~~teh unpopular meme, omg!
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reenkaMaybe 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.
1. It's not whether it's canon or fanon-- it's whether you can write about human beings and make them sound like human beings rather than cardboard cut-outs of your schoolgirl fantasies.
2. Draco is not a supermodel. Neither is Harry. Post-Azkaban Sirius isn't much more handsome than a starved dog (...I dunno, maybe some people like that sort of thing), and Remus is all grey-streaked and worn and -shabby-. His knees probably creak. Also, think about it: Snape's appearance scares small children. I'm sorry, does that hurt you? I hear Fleur's all right, though, so there's no need to despair.
3. Using icons of gorgeous models for HP characters is just really lame, especially if you excuse it by saying it's "your vision". Right, then. Y'mean, it's "your porn", and that's fine. 'Vision of canon'... not so much.
4. On account of people with frizzy (and sometimes oily) hair everywhere: it's not the end of the world! Why must you fix it?? I like my frizzy hair, okay?? It's cute! Cute, I'm telling you, -cute-!! ...And so is Hermione's. Ahem. What is this tyranny of conditioner and straightening shampoo?? I PROTEST.
5. Every character has their bastard and/or pathetic asshole loser side and their cute and/or admirable side. And once you start saying one character's cute side is objectively cuter/brighter/shinier than another's, and therefore that other character sucks ass, you become a Grade A Wanker. Welcome, it's a big club.
6. Draco is neither "just" good (ohhh, misunderstood little baby! he's young yet! he'll learn! besides, check out that ass!!) or bad (he's bound to kill Muggles/Mudbloods/the President, let's kill him first! and he's not funny! we must destroy the unfunny ones!!) or ugly (ferrets! who likes ferrets?!) He's "just" human like anybody else. That makes him good -and- bad -and- ugly. Complexity-- oddly, realistically speaking, everyone does have it.
7. Porn is Good (or God, what have you), but kink doesn't equal hot. Therefore, I have no kinks except talent, baby. Well-written dynamic PLUS kink equals hot. This is something that very rarely occurs, and by that I mean that most people's porn is... not any better than most people's fic in general. All the kink in the world could never be as satisfying as someone who can write a really believable vanilla scene. With spirit, people! Spirit! (Or in other words: good porn is more talent for writing than kink.)
8. Purple prose is never good. Not under any circumstances. It is the Unforgivable. And yet I love IP. I am not always consistent, but then, consistency is the hobgoblin of small minds, etcetc.
9. Lucius Malfoy is a loser-- otherwise known as a pathetic creep (and so is every Slytherin currently living... and a good portion of the rest of the HP characters, but let's not go into that). I mean, he's not some sexier version of Darth Vader. He's not any hotter/cooler/sexier/elegant-and-charming-and-brilliantly-icy than Snape. And please, please, please someone write him without the long-ass hair and the cane. Just once. I BLOODY HATE THE CANE, OKAY?
10. As far as HP meta goes: it's all been said before and now virtually every instance of it is wank. Was it ever not wank??? I DON'T KNOW. Perhaps all meta everywhere is really wank (i.e., self-indulgent, obvious yet overly obscure, and really entirely about kink, though I hope not). Yeah, yeah, someone shut me up already.
~~
On a happy-shiny note, things I really loved recently:
Firstly,![[livejournal.com profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/external/lj-userinfo.gif)
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.
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.
1. It's not whether it's canon or fanon-- it's whether you can write about human beings and make them sound like human beings rather than cardboard cut-outs of your schoolgirl fantasies.
2. Draco is not a supermodel. Neither is Harry. Post-Azkaban Sirius isn't much more handsome than a starved dog (...I dunno, maybe some people like that sort of thing), and Remus is all grey-streaked and worn and -shabby-. His knees probably creak. Also, think about it: Snape's appearance scares small children. I'm sorry, does that hurt you? I hear Fleur's all right, though, so there's no need to despair.
3. Using icons of gorgeous models for HP characters is just really lame, especially if you excuse it by saying it's "your vision". Right, then. Y'mean, it's "your porn", and that's fine. 'Vision of canon'... not so much.
