Good news!

[rynne]

Note to self: refrain from being unnecessarily dramatic and getting people worried. Because I am fine. Yes, I am. I am nervous, but I am fine.

Okay, moving on to the big important thing I wanted to post (not what I talked about yesterday, but something I found out like twenty minutes ago).

Most, if not all, of you know about or are part of the Harry Potter for Grownups Yahoo Group, right? In case you didn't, it's one of the biggest and possibly the most well-known of the Harry Potter discussion groups on Yahoo, and very high-volume (several thousand posts each month and over 11,000 members). And about a week and a half ago, they posted on the list asking for people to apply for the position of List Elf, which is their equivalent of moderator (and one of their duties being to welcome newbies to the list, which is exactly what I do as eMentor!).

So I, having decided that I don't have enough on my plate by just being a coder and an eMentor (:p), decided to send in my own application, because HPfGU is rather prestigious (like FA, which I adore :D), and I'd be as honored to be a part of their staff as I am to be part of FA's staff. And especially now that it's about summer, I figured I would have some time to commit to this as well.

I didn't tell you all when I applied, because, if I'd been rejected, I didn't want to post about it, and I figured that if I didn't tell people, then it'd be easier not to get my hopes up.

Well, as can be deduced by me posting about this now, I've got my acceptance email to be a HPfGU List Elf, and will be joining the admin team whenever they issue me my invitation.

I will, of course, not be neglecting my duties at FA, because it's first in my heart and I've been there longer, and I love being part of the staff there. But I am also immensely proud to have been selected as a HPfGU List Elf, and can't wait to get started. :)

Comments

[thistlerose.livejournal.com]

Good! Because you need to finish "Mind Over Matter"! Among other things. :)

Thanks so much for beta'ing the kids!fic. :)

[rynne.livejournal.com]

Am actually writing Mind Over Matter right now, though as I don't think I can make this chapter NC17 or R, it's second in priority to smut for the pervy_werewolf challenge (three more days after this! Holy shit, I've written nearly twenty-eight mostly-unrelated pieces of smut in as many days. *faints*).

^^; Am also thinking of joining the second wave of the Classic Canon challenge. You've read The Count of Monte Cristo, haven't you? (Or seen the movie, maybe? Though the movie's quite different...) Sirius would make the most brilliant Edmond Dantes (and with Remus as Haydee! :D), and I know how I can fit in all these people...but God it would be such a big project!

[thistlerose.livejournal.com]

Ooooh, that would be cool! I read The Count of Monte Cristo years and years ago, so I remember the story only vaguely. Who was Haydee? I don't remember him at all. I just remember Edmond, Mercedes, the guy who betrayed Edmond, and the son.

I was actually thinking of doing something for that challenge, too. I was thinking of doing "The Lady of Shalott" with Luna as the Lady, and Harry was Lancelot. Or something. I love the poem, and there's something Luna-like about the imagery. Plus there's the mirror metaphor. But I don't know how to plot it. And I have so many other projects!

[rynne.livejournal.com]

Haydee is a her, actually. I read it about two years ago so I'm a bit rusty, but you know how Mercedes was Edmond's first love interest, and she married the one who betrayed Edmond (Fernand de Morcerf) and had a son, Albert, with him. Haydee is a Greek who Fernand sold into slavery, and who Edmond later bought and fell in love with :D (which is why, with the slight matter of a gender change, I want to cast Remus as her). She also testifies against Fernand and ruins his honor. But there's so much of the story that parallel's Sirius's--Edmond is an innocent thrown in prison on charge of being of Napoleon's party (can we say Death Eater? :p), and he eventually ingeniously escapes. There's also tons of character parallels, like Monsieur de Villefort is so Barty Crouch Sr, though I'm definitely going to have to play merry hell with character relationships...assuming I do this, of course :p.

[thistlerose.livejournal.com]

I totally forgot about Haydee. (It's been more than twelve years since I read the book.) Yes, that works wonderfully!!!!