Who Needs Pottermore? We Have The Exchange

[teddy_radiator]

I have to say the news from lovedraughts that the sshg_exchange will start posting on September 6 excited me more than Pottermore ever dared to try. Being my first time, I'm so jazzed at the idea of all these lovely fics and art. I am very grateful for the Mods at the exchange and all the hard work they've done on our behalf. I'm also blown away on a weekly basis at how comprehensive lovedraughts are in putting together all the lovely SS/HG news. I love my fandom brothers and sisters.

I am also grateful I start my first day training tomorrow. Yes, after four months of doing nothing but walking from the kitchen to the writing nook and back, I'm starting my new job, and I'm thrilled and nervous and excited. The lady who will be training me personally got me this job, and she so wants me to be successful.

I have spent the better part of two weeks working on one particular fic, and I'm proud of it. It started off as a little whispered smut fic from my Muse one morning, and by the end of the day, I'd written over 6K words on it. I spent the next week fleshing out his original 6K words. Now it is over three times that length, and a work that has stretched me in a couple of directions. I love this exercise I was given to make me better and to help me improve.

What a week. I got a job, lived through my first earthquake tremours, received a lovely dead bird from my cat who promptly yakked most of it back up on my laminate floor, we are thankfully too far south and inland for the storm to hurt us, and the Hubs has a job lead as well. Life is not too shabby...

But the Exchange!!! I'm go excited I can't wait! Fics! Pics! Arts! Can you say Happy Little Fangurly??? Yes, that would be me!!!! Big hugs to all that needs 'em.

I've been given some steller ones this week from y'all. All the best to those caught in the path of Irene. My heart and wishes are with you.

Comments

[madeleone]

The exchange is coming! The exchange is coming! *runs around in circles flapping hands wildly* Yay! The exchange is coming! (I may be a little excited about that event too!) ;-)

Dittos all the things you said about the mods, lovedraughts, the fandom, etc.

Congrats again on starting the new job training tomorrow, if you can't win the lotto and be independently wealthy then a job is a very good thing. :)

And if the fic you are referring to is 'Delores Umbridge, I Love You', it was a sweet little smut-with-substance fest all of it's own. Many thanks to you and your muse for sharing.

And in case anyone has forgotten already, the exchange is coming!

[teddyradiator.livejournal.com]

Thank you, sweetie for your well wishes all round. I'm so excited about seeing everyone's gifts it's embarrassing, but this first time round was such a phenomenal experience for me, and I can't wait!!

Thank you about 'DoloresU' as well. Something about that strange little bundle of madness has really picked me up and shook me in its jaws. It really was supposed to be about 4 sections of smut, but something very strange happened between receiving the first 6K of it, and typing The End. You never know what will happen in a fic, do you?

Oh, and in case you might have missed it ---- The Exchange is coming!!!

[madeleone]

LOL! I totally understand how things like that happen while writing a fic. I am a write as I go kind of girl, I don't create extensive outlines or plot out the whole story from beginning to end. I basically have a general idea, maybe an end in sight and I go. However, sometimes those darn characters just seem to have a mind of their own and they take all kinds of twists and turns and often refuse to do what I want them to do. (Maybe they actually know what's best for the story.) ;D I am thankful to you and your muse for this little gem, it was deliciously smutty but very tender and sweet as well.

Oh and BTW, The Exchange is coming!

[subversa.livejournal.com]

The Exchange is a marvelous embarrassment of riches. Immerse yourself!

And I'm so happy for your new job. I wish you all possible success!

[teddyradiator.livejournal.com]

Oh, Subvers, I'm so excited. This has just been a marvelous opportunity for me, and I'm thrilled to have participated in it.

thank you for your warm wishes. I'm off to get started in about an hour, and I'm nervous and excited, and most of all, relief to be gainfully employed again!

[mischievous-t.livejournal.com]

I'm a little late to the game and not sure exactly what Pottermore is - but if itsnot too late for me to join in the reindeer games, I'll play. Thanks!

[teddyradiator.livejournal.com]

To tell you the truth, Miss T, I don't really know what the heck it is, but I'm a jumping-on-the-bandwagon type of gal, so I'm all in there.

You know, I'm six kinds of stupid. I just figured out why the podfic site is called smoking_baby. DOH!

[kribu.livejournal.com]

Hee! I remember how excited I was when my first exchange rolled around - I still am now, too, of course, but it's my third time now, so I can feel all old and experienced already. *g*

And yay for all the good things happening with you and yours!

[teddyradiator.livejournal.com]

Thank you - yes, I'm getting stupidly excited about the Exchange. It was such a positive experience for me as a writer.

[howlingmojo.livejournal.com]

Virgin!


(Sorry, can't resist)

[teddyradiator.livejournal.com]

Gosh, that's a word that hasn't been used in a long time. It's probably collecting social security for me by now...

[howlingmojo.livejournal.com]

I am sitting on something I'm fairly proud of....I look forward to it too!!

And this nerd didn't even apply to Potterwhore Pottermore. What's all the kerfuffle about anyway? Is she going to make a statement about how Snape survived to make lots of babies?


Ah, I though not....;-)

[mimimanderly.livejournal.com]

Sitting on something you're fairly proud of, eh? Your butt is all that, then? You'll have to post pictures. ;) ;)

I didn't apply either. I figured it's all about Hogwarts and the Golden Trio, and quite frankly, I'm not interested in them. If it were called Snapewhore... well, obviously I'd be chained to my computer day and night, trying to get in!

[howlingmojo.livejournal.com]

Ah, your reply is made of several layers of WIN.

My arse is not really that impressive, I figure. But I'm in a difficult position to judge, seeing as my head is on top of my body and everything (kekekeke)

Snapewhore! Now that's a site I'd pay money for! We'd all be trying to get into Snape. Mmmmmmm.

[mimimanderly.livejournal.com]

...Or better yet, have Snape get into us!

[howlingmojo.livejournal.com]

Ah, you win again. * hands you the internet*

God yes. Is it my birthday already?

[teddyradiator.livejournal.com]

Y'all are the horniest bunch of fangurls I ever DID see...

Get in line, you tarts!

[howlingmojo.livejournal.com]

No! I'm a pushy Slytherin, and for once I want something to slither in!

Oh, Mosey's in a mood....;-)

[teddyradiator.livejournal.com]

Actually, I think there is a Snapewhore out there somewhere...oh, yeah, that would be me....

[teddyradiator.livejournal.com]

I haven't see her butt yet, but the rest of her is pretty yummy.

[howlingmojo.livejournal.com]

Hahaha, You flooded my inbox( I love it when you do that, btw), I'll flood you back!

I love the free insertion of the word "Yet".

Promises, promises.

Vodka-tonic, anyone? Or three?

[teddyradiator.livejournal.com]

I told you my guest room is all tricked out and ready for you...

[howlingmojo.livejournal.com]

If I had any funds I'd so be there. Maybe I can sell some of my art? *gets a painful pang in the heart*

But I still think about flinging myself across the USA in exchange for art. But only to select people. I'll let the better half drive me around, like the sarcastic princess I am.


What's the best flight-connection to your neck of the woods? ;-)

[teddyradiator.livejournal.com]

By sitting on something your fairly proud of and it's not your butt, I can only assume it is of the exchange persuasion....which, if that is indeed the case, I can't wait.

If it has nothing to do with exchange, then post, post, post!!

[howlingmojo.livejournal.com]

It's exchange. I can't say anything about it, as I'm pinch-hitting, but I'll post something on my LJ in a couple of minutes. Hang on.

[droxy.livejournal.com]

If that's exchange art and it's erotic, it would NOT suprise me if you are one of the first 10 arts shown. The exchange does have a pattern for what gets posted. I hope they re-do the "big fic friday" and give us time to catch up on the weekends. Generally if your giftee doesnt turn in their gift, your project gets posted later.

[howlingmojo.livejournal.com]

I can only live in hope. I'll get nothing in return, because I'm a pinch-hitter. But that's okay.I get good fic, payment enough for me!

[clairvoyant.livejournal.com]

What a great week for you! A new job, a new fic, a tribute from your beloved cat. Enjoy the riches, teddy!

[teddyradiator.livejournal.com]

Thank you, sweetie - It's been such an eventful week it's been crazy!

[beffeysue.livejournal.com]

You've had some wonderful things happen lately! It's wonderful that the lady training you for the new job is the one who told you about it's becoming available! It's great that she will be able to point out what the "Do-These-First" things are and which things are pitfalls to be avoided. That alone it worth it's weight in gold.

I'm excited about the Exchange beginning to post. Squeeeeeeees with you! I have DeloresU on my list of stories to begin reading, just haven't had time to get to it yet. This past week was very busy for me, and nothing went like planned, but everything ended up just like it should be.

I hope the job lead for Hubs pans out. I have a good feeling that he will find something he likes in the not too distant future.

Hugs to you both.

[teddyradiator.livejournal.com]

I had my first training today - I think it's a perfect fit, job-wise. I'm really excited about it!

Jules is beta-ing DoloresU for posting on Ashwinder, so you may want to read it there. I didn't plan on it getting so huge, or I wouldn't have clogged up LJ posting all 122 chapters of it LOL. It took off and I had to hold on for dear life. Jules will whip it into shape, I know.

Hugs to you, BeffeySue!!

[morethansirius.livejournal.com]

Awwww! Aren't you the sweetest fangirl? I'm so glad news of the Exchange starting has brought you joy. We'll have to have a party on the 6th since you are popping your SSHG Exchange cherry! You're going to love it!

I've come to the firm conclusion that my Pottermore letter will arrive just as the SSHG Exchange begins since that would, of course, be the most inconvenient time for me to go play. I'm a bit wary as the sorting hat on the site is being reported as rather odd. I'm a dyed in the wool Hufflepuff and I'd get rather tetchy if sorted into Gryffindor. Slytherin is a lovely second option and Ravenclaw would be fine, but I'm most definitely NOT a Gryffindor. Timid as a little mouse, am I. A well read, sneaky mouse, but a mouse none the same.

Good to know Irene won't be harming you on her mad dash up the Eastern seaboard!

[teddyradiator.livejournal.com]

SQUEEEE !! On September 6th , I'll be like a little fat ten-year-old waiting for her birthday!

[andyissadangel.livejournal.com]

I'm glad that you're starting the job, and that the hubs has a good lead. I hope it pans out.

Never felt earthquake before? I first felt it when I was 10, and it was Easter and it shcared the hell out of me. But luckily, they were just minor tremors.
And I'm glad that Irene will not be visiting you (or at least won't cause any major problems). I don't think I could handle a tornado...

As for the exchange: Hell, yes!! I can't wait to see all the lovely art and read all those stories.

[droxy.livejournal.com]

Win!

[dreamy-dragon73.livejournal.com]

Congrats on the new job!

I'm so much looking forward to the exchange and all the goodies, as well.
~iz happy little fangirl too~