4. On account of people with frizzy (and sometimes oily) hair everywhere: it's not the end of the world! Why must you fix it?? I like my frizzy hair, okay?? It's cute! Cute, I'm telling you, -cute-!! ...And so is Hermione's. Ahem. What is this tyranny of conditioner and straightening shampoo?? I PROTEST.
5. Every character has their bastard and/or pathetic asshole loser side and their cute and/or admirable side. And once you start saying one character's cute side is objectively cuter/brighter/shinier than another's, and therefore that other character sucks ass, you become a Grade A Wanker. Welcome, it's a big club.
6. Draco is neither "just" good (ohhh, misunderstood little baby! he's young yet! he'll learn! besides, check out that ass!!) or bad (he's bound to kill Muggles/Mudbloods/the President, let's kill him first! and he's not funny! we must destroy the unfunny ones!!) or ugly (ferrets! who likes ferrets?!) He's "just" human like anybody else. That makes him good -and- bad -and- ugly. Complexity-- oddly, realistically speaking, everyone does have it.
7. Porn is Good (or God, what have you), but kink doesn't equal hot. Therefore, I have no kinks except talent, baby. Well-written dynamic PLUS kink equals hot. This is something that very rarely occurs, and by that I mean that most people's porn is... not any better than most people's fic in general. All the kink in the world could never be as satisfying as someone who can write a really believable vanilla scene. With spirit, people! Spirit! (Or in other words: good porn is more talent for writing than kink.)
8. Purple prose is never good. Not under any circumstances. It is the Unforgivable. And yet I love IP. I am not always consistent, but then, consistency is the hobgoblin of small minds, etcetc.
9. Lucius Malfoy is a loser-- otherwise known as a pathetic creep (and so is every Slytherin currently living... and a good portion of the rest of the HP characters, but let's not go into that). I mean, he's not some sexier version of Darth Vader. He's not any hotter/cooler/sexier/elegant-and-charming-and-brilliantly-icy than Snape. And please, please, please someone write him without the long-ass hair and the cane. Just once. I BLOODY HATE THE CANE, OKAY?
10. As far as HP meta goes: it's all been said before and now virtually every instance of it is wank. Was it ever not wank??? I DON'T KNOW. Perhaps all meta everywhere is really wank (i.e., self-indulgent, obvious yet overly obscure, and really entirely about kink, though I hope not). Yeah, yeah, someone shut me up already.
~~
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.
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Date: 2004-10-12 01:57 pm (UTC)Duckpuppy's Draco is the one that lives in my head. <333
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Date: 2004-10-12 02:02 pm (UTC)I haven't found my ideal Draco yet. *sobs* Mac was just really hot as Draco, 'cause omg THOSE FUCKABLE LIPS. Harry would totally get insta-orgasms outta those, mmmm.
Glock's Harry is my Harry, though <3
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Date: 2004-10-12 02:24 pm (UTC)>:|
And Macaulay is just so...pasty and fleshy. His lips are like a raw wound. He could be Neville, I guess.
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Date: 2004-10-12 02:30 pm (UTC)<-- *CLEARLY BIASED* ahahah I totally have a pouty-lip fetish. I blame Hollywood!!1
I love it, though. "Draco's lips are like a raw wound." Nnngh. (clearly, I have some sort of issues, here.)
I love unsexy!Draco <3
Also, 'Jesus-face' is Duckpuppy's phrase to describe him, not mine :D :D It's like, she makes him too pretty...? I like him semi-ugly :D :D :D
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Date: 2004-10-12 04:23 pm (UTC)And I totally get the pouty lip thing. I come from the SV fandom, don't forget, hahaha. Maybe I'm just too old to sexualize MC. Or, it could be that he's as sexy as a bloated fish. One or the other.
*runs away*
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Date: 2004-10-12 03:03 pm (UTC)You are dead to me.
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Date: 2004-10-12 04:20 pm (UTC)no subject
Date: 2004-10-14 06:58 am (UTC)*stars Macaulay as Draco*
*mmmmmmmmmh*
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Date: 2004-10-14 07:47 am (UTC)