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Quite So Pure
by Kanzeyori

Note: could be considered AU
Summary: Lucius Malfoy is good at Transfiguration
Disclaimer: I do not own anybody and am not making profit now or in the future.

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"When the stars threw down their spears

And water'd heaven with their tears,

Did he smile his work to see?

Did he who made the Lamb make thee?"

-William Blake

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That's IT! ::stamps foot::

HP drabble. Completely implied non-con Voldemort sex.

Could be considered disturbing content.

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( my retaliation... )

Snape-centric: http://googlebrat.livejournal.com/431112.html
hilarious-naked-Potters-centric: http://nostrademons.livejournal.com/115848.html
creepy-epilogything: http://tkp.livejournal.com/70244.html


pre-DH-fic
Are You There, God? It's Me, Draco: http://community.livejournal.com/hd_holidays/66218.html

IT!

::FLAILS::

Harry Potter: LORD OF THE DANCE.

::points::

::gape::

Flexible dancers and Draco stalking around Harry and Harry hip-thrusting to "Beat It".

Which, let us have a moment to ponder that, shall we?

::Moment::

yes.

I spent the whole time watching it with my hand against my mouth, thoroughly glad I wasn't drinking anything at the time, just to warn you.

DUDE, there's much to do, much to pack, and vividcon! OMG YAY! YAAAAAAAAY!

And so of course my brain starts working on OTHER things. pah.

Like, I've been thinking about the various ship_manifesto's that I've been reading and thinking about pairings and scanning over the HP pairing debates (and omg did you know that there's a post on F_W that lists links to allll the HP wank that has been posted to F_W and that post is LONGER THAN MOST OF MY FICS WTF.) and..

::blinks:: okay, it's perhaps a really simple thing but it never registered so hard as it did when I peeked at the HP 'shipper debates that so much of the 'ship debates are happening from opposing sides with utterly different ideas of 'love' and of a 'relationship'.

See, from what I've gleaned from the HP debates (providing that I haven't read the book myself yet) it's a matter of the friends-that-become-more versus teeny-relationship deal. It's sorta not even about what might be most logical according to the world (ie. JKR needing a relationship that's fundamentally transient) but most logical according to what people *think* is needed for the character.

And okay, I'm going to stop talking about HP because it's getting too spoiler-iffic.

On a more generalized level, what I'm getting at here is that I wouldn't be surprised that most fans highly value the long-term relationship. The till-death-do-us-part, the I'll-meet-you-in-the-afterlife, the I'm-you're-best-friend-and-lover-and-Everything; 'cause frankly that hits my buttons like WHOA.

And as much as that twiggs me out because on one level it's such a girly thing to think, on another level I can't see what is possibly wrong with loyalty even if it might be called 'commitment'. And god, if there's any other word so negatively loaded as 'commitment'...::rolls eyes::

And...well, that's my background in this, sorta kinda, and by 'this' I mean that frequently it seems to me that the more heated pairing debates revolve (at it's core) a great deal around the idea of what a "Relationship" should look like. Specifically, a non-platonic relationship; and isn't that a can of worms 'cause then the debate boils down to an argument between two people with fundamentally different concepts of a relationship and how that relates to the also heated question of what is 'love'.

Specifically, what I'm flailing at here is that it seems less like:

Random Fan, "Character X can't be with Character Y!!"

...but rather that Random Fan is not willing to like the form of the relationship (which might be short-term or hate-filled or really really bad for the emotional stability of the characters) that Character X and Y might have with each other.

Like for instance, I could see how Harry/Snape might work, just like I could see Harry/Sirius, just like I could see Harry/Ron or Harry/Draco. It's just that the Harry/fanon!Draco dynamic interests me most of all.

I'm not sure where I'm going with this. Your thoughts?

fashes introduced me yesterday to the hottie known as Krycek through judicious (or is it injudicious? ;D) use of the marathon.

The man is SHINY! (sometimes literally) And just keeps loosing his Mulder!puppy. Granted I've only watched his eps. up to S3 but that shall be corrected sooner or later.

Also, amanuensis1 made a facinating observation (SPOILERS) about how if you are reading for romance/characterization JKR's writing will seem less effective, 'cause she's a plot-driven writer.

Then again, I'm wondering how much of the current pairing-wangst surrounding HP fandom right now is the wish/need for an Epic Romance, and instead JKR's delivered a (what sounds like) believable Teen-y Romance.

I don't know if it's just me, but the use of Epic in relation to a character seems to be popping up just more and more. I think the use of the word first consciously registered for me in this SGA post by merryish where she talks about the Epic-ness of the SG1 characters versus the near-mundaneness of the SGA characters. Where even if the SG1 people fucked up, they fucked up Epically.

