Prompt-Pick! and Recs

This week has been one of the busiest in recent memory -- we had our annual poetry festival, several job candidates, a three-hour faculty meeting, and on and on. But a lot of it was fun, even if it's meant that my on-line time has been minimal. I have several administrative things to do this afternoon, but then the weekend should be gloriously free. . .

. . .Just in time for all sorts of interesting things. Namely --

Prompt-claiming has begun for minerva_fest! Please go here to claim one of 107 (that's right, 107!) fascinating prompts. Indecisive waffler that I am, I still haven't picked mine. But there are plenty left. Do consider claiming one, if you haven't already. You have until September 1 to complete your entry. (Claiming is open until April 30).

hp_beholder got off to a smashing start yesterday with two excellent pieces: Trelawney/X Lovegood art that features a Sybill that even I, notorious Sybill-hater, find really appealing. It's a pairing I never would have thought of, and yet, now that someone else thought of it for me, it seems completely right and inevitable. (I had the same experience reading Snape/Flitwick in last year's Beholder: I'd never considered them together, but once I read the two excellent stories, I was sold.)

And the opening fic at Beholder is also excellent: Called Never Hearts and Flowers, it features another unusual-yet-perfect pairing in Alastor Moody/Rufus Scrimgeour. The characterizations are utterly convincing to me. It's beautifully-written, dense and moving and shot through with humor and insight.

So far at least, Beholder's position as the best fest out there remains assured.

And springtime_gen starts tomorrow.