~~teh unpopular meme, omg!

Maybe it's just me, but I find it harder to write about people I really like. It's like, I could go on about the things I love for -ages- and never really feel like I've hit upon why I love it-- especially if it's a person. I don't often -question- love, because it's so omnipresent-- the very thought of the beloved makes me glow, and I think, 'that's love'. And yet if I try to pin it down, it either seems to overwhelm me and leave me mute or turn shallow and slips through my fingers like smoke-- the things I say seem either overly intellectual or overly shallow. The feeling appears to transcend the source-- the love utilizes my self as much as the subject, and to explain my love (of Harry, say), I would have to explain all of my self, and more besides.

On the other hand, it's easy to talk about the things I can't stand-- the people or characters that annoy me, though there's not nearly so much pleasure in it. It's like-- if I dislike it, I can usually break my dislike into neat little rows, or at least make lots of jokes at its expense. I also find that if I write about characters I dislike, I grow to understand them and thus love them in my way, because they've become a part of me. They're an alien growth, but one grows quite used to it, and would miss it if it were gone. Family's like that, too.

Anyway, I found it ridiculously easy to write the 10-Unpopular-Fannish-Opinions meme, even though I don't sit around hating things all the time or anything. It's just easy to list things one can't stand, possibly 'cause they're more shallow.

( So, for your pleasure... or something - Reena's 10 Unpopular Fannish Opinions. )

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On a happy-shiny note, things I really loved recently:
    Firstly, pir8fancier's inspiring, boyish Draco in `Lettered'.
    Secondly, stellabelle's hilarious `Draco Malfoy and the Supersonic Super Sexy Mind-Rays of Destiny', because with a title like that, it's got to be good-- & `The Binary System', because it's true. It's Draco, and it's true.
    Thirdly, my Fantasy & Folklore class, which showed a clip from the first LoTR movie today, and reminded me why I adore Frodo and Merry and Pippin and JRRT <33333
    Fourthly, Macaulay Culkin as Draco = ♥
    And last but not least, Resonant's `Transfigurations', which owns me like whoah. Bathroom sex + plot + canonish!Harry = everything I need for complete bliss. That is all.