Hypocritical
Nov. 21st, 2011 09:21 pm![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
keiramarcosSo,
I can't write and what I thought was a chest cold sneaking up on me after my FLU is actually 'walking fucking pneumonia'. That's what I get for having asthma and missing my pneumonia vaccine booster thingy back in August.
Anyways, I'm miserable and the one thing I like to do when I'm miserable is read fan fic (I think I share that hobby with some of you bitches). Now, I'm reading along and I stumble across this great summary which I won't mention here because of my less than favorable reaction upon clicking on the fic. The thing is that I try to think I'm open minded about pairings. Really. I read a variety of het and slash without a single problem in multiple fandoms. Of course, there are exceptions (like I hate Jennifer Keller and Ginny Weasley).
I click on this fic with the GREAT summary and premise and realize the pairing is Harry/Ginny instead of my preferred pairings of: Harry/Hermione OR Harry/Draco and what is my first thought?
"Oh, man, why would you RUIN a perfectly good idea with that lame ass pairing?"
Hypocrisy thy name is Keira.
I can't write and what I thought was a chest cold sneaking up on me after my FLU is actually 'walking fucking pneumonia'. That's what I get for having asthma and missing my pneumonia vaccine booster thingy back in August.
Anyways, I'm miserable and the one thing I like to do when I'm miserable is read fan fic (I think I share that hobby with some of you bitches). Now, I'm reading along and I stumble across this great summary which I won't mention here because of my less than favorable reaction upon clicking on the fic. The thing is that I try to think I'm open minded about pairings. Really. I read a variety of het and slash without a single problem in multiple fandoms. Of course, there are exceptions (like I hate Jennifer Keller and Ginny Weasley).
I click on this fic with the GREAT summary and premise and realize the pairing is Harry/Ginny instead of my preferred pairings of: Harry/Hermione OR Harry/Draco and what is my first thought?
"Oh, man, why would you RUIN a perfectly good idea with that lame ass pairing?"
Hypocrisy thy name is Keira.
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Date: 2011-11-22 03:26 am (UTC)But to each their own. Back buttons are awesome :P
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Date: 2011-11-22 04:35 am (UTC)I have to say I had never read a Harry/Draco till I read BotSK. Now I'm just trying to find more good ones.
If you need somthing to shock the H/G out of your brain I have Avenger fushion Pony porn! Yes I said it Pony Porn! that clears your brain just reading it.
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Date: 2011-11-22 03:00 pm (UTC)no subject
Date: 2011-11-22 03:24 pm (UTC)no subject
Date: 2011-11-22 03:42 pm (UTC)Enjoy and let me know your opinion!
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Date: 2011-11-22 05:55 pm (UTC)There's a awe-inspiring fic where Draco is a vampire and Harry is an Auror that is so beautifully written -- the imagery is spot on perfect and you can see the UST oozing out of the page. "Business Meeting" -- it's still a WIP but I promise it's worth searching for and reading.
Check her out!
Harry/Draco Recs
Date: 2011-11-22 10:04 pm (UTC)Next, I would have to name Gold Tinted Spectacles (http://beren-writes.livejournal.com/5307.html) by
I would say almost anything by Vorbiza (http://www.hpfandom.net/eff/viewuser.php?uid=330), though especially Secrets (features daddy!Draco but doesn't focus on it), Malfoy Flavour (Harry-is-secretly-Severus'-son!fic), and Malfoy Child (deaged!Draco is taken care of by Harry).
Starts With a Spin (http://archive.skyehawke.com/story.php?no=5601) by Maxine begins rather light-hearted and amusing but ends up with confused boys trying to figure out their loyalties and their relationship. (I just found out Maxine has been working on a new H/D, so if you like this one you might want to check out All the Answers (http://archive.skyehawke.com/story.php?no=11724) like I really want to but unfortunately can't until Thanksgiving is over, darn it)
A Consummation Devoutly to be Wished (http://theguestroom.houseofhobbits.com/hp/Consummation.html) by Mirabella because the summary is: Draco is a veela. He needs to decide: mate with Harry Potter... or die. Of course, Draco choses death. Veela!Draco is rather cliche, but Mirabella makes it amusing as hell.
Finally, Snakes and Lions (http://www.fictionalley.org/authors/gatewaygirl/SAL.html) by Gatewaygirl is largely about their friendship with very mild slash. I largely enjoyed it because it shows a realistic and gradual evolution of their relationship and keeps both in-character.
:)
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Date: 2011-11-23 01:38 am (UTC)no subject
Date: 2011-11-24 12:19 am (UTC)See, the only way Ron and Hermione ever made sense to me was if the HP 'verse is actually in the Ties That Bind 'verse, and she keeps him as a pet.
If the author felt bound by the parameters of mainstream commercial fiction where everyone has to live heterosexually ever after, Hermione and Draco would have been much more interesting (and likely to me, given all the character set ups.)
Ginny Weasely was absolutely ideal "canon fodder," or those characters we're supposed to love (but really don't miss) who die in dramatically appealing ways. I see Harry much more easily with an older, hotter witch.
All the pairing off and procreating at the end struck me as being very tacked on and really better left to the hands of fanfic writers.
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Date: 2011-11-24 01:30 am (UTC)I think a TTB HP fic would be great. Ron can be the pet and she could still have Draco. But still with all the hair. Well at lest JK didn't have sparkaly vampiers.
