Music and a poll

[geoviki]

I just posted four songs on audiography, one of which is a gorgeous jazz ballad by Les McCann, With These Hands. Songs available to upload for one week.

My next topic was going to be "Why Frozen Strawberry Daquiris are the Adult Equivalent of the Slurpee, and Why I Need to Find a New Drink To Order In Bars", but I think I covered the whole discussion in the topic sentence. Which means it's time for a poll.

I don't do enough polls. For "not enough" read "more than the lone one I did about a year ago". This one feeds my little worried obsession about whether or not I'm normal. You know the feeling? Am I doing it as often as everyone else or am I abnormal? I'm talking about reading Works In Progress; why, what do you think I was talking about?

I glance through a few of the Harry/Draco comms on occasion, because I can sometimes help with recs or fic searches, but I find I cruise right on by all the WsIPs there, because I rarely commit to an unfinished story. I have a few that I keep up with, but it has to be compelling to tip me over the edge to read them in the volume I used to as a newbie. And it's not only the fear of being left hanging, although that is a concern. Sometimes I want to wait and indulge in one fell swoop - I think it helps my enjoyment of the fic. Well, plus I have a spotty memory these days from being a young adult during the '70's and a menopausal mother now.

What about you? You can even tell me which WsIP you follow in the comments if you like.

[Poll #645057]

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[aurani.livejournal.com]

Right now I'm following Maya's things, of course (her Ravenclaw!Draco-thing, her "Quality of Mercy") as well as Mirabella's In the Shadow of His Wings. I was actually trying to wean myself off of fanfiction entirely because it was The Addiction to End All Addictions in a very unhealthy way and interfering with my sanity schoolwork, but I couldn't, what with fandom being forever and all that.

Oh, and I've just finished reading the Shoebox Project, which was fantastic. I will never be able to read R/S or Mauraders Era again because it has been perfected, and everything else will merely remind me how much I want the next chapter of Shoebox. You know when you catch on to an WIP quite late in the game, and when you start, there seems to be such a comfortable abundance of quality reading to do, but before you know it, it's all gone, and you're left pining for a chapter that wont come out for months with all the others? That withdrawal-y feeling from having had too much at once?

Er, maybe not, but it was something like that for me. -_-;;/T_T;

[geoviki.livejournal.com]

I know I could never drop fanfiction that way - I'll have to wait until the infatuation wears off, but it shows no signs of that.