H/D hug challenge!!

[reenka]

You know what seems like a great idea right now??

A challenge (post-HBP-- preslash welcome) for short stories, something like....


    "15 Ways for Harry Potter to hug Draco Malfoy and live to tell about it"

:D :D :D :D
    The 2 criteria would be: no shmoop or sap!! I mean this to be touching or funny or a bit sad, but not... y'know, fluffy, 'cause that'd mean it'd be stupid & OOC. Also-- no pre-established relationship fics, man-- that's the whole point!
    Deadline: something like.... August 30, that's literally 4 weeks from now >:D
    And! Artists also welcome! >:D!

I don't think I could easily come up with more than one. I mean, it is seriously a lot harder to get them to hug than to shag, I think, so I'm all excited :D


I mean, c'mon!!

There's been all sorts of rough sex and licking and fighting and so on in fic, but how often have they hugged???


...Oh, I'm a genius. And yeah, I'll prolly write one anyway ;)

So tell me if you're interested and like, uh... well, come back & comment if you write it, so I'll... make a website? Or a community? Or just link to them :D

Comments

[cercaluna.livejournal.com]

P.S. You shouldn't tempt me with things like this! Also, I know it is a very long shot, but like, years ago you were coding my fics for me, and I was wondering if you possibly still had a copy of Moonlit, the Harry/James First Kiss Challenge one, anywhere? Because the site's been down for ages and I don't have a copy at all. Just curious, because you are the only person I know who might have it. More :x.

[slinkhard.livejournal.com]

There was a Harry/James First Kiss Challenge?
...
*mind boggles* ;)

[cercaluna.livejournal.com]

Ahhh, I am clearly not paying attention to what I write! I meant to say Lucius/James! And, in any case, it was for Silvia's First Kiss Challenge, for which I signed up for that pairing. There used to be a website, but it is gone. :(

[slinkhard.livejournal.com]

archive.org seems to be spotty at the moment, but http://web.archive.org/web/20041014041610/http://www.rightthisway.net/proclivities/silvia/firstkiss/ this should bring it up.

[yourpoison.livejournal.com]

I am a wily wench who lives to tempt you!!1 :X :X! C'mon, YOU KNOW YOU WANNA :))

Also, behold (http://72.14.207.104/search?q=cache:0BbRODeCljgJ:glassesreflect.net/james/moonlit.html+moonlit+amalin&hl=en): the glory of google >:D

[cercaluna.livejournal.com]

Dude, also, I read the challenge as 15 ways for Draco Malfoy to hug Harry Potter, which made it ten thousand times harder to make IC, but now I have all these ideas! Does that count? :-?

ALSO, THANK YOU SO MUCH. I LOVE YOU.

[yourpoison.livejournal.com]

*ponders* Should I make it clearer that the '15' thing is an estimate of how many -entries- we get?? *laughs* I didn't expect everyone to come up with 15, that'd be beyond harsh & into impossible :))


<333333333333333
IT COUNTS. IT ALSO MEANS YOU SHOULD WRITE IT >:D

[yourpoison.livejournal.com]

Pee-Ess:
That's still one of my favorite fics of yours evar, though I smile a bit at how distinctively older!Amalin it is, what with the moonlit walls & the moon shining forever >:D
♥♥

[cercaluna.livejournal.com]

Really? I am putting together a new website and I realized I left out over half the fics I've written. There are only like, four H/D fics, hahaha. I am full of shame. :D

I did realize that Harry only had to hug Draco once! (Or vice versa!) But then I really wanted to write fifteen ways, and now I am tempted, why, why do I do this. Except mine will be the only one where Draco is hugging Harry, which is even stranger! Okay, also, I am not promising anything, but I've already scribbled some things down, so we'll see. :)))

[yourpoison.livejournal.com]

I suppose the Draco hugging Harry is alright, especially if Harry hugs back :)) AHHAHAHA THAT'S ONE WAY FOR HARRY TO HUG DRACO FOR THE FIRST TIME >:D

I know, you are like me in that whole siren-call-of-the-near-impossible thing >:D Even if we may not follow through, I still like shooting for the stars, and so on :D Also, man, it's just not as satisfying if it's not as difficult as possible. Possibly I'm just a very contrary person :))

Should I tell you all my favorite fics of yours?? Back in the olden days, there were under Amalin, here (http://reenka.expecto-patronum.net/_fic.html), most under H/D and the rest under misc slash one-shots & misc gen/het one-shots, 'cause I lurve your Lucius/Narcissa-- you're the only person who's inspired me to read (and write!) that, and the only person I wanted James/Lucius from-- you even made me ship them!! Before... uh, I read canon & realized how deeply cracked-out that is & also realized I shipped James/Lily really hard (which I also wanna see you write!! AAAH). But yes :>

[cercaluna.livejournal.com]

Okay, I'm embarrassed! :"> And flattered, but mostly like, what. I was on your rec site the other day for some reason, and I sort of boggled. Because all the H/D are like, my least favorite fics of mine, haha. I love Lucius/Narcissa too, though, I just really love them! Also, it makes me inwardly gleeful about the Tom/Hagrid. My pet pairing from so long ago!

