Fic Rec: Muggle Studies by slytherincess

As a break from the maudlin and mundane details of my life, here are some fic recommendations. I was *gasp* trolling through ffnet yesterday under heavy search criteria. It is truly amazing how awful the stuff is over there. Not that it was ever a bastion of high-quality HP fanfic, but you could look through recent uploads and find one or two things worth reading.

Prior to Nimbus 2003, I'd read slytherincess' outtakes, Blankets of Pansies and Wick and became interested in Muggle Studies. I came back to it, finally, for a full read-through.

It has completely ruined me for all other characterizations of Pansy Parkinson; Julie has given her a biting wit and an insight into people that one would expect from a true Slytherin. She's likeable, able to see through Draco's machinations, and can put both he and Harry in their place time and time again. Pansy will never be the annoying, easy-to-bed, clingy, bitchy, mirror-to-Draco that is seen in many other fanfics, to me at least. It's great to be able to root for a character that most fanon authors put down.

There is a cookie for chapter 8 up at her LJ. Go, read, tell her what you think! :-)

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Am going to see Love, Actually today with my sister. Let's see, Colin Firth, Keira Knightley, Hugh Grant, Laura Linney, Alan Rickman...if I can remember the plotline to this an hour after the movie, I'll be surprised. *drool*

OMG, people.

Bill O'Reilly has a LiveJournal.

And I don't think it's a joke or parody LJ, although it would be hard to tell.