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I wrote a fic for the SSHG exchange on LJ http://sshg-exchange.livejournal.com/

The Big Reveal will be on 7th December

I haven't tried guessing the identities of the participants because I'm quite new to the pairing and I don't know many authors yet. 

Did anyone identify my offering? There are a few clues, I think. Do you want to guess which was mine? Comment here (comments are screened) with your suggestion and I'll write something for you if you guess correctly! 

Actually I haz been bitten by a rabid plot-bunny but I don't know who to pair Severus with. Guess which was my SS-HG fic and you either get to choose who Snape ends up with or else I'll write you a ficlet with the pairing of your choice. 

*kicks muse up the arse and threatens to strangle her unless she stops sending me were-plot-bunnies that turn into velociraptors*

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Have things changed much over the years, I wonder? Many years ago, I went to a meeting with a friend who happened to be my dentist at the time. I introduced him as 'this is N, he's my dentist' and afterwards, he asked me not to do that, to just introduce him by name. I apologised and didn't do it again, but it set me thinking. I would have LOVED to be introduced by something I did or had done, rather than as belonging to someone. I never imagined that someone would object to it.

As a child and teen, I was introduced as 'this is M's daughter' or 'C's eldest child.' Then I was introduced as 'Mr gingertart's girlfriend / fiancee / wife'. I was never, ever, introduced to anyone as 'this is gingertart, she's a scientist / microbiologist / researcher'. At work, I tended to be 'this is gingertart, she works for M / she works in E's group / she's J's assistant' (and note that M, E and J were all male) although very rarely, 'this is gingertart, she works on Listeria or whatever'. But outside work, no, I always belonged to someone, someone's daughter or wife or friend. My brother was 'this is T, he's a bank manager' or financial consultant or whatever he happened to be doing. Mr Gingertart was and still is a teacher. I'm an appendage. Is this one of the reasons why it is harder for females to rise to the top; they are fed subtle messages that they're not taken quite so seriously? 

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I'm still reading, commenting and writing. Still participating in fests here and there in the HP fandom, mainly but not exclusively Snarry. 

Some time ago, someone on my f-list (I can't remember who) commented in their journal that they didn't like dogs and didn't like reading about them. Because I hate upsetting people, I stopped posting about my dogs - my decision, I'm not not complaining about it. But I then wondered if other things that I used to post about were upsetting people too, so I more or less stopped posting. The paralysis of the indecisive person who just wants approval, I suppose. After all, why do I write fanfic, rather than original fic? Because of the gratification of comments and recs, which are immediate, and encouraging, and cosy and rather safe. I'm all for doing cosy and safe, since I've left my job and am about to embark on a degree with The Open University. I want a BA Hons to go with my BSc Hons. I want to do the artistic stuff that I had to drop to do sciences. I'm aiming for a BA in Humanities specialising in Creative Writing. So I may post about that.