- truth? -

[reenka]

One would think it was impossible-- surely there's no such beast as an in character, entirely canon-plausible NC17 Harry/Snape post-OoTP one-shot.... Right? I mean, Harry/Snape is a pairing that goes against the very grain of canon... right? (Not that H/D doesn't in enough ways....)

Wrong. That is to say, I've finally found an H/S I could believe in. And I studiously -avoided- reading anything but H/S smut 'cause I didn't -want- to believe in them. But thisveryinstant's `Truth' completely worked for me. I could... see it happening. Snape & Harry were... human. What's even more disturbing, actually, is that Snape became 'Severus' for the duration of the fic probably for the first time ever-- which mirrored Harry's own shift in perception rather well.

All without prettifying any of their ugliness or resentment or even the physical awkwardness. Snape wasn't the 'hot & sexy Potions Master'-- he was just Snape. And as another barometer of goodness-- Draco was well-treated, too. Not skipped over, not made into a complete caricature-- he had a in-character part, too. God, I love this fic.

I'd love people's opinions on this fic, mostly (well, given that you're at all willing to read H/S). Do you think it works? If it doesn't, why not?

Man, I'm trying to think of an H/D that's equally believable, and can't think of anything outside of Miss Breed's fics. Le sigh.

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[djinniyah.livejournal.com]

Hee hee, whee for romantic idealism. I don't know if I am or not - I think I fall into blatant aestheticism instead. Unhappy endings can be just as gorgeous as happy ones... yeah. Not so healthy, methinks, but... ;) Hee hee. And yes, I read for escapism too I think - not all the time, but sometimes it's actually depressing how much more beautiful fiction can be than life some of the time. Reality is never what it's cracked up to be, to some extent. Whether in a good way (?) or bad way. But... yeah. I think it's true that fic can be not-realistic in that way - yes:

there's a line, to me, between writing about emotion honestly but hopefully and writing about it while insulting the reader's intelligence

I.e. there's good fic, and there's bad fic. I also think I've have preconceptions in my head concerning how I think my favorite characters should act - romanticizations, of course ;). My own 'canon' in a way (that aren't bizarre extrapolations on actual canon or anything, just my interpretation that makes sense to me... yeah. So, I judge fics' good/badness based on that, on the use of emotion and ICness etc. Hn. I guess that's the point of fandom, though, right? Interpretation and re-interpretation? And we all want different things - that's why we're here, I suppose. :) Heeee.

And hmmm, does anyone mind rambling... haha, I know I don't except when it's my own, sometimes ;). Because then I feel like I'm being incoherent. So maybe, instead of rambling, it's babbling. Hee hee. And, omg, I sooooo planned out this huge Snape/Lily story once - it was awesome and evil. I lurved it muchly until I got all slash-happy and it's now on the shelf of That-Which-Will-Mostly-Likely-Not-Be-Written. :D