Where were you while we were getting high?

In the Q&A after the book, Brent Hartinger admitted that the character Russell was kind of "him" with all his best traits. I couldn't help squeeing a little inside because that's just what I do. Curt Wilde said in Velvet Goldmine, a real artist creates beautiful things and puts nothing of his own life into them. But that's not what I do. And therefore, if you like my characters, chances are you may like me too, although in reality the reverse may be more likely.

I met my BFF in secondary school. She's the first one who's read my stories and the one constantly nags me to write, not just because she's a good friend but because she likes my characters too. I've been trying to write Albus/Gellert and Albus/Severus but somehow Albus's voice just eludes me. With the pressing deadline, I know I should just concentrate on my original fic. Then I'll at least have something done. If you've read this far, you'll probably know that, this, is yet another post written just for procrastinaton.

Arthur Weasley is #9 Best Movie Dad according to Moviefone. Yay!

Considering that Arthur's goodness and childishness is this obvious, why do so many weasleycest fic writers still write him as a demon disciplinarian? Is it really this difficult to write a fun-loving childish dad engaging in incest? I seem to have read somewhere that pedophiles are emotionally immature or stunted. Surely it doesn't take much manipulation of the canon to make this kind of fics seem plausible?

I can see a parallel between historical romance and Qiongyao's (瓊瑤) novels, and there are some similarities between yaoi in Chinese and yaoi in English. But I haven't seen any Mpreg in Chinese as yet. Is there a history of writing about pregnancy in English-language literature or romance fiction that Chinese fiction does not have?

It really annoys me that many gender swap fics made the characters who have changed from male to female shorter and have longer hair. If this happens in a film or on a TV show, it would have been criticized by just about everyone but somehow fic writers just seem to get away with it. I don't know why.

Hair and height does not a woman make. There are plenty of tall girls out there and even more girls with short hair. I don't see why the guys should become shorter just because they are girls now. And honestly doesn't a six-foot-plus girl!Sam make for a better story than a girl of average height?