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I threw my hat in at livelongnmarry and have offered to write either original fiction or fanfic for the auction.

I know I stopped writing fanfic several years ago, and I don't talk over here much anymore. But while I was gone I did complete an MFA in writing and I've just finished writing the first novel in a YA Fantasy series. So my writing skills are as sharp as they every where (insert joke here)--only my fanfic skills are rusty! :D

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Rating: NC-17
Pairing: Snape/Harry
Description: 16 year old Harry Potter has a problem and Snape lends a hand.
Note: Title taken from Kierkegaard's work by the same title. Thanks to beccafran for the beta.

( Fear and Trembling )

Finding links for this whole mess has been a headache (like herding cats) so I started bookmarking in del.icio.us this morning. Link at bottom.



EDITED FOR CLARITY:

So I don't know what the hell to make of this strange announcement about a deleted journal of an "out" pedophile which I found on a site about pedophilia. (found via fandom_wank) while compiling links for this. I mean he is probably harmless. I wonder how long he'll last. And if he knows his kink and his wife is cool with it it is none of my damn business. But still. O_o His new journal is here. Old one was TOSsed.

Look, I'm not making any judgments here. Just that these WFI idiots were going after pedophiles and we all got caught in their stupid crosshares -- and dudes like the one above will just go one their merry way without so much as breaking their stride. Or so it seems to me at 3am on five hours sleep sometime Wednesday morning. It kind of made my jaw drop. Not because I want him to do anything ro go anywhere. If he isn't going after real kids he can imagine whatever he wants. Right?


120+ links from all over about strikethough2007 inlcuding multiple sites to back up your lj, alternative blog sites, lists of people leaving lj and arriving at GJ. All in one place.

I guess this journal is the leg they had to cut off when was I shot at Antietam. (What is with my random Civil War references? Jeez.) Instead of burning it, which would be sane and sanitary I keep coming back here and trying to strap it back on. It doesn't quite fit anymore either. Dang it. But I miss it. *hobbles around*

I kind of fell out of fandom when I was planning my wedding in 2004 and even more so when I started grad school in 2005. I started posting regularly at imaginarycircus. I think some people never got the message that I was posting over there for the last two years. I was. It was kind of spotty and boring at best. Lots of wibbling about homework and writing.

So now I have two journals (three including steelcage_match, and there is a new match. Analog vs. Digital!)

I never really saw the point (for me!!) of having a rl journal and a fandom journal, and somehow that it what I accidentally ended up with. I certainly blathered on in ari_o about personal stuff, real life stuff. I guess I just didn't see that much of a division between my fandom identity and my real life identity. Now I sort of do because I don't really have a fandom identity anymore. All the recent posts about Phoenix Rising made me so angsty and full of longing. I wish I could have gone. But I was busy freezing my ass off and wearing itchy graduation robes. There was a lot of champagne afterwards so it isn't like I suffered.

I started imaginarycircus because I felt like I was changing so much I needed a new journal. I also thought it would be nice to have a journal I could share with family and friends. The things is I was never able to leave the anon posting option open because of trolls. And last summer's upset kind of killed any urge I had to interact with people online at all until a few months ago when I started creeping back. I'm like a freakin slime mold.

I can't figure out what to do with these two journals now. I am not willing to let go of either of them. I wish I could smush them together into one thing. But maybe that wouldn't be a good idea. Many RL people have the imaginarycircus journal link and it is probably a good idea to have a journal I can bitch about stuff in that is at least somewhat removed. Maybe? I guess there is nothing wrong with filters and flock.

Anyone have any advice on what to do with multiple journals? Is it annoying if I post in two journals? Is it annoying only if I post exactly the same thing?

So one of the lit agents I am working for is a superstar and the other one is new but cool, she is just starting to build her client list. She has a lot of industry experience as an editor, but she has only become an agent in the last year. I am unofficially on the lookout for writers of fiction and non-fiction with solid, completed book length manuscripts, and they must be writers of high quality. If you know anyone looking for an agent (and who has the attributes I specified in the previous sentence) please pass them along to me. I can't make any promises but if I think something is really good, I can ask her to take a look. Pass it along. circus at gmail

pimp tax

How exactly do you file W-2s for your illegal employees?

Do I need to make a sticky post at the top of my lj that says don't bother trolling me? Because when you do I'll just laugh at you. If you are new around here, new to any of this maybe you should get the lay of the land before you go sticking your nose in where it is certain to get punched.

And especially don't troll me/comment if you

a)didn't understand the situation or read all the wank completely
b)didn't notice that I'd already posted all over it. Knew about it. etc.

Also if you read something at bad_penny or fandom_wank it is considered bad form to come over to any of the journals or people listed and troll them, pillock. And it can get you banned from those communities.



ETA: you've been banned exmiscellanea. I don't know what your problem is. And now I never will.

I've frozen the thread because I don't need a big dogpile in there. But I am thinking of this post as my version of a head on a pike.

I'm abusive? Hahahahahahahahahaha! The problem with leaping before you look is that sometimes you end up impaled. I should know.

So tell me something or ask me something? Anything. Just make it have zero to do with all the ick of the last week.