Man what a week. Many people on my flist spent hours setting up shop on a second platform (or third and fourth), which has been a huge time hole. And those who maintain hp fannish infrastructure have been working their tails off; when I read those terse, organized, focused posts by scribbulus_ink (who is working long hours to try to back up all the Snupin comms and infrastructure elsewhere) . . . my heart went out to her.

(I myself have set up shop on Insanejournal. Please do come and friend me there, OK?)

McKay's doing an amazing job for her ship. And so are others, like femmequixotic, whom I nominate to be fandom's ambassador to the U.N. When we're recognized as a separate nation, I mean.

So this piece is for all who are working hard this week to salvage and relocate our networks and communities. But most of all, it's for snakeling, who has become a technical Godsend for people relocating to IJ. She's helped to copy the layouts for the "Snape After DH" fest and the snarry_reader, and I asked her what I could do for her. She requested a Snarry drabble.

You'd think I could do a simple thing like that, wouldn't you? And honest to God, I plugged away at it yesterday evening. But all that would come out was a silly piece (which grew at an alarming rate) about Snape's dyspeptic and outraged reaction, if he were on LJ, and had to relocate elsewhere suddenly. I mean, real crackfic.

And worse yet, the porn, she wouldn't come. Disgust with LJ and 6A has blocked off my writing libido dammit.

But I'm damned if I will descend into a sour and ranting frame of mind. I'm going to write something fannish for Snakeling if it kills me.

And it may well cause her (and Femme, and Vicki) to keel over in surprise. Because it's about Draco. ( And I have something positive to say about him. Yes, what lies beneath the cut is an honest attempt to see what is valuable in Draco. Don't faint. )