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 12:58 pm (UTC)Tim Burton?! Poe??! Oscar Wilde!! You could not have imagined higher praise. These are all my favourites. I grew up reading Poe and Hawthorne, and I approach all Tim Burton's film with a mixture of awe and delight. I love the ironic twisted humour they see in the dark.
Thank you doesn't quite cover it.
Icarus
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Date: 2003-11-22 01:15 pm (UTC)Oh, you just had to rec that, didn't you? Well, you're right...it's brilliant. Devastating and brilliant. But it's a WIP and she hasn't updated since June. Oh cruel fate. I have to go review her story now...she's really nailed the whole reaction after a suicide. I've had some experience with that and makes me wonder if she has as well.
Thanks for the rec.