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I got a review for Repetitions from someone who said they followed a link posted in the GAFF forums. I looked but didn’t find anything over there.

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Now I am insanely curious as to what they are saying about my fic. The review was actually positive in nature but I bet what’s over on GAFF is pretty brutal.

Honestly, I am not terribly surprised. Although I am horrendously slow about updating that fic, I love it to death. But I can see why a lot of people would think it’s god awful by virtue of it being a mugglized AU alone. Plus, there are parts of the fic that make me cringe in hindsight and deserve to be mocked.

Sometimes I wonder myself why I like no magic stories so much. Most of them bear very little resemblance to canon and might as well be original stories. And I would have included Repetitions in that category if not for the sequels. This is something of a spoiler I suppose, but the Repetitions story arc begins as an AU but it doesn’t quite end that way.

Anyway, while I’m talking about no magic AUs…

As I learned from painless_j, the dawn to dusk group is holding another fest. The challenge this time is to write AUs where Snape and Harry meet in different ways than canon. The theme: Not Here, Not Now! No Magic?

That brought to mind a crazy Snarry AU I have been thinking about for the last year or so.

Last year, a friend and I were talking about no magic AUs and she said that to better parallel the books one might put the characters in a closed community that was shut off from the rest of the world, such as an Amish like setting. After she said that I immediately thought of an AU Snarry fic where Harry Potter, as a young Amish man of 16, goes forth into the modern world on his Rumspringa where he meets Severus Snape and begins questioning his sexuality.

I actually did quite a bit of research on the Amish for this but I don’t think I’ll ever write it. With Repetitions, I have done my part in inflicting wonky AUs on the fandom. I wish someone else would write it as I’d like to read something like that. Though, I’m probably the only one.

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Well, it turns out that I will not be able to participate in fanfic100 because the mod thought my claim was too broad. But I still plan on somehow challenging myself to write a series of small one-shots.

Does anyone know of a comm that produces regular challenges? I saw a few but most of them were either dead or only allowed slash or het. I want something that’s active and allows all pairings and all ratings.  And also something that is not all drabbles.