KINKFEST <333

[birdsofshore]

hpkinkfest 

is accepting prompts and I am very much hoping to be able to write something this year. Apart from being fabulous and filthy fun, I think kinkfest is a really important event with its ethos of kink positivity, where kink-shaming and ship-shaming are not tolerated.

I may have left a few ideas on the prompting post and I am wildly excited at the thought that someone might pick one. I'm also hoping to find a prompt on there that I just can't resist, so if you haven't already, please do go and spill out your most deviant and delicious thoughts.

ALSO: another rec from hd_erised...

this fic is eating my brain and I am at that stage where I'm torn between wanting to whoosh on and finish it., and also trying to slow down so it's not over *sob*. It's so funny and so original and SO BLOODY HOT. I'm in heaven. Please come and read it so we can flail together! I don't want to give away plot stuff but I think it's OK to say that it's an H/D fic which involves living in the Muggle world and also the world of pop music and a closeted Harry discovering what he likes, and features the best Parvati I've read, and phone sex that made my head pretty much catch fire. It's just FABULOUS.

Star Quality , currently anon, 118k, NC-17, Harry/Draco, summary: Two years after the war, and Harry’s content with his life. OK, so it’s a little annoying that he keeps winning Witch Weekly’sMost Eligible Bachelor award, and he’s really not looking forward to the unveiling of an enormous gold statue of himself, but he loves his friends, and he loves being an Auror. And if he yearns for something more, something he can barely bring himself to think about, well, he’ll probably get over it. No one’s happy all the time, are they?

But then everything changes, and Harry’s thrown into a new and dazzling world he’s not sure he can actually escape from. And as time goes on, he starts to wonder: does he actually want to?

 

OK DW just ate half my post again. Any suggestions? It seemed to happen after switching from Rich Text to HTML... everything looked fine but then when I posted, half the text, and my pretty kink picture, was gone, GRR.

Comments

[sdk]

Oh yeah, I really wish they had username tagging notifications and also the scheduled posts. If they had both those things, I think I'd be in heaven! Maybe one day...

[birdsofshore]

Do they ever respond to suggestions like that? I know a lot more fests would move her e if scheduling was possible, wouldn't they?

[sdk]

I do know that the scheduling of posts has been brought up to them. Not sure about the user name tagging notifications, but I think the problem is DW only has two full time people (iirc) because they don't use ads and they won't accept any venture capital because they want to maintain ownership and keep the freedom for users to be able to post what they want. So there is no Strikethrough or the whole Tumblr purge in Dreamwidth's future, for example. That was really important to them (and one of the reasons I've always supported DW even though they don't update things very often and are very slow in this regard). They are completely funded by users buying paid time/icons, etc. Anyway, I do think scheduled posts is on their radar, I just don't know how far down their list it is. They do have a small team of volunteers but things just move really slow around here. But the payoff of that is no random out of the blue censorship and it's not going to be sold to a cooperation, etc. But yes, I do believe one of the big reasons why fests didn't move over here after the whole LJ TOS business was the scheduling. Torino and I moved Salt and Pepper over here and we've managed with the manually posting times, but that's a small fest so it's a lot easier to handle then something like Erised, I imagine!

[birdsofshore]

That's all really interesting and makes a lot of sense, thanks, Shelly <3