Four excellent things

[birdsofshore]

1) How to see all of the notes people have written in bookmarks on your fics on AO3:

This is bloody magic! I love reading what people have written in bookmarks, although sometimes it makes me sad when they apparently loved the fic but left no comment. And you don't get notifications of bookmarks, so unless you remember to check periodically for each fic you never even see them. Anyway, this fixes all of that! Just substitute your AO3 name in the appropriate places and TA-DAHHH.

ao3.org/bookmarks/search?bookmark_search%5Bbookmarker%5D=-YOURNAME&bookmark_search%5Bquery%5D=YOURNAME&bookmark_search%5Bsort_column%5D=created_at&bookmark_search%5Bwith_notes%5D=1

2) Proof that H/D is canon



As a Britisher I can confirm that the above is entirely true. Therefore, H/D.

3) The most wonderful Harry art that has melted my brain

shiftylinguini has created Moneymaker!Harry in her new art, 9.05 pm, and he is DIVINE. I had just about recovered from dicta's amazing fic and now BOOM! I'm useless again. SFW but may make your brain melt.

4) Fangirl seeking friends

maccadole has been away from HP fandom for a while, but would like to join in with all the shenanigans here on LJ... would any of my lovely flist please help her get started by friending her? She likes H/D amongst other pairings and is cool and interesting to talk to.

Comments

[akatnamedeaster.livejournal.com]

Thanks for that AO3 bookmark tip, totally made my day putting it to use. :)

[birdsofshore]

Can you believe it? So simple (kind of) and useful! I found some marvellous bookmarks that I would never have seen otherwise. Maybe none to top my personal favourite, "HOLY BUCKETS", LOL, but still!

[akatnamedeaster.livejournal.com]

I admit, I tend to be a bit obsessive about those things so I'm surprised at the ones I missed. It was nice seeing the notations since most were from people who generally don't comment and so it was a little goose I wouldn't otherwise get. :)

[birdsofshore]

I'm really glad it helped you! I was like O_O when someone sent me the link. I still don't get how it works when it doesn't seem to be a feature on AO3 itself, but I don't really understand the internet full stop... :/

[lq-traintracks.livejournal.com]

This is my favorite so far!

WTF THE FUCK...... WHAT THE FUCK....

this realized all of my dreams. honestly this fixed everything wrong and it was Plausible and Im Character and i want to Die.

Alright. The Eigth Year Fic in which harry gets a car, gets the Right after school job, goes to a few parties, promotes interhouse unity, and gets a boyfriend.

Also? There's twister.

LOLOL!

It seems some people who bookmark me do so and then also use that to disclaim parts they *weren't* fond of too, though. LOL! Not that I begrudge someone doing that. It works to use that space for that probably more than the comments, certainly. It's just sort of snort-funny to suddenly find, "I really liked this except for this one stupid bit," LMAO! :-D

I will go friend your friend for sure! Any friend of Birds! (Though now I'm going to be SUPER SUSPICIOUS of you whenever you're really nice to me! ;-PPP )

[lq-traintracks.livejournal.com]

Omg I spoke too soon! Just this on Hung Like a Horntail:

nice dick then harry

Haaaaahahahahahahahaha!!!!! *dies* This is great! :-DDDD

[birdsofshore]

So glad you have enjoyed! But hahaha yeah, you're cruising along on a wave of nice bookmarks and then you hit one like this:

Meh...They got together too quickly for me. Lots of porn at the end if that's what you're looking for.

LOLOLOL! BURN!

My favourite one I found today was:

So fucking perfect I think it broke something inside me.

Can you be in love with a fictional character? I love this arrogant, sensual, slutty Draco so much. I want to dance with him. I want to take him home with me even knowing he'd break my heart. I want to read this over and over.

!!! I'm sort of welling up here!

[lq-traintracks.livejournal.com]

Omg dies laughing at your burn there! Here's a good one. I think she read it drunk the first time (Right Hand Red):

Again, don't remember much of what HAPPEEND but obvs good if I marked it

Hahaha!

Awww, I love your good one there! <3 I got this on RHR:

SO MANY TEARS

WHAT IS MY LIFE

♥

OH! This is one of my favorite not-great ones!

it starts with twister and a bottle and ends on a dare.

longer than it looks.