Yes a TTB HPvers eppic would be wonderful! Keira how about it? Sounds like fun hun?
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Date: 2011-11-22 04:40 am (UTC)~L
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Date: 2011-11-22 04:48 am (UTC)For example, I really, really hate Anna Paquin. When I read X-Men Movie 'Verse fanfic, in my head everybody else looks like their movie 'verse actor/actress, but Rogue looks more like she does in the comic book.
I've also just plain substituted actors/actresses when I don't like the real ones. Even if I have to pull up a pic of my choice for replacement and have it to one side of my screen, I'll do it.
When you really hate a character's personality, this may not work as well, but I've found that I can have a lot of leeway when I want to read something badly enough.
Ranting and bitching about it helps too :D
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Date: 2011-11-22 05:09 am (UTC)no subject
Date: 2011-11-26 03:59 pm (UTC)knew Ihad walking pneumonia, it was my college roommate who badgered me into the student health center because I'd been coughing for a month, and she figured any cough she'd learned to sleep through had gone on too long.Joke was on Wisconsin girl, though. Doctor's first instructions were to stop sleeping with the window open when the temperature dropped. In hindsight, I feel a little bad for that.
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Date: 2011-11-22 05:22 am (UTC)ps. I've also been reading fan fiction for the last three days. aka rereading your fan fiction.
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Date: 2011-11-22 06:54 am (UTC)Pneumonia sucks. Especially on a holiday. I hope you can find some fic that makes you feel better. I can't really rec anything for you since the fic I read when I'm feeling bad is generally either yours or Lanning's (which I assume you've probably read).
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Date: 2011-11-22 08:48 am (UTC)no subject
Date: 2011-11-22 03:28 pm (UTC)no subject
Date: 2011-11-26 11:45 pm (UTC)It was treating my asthma that finally knocked it on the head, got my lungs into condition to fight it off.
So yeah, I know how you feel. And you pretty much have to ride it out. So, just lay back, close your eyes and imagine John and Rodney going at it like a couple of minks. That should help boost your immune system a little.
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Date: 2011-11-23 03:02 am (UTC)"Oh, man, why would you RUIN a perfectly good idea with that lame ass pairing?"
I absolutely do this, too.
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Date: 2011-11-23 03:07 pm (UTC)no subject
Date: 2011-11-24 12:07 am (UTC)In the midst of a feral conscience attack, that sort of think isn't very helpful, I know. Why don't you go get Matt Sheppard naked? It always makes me feel better!
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Date: 2011-11-26 11:39 pm (UTC)Matt Sheppard naked.
Now that is a lovely thought.
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Date: 2011-11-27 02:52 am (UTC)no subject
Date: 2011-11-24 11:04 am (UTC)It's annoying when you read a great summery but then there is something in the warnings or the pairing that you just can't stand.
I myself am also not too great a fan of either Ginny or Jennifer. There is only one fic that centers on Ginny that i really like (pairing Ginny/Pansy - matching muff matrimony) because it doesn't turn her into someone nice just to make the story work.
Jennifer is way to chipper for my liking and almost as annoyingly patronizing as was Elisabeth - i can't stand people like that in RL why would i like read about them?
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Date: 2011-11-24 04:51 pm (UTC)no subject
Date: 2011-11-24 07:41 pm (UTC)I hope you feel better soon, and I have to thank you for the nakesnano. I'm 44k works into my fic and almost done. :)
(spn fic with Castiel/Dean as the pairing)
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Date: 2011-11-25 04:50 am (UTC)Some Recs
Date: 2011-11-25 07:03 pm (UTC)http://www.ficwad.com/story/74884
It's called The Real Epilogue by DrT. Even if we still have H/G and Hr/R, in DrT reality these are just on the surface.
I'd also like to rec his time travel stories on the same archive (FicWad), the best one IMO is The Younger Potter Twin
http://www.ficwad.com/story/34656
I must warn you, he's writing het, mainly H/Hr, some H/G, and he's definitively NOT liking Draco, Snape & Dumbledore.
Re: Some Recs
Date: 2011-11-27 03:51 pm (UTC)Am about half-way through The Younger Potter Twin and am enjoying it exorbitantly. James Potter in the book needed an ass-kicking and appears to be getting all his needs fulfilled.
Re: Some Recs
Date: 2011-11-27 09:21 pm (UTC)Re: Some Recs
Date: 2011-11-28 12:01 am (UTC)Different can be good, though! Thanks for the recs. I was definitely getting a TTB vibe toward the end of The Real Epilog. ;D
Re: Some Recs
Date: 2011-12-11 10:26 am (UTC)?/Blocked=NC-17 rated stories, you have to sign up and be logged in to read them, at least they didn't delete/forbid them like ff.net did!
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Date: 2011-11-27 02:19 am (UTC)Keeping the asthma under control is the secret as someone else said. We get so conditioned to just living with it we forget that asthma is an ACTUAL life threatening condition. Better living through chemistry.
Feeling any better?
Date: 2011-11-27 11:58 pm (UTC)no subject
Date: 2011-12-06 05:55 pm (UTC)I hope you feel better soon.
HP fics
Date: 2011-12-14 07:50 am (UTC)epic fail
Date: 2011-12-14 08:19 am (UTC)