~~big with the tom/hagrid love today. also, the navel-gazing. yes.

just occurred to me. isn't it weird that the only fic with tom riddle that i can bear to read (ie, am interested in), is tom/hagrid? but you know... i would say that second only to harry/draco, tom/hagrid is -the- most promising/interesting pairing in hp slash, anyway (am completely biased with hp het since even ron/hermione is merely -cute-, not really interesting). i've never really -thought- about it. there are some things i think about and some things i don't, in terms of likes/dislikes. some things i can't -believe- i like, because they're "too" something. most things are just instinctual anyway, and my tolerance for them is pretty mysterious to me. i mean, it must seem as if i over-analyze everything, but i don't think that's true.

( no, okay, it's true. ahahaha. yes. and, somehow, this ends up being self-analysis, as well. don't ask me how. )

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also. mawaridi's `it is love that walks away' is... *makes little strangled noises*
    it is strangely like my drabble, `simplicity', and strangely like ivy's `dirty', and strangely like nothing but itself, especially with anne sexton's poem and the sense that best love stories have, that if you do it just right, if you love truly and with your whole heart, life will wait for you and the flowers will open. and maybe -life- doesn't work like that, but maybe people do.
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EDIT - as far as anything interesting is concerned, i'd point you to thamiris' post on `synedoche, power and fanfic'. which inspired me to new heights of rapture about fanon and the originality inherent within fanfic. all this canon-worship is fine and good, but it's only fair to indulge in some fanon-worship sometimes. not quite -fanon-, perhaps, but rather the personal permutation of the original text a (good) fanfic writer creates in each story. i find this sort of thing v. inspiring-- a communal storytelling act reminiscent of fairy tales and myths. we're doing (by writing hp fanfic) as the greeks and romans did, yes.

i wrote a response here, basically wondering if using canon as camouflage isn't really taking things down the narrower path. in a larger storytelling sense.
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also. everyone should read lasultrix's semi-lupin/harry/snape, eheheheh. ohhh, i love the understated perverse evilness of it. mmmm, perverse evilness! :D