Fests and Fics

After hem-hemming and hawing over fest sign-ups, I decided to forego hp_rarities and sign up for springtime_gen instead. I still have yet to see more than one prompt at Rarities that compels me, while Springtime Gen is loaded with them. True, I won't be writing hot sex scenes for a gen fic, but my favorite older women won't go without; I'll write other stories for them and build in plenty of orgasmic fun and angst.

For instance -- I have started a McGonagall/Grubbly-Plank for tetleythesecond, who paid such a generous amount for on my auction at help_haiti. Thank you!! (My thanks go as well to the other kind bidders, perverse_idyll and miss_morland.) Miss M's prompt may yet see the light of day: she asked for Mary Bennet femmeslash, and if ever a character deserved a fanfic of her own, it's "plain" Mary, she who never met a trite, ponderous thought she didn't love and yet who managed to make a niche for herself among her pretty sisters. I was going to write Pride and Prejudice femmeslash for my partner for Christmas and never did, slacker that I am. But I do feel the need for some Austen-fic.

Despite my various tech problems with the help_haiti auction, I still ended up a winner, first of a piece of art by jin_fenghuang and then of a story by bethbethbeth. Beth generously offered to write for me even though I posted my bid to the wrong place, and she contacted someone else as the winner (and matched their donation to boot.) So now she is writing and matching for both of us, which is far beyond her call of duty. Not wanting to be predictable, I've asked her for Snape/McGonagall, and I've asked Jin for Minerva by herself or with Snape or with Hooch (I can't decide, so I'm letting the buck stop with Jin).

Non-fannish news: I think the dread day is coming when I'll have to buy a new car; my formerly trusty 12-year-old Toyota is showing signs of auto Alzheimer's. I'll look into hybrids, I think. Car payments. Can't wait.