oddest recent search string that brought someone to my website:

how to get black guys to take their gang rags off lose the cornrows and pull their pants up

I wonder how long that person stayed to look at my fic.

Dude, you know I got your back. Plus, I suspect that I'll be going with the My Brain Has Been Devoured by Anime/Manga/Comics Ask Me How look, myself.

My mind went to a horrible cosplay place...

I know there were words here, but after "Kerr Avon" I sort of lost focus.

Mmmmmm, Avon...

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...damn, I know I came here for something. Er. Right! Yes.

I have to rec Zahra (HackThis)'s fabulous almost-finished WIP Trade.

It's an Alias/HP slash AU, in which Draco Malfoy runs an escort service. Sounds crap? Yeah. It really, really, REALLY isn't. This is one of my very favourite stories to date in any fandom. Now a big part of it is that it's so very very very London. Zahra lived in London for several years, and it very much shows - London is practically a character in its own right. The mass of detail wrt brand names and suchlike may not be everyone's cup of tea, but it really works for me. Outwith the London thing, though? This is just FUN. I love the characters as written, I'm totally tickled by the juxtaposition of JKR's characters into a non-magical 'verse and the way she's woven the Alias 'verse into it, and the slashy goodness is splendid.

I'm loving this. Really. Go & check it out. It's FUN.

Fay, you got me hooked on it, and now there are these two monstrous final chapter-halves, and I should be working! And also I'm a little sulky because I find it difficult to root for the Draco/Blaise when there's a Harry in the picture. Because I am that annoying with my favorites.

My mind went to a horrible cosplay place...

That's funny, especially since a friend wants me to dress up as Lust for Dragon*Con this year.

Aw, crap. I thought they were final, but alas! There is one more chapter still to go, which means I must wait! Not a skill at which I excel.

My Brain Has Been Devoured by Anime/Manga/Comics Ask Me How

Huh. Aside from FMA, which anime/manga have you been following?

Well, shit, Shrift, she's practically dressing as you.

Emily - I know, it's a bitch that it's not the last chapter. Another week to wait. For my part, though, I'm totally sucked into the pairing that you mentioned. I'm enjoying the whole element of the, er, other chap, but I'm evidently a sucker for this whole long-time-brewing business. Er. Yes.

There is that. And also, the so-sexiness. I'm made a little nervous, though, by how totally at the mercy of events Draco seems to be throughout (I don't think that's a spoiler). He keeps reacting rather than acting, and at this point I'm half-expecting... well. More surprises.

Oh, and plus part of the problem is that I'm having trouble visualizing the other chap.

Er, or possibly the non-other chap. I can't quite tell which one you mean. Regardless, the one which I would, for obvious reasons, have trouble visualizing, as his gender wasn't even semi-canonically established until recently!

I have to rec Zahra (HackThis)'s fabulous almost-finished WIP Trade.

Fay, would I like this even if I've never seen Alias?