I feel like if I tried to write missions now it would either be for excruciating Sherlock Holmes stuff (I am a slash shipper and some of the H/W stuff is just. Painful) or, alternatively, THAT ONE REALLY BAD ARCADIA FIC I FOUND (arcadia is a play)

Yes, Carry On is the gay Harry Potter one. Specifically, Harry Potter falls in love with Edward Cullen and they go on a quest to save the world. And it's actually really good and infringes on no copyrights. I really like it. My friends like it even more -- one of them is one of the major bloggers for the Tumblr fandom, another has a copy which she's passed around and everyone she knows has read and written in it, we did a dramatic reading in a subway station.

It's complicated? Like, okay, being trans or gender-fluid or something is one thing, but now I'm imagining a forbidden magic potion gone wrong, you angered a faerie, you knocked over the wrong vial while cleaning your friends' lab, or a Disguise Generator was horribly broken (also I want to link to Baroness Delta Juliette's Plort coming-out story, but wiki not working on my computer so go find it yourself (you're a returnbie; you know how Plort works, right?) because it is good and when I think things are good I make people read them)

Or, okay, normal people use "it's complicated" when they don't want to talk about things. I'll drop it.

I might be a librarian (my plans for the future are extremely undecided). If we stay in touch you might get a librarian friend :P

If you get more invested in spells than people, you might not like Six of Crows; the magic is a little hand-wave-y (although I hear the companion series has more world-building) and while it's a tightly-plotted adventure novel, it's mostly about the characters figuring out what to do with their various traumatic backstories (warnings for almost everything)(okay that's not accurate, but yeah, lots of warnings). It's really well-done...but maybe not your thing.

Susanna Clarke, though, basically just writes about her world and system of magic, with characters as an excuse. A good excuse, but the pseudo-scholarly asides are the best part.

OKAY Shakespeare is the only fandom I write for on a regular basis and I have so much (for example) Antony and Cleopatra slash (that I need to just go ahead and publish already) so if you ever want to read anything I have everything because THERE IS NO SUCH THING AS TOO MUCH SHAKESPEARE FIC.

All those years of futile searching kind of killed the joy. But good, you have something in common with periferal! Help make him love us so he doesn't fall prey to Disappearing Newbie Syndrome!