Happy Birthday, Neville Longbottom! ♥

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Dear Neville,

You've long been a favorite of mine, from standing the fuck up to Bellatrix Lestrange in Order of the Phoenix, even though your nose was broken, to ( spoilerCollapse ) My love for you precedes even my love for Seamus or Dean, and that, dear Neville, is saying something.

Happy 27th birthday, you sexy, brilliant man.

love,
kaalee


Dear fandom,

For Neville's birthday, why not read some Neville fic? dorrie6 has a list here, and marginalia has a list here. Or you could go check out longbottom_wkly, which is a weekly newsletter FULL of Neville goodness. ♥

Under the cut I've linked some of my own Neville fic -- from Seamus/Neville, to Harry/Neville, to Neville gen. Yay, Neville! *shakes bum* You totally dominate!

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Once upon a time, dorrie6 wrote this story: In Your Pocket You Carry Devotion (Remus/Neville, PG) that was amazingly lovely and made me flail. In it, there was a line that filled me with much glee:

Neville liked Muggle fiction (for which he loudly blamed Dean Thomas)...

About a month ago, she invited others to write a missing scene from a story as part of the idea of ongoing dialogue between writers and readers. As it's dorrie6's birthday today, I wanted to post a small look into how I imagined Dean might lure Neville (and others!) into the world of Muggle fiction. (just about 650 words)

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Happy Birthday, dorrie6!

Okay, dorrie6. Here is how it goes: I'd thought that for your birthday I'd write you a drabble inspired by the Mood Beans that you and jacito were doing. So, I wrote down a bunch of character names, a bunch of moods and drew one from each pile.

The result was: Neville. Hopeful. But this? Uh, ended up a little longer than a drabble. Also, unbeta'ed and kind of strange. I can't really judge anymore as I have lost my brain.

Happy birthday, my friend. ♥


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It is so important that I talk about Neville. Right now.

I was just talking to happiestwhen about him - rec'ing some fics and I went back to reread If You're Breathing by a woman that I'm not sure has an lj? maybe? (EDIT: She does: sanj. Thanks to contrariwise) I discovered this story on a rec by dorrie6 a while ago, but I can't find the rec now. heh.

This story never fails to make me cry. Her portrayal and respect of Neville and Neville's actions at the Department of Mysteries during OotP feel like they mirror exactly what I was thinking when I read and thought about that scene. The respect that her Harry obviously has for Neville in this story is immense. That is typically what makes my heart ache. When an author shows you all of the reasons to respect another character.

My friends? OotP pulled my heart apart in fourteen different directions... but the part where I always lose it in my rereading is the scene in the DoM when Neville shows the fuck up in that room with a bloody nose and still tries to curse Death Eaters that can barely contain or restrain him and YELLS RIGHT BACK into the face of the witch that fucking tortured his parents into insanity. *tears up*

God.

Freakin' definition of bravery if you ask me.

Just... go read and love and find your Neville. He'll amaze you, I promise.


I'll be here with tissues, if you need them.

Happy Birthday Neville!

I posted a little drabble over at nevillosity for the Weekend Birthday Drabblethon. I'm actually looking forward to reading everything over there this weekend, having read a few fabulous things today.

ETA: If you're a Neville fan, please go read this by marksykins. It's unbelieveable. Truly.


In other, non-Neville news, I'm putting the finishing touches on an entry for the Popstar Challenge over at andropotterist. It's a pairing I've never written and it's completely different than anything I've done before. I'm a little frightened, actually. hee!

For those of you that have been following The Points Series, jetis wrote a little ficlet in that universe that you simply must go read: Untitled OMG, someone wrote in my universe squeeeeeeee!!

And as for The Points Series itself, I have two more parts in the works that I'll be posting next week. :) I guess I should figure out exactly how many more parts there should be, huh?


Some Ron to check out:

Revising by arakne ~ Ron!wank, hard R, guh!!
Ron drawn by celestialsoda ~ who you all know that I love, and this is AMAZING!
Eyes Wide Shut by kaalee , PG-13, for the hurt/ill challenge at harry_and_ron ~ hee! Sorry for self-pimpage, but I'm actually kind of proud of it. ;)