Exit Life Through Window

First of all, this was the fic I received for Yuletide:

Remixed (Pitch Perfect) - When a new a capella group emerges on the BU campus, both the Bellas and the Treblemakers find themselves in a difficult position. Will they be able to deal with this upstart rival in the world of a capella, and how will they do it?

I was so happy to get Pitch Perfect fic! This is a really sweet story, with the Bellas and Treblemakers teaming up to face off a rival group, and there are lots of little jokes between the characters, just like in canon :)

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( 9 recs in 10 fandoms: Anne of Green Gables, Ballet Shoes, Black Books, Discworld, Never Mind the Buzzcocks RPF, Pitch Perfect, Sabrina the Teenage Witch, Uncharted, West Wing/Abraham Lincoln: Vampire Hunter )

Anybody have any other favourites to rec me?

So, I actually wrote something I like! Wonders never cease... And if anyone wants to review, you would make me very happy indeed ;)

Title: A Sorting, of Sorts
Author: mk_tortie
Pairing(s): Albus Severus/Scorpius
Rating: PG
Warnings: none
Summary: The night before Hogwarts, Albus worries that he might not fit into any House at all.
Word Count: c.7000
Disclaimer: All Harry Potter characters herein are the property of J.K. Rowling and Bloomsbury/Scholastic. No copyright infringement is intended.
Author’s notes: Thanks to a very short-notice beta from L, who is always reliable.  Written for hp_nextgen_fest 2009.

(Story behind the fake cut!)

Anybody know Black Books at all who would fancy proof-reading a Black Books/HP one-shot? It's about 1200 words right now, but it's growing. It may stay a one-shot or it might end up as a chaptered fic, depending on where it ends itself. The HP elements are fairly small.

I remember when I first discovered HP fic. I'd only ever seen Neighbours fanfic before, and I wondered if there was any out there for anything else. Finding FF.net and later Schnoogle was a revelation. I raced through every fic I found, some of which I now know are fairly awful, but it was just amazing to me that there was a way of filling that huge gap between books with something else HP related.

Now, however, I feel like I've exhausted HP. I know all the juiciest dramas, I've read the best and the worst, and what new stuff there is does not seem to engage me very often. Apart from the occasional incredible fic, I just see the same new ideas, over and over. And I'm really no longer bothered about reading them. In fact, I really enjoyed the escape from HP that Yuletide offered - that's why I've signed up for femgenficathon and smallfandomfest - I can write something other than HP. Trouble is, most people who move on seem to have gone to Supernatural, Bones or Doctor Who - and I just can't get into TV fandoms. I don't watch enough TV to know all the small references that make fanfic so interesting.

Anyway, the upshot of this is that I would like some recs. I need to read something, or anything! Get me into a fandom (but please not one that I will have to follow the canon religiously to understand) - I don't have to have read or seen the source to appreciate good fic as a starting point, so maybe something that would make me go out and read/watch the canon? I like movie fandoms - I wrote for 10 Things I hate about you, for example. I like fandom for children's books (Noel Streatfeild, Narnia, Secret Garden, Anne of Green Gables, Enid Blyton...). And I really do still want to know Harry Potter - if you can give me something to read that I'll be able to get into. Good long one shots or multi-chapters would be great. Lots of plot would be even better.

Pretty please end my disillusionment?

So, I'm still trying to finish my springtime gen fic.... was supposed to email it a week ago, got an extension til yesterday, and last night realised what I had was CRAP and rewrote the whole thing. But at least this hasn't turned into the marathon that springsmut did, heh. I should be done fairly soon. But after this I'm sticking to Yuletide, because I actually don't think I can write Harry Potter any more... I haven't read the books in about a year and I've read so much fanfic that I can't remember what's canon and what's not, half the time. Meh. Tis a tad worrying that I actually started DREAMING fic last night, though... Sirius Remus genfic, where they set up a house together. It was fluffy. I don't really remember much more!

In RL news, I am going to be a model! Hurrah! Got spotted outside Topshop on Oxford Street by one of the scouts that always stand outside there, and they sent me for a photoshoot on Tuesday which was fantastic (and free) so hopefully I'm now going to get some work out of this. Yay. That forced me to get my nails done, too, and they're so long and pretty :) hee.

Gosh, this post is girly. And I just typed gosh. I may be doomed.

In other matters, I need to revise rather desperately. Plan for self-reference is beneath cut, because if I post this to LJ I can fool myself that I'm doing something.

( revision la la la )

Oh, the joy.