~~Mysteries...

( because who wants poetry, anyway.... )

i was immediately thinking of ``and death shall have no dominion" after reading amalin's latest ficlet. ah, i'm such a poetry geek ;P
    although.... this time, i thought it was particularly appropriate. i'm not trying to get all shmoopy (oh lord, not again anyway) or mystical, just-- yes, i think death is the end. but it isn't. love itself is the happy ending. the moment is the eternity. the belief is the realization. etc, etc, and so on, and so forth. that poem pretty much says that, except a zillion times better than me :> pain, and endings, and destruction, aren't as powerful, really, as hope, and love, and creation. or at least-- it's an eternal sort of balance. neither can defeat the other-- they both need the other to exist after all. yin and yang. i live and i die. love continues. death i think is no parentheses ;)

( wrote a ficlet in response to amalin's story, actually..... )

~~where reena is duly disturbed, yet amazed. again.

( nevermind me. letting off steam. stress. minor irritants. crazed!reena )

in less stressful news, i had a freaky dream. it had a 60+ william shatner in it-- he wasn't singing-- but there were close-ups-- and boat-chases-- and atlantic-city casinos with really bad diners in them, and arcade games, instead of casino-stuff-- and instead of atlantic city, it really looked more like a deserted island-- nice beach. hm. but still, william shatner is a bloody disturbing cameo to have in a dream, no?

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reena, who needed a laugh: denial: the mask of sorrow, indeed. *maniacal laughter* ooh, yea. batman wants to storm -your- door, baby, yea.
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first review of ``harry potter and the chamber of secrets" out there, and the thing that sticks to mind is some lame reviewer going, `'harry potter should be american!" ha! ha! that's just rich ~:)
     actually, i like the idea of kenneth branagh as lockhart. i dunno why. yet another ``classicist" actor doing harry potter. why not??

onwards. first we had horned-sexgod!draco, now.... it's lord-of-the-flies!draco... i adore them both. where could this be going...?? i seem to be in complete enthrallment of fics that definitely see h/d through, shall we say, twisted lens. delightfully twisted. of course, i lust and crave after my meat-and-potatoes of h/d goodness, oh yes i do. but ah, variety is truly the spice of life. i don't think it's because i'm bored with ``straight" h/d stories (eeeergh)-- i just-- it's the equivalent of AUs, except more difficult, because the strangeness comes from things more subtle, more sharp, than the overall background setting of the story. i mean, they're still in hogwarts. they're still recognizably harry and draco. and yet... and yet... it's just delightful, what you can do with that, where you can go..! places so disturbing and hilarious and endearing and downright hot, it's unbelievable. this indelible writerly mark these brilliant writers (all my beloved writers) leave on these characters-- it's amazing, simply amazing. they take these people-- and leave them largely intact in many a respect-- and yet make them over completely. i'm in awe. *blows kisses to all the beautiful brilliant people* wow. such bounty. my toesies are tingling, heh.