And I don't know if I can ever write James/Lily. It is not because I'm anti-James/Lily, but I just don't know if I can write it! Sort of like Harry/Snape.

Only the impossible is worth the effort! Says Jeanette Winterson. But yes, I hear the hardest challenges and I'm like, ooh, what if I did that one! ♥.

Also, hahahaha, I realized that I wrote Harry/James up there, instead of Lucius/James. That would have been some first kiss. :D :D

[yourpoison.livejournal.com]

See... er :)) That's an old rec-list with stuff I'd liked in my first year and a half in fandom-- most of that was before I read canon, I think~:)) My tastes grew with my ... uh... experience ^^; But I just really loved your writing SO much, and you were (believe it or not!) so much better in terms of emotional intensity/vividness and a sense of 'yes, this is love' than like... uh, a lot of the early H/D writers or most of the ones writing now. Because yeah, I think most people's H/D sucks pretty bad ^^;;;;;


I want -someone- whose writing I love to write James/Lily-- and I can't either :(( I just love the idea of them. Sort of like I love the idea of Snape/Lily and hate the idea of Remus/Lily. Don't judge! :)) <3

....I sort of almost want to see your idea of a James/Harry first kiss, freaked out as that makes me. I mean. It's dirtywrong, but so is Tom/Hagrid, except now it's like, BUT IT'S NOT WRONG, CAN'T YOU SEE, CAN'T YOU SEEEEEeeee?? Man :))

[cercaluna.livejournal.com]

STOP CHALLENGING ME WITH NEAR-IMPOSSIBLE THINGS OR I WILL TAKE THE BAIT. :))))

In the past few years, I have come to sort of think that most people's H/D - I wouldn't say sucks, but it just, really doesn't do it for me. But then, I never read much anymore! I don't know, I got caught up in a fic this morning, but it was because the fic was good, not that the H/D was necessarily there? As I wanted to see it, that is. But anyway, you flatter me so much. <33333!

[yourpoison.livejournal.com]

BUT, BUT! THAT WAS MY EV01 PLAN ALL ALONG!!1

I do prefer the hug thing 'cause it's my current pet project, but like... any impossible thing makes me OH SO DANCEY HAPPY. But not all. Ron/Draco makes me snarl a little :))

Yeah, I'm with you with most of them not working rather than sucking, but then I'm uh-- more militant/self-assured/obsessed about my ideas of what H/D 'should' be, ideally. Not like, 'everyone has to write it this way' but 'please write this pairing in a way I could believe, kthnxbi' :> And yeah, you've always somehow made me believe. Though I love things like Ice & Absence 'cause they're just so viscerally emotional and... it's like, the reason I sort of still love `Every Second' best of all Aja's fics, or nearly. It's like... if the writing demands I take a leap of faith, I'd rather it went all out, or something. I dunno if that makes sense :))

[cercaluna.livejournal.com]

I think Ron/Draco is one of the last "popular" pairings (meaning, not Dobby/McGonagall) I really dislike. I like Rowan's "Deep Water," and I think SF wrote a Ron/Draco fic once, but I just. Can't.

I am with you on "Every Second." I don't know if I love it best, but it just sort of took something out of me, and, agh. Rereading things like that is painful.

<333333. Non-fluff H/D hugging. It is brilliant really!

[yourpoison.livejournal.com]

I think I'm pretty biased, clearly, 'cause I ship both Ron & Draco with other people, and, well, I think I just don't like most Draco slash, period, but... I sorta like my last remaining biases :> Also, my Ron is straight except whn he's experimenting slightly with Harry, but there it's just my mutual wanking thing rearing its kinky head :))

I think I love `Every Second', `Atrophy' & `Twelfth Night' all about equally. Which... er... I guess brings us up-to-date on Aja's darkest/most depressing H/D fics :)) Um. It's like, I -wish- the darker ones weren't the ones that stuck with me, but.... ^^;;

[cercaluna.livejournal.com]

Apparently I will never stop commenting in your journal. :D It is hard for me to read Draco with anyone but Harry or Pansy! And yes, I really only read Ron/Harry, but only the really good ones, uh.

See, I love 'The Reader' (the most, maybe) and I really like The Properties of Being Lost/The Properties of Voyeurism. But then, I just read the Properties fics two days ago, so! :">

[yourpoison.livejournal.com]

I forgot about `Properties'!! Yesh, I ♥ that, though sometimes I think anything I'd read in the last year will conversely not really affect me as much -.- I mean, I still pine for Tower With a View & IP-- 'tis sad :)) I really liked `The Reader' but thought its Draco was too soft/thoughtful/fanon, y'know? Though because it was Aja, I enjoyed it while I'd prolly snark at a similar Draco elsewhere. Because I read it after I decided to be all canon!bitch & stuff.

