Hi all! My name is westernredcedar but you can call me Cedar if you would like.
Hmm, well I'll go down the nostalgia slide for this one-- Way back in 2003, in a fit of grief over Sirius, who I was SURE was still alive, I sat at my computer one lovely afternoon and typed "Harry Potter for Adults" into Google, hoping to find others who agreed, but pretty sure nothing would come back. HA! Sure enough, the first thing to pop up was the epic and infamous yahoo group Harry Potter for Grown-Ups. Well, I dove into the massive meta/predictions/commentary/literarycritgasm that was that group during the OotP to HBP era, and was a daily lurker and occasional poster at HPfGU for years. Anyhoo, every once in a while, someone would link to a "fanfiction" ("What is that?" says Cedar), and because of that I read a few of the super well-known het fics, like Cassie Claire, etal. Eh. Whatever. Then, one day a marvelous essay was posted, analyzing why Remus and Sirius were clearly a couple. Now, I'd previously thought that Lupin was gay, but the whole idea of finding a coded gay couple in the text! Now I was excited. Anyway, long story long, I ended up at Sycophant Hex, looking for R/S stories, and somehow accidentally clicked on A Sound Like the Dashing of Hope, by snegurochka_lee. Well! R/S forgotten, Snupin was my true love at first angst. I read and re-read that fic so many times before I looked at Lee’s author info, where there was a little link to “LJ” ("What is that?" says Cedar. *click*) Then Lee’s super organized LJ led me to lupin_snape, and here I am, almost a year later. You all made me feel welcome immediately, and I ain’t leavin’. *phew*
Most memorable fic of the last month? Well, seeing as how I just re-read all of Lee’s The Blue Door while I searched for my first post, I guess I’ll have to go with that one. Although I’ve also been joyfully giggling over blpaintchart’s cliché fic Imprisoned for the last month.
Most memorable art: Well that is really difficult, but I'll say tbranch’s Spy Snupin. It is SO awesome!
Turns out my first post here was a short Marauder’s era fic, What He Noticed First, followed soon thereafter by my Darkfic for the Darkfic challenge.