FWIW, being the mother of a [eight-legged!] horse was rather humiliating to Loki. He did it because he'd persuaded the gods to make this deal, expecting never to have to pay up, and then discovered they might indeed have to pay up, and distracting the other guy's horse was the best way to break the deal he could think of. (It worked.)

So, not just gay sex and mpreg; bestiality, too.

Go Team Vikings.

I didn't see this referenced here. There's a nice interview on NPR a few days back by Margot Adler. She talks to a number of HP writers, particularly the Sugarquill gang.

It's quite good and sympathetic and stuff. I like Margot Adler.

You can go to npr.org, search on Harry Potter, and it'll come right up. You need RealPlayer to hear it.

Margot Adler went to Clarion -- probably the premier SF writing workshop. So she has fannish/genre roots aplenty.

Is that Clarion, as in Clarion, PA? I graduated from Clarion University of PA when it was still Clarion State College.

I believe it's named after Clarion but it's actually held in Michigan at present. (I went to Clarion West, in Seattle, hence I've not paid nearly enough attention to the history and present set up of the other one.)

Yeah, I think it started at my alma mater, but the place lacked the cool to keep it. They still talked about it, though.

Does anyone know of any bit LoTR-fic archives?

t edit I mean big. Or semi-big.

That would be a non-hobbit-including archive, right? t running away quickly

I linked to one in Natter. Let me see if I still have the link open.