The meta birthday!

HAPPY BIRTHDAY cordelia_v!!

Happy Birthday to a great writer, and an amazing producer of meta! I'm so happy to have met you, both here in LJland and at Lumos. Your awesome essays are inspiring! I'm so glad you're involved in HP fandom...you're a fandom treasure. The way you help people, the way you nurture fics and writers...it's wonderful. *hugs* I hope your day is great!

Too much to do. As always.

The list is long, so I won't trouble you with it; suffice it to say that it just keeps getting longer, and I only have five days left before I leave for my annual month-long WI/AZ trip.

The big news (well, for me) is that I had a haircut yesterday. (The valis haircut history: between 1993 and 2005 I only had one haircut, which was a trim.) Anyway, I've been getting five and six inches cut off at the last two haircuts, and this time I had five more.

Why? Because I am sick to death of having my hair caught in the armpit of my coat; in my bra strap; in the waistband of my pants; in the seat belt (that's the worst); underneath the pillow...etc. The last moment of frustration was two days ago, when I was in a car with a friend. When he parked, he pulled up on the emergency parking brake, and caught a huge chunk of my hair in it. It didn't hurt a bit, but I'm just so sick of it! Plus, I have incredibly fine hair, and it tangles horribly, and it doesn't even look that attractive long.

So now it's mid-shoulder blade, maybe even a little longer than that, but still, it's so nice. And it's curly again. I just hope like crazy that it doesn't relax the way the last one did; I was really unhappy about that. I want it to be super curly! hee.

I'm hoping to make some sort of tLS update within the next few days, and finally "announce" the comm (boy, do I sound conceited) and update the mailing list with all of the changes. Plus, one of the biggies on my list is to finish the chapter that has sat, mewling, on my hard drive all this time.

I really want the tLS chapter index to be the first entry on the comm. But because you can't backdate comm entries, I'm a little confused as to what to do. I think I'm going to take the first chapter and the second chapter and combine them, and use the first chapter's space to do the index, though this is vexing me, as it means I won't be able to use Semagic to do it, and that makes me nervous.

I just wish I could stick an extra week in here somehow. But I gave that up because the WI friends asked me to come out early to help; I don't regret it because I need the money for a new car, but I'm getting a bit frantic. Watch for completely stressed entries in the week to come. ha!

The Last Sanguimagus is now on LJ!

I have just finished editing the last entry on lastbloodwitch, the new home for the Last Sanguimagus, my SS/OFC work-in-progress. A great big thank you to all who read, all who review, and all who offered advice about structuring the archive.

I have also finished uploading the revised, updated version of tLS to every archive it is currently hosted at (save one, but only two people seem to be reading it there, so it's a bit lower on my list of priorities).

The Last Sanguimagus Chapter Index - Chapter One

( Why? What was changed? )

It has been revealed!

I wrote A Pirate at Heart for the lovely pixychelle!

I had to be coy about talking about the subject, because I was afraid that people would figure it out (especially dark_cygnet, who knows of my love for the golden age of pirate movies). I crammed lots of fun into the fic, but wanted to keep it under 10K, so I had to drop some of the plot. I think it's all the better for it. I referenced the Black Swan, Captain Blood, and even a little PotC.

So if you're looking for some pirate Snupin, get thee to the story! It's NC-17, for some content at the end, just to let you know.

And a big thank you to odogoddess for writing a story for me! Hooray for Snupin!