In a funny way, I've noticed myself being drawn more and more towards characters that are less Epic, than are Mildly Strange People Thrown Into Epic Situations.

...

okay, fine, more than just 'mildly' strange, granted.

Which is both funny and kinda perplexing 'cause I'm not quite sure when/where/how I made this shift, or even if there *was* a shift at all and instead it's only now that I'm consciously registering it. Maybe it's 'cause it's just more amusing watching normal-ish people flail around at impossible tasks?

::ponders:: Or maybe it's 'cause I associate Epic with Broodyness...which is not one of my character hot-buttons. Will have to chew more on this.

am sloooooowly working my way (finally) through my link folders again...

Fic Recs

(Mr. and Mrs. Smith/Angel, JaneSmith/Lilah) ::points at fandoms:: Are you not curious? =D,
Like a Rhinestone Cowgirl by jennyo

(Saiyuki, Goku/Nataku) Many many years, and waiting,
Untitled by cephy

(Saiyuki, 39) Connected series of ficlets.
Seven Deadly Sins by cicer

(Saiyuki, 58) If you have not read this yet, you are Missing Out.
Questions by emungere

(HP) Oh, oh ow. A smidge jossed now, but even if you're not in the fandom but read the books take a look at this. Shivery.
Tower Of Air by cluegirl


Fannish

iron_smut: Are you prepared to enter Smut Stadium?? =D

(PotC art) Anamaria/Elizabeth fanmanip by The Theban Band

(HP) On Fandom shout-outs in HBP by imation23

(Naruto) Fic recs by rashaka

(Saiyuki) 1000_miles_west: for all your short-fic needs!

Thought Provoking
- On the 'unfathomable' man by artaxastra; interesting read!
- Conscious Incompetence by matociquala; on growing as an artist and learning curves
- Those crazy fans by sistermagpie; on fandom and characters and identification

Amusing
- A warning to my Yankee Friends. (TOO FUNNY, MUST READ)
- On eating Pikachu...
- On playing with lightsabers...
- On wieners by phonemonkey:

"What I love about wiener dogs is their air of sad dignity. Like an early Christian martyr with very short legs."

- On Batman by neadods:

"'I have issues. Lots of issues.'

Bruce, dear, you have several subscriptions in bound back volumes, lovingly polished once a week is what you've got."

Note-Worthy
- Toblerone Dark Chocolate Honey-almond Fondue; w00t!
- Texas Music Educators Association Will Not Let Male Student Audition as a Soprano - a bit old but still.
- How come we can't decipher the Indus script? - neaaaaat.

Useful
- About Identity Theft; keep yourself safe, eh?
- A Completely Subjective Comparison of Male and Female Fuckery by petulantgod; oh come on, even if you're not a writer aren't you just the eensiest bit curious? =D

- Saiyuki: psychodragon82 links to Saiyuki doujinshi that look good!

How good, you may ask? Look (click for bigger):


And apart from a couple panels, they look very Minekura-accurate. I detect some panels that possibly are traced from her manga itself, which amuses the hell out of me, because lookit! It's like AU vidding!

- Saiyuki (58): ciceqi's Fulfilled (Better Than Satisfied) - a languid contemplation

- Saiyuki (39): cicer's Seven Deadly Sins, lovely and true to character

- Harry Potter(Ron/Pansy): helga_b some awesome fics

- Hans Christian Andersen: Fairy Tales and Stories (English Translation) - in all it's original creepy goodness!

- keelywolfe links to awesome Batman scans! - I would recommend you gawking at the last scan and then looking at the others. If the last one doesn't catch your attention...

- aubrem: Wherein Fandoms = Nations. FYI cathexys and elke_tanzer? I consider you the Fandom BBC. ::bows::

- speaking of which: metabib - "archives a fanfic meta links list and a fanfic and fandom academic bibliography."

- peasant_ : Don't eat your young - Or Newbies and Critique. To which I can only say: HELL YEAH. 'Cause see, there's helpfulness and there's non-helpfulness; Roses and Thorns, yanno? And if you can't give a rose, don't give a thorn, ESPECIALLY for a newbie. It's like expecting a baby compose a sonata; ya ain't gonna get it, and one shouldn't critique it like it was meant to be a masterpiece. But if a composer creates crap...well, one figures they should have enough experience by then to handle it, or even actively look for helpful criticism.

- Online Dating Meets Cybersex - "a proprietary chat client and tele-dildonics". ::is so so amused::

- Post Secret: "an ongoing community art project where people mail-in their secrets anonymously on one side of a homemade postcard." (Someone should do a multi-fandom ficathon based off these...)

- kim_cc posts a neat personal mythology