I think I love angsty!Ron/Harry, but then any pairing with a reputation for being too easy/fluffy, I want it angsty, and similarly with a particular author's groove-- if they mostly write angst, I love their fluff best, and if they mostly write fluff, I love their angst best. *is slightly disturbed by self* ^^;;

*is really enjoying the comment-thread of DOOM* :D

[cercaluna.livejournal.com]

I agree about Draco in 'The Reader,' but it just worked, for me; besides, well, embarrassingly, as much as I veer more towards canonical Draco fics, Olympia's Draco holds this special place in my heart, always. Maybe because it feels like its own universe to me, I don't know. But I am done writing Draco as all wispy and moonlit, hahaha. For the website I am putting together now, I just updated my rec list, and there are really few H/D fics there, considering how much I've read. :"> See, I am becoming bitter and elitist too! Only not, but I just. Don't wholeheartedly love all that much of it.

So that is why you like 'Seaside Romancing!' *dies* I am totally a sucker for good writing, and if it's really well written, I tend to fall for it all the more easily. The only reason I like Harry/Ron is probably Helen's 'Close Enough,' actually.

:D!

[yourpoison.livejournal.com]

There are tons of fanon!Dracos that somehow manage to magically work for me, hehe. Though, um, I just take the 'well-written' bit kinda for granted-- as in, of course it'll be well-written if I like it at all :)) Though I've become slightly less of a stylist whore over time ^^; Slightly :>

I dunno, it's very very personal/subjective, whereas loving canon!Draco is vaguely subjective but not as much...?? I dunno :D shaggirl once told me that my & Silvia's & Trin's-type Draco isn't non-fanon, he's just an adorable witty loser (ie, we add the wit/adorableness, though I do think canon!Draco can be, too, just... uh, not nearly as much) whereas fanon!Draco is more... uh, sympathetic and 'smart' and not a loser so much as misunderstood or whatever. My favorite fanon Dracos aren't misunderstood, I think-- like, Olympia's wasn't secretly a nice sensitive calmly intellectual guy, y'know?? He was all kinds of fucked up, and that's what appealed to me, though I pretty much hated her Harry :))

Wah! *clutches you to bosom* I feel so heart-fluttery anxious about the idea of bitter!elitist!you, sort of 'cause I always sort of think of you as this delicate poetic 16-year-old who should be protected from the world 'cause you're just so precious <3 *laughs* I try to root it out in myself, but it's hard ^^;;; *is protective* -.-

Yes, I had this feeling of glee anytime you wrote positive!H/D. I felt like you were breaking out of your dark morbid shell???! I dunno. Um. *coughs*

[yourpoison.livejournal.com]

...And now I wonder if you've read Penelope's Harry/Ron!

[cercaluna.livejournal.com]

I don't think I have! The only H/R fics that stick out enough for me to remember reading are Helen's 'Close Enough,' Anna's 'Moving Pictures,' and whatever SF has written.

I love that about Olympia's Draco too. But it was also a bit like reading about a dreamworld, somehow. I didn't hate her Harry, but I didn't really feel anything for him until Orpheus In Motion. Also, shit, I love loser Draco, who keeps trying and trying anyway. :(( <333.

Hahahahaha. Um. I am not really bitter and elitist! I still like flowers and sunny days and things! Which I did all along, even when I was writing OMG DEATHFIC every day. Hahahaha. This still makes me laugh. And kind of get all blush-y. I love yoou!

My dark morbid shell - hahaha. Hahaha. Instead of being an emo teenager (well, kind of), I suppose I made Harry and Draco emo instead. *RULES*

[yourpoison.livejournal.com]

You should read His Belongings (http://www.fanfiction.net/s/999584/1/) then, it's sort of a H/R+Draco-type thing, and it's probably the most emotional of all Penelope's fics for me <3 You know, this reminds me how most people who post rec lists these days don't have much in common with mine-- at least partly 'cause the intellislashers are kinda dead and forgotten, y'know, and no one cares about the old crackfic like IP and Protective Bonds and even Origins.... man. I'm such a fannish hag by now :))

I know what you mean about the dreamworld feeling-- that sort of both enchanted & distracted/distanced me from the emotional vitality of it. I hated Harry mostly for the cheating, which... well, in my head Harry would -never- do, and also I just hated it on him 'cause he -loved- Draco, so it was so fucked up and wrong and. Nngh. But yeah, I liked him better in Orpheus in Motion, though... the moping... ahhh, the moping... at least in OoTP there was capslock :> :>

Yeah, I can't really picture you bitter~:) Not that you're sweet or cloying like um... some fandom people... um :)) More sweet like dew on flowers. I know that sounds really hokey & cheesy & stuff, but it's hard to describe these things ^^;;

IT IS SO SCARY & SAD & YET AWESOME THAT YOU FORESAW HBP DRACO ALL ALONG, KINDA AHAHAHZLKJfalkdjfa;sflkja

[cercaluna.livejournal.com]

SO UM, I DON'T REALLY KNOW WHAT HAPPENED, EXCEPT I JUST WROTE TWELVE PAGES FOR THIS CHALLENGE AND I'M NOT HALF DONE. <3 OKAY.

[yourpoison.livejournal.com]

OMG HOW MUCH DO I LOVE YOU RIGHT NOW???!!!



*hyperventilates with gleeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeee*!! >:D!