#party lines

[pacific-rimbaud]

what major does hermione study in party lines? I didn’t see it mentioned so am curious!

Something like public health followed by law school and a career in human rights advocacy.

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Rob Benedict as richard coad in felicity s2e18 party lines

[pacific-rimbaud]

Like 100s before me, fell under Party Lines' spell! Can you give any tips for the budding writers out there :)

Party Lines! It's almost that time of year!

My best advice is: write. It doesn't need to be NaNoWriMo numbers every single day. I doesn't need to be a 80 hour per week job. I admire hardworking writers who do that (not the 80 hours per week thing, that's totally unnecessary), but the vast majority of people with other jobs/school/family can't, and I've seen people harm themselves trying to keep up. I've read that Terry Pratchett wrote something like 400 words per day. If you wrote 250 words Monday through Friday and none on the weekend, you'd have a 65,000 word novel at the end of a year. Just write on a regular basis, and you'll improve. I also recommend joining contests (there are a ton around) if you feel like you won't feel too disheartened if you're eliminated, and finding someone you trust to give you constructive criticism (this can take some time).

If you want to write for a living, definitely embrace rigor in your writing schedule and the feedback you solicit. But if you're doing this as a hobbyist, 100% follow your bliss and write to please yourself. Indulge your fictional crushes. Turn yourself on. Make yourself laugh. Start 15 WIPs and finish none of them. Hop fandoms. Entertain yourself first, and no matter what your writing looks like or who does or doesn't read it, you'll have given yourself a gift, grown your talents, and had fun with it.

[pacific-rimbaud]

Party Lines

by PacificRimbaud

Pairing: Draco Malfoy x Hermione Granger

Rated E

10,100 words, complete one-shot

Tags: College AU, parties, holidays, romance, comedy

Written for Strictly Dramione Christmas Fest 2019

As the dust settles in the 2000 United States Presidential election, Ivy League student Hermione Granger goes to three different parties, in an effort to think about something—anything—other than the state of Florida.

So does that argumentative trust fund prick, Draco Malfoy.

Read on AO3

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Rob Benedict as richard coad in felicity s2e18 party lines

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Gurriers - Party Lines

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Once imagined as an instance of what the anarchist writer Hakim Bey called a ‘temporary autonomous zone’, the rave has now become a tightly regulated space, with many clubs policed by body scanners and sniffer dogs. The excesses of dance music have been brought under the control of Britain’s ‘property-based monoculture’, Gillett writes, resulting in a bland style mockingly known as ‘business techno’. (via Chal Ravens · Too Big to Shut Down: Rave On | London Review of Books)

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What’s interesting about dance music is that it exerts a political force without it necessarily being consciously political in any way. Like, assembling a group of people without state permission to make loads of noise and get off your face is inherently a political act. It’s an act of act of communion, it’s an act of ritual that lends itself very, very easily to more overt forms of politics, but doesn’t necessarily need that in order to exert a political pull. (via Party Lines: Dance Music & The Making Of Modern Britain | DJ History)