~~er. t00biness rampant. *prances*

i really feel like the biggest t00b that ever lived. i console myself with thinking that no, there are bigger and better t00bs out there. i'm sure of it. yes.

you would think i'd have something coherent to say about DV11. well. *coughs* not really ^^
    ok, so it's 4:30 in the morning and i kind of -had- to finish, because well, obviously it was hard to miss the hubbub saying an "important happening" having occurred in this chapter, and of course, who would resist finding out?
    i guess overall i'm just--happy. it's brilliant and glorious and erm, all those things. slightly disturbed by cassie's end-note and the ever-riddlesome foreshadowing. "all is not what it seems". ain't that always the way.
    er. yes. can't think straight. if i had champagne i would've drunk some, though. eheheh.
( ok, preliminary plebey notes scribbled during funny parts, because during the other parts i was just a blob of gooey transfixed ardor. or something like that. )

~~fuse. ficlet. the rest is blah.

i think it's so funny the way people are clinging to what they know, re: the slashing of the Trilogy. i mean-- and this is slashers, people who really -want- to see harry & draco together. and yet-- it's like-- a prevalent sentiment is that we're having our leg pulled. it's not really draco. it's not really a kiss-- he's trying to "do" something with it-- something either hurtful (especially if it's not draco), or possibly practical, ie, shielding harry's face from their pursuers, which is hilarious.

the reason this amuses me, is just that it underscores that no matter what, people cling to what they know, whether or not they want it, or it's what they would like best, or even if it hurts them the way it is. at least it's familiar, and you can trust that for sure, it's real, and it's not going to disintegrate under your feet. especially since there are... `rumors' that cassie is just `teasing' us h/d-ers. which isn't true, if this was a long-planned plot point. i really doubt any author worth anything would do things just to get a squeal out of the audience. it's a silly thing to do. also, it's not very angsty, heh.

( *wibble* more icky Trilogy-slash-speak )

    what's the most in-character chaptered fic, then, to use as a standard?
    i can't think of anything worth putting across right now. they're all differently flawed. they're all -brilliant- in their variations, but none of them are jkr's character-clones in any way, shape, or form. this is just chaptered fics, mind.
    EDIT: hmm. just occurred to me that i think `sins of the father' is going in that direction. a weird choice (semi-obscure anyway), but yah. so far.

so that's sort of silly. i do rant about oocness, but usually that's because it's also overly sweet or unrealistic in general, and not very well-written. you can't even -have- a well-written draco paired with harry, in a semi-hopeful relationship, and have him be jkr's draco, as of the fourth book. granted, the Trilogy wasn't supposedly trying to pair harry & draco (hah!), but it -was- trying to write a whole 3 books about him, and well-- canon!draco wouldn't sit well with that sort of attention. *sigh* but anyway. defending the Trilogy is about as stupid as ranting about its badness. so i won't. except to say, i don't see how you can love harry & draco and dislike it, because their love sort of drenches it like ... like some sort of buttery drench-ey thing ^^
    ahem.

( anyway. h/d ficlet inspired by DV 11. can't seem to stop these. sigh. tell me if it sucks. no, really. )

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some fan-art:
draco the weird ahahah. too yummy. he looks like The Fool, as in, tarot. i love that. & mawaridi's snogging!h/d watercolor. the one with tongues. mmm, tongues. someone should've thought of that earlier ><;;