bunnies in herefordshire
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lobelia321Okay, not quite: Shropshire, actually.
But first: my holiday. It was absolutely glorious. Started out with marital strife, then came B&B, castle and church and marital talking and other ways of harmonising, and then came Herefordshire which is absolutely gorgeous. The weather was glorious (all of a sudden!), the company a delight, the children happy, the food delicious, the carvings on the litle church of Kilbeck wonderful, including a carving of a Sheela-na-gig. Yes! *waves at![[livejournal.com profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/external/lj-userinfo.gif)
childeproof!
I was so surprised; I had thought that name was invented for LJ. But it's a name for an apotropaic female figure who wards off evil, and the one I saw was just a hoot: bug eyes, mad mouth and hands spread around her pudenda showing her cunt to the world! i luffd her
Secondly:
Yes, I know, you're all rolling your eyes and saying, 'well, it was just a matter of time.' But I didn't see it coming! The bunny caught me unawares in Ludlow, making me think it was a Dom/Karl bunny. Then that didn't seem to go anywhere and I thought, 'I'm doing too many Dom/Karls, it's gettin' old'; so I tried the bunny on Dom/Orli but that didn't fit, either. I cast about for other suitables within Lotrips but nothing really clicked until, argh, I just, for a lark, had a go with HP and
omg argh ack
it worked. The plot started flowing, and more plot elements sprouted like butterflies, and before I knew it, I was mentally stabbing the self and thinking 'oh no oh no, this is not happening'.
*cackles and feels insane*
Okay, now for the practicalities:
What do I know about HP fandom? A handful of fics and 4 items of source material, read years ago.
What do I need to know? Do I need to re-read JKR? Do I need to *gulp* go and buy Order of the Whatsit? Do I need to bone up on fanon?
And where do I post this thing? What yahoo groups and LJ communities cater to this madness?
At the moment, I've written 3 acts of this fic (all in my head, you understand -- it was a family holiday, after all!) and my hunch is: zip through a mega-fast re-read of books 1-4, ignore Order of the Fuck, ignore fanon, cheerfully forge ahead with own completely lunatic version of HP-verse.
Any thoughtlets???
But first: my holiday. It was absolutely glorious. Started out with marital strife, then came B&B, castle and church and marital talking and other ways of harmonising, and then came Herefordshire which is absolutely gorgeous. The weather was glorious (all of a sudden!), the company a delight, the children happy, the food delicious, the carvings on the litle church of Kilbeck wonderful, including a carving of a Sheela-na-gig. Yes! *waves at
childeproof!I was so surprised; I had thought that name was invented for LJ. But it's a name for an apotropaic female figure who wards off evil, and the one I saw was just a hoot: bug eyes, mad mouth and hands spread around her pudenda showing her cunt to the world! i luffd her
Secondly:
Yes, I know, you're all rolling your eyes and saying, 'well, it was just a matter of time.' But I didn't see it coming! The bunny caught me unawares in Ludlow, making me think it was a Dom/Karl bunny. Then that didn't seem to go anywhere and I thought, 'I'm doing too many Dom/Karls, it's gettin' old'; so I tried the bunny on Dom/Orli but that didn't fit, either. I cast about for other suitables within Lotrips but nothing really clicked until, argh, I just, for a lark, had a go with HP and
omg argh ack
it worked. The plot started flowing, and more plot elements sprouted like butterflies, and before I knew it, I was mentally stabbing the self and thinking 'oh no oh no, this is not happening'.
*cackles and feels insane*
Okay, now for the practicalities:
What do I know about HP fandom? A handful of fics and 4 items of source material, read years ago.
What do I need to know? Do I need to re-read JKR? Do I need to *gulp* go and buy Order of the Whatsit? Do I need to bone up on fanon?
And where do I post this thing? What yahoo groups and LJ communities cater to this madness?
At the moment, I've written 3 acts of this fic (all in my head, you understand -- it was a family holiday, after all!) and my hunch is: zip through a mega-fast re-read of books 1-4, ignore Order of the Fuck, ignore fanon, cheerfully forge ahead with own completely lunatic version of HP-verse.
Any thoughtlets???