Ahahaha

Not-quite final wordcount for SSBB August issue: 225,000
Not-quite final wordcount for SSBB special issue: 83,000

Or, well over 300,000 words. Erin and I were joking that October ought to be M-I-N-I-M-A-L Month but really: I was wracking my brains for a formal rather than thematic challenge and this could be it. Something like, for this issue only each person is allowed to contribute up to two stories of between 0 and 3,500 words each. (Although the sex scene requirement remains as-is. XD) One of the blind_go rounds was along said lines.

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Regardless of whether I post this stuff here or at carnet it must be getting boring. XD Uh... there's other stuff I want to talk about! For some reason I really want to organize that GetBackers fic-guessing challenge although this is utter insanity what with b-school and part-time jobs and SSBB and WIPs. OTOH I never actually guess in these challenges, so it would be very basic: you sign up, I email you a pseud, you send me your story with the pseud in the subject line, I post your story under the pseud. A victim collaborator will be found to compile and rank the guesses. No editing, no deadline extensions, no graphic design, no search-replacing smart quotes. Compared to SSBB it looks like a cakewalk. XD

Suggestions re: comm names and time frame?

Yet another request for ideas

If you had a friend who:

• is male
• is straight
• is unfazed by teh ghei (totally non-homophobic; has many gay friends; TB/X-1999 fan)
• has never read any fanfiction
• but is online/fandom-literate enough to know, for instance, what a "ship" is
• just finished Deathly Hallows
• would like some HP fanfic recs, with no caveats except quality of writing

...What would you recommend? ^^;

Links to quality single- or multi-author archives as welcome as (or even preferable to) links to specific stories. Was baffled as not only do I not read HP fic anymore other than what occasionally crops up on my flist, I've been out of the fandom for so long that if you asked me to point out an archive of decent, fairly-current HP fic of any denomination/pairing, I wouldn't know where to look.

My guess is that dude would prefer the long, plot-filled type of fic rather than - say - Malfoycest bondage PWPs, but he's not easily fazed. XD; Maybe a kind of fandom-wide survey, with a couple of representative/seminal works from each pairing/era/movement. Eg. some post-book-5 war epic, some Marauders-era S/R, some Pumpkin Pie, some Fanon Draco's Leather Pants: A History, some Percy/Oliver intellislash, and so on. Although this might be over-ambitious (albeit commendable) as a project, so really, recs pls. XD

And a meme

Seen on quixotic_sense and wordsofastory:

1. Comment to this post with the name of a character that I have written in fic

2. I will comment telling you the following:
a. What initially prompted me to like the character enough to write about him/her.
b. One of his/her best traits.
c. One of his/her worst traits.
d. How easy/difficult I find it to write the character.
e. The story/chapter/paragraph/phrase where I feel that I truly captured the character.
f. My plans (if any) to write the character in the near future (which may be more optimistic than realistic, but rousing old muses does sometimes gets work written).

Was also tagged for 7 Songs by starlighter but I'll do that one tomorrow. *g*