~~random ficcy thoughts
Mar. 30th, 2003 03:47 am![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
reenkasara wrote h/d pr0n and i adore it with all my heart-- but i've only read a quarter of it, early in the afternoon. then i had to catch the bus and i -still- haven't gotten back to it. it's always, "just one more thing, and then". my life is a never-ending series of "and then's". naturally, that's neither here nor there. i think eventually, i will write more dumbledore, just because the idea of him amuses me greatly-- but maybe not. i think i can definitely be pompously humorous. heh.
anyway. i wondered (randomly), why is it that depression, narcissism and bipolar disorder are so predominant in the mental disorders hp characters get. i mean-- the possibilities are rather more expansive. there is paranoia, obsessive-compulsive disorder, schizoid disorders of many kinds, phobias aplenty, panic attacks, eating disorders, dementia... heh.
i'm getting the weirdest sense of deja-vu. like i'm sure i've said this before. in particular, i was fascinated with the idea of like, harry getting extreme paranoia, and building a plot around that. that would just be great. ahahaha, and yeah, obsessive-compulsive harry also strikes me as priceless. also, obsessive-compulsive hermione seems almost natural, heh. also, draco. hee, a lint obsession, or a dust obsession. he could freak out and get a panic attack if someone disturbed his hair. he could secretly have to wash his hands 20 times a day. he could polish his shoes right before bed, and set a spell to wake him at 4:15am because he needs to watch the moon right then in order to make sure the voices go away for another day. heh.
another curiosity is why there isn't more use of `obliviate' as a plot-device. it seems so obvious. i mean, plenty of imperius and crucio and polyjuice and floo powder, all very interesting spells, but no love for obliviating. i mean, yes, -some- fics use it to effect, but mostly it's only used in a straight-forward repetitive sense-- as in, let's just repeat this plot-point over and over, like a rewind button that's stuck on "wash, rinse, repeat". it's the most frustrating thing ever, usually.
what strikes me the most about obliviate is its capacity to break -out- of cycles, not set them. i see much more interesting possibilities in wiping someones memory because you want to -change- things, not repeat. you want to make it so that the person can't argue anymore, can't stop you from doing whatever you want, yes, but what if this isn't a measure of abuse but rather, hope? what if it was used to get your loved one to stay? doesn't that seem obvious?
say you had a big fight. he's leaving. he's heard too many excuses and he's sick of it and there's nothing you can say anymore to keep him. say you're desperate. what do you do? obviously you're not going to imperius him into staying-- and even if you did, you know he'd resent you. but obliviate is such an easy solution. and then things are back to square one, and you could start over, try to fix old mistakes, not make them again. i dunno. i can see draco doing it with no qualms whatsoever.
the other angle would be if you wanted to really, -really- shut someone up, and -then- imperius them. because even if someone lifted or resisted the imperius, there isn't a trail. but i imagine that has less uses. heh.
okay, so that was just all completely random. also, i'm in love with the dueling!harry action figure. he has a loosened tie >:D< if i get a dueling!draco, i'll just stare at them and pretend draco's loosened it and then he said something way too snarky so they grabbed their wands-- for the moment ^^
ok, i'll shut up now -.-
EDIT - mmm, draco/fish. yesssss, mah prettie, and fish you -shall- :D
~~
also.
why would non-fandom people add this journal? not that i -mind-. but sigh. all i talk about are in-jokey type things, it seems (well, here anyway). *boggles*.
EDIT - in honor of not being fannish (er... yah), i decided to post a non-fannish pic!
anyway. i wondered (randomly), why is it that depression, narcissism and bipolar disorder are so predominant in the mental disorders hp characters get. i mean-- the possibilities are rather more expansive. there is paranoia, obsessive-compulsive disorder, schizoid disorders of many kinds, phobias aplenty, panic attacks, eating disorders, dementia... heh.
i'm getting the weirdest sense of deja-vu. like i'm sure i've said this before. in particular, i was fascinated with the idea of like, harry getting extreme paranoia, and building a plot around that. that would just be great. ahahaha, and yeah, obsessive-compulsive harry also strikes me as priceless. also, obsessive-compulsive hermione seems almost natural, heh. also, draco. hee, a lint obsession, or a dust obsession. he could freak out and get a panic attack if someone disturbed his hair. he could secretly have to wash his hands 20 times a day. he could polish his shoes right before bed, and set a spell to wake him at 4:15am because he needs to watch the moon right then in order to make sure the voices go away for another day. heh.
another curiosity is why there isn't more use of `obliviate' as a plot-device. it seems so obvious. i mean, plenty of imperius and crucio and polyjuice and floo powder, all very interesting spells, but no love for obliviating. i mean, yes, -some- fics use it to effect, but mostly it's only used in a straight-forward repetitive sense-- as in, let's just repeat this plot-point over and over, like a rewind button that's stuck on "wash, rinse, repeat". it's the most frustrating thing ever, usually.
what strikes me the most about obliviate is its capacity to break -out- of cycles, not set them. i see much more interesting possibilities in wiping someones memory because you want to -change- things, not repeat. you want to make it so that the person can't argue anymore, can't stop you from doing whatever you want, yes, but what if this isn't a measure of abuse but rather, hope? what if it was used to get your loved one to stay? doesn't that seem obvious?
say you had a big fight. he's leaving. he's heard too many excuses and he's sick of it and there's nothing you can say anymore to keep him. say you're desperate. what do you do? obviously you're not going to imperius him into staying-- and even if you did, you know he'd resent you. but obliviate is such an easy solution. and then things are back to square one, and you could start over, try to fix old mistakes, not make them again. i dunno. i can see draco doing it with no qualms whatsoever.
the other angle would be if you wanted to really, -really- shut someone up, and -then- imperius them. because even if someone lifted or resisted the imperius, there isn't a trail. but i imagine that has less uses. heh.
okay, so that was just all completely random. also, i'm in love with the dueling!harry action figure. he has a loosened tie >:D< if i get a dueling!draco, i'll just stare at them and pretend draco's loosened it and then he said something way too snarky so they grabbed their wands-- for the moment ^^
ok, i'll shut up now -.-
EDIT - mmm, draco/fish. yesssss, mah prettie, and fish you -shall- :D
~~
also.
why would non-fandom people add this journal? not that i -mind-. but sigh. all i talk about are in-jokey type things, it seems (well, here anyway). *boggles*.
EDIT - in honor of not being fannish (er... yah), i decided to post a non-fannish pic!
Art
Date: 2003-03-30 03:01 am (UTC)<3 the smooth, languid lines. Thanks for sharing your enormous talent;)
Re: Art
Date: 2003-03-30 11:03 am (UTC)hee. and possibly, its flower/not-flower nature is rooted in the fact that i didn't initially intend to draw a flower (i never do), but, erm... it just looked like it after a while~:)
it used to be just a bunch of lines and colors. and i'm very glad it worked (on different levels, and for you in particular) :D