Owning an ereader has been so wonderful in that I have started reading long and epic fic again! I think I lost patience with most long fic in college, due to the strains of reading it on an LCD monitor, but now, downloading them to my ereader means the length is worth it.

I currently grab stuff from AO3 or use Fanfiction Loader to convert things on ff.net. I also seem to be very in gen or gen with sides of romance lately, and I really haven't been feeling the white cis men slash.

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All my fic is on AO3 under springgreen. I tend to write very sporadically for very small fandoms, now that my Saiyuki fervor has died down. My main, non-fic blog is elsewhere. I realize the connection between this account and that one is fairly obvious, but if you could not spell it out for search engines, I would greatly appreciate that.

Fanwork policy
Please feel free to remix, podfic, record, create fanart, or write fanfiction based on any of my fanworks! You don't have to let me know in advance, although I will probably squee over you effusively if you let me know you've made anything ^_^.

Circle policy
As previously noted, my main blog is elsewhere, and I do most of my reading there. I may end up doing some circle things here, but I have yet to sort that out.

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Now that I have an ereader, I find I've been reading more long fic than I have since probably high school.

So, rec me stuff! And feel free to rec things from around 2000 till now. I think I read a lot of long fic in Rurouni Kenshin, GWing, and XF, but I stopped after that.

I am more interested in long, gen-type stuff, particularly exploring consequences of world building or character development. I am also feeling more like reading gen, het, or femslash and generally am not interested in most of the big pairings.

Badass female characters and/or badass characters of color double plus good.

Notable fandoms I am unfamiliar with: Star Trek, SG-1, SPN, SV (what is it with the s's?), Prince of Tennis, Due South, Highlander, HikaGo, YYH, Dr. Who, pretty much all RPF, Farscape, Hetalia, non-GWing Gundam, non-X-Men Marvelverse, non-Batman-DC-verse, Inuyasha, One Piece, Yu-Gi-Oh, DBZ, WK, and probably a lot of other stuff I forgot to mention that shows I have had my head in a ditch for the past decade.

Go forth and rec!

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Er, better late than never, one hopes?

Fandoms: Effluent Engine, Journey to the West, Mrs. Frisby and the Rats of NIMH, Coffee Prince, Sultana's Dream, Pacifics, Chak De! India, Saving Face, Capital Scandal, Half World, Detective Di, Red Cliff, 20th Century Boys

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Hi!

Yay and thank you both for doing something for me and for participating in the challenge! I am super excited and really really hope Kaleidoscope goes on, so I have a lot of vested interest in this!

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Eeeeeee!!!!! Sign ups for Kaleidoscope are now open!!!!!!

Now I much obsessively mull over all the fandoms and whittle them down to three and then think of prompts.....

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I have finally seen the last movie! I have no real commentary, as I had completely forgotten everything from the books, save the endless forest scenes from the first movie. As it were, I kept leaning over and asking people, "Was that in the book too?!"

And now I want fic! I haven't read HP fic since probably around 2005 or so, so older recs are good as well.

Things I am looking for:

• Snape backstory. Snape/Lily and AUs also good.
  
• Lily getting to be an actual person instead of a love interest or a dead mother.
  
• Narcissa
  
• Luna and/or Neville, either character studies (especially with Neville's parents! Or Longbottom backstory), or ship fic. I could probably ship them with nearly anyone.
  
• Stuff complicating the Slytherins, since I don't believe the entire house could be evil. That said, I am not a Draco fan, nor am I interested in Harry/Draco.
  
• Dystopic AUs under Voldemort rule or backstory from the last time he was in power, preferably with a focus on the women instead of the Marauders.
  
• McGonagall being awesome.
  
• Stories about Hogwarts in the seventh book, particularly during the events when all we see in the book is Harry, Ron and Hermione in the forest. Students and professors rebelling, like in OotP, etc. Stories about Hogwarts right after the big climax in the end also good.
  
• Stories about the wizarding world recovering from Voldemort.
  
• Politics in the Ministry of Magic.
  
• What's going on in the rest of the world as Voldemort climbs to power again.
  
• Something really complicating the human vs. non-human dynamics in the books, especially re: the house elves.
  
• Female friendships in the books.

I am not looking for most ship stories (I make an exception for Luna and/or Neville, and also for femslash). I'm fine if there's shippy stuff happening in the fic, but I'd rather that not be the focus of the story. I am also not a fan of teacher/student fic, unless it is post-Hogwarts. I'm not particularly interested in more about Harry, Ron, Draco, Dumbledore, Remus, Sirius, or James. I do want more about Snape, but I like Snape as a complicated, petty, heroic, cruel character.

Basically, I want things that expand on the worldbuilding. I love the history in the books, the generations lost to battles with Voldemort, the politics in the Ministry, the sense of bigotry and oppression and rebellion. I like stories of ordinary people being extraordinary. I have a weird liking for Hermione and Snape, but less as a ship and more as intellectual interaction. I love the HP series, but I also want to complicate it and poke holes at it and critique and put more layers in.

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Two more podfic I recorded! This is actually really fun and much less stressful than writing, ha!

Text: Houses and Rain
Author: thuviaptarth
Reader: springgreen
Fandom: xxxHolic
Characters/Pairings: Ame-warashi, Zashiki-warashi, Ame-warashi/Zashiki-warashi
Dialect/Language: English
Length: 9:57
Size: 9.1 MB
Summary:House spirits don't go anywhere, but rain spirits go everywhere.
Download page: here

Text: The Work of Chemists
Author: anenko
Reader: springgreen
Fandom: Skip Beat
Characters/Pairings: Mogami Kyoko, Kotonami Kanae, Tsuruga Ren, Kyoko/Ren
Dialect/Language: English
Length: 27:10
Size: 23.3 MB
Summary: Avoiding Mr. Tsuruga would become her life's mission, right behind destroying Sho.
Download page: here

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Podfic from the chromatic_podfic community is now being posted! Go check it out!

I dipped my toes into the waters of podficcing and recorded a few.

I did glass_icarus' Filial Daughters, a fic for Saving Face (podfic, apologies for my terrible American-accented Mandarin), as well as my own The Journey West (podfic).

And! The most fun part was teaming up with thistleingrey and troisroyaumes to do my 21st Century Girls (podfic), in which we got to sing to cheesy girl band music, pretend to be characters pretending to be Sailor Senshi Zodiac Senshi, and act out dramatic meetings under floating sakura petals! Tari also has a making of post. Ahaha, I hope it is even a percentage as fun listening to as it was to record!

I didn't really realize before recording this that people generally prefer a single reader and sometimes music and sometimes not, ditto with authors recording their own works. Ah well? On the other hand, I think doing my first podfic with friends made me less embarrassed to emote and act out stuff and be completely dorky, which hopefully helped in the other two I did afterward. Also, I talk really really fast!

And if anyone has feedback re: the audio quality for the Saving Face and American Gods podfic, it would be highly appreciated! This podfic thing is very fun to do, and now I have several more lined up that I think would be incredibly fun, but I wanted to see if the audio quality of my current microphone is okay, or if I should wait to get a nicer microphone before recording more.

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Spoilers: For the premise of the series
Summary: Five roles we haven't seen Jaden play.
Notes: Written for labellementeuse for Yuletide 2010

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Nikita is another version of La Femme Nikita, in which Nikita used to be an agent for Division, a shady black ops group that ostensibly helps out the government but really hires itself out to the highest bidder. She's currently trying to bring down Division. Jaden is the black girl who's the rival of Alex, a recruit in Division, and I keep waiting and waiting and waiting for them to get awesome frenemy stuff or for Jaden to get more character development, but so far, no such luck.

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