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: 2003-11-21 06:17 am (UTC)6. Paradoxically, I believe that Harry will die in book seven.
I totally agree, and must add that if Harry does die at the end I will never forgive JKR and will never pick up an HP book again. I want Harry to survive and have a good life after everything he's been through. I almost dread the 7th book for this reason. I really hope JKR believes in happy endings because I need one for this series.
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Date: 2003-11-21 01:15 pm (UTC)Shit. I may not read book seven.
Ha! Who am I kidding?
Icarus
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Date: 2003-11-21 03:34 pm (UTC)Ha! Who am I kidding?
I hear you. I will have to read it for closure, and I really won't want to hear any spoilers. Right before book 7 comes out I will re-read the 1st 6 because I'm serious about never reading them again if Harry dies. I'm nauseous just thinking about it :-(
The Sirius set-up is preparing us, I think.
Could be, though I think it was also to prepare us for a lot more deaths than just Harry's - in a way I'm dreading the last 2 books, which is why I want a happy ending, I hate reading angst without a happy ending ([Bad username or site: ~cybele_san @ livejournal.com]'s If You Are Prepared series just about killed me, I was so upset with the ending even though I felt that was the only way it could end). OK enough of this depressing talk, I'm off to see what's new at
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Date: 2003-11-21 03:37 pm (UTC)no subject
Date: 2003-11-21 06:26 pm (UTC)*Mmmph... the image of Snape waiting in front of the fireplace. Oh, God, I couldn't go through that again.*
Icarus
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Date: 2003-11-21 06:55 pm (UTC)no subject
Date: 2003-11-21 06:34 pm (UTC)I'm already whimpering. But at least there's book six. We have a least one more book before... O_O
Could be, though I think it was also to prepare us for a lot more deaths than just Harry's.
True. But there was a slightly mystical spin on it, an implication that death isn't the ending that made me first seriously suspect that Harry might die.
I'm off to see what's new at
Oh. Read Harry's journal if you haven't already. Sigh.
And then Percy got a brutal cut in to Hermione. If you can't find it, I'll give you a link.
Icarus
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Date: 2003-11-21 06:54 pm (UTC)Personally, I don't think he should have cheated on you. I think he should have left you. Long ago.
Go Percy!
I just spent quite some time going over Ron and Harry's old posts because I missed a bunch(thanks
I don't know how you guys keep up, it's really hard with so much going on.
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Date: 2003-11-21 07:07 pm (UTC)Icarus