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[tarotgal]

Long day at work so far. Sadly, someone deleted the 7/3/05 episode of QAF so now I have to wait until the whole season repeats and/or it comes out on DVD next year before I can watch any more. *sob*
Ah well. Delays the end for me, I suppose. The run was good while it lasted.

The good news is my boss bought the HP:HBP audio tapes and when I mentioned how envious I was he said I could borrow them. YIPPIE!!! SO I get to hear Jim reading the book after all! I'd resigned to waiting until I could buy them cheaply used. But this is great! Yayness! Makes up for the loss of the second half of QAF Season 5.

I've had the urge to write h/c triofic since I went to bed this morning. And, unfortunately, I made the mistake of reading some more fantastic HBP fics right before bed so all day it's been on my mind. I'm totally writing some Harry/HBP pr0n when I get home now. LOL

Well, after I work a little on my fest fics, that is. Those MUST get done. It's just those darn muses steering me elsewhere...

Gah. Long day at work. ANd forgot to bring my meds, cuz I'm stupid. And/or possibly tired. I got 3 hours of sleep last night.

OH! But I got another compliment about my weight loss today! I'm 5 pounds away from my goal (well, really 7 if I'm honest to myself, but I can settle with just losing 5 more). I'm very happy about that. Very very! *does happy dance in seat since I have the place to myself at the moment*

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[ladykorana.livejournal.com]

Where do you go for good HP fics and discussion about the books? I have never gone very deep into HP fandom before, so I don't know the best places to find stuff. Any recommendations?

[tarotgal]

By gods I love your icon! *snuggles it to death* So perfect.

I'm not sure I'm the best person to ask rec-wise as my interests usually lie on the side of... um... *points to your icon* but I'll tell you were I frequent:
The Remus Lupin and Sirius Black Yahoo Group- This is where I go to get most of my discussion and a great deal of my fanfic, since that's my main pairing. There's usually a good deal of general discussion amongst the puppy ship, but as I tend to like things skewed towards the pups anyway, I don't mind a whole huge lack of general-ness.

Harry Potter Wizard World- One I'm a member of but I very rarely get the time to go and read posts there. Discussion is usually intelligent and fun.

Mugglenet is good for news and discussions of any type, subject, intelligence, etc. I don't frequent it much either, but it's a typical forum, you know?

The Leaky Lounge- I simply adore the Leaky Cauldron for HP news. And looks like they have a new forum up now. No clue what it's like, but I thought I'd mention it. Based on comments for news items, it's probably fun but varried as well.


As for fics...
pervy_werewolf Is my absolute favorite community. Because, hey, Remus is my absolute favorite character. There's a variety of pairings and types, but all stories are either challenge stories or high on the kink chart, which is how I like them lately.

pornish_pixies is my second favorite fic com now. Great quality, very pervy, and has just about anything and everything. It's quite exclusive (which makes people either love it or hate it) but I definitely hit it often. Many recent fics are making it up on my rec journal for sure!

Sycophanthex- My new favorite archive. It has very tough quality standards and subarchives for characters and pairings so it's easy to navigate. I put one of my fics up on there already but I've only barly scratched the surface as far as reading. Incredible quality in most of what I've read, though. So I highly recommend it.

And speaking of my rec journal... apart from the above communities, most of the HP fics I read come from the flist on my rec journal. And most of the general discussion comes from those users and communities as well. You're welcome to browse through that any time... most of it's HP but there's some other stuff on there as well for other fandoms. http://www.livejournal.com/users/rectacular/friends/

I wish I had better advice for you! With work and writing I don't have nearly as much time as I'd like to devote to reading fics and discussions. I tend to just have time to visit communities for characters and pairings I like the most and pick up little things about other characters there or on my flists. Speaking of which... I ran into a great essay about Snape yesterday: What Now for Snape Romancers?

[tarotgal]

Okay... yeah... should have waited and/or done a spell-check there. Sorry. Very tired. Bad at spelling. You know this about me already ;-)

[ladykorana.livejournal.com]

Wow! So many links! Thanks for the help!

Btw, know of any good gen-fic sites? I don't really have any particular pairings in HP that I'm excessively fond of (I like Remus/Sirius, and it makes sense to me based on all canon except book 6, but Marauder-era fic really isn't where my interests lie...), so I'd kinda like to get my feet wet a bit in the HP universe before narrowing my fic focus to any possible pairings that catch my fancy.

[tarotgal]

One of the archives at Sycophanthex (which I mentioned yesterday) is gen. Honestly, I haven't explored it at ALL but in browsing through a second ago it looks genuinely general. And, again, I can vouch for its high quality standards. That archive is called Lumos: http://lumos.sycophanthex.com/

And you may just want to skim through The Sugar Quill or FictionAlley or The Restricted Section. It's hit and miss, like in most places, but every so often something fantastic turns up. I'm afraid that's about all I can recommend since I pretty much stick to my many ships and characters where HP fandom is concerned.

[ladykorana.livejournal.com]

I'll definitely be checking out Sycophanthex, thanks! I really appreciate all the help!