~~wheeee! an extra `armchair slash' challenge fic, for ashkitty~

well. i couldn't resist. hee. because i am sappy that way.
warning: not an ounce of angst in this.
duh.
on the bright(??) side, i did write a deathfic, which i'll post after i follow through with my wunn-derful beta's (*schnoogles ishuca*) edits.... so. without further ado:

( this is `my favourite things'-- a fic for ashura )

~~lists. i like lists.

i know there was some loff for my harry & draco characterization list. and well, i hate it but it happens-- i'm starting to notice patterns. evil patterns, evil. i'm starting to get the drift-- where things are going-- i'm not a person who predicts things easily, mind you. my analytical side likes days off. a -lot- of days off. but i'm beginning to think i know the deal. so here goes, inspired by penelope_z's question on why would harry love draco. so let's hit it.

Reena's Waste of Braincells, Exhibit A
      Fanon Cliches of H/D Love [not Lust]

1) - Draco has to kill Harry because of orders [i.e., Lucius/Voldemort]
    - realizes he can't [``but I love Harry!"]
    - realizes he wants to make up his own mind
    - blah blah joins the Light Side blah

2) - Draco isn't antagonistic anymore
    - Harry wonders why/has to investigate
        + is intrigued
    - Harry becomes impromptu counselor
        + bonding
    - Harry is snapped out of obliviousness
        + becomes obsessed himself

3) - Draco has something Harry needs [or wants]
    - familiarity with darkness
        + to show Harry
        + to help Harry fight it [blah, war, blah]
    - ``you hurt so good" [i.e., pain/anger makes Harry feel more alive]

4) - Harry and Draco are thrown together by events
    - during the war
    - working on a project both are invested in
        + come to understand each other
    - Harry sees Draco has his uses

5) - Draco's physical effect on Harry [while fighting/fucking: lust] makes Harry question everything about himself
    - Harry trusts his new instincts
        + disregards common sense and proceeds to shag like bunnies
    - Harry sees Draco's gentler/emotional side
    - Harry "just falls" in love/lust
        + becomes obsessed himself

6) - Draco decides to pursue Harry thus changing a basic aspect of their former dynamic.
    - ``You want me??"
      ``I want you?!"
    - Harry loses former compass
    - Draco acts in more varied ways, confusing & mystifying & intriguing
    - Harry's view of Draco expands & so does the room for more feelings
    - Draco plays hard-to-get, inflaming Harry
        + IP..!

7) - Harry wakes up and smells the sexy [also known as #2 with a ``lemon twist"]
    - usually Draco is acting aloof [Harry/Draco role-reversal]
    - Draco remembers his former obsession
        + ``He's good/evil but I want him!"
        + yeay, bye-bye logic, etc.

( and i can also ramble prosily about it... )

in other news..! hee! hee!
i posted my fluff-fic from last night on two lists and got two reviews...!
*cries*
such glory. i got the longest review yet :D hee! hee! she said it was one of her favourite things, too :D hah and she said it was in-character! i die.

aww. *melting* i feel the loff. i was being wibbly because i'd have thought this last one was a crowd-pleaser (yea, right) but least it's a two-people pleaser!!! dammit :P
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art links..!
    moya's boy-next-door!harry-- don't you just want to schnoogle him-- and rip his jeans off??
    from drawmeharry: a wonderfully inked, uber-realistic snape-- by drizzt-- whose skill knocks me off my feet and onto my butt. i will NEVER be that good. most people i rave about will never be that good. yes, i'm telling you, stop comparing to the rest and start comparing to the best (yes well, in the wan hopes one can, in fact, catch up *sigh*) then again, she's professional, so ^^;;
    and draco's long lost, adorable twin sister, who proves that i'd ship het if there was anyone like her to use~:)

~~addendum. you say you *heart* draco. WHY?

so, while this is related to my last post re: fanon conventions of how/why harry gets that lovin' feelin' for draco, it's slightly more meta (more meta, you say? the horror! the... over-intellectual horror..! um.)

so.
we are wondering why harry would like draco.
why do YOU [you being, a h/d writer/reader in specific] like draco??

why don't you `ship draco with someone who's more likely to like him for the same reasons (um, and who would that be?? don't ask me....)
why do you `ship him with someone who is going to be most likely immune to his "charms" (whatever those charms are. what are his charms??)

do you just think he's cute?
do you like evil blonds (even though that's more lucius' dept., draco's more the not-so-evil pathetic-bastard-who-probably-comes-too-early kind of blond) and all else be damned?

do you like snark so much you don't care he has no heart?
do you think he's secretly yearning for affection?
do you like pain?
do you want to see harry in pain, and gain vicarious pleasure?
do you just have a perverse liking for baddies (and good-guys liking baddies? ooo, naughty).
do you wish you -were- draco, and not the sad, lonely too-nice person that you are? (nevermind that draco's sad and lonely too, in most fics).

i'm not excluding myself here. guilty as charged. yea, i like draco 'cause he's snarky and naughty and pathetic and aww yeah, he needs some loff (kinky loff, if ya know what i mean). and yea, i wish i was more draco-like so that i felt more self-satisfied even though i wouldn't gain any points in the patheticness dept. and so it goes. we fall for the ones we shouldn't, and we want those stupid "mistakes" to actually -not- be mistakes on paper. right? yes, of course :D

but why did we fall for the one we shouldn't have?
i don't think we had these grand cliched reasons. no one ordered the other to kill us (*laughs* one hopes).
does one just go, "ooo, cute," and then it escalates? is it that certain tingle? ha. the physiology is pretty easy.

but still, we think-- as stupid as -we- were, falling for the wrong type (and if you never have, what are you doing `shipping harry/draco??! shoo, shoo! hee), harry wouldn't be that stupid, would he. harry would make draco work for it right? yeah. he'd show draco. he's not easy like that. yeah? yeah.

we're not easy like that. yeah? yeah.
harry's got backbone. harry's got integrity. harry's got pride. malfoy is gonna get what's coming to him. yeah? yeah.
    if you `ship harry/draco but not buffy/spike (and vice versa), you're a strange, strange person. that is all.