swimming upstream

I feel like I'm trying to catch a river with a teacup. I cannot fathom just how many terrific HP stories exist! Every link links to another one and another one, and if I don't stop this I will go blind!

My path so far hasn't been long, like many of yours...I first found this site when I was googling "Parseltongue": Glossary

which turned out to be Ivy Blossom's guide to HP slash. From there I found Irresistable Poison. I read that before our vacation to Utah, and thought about it as we drove the long highway miles. It was like waking up, in a way: I had reached a slow spot in the stream, life-wise. Definitely rut-city. Big bugling wake-up call.

The I read all of Rhysenn's short stories, too.

After that came Cassandra Claire's Draco Trilogy

Then her combination Season in Hell/After the Flood,
which are my current top stories. But I read the reviews of that, which say "So realistic, Cassie" and I wonder what planet they live on that this is real? I call it stylized real. Hyperreal. If I ever met anyone who discussed The Potato Eaters like that, I'd back away quickly...and I was an art history librarian once upon a time.

This week I found Transfigurations
which has the best Draco ever, plus terrific plot and dialog.

And next came The Lodger by Mad Martha.

Now I'm reading Blood Magic

plus a dozen other stories that I can't even keep up with. I'm drowning..but I like it!