Strangeness and Charm

Does anyone have any recs for a good Harry/Hermione fic? I've been craving them like mad lately.

I made a fanmix for hallonpaj for this gift giving thing at Team Kahlan.


here at Athena's Garden

So soon after drabble123 I come back with not one, but TWO more tables. This time from 10_per_genre Yes, I'm crazy. This time it's for Harry Potter, I'm pretty sure.

Table 9 - Hurt / Comfort

01. Pain	02. Relief	03. Nightmare	04. Trust/Distrust	05. Memories/Past
06. Righting a wrong	07. Run to me	08. Here in my arms	09. Haunted	10. Holding out for a Hero

Table 11 - Romance

01. All's fair in love and war	02. When I look into your eyes	03. Body language	04. Roller Coaster of love	05. Love lifts us up where we belong
06. Embrace	07. Sweet Nothings/Whispers	08. Chivalry	09. Affection	10. Dance

I decided finally that I am done with my Harry Potter work-in-progress stories. I've been trying to write them for ages and putting them on my fic-to-finish list. But the stories are so old and I hate them and it's not working out so I told myself I am done. Well, minus one story that I don't hate so much that I'm going to attempt to write.

My fic-to-finish list went from in the 30's to 3 unfinished fic! It's like a weight off of my chest has been lifted. This is freeing! And now finishing everything on my fic-to-finish list doesn't seem like such a chore and it doesn't seem so impossible. :)

Not sure how done I am with Harry Potter in general because a part of me will always treasure it and love it but:

As of this moment, I am DONE with the HPFF forums. DONE! (well okay, I might still play at the arcade, but that's it.)

Most of the awesome people have left, so what's mostly left are fucking idiotic brown nosing bastards. While this isn't the cause of me signing off, I am sick of the Harry/Hermione thread being full of people who basically go "OMG EWWW HHR IT'S LIKE INCEST RHR FTW I CAN'T SEE HHR HAPPENING AT ALL EVEN JKR SAID SO!!!!!!!" It also doesn't help that I am a Harry/Hermione loving HBP and DH and Twilight hating person while everyone else are Harry/Hermione hating DH and HBP Ron/Hermione Harry/Ginny Twilight loving people.

Sure, there are a lot of asshole Harry/Hermione shippers out there. Our ship often has a bad name because of them. And yet for some reason, I feel so fiercly protective of them, too. It's because I tend to feel over-protective over ships that get a hard time in fanon/canon. I feel the same exact way about Angel/Cordelia.

Another thing?  Phillip Pullman had a lovely quote about this that I can't find, but an author only has a certain amount of control over their work. Once it leaves their hands, it is free for people to interpret it in different ways. J.K. Rowling might have meant for Draco Malfoy to be a character everyone hates, but there are many MANY people out there who love him. It doesn't mean that they are wrong or that she's wrong. What you take out of a book or a movie or a TV show or a CD is going to be different than what I take out of it. It doesn't mean that I'm wrong or you're wrong.

ETA-this site is one of many sites that makes me pissed off and I sometimes (very rarely but on occasion) take it out on the fandom/author/other people. I apologize if this was ever the case for you. I really don't hate J.K. Rowling or the first 5 books or anything else I might have said at one point or another. I just feel frustrated sometimes at various parts of the fandom, and since I don't usually have a place to put that frustration, it comes out in the worst way possible.

I'm definitely an author. Because I've just caught my stories being plagiarized on this Harry/Hermione site. Same name, all of my Harry Potter stories posted (minus one of them) posted there. The site glitched for a moment giving all of my stories the same posting date which creeped me out for a second because it told me that Missing Her was posted before it was ever written. Then I pressed refresh and the dates made sense.

They say that imitation is a form of flattery, and it could be because I'm already having a shitty day, but fuck, I'm pissed. I contacted the site, so hopefully eveything turns out okay. 

 Someone just asked me permission for them to translate one of my one shots into Chinese. The first one-shot I ever wrote 3 years ago that is really awful. 

No one's ever asked that before! I feel really touched. Though I do wish it had been for one of my better stories. Oh well!

well that was a little pointless. I would classify it as a drabble..

Ahh, I remember the old days when I would get really offended and make a snarky reply back. Now I just snark in my LJ. :P


I just love how all my bad reviews are anonymous. C'mon people, if you wanna tell me something, then don't hide behind an anonymous name! Just tell me!

 So I worked on some icons today, all from a particular image of Willow. First I tried cropping it myself, which didn't turn out too well:
( cut for pics )

LOL, I doubt anyone would want to take them, but if you do please comment and credit. 

 We had another sonnet to write for English. This time it was supposed to be a prologue of sorts to any published book we wanted. I wanted to do Speak, but I doubted the content would be found suitable. I chose to do Harry Potter and the Chamber of Secrets instead. Unfortunately, I had a lot to do tonight, so I wrote it in like 5 minutes. It really sucks! Oh well. :P

Boy named Harry both his parents are dead

He lives with his aunt who is filled with hate

Now he goes to school, which he does not dread

But little Harry can’t escape his fate

For roaming the halls there’s an evil snake

And students are giving Harry the blame

The whis'pring is almost too much to take

The way it hurts mudbloods is all the same

‘Mione found a trick with a mirror

It didn’t kill her but made her frozen

A paper made the way even clearer

It's obvious that Harry was chosen

An old enemy it was sure to be

What happens next you'll have to wait to see!