ROTFL! I love that it almost reads like a haiku!

[shiftylinguini.livejournal.com]

I have enjoyed reading these SO MUCH hahaha <33

[birdsofshore]

Oh lord these are super.

don't remember much of what HAPPEEND

AHAHA! I once recced raitala her OWN FIC more or less saying this. "I don't actually remember much of it but it was good." LOLOL the shame!

And longer than it looks - what does that even MEAN?

[gracerene]

LOL, I seriously found out about that AO3 thing yesterday, and I totally almost made a post today about it!

My fav is Kinda lame soul mark story where Draco and Harry are auror partners. uhh, okay? Sorry it was "kinda lame".

Also I have one on my Harry/Gryffindors gangbang fic that just says "introductions"....Still puzzling that one out.

Though, something really interesting/weird I noticed about that URL, is that I think if people mention your username in the bookmark notes, even if it's for somebody else's fic, they also show up there. I few people have bookmarked random fics that I've recced, and mentioned me in their notes as a reccer, and those bookmarks show up there as well.

[lq-traintracks.livejournal.com]

I've had a few that were one-word and very possibly ~code of some kind, but for the life of me "introductions" sure seems to be a weird one!

Speaking of "kinda lame", this is one of my faves for Right Hand Red:

This was sweet. A long-read that took up good time, as well. I wouldn't read it again though.

Hahaha! That one just sort of rolls down a very short hill there. ;-P

(Btw, thank you for the very sweet bookmarks I found of yours! <3 )

[alisanne.livejournal.com]

Um...So, why would you bookmark something to NOT read again?
*shakes head*
People. Oi.

[lq-traintracks.livejournal.com]

That's what completely cracked me up! They actually bookmarked it to remind themselves NOT TO READ IT AGAIN. Hahahahahahaha! Just omg! I'm crying laughing here!!! :-DDD

[alisanne.livejournal.com]

This is clearly a compliment on your summary skills.
The summary is so good that it COULD persuade them to read again, hence the reminder. *nods*

[lq-traintracks.livejournal.com]

And here I was thinking I was the worst summarizer in history. Apparently, that's actually the best part! LOL!!!

[birdsofshore]

Oh god.... Oh god you got me at it now as well. That is brilliant. They REALLY wanted to be sure they didn't accidentally read it twice. Why are people such dicks? :DD

[birdsofshore]

I have loads that say "P". ???

I'm presuming "Porn." But who really knows?

[birdsofshore]

!!! "Kinda lame" - nothing you write is lame in any sense!

"Introductions" is a mystery all right. Harry gets introduced to everyone's cock, I guess? :D

[helenarickman.livejournal.com]

Only two bookmarks for me *le sigh*

[birdsofshore]

Ah, that's no fun. But reading some of the ones people have found, maybe it's a blessing! I had one that said, "Meh." !!

[alisanne.livejournal.com]

Ahahahaha! OMG, I am in love with that bookmark thing.
My faves so far:

The English language is very complex. ;) Indeed it is. *g*

Don't break time people. ...But if you do, fix it properly. Good advice...

Harry gets drunk, finds out he is gay, and sleeps with Severus Pretty much a summary of all my Snarry fics... LMAO.

[lq-traintracks.livejournal.com]

I just snort-laughed! :-D I got one that was just a general ruminating as well and cracked up! Something like, "For someone who hasn't read Harry Potter, I do read a lot of fanfiction." LOL. Okay then!

[alisanne.livejournal.com]

Hahaha! Yes. Makes you want to say, "thanks for sharing?"
OMG, hysterical.

[lq-traintracks.livejournal.com]

Yeah, she was obviously musing to herself, leaving herself this philosophical bookmark note. But I mean, this was on a 74k fic LOLOL. Like... that was the thing she left herself to remember it by! I just LMAO!!! :-DDD

[birdsofshore]

Ahahaha, we should employ the bookmarkers to write our summaries in future. Mine could pretty much all say Lots of porn at the end if that's what you're looking for. :D

[maccadole.livejournal.com]

Ooh, thanks for the mention and your lovely words. You're so kind.

Ghhn, that art rec though. And I haven't even read the fic it's from so that went into my to-read list. HAH, and the AO3 thing sounds brilliant. If I remember it in the future I'll definitely use it once I have some fic up and they've hopefully been bookmarked. SNORT. People seem to write down the strangest things when they bookmark stories.

