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Feb. 1st, 2005 09:25 pm![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
reenka Happy Birthday, Penelope! >:D!
Since we've all gotten kind of old (I'm 26 and a half, man), it seems like a good time for some reminiscing.
Back when I found Penelope's writing, I was first browsing the veela-inc website in 2002 (...remember that? ahaha), which was basically my only source for HP fanfic at that point. I remember being intrigued by the clock graphics (...there -were- melting clock graphics, weren't there? it could be I'm becoming senile) and thinking the few H/D fics there were (not enough!) an amazing contrast to Ivy's softness and Durendal's wackiness. There was this pervasive mood about them (well, especially Life in Months of Midnight) more than any particular aspect of characterization or plot standing out. The weird thing is, I immediately put the long WiP on my to-read list, but what with reading half the H/D ever written all in the first 2 months, it took me awhile to get to it. Meanwhile, there were these pretty one-shots every now and then, always tart and sharp and often disturbing but in a way that kept to an elegant sort of aesthetic.
...So of course I hopped on over to livejournal (since I was the curious sort), and hey, this Penelope chick was quirky and snarky and there was talk of H/D being dead, but only sometimes, which made me happy even then. Perhaps it's that intermittent necrophilia kept me on my toes.
I think it was basically Penelope and Riddle (and later, Olympia) that were instrumental in making me see Draco as being needy and obsessive and melancholy and rather insane, which is one of my favorite ways to see him still, like in Cocaine Music (which might be the first rentboy!Draco fic I remember, actually) & Carnivorous House, which is the only fic that really left me with an impression of Malfoy Manor that stuck with me.
Though actually, my favorite fic is probably His Belongings, which isn't really H/D, but it's... different.... Somehow softer, more personal feeling, straightforward and bittersweet and resigned and it still has one of my all-time favorite voices for Ron.
And Penelope's Shuldig/Yohji ship essay came really close to making me want to read some WK fic, so it's entirely possible I'll blame her for that too one day >:D
Since we've all gotten kind of old (I'm 26 and a half, man), it seems like a good time for some reminiscing.
Back when I found Penelope's writing, I was first browsing the veela-inc website in 2002 (...remember that? ahaha), which was basically my only source for HP fanfic at that point. I remember being intrigued by the clock graphics (...there -were- melting clock graphics, weren't there? it could be I'm becoming senile) and thinking the few H/D fics there were (not enough!) an amazing contrast to Ivy's softness and Durendal's wackiness. There was this pervasive mood about them (well, especially Life in Months of Midnight) more than any particular aspect of characterization or plot standing out. The weird thing is, I immediately put the long WiP on my to-read list, but what with reading half the H/D ever written all in the first 2 months, it took me awhile to get to it. Meanwhile, there were these pretty one-shots every now and then, always tart and sharp and often disturbing but in a way that kept to an elegant sort of aesthetic.
...So of course I hopped on over to livejournal (since I was the curious sort), and hey, this Penelope chick was quirky and snarky and there was talk of H/D being dead, but only sometimes, which made me happy even then. Perhaps it's that intermittent necrophilia kept me on my toes.
I think it was basically Penelope and Riddle (and later, Olympia) that were instrumental in making me see Draco as being needy and obsessive and melancholy and rather insane, which is one of my favorite ways to see him still, like in Cocaine Music (which might be the first rentboy!Draco fic I remember, actually) & Carnivorous House, which is the only fic that really left me with an impression of Malfoy Manor that stuck with me.
Though actually, my favorite fic is probably His Belongings, which isn't really H/D, but it's... different.... Somehow softer, more personal feeling, straightforward and bittersweet and resigned and it still has one of my all-time favorite voices for Ron.
And Penelope's Shuldig/Yohji ship essay came really close to making me want to read some WK fic, so it's entirely possible I'll blame her for that too one day >:D
