w00t! pr0n! except not.

[reenka]

Ahhhh, stellabelle so owns me. Yeah, she wrote another H/D fic and yeah, I'm so in love with it I have to pimp it in this most embarrassing fashion. Ahem.

Possibly this might have to do with the fact that it's called `I Have A Girlfriend, You Fucker!'. I think this and this alone could make me fall over from the sheer beauty of it all.

Also, after the_leaky's unfortunate descent into angst, I so needed this, man. Besides, there are references to like, British things in it. Like... like Kensington. Oh, the love. As well as easy!Draco and rather-stupid-but-eager!Harry. The world really should work like this. I mean, it may not, but DAMMIT IT SHOULD. Actually, it -does-, doesn't it?

Comments

[yourpoison.livejournal.com]

I don't mean the sort of hero you see in Hollywood movies and even in `Snitch!'-- I mean the Hero's Journey-- the Campellian quest, I mean the Hero with a Thousand Faces, I mean the Fool. Fool = hero. I mean yes, I want to make him a center of his own story, which makes him a hero. I don't care if he 'does good' on some larger societal level-- if he becomes self-aware and in control of anything to any significant degree, he's a hero because he -could- do good.

I'm not overly invested in Draco being a monster-- I believe Harry's more a monster than he is-- I believe that Draco's just a child, too ickle and harmless to be a monster. Sure he could be perceived that way, but appearances are deceiving and besides, I have no patience with other people's false perceptions in terms of where I want to go with developing a character. People should stop seeing him as a monster, anyway, 'cause they're wrong.

[malafede.livejournal.com]

No, they aren't wrong. Those people are reclaiming the monster as an alien. As a child. As an harmless ickle everybrat.

I have no patience with other people's false perceptions in terms of where I want to go with developing a character.



I actually respond to your arguments as I perceive them, I don't have a secret agenda here. I like the hero with a thousand faces better, so I am glad I was wrong in thinking you meant heroic status as simply a main character status.

[yourpoison.livejournal.com]

Well, so you're using monster in a unique way just as I'm using redemption in a unique way :> A monster can't be harmless to me, I sort of see that as the point of being monstrous. If you're harmless, you're ...not a monster. Alien is just misunderstood, different or unknown, monsterous is the manifestation of a sort of xenophobia in that case-- but I feel no need to use that definition so I don't. :>

By 'people's false perceptions' I meant fandom's take on Draco in general not shaping how I define my terms. I'm not accusing you of anything :>

[malafede.livejournal.com]

Am I? Reappropriating the term monster is a rebellion against demonisation; the theft of a character's humanity. I never say "Draco is misunderstood" to mean that he is a secret little angel, I say it to mean that he isn't the little devil mainstream imagery paints him as. And I know you don't care about mainstream imagery before you tell me, but I do, and that's why I use the word. If I am making up a new terminology it's just to point out that the whole monster business is a fallacy. Sort of like the word "queer".

Oh, good then. <3