(But I'm not cerebral! I swear!!)

First things first: I hereby solemnly declare today to be Aspen Loff Day (wheeee!!1 confetti for aaaaallll!!) because the glorious, lucid and also hamster-possessing Miss cursescar has updated(!!) her site with two new (and pornalicious!) H/D fics: `The World' & `Let It Snow', which is so sweet & sour & eeeee realistic & omg delicious in many many ways. She's also put up a Peter/Wendy ficlet which deserves loff, same as all her writing. Therefore, anyone so inclined should feel free to spread said loff to Aspen in the form of squeeing and possibly detailed reviews, as well as tasteful worship and promises of first-born children for some goggle!sex, because it would only be proper. There's no need to thank me for this announcement; you may now go forth and smother Aspen with adoration. Tell her Reena sent you!

Also, hahah, I found a ficlet by malafede about Draco the Crybaby which I felt I should also pimp. 'Tis great! And interesting, considering my own questions as to how/whether Draco would cry. And stuff.
    Oh, and I just wrote a much belated Percy/Oliver grocery shopping drabble for my drabblethon in June -.- ahahaha. Um. Right. And now on to the disgustingly cerebral part of today's post. Skip, skip, skip on ahead.
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This is sort of sparked by the discussion on dorrie6's post asking for reasons why we ship H/D, right. And my answer (eventually) condensed down to: I (want to) believe it's possible for Harry & Draco to 'get over' things and see each other clearly (or something like it). So, it's a question of 'faith'-- or idealism-- vs. 'cynicism'. Because supposedly it's my idealistic 'faith' in love or humanity that makes me believe unlikely things could happen and that people could change (or should change). I did comment at one point to say that I consider myself a mix of an idealist and a cynic, but I don't think that goes far enough.

( And now, to leave HP meta behind & plunge straight into the frigid waters of old-skool philosophy. On having a sense of wonder and the balance of all things. )