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

[yourpoison.livejournal.com]

Reading `Queer As Malfoy' now, I realized it was just my mood, y'know... it culminated with `An Unlikely Pair', and then I stopped writing H/D for awhile, 'cause my romanticism was really suffering, and I -want- them to have the omg-forever love like WHOAH (...like Agape, y'know, friendship like in Underwater Light or Silvia's `And I Get By' or Draco Veritas, hehe). But I was feeling bitter and frustrated 'cause I just can't write that believably without a lot of build-up and context, and well, I'm a short story writer. So I wanted to be harsh & most of all honest, and I couldn't be honest, even in an established-relationship fic, without showing my feeling that they're just really messed up, my Harry especially.

I especially stopped writing H/D because my Harry became more and more of a bastard post-OoTP, to the point where it was hard to like him-- but I thought that was a realistic development, with him punishing Draco and taking things out on Draco post-OoTP because... y'know, stress, and Malfoy takes it. On the other hand, I didn't -want- Malfoy to take it and I think he wouldn't if Harry didn't regularly break down, also (which I didn't quite show in that fic or even in `An Unlikely Pair'). It -is- because it's their pov, though, and my problems with writing H/D were largely that I was role-playing Harry and channeling him so heavily it was interfering with any control I had over him as his writer :>

So yeah, that's a halfway intentionally problematic fic, and I'm glad