Surfacing

[hobgoblinn]

A hobgoblinn! A hobgoblinn! My kingdom for a hobgoblinn!

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Well, I have been a most anti-social hobgoblinn of late. I have been doing a lot of reading and avoiding and am just now coming back to this forum to catch up, to the extent I can. I see nwhepcat is already 11 entries in to her latest serial epic. I see from new friend zeegrindylows that there are 9 days until Christmas (well, fewer now-- I got that from an entry over the weekend sometime I just now read.) I see that the holiday weekend will be busier than usual for the hobgoblinn family, with 3 straight days and nights of services to sing/ usher (depending on whether you are me or Wee Hob). Except for my mom, who is getting a hard copy of my Harry Potter epic Lost Boys shipped to her today, I have purchased no presents whatsoever. Nor a tree, but I was planning to wait until closer to Christmas anyway. It's still Advent, ya'll. We've made it a tradition to trim the tree to stay awake between the vigil mass and midnight mass anyway. And, quite a few years, I have gotten a tree for free or almost waiting that late.

Still very bummed about K and her family. It is hard to watch people be in that much pain and be able to do pretty much nothing. But her guys are surviving, and all the rest of us in the extended friends and family circle will, too. Until, you know, we don't.

Going back through the overwhelming number of posts I've missed in the last two weeks, I am becoming aware I need to make a list cut here, soon. There are people I almost never read anymore, as our interests have diverged wildly. So if I cut you, please do not be offended or upset. Do protest if you have strong feelings about it-- like as not it's because you almost never comment on any of my ramblings, either. I may be doing us both a favor.

While everyone's still here though, Happy Advent to all. And thanks for all the kind words and hugs and condolences, too.

Oh-- one last thing. Before I continue on the Lost Boys sequel, which I still have some delusions of trying to get in shape to start posting by Christmas, I need to write something about K, for her young son to have as a remembrance of her when he is older. So send positive energy/ prayer that direction, if you would, because that's more overwhelming than trying to read back through over two weeks of LJ ephemera.

Oh-- one other last thing-- HP fans on my list should go read this Right Now. It's awesome. And non assholeish Dudley makes an appearance later, if the perfect Snape voice and wonderfully intricate plot and excellent writing are not enough inducement. Trust me.

ETA: It has rightly been pointed out to me that this is still a WIP. Read at your own risk. It's still really good, and it seems to be updated with some regularity. But-- just so you know. My apologies (again) to clavally.

Comments

[hobgoblinn.livejournal.com]

You're safe. Until I find myself skipping your posts for months on end and can't for the life of me figure out why we friended each other in the first place, I won't cut you. There are a number of people in the latter category, but they don't post much and hence I don't find myself skipping their entries, so they were also left alone.

Subliterate writing, huh? I'd have to see the context, but I expect I was being snarky and pretentious again. There's a lot of truly apalling fanfic out there, in the Buffy fandom no less than the Harry Potter one, seemingly written by kids who really should be paying more attention in class than attempting to write smut. That's probably what I meant. I assumed the quotient of such writing would be higher in a "children's book" fandom, and I have been humbled to realize my error. That said, there are fics that I bail on within the first paragraph or two, due to mangled grammar/ spelling/ punctuation/ characterization. Can't point you to any examples, as I tend to find something else to scour my brain with immediately afterwards. But ff.net has more than its share of examples.

Thanks for the prayers. I don't ask, or pray as often as I should, but this has been a weird couple of months.