many faded things

In 2008 I:

- graduated from college
- got a full-time job
- decided I actually like my job
- spent the entire month of November at my job, frequently to the exclusion of sleeping
- drove cross-country for the second time
- wrote far less than in 2007
- had far more ideas for stories, and better ones
- lost some very close friends
- made some better friends
- met up with some fandom friends (multiple times!)
- moved to New York
- worked in three states and lived in a fourth
- yelled from the roof of my apartment building on Election Day
- yelled from the streets of Lower Manhattan on Election Night
- kissed someone in an elevator
- bought the first decent bed I have ever owned
- fell a little out of love with SPN
- fell a lot in love with Entourage
- rediscovered board games
- discovered that I have an inner '50s hostess
- frequently decided that walking a mile and a half cross-town in the cold was a better choice than riding the train one more stop. Note to self: wrong.

2008, you were weird. Mostly good weird, but definitely weird. Overall I'm happier than I was this time last year, though, so 2008 can count for a win.

Oh! Haha! In 2008, also, I watched Twilight.

Unpopular fandom opinion time! I think Twilight kicks The Christmas Cottage's ass to hell and back. Both of these movies are pretty freaking atrocious! But Twilight is absolutely the sort of atrocious that is so bad it is also AWESOME, and it sinks its teeth into you and holds on for dear life and you LOVE IT. (YES YES. I KNOW ABOUT THE PUN.)

There are some pieces of fanfic that I have very similar relationships to. I shall call this multifandom recs list:

( Those stories you should really stop reading because the rational part of your mind is screaming for mercy and yet you cannot stop, ever, even if there were a pack of rabid dogs at your heels. Or beautiful, sparkly vampires. )

Regardless, the point of this is, Twilight! Really bad, but deeefinitely the kind of really bad that comes right back around to sort of totally amazing. I hear the books are extra awful, and Stephenie Meyer makes the universe cry, but I'm going to go read them now anyway. YUP.

Title: Draw Down the Lines
Author: katjad
Rating: NC-17
Word Count: 3,875
Pairings: Draco/Ginny, Harry/Ginny and a bit of Harry/Draco -- but really it's all about the Draco/Ginny.
DISCLAIMER: All characters, situations, etc. belong to J.K. Rowling and her publishers.
Summary: She thought he was kidding at first.
Author's Notes: So I thought that after 48,000 words of Crepúsculo I'd said my piece on Draco/Ginny. But it seems that I then went and wrote 3,800 words of Draco/Ginny porn, so huh. I guess I lied. Thanks to actriz_k for looking this over.

( Draw Down the Lines )

Title: Crepúsculo 10/11

Author: katjad

Rating: PG-13

Pairing: Draco/Ginny

DISCLAIMER: Characters belong to J.K. Rowling. They're not mine.

Summary: In which there is shit, and a fan.

Author's Notes: Thanks, as always, to Soz for betaing. I started writing this before OotP, so it only assumes canon through GoF. There might be an HBP reference or two in this chapter, though, if you squint.

( Chapter Ten: The Key )

Previous chapters can be found here.

Title: Crepúsculo 8/11

Author: katjad

Rating: PG-13

Pairing: Draco/Ginny (no, really!)

DISCLAIMER: Not mine, as usual.

Summary: Ginny attends a particularly educational Charms class.

Author's Notes: Thanks to Soz for the beta. Sorry for the long wait between chapters, as always. I started writing this fic before OotP, so it's only based on canon up through GoF although there are some mentions of things that will sound familiar from later canon, if you look for them.

( Chapter Eight: The Other Side )

Previous chapters can be found here.

Please see Part One for header information.

( The Yellow House (2/3) )

This has been around for kind of a while, and it sounds ridiculous when you first look at the title, but read it! It makes lots of sense.

Hedwig = Dumbledore.

Title: Memory

Author: katjad

Rating: a dark G

Word Count: 327

Disclaimer: J.K. Rowling’s, not mine.

Notes: I hadn't planned on writing something dark, but it seems to have happened that way. Written for and posted at hp_quince for Challenge #5: movies.

( It's been three years since the end of the war. )