The Light Of Daye

Day 2 was to talk to someone new and thanks to comments on journals for snowflake I've done that.

( Day 3 under the cut )

Snowflake Challenge 10 was to talk about a fandom person who inspired me and 11 is to give some resources. Well I don't have any resource to link and I should hope my fandom friends know who they are and how much I appreciate them.


So on a completely different topic would you like to see what one of my fics looks like... in Russian?

Someone asked to translate my Daphne & Astoria and Harry/Daphne centric fic "Mirrors and Opposites" into Russian.

Check it out if you like!

I don't speak russian but it's still a cool thing. :)

Challenge #8

Rec at least three fanworks that you didn’t create.

Doing something a little different, as I mentioned in my goals, I've not read much this year and need to read more. I have used my tumblr slightly more this year. So, here's one art, one fic and one meta rec. The art and meta are new to me and the fic is a classic.

( Recs! Get yo recs: Art, fic and Meta )

In your own space, make a list of things that you wish existed in fandom or elsewhere, or that you'd like someone to make for you.

So fandom wishlist?
( blather under the cut )

Challenge #3

Pimp Your Favourite Communities, Fests or Challenges!

( Various HP Comms )
So that’s the run down. I may have missed something, but hopefully these are the big ones.

Day 15

Talk about why you participated in Snowflake &/or what you got out of it. Leave a comment in this post saying you did it. Include a link to your post if you feel comfortable doing so.

Well the why, I've alluded to a few times. I was feeling a bit down and disillusioned with fandom at the end of last year and this has helped me worked through things and think about them, I don't think I'm fully there yet so it's a work in progress.

I did managed to most of them! Something like 12/15 in the end.

I do like fandom and what the continue reading and writing and reviewing and taking part. I've just got to find a time and a balance with it.

Thanks to everyone who have read and/or commented on my posts this last two weeks.

Was away over the weekend and also not good at challenges. Slightly sad my journal went without a post yesterday but there will be plenty more days like that so...

Day 13

In your own space, set some goals for the coming year. They can be fannish or not, public or private. Leave a comment in this post saying you did it. Include a link to your post if you feel comfortable doing so.

( Day 13 )

Day 8
In your own space, post self-recs for at least three fanworks that you created. Leave a comment in this post saying you did it. Include a link to your post if you feel comfortable doing so.


Reccing yourself is hard. Especially looking at the fics, I've written since the last time I did self-recs last year. I write for myself, and I am not good at typing and editing, most of my stuff is short stuff that I don't get beta-ed. So without false modesty, or fishing for compliments this is not great stuff.

With that massive caveat in mind here are three (3) fics for you:
( Self-Recs under the cut )

Day 2

Rec at least three fanworks that you didn’t create. Leave a comment in this post saying you did it. Include a link to your post if you feel comfortable doing so.


Well the first two are the ones I have book marked on A03.

It Could Only Happen To Harry by Hoosyourdaddy This is from years and years ago when I first read it on AFF. A fun, tongue in cheek, Harem style fic. In an AU post OotS Harry is found to have excess magic after defeating lord Voldemort, which can be donated to friends via a sex ritual. Fleur, Tonks, Parvati, Luna and Hermione are enlisted to help out.

It's silly and it knows it but it does also included so nice characterisation and fun interactions as well as sex, you do have to be able to overlook quite a lot of Weasley bashing though.

I only recently found it on Ao3 and saw that it had been finished. So I need to re-read it, myself and hope it lives up to my memory.
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Stick Situation by MegaMatt09 This is a guilty pleasure fic. It's Spider-Man with virtually every Marvel or DC character in existence in PWP basically unconnected chapter. It's pure male fantasy smut, every girl drools over Spidey, he's amazing talented and hung etc. MegaMatt writes like a machine and publishes frequently, has like 50 chapters in a queue. This is not something I'd binge read but it is something I check the chapter list when it updates to see just which obscure character he's used this time.

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Saving the Best for last:
(En)Tangled by torino10154 . This is cheating because it was written to my request of Harry/Parvati and 'hair kink' which Torino did her usual excellent job on. A quick 150 words that establishes Harry's attraction vividly and then is immensely creative it's use of the prompt. Can never thank Torino enough for writing my random rare pairs and kinks.