~~what if draco was a girl? what if draco was the Hero? stupid questions and stupider drabbles.

so i was thinking about tom felton & dan radcliffe and their startling admissions in the interview, of intense drama and just-- intensity-- filming that duelling scene, and how if tom was a girl the media would be all over it saying they're having "chemistry" and whatnot. and in fact if draco was a girl in the books it'd be much more "obvious" that there might be "something" to a lot more people.


( *sigh* which got me thinking about the whole `what if draco was a girl' thing, and the role of gender in their archetypes/stereotypes/behavior.... )

    but anyway. co-wrote a brief parody drabble-type snippet thing with unstasis, where everyone's gender is switched-- meaning harry & draco & ron female, hermione male, etc.

( i suppose this is pointless. but still. all in fun, etc. )

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jacynrebekah had quite an interesting entry on smallville's clark (and lex) and his Hero's Journey, one stage at a time. this of course, makes me want to write about harry and his hero's journey, except it's much less subtle in the books, extremely obvious, etc. i mean-- he starts out in the ordinary world (very blatantly-- muggles, etc). he hears the Call-- god, the letters, if anything-- again, very blatant. although he doesn't refuse it at first, he just think he's getting away, he doesn't really want to be The Boy Who Lived, he just wants to enjoy being who he is and away from where he was. dumbledore is obviously his mentor, until he adds on others (hagrid, sirius, and so on). it would be much more fun to analyze a mix of canon and fanon this way, rather than pure canon. since smallville is so scattered and relatively slow with its central storyline, it's much more interesting, i think, to weed out these archetypical underlying themes.

now, to put draco in the hero's quest starring role makes things much more interesting. although nearly impossible, coming purely from canon, because obviously lex is much more well-characterized than draco, whatever his moral orientation (and i found it fascinating that in her hero's journey for lex, she had him return to Darkness as the final stage). hm. must think further on this.

in other news, i've decided that i'm a sucker for good ole-fashioned smarm. ever since the Trilogy was called that, i can't get it out of my head. yes. smarm, "the kissing cousin of slash". heh. never let it be said that i like the emotional aspect of slash more than the physical, but it's probably my initial lure and will always have a cozy place in my heart. i dunno if smarm exists in "real life", but i hope it does. i think that's really what us boy-love fangirls want to see, more than just hot xy-chromosomed lurve. *sigh* there's a lot of books, a -lot- of books (a great many of them YA books), with extremely close friendships between boys, much closer than between them and any females, especially in coming-of-age stories. i can think of like, 5 examples in the first 5 seconds. and i've always loved these stories. i guess if you wanted you can slash them all-- and i wouldn't protest, really-- but there's just-- something, about really intense passionate friendship, especially among a group (boys) who aren't exactly known for their shmoopy sentimentality.
    maybe it's just that the female readers can thus identify better with these boys, since they seem more emotionally complex and interpersonally-oriented this way. maybe it's just a relief to take the eternal tension of the sex question out of the equation (which so many girls are sick of, growing up). girls and boys have limited communication abilities and opportunities, in their formative years, and the deep, abiding friendships formed are usually of the same-sex variety, for both genders. and i definitely remember adoring these deep friendships with all my heart, in many a book, without wishing they'd kiss (obviously). it's like we all grew up and now-- we're inflicting our own libidos upon them. not to say that cassie's harry & draco are 12, or innocents, or anything, but neither are a lot of the other boys in the stories. hmm. *sigh* just. smarm is good~:)
    i was always a sucker for growing-up-together friendships in general, same-sex or not-- and usually, if they grew up to be intimate, i was extremely happy, just because kissing and sex are happy things that you share with those who mean the most to you, hopefully. but a part of me is still that younger self, who didn't think so far ahead, and just-- liked to bask in the secret sentimentality of boys~:)
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ack..! i'm in love-- again. with pure art, and the fanart and the originals and everything. i love the way she drew juliet (hee! shakespeare fanart!), and of course the absolutely -adorable- pure-art!draco (who's never bored), pure-art!harry (who likes every flavor), pure-art!severus (fangirl magnet), and of course pure-art!tom (who never has fun, hee!).
    her harry/draco (hee! ``like tai and matt on digimon"~!) ones are just too cute~! hee! adorable! :D and-- whee!-- pretty-green!james wallpaper, and not-so-evil-genius!snape. & pretty hedwig & harry inks~:)
    i find it hilarious that harry potter is famous enough in japan to inspire so much manga, moreso than any other western fantasy book i've ever heard of. and while i find many chibi pics of harry disturbing, some of them are adorable (my word of the day, apparently). like this one of harry & ron (ron is so pretty with his crimson hair and crimson eyes. who know?? and harry-- harry's a hearthrob. but we all knew that.) and then there's this pic of the marauders & harry with ron-- all with little bubbles saying which creature they are, heheheheh.
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...ph34r the harry/draco/hermione smut. hee. you know, some things even -i- have never considered. but it's funny, isn't it?? no more `ship debates! sex, sex and more sex! :D
    i'm all about wrongness, i am. Newt the Wizard's Apprentice takes some kind of cake, though. i mean.... yes. do i need to say anything?? i don't think i do (and here i was, searching for "newt" pictures because i was thinking of making draco finally get at harry and turn him into a newt & put him into a jar on his windowsill-- thank you, starkiller, for inspiring me *mad cackling*)

    i'm also all about the Bad Place, baby. we all know that (ok -i- know that and i tell people this, so you know... anyway). but. i still feel-- bad. because this screen-shot of daniel radcliffe from the recent `trl' appearance is-- well-- um. well. *meeps* it's.... it's.... it's.... ack! *runs away*
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disturbing fact: my last name is derived from the uzbekistan root for `reborn'. my first name is derived from the greek eirene, meaning ``peace", after the greek goddess of peace (thus i went through adolescence telling myself i was "peace reborn" *sigh*). but. that's derived from irene. rené has a different origin, according to behindthename.com:

RENATUS m Late Roman
Late Latin name meaning "born again".