?)