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[sophinisba]

How cool was yesterday, f-list?

Not only all the fabulously graphic birthday fics for lilybaggins but also all the beautiful pics and birthday messages for Elijah made me crazy happy. You'll all have read it already, but why not read it again? aprilkat's post says why I love that boy and all of you so much.

Also posted yesterday, though I just saw the link to it a few minutes ago, an upbeat essay about fanfic communities and feminism. schemingreader is a Harry Potter fan, but it all applies. [Edit: Oooh, and another one, on slash! Haven't read it yet but I'm sure it'll be good.]

Oooh, and Zeke/Casey fans who don't keep up with the hobbit fic may have missed abby_normal's fic for conniemarie's birthday Friday, featuring Casey Connor as a healthy, confident, and somewhat snarky college student who writhes and curses when Zeke Tyler's mouth is on him. Lovely and loving (but also snarky!) Zeke POV. Food For... Thought. [Another edit: reposted on jacked_up with comments enabled, here.]

Comments

[claudia603.livejournal.com]

♥ everyone! All those birthday fics were really just lovely...made my weekend!

[sophinisba]

I was online all day Saturday and I still didn't get to all of them. It was awesome.

I do think you might enjoy those essays, which are friendly and make sense despite having some academic language. The second one talks about the appeal of mpreg and other situations where a male character is feminized, and she doesn't put it down at all the way some folks do.

[claudia603.livejournal.com]

I need to go back and read these! Thank you! :-)

[mews1945.livejournal.com]

I'd read all the fics except one by Saklani2 that I somehow missed, but Lily linked to it in her post. Lots of good stuff.

[sophinisba]

There was so much! And not only the fics for Lily but new chapters of elfellon111's Greek fic and claudia603's Viggo/Elijah and much more. I had a really great time.

[mews1945.livejournal.com]

This was the best weekend for Fic we've had in a long time.