Productivity, or Procrastination?

[featherxquill]

So tonight I updated my fic masterlist - expanded the 'fanfic100 prompt table link' because it meant nothing was visible, and also, wtf, there is no way I am ever going to finish that. 100 fics sounds easy until you actually start writing them. This was possibly me being productive, but also possibly me procrastinating the story I'm trying to write right now. Dear fic, this was meant to be an easy little thing to keep my brain amused so it didn't start writing my minerva_fest fic three months in advance and then go insane waiting for posting to happen. You have no business being so lazy and hard. Please get easier, because you are so far possibly awesome, even though you are only, like, 2 pages, and the second half of the pairing is off somewhere trying on satin blouses or something and hasn't even shown up yet. I am determined to make you work, so please Get On With It, because I would like to start aforementioned fest fic in early July, since I forsee it growing a mind of its own and being epic. Kthx, Me.

Anyway, yes. So AFTER messing around with my fic list, I went and updated the Rita Skeeter Masterlist, which was desperately in need of it. I reorganised it a little, too. Gen is at the top, then humour/crack, pairing in alphabetical order of character where there are at least two stories, Other Pairings, Art, and then dead links sitting all sad at the bottom.

I think I got everything? I am uncertain, because there were a few months there where I failed to read my flist, like, at all, but people do tend to poke me in the direction of Rita fics when they're posted. Still, if you know of anything that I've left off, please let me know? Also, if there are any more dead links I didn't catch, or invisible b0rked coding? Or if you know of somewhere I can find any of the listed dead links? (FYI, I think - I HOPE - FictionAlley is just down. It's coming back, right?)

Conclusions I have come to from updating the list. The world needs Rita/Xeno, more Rita/Bellatrix (either fem or fucked up schoolgirl friendship, or both), more Rita/Minerva because they are AWESOME, more Rita/Rufus for the same reason, and also I have written so many weird and wonderful pairings.

Bring on the DH promo pics! I hope there'll be a Rita Renaissance!

Comments

[kellychambliss.livejournal.com]

I call this productivity, definitely. (Because I have several fics to write, too, and I think that first updating my LJ and my AO3 account will be just the way to start.)

The Rita list is fabulous; thank you! I have just a couple suggestions --

--There's a typo in your name for "Beetle Dreams." (And it's one fine story, I might add. I thought I remembered commenting on this a while back, but I don't seem to have. Just excellent.)
--Cranky Crocus's story "The Madmen..." is actually Rita/Irma, not Rita/Luna.
--Miss Morland eventually gave her Rita/Minerva "ficlet" a title: "It Takes Two" (can't find the link to it, though)

Looking forward to reading so many of these.

[featherxquill.livejournal.com]

Haha, *facepalm* on the errors. Especially Cranky Crocus' story, since it was my Beholder gift. Maybe that was a Freudian slip, or something. I seem to expect her to have written Rita/Luna, or write it some time *g*.

And you probably did review Beetle Dreams. I tend to crosspost everywhere rather than linking back to the same entry, so reviews end up all over the place (not actually that awesome, really, when you fancy a bit of an ego-boost while writing a fic that hates you, and want to go back and see that actually look I can write something people enjoy which is why I'm trying to get into the habit of linking back). Either way, though: ♥!

I hope you enjoy the reading, and I especially recommend you check out lilth_morgana's Rita/Minerva, because she is amazing.

[kellychambliss.livejournal.com]

I was lucky enough to find those Lilith Morgana stories a while ago -- they are amazing. Mad!Minerva FTW!

[pale-moonlite.livejournal.com]

That's an impressive resource! I love Rita, and I'm looking forward to read more fic about her.

I can so relate to your writing difficulties. I'm also desperately trying to finish a fic to be able to start with my minerva_fest one. At least you used your procrastination time to do something really useful.

[featherxquill.livejournal.com]

Only last night. Just as often I find myself playing games of Purble Palace, which, what, really? I'm absolutely certain Microsoft designed that tryptich of games for people under the age of twelve.

[therealsnape.livejournal.com]

Great list. If I hadn't several deadlines of my own, I'd be off like a hare.

Now I'm going to add this post to bookmarks.

[featherxquill.livejournal.com]

Have you read much Rita/Snape? Because if not, you need to *g*.

[magic-at-mungos.livejournal.com]

FA is having a crappy time with the server and the tech bods are on it.

[tetleythesecond]

Procrastination? No way! Thank you for this list; I'll bookmark it right away. After all, a nice bout of OMG-this-is-so-much-better-than-anything-I can-do-induced paralysis would at least give me some excuse for my current fic-writing inactivity. (I think I have a plot for the Minerva Fest, but I have another deadline before that. And that one is slowly beginning to worry me.)