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[reenka]

Omg, I found this gennish HP doujinshi about Sirius & Harry, Jupiter, and I downloaded it randomly, and it has the most adorable character intros in the beginning that I had to share them, hehehe.

I'm especially in love with Sirius' Scottish bloodhound(???!) ears and and Remus' slightly droopier, cuter ears ♥ And the commentary! Remus as Dumbledore's rival(!!) Princess!Draco and kitten!Draco in one go ♥♥ (It's really almost scary to find one's most in-jokeish character handles come up with by someone from a different fannish context entirely. Maybe it's just really obvious that Draco is a kitten ♥ I have no words.) Princess Draco <3<3<3<3<3 In Japan, they know Draco's true nature ♥♥♥

There's also the cutest Ron ever, ahaha, as the stereotypical angry-yet-cute manga boy. Oh, the love. All in all, it's shockingly IC for my experience with HP doujinshi, ahahaha. Maybe the secret is to make it gen. That must be it ^^;;





Okay, so, here are the rest:
- Harry and Hermione -
- Ron and the twins -
- Tom and Ginny -
- Sirius and Remus -
- Percy and Lockheart -


PS: Also, there's this gag about Sirius' animagus failures, ahaahah. Oh, chihuahua!Sirius, how I ♥ you <3<3 Heheh, so: try #1 & try #2 :D :D

Er... you can download Aku-Tenshi's doujinshi here ^^;;

Comments

[yourpoison.livejournal.com]

Probably it's that it's like... Draco aside, H/D as a pairing is like, angst central, y'know? Maybe not because of Draco, but because of Harry-- Harry brings the angst to the yard, so to speak :D :D (Okay, see, I have to restrain myself so I don't turn into goo at the mere thought of Harry-- whose angst for some reason I find unbearably cute... er....) My most favorite H/D fics tend to capture the angst and the constant undercurrent of somewhat dark, absurd humor of the pairing at the same time-- like Aspen and Silvia Kundera and early Zahra, actually.... I mean, there's a bit of gallows humor involved when you take cute-widdle-wabbit!Draco and place him into the situation he's in... pretty much doomed, y'know, or at least he has been so far, always losing and being humiliated and then ignored and passed over 'cause Harry has more important things tow worry about. It's almost like Draco's a character who fits best into an AU world, y'know? Thusly he either changes to fit the demands of the sturm-und-drang of Voldemort & Choices with a capital C which make him lose his dorkish innocence, or... he gets run over like the kitten he is by the freight-train of the future ^^;;

That's probably the central contradiction, anyway-- on the one hand, he's very much a comic relief character, cute and harmless and silly, and on the other hand... he's the son of a major Death Eater, Harry bloody HATED him until the end of OoTP when he's just worn out, and any relationship between the two of them has all this baggage of competition and resentment up the wazoo and power imbalances and angst angst angstangstangstangst.... He basically can't have Harry and that could tear him apart if you turn it romantic, I think, but of course it's interesting to see what happens.

In the end, one of them (or actually, both of them) has to change some central attitudes in order for a relationship to really get off the ground-- the problem being I like both of them best 'as is', even though I want Draco to grow up. But usually if I'm honest and ignore my shippiness/romanticism, I'd say that growing up means growing beyond Harry, for Draco, and vice versa. I don't like dependency even if I'm often sold on it in stories, I guess. I don't like the sense that people are just clinging together because they've got issues together and don't know what else to do. Need rather than love.

So I think at this point I really do love both Harry & Draco, but separately-- not that I ship them with anyone else or anything. Harry is cute and Draco is cute, but any story post-OoTP where they're cute together is a total lie and just feels -wrong- on some level, also, which is probably why a lot of people stopped writing H/D. They have all this potential together and all this stuff to explore, but that's not really about making them happy, or making them into admirable characters, even. The more I write H/D that's in keeping with OoTP these days, the more unlikable I seem to make them, because I just don't see a way out of that. Alone, they're both very likable in different ways, but they're total fucking bastards to each other. They bring out the worst in each other, the least cute and silly parts-- when their status quo of Draco taunting and Harry taunting back gets challenged and real emotions surface, at least.

Actually, I really like that Draco brings out some of the darkest bits in Harry, I find it narratively fascinating, but I also get really exhausted of it, and at some point it has to stop. They're the perfect example of loving unwisely and too well, once they get started-- it's all fun and games, almost kinda, for Draco anyway, and then OoTP happens and it isn't anymore, not after Draco's dad goes to Azkaban. That's all over then, y'know? He doesn't get to be the same anymore and remain IC, even if JKR writes it that way. The darkness creeps in big time.

And again, I find this potential identity crisis of Draco's fascinating-- like, who is he? What does he really want? What does he really believe? But it's hard to feel all squeed-up about it, y'know ^^; He's probably one of the most innocent figures at this point, and he's also probably going to end up being one of the biggest casualties. Poor ickle doofus <3

[stellabelle.livejournal.com]

I concur, and stuff. Also, you make my head hurt. In the best way possible, haha! :) (Too much thinking for my poor non-caffeinated brain!) <3

[yourpoison.livejournal.com]

...must...re-analyze...things I've analyzed a zillion times before.... *buzzz* *buzz* *buzzzzzz* (I think I'm like a runaway air conditioner sometimes... <3)