... Very well then I contradict myself.

[reenka]

Hey hey. People often tell me I contradict myself, and I know I do-- but this time I'm doing it on purpose(!) Because having said that about the top!Draco Jihad, much as I meant it at the time... well, it's just that they don't make him the way they used to anymore, that's all.

I was randomly going through my recs memories and found tilney's old H/D drabble, which is bloody brilliant, and of course has top!Draco. Another drabble I loved was `I Hate Every Bone In Your Body (But Mine)' by Telanu/somniesperus. Draco is bloody violent and angry and brilliant in it, forget ICness one way or the other.

You know, I love fics where Draco secretly worships Harry and hates him for it, but... pure hate is good, too <3 You are a pathetic excuse for a human being, Potter. ...ahhhh. Pretty, pretty hatred. Yum yum! *shivers* (Where has that kind of Draco gone? Where, where? *hunts*)

Anyway, this made me curious! I'm not sure I want top!Draco recs because I'm not so much in the mood to read new things as remember which ones I'd loved. Looking through my limited memories list at lj, hey, there's another one-- silviakundera's `Parselmouth' has beautiful violent Draco:
    Draco had meant his fist to hit the flat, flushed slope of Potter's cheekbone, and then Potter hissed like a snake, and then it didn't. It didn't at all.

Randomly going through my old recs list for top!Draco fics I loved at some point (hard to remember which ones). Well, I found `Quiet Intensity' and `A Catalogue of Ways to Torture FlobberWorms, Elves, and Harry Potter' by Salima, haha, but I bet no one's heard of her ^^;; Then again, I think of Tilly's `The Iceman Comes' as 'classic' (and I -think- it's top!Draco?) and I suppose no one knows -her- anymore, either. It doesn't matter though... it's like, Charli J's `For a Time in Silence' is a yummy knife-sharp H/D story that happens to have a toppish Draco in it. ...Or does it? Ahhh, the love. Hahah, though some of the old top!Draco fics I'd enjoyed-- like Silver's Petronius series-- just make me cringe now ><

...Man, I wish I could remember whether `Brief Interval Before the Resumption of Play' had top!Draco, 'cause that'd take the cake, considering it was long my favorite H/D fic <3 heheh. If anyone remembers any classics with top!Draco, tell me, tell me :D (I have to say though, usually in the better non-NC17 fics it's... less than clearcut-- or they switch-- but then I like it that way.)

Ahahah, I wonder if stuff like Zahra's `Git' counts as top!Draco? I mean... he's a very aggressive kisser >:D Man. I'm so nostalgic now.

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[yourpoison.livejournal.com]

I've been pretty picky, I thought ^^; And I'd think(?)-- I've assumed I'd hear about it if people have been writing IC post-OoTP fics-- I mean... or Aja would've heard about it... or any of my fandom friends... you know ^^;; That's why I started the stupid Big Bang challenge, anyway-- because no one I knew of was writing Harry or Draco in a way that really made sense post-OoTP, aside from an initial sputtering of fics right after the book came out. Though I've heard good things about Diagon Burning.

So it's probably that I'm just very sure about what I consider 'believable' or what's enough angst or anger and stuff... and it's pretty easy to seem like you're skipping out/cheating in H/D fics if it's not an angsty one-shot where there's some violence and no one really gets together. I think I'm exaggerating, but... in general, people white-wash or gentrify/justify characters, especially Harry, in order to make them likable. Ahahah well, there's a reason I left fandom and it's not because I'm able to go with the flow these days ^^;;

[notrafficlights.livejournal.com]

I shall have to look up this "Diagon burning" you speak of.

Pfff. You? Left Fandom? River in Egypt my friend. You're maybe on a slight hiatus until July... XD

[yourpoison.livejournal.com]

...You know, I've thought that in fear quite recently, that it's true... that I'm just this way till the book comes out, and then BOOM, OMG HARRY LOVE OMG MUST WRITE EPIC OMGlaskj;lkdjglkjllkdgldj aaaaah (which is what happened post-OoTP). -.-
...It sort of makes me shiver ^^;;