I've been leaving the most retarded comments on fics I've read lately. I mean, okay, on the one hand, at least I'm leaving comments, right? But on the other hand, WHY DO I SUDDENLY HAVE AN OBSESSION WITH HEARTS? I have seriously left comments that looked like this:

♥ ♥ ♥ ♥ ♥ ♥ ♥ ♥
lovely!

with no other commentary. a;khag;kfal I HATE MYSELF SO MUCH FOR HAVING NOTHING CONSTRUCTIVE TO SAY AND THEN CONVEYING THAT THROUGH HEARTS. It's like my brain just won't turn on anymore. help!

yes i am totally using the jack bristow icon on this post about hearts. shut up, you knooooooow whenever jack IMed with irina he signed off like this "bye, <3 jack" and she rolled her eyes at the monitor before stomping away and he hoped that he'd logged off just as she was in the middle of typing "ttyl <3" back to him, but he wouldn't want to stay online to find out if it was that or just "bye." aww, spyparents.

Say, I've been remiss in my fandom duties. Or, uh, my duty to inform my flist of nifty things which happened to me that have to do with fandom.

You see, I was quoted in a Red Hen essay about Magic and Wizards a while back. It's an excellent essay and you should definitely read it (and I'm not just saying this because I have a hugeass quote in the middle, either). This version of the essay came out in May, I think. So, yeah, I'm about six months behind in telling you this. But at least I got around to it eventually, right?

A post! A post! My kingdom for a -- nevermind, I don't know where I was going with that.

So, aaaaaaaaanyway, on to the less incoherent stuff.

( status of my fics, among them the inferi bunnies one )

( questions about betas )

Also, the other day it struck me that someone could write a deliciously bad fic to Marjorie Fair's "Empty Room" (mp3 here [right-click save-as to download]). It would, naturally, involve a very angsty Harry who was in a relationship with someone -- it doesn't matter who, really, but we'll go with Draco -- and he has to Go Fight Voldemort Imminently and he's all angsty and it's VERY DRAMATIC (and the lyrics are interspersed throughout the fic at inappropriate times, interrupting the narrative flow and causing the reader to pull their hair out) and he just thinks the relationship is SO POINTLESS because he's GOING TO DIE, and so he starts sabotaging it and making Draco cry (mainly he does that because Jehnt likes it when Draco cries, which we probably shouldn't think about too much) and then Harry sits in his EMPTY ROOM all alone and watches the sun stream in through the windows and thinks it is very beautiful. And then Harry dies. Or, if that's TOO angsty an ending, ( then it ends kind of like this: )

The funny thing about all this is that I don't even LIKE that song.

ETA: I just realized that is the first fic (drabble, whatevs. do we really distinguish between them?) I've ever posted publicly. *facepalm* OH MY GOD. Yet, despite this, I feel that I should celebrate. I'm going to go break out the ... soymilk. Yeah. That sounds good. (Dude, we have like no exciting food at my house currently. Not even any ice cream.)

ETA again: I just reread the thing I wrote again, and I'm really unsure about the paragraph breaks in the first half. Advice?