January 1st In your own space, introduce yourself! 

So, I've been seeing this challenge floating around my dash and frankly, it seems too fun not to try out. I know that its not exactly January 1st buuut, I thought I'd still like to pretend with the dates (and to keep myself straight with the prompts) 😂

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This past Friday I was officially able to say I'd survived another year on this spinning rock in the universe, but I've cheerfully been celebrating the occasion all week 😊
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Hello,

Its been quite some time since I was last active on this website. I'd dare to say at least a year. Its been a productive and useful time for me in many ways, there's a lot I have accomplished from graduating to finding employment to projects completed around the house, but, I don't know... Lately I'm left with a feeling I can't quite put into words.

I haven't written in almost as long, perhaps longer since I was last active on this site, and I dare to say I'm still not there again yet. I have, almost the urge to attempt to write something, but every document I open goes untouched save maybe one grammatical change to a WIP from years ago. What's more, there seems to be less and less of the communities that I used to enjoy so for many large fandoms and it leaves me in something of a funk.

I believe the fall season embodies a lot of Harry Potter spirit for a lot of folks, myself included, and it has me wishing I could participate in it more or perhaps read how others are participating in it, but it seems a lot of groups on many sites are not doing any celebrating (or are even active). Is this something that will continue come Holiday season as well? I know there is a natural ebb and flow of interest in fandoms, and its natural for a fandom that is no longer actively being published to see a decrease in fans, but I am still left longing for a lot of the activity that seems to be alive in the HP!Fandom just a year or two ago. I know I was one of the people who stopped being active in the fandom due to a lack of ablity to write and an opressive amount of responsiblity in my personal life, and I'm sure many others had their reasons, but I feeling perhaps I am longing for something that is apprently already a bygone part of a fandom's history. It is entirely possible I am wrong, and am looking in the wrong places, but I don't know.

If I can't bring myself to write again, then I feel there is little point in me feeling this funk because I am not actively participating as a member of the fandom, not bringing new content to the front. But at the same time, I am still left yerning for.... I don't know, perhaps a sense of community. Perhaps I am just failing to reengage in the way I once did. I still love many of the same things I once did, as far as I can tell, and yet I am floundering to productively enjoy pursuing those things in the same many as I once did.

Anyhow, there is work to be done now, and I've spent long enough contemplating for the moment. If someone happens to read this I would love any feedback or thoughts you might have one the matter. I don't know if my own thoughts are rationale or even make any sense, but I just needed to put them out into the world and have them written down somewhere so that I might have some chance of untangling the mess untangable feelings inside my head.

Katie_Flint

Originally posted by katie_flint at WISHLISTS: Good With the Bad (Lavender/Parvati)

Title: An Unexpected Encounter
Author/Artist: katie_flint
Pairing(s): Katie Bell/Marcus Flint
Rating: T
Warning(s): N/A
Challenge(s): Prompt 04: Class for mixandmatch100
Word count: 100x10
Summary: Marcus finds a certain Gryffindor chaser as he returns from practice one night. He should just ignore her, he knows this, but he can’t help himself... Not when it’s Katie Bell.
Notes: This was written thanks to a prompt from my gal pal across the sea, Rose, which I hope she likes, even though it's a bit basic (and it took forever haha). Or read on AO3.

Title: Walk of Shame
Author: katie_flint
Pairing/Character: Blaise Zabini/Padma Patil/Parvati Patil
Word Count: 500
Rating: PG-13
Warnings: N/A
Challenge: HP_HumpDrabbles weekly
A/N: This was really fun and being honest, I was planning on a higher rating for it but I just got so into the set up I ran out of room xD Alas, next time!
Summary: Blaise Zabini makes the mistake, one drunken night, of catcalling Padma Patil. At least, he thought it was Padma, however, he’s not so sure the subsequent morning; nor in the days that follow.

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Title: Celebrate
Author: katie_flint
Pairing/Character: Cho Chang/Cormac McLaggen
Word Count: 500
Rating: R
Warnings: N/A
Challenge: HP_HumpDrabbles weekly
A/N: First Charlie, and now Cho? Unfair! I'm helpless to resist such amazing prompts on Livejournal, and next week think it's Blaise ahhh, totally gonna have to do something for him as well I can already tell. I saw that someone posted Dudley/Cho on LJ and whaaa, I'm so intrigued!!! Gonna have to explore that pairing at a later date! :D (this has been my thing for Cho for a while, Cormac that is. The dominatrix aspect is new haha).
Summary: Cho's been hired as the manager of the Tutshill Tornados and she thinks she's found the perfect way to celebrate the success...

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