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reenkaIt's only been a few days, and I'm already having HBP fandom moodswings, I think. Avoid, Reena. Avoid. And yet, so hard to constantly remain vigilant.
Okay, what I'm talking about is the unavoidable bitching about the latest canon & the renewed shipping wars and so on; I realize I've actually done some gloating myself at points, and now I sort of feel sickened of literally all ships (besides ones me &![[livejournal.com profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/external/lj-userinfo.gif)
addictedkitten made up yesterday-- that's sacred) and tired already. Meh.
There's only this icon to make me feel better:
R/Hr? If -sexual tension- was canon, Harry and Ron would be snogging by book 4. Snape and McGonagall would have four kids, and Voldemort would be -shagging Dumbledore-. Get over it.
Man. I LOVE MY FANON SHIP.
I like subtext. As subtext.
I mean, while there are H/D vibes in the latest book, there are also Snape/Draco vibes, Harry/Snape vibes, Dumbledore/Voldemort vibes, Harry/Ron/Hermione vibes-- even Harry/Blaise & Blaise/Ginny vibes if you squint. None of these I consider to be 'really there' outside hints built upon by the reader's imagination, nothing close to being likely to happen. Just because there is subtext in the mind of a particular group of readers, it doesn't mean it's at all objective. There are many possible readings of any text, and god, I'm now tempted to make the obvious post where I show how there's nothing sexual about Harry's feelings about Draco or vice versa. Obsession doesn't have to be sexual; I mean, it often is, but even so, that connection in one's subconscious has a dramatic and storytelling use staying in the dark unconscious mind. We are driven as much by the things we're unaware of within us as the things that are obvious, that are conscious desires.
Suddenly, I kind of like the idea of all the possibilities for attraction that we never do realize within us... That's where the Oedipal stuff comes from, isn't it; it's very much what's most formative and driving within us, right?
I don't even think the archetypal roots behind Harry/Ginny (canon) and Harry/Draco (fanon) are that different; they both play on the complementary yin-yang attraction thing, but they serve different functions for Harry. I could make the case that his reactions to Draco are much more tangled up with all sorts of things he doesn't admit to himself, that's the flipside to his reaction to and attraction to the Weasleys, say. Harry can't look away from what disturbs and discomforts him. He can't look away, he has to -investigate-. He wants to figure out what Draco's doing so that he knows what to expect; so that he's not jumping at shadows even more than he is.
This is really not most people's idea of what romantic attraction feels like, in real life, so no wonder Harry doesn't want to kiss Draco in book 6 instead of Ginny. His relationship with his own repressed fears and worries and dark obsessions is much deeper, more conflicted, much much less consciously sexual.
I now know how the Remus/Sirius shippers who had people accusing them of believing it's canon feel :(( H/D is not canon :(( I like it that way :(( H/Hr was never canon either, whether or not R/Hr was; throwing a shitfit that it's not just makes me wanna never talk to another HP fan again :((
Fandom is apparently bad for my health. I should just hole up & write my poor fic (in which Draco's not a DE till after 6th year, interview canon bedamned) & dabble in Blaise/Ginny, which is omgsohot, and also indulge my newfound affection for Theodore & Zacharias (together). Man. So easy to lose sight of my priorities. Wah.
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On a happy note, this photo is proof every blond teenage boy that looks remotely haughty makes me think of Draco. What am I saying, every blond boy makes me think of Draco, period. ><;;
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EDIT - H/D really is the submarine of lurve. Wow. All my rambling for nothing.
EDIT #2 -
...Having read this, as well as every single comment every H/Hr-er has made on the petition to JKR (...), I've decided-- who cares?
To gloat is to be human. I'm gonna gloat away, if y'all don't mind.
Okay, what I'm talking about is the unavoidable bitching about the latest canon & the renewed shipping wars and so on; I realize I've actually done some gloating myself at points, and now I sort of feel sickened of literally all ships (besides ones me &
addictedkitten made up yesterday-- that's sacred) and tired already. Meh.There's only this icon to make me feel better:
R/Hr? If -sexual tension- was canon, Harry and Ron would be snogging by book 4. Snape and McGonagall would have four kids, and Voldemort would be -shagging Dumbledore-. Get over it.
Man. I LOVE MY FANON SHIP.
I like subtext. As subtext.
I mean, while there are H/D vibes in the latest book, there are also Snape/Draco vibes, Harry/Snape vibes, Dumbledore/Voldemort vibes, Harry/Ron/Hermione vibes-- even Harry/Blaise & Blaise/Ginny vibes if you squint. None of these I consider to be 'really there' outside hints built upon by the reader's imagination, nothing close to being likely to happen. Just because there is subtext in the mind of a particular group of readers, it doesn't mean it's at all objective. There are many possible readings of any text, and god, I'm now tempted to make the obvious post where I show how there's nothing sexual about Harry's feelings about Draco or vice versa. Obsession doesn't have to be sexual; I mean, it often is, but even so, that connection in one's subconscious has a dramatic and storytelling use staying in the dark unconscious mind. We are driven as much by the things we're unaware of within us as the things that are obvious, that are conscious desires.
Suddenly, I kind of like the idea of all the possibilities for attraction that we never do realize within us... That's where the Oedipal stuff comes from, isn't it; it's very much what's most formative and driving within us, right?
I don't even think the archetypal roots behind Harry/Ginny (canon) and Harry/Draco (fanon) are that different; they both play on the complementary yin-yang attraction thing, but they serve different functions for Harry. I could make the case that his reactions to Draco are much more tangled up with all sorts of things he doesn't admit to himself, that's the flipside to his reaction to and attraction to the Weasleys, say. Harry can't look away from what disturbs and discomforts him. He can't look away, he has to -investigate-. He wants to figure out what Draco's doing so that he knows what to expect; so that he's not jumping at shadows even more than he is.