[kerrilee75.livejournal.com]

I friended you! Welcome back. I'm a newbie myself. Feel free to friend back if you're interested. ;)

[maccadole.livejournal.com]

Hurrah, thanks. I did friend you back, as you might've seen. :D

Cheers for being a fellow newbie. How fresh are you? I found my way back in January, this year, myself.

[birdsofshore]

You're very welcome indeed! And I'm glad you liked the art. The fic that inspired it is one of the hottest things I've ever read in my life. Total birds seal of approval!

[kerrilee75.livejournal.com]

I went on a bookmarking spree and then I forgot about that little tool. I need to go mark a few more.

[lq-traintracks.livejournal.com]

I loved reading your bookmarks today! Just fwiw! :-D <3

[kerrilee75.livejournal.com]

Aww, shucks! Well, you've written so many of my favorites. 😘

[birdsofshore]

Make sure you write some funny crap in there, OK? ;)

[kerrilee75.livejournal.com]

Anything for you, Birds! Especially now that I know I have an audience!

[kitty_fic]

LOLOL

here's a good comment on mine:
Um.., that's it? I don't even like top Draco! That should have been on the warnings! How the heck did this even get so many kudos?!!!


Thanks, Birds! ^_^

[birdsofshore]

OMG. I really hope these people don't know that we can see what they've written. But that's such an ignorant comment from start to finish!

[khalulu]

Thanks so much for the bookmark link - it makes it so easy to see the comments!

The whether-a-British-person-likes-you thing was very funny too.

[birdsofshore]

I'm glad the link was useful! Those Brit translation guides always make me snicker.

[themightyflynn]

Dear lordy, apparently my 19 Years has divided the fandom!

WIP-Long time between updates On a fic that was updated weekly on Sundays and roughly a month before the entire 52 chapters were completed!

I read about half of this before abandoning it. It's basically a canon-compliant fic where Draco and Harry get together after having hate sex at King cross. It's a huge Ginny bashing fic and the plot is pretty boring. The one thing going for it is that the smut is REALLY well written. The ace writes good sex? Huh.

I think I might have died sometime in the last three hours. Now I'm a murderer!

Thanks for the link, it's fun! :D

[birdsofshore]

I am pretty sure the dying one was a compliment. ;) I once had someone told me their limbs had fallen off after reading my fic :DD

The impatience of some commenters is amazing! I can't imagine completing such an impressive multi-chap fic... and then getting COMPLAINTS about it? Ugh!

[capitu]

Well, I don't have many bookmarks, but this is something cool: Someone put my whole rec for a story as their bookmark! Plenty of those, too! :D

[birdsofshore]

Ah that's nice! I would imagine your recs would make wonderful bookmarks, <3

[lq-traintracks.livejournal.com]

I quoted capitu as my bookmark for one of your stories, Birds! :-D ♥

[birdsofshore]

Oh I remember! <3

[lq-traintracks.livejournal.com]

Of course now I'm going to have to write utterly ridiculous things. ;);)

[shiftylinguini.livejournal.com]

Eeee!!! Thanks so much for the shout out, Birds!!! :D :D :D One can never get over Moneymaker. I had to re read it to finish this art, can you believe the hardship? and then again to make sure I had the jacket right. And then again before I posted it.

Also I did the bookmark thing, and I have none LOL. woo. And I also hope you realise this means I need to go and bookmark all your fics with silly captions. I mean...I don't have a choice now. This needs to be done.

<33

[birdsofshore]

One can never get over Moneymaker

How true *sigh*

The jacket was right. GODDAMN YOU it was so right <33

Hmm. Mischievous bookmarking... now there's an idea. I recently signed up for a second AO3 account just so I could troll who_la_hoop *snicker*

[twistedm.livejournal.com]

That was an awesomesauce AO3 tip!!! It made my day to read those. Even the ones that were, quite literally, simple bookmarks. "Chapter 3." LOL!

I had seen that "does a British person like you" meme and had absolutely NOT thought to apply it to Harry and Draco. You are absolutely right! I'm taking that as gospel now.

shiftylinguini is the mostest beautiful drawing person and I loves her and all her art. Long Live Shiftylinguini!!!

Also, I has friended maccadole. :D