[...I'm not sure what my point is. Again.]

Skimming a reasonable enough post on the defense of Ginny, for the first time since I read HBP I was uncomfortable. Mostly... mostly because I was just writing about Zacharias & Ginny hexed Zacharias for asking too many questions and making her annoyed :/ :/ Well, acting like that, I don't think she's any kind of slut/Queen Bee/whatever-people-accuse-her-of, but she does remind me of a more immature version of Ron what with the hair-trigger temper and... all the hexing, honestly :/

Of course I'm not one of the 'Ginny haters' 'cause I don't hate on any character, just not my gig anymore (used to seriously dislike Lucius, but eh, water under the bridge + mostly fanon). But the whole thing where she's like a trigger-happy Gryff recruit or something (for Harry's army?)-- that's annoying, in retrospect, but fact is she was always a Harry fangirl, it's just she was a supposedly passive Harry fangirl. *sigh* She gets carried away with petty emotions & translates it into violence and/or mean-spirited remarks, but then so does Harry and Lily and James and every teenage Gryff or Slyth character except Neville and Luna (even Hermione! jeez, and people say she should've been in Ravenclaw), so. :/

There's only so much effort you can put into defending any of them, is my point. Like, I was reading bits of Mike Smith's hilarious HBP commentary, and well-- he hates Harry, and says he's useless and a ridiculous hero-figure who doesn't deserve any credit, etcetc, and you know what? That's all true.
    You can always learn from any (remotely intelligent) criticism.
    ( or, you can learn from the fact that people? suck. :P )

And let me add this before someone brings it up: many (most?) people say it's not that they care that 'people suck' or Ginny sucks or whatever, it's that JKR ('the Author') is telling them they don't suck when they do, so. It's all a meta-argument & they're not dissing Ginny but rather JKR through Ginny, so posts like theregoesyamum's or whatever miss the point. And.
    Um. I don't care. I mean, if I can ignore authorial voice while reading with some effort (and it does take some!), then I feel I don't have to discuss it every time I discuss the characters. That just ruins the books for me, and that? Isn't worth it for meta's sake. Okay, that's all, basically.
    PS: *sigh* Yeah. The day has come for me to lock meta if I don't want it to be on comms :/

PUPPIES!!1 *____*

Man, I was browsing R/S writers' journals (which... btw, don't contain a lot of R/S these days :O!!) and I found this, which is a screencap with the titles of a bunch of R/S fics... brilliant titles, gorgeous titles, titles that I'd nearly chew my finger off to come up with myself, and....

Okay, this just started me thinking about title-naming, obviously. I've never been one of those people who thought it was -hard-, 'cause I just come up with some quote from the story or try to sum it up in a cute/punny way or something, but I never do the longish 4-7 word titles that impress me so much *___* I was looking, and my titles never go over 4 words, and are usually 2 or 3 at most! Which may make them snappy, but also boring :( Ahhh, titling is an art all in itself.
    I mean, seriously. 'Five Ways to Open Your Arms' or 'Go Forth to Meet the Stranger' or 'Fear in a Handful of Dust' or 'Map of Your Head' or just 'Quixotic'... ahh :(( *envy!*

...This is really the sort of thing that makes me want to write. There should be a challenge/prompt-fest just to steal people's titles and remix them :P I COVETTTTT, PRECIOUSSSSS :((

However, all this R/S-hunting also makes me meepy 'cause the peeps are not as prolific as H/D by a long-shot, and most of it's small angsty little vignettes or so-fluffy-it's-somewhat-bland MWPP stuff :( :( WHO SHOULD I BE READING? :( I mean, I don't mind angst, I just wish it were longer, IC MWPP-era angst with some fluff in it :( And also smut. (And I'd also love cute fluffy smutty stuff that isn't too fluffy... and by 'too fluffy' I mean: 'raises any serious issues whatsoever'.) IS THAT TOO MUCH TO ASK? :(

EDIT - Man. If I ever forget how hot Draco is, I just have to look at this. o_0 SERIOUSLY. *____* Though kasche's latest R/S makes me even happier. ♥. *____* Alsoooo... calyxess' H/D fanart makes me happy :> Cute & sorta old-school, yeay :D
    PS: GO ON AND TELL IF ME IF THIS ISN'T A MUCH BETTER PANSY THAN THE MOVIE!CANON VERSION!!1 :O! (...even if that's not actually Pansy fanart... heh)