two-penny spells

good fic in the offing!!

Mon, 14 Jul 2025 19:54:17 GMT

I was only made aware of raremaleslashex like last night, but I'm really excited about it!

I was too late to sign up, but that's fine, since I'm in a bit of a writing fallow season at the moment anyway. But I just went through the tagset, which is looking fantastic.

So many fandoms I enjoy are on there; list below the cut (this is like a really telling look at who I am as a person also lmfao):

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Some real surprise noms: I would never have guessed that Raffles/Bunny and Aubrey/Maturin had less than 200 fics on ao3, but the latter is nominated for both the books and the movie! Feels fake.

This is really promising; I'm gonna have to remember to keep an eye out for this when the works drop at the end of August.

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ao3 just imported FictionAlley

Thu, 10 Jul 2025 00:42:03 GMT

Well, I say just; it was a few days ago. But I just spotted the announcement on the home page:

June 2025 Newsletter, Volume 201

Published: Sat 05 Jul 2025 07:52PM CEST Comments: 18

Open Doors has nearly finished importing FictionAlley, a Harry Potter archive. With approximately 29,000 works imported so far, it is Open Doors' largest import yet. You can check out all imported works at the FictionAlley collection. Unclaimed works are currently locked to logged-in AO3 users only, but per Open Doors' agreement with the FictionAlley archivist, they will be unlocked 30 days after the import is fully completed.

I'm obviously having kind of mixed feelings about it. But first and foremost, the fact that they're preserved!! that the stories I read back in ninth grade are most likely on ao3 now!!! makes me really happy, and more relieved than I expected. I've checked back in on FA a couple of times in recent years and it always worried me a little that the site wasn't up anymore -- with how huge it was, the loss of fanfics would be enormous. A part of me is also really curious to head over and see if I recognise anything. But although I personally don't feel that writing (not to mention reading!) fanfiction is the same as endorsement in monetary terms, I still don't really think I could read HP fic without kind of a bad taste in my mouth. It's a relief just to know that it's there!

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fannish 50 challenge!

Fri, 03 Jan 2025 19:52:08 GMT

Thanks to maevedarcy posting about having signed up for Fannish 50 (challenge post is here, over at goals_on_dw), I got inspired to try it too!

I'm hoping to use it to post more fic and/or drabbles here, and also, to finally get going again on posting recs and working on my big Masterlist of fic recs.

It's entirely too easy for me to just get sucked into the fast-paced, easy-posting allure of tumblr and forget to use my DW, but I do enjoy talking about fandom, so a fannish series of posting prompts should be just up my alley. Fingers crossed!

As I make posts, I'll be linking to them in this post, under a cut.

( fannish 50 masterlist )

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