i was reading yet again, about unhappy!draco. and basically, it wasn't that he was -shown- to be unhappy but rather, he just was -said- to be unhappy. i began to swallow it, but then it occurred to me that draco is -always- unhappy. everyone assumes draco is unhappy, his family life sucks, his mother is never really "there", his father's strictness makes him lonely and untrusting of emotions. why?
often enough, harry is also unhappy. this isn't played up as much, but enough. the dursleys left deep grooves on his soul so that he's desperate for friendship and belonging like a gift from god. the dursleys, voldemort, draco, his status as "the boy who lived", his fans, fame, his "destiny", cedric-- all of it is making him sad. his responsibilities make him sad because he sees no way out and he's aware of that. as is draco, also aware of his own responsibilities, and also sees no way out.
now, it's not that i want "happy", but this cult of sadness is weird, is it not? hermione is like, -never- all that sad, and neither is ron, in h/d fics anyway. for all i know, in hermione or ron-centric fics, they're v. v. sad. *laughs*
( [more] unhappy!draco blues; my old self-awareness pet peeve strikes again )
( more overdone h/d ranting & somehow, it just doesn't seem to `work' if it's only natural by decree... )
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occurs to me how strange it is to find so many people saying "oh yah, this is my first fic ever" about well-written stories (if they're badly written, i guess it's obvious why/how it's their first fic ever). i mean, especially if you're over 16 (though that's an arbitrary number). how does something just "click" in someone's head like that? do you wake up one day and realize, "hey, i can write! wow!"
( if you're a writer and you know it, clap your hands... )
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( REALLY BAD satiric poem. ok? bad. )
often enough, harry is also unhappy. this isn't played up as much, but enough. the dursleys left deep grooves on his soul so that he's desperate for friendship and belonging like a gift from god. the dursleys, voldemort, draco, his status as "the boy who lived", his fans, fame, his "destiny", cedric-- all of it is making him sad. his responsibilities make him sad because he sees no way out and he's aware of that. as is draco, also aware of his own responsibilities, and also sees no way out.
now, it's not that i want "happy", but this cult of sadness is weird, is it not? hermione is like, -never- all that sad, and neither is ron, in h/d fics anyway. for all i know, in hermione or ron-centric fics, they're v. v. sad. *laughs*
( [more] unhappy!draco blues; my old self-awareness pet peeve strikes again )
( more overdone h/d ranting & somehow, it just doesn't seem to `work' if it's only natural by decree... )
~~
occurs to me how strange it is to find so many people saying "oh yah, this is my first fic ever" about well-written stories (if they're badly written, i guess it's obvious why/how it's their first fic ever). i mean, especially if you're over 16 (though that's an arbitrary number). how does something just "click" in someone's head like that? do you wake up one day and realize, "hey, i can write! wow!"
( if you're a writer and you know it, clap your hands... )
~~
( REALLY BAD satiric poem. ok? bad. )
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