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Friends who love the Hermione Granger/Severus Snape pairing, please take a moment to head over to this page and vote for our OTP!

http://het-reccers.livejournal.com/704071.html

You don't have to be a member of the community, but you do have to be logged in.

Thanks!

Weasley pointed west. ‘What star's that?’

Miss Granger sighed. ‘That’s the planet Venus.’

‘Oh,’ Weasley muttered. He pointed again. ‘What about that one?’

‘The … moving one?’

‘Yeah.’

‘There’s a reason we call the stars “fixed,” Ron. That’s a satellite.’ Granger stomped towards the stairs. ‘Why don’t I get the star book by the bloke who wrote Curious George for you so I don’t have to spend all night up here? Next you’ll be calling Orion's Belt a constellation!’

The ginger gonk scarpered after her.

Severus smirked. He’d stop by Aurora’s office and suggest an impromptu quiz for the fifth-years tomorrow.

Last night, I signed on for five minutes to check e-mail and stuff before going out, and I saw that there were three new reviews for Babble. Suspicious, I checked out hermione_owl.

*smirks* You made my day, Professor Granger.

Also, congratulations to the winners and runners-up at the sshg_awards! Results are here: http://community.livejournal.com/sshg_awards/33422.html

Meeting Frederick got runner-up in the best short category. Thanks, everyone!

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Bad headache this morning, but it's my own fault. Phil took me to a Christmas dinner at church, and then we zoomed out to Palos Verdes Estates (posh!) to participate in a play reading. His buddies and their buddies get together and read a play once a month. They just read it, which gives the pleasure of performing for each other without all the time and effort of memorization and blocking and rehearsal and all that. We missed dinner but got there just in time for the reading. And, joy upon joy, it was Oscar Wilde's The Importance of Being Earnest! I played Miss Prism, and Phil was assigned the vicar (I forget his last name) as well as Lane (Algernon's servant). Everyone sniggered because Miss Prism fancies the curate, so it's appropriate casting in this case. But Phil was very good, especially as Lane; he reminded me of Stephen Fry as Jeeves, with his very smooth and even intonation. I'd only seen the movie once about five years ago and never read it, and the dialogue reminded me of Wodehouse. (No surprise there.)

It was my first reading, and I hope I'll be invited back because they're tackling A Midsummer Night's Dream next month! That may be my only chance to perform Shakespeare.

The nominations for the sshg_awards close in just a few days! The lovedraughts mods have kept a master list of everyone who's pimped their own fics on their LJs here (my own list is here, but I'm sure the LD mods have been much more thorough).

Rules and nominations can be made here, but please don't wait until Sunday night, since Shug and the other Awards mods have to manually type everything into a spreadsheet.

Happy reading!

I'm in the mountains till Sunday night, so if anyone sees an author post about their stories that are eligible for the sshg_awards and you have a moment, please comment somewhere on my journal with the URL so I can update my list when I get back.

Thanks, loves, and have a good weekend!

This isn't comprehensive on its own, but between my friends list and harmony_bites's posts, it should be cover quite a few of the bases for who and what is eligible in this round of the sshg_awards. I'm lazy, so I won't be sorting out which authors and fics are eligible for what categories; if the authors haven't done so themselves, then you need to do it.

If I'm missing someone's list of their eligible fics, please comment with a URL so I can include them. Also, I'll be out of town from 2-4 October, but I'll update Monday night. I will keep this updated as more eligible authors pimp their stuff, so keep watching!

dreamy_dragon73 reminded me that every fic in the Winter 2008 round of the sshg_exchange is eligible for this round of the Awards. The master/reveal list is here, and most of the authors have uploaded their fics to other archives, so keep an eye out for the stories you loved in the Exchange!

Harmony gets to be first because she's advertising not only her stuff but others' as well:

http://harmony-bites.livejournal.com/126441.html

Everyone else, including me, is in alphabetical order:

http://annietalbot.livejournal.com/98339.html

http://anonymous-plume.livejournal.com/32211.html

http://ariadne1.livejournal.com/562890.html and http://ariadne1.livejournal.com/569930.html

http://averygoodun.livejournal.com/435425.html

http://ayerf.livejournal.com/135007.html

http://bluestocking79.livejournal.com/130406.html

http://camillo1978.livejournal.com/122489.html

http://celisnebula.livejournal.com/260946.html

http://cflower3.livejournal.com/20029.html

http://darnedchild.livejournal.com/21667.html

Deeble

http://dickgloucester.livejournal.com/257715.html

http://dreamy-dragon73.livejournal.com/75177.html

http://dressagegrrrl.livejournal.com/258814.html

http://elise-wanderer.livejournal.com/35656.html

http://ferporcel.livejournal.com/85310.html

http://firefly-124.livejournal.com/615506.html

http://grrangerous.livejournal.com/5714.html

http://hogwarts-91.livejournal.com/28933.html

http://iamstarmom.livejournal.com/21182.html

http://imhilien.livejournal.com/69584.html

http://juniperus.livejournal.com/846775.html

http://keladry-lupin.livejournal.com/635487.html

http://kribu.livejournal.com/160775.html

http://lady-rhian.livejournal.com/135356.html

http://leakywitch.livejournal.com/25569.html

http://lulabelle72.livejournal.com/53464.html

http://luvsev.livejournal.com/36943.html

http://machshefa.livejournal.com/44946.html

http://madeleone.livejournal.com/13836.html

http://melusin-79.livejournal.com/132727.html

http://miamadwyn.livejournal.com/229290.html

http://mundungus42.livejournal.com/226236.html

mw48

http://persevero.livejournal.com/94375.html

http://pyjamapants.livejournal.com/48952.html

http://savine-snape.livejournal.com/348087.html

http://sbrande.livejournal.com/184372.html

http://sc010f.livejournal.com/137019.html

http://septentrion1970.livejournal.com/200221.html

http://severely-lupine.livejournal.com/68595.html and http://severely-lupine.livejournal.com/68619.html

http://somigliana.livejournal.com/240063.html

http://sshg316.livejournal.com/196509.html

http://subvers.livejournal.com/354719.html

http://tamatersweet.livejournal.com/80569.html

http://tonksinger.livejournal.com/42395.html

http://voxangelus.livejournal.com/98780.html

http://wonderfulwrites.livejournal.com/170057.html

http://writermerrin.livejournal.com/14096.html

Nomination post, with links to the rules and categories for this round: http://community.livejournal.com/sshg_awards/27562.html

lovedraughts has a list or three like this going too, and theirs is/are probably more complete since my laptop died. Their master list is here.

* This entry is friends locked, but I'm putting it here anyway so you know this author wrote something eligible for this round of the awards.

I'll be pimping it on the hgss_digest tonight (if my mother doesn't kill me first), but for those of you not following that community, I'm reccing it here, too. Go read Grangerous' Heartbeat this instant, please.

Summary: Snarky Snape and grumpy Granger have a case to solve for their work at the Department of Magical Law Enforcement. A story written for Lady Karelia, and filled with the things she loves: romance, music, cheese and dinner parties.

Rated PG. Romantic action/adventure. It's brilliant and fun and unexpectedly sweet, and complete in one chapter.

The mods at SH have chosen Meeting Frederick as a featured story for the month of May! Thank you!

I also want to recommend another of the featured fics. I don't know how I missed it in January, but Snapshots is a beautiful one shot.

In an effort to be more thorough when I do my recs at the Digest, I recently bookmarked a few non-big-three archives, including the HG/SS category at aff.net. My first visit there, I found a fic that caught my attention; I liked it, and I wanted to see what was coming next. Chapter two was gripping and diabolical, chapter three told of a Gryffindor getting revenge in a manner that a Slytherin approved of, and the rest has been hurt/comfort, which you know I adore. Put a fragile but tenacious Hermione with an unabashedly sexy Severus, and sparks will fly, so even though I recced it at the Digest last night, I'm reccing anonymous_plume's fic Above All Things here today.

I'd also like you to join me in welcoming her to LiveJournal, since she started her blog here just a few days ago. Please meander over and say hi to Nom de Plume, aka anonymous_plume!

From caeria's Pet Project:


All Through the Night by ~Keladry-Lupin on deviantART

I've been wanting to draw this since I first read chapter twelve where Hermione sings the spell to make the sheet for Professor Snape. Took me a while, but I finally got around to it!

(Its title on DeviantArt is All Through the Night, but that's only because I My Loved One's Watch Am Keeping is too long, according to them.)

( Scraps under the cut for anyone who's interested. )