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Random notes from the fannish portion of my weekend--

* Saw HP7.2 Saturday, along with the rest of the world (most of which I think were in our theater). I really thought I wouldn't cry all that much. I left the HP fandom after the hideous event at the end of Book 5 and have been distantly bitter about it ever since.

But at the first sight of Hogwarts, I burst into tears and spent the rest of the movie sobbing into a fistful of concession stand napkins. I guess I'm still a sucker after all.

* After the movie, I got conned into watching the first couple episodes of Suits. This show is like Cori-nip. It doesn't hurt that I've been looking for an excuse to get fannish about Gabriel Macht since Bad Company in 2002 (when

chelseafrew and I devised a sweeping epic spy slash story between Agent Seale (who had no first name the whole movie) and Chris Rock's first character (who is on screen for all of 3 minutes before getting killed off)).

I don't think I'm ready to read fic yet, but I couldn't set a season pass fast enough when I got home.

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summerpornathon has been amazing fun, though like a lot of people, I'm getting kind of burned out. I had to laugh at this week's new challenge--I was really, really, really hoping it would be darkfic, and then it was...the opposite. I think I write fluffy, funny stuff better than I write heavy angst, in general, but I can't really do it on command without some previous inspiration. I was panicking pretty badly until I remembered the one kind of fluffy and cracky idea I wanted to write a while ago. It might actually be better suited for a short-short anyway.

At least my team is doing well--back to second place this week! I'm not convinced we can overcome Team Gluttony at this point, but we seem a pretty stubborn bunch on the whole, so you never know.

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Yeah, the burn out is getting pretty bad all around, I think. I hope we're just hitting a wall and will push through it for these last couple weeks, but I dunno. I think I would have liked to have a week off after week 4 to recharge or something (which, yes, I recognize is against the spirit of the marathon, but I'd rather everyone were still having fun).

Yeah, I do best with a specific prompt that my brain can spin around to make something. I think that's the most frustrating thing about this week for those of us who are natural feel-good writers anyway -- WE SHOULD BE GOOD AT THIS, DAMMIT. THIS IS OUR ELEMENT. WHY IS IT SO FRICKING HARD??

I'm glad you have an idea! I do, too, though it seems a lot less exciting this morning than it did last night when I thought of it! I suspect at this point, it almost doesn't matter how much actual porn you have in it -- a lot of the winners and best-received stories last week only had a little bit, so I suspect people are getting a bit fed up with the porn and are looking for a good story more than anything. So let's fluff away and see what happens!

And yeah, I don't tend to do a lot of angst or darkfic in my normal writing either, which was why I was kind of looking forward to the darkfic challenge (if we had one this year). I did at least have an idea for that, one that I can't really use anywhere else!

I'm truly less fired up about my idea then I was last night. I DO want something more specific. I'll look at it again today and see if I can make something out of it. I'm really interested in trying out some angst. I can do pining and grief, but angst... I'd like to give angst a shot. That would kind of be a bummer of a way to end the event, though, if angst or darkfic was our last challenge, lol!

IKR?? We'd all just slink away from the last reveal and go cry in a corner. Though frankly, I will probably do that anyway!

Good luck with your idea! I hope you can make it into something you're excited about, even if it's not what you felt like writing this week. Mine is slowly coming together in my head, if not on paper.

It really is a shame there's no way to do team brainstorming sessions. :-(