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[corilannam]

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.


* 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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[cor-leonis-1961.livejournal.com]

Still haven't seen HP7.2 myself, but I sympathize re: the end of Book 5. Not only was it horrible and bitter-ifying (haha go go gadget words!), but I was spoiled for it too. >:[ LAME.

DUDE I WAS SO EXPECTING WEEK 6 DARKFIC CHALLENGE TOO AND NOW I'M JUST LIKE DDDD: HAPPY ENDINGS?

Granted once I have an entry submitted I will probably feel free to glee out about all the happy times ahead (love those happy endings SO MUCH omg - just want everyone to do fix-it fic for me all the time) but when it comes to writing... ACK ACK IDEAS WHERE ARE YOU?

Annnnnnd /flail

[corilannam.livejournal.com]

It was terribly bitter-ifying! I was spoiled for the fact that somebody died, but I didn't know who it was. I still remember sitting there, cheerfully devouring the book, trying to guess who was going to bite it. Was it Mr. Weasley? Professor McGonagall? Hagrid? All sad, to be sure -- but, I serenely announced to all my friends, as long as it wasn't Sirius Black, I'd be okay with it. They gave me a lot of pitying looks because they were all spoiled.

I also remember throwing the book across the room.

I LOVE HAPPY ENDINGS TOO. Totally with you on the happy endings and fix-it fic, so I'm also looking forward to reading the entries. But yeah, "happy" is an awfully vague prompt to inspire specific ideas, especially when it's your default mindset anyway.

*FLAIL*

I had one good idea I was saving up for the darkfic challenge, so I was hoping to get to use it (and, um, not have to think of anything new for this week). Happy Endings also seems like it would have been a better theme for the final week, but whatever, the mods don't have to cater to my sense of aesthetic. *g*

[cor-leonis-1961.livejournal.com]

LOL ohnoz, that is the worst. I think everybody had that personal calculus at some point or another, as soon as she started killing off the main characters. Like 'eh, I'd be okay seeing X go, but if she kills Y I will shrivel into a ball and weep endless tears.' I was like that with Remus. OH REMUS. And with Sirius, so when I read the spoiler online (not even in an article or anything else where it's like, duh, my fault - but in someone's freaking messageboard signature) I was like 'Ahhah good joke there. That's a joke, right? ...Guys? Jokey joke? DDDDD:'

I'm a little concerned about how to take a creative angle with a happy ending. It's gonna be interesting because I think we're all gonna be geared towards pressing the same buttons with this type of challenge, which, y'know, certainly makes it challenging. *strokes beard*

[corilannam.livejournal.com]

Yeah, Remus was second only to Sirius on my list of LEAVE THEM THE HELL ALONE, JKR. By the time she got around to actually killing poor Remus, I was already pretty numb to it all. I was always upset with the way she handled Remus, so by the time he died, I was like, yeah, figures.

That sucks to get spoiled by a messageboard sig! How rude!

It really will be interesting to see what everyone comes up with. The pthon hivemind has been fascinating so far -- we tend to get these little pairs or sets of matching themes in the same week (VR, werewolves, apocalypse, etc.). I'm looking forward to seeing if such a vague challenge prompt leads to more variety or uniformity.

For myself, I really only have the one idea at the moment, so I'm just gonna run with it and see what happens. It certainly couldn't go over any worse than my entries the last two weeks, so I'm not too worried!

[cor-leonis-1961.livejournal.com]

I was always upset with the way she handled Remus

Ugh, agreed. WHY DO YOU TORTURE THE PUPPIES, JKR? ;____;

What cracks me up about the pthon hivemind is how it shifts every year. Like the AU challenge, for example - last year we had pirates and westerns and historical rewrites galore and almost none of that this year. Really does make it seem like we're all wearing tin-hats sometimes, y'know? XD

Good luck with your idea! I salute you, porn soldier! And I have no doubt it will be awesome, anyway, so it's easy to be lighthearted about it all from this side. ;D