This is really not most people's idea of what romantic attraction feels like, in real life, so no wonder Harry doesn't want to kiss Draco in book 6 instead of Ginny. His relationship with his own repressed fears and worries and dark obsessions is much deeper, more conflicted, much much less consciously sexual.
I now know how the Remus/Sirius shippers who had people accusing them of believing it's canon feel :(( H/D is not canon :(( I like it that way :(( H/Hr was never canon either, whether or not R/Hr was; throwing a shitfit that it's not just makes me wanna never talk to another HP fan again :((
Fandom is apparently bad for my health. I should just hole up & write my poor fic (in which Draco's not a DE till after 6th year, interview canon bedamned) & dabble in Blaise/Ginny, which is omgsohot, and also indulge my newfound affection for Theodore & Zacharias (together). Man. So easy to lose sight of my priorities. Wah.
~~
On a happy note, this photo is proof every blond teenage boy that looks remotely haughty makes me think of Draco. What am I saying, every blond boy makes me think of Draco, period. ><;;
~~
EDIT - H/D really is the submarine of lurve. Wow. All my rambling for nothing.
EDIT #2 -
...Having read this, as well as every single comment every H/Hr-er has made on the petition to JKR (...), I've decided-- who cares?
To gloat is to be human. I'm gonna gloat away, if y'all don't mind.
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Date: 2005-07-23 09:21 pm (UTC)AHAHAHA THAT PICTURE! BECAUSE! Is he wearing a headband? HOT. Or maybe his hair is just cut really weird. That wouldn't be nearly as cool, though!
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Date: 2005-07-23 09:27 pm (UTC)And like... there's a headband if you want there to be a headband :-?
Though I suspect he has a bowl haircut, sort of like if Crabbe took a Draco Polyjuice potion. Um. Okay, have to scrub my brain now -.-
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Date: 2005-07-23 09:36 pm (UTC)I don't know what I'm talking about anymore, or MAYBE I never did.
A BOWL HAIRCUT. :( :( :( I KNEW IT. Where did you find that picture, man? It's GREAT. It needs to get blown up and put on my wall. I'ma make notes all over it, too. ('This earring makes me look sensitive and refined, yet rugged and slightly dangerous.' and 'HAHA, my foot's on the roof, my foot's on the roof, and I'M POUTING!') Okay, maybe I won't, but it's an IDEA. :)
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Date: 2005-07-23 10:06 pm (UTC)Haha, the pic comes from The Photo Book, which is this huge book of like, famous photographers & their pics in the last 50 years or whatever. It's got lotsa cool stuff :> It's pretty big in reality, too :D :D
HEHEHEH THAT EARRING DOES MAKE HIM LOOK SENSITIVE & REFINED YET RUGGED :D :D :D BUT ALSO GAY. DON'T FORGET THE GAY >:D
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Date: 2005-07-23 11:29 pm (UTC)BABYCOMRADE. We can take turns paddling the boat! We can carve fic into the sides with our fingernails! I could go on with this analogy for far, far too long! ♥Oh, I know The Photo Book! (I'm more cultured than I seem...? NO REALLY. :P) That picture is clearly one of the highlights, or at least it MUST be.
I COULD NEVER FORGET THE GAY. I MEAN, LOOK AT THE TROUSERS. THOSE ARE GAY TROUSERS IF I EVER SAW THEM! :)!
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Date: 2005-07-23 11:41 pm (UTC)The book has lots of highlights. And nekkid girls. And weird people with fruit around their foreheads. And some people sitting quietly covered in white paint. Y'know, the usual.
..Everyone should wear Teh Gay Trousers (tm) at some point. Let their hair down. (Not that that bloke could. His hair is most definitely orbiting in space. Possibly there's a way to see the gayness there. Of course there is). :D
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Date: 2005-07-23 11:55 pm (UTC)I was just looking through old e-mails and stuff, and! Do you realize? It's almost our one year anniversary (or something like that), behbeh! Well. It made me excited! <3 <3
I'm going to need to see these weird people with the fruit one day, I feel. I've seen the book before. I don't remember the fruit people. I'm sad.
...I just stared at that picture for, like, a whole minute. AHAHAHA it brings me joy in a way I cannot explain.
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Date: 2005-07-24 12:20 am (UTC)...Man, those waters of Wank running white. That's really sort of gross when you really imagine a whole lagoon of it. Not that most people would want to. Though thankfully the Good Ship We Don't Give a Fuck has a special built-in wank detectors which would alert us or at least distract us with pretty boys. And possibly sheep.
And clearly we share a brainwave about funky Polish-boy pics as with much else :D :D Then again, I have a weird yet joyous fascination with skinny blond boys (give or take an androgynous female mannequin at the mall with small breasts & slicked-back hair...not that I touched it or anything) for a few years now. I can blame JK Rowling for this, can't I? Though she'd probably refer me to a psychologist for my obvious need to fix bad boys who're no good for me, unlike Harry, of course :D
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Date: 2005-07-24 01:01 am (UTC)AHAHAHA WANK DETECTORS. That is AWESOME. And sheep! Sheep are cute. Are they on the ship with us? The pretty boys are DEFINITELY on board, I mean, that goes without saying!
Well, that Polish boy ain't no posh blond English bugger, but I suppose he'll do
to pinchin a pinch. You can blame JKR if you like. Surely you can! I blame her for the decided lack of a big gay orgy in HBP. I was like, 'BUT YOU PROMISED!' Or maybe I was drunk on NyQuil again and imagined it all. Yeah, maybe that was it.