[...idiots in love: the legend continues.]

Honestly, I feel so uninteractive-- whereas once I may have commented on a stranger's journal, now I just wanna make my own post and not wade in. Eh. I'm thinking about regan_v's recent post on adultery & different kinds of shippers-- ones who're in it for the happy ending & ones who're in it for characterization (and those tend to be the ones who incorporate recent canon rather than writing AUs):
    But what punches my buttons isn’t a happy ending: it’s full-throated, note-perfect, three-dimensional characterization. And the interaction between two such well-realized characters.
    Yeah, and see, I'm thinking about this 'cause even though I should be doing schoolwork I can't stop nibbling at my novella, which... sometimes it feels like the happy ending on it is tacked on, and I wonder if I should be more hardcore and leave them alone. But really, it depends on what you consider 'happy' or an 'ending', 'cause most of the time I'm both more bittersweet & more open-ended. The only thing I consider mood-killer-type 'unhappy' is when the characters don't get to pass that major threshold of requited desire (given that I don't even -read- 'tragedies' where people die or cheat 'cause that's way too much melodrama for me most of the time). Betrayal of trust is interesting, but only when it's not a gimmick; only when it fits.

( ...and now I start rambling about idiot!Methos and a bit of idiot!Snape so he doesn't get lonely. o_0 )

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Also: it's amazing-- yet unsurprising-- how reading these H/D author interviews, I realize I totally live in some sort of H/D twilight zone or something. For real.
    (I was actually wanting to do a post about why it's not that misogynistic/crazy to think personality does impact sexual dynamics simply 'cause personality impacts ALL behavior-- and seriously, people, whether or not he's a top, Draco tops Harry when PIGS FLY and/or they trust each other, but isn't that the same thing??-- but at this point it's the Harry myths that bother me way more than the Draco myths, 'cause really, Draco doesn't need -me- to proclaim what a bottom boy he is, he does that quite well on his own. And no, not because it's a Slytherin form of control, unless you're going to start calling all cats Slytherin... which seems unfair. Plus, I'm -really- bloody tired of fics where he even comes close to controlling Harry in any way-- 'cause, y'know, newsflash, he'd need to control himself for this to happen.
    So yes, Draco wants-- needs?-- to be petted, which has got to be like a Declaration of Bottomosity if ever there was one. However, if I discuss this one more time I'm going to puke.)

Aaand just when I was like 'H/D = GNNNNHH :(', lillithium drew the cutest little comic~! Wheeeeee. Doesn't it just make you wanna tweak Draco's nose??

...or maybe that's just me ^^;;;