she says it's right out of the blue

+ Big Bang signups are going WELL. They don't even close until the 27th, and if even half of the people who've signed up so far submit something, we'll have upwards of a million words of new Hermione fic. O_O And there is het of many pairings, femslash, crossovers, gen, everything. (Although, florahart supposes that we're going to need personal sanity consultants before it's done, when it comes to actually running this thing. Needless to say, as it's a Hermione fest, there is already a spreadsheet forming in order to keep it all straight. With tabs. And different colors.

+ We'd love more betas, cheerleaders, and artists as well as authors -- so by all means head over if you want.

Additionally, I promise to keep my rambles about all this to one post a week at most. ;)

+ I've been compiling more Merlin recs, and tossing around the idea of a rare pair recsletter, or something -- in the vein of Quibbler Report? I'm just not sure I'd have the time to maintain something like that. Just a thought. For now, I'll go ahead and post another recs list like normal, probably next week -- or just add to my first one.

+ Welcome to new friends! Feel free to add me on Twitter if you want. And hugs to everyone who needs them today. Special hugs go to superioritea, lesemma and cloverdew; I hope your weekends turn out wonderful. ♥

and when i knew better, i did better

You know what's really not a good feeling?

When you find out that you've been ignorant about something. It's better than choosing to remain ignorant about it, so I'm glad I know -- but it's weird; I feel like I've grown as a person, and at the same time I feel all squicky about not having known in the first place.

And I spent money on those books.

/cryptic

One day soon I'll post about the author's fail, and my fail for buying into it for even a little while. Seriously. Ugh.