Birthday decadence.
Nov. 20th, 2003 01:09 am![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
icarusThere is something about taking a bath at one o'clock in the morning that is so decadent.
I've read porn... Ron/Draco from![[livejournal.com profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/external/lj-userinfo.gif)
isiscolo, Harry/Ron/Percy from hp_femme, Harry/Snape from goseaward.
I've had steak. Served to me by the delightful and obedient (mostly)wildernessguru. I've had Haagen Dazs. I need some brie, but that can wait for tomorrow.
And I'm a year younger today. Due to poor math skills, but still.
1. Certain really good writers cannot write porn.
I don't know why this is. They write wonderful plots, terrific dialogue, vivid and very real description and emotionally intuitive characterisation. All the elements are there. But for some reason, their sex just becomes robotic or clogged with euphemisms or florid emotionalism. Or something.
2. 'Snarry', 'Snaco', etc ad infinitum makes me briefly shut my eyes and cringe. I mentally deduct 12 points from the IQ of anyone who uses these. Yes, even my friends.
3. I find the idea of chan hot, though I am disturbed by this. Most of the popular Chan stories, however, don't turn me on.
4. I don't like Sirius, and don't care that he's dead. If he were in my book, I would have killed him off too, just to remove the paternal figure and isolate Harry.
5. I think certain character death fics are brilliant. That said: I hate them all. I will read bestiality before I read deathfics.
6. Paradoxically, I believe that Harry will die in book seven.
7. All Mary Sues suck. Even good, well-written Mary Sues with excellent plots, characterisation and so forth.
8. Canon Draco hates Harry and Ron (and Hermione). In order for there to be enough change in Draco to even tolerate them, you have to change Draco. Thus Fanon Draco. Deal.
9. I can't really think of another opinion. I'm not much into these Fandom Meta things.
10. Oh. Yeah. In all honesty, I think it's fairly shitty for us to be using JKR's characters, especially since she hasn't finished her series. I chalk it up to an addiction. You know you should stop, but you just can't.
I've read porn... Ron/Draco from
isiscolo, Harry/Ron/Percy from hp_femme, Harry/Snape from goseaward. I've had steak. Served to me by the delightful and obedient (mostly)
wildernessguru. I've had Haagen Dazs. I need some brie, but that can wait for tomorrow. And I'm a year younger today. Due to poor math skills, but still.
1. Certain really good writers cannot write porn.
I don't know why this is. They write wonderful plots, terrific dialogue, vivid and very real description and emotionally intuitive characterisation. All the elements are there. But for some reason, their sex just becomes robotic or clogged with euphemisms or florid emotionalism. Or something.
2. 'Snarry', 'Snaco', etc ad infinitum makes me briefly shut my eyes and cringe. I mentally deduct 12 points from the IQ of anyone who uses these. Yes, even my friends.
3. I find the idea of chan hot, though I am disturbed by this. Most of the popular Chan stories, however, don't turn me on.
4. I don't like Sirius, and don't care that he's dead. If he were in my book, I would have killed him off too, just to remove the paternal figure and isolate Harry.
5. I think certain character death fics are brilliant. That said: I hate them all. I will read bestiality before I read deathfics.
6. Paradoxically, I believe that Harry will die in book seven.
7. All Mary Sues suck. Even good, well-written Mary Sues with excellent plots, characterisation and so forth.
8. Canon Draco hates Harry and Ron (and Hermione). In order for there to be enough change in Draco to even tolerate them, you have to change Draco. Thus Fanon Draco. Deal.
9. I can't really think of another opinion. I'm not much into these Fandom Meta things.
10. Oh. Yeah. In all honesty, I think it's fairly shitty for us to be using JKR's characters, especially since she hasn't finished her series. I chalk it up to an addiction. You know you should stop, but you just can't.
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Date: 2003-11-20 11:13 pm (UTC)Re #4, I don't care that people don't like Sirius because God knows I hate plenty of popular HP characters (Lucius, Snape, Ginny), but I really disliked the way some fans absolutely *reveled* in the fact that those of us who did like Sirius were absolutely heartbroken over it :/.
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Date: 2003-11-20 11:54 pm (UTC)For my part I was just grateful it wasn't (list character here). And I felt vindicated, because I had logicked out before OotP came out that the person I would have removed - for the sake of isolating Harry further, and making him more likely to take on Voldemort - was Sirius. As a writer.
I felt a weatherman who predicted hurricane Lucinda.
Icarus
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Date: 2003-11-21 12:02 am (UTC)I was upset and shocked by Sirius' death nonetheless, even though I knew it would be him before I bought the book (I couldn't resist the spoilers floating around ^_^). But there were some people who made it worse by cheering, screaming in happiness and generally rubbing our noses in it. I wonder how they would have felt if it had been THEIR favorite character who bit the dust.
Like I said, if you don't like Sirius, fine. Whatever. But there's no need to be an ass over his death.
(And this isn't aimed at anyone in specific. I'm just venting a bit ^_^.)
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Date: 2003-11-21 12:10 am (UTC)Ah. Feel free, I've done it myself.
Yeah, that's a good reason to avoid the fandom watering holes and just write
pornfiction. ;)My heart was in my throat, for fear that it was Ron.
Icarus
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Date: 2003-11-25 07:52 am (UTC)My heart was in my throat, for fear that it was Ron.
Evil JKR, for first letting us think it was Ron, then Arthur, then Hermione...!
I'm not sure if I believe Sirius is truly dead. There is no body, after all. *clings to tiny shred of hope*