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[reenka]

This is it, my friends. This is -it-. Yes, indeed.

I have found my ideal Veela!Draco fic at last-- and yea, but mahaliem hath written it.
    For Draco Malfoy is a fine piece of arse indeed, but he is no Vincent Crabbe, that's fer sure.

See, sometimes people say that a story is 'funny'. But no, that's not nearly enough this time; this fic is to 'funny' as a Haagen-Dazs Bailey's shake is to a McDonald's vanilla regular. That is to say, both are necessary, but only one is a mere parody of the other. Although that analogy doesn't work, 'cause in this case the parody rules. As it should, mind you! As it should.
    If only because humorless!oblivious!in-denial!Master-of-Evil!Draco is so my new favorite person EVAR. Not to mention weird!besotted!plotting!Harry. Yes. Mind you, I really am scared of humorless people; it's just that Draco is so suited for it. I don't know what it is. I think it's his arse. *nodnod* ...Or possibly that he doesn't need to be funny to be a joke. *ducks*

Also, pir8fancier has updated Champions, omg!!1 AND THERE IS SNARK! AND WANK!! AND OMG, DESPERATE!DRACO!!1
    My life, it is compleat. Canon, shmanon; there is awkward stupid wizard boys-- and look, they do tricks!
    And then there's ZS's snidget!Harry, who is just perfect, in a dreamlike way, like when you had a really sweet dream that you wake up from and it makes you smile like a fool even though you realize it's just a dream.

(...Yea, so fine, it's 4am. I have an excuse... or something...)

Comments

[balfrog.livejournal.com]

I loved that fic- but mostly I love mahaliem because she so believes in H/D even when the stupid boys Draco doesn't. Her Harry seems pretty much part of the enlightened ones. Silly denial, blondie.

[yourpoison.livejournal.com]

Man. Belief.
I'm not so good with belief, and neither are my boys... I um. Well, I wasn't taking the fic seriously ^^;
If I do..... Well, I haven't had an H/D fic work 'seriously' for me for ages :/

[balfrog.livejournal.com]

You kidding me? To me, you're one of my peeps who "believes in H/D" in your own crazy way, so that it creeps into every aspect of your fandom interactions. yeah, I pick up my bitty faith. You, and mahaliem and ladyvader. yeah. They can run away and be little shits to each other, but it's only the other that's in question.

[yourpoison.livejournal.com]

Heheh, I was just thinking-- after I said that-- about how Amalin dedicated 'Transformation' to me & Aja 'cause of faith-- but I think my faith is pretty different. I often rambled about it through the years, but to sum up: I want to be convinced by things that make sense. Unless it's a crackfic or a parody-- like mahaliem's Veela!Draco fic-- I want to see why Harry wants Draco, from first moment to last. Yeah, and I suck at showing that in my own fics, but it's what I want. I want to fall in love with Draco along with Harry. Actually, to me that's UL's saving grace to me in many ways-- its Draco is just so lovable and Harry sees that. In the Veela!Draco fic most things were played for laughs-- Harry always wanted Draco, even in fifth year (as a joke, I thought).

That's what I meant about not giving away belief if I take fics 'seriously'. My type of belief sort of means that I'll always keep trying-- keep looking for that One Good Reason for Harry (hehe, the title of my first aborted H/D fic, before I read canon, all high on IP & LUW and stuff, back in '02). But yeah... I don't use belief as... a cheat, I guess? It doesn't mean I love story that feed my belief by reassuring me-- it means I look for stories that answer my questions, if you know what I mean. I don't want belief to be the answer.

Actually, I was thinking of `Eclipse' as something that had a way of answering H/D questions, but I don't think I can honestly mention it 'cause it's not slash yet :>

[balfrog.livejournal.com]

Yuh, the believing part comes to a lot of us, for whom it just clicks right (the way, I'm sure Sirius/Remus does for others, but does absolutely nothing for me, interest wise). I guess just to be blasphemous, we're the lot who go to church and eat the easter chocolate, but you're St. Augustine, who's agonizing over it. (not that I'm Christian but....)
haha

You're also more on Harry's perspective with built in Harry love, than Draco!love, I take it? I'm just in Draco love, silly me, and I think that's why I stray so much, fitting out every other boy to fit my brat better. Haha...

The good convincing fics are wonderful - but then I like the "get together" fics that are convincing, but not all about the mind. And have awkward, incomprehensible little acts and (can't even call it choices) choices.

Oooooh! Had forgotten Eclipse was updated recently - hee hee.... must go read that and go "lalallala" over all the spoilers. I practically know the barebones of that book now.

[yourpoison.livejournal.com]

Hahah, yeah, I'm the infamous(?) agonizer in the fandom :> Sometimes (often enough) I actually just shut off my brain and glee on the pr0n or the crack (note my utter loff for the Veela!Draco fic and heck, Champions fits the crack label too, in most ways). I love my crack/chocolate-- but I don't take it seriously, I guess? I just have a separation between what I see as really vital/real & just... a fantasy (and man, I love fantasy but I don't want the pairing itself to be one entirely).

I dunno if it's because I favor Harry-- though I mean, I do favor Harry. I started out with H/D with not so much love as empathy-- I empathized with Draco's fanon need/want/craving, which is what I was first exposed to. Reading all the old-school fics, that's what I responded to-- and how I got my loud, growly Draco muse & started writing my first H/D fic. My goal back then was to give Draco what I knew he craved in spite of himself; I wanted him to win, to triumph, to grow, to change through being loved. He was all sarcastic and prickly and angry, and I wanted to mess with his emotions some, run him through the hoops of love, challenge his ideas, play with his mind, etc. It's not that I loved him so much as I -felt- him (and man, he was a screamer).

I only became fully empathetic to Harry when I read OoTP-- something just clicked in my head. So he's more 'real' in canon for me, yeah, far and away, and I know what'll make him happy & want to give it to him, but Draco's really real fanon-wise and in my head. He's a loud, whiny bugger.

I didn't mean to imply that the 'reason' is to do with the mind, to me. Of course people don't always act rationally by a longshot. In fact, I really hate rationalization in fics (which is rampant)-- I do want things to -feel- right, but I also want issues addressed head-on, that's all. Most fics sweep a lot of the darkness & the friction under the carpet, and just have Harry suddenly notice Draco's hot arse. That's okay for a crackfic or pure smut, but otherwise, it's just ridiculous. I can believe it of canon!Draco 'cause I think he's, well-- more gay & Harry-obsessed in canon. I can see hormones alone meaning he's like, in denial but in lust. With Harry-- denial isn't even the name for it, and that's why I focus on Harry with H/D.

Draco's pretty much a given in my mind-- of course he wants Harry's attention/defeat/whatever; Harry just wants Draco to leave him alone & thinks he's a pinched-face pointy pathetic loser. It's not to mock Draco & make him feel bad (like, 'you four-eyed Scarface', etc)-- it's just how he feels as pov narrator. I don't think one can honestly get away with merely throwing Harry at Draco and counting on Harry getting a hard-on; Draco's a different question.

So that's what I meant... I can't think of many-- or possibly any-- H/D fics that have managed to be 100% convincing, rationally or not. Then again, I have v. high standards for what's 'convincing', even though I -enjoy- a wide range of fics ^^;