Je panse donc j'essuie

Jan. 23rd, 2027 06:48 pm Introductory post

(post-dated comment: the real date is January 23rd, 2007.)

This is a (mostly) friends-only journal.

(cue balloons of various colours and sparkly thingies to sound less unfriendly).

My fics are posted publicly, but I am otherwise somewhat reluctant to expose what remains essentially a diary for the whole world to see. I you want to read it, friend me, comment here or on another one of the public posts and you will be added, one never has too many friends :)

Thank you all so much. It made my week.

I'm behind as usual and came too late to reciprocate - can I offer drabbles instead? Leave a prompt/pairing and I'll see what I can do. (though there might be some delay in answering)

I am now able to thank eeyore9990 for the lovely Standard Operating Procedure. Thank you!

And I'll own up to The Best Laid Plans.

Now, to catch up with everyone's fics and art...

This wouldn't be complete without a big thank you to the mods for organising all this.

Is coming back home tired to a wonderful fic. Auror!Hermione has to protect a very snarky Severus, and I won't begin to describe what happens in Ministry lifts because this blog is deemed unsuitable for minors as it is. Go, read, review! It's a wonderful gem of a fic.

The fic I wrote for the sshg_exchange, Letter Of Mercy One Sunny Morning has been translated into Russian by magratt and can be found here. Thank you, Magratt!

It's just to say it has been suggested not to post anything on LJ this Friday (GMT) - no entries, no comments, nothing - to protest against LJ banning search interests and basic account creations. More details here.

shiv5468 has a handy list of things to know and do when moving to another blog service.

I'm not sure other blog services won't turn out like LJ eventually though. Anyway.

And to top it all dacian_goddess has found a way to get rid of the annoying little insane!faces before the usernames at insanejournal. *happy* Check out my latest entry over there for the code.

I don't like LJ putting in place LJ-cuts that override my own and thus don't let the reader make an informed choice about reading material. I talk of spoilers, TMI, and porn - you might be OK with the one of these and not with the others, and I don't want anyone to be made to read something they don't want because of their very natural curiosity. I know I can rate my journal to "kiddie-safe" and thus get rid of the cuts, but there's not much point in doing that when LJ is trying to make us behave like responsible adults, is there?

But the breaking point was the flagging button. A community where delation is encouraged or even supported is no place I want to be in. It just... squicks me I guess.

So I'm doing what reactionaries world-wide do and emigrated to a world that resembles what LJ "used to be" before it "went to the dogs" (why yes I love tropes).

You can find me at http://foudebassan.insanejournal.com/

I'm having a housewarming drabble party here - want to come over for a drink and some porn?

I'll go on flocking a lot. If you can spare the time, I'd love you to create an account over there as well so that you can read the locked posts too (Here's a linky to start a journal, it's free and you get a lot more icons than at LJ).

The wonderful cosmo_jenny went to the trouble of creating a syndicated feed to LJ; as I understand it, if you friend it you get a link to my posts on LJ. It is here: http://syndicated.livejournal.com/foudebassan_ij/

Of course I'll go on reading your entries here :)

I promised Padmoony a couple of links and thought I might as well do so publicly.

Novel-length: can't be read all at once, is long enough for several comfy evenings
Novella: anything longer than a single LJ entry, that can be read in one sitting
Short fic: one LJ entry

Comedy: you'll spew tea on the keyboard
Funny: you'll laugh aloud
Dramatic: lots of action
Dark: no fluffly bunnies in sight
Angsty: someone dies

WARNING: I'm telling you whether there's a happy ending or not, don't read further if you don't want to be spoiled that way


( Without further ado, in no particular orderCollapse )

ETA: this list is more likely to be updated over at Insane Journal (same username) than here.

I've just understood why it is that men buy stupid cars just because there were half-nekkid ladies leaning over them in the advertisement.

http://www.giftforthegirls.com/

by Scholastique Mukasonga

Is the best birthday!book I've read so far, and I might as well begin with saying I recommend it.

( SpoilersCollapse )This makes for some salutary reading matter in the light of Mr. Sarkozy's tone when addressing Africa, "en la tutoyant". I would rather not part with my own copy of the book, but you could do a lot worse than asking you local library to purchase it.