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Dec. 5th, 2004 08:07 pm![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
kennahijjaThere was a minor earthquake last night around 3am, which shook the computer and scared the cat quite a bit.
My Niffler term is at an end, which is a good thing because it's been quite a bit of work, and a bad thing because it was great fun. Although I was slow at the beginning, I managed to finish with 16 recs for four months, one per week, *phew*.
Did a table with a breakdown according to characters and genres and so on, should anybody be interested:
Title -- Author -- Rating -- Protagonist(s) -- Genre
The Five Steps -- ari -- PG -- Harry, Remus -- gen
Blood Will Tell -- Harloprillalar -- R -- Sirius/Lucius -- slash
A Half a Conquest -- Arkady -- R -- Tom/Albus -- slash
Fantastic Beasts: a Book Review -- Mary Borsellino -- PG -- Sirius -- gen
Fractured Triangle -- Fyre -- R -- Hermione/Lucius, trio -- het
Over Tea -- Dementordelta -- R -- Harry/Snape, Minerva -- slash
Take Up Serpents -- Rusalka -- PG-13 -- Tom -- gen
Welcome to the Dollhouse -- Lilith Morgana -- R -- Snape -- gen
Surprise -- Xandria -- R -- Harry/Lucius -- slash
Blood Magic -- GatewayGirl -- -- R -- Harry, Snape -- gen/het/slash
Midnight Conversations -- Thistlerose -- R -- MWPP, Lily -- slash/het
Out of the Bag -- Bernice Russell -- G -- Snape, Minerva -- gen
Once Upon a Time, in Egypt -- Josan -- PG-13 -- Snape, Bill -- gen
Fidelius/Secret Keeper -- tradescant -- R -- Harry/Snape -- slash
World's End -- bruno -- PG-13 -- Voldemort, Snape -- gen
To Serve a Purpose -- Dark Twin -- R -- Remus/Sirius -- slash
I knew three of the authors I niffled, got to know three more after stumbling over the fic niffled, exchanged a review with another, and don't know the other nine.
Seven Snapefics out of 16 was *definitely* too much, but there suddenly seemed to be far too many good ones floating around...
Nine angst fics and ten R-Ratings is a lot, too, but heck, that's my kind of thing.
I'm proud of reccing as many gen as slash fics, and really should have looked into more het!
And I feel kind of guilty for not Niffling even one H/D fic, and nothing at all Draco-centric, but that's perhaps only fair after doing a H/D overkill in my first Niffler term...
Oh, and there were two stories that broke my heart because I could *not* Niffle them:
Stealing Harry by Sam Vimes (![[livejournal.com profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/external/lj-userinfo.gif)
copperbadge) [Sirius/Remus bringing up young Harry, R]
--> Sam Vimes has been Niffled three times already, which is the limit.
The Best Revenge by Scattered Logic (scatteredlogic) [Lucius/Hermione, NC-17]
--> NC-17 rating (while I agree with that restriction, the story itself is less racy than a lot I've seen under a R-Rating, which made it painful to pass up...
My Niffler term is at an end, which is a good thing because it's been quite a bit of work, and a bad thing because it was great fun. Although I was slow at the beginning, I managed to finish with 16 recs for four months, one per week, *phew*.
Did a table with a breakdown according to characters and genres and so on, should anybody be interested:
Title -- Author -- Rating -- Protagonist(s) -- Genre
The Five Steps -- ari -- PG -- Harry, Remus -- gen
Blood Will Tell -- Harloprillalar -- R -- Sirius/Lucius -- slash
A Half a Conquest -- Arkady -- R -- Tom/Albus -- slash
Fantastic Beasts: a Book Review -- Mary Borsellino -- PG -- Sirius -- gen
Fractured Triangle -- Fyre -- R -- Hermione/Lucius, trio -- het
Over Tea -- Dementordelta -- R -- Harry/Snape, Minerva -- slash
Take Up Serpents -- Rusalka -- PG-13 -- Tom -- gen
Welcome to the Dollhouse -- Lilith Morgana -- R -- Snape -- gen
Surprise -- Xandria -- R -- Harry/Lucius -- slash
Blood Magic -- GatewayGirl -- -- R -- Harry, Snape -- gen/het/slash
Midnight Conversations -- Thistlerose -- R -- MWPP, Lily -- slash/het
Out of the Bag -- Bernice Russell -- G -- Snape, Minerva -- gen
Once Upon a Time, in Egypt -- Josan -- PG-13 -- Snape, Bill -- gen
Fidelius/Secret Keeper -- tradescant -- R -- Harry/Snape -- slash
World's End -- bruno -- PG-13 -- Voldemort, Snape -- gen
To Serve a Purpose -- Dark Twin -- R -- Remus/Sirius -- slash
I knew three of the authors I niffled, got to know three more after stumbling over the fic niffled, exchanged a review with another, and don't know the other nine.
Seven Snapefics out of 16 was *definitely* too much, but there suddenly seemed to be far too many good ones floating around...
Nine angst fics and ten R-Ratings is a lot, too, but heck, that's my kind of thing.
I'm proud of reccing as many gen as slash fics, and really should have looked into more het!
And I feel kind of guilty for not Niffling even one H/D fic, and nothing at all Draco-centric, but that's perhaps only fair after doing a H/D overkill in my first Niffler term...
Oh, and there were two stories that broke my heart because I could *not* Niffle them:
Stealing Harry by Sam Vimes (
copperbadge) [Sirius/Remus bringing up young Harry, R] --> Sam Vimes has been Niffled three times already, which is the limit.
The Best Revenge by Scattered Logic (
scatteredlogic) [Lucius/Hermione, NC-17]--> NC-17 rating (while I agree with that restriction, the story itself is less racy than a lot I've seen under a R-Rating, which made it painful to pass up...
Re: I win!
Date: 2004-12-06 11:54 pm (UTC)Hmmm. I'm tempted just to remain convinced that I know the answer (and then probably make a complete fool of myself later for having made a wrong assumption. Hmmm. 34 hours left...)
You mean, like, Sunshine Twin or something? No, it hasn't. There's no connection between the names themselves.
I was more meaning a connection between the name and the tone of fic. And come on, I'd credit you with a little more subtlety than 'Sunshine Twin'! ;)
Re: I win!
Date: 2004-12-07 12:17 am (UTC)I was more meaning a connection between the name and the tone of fic.
Um... no, it's not that. At least I didn't think about that when I named myself (the "other" name was first, by the way). So no, no connection to the genre. (And it's not fluff, OK, just gen fic. Pretty angsty in parts, actually.)
Re: I win!
Date: 2004-12-07 12:35 am (UTC)That is something I have never denied. How else would I be able to write Corneliusfic?
(Though I was just looking up your address to e-mail you a question that I thought you might not appreciate me raising here if I did happen to be close. And, incidentally, found another piece of evidence to support my theory. I'll be so disappointed if I'm wrong!)
(And it's not fluff, OK, just gen fic. Pretty angsty in parts, actually.)
Yeah, I know. ;)
And forgiveness is duly begged for ever mentioning the f-word. I wasn't actually meaning to apply it to your alter ago. I meant it more as a comment on Hijja's oft-stated aversion to fluff - which is another thing that might support LN's 'DT is Hijja' theory. :)
Re: I win!
Date: 2004-12-07 12:43 pm (UTC)OK, it was worth a try. *g*
Though I was just looking up your address to e-mail you a question that I thought you might not appreciate me raising here if I did happen to be close. And, incidentally, found another piece of evidence to support my theory.
You mean, something like a, shall we call it, curious structural similarity to another e-mail address you’ve seen before? ;)
What was your question, by the way? (Why don't you just send it to either of the addresses and see what happens? *g*)
I'll be so disappointed if I'm wrong!
LOL, me too!
And forgiveness is duly begged for ever mentioning the f-word. I wasn't actually meaning to apply it to your alter ago. I meant it more as a comment on Hijja's oft-stated aversion to fluff - which is another thing that might support LN's 'DT is Hijja' theory. :)
It’s definitely another thing that Hijja and I have in common, anyway. :) Sometimes it’s nice to read something happy for a change (particularly in romance fics), but gah would life be boring if there was nothing but fluff.
(And I wasn’t offended of anything, don’t worry.)
Re: I win!
Date: 2004-12-08 12:07 pm (UTC)