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[bronze_ribbons]

Just read isiscolo's Girl of a Different Colour, a short and lovely HP/Wicked crossover fic.

Also, amused by her ficlet for an anti-Harry/Ginny fan.

Last but not least, at ChatzarMaveth, "Top Ten Things That Would Be Different If Darth Vader Had Been Jewish":
"2. Getting people to come to the dark side would have involve[d] a mitzvah tank."

Comments

[ky-expatriate.livejournal.com]

Oh, I liked that piece too -- I thought it was nicely nuanced, and incorporated the quote at the end without seeming forced or cliched. Thanks for recommending it!

P.S. I saw that you're friends with geoviki -- have you read AJ Hall's LOP novels?

[mechaieh.livejournal.com]

Yup. As it happens, AJH and I both used to belong to a Dorothy L. Sayers discussion list (she may still be a regular; I dropped out a couple of years ago), and the characters we favored were roommates, so somewhere in the LordPeter archives there's a post where she (as Eiluned Price) cheerfully scolded me (as Sylvia Marriott) for spilling cocoa all over the cat.

[ky-expatriate.livejournal.com]

Dang it, everyone I know on the internets is into Sayers. I'm going to have to use my six weeks of schoolessness to figure this out..... and my cat would personally be quite happy to have cocoa spilled on him. Until I had to bathe him, anyway....

[mechaieh.livejournal.com]

Well, for me, the reasons include lines like these:

"For the last five years or so. . .you have been looking like a demented sheep at my sister, and starting like a rabbit whenever her name is mentioned. What do you mean by it? It is not ornamental. It is not exhilarating. You unnerve the poor girl." - STRONG POISON


"You would have to. . .write a book about human beings for a change."
". . .I'll think about that. It would hurt like hell."
"What would that matter, if it made a good book?" - GAUDY NIGHT


"Dearest Mother - Don't faint - I am coming home for Xmas on Saturday with a man and a motor-cycle, with request that you will kindly give same a kind of welcome and a few words of friendly cheer." - to her mother, 18 December 1922


Plus, I crack up every time I think of AJ referring to Draco as "Darth Wimsey."

[ky-expatriate.livejournal.com]

Any book that uses the phrase "demented sheep" is a book I will like. It puts me in mind of the nicotine-crazed sheep on that episode of the Simpsons where Homer hybridizes tobacco and tomatoes and creates "tomacco". Although that sheep was frothing with rage, which is probably not the look the poor paramour was aiming for.

[mechaieh.livejournal.com]

I have a peculiar fondness for the phrase "fat-tailed Passover sheep," which crops up briefly in The Mamur Zapt and the Spoils of Egypt.