That girl who wrote that fic.

Last night phaballa and I went to a pop music singalong at the Alamo Drafthouse, but were saddened by the fact that the omnipresent host Drafthouse Henri was not present.

First, this is a promo for the singalong we went to, just to give you a sense of the whole thing:



To feed my Drafthouse Henri fix, I decided to go look for some of his YouTube vids.

( Henri's crush on Justin Timberlake is so cute! Rock Your Body... )
( The original Cedar Fever video: 'Giiirl, you gave meee the clap...' )
( Ickle Henry attempts to film a porny threeway. )

Oh, Henri... come back to us!

Apparently I don't get to open them until Valentine's Day. :-D


Get your own valentinr

Gacked from legomymalfoy

( What would you put in my Christmas stocking? )

Gacked from inell

Edit: Wow. It's going to be a lovely Christmas! ;-)

It sucks to be away from home and loved ones on your birthday, but the awesome thing about fandom is that it's portable. :-) Thank you to everyone who wished me a happy birthday yesterday! It was so, so nice to look at my flist and see all those birthday wishes. Thanks also to lauramcewan for spending the afternoon with me yesterday! It was fantastic just to get a chance to talk to you again. And sesame balls! ;-)

It was also mijan's birthday yesterday, and we were given a couple of joint birthday fics:

hazelhawthorne wrote Proxy, or What Happens to Harry when He Listens to Fred and George. See a POTC slasher write H/D smut! :-D

marcasita wrote a lovely bit of H/D crack, Up the Ante.

I posted about this one earlier, but it's worth pointing to again: mijan drew me H/D smut! (NWS)

Thanks to furiosity and rabidpotterfan for the virtual balloons!

And a LOL-worthy graphic by clara_swift (originally posted here) is ( under the cut: )

OMG just a few days until Lumos!

This is mostly for my own reference, but also here for any friends who might be looking for me -- or anyone who hasn't yet figured out what events they're going to and wants to see what I'm doing in order to avoid me. ;-) I somehow wound up on four panels in addition to teaching in the Magical Night Classes, so it's going to be a busy weekend!

If you know of any meet-ups you think I'd be interested in that I haven't mentioned in here, please let me know. There was an awesome pornish_pixies meet-up at TWH, but I haven't heard if there's one planned for Lumos.

Also, we'll be recording segments for slashcast and handing out Slashcast buttons throughout Lumos, so be sure to ask for a button from me, amanuensis1, glockgal, karaz, kerryblaze, longleggedgit, or Aspen (cursescar).

( Wednesday )

( Thursday )

( Friday )

( Saturday )

( Sunday )

So what am I missing?  Other get-togethers?  Also, I'm not leaving until Monday afternoon. Who else is sticking around?

ETA: Very Happy Birthdays to wordplay (we're the same age now, mwahaha!) and coffeejunkii (see you soon!). Also, a very Happy First Anniversary to hearts_n_roses and her lovely wife!

This one is all over my flist, but it sounds interesting. What the heck?

Ask Me My Fandom Opinion

How this works:

1. Ask me one fandom-related question in the comments. This can be fandom specific,general, or about fandom/lj stuff/fic writing/etc. in general. Ask anything...I'm really not bothered.

2. ONE DAMN QUESTION.-- Nah, you can ask more than one, but I might or might not answer it.

3. That's it. It can be as normal or odd as you like.

We had a LOT of fun on Saturday night, and I'm so happy to have had the chance to meet all these wonderful women! When I posted that I'd be in New York and asked if people wanted to get together, I had no idea the response would be so huge! There were 20 of us all being fangirly and naughty, and we all had a blast!

( Naughty pics behind the cut )

( Just quiz results. )

On a completely different note: I may not have been posting a lot of fic lately, but I've been writing quite a lot. I submitted a fic to hp_loveletters, and my (very late, so sorry, Robin!) submission for hp_springsmut is almost finished. After that one's done, I can get back to writing other things at last! (Viki and Abby, I swear I'm still in it!) Between Smutmas, Jedi Santa, HP Infinities, and these two exchanges, I think I overcommitted myself this fall. :-P

Don't get me wrong -- I love writing for fic exchanges, because they push me to write pairings and scenarios I may not have attempted otherwise. Writing a fic for a particular person's tastes can be a challenging task, and it's a lot of fun to try to do it. I tend to like working with deadlines and pressure, though, which means I almost always procrastinate and often only start working on these fics a week or two before the deadline. That sort of intensity is usually part of my process; I mark out blocks of several hours at a time (when MDH is travelling and I've nothing better to do in the evenings) and bury myself in writing. But this last month, I had little time to spare, and I really paid the price for waiting. Still, I'm proud of the two fics I wrote, and I don't think they would have turned out as well if I hadn't written them quickly and intensely. That seems to work for me as a writer, painful as it can be.

All right, back to work. *sips coffee*

ETA: Oh, Splenda! How lovely to have you back in the break room! So much better than sugar or the pink stuff!

ETA 2: lightstarangel and I have found the (unavailable in the US) purse-packet Splenda tablets for sale online here! :-D

I just returned to the hotel after a lovely afternoon of hanging out with a bunch of Bay Area slashers! There was pir8fancier, swtjemz, zahavah, ataniell93, jamoche, and shudaizi. We had tapas and bubble tea and chatted about everything from slash to... slash. ;-) We strolled through Chinatown and had to stop to take photos of a GIANT wooden penis in a shop window! That pic is going to be made into an icon when I get home.

It was awesome to meet y'all! If you have a night out and all go to The Cafe or SF Asia, have a drink for me, K?

It was a gorgeous sunny day, and I had a little moment of geeky fannish glee when I realized that it was two years ago today that Harry portkeyed to San Francisco and met Draco... again. (In my little fic universe, at least. :-P)

se_spotwood, did you get the voice mail from me and swtjemz?