Angela Snape's Asylum

( Five Fannish Things... Finally )

As seen at torino10154's and other places.

Ask me my fannish Top Five. Any top fives. Doesn't matter what, really! And I will answer them all in a new post.

One per person should suffice. :-)

Creatively acquired from celandineb... like her, I am mixing fandoms here.

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Yay! More snail mail cards came in today, from

• coffee_n_cocoa, who sent a cute holiday-themed card
  
• venturous, who sent a lovely Snarry & Patroni (patronuses?) card, and
  
• suemonroe who sent one of oldenuf2nb's Snarry cards... I think I have all of them now. *G*
  

Thanks, everyone!

I really should go to my mailbox more often... This week's goodies included:

• a Snarry card (a la oldenuf2nb) from celandineb which included not one, but two drabbles for me, a Charlie/Neville and a Caspian/Edmund. Both are yum!


• a Snarry card from shadowess


• a Santa card with a DVD copy of the Miracle on 34th Street from evanjames


*hugs* and Thank you to all of you!

Angela: There's someone else I want to try & hook up with next week [on vacation].
Hubby: Oh really?
Angela: Yes! I found someone else who isn't too far from where we'll be staying.
Hubby: So who exactly do you want to meet up with?
Angela: Eeyore and Delta.
Hubby: Eeyore?
Angela: You remember Eeyore... I showed you her "Eeyore reading porn" icon.
Hubby: And who's the other one, again?
Angela: Dementor Delta
Hubby: (slowly) Dementor Delta

*laughs*

This is the same man who when I told him I want to go to Azcatraz next year, he said, "I'm coming with you so I can see San Francisco." We'll see about that...

I'm a couple of days late on this ... but on August 7, 2007 I created this IJ.

I'd only just started a more active participation in HP-fandom (my LJ of the same name was created March 18, 2007), beta-reading for the_con_cept, lesyeuxverts and others, and had written my very first drabble when the strikethrough nonsense had started at LJ.

Since then, I've made lots of friends here. *snuggles flist*

I've also become more confident about my writing, and have inched up from 100-word drabbles and teenyfics to my latest creation which comes in over 3000 words. I know it doesn't compare to those of you who write novel-length fics regularly, but I'm taking baby-steps here.

Looking forward to fall_fantasia, phoenix_flies, bbtp_challenge, snarry_holidays and harry_holidays (which I've actually signed up for. Ack! Another exchange!!)

Here's to another year of IJ awesomeness! And, since I finished my fall_fantasia fic early... I'm offering drabbles to the first three people who prompt me. As usual, HP only, please, and a one-word prompt.

ETA: All drabble spots have been taken. I will post them as they are written - hopefully before the end of the week, when I head off to Virginia for vacation.

As seen at gingertart50's...

01. The character I first fell in love with - I like Minerva. She cares about her students enough to be stern/strict with them when necessary.
02. The character I never expected to love as much as I do now - Neville. He finally started to show some promise/skill/spine in OOTP, and by DH Neville rocked.
03. The character everyone else loves that I don't - I wouldn't say "everyone" here, but a lot of people seem to like Percy, and I can't stand him. Same goes for Tom Riddle/Voldemort ... I just can't read anything that features him, particularly in a relationship with Harry or Snape.
04. The character I love that everyone else hates - I really like Tonks, and a lot of people don't seem to like her, particularly paired with Remus (which I'm rather indifferent about.) Of course, I liked her a lot better in the books than in OOTP.
05. The character I used to love but don't any longer - Dumbledore. By the end, he was just way too manipulative & didn't really help Harry when he could have.
06. The character I would shag - Bill or Charlie... Or Kingsley... or Snape
07. The character I'd want to be like - I already think I'm like Hermione (I was particularly like her in school, always the bookworm), but professionally I'd like to be more like Minerva.
08. The character I'd slap - Percy. Ginny. Umbridge.
09. A pairing that I love - Snarry is my original OTP, but I also like reading Harry/Draco, Bill/Neville, Severus/Hermione and Kingsley/Charlie. Other pairings will be taken on advisement ... particularly if it's an author I love.
10. A pairing that I despise - Any pairing featuring Hagrid, Percy, or Tom Riddle/Voldemort.

As seen around IJ...

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Hey, everyone,

If you haven't already done so, check out the Friending Frenzy over at phoenix_flies...

http://asylums.insanejournal.com/phoenix_flies/2089.html

Catch up with other LJ-expats, or find new friends who share your interests...

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And, welcome to the new faces I see on my f-list... hope to get to know you all a bit better soon.

I find it very interesting that since moving here to IJ, my list of "mutual friends" is already longer than it ever got over at LJ - including the addition of some friends I didn't really know over at LJ. So, I just wanted to say "Hi!" and "Welcome!" to darkladyvamp, kookoolaka, randomlysane and magic_helmet, who I just found on my "Friend Of" list.

Now that the fandom migration seems to be firmly established here at IJ (or, at least, the part of fandom I've been hanging out in seems to be here at IJ now!), I expect we should have lots of fun getting to know each other. What you'll generally find here in Angela's Asylum is story recs (mainly Snarry, but I do branch out into other slash pairings, gen, and sometimes even het), occasional meta, and rarely, my own fic. One drabble counts, right?? I may even repost it over here...

Since I don't think one drabble makes me an author, I'm taking the point of view of a fanfiction reader instead.

Ideally, as a reader, I'd love for fandom to settle in one place, so that I can easily keep track of everyone. I have lots of time, right now, being on summer break, but once I go back to work in September, my free time diminishes greatly. We've already started the exodus from LJ, and we're starting to learn that GJ may be just as bad, from a fandom POV.

IJ, so far, seems like a good option, but I worry that eventually it will become more like the other journaling sites. Remember, they exist for anyone who wants a blog, not just fandom. Some have suggested that fandom needs its own home - besides archives, I suppose, so that we may blog and post art and fic. But wouldn't any site, whether it is a journaling site for the web populace at large, or a fandom-specific site, be subject to the laws of the country where it is hosted?

And, speaking of laws, how many of you have seen this article? Maybe those disclaimers authors put on their fics aren't enough, after all. And who in the mainstream (i.e. not fandom) would understand the point of AU fics where The Boy Who Lived is anything but under-age? I'm not sure the epilogue counts, in that respect.

Any ideas? Hopefully, we can make IJ our home, at least for now, and not have to worry too much about double- & triple- posting everything so nobody misses us or our posts.