Of fests and tea.

[marguerite_26]

It's a quiet, rainy morning here.

I have a large pot of tea sitting under my favourite tea-cozy. The house is entirely empty. And I am just about to open claiming on what I hope will be a fun, successful fest. Maybe I'll meet a few new people, discover a writer/artist or two whose talent's been buried in the masses. Maybe it will enable some well known talent to once again gift fandom with something great, or just provide some entertainment to grateful readers.

I'm looking forward to every minute of it.

Life is good.

Comments

[ineffably-roma.livejournal.com]

I has coffee brewing. Yum Peets coffee was on sale the other day. I'm so excited to see the claims come in, but I'm still not as cheery as you. :)

[marguerite-26.livejournal.com]

36 claims in the first hour! woot! :DDD

Good luck with the waking up. gah! I've been up since 4am (my time).

[phoenixacid.livejournal.com]

I can't wait till the fest starts posting - and the claiming hasn't even begun! Lol! :D

[marguerite-26.livejournal.com]

hee! Me too! though, yeah - I'm going to need every minute of writing time so I'm happy it's several months away. :D

[jamie2109.livejournal.com]

ILUSM!!! ♥

I am here but not sure for how much longer. I shall make myself coffee and help out when/if needed until I retire to my beddy bies and contemplate all the utterly fabulous fic that has only come about because of fests like ours.

[marguerite-26.livejournal.com]

Night, night, sweet. :D

things are running very smoothly (compared to last year. LOL)

I hope we have a well organised fest to hand you when you wake.

[gmth.livejournal.com]

Good luck with the fest!

[marguerite-26.livejournal.com]

Thank you!

[okydoky.livejournal.com]

Ahh I'm excited :) I'm going to claim the prompt I keep thinking about and see how it goes :)

[marguerite-26.livejournal.com]

YAY you claimed! :D

[okydoky.livejournal.com]

I did, I felt like a right eager beaver! haha

[emansil-08.livejournal.com]

I feel very out of the loop here. What fest are you refering to? Is in a HP fests of some kind or Merlin? Is curious?

[marguerite-26.livejournal.com]

hd_fan_fair

:D

[emansil-08.livejournal.com]

Oh, I knew that. For some reason I was thinking claiming didn't start for another week or so. Also it's quite early here and apparantly the caffeine has not kicked in yet.

*headdesk*

[marguerite-26.livejournal.com]

no problem! I was not clear. just off in my own little dream land where I think ppl can read my mind. :D

[themostepotente.livejournal.com]

What a lovely post, Maggie. Travel Fair is going to be awesome ♥

*sekritly switches yur tea for Starbucks*

[marguerite-26.livejournal.com]

Thanks, doll.

But I have had three cups of coffee already and MUST move on to tea. :D

[cinnatart.livejournal.com]

*raises cuppa to that* Cheers =D

[marguerite-26.livejournal.com]

♥♥♥

[joan-waterhouse.livejournal.com]

May I say, you travel fair mods are a very, very punctual lot! I kept hitting F5 for a couple of times, and then at exactly 1pm GMT the post went up! Just wow! :)

[marguerite-26.livejournal.com]

They are punctual!!! I had the GMT clock up and the mouse over the 'post' button.

ahaha!

[chantefable.livejournal.com]

ILUSM. ♥

Now I just need to finish the bloody fic I was supposed to send to you for beta a week ago, and I'll be all over the TF claiming post. LOL. Do you have a mop to wipe participants' drool?

[marguerite-26.livejournal.com]

hee! I was wondering were that ended up. :D

*grabs mop*

:D

[chantefable.livejournal.com]

*wipes tears* It would have ended up being 30k, nasty narrative rascal! *glares at abandoned draft* Hold on, I'll do everyone in and get to furious typing. *wink*

*ogles Durmstrang prompts* *notices Animagi prompts* *drools*

[potteresque_ire]

Ever since I know about this fair, everytime it comes up on my flist, my brain will start singing the Beatle song: There are places I remember all my l---iii----ffff----eeee

I dunno why, that song has always been very H/D for me, and it's just so fitting that the Travel Fair comes up!

This will be an AWESOME fest, but you know that already, right? :)

*Huggles*

[chantefable.livejournal.com]

*hijacks Maggie's post to randomly hug you* It will definitely be awesome and you will certainly write for it, right? *squishes you*

[snegurochka_lee]

Ah, you sound so calm! ♥ !! *steals your tea*

Damn you, travel fair. I thought I could resist. Alas, I cannot. :D *bounces*

I HAVE TIME FOR THIS, RIIIIIGHT? :/

[marguerite-26.livejournal.com]

Vaysh be me to it!!! It I had gotten ahold of your claiming, I would have told you the first was claimed and forced you to take the second.... *whistles innocently*

BUT!!! YAY!!!! You are playing again!!! YAY!!!

Of course you have time! *poke* *poke* *poke*

[snegurochka_lee]

lol. There was a very tight tie between first and second that gave me a frowny face for many minutes. :) It's possible elements of the second will go into the first, if that's allowed...?

*facepalm* Yeah, I'm playing again. After all, I'll need a late-summer project once Big Project is done, obv. *eyes it, nods firmly* Yes. Definitely will be done.

[daiseechain.livejournal.com]

Tea is always good.

Good luck with the fest!

[marguerite-26.livejournal.com]

yes, I think I will have another cup now. :D

Thank you!

[dysonrules.livejournal.com]

I've done nothing but argue now for what seems twelve straight hours. It will be nice to get back to writing substandard suckfic.

*Harry perks up* "Did someone say suck?"
*Draco sighs* "Keep it in your pants until I've had my tea, Potter."

Need coffeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeee.

[marguerite-26.livejournal.com]

*pets you*

I took a lovely break from spreading the mediocrity of fandom through prompt claiming by writing some very unthinky porn just now. :)

[dysonrules.livejournal.com]

OH THANK YOU!!! Unthinky porn works SO much better than coffee!!!

An adorable minion claimed my prompts for me. :D

[ella-bane.livejournal.com]

HEE. I have claimed! WHAT IS WRONG WITH ME?

[marguerite-26.livejournal.com]

YAYAYAYA!!! I was so excited when I saw that!!!! YAY!!! and we are a VERY relaxed fest so don't worry!

Just concentrate on that awesome BB and it'll all fall into place. :D

[enchanted-jae.livejournal.com]

Fuuuuuudge. I forgot all about that! *sprints off*

*drinks all your booze on the way out*

Ha ha ha!

[marguerite-26.livejournal.com]

hee!!! YAY!!!

Did you get the prompt you wanted? (sorry, was off duty if/when you claimed).

:D

[enchanted-jae.livejournal.com]

I did, indeed.

I must confess, however, that I hadn't even looked at them prior to that mad dash. *ashamed* I skimmed through them, "uh-huh, uh-huh, WOW! I want that!" and fired off a quick "gimme" using only that one prompt. Thankfully, I got it. *laughs*

[lokifan]

:DDD

It's morning, and nicely warm before it gets tar-meltingly hot. Am getting the chance to read my flist, and helping plan a big and awesome conference, and all is right with my world.

[marguerite-26.livejournal.com]

What a lovely comment. *happy sigh* :D

[wordflake.livejournal.com]

I'm feeling content just be reading your post about your perfect day <3

[marguerite-26.livejournal.com]

Thank you. I'm glad to spread the love. :D