Interrogation Meme and Niffle Recs

[kennahijja]

Ah, the Interrogation Meme... If you want to grill me, grill me here ;).
Your fellow Livejournalers will get to ask something that they've always wanted to know about you (no limitations, really). It can be something completely random, or something they've been too scared to ask for a while now. Whatever it is, you have to answer.

And I've been picked as a lucky Senior Niffler for FA a while back (i.e. those who do a bit of reccing while the regular Nifflers do the full workload). Here's a list of my first five picks:

The Symmetry of Absence by balfrog [R, slash, Snape/Draco/Harry] --> Niffle (rec)
Patron - Saint by underlucius [R, slash, Regulus/Lucius] --> Niffle (rec)
Kailash, When It Rises by mirasfic [PG, preslash, Harry/Draco] --> Niffle (rec)
A Spirit of Brotherhood by flambeau [PG, gen, Snape, Remus, Sirius] --> Niffle (rec)
The Tao of Job by mad_maudlin [R, slash, Percy/Harry] --> Niffle (rec)

*rushes off in search of cool het/gen fic, and to finish betaing*

Comments

[gunderpants.livejournal.com]

I wrote gen/het, alas it falls out of the category of 'cool'. It does, however, fall into the category of 'literary abomination which manages to be an insult to all of humanity'.

[kennahijja.livejournal.com]

Nah - *that* would be on Summary Executions level! ;). Yours is lotsof fun. And... *het*...
*makes note for another reading spree*

[gunderpants.livejournal.com]

The plus side of my het: little to no fluff.
The negative side of my het: well... none of it actually has a storyline. Or accurate characterisation. Hell, most of the time I mispelled the title.

oy and rec!

[gunderpants.livejournal.com]

For a good genfic, there was that one where the Australian prime minister applied to be a death eater. I think it was fee absinthe's fic. That one needs to be niffled, if it hasn't already.

Re: oy and rec!

[kennahijja.livejournal.com]

Yes, I *know*! But I've got a regular mutual beta thing going with the author :(. That would've been one of my first picks otherwise ;).

Re: oy and rec!

[gunderpants.livejournal.com]

God I hate that. Because I would have recced my old beta like that. She was fucking marvellous. I wish I could find her now, I think she's left fandom.

Re: oy and rec!

[kennahijja.livejournal.com]

Did she leave her fic?

Re: oy and rec!

[gunderpants.livejournal.com]

A few of them: she took a lot of the ones that were just plain hilarious. The ones still at FFN are pretty funny in their own dry little way. Alas, they are very short.

[ex-ella-bane358.livejournal.com]

Oh, I love Symmetry of Absence -- great choice. :D

[kennahijja.livejournal.com]

It's just lovely, yes! Glad you agree :).

[mad_maudlin]

Aw! ::is touched by the niffle::

[kennahijja.livejournal.com]

Aw, thanks - was touched by the fic!

[pushdragon.livejournal.com]

Senior Niffler! Congratulations.

I choose to interrogate you here. And my questions are:

1. Why don't you write Snape *really*?

2. Aren't you just slightly tempted to write Malfoycest?

3. Have you written HP fic in a language other than English? If not, how come?

4. What are you vain about (surely everyone has somethng ...)?

5. How do you like your coffee?

[kennahijja.livejournal.com]

Thanks :).

1. I can't, *really* :). I don't manage to crawl into his headspace, and don't know where his loyalties lie, and what his motivations and real feelings are. Even when I show him from the outside, I either make him too nice (Art of War, Adoration) or too evil (But Not Forgotten, No Desert). I love how he can be interpreted so differently, but I need a 'core' to write someone's PoV...

2. Not much... they're too alike, and I need more conflict in my pairings... I could imagine Malfoycest involving a third party, though :).

3. Nope. My German writing style is atrocious. Ok, my English one is nothing to write home about either, but at least it's recognisable as a style.

4. If anything, than my fics :). If that qualifies as 'vain'?

5. Medium-strong, hand-brewed with a sprinkle of cinnamon if I'm in the mood, with milk and no sugar on pain of death ;).

[kennahijja.livejournal.com]

PS and very small:
If I had a H/D smut piece with a mid-May deadline to wave around at the end of April/very early May, might you be interested in beta-reading?