penelope_z: a tribute

Penelope_Z is leaving me. I am taking this terribly personally. I love her dearly and she is going to work somewhere with dubious internet facilities and I will miss her.

I archived her fics today, and now I am reading over them. I suggest you all do the same and visit her new site. I shall now wax complimentary.

From The Seasons: When Professor Binns was mumbling endlessly about Troll Wars to the dazed classroom I used to point my wand at you, hidden under my robes and whisper the Aveda Kedavra. Countless times. I never told you that before and I’m only doing it now cause you can’t hear.

It wasn’t just about envy you know, it wasn’t just about possession.

It wasn’t just desire.

Only you were magic Harry, the rest were all cheap tricks.

*weeps* I love this fic so much. Oh god. I read it just now and it brought tears to my eyes. Oh P-Z. Whatever will I do without you? How will I go on?

from Your Morpheus:You name a place-I’ve fallen asleep there. In Quidditch fields, leaving trains and waiting rooms. Once in a tub of stone cold water and once in the crook of your arm.

Everyone probably already knows that I love this fic enough to have parodied it. God I love this fic. I really do. I love, therefore I tease.

*sighs heavily* must go organize some data now. more later.

Poetry Thingy

Me and luciusmalfoy have been doing this poetry round robin thing. It's very fun, even though I know very well that she's a much better poet than me. I'm not sure she knows it, though, she keeps trying to convince me that she's not a poet. She says she just writes poetry when she's too lazy to write a fic. Poems being so much shorter.

http://veela-inc.net/dialogia

I'm a bit stuck on my response. Her Draco has me confused. What does he want? penelope_z says that he wants to win, but what does winning look like? It's so much easier to deal with Draco when he's, like, my character and I can jump into his head and play with his thoughts. With lib it's like...Well. It's a mystery!

Oh, no idea where In Dialogia is going. No idea at all. We're just riffing off each other's poetry.

It's damn fun.

So my domain name is up and running. Oh yes. http://veela-inc.net is my new little pride and joy. I put up a site for penelope_z on it, because ff.net is down and she doesn't have a webpage. You can see it here. I'm going to put one up for Olympia as well as soon as she sends me her fics and possibly a pic or something. luciusmalfoy has a new website as well, but not much is going to happen over there (http://libertine.veela-inc.net) until she gets her butt online and does something with it. (I did her splash page, though.)

The round robin is going along nicely, though I have no idea who's next. If anyone wants to go, just email me or post or shout. Wheeee!

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I heart Libertine.

*weeps*

I'm having a cry over the most recent poem in our poem fest. (You can see it here. Weep with me.)

When I first read it I thought it was very cynical, and I feel like Draco is making fun of Harry. Well, Draco is making fun of Harry. Grrr. But it's also very tender, I think. It took me a bit to see that.

So now I'm having a cry over this part:

There's other options. Know that I can always write
this over, in any dialect you'd prefer -- reworking rhyme
and rhythm until it comes closer to the desire... you desire.
No skin off my nose. Pick me apart in prose,
with your unravelling spools of emotivist ideology:
phrase word topic expression name idea belief
-- and all the while I'm telling you I'm right here;
I'm right here and it still smells like flowers to me.

*weeps again*

luciusmalfoy! Get your arse online so I can whine at you about it.