Eddis, Attolia, Sounis

If I had money, I'd own them all already.

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The Empty Kingdom is Made of Awesome. Actually, all of E Wein;s books are. At the end of Empty Kingdom I was going "WHAT?!?!?! ARE YOU KIDDING ME?!?!?!? AWESOME.

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Things that made me love authors?

Well, MWT, because she wrote KoA. And Thief and QoA. And she comments 'round here and shows up in Chatzy on special occasions.

Elizabeth Wein is Made Of Awesome because she commented on my blog (http://rosaleeluann.livejournal.com/67552.html?nc=5). She said I made her day. Which made my day/week/month/year. :-D

Shannon Hale is cool because she actually read a comment I made on one of her blog entries, followed the link I gave her, and did a follow-up post (http://oinks.squeetus.com/2008/08/straining-for-t.html) on it.

Robin McKinley is cool because she replied to a few comments I made on her blog.

Sherwood Smith is cool for the same reason.

So basically, authors are cool when, not only do they write awesome books, they reveal that they aren't the high and mighty distant people they seem to be, and they interact with me, albeit briefly, on a somewhat personal level, as if things I say are actually legitimate to them, my heroes and role models.

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Ooh, Shannon Hale did that with me, too!

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SO now I read this after a full night of sleep and I'm going, "Whoa, my brain totally took that off on a tangent..."

I like tangents.

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ARTEMIS HOLLY DID SOMEBODY SAY--oh, they already did. Well. We'll just leave that there, shall we.

Moments I'm still waiting for...there probably are some, but I forget. In fact, I cannot think of answers to any of these--

WHEN J.K. ROWLING DID THE RON/HERMIONE KISS. There are no words to express how excited I was. Like, background:

I shipped Ron/Hermione from, like, halfway through CoS, which was the first HP I ever read, and then I spent the hiatus between GoF and OotP reading just about every Ron/Hermione fanfic on the Sugarquill site. And there were so many good ones, so many NOT from Harry's POV, that I was utterly convinced (when I was fourteen) that there was NO WAY JKR could pull it off.

(hahaha, I love the number of acronyms in this story.)

so, granted, I was older when DH came out, but I was still a little nervous about how she was going to do it--

and then and then and then

IT WAS PERFECT.

and while I already loved JKR, that pretty much cemented it. Because It Was Perfect.

angry bait-and-switches that made me angry? Mildmay's obligation d'ame. Maybe not a bait-and-switch, but it felt like one when I first read it.

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And I don't even remember it, because I wasn't that much of a fan. Now you make me want to go and find the part....all right, it's coming back to me, if it's in DH.

Anyway. You'll see I pre-empted you on purpose. That doesn't mean I don't want to hear you natter on about Artemis & Holly, though, because you're funny when you're nattering...

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Another Quiller?? Snap, Jade!

I spent the hiatus between GoF and OotP reading just about every Ron/Hermione fanfic on the Sugarquill site.

That's pretty much exactly the same thing as I did. Same time, same place. I started with a link to Arabella's stories and didn't look back :)

SQ people are starting to turn up everywhere! YAY!

And I agree. It was perfectly perfect perfection.

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OMG ME TOOOOOOOOOOOOO. I got linked to Fanfiction.net and discovered HQoW and from there went to SugarQuill and--HECK YES. I wrote awful awful fanfic and dreamed of getting accepted and betaed by my idols and devoured "After the End" and was SO TICKED OFF it got jossed because JKR killed Sirius and--YES.

:-D *high-fives*

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AAAIIIEEE YES. I found it by - gah I had such a long complicated finding SQ story - from a link from a fanart. From Marta T's fanarts (which are brilliant and pop up in icons all over the place) I got linked thru to *riffles through tabs* Dare by Arabella and B. Bennett. AAArgh yes I loved HQoW I read them all and was sooooo disappointed when they stopped! Did you ever read Alchemilla's? It was my FAVOURITE FAVOURITE (after all the other favourites) and it was SOOO badly canonballed, I was so mad. And I broke my brain on the SQ87 riddle, did you ever find that? YES and I too wrote bad bad fanfic about Hermione's first year, just like everyone else in the fanverse XD
*FLYING HIGH 5!*

(and I love that icon, btw)

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Ooooh, me too! I'm so glad I'm not the only person who'll admit to spending all their free time on SQ in between books.

And I totally got into Harry Potter fanfic because of Marta's art as well. Her drawings are basically what the characters look like in my head, especially her amazingly pretty Sirius.

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"I'm not the only person who'll admit to spending all their free time on SQ in between books."

No, that's me too! SQ was pretty much my main reading fodder for a whole year, because where I lived at the time it was very hard to get English books. So SQ came to the rescue with all their lovely HP goodness :)
My vision of the HP character's is pretty much based on marta's stuff too - especially her Ron.

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Marta-- is this the Marta from artdungeon.net? She's amazing.

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Yes that's her! Aren't they awesome? :-D

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it's not so much "admitting" as it is "blatant statement of unavoidable fact." I remember that first summer so well, where I used to get online, load ALL the chapters of a story, and then get offline (woo dialup) and just sit there reading...rather than babysitting my sisters. \o/

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Alchemilla's? That one I don't know...I was obsessed with Arabella and with B and "After the End" was the one I followed the most...and "Memories of Tomorrow, Dreams of Yesterday" by Jedi Boadecia...and no, I never did find 87! But I still reference in my head. AND THE VERY SECRET DIARY GAVE ME THE CREEPS FOR MONTHS.

*ATTEMPTS FLYING HIGH 5 AND CRASHES INTO YOU* OOPS MY BAD.

(hahaha potterpuffs are win.)

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Obsessed with Arabella and B, you say? Hmmm... did you ever find THIS?

http://community.livejournal.com/sq_sticklebats/5524.html

I re-read this comm when I went to find the link and almost had a heart attack. There are three parts to the diaries, scroll forwards to find them.

*POINTS* FOLLOW LINK!

XDDDDD

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YES. OMG I REMEMBER THAT BUT REREADING IT WAS SO EXCELLENT :-D:-D:-D

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YAY SQ PEOPLE, CRACK GENERATOR EXTRAORDINAIRES.
Second only to Sounisians, of course :)

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ICON!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

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angry bait-and-switches that made me angry? Mildmay's obligation d'ame. Maybe not a bait-and-switch, but it felt like one when I first read it.

Bait and switch how? (It's been a while since I read it.

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Well, more like, how it happened at all. I mean, I don't remember it well either, but I remember being SO ANGRY about it. It seemed like there should have been other options that just...weren't examined. It's my one complaint with Monette's writing, because I feel like it's happened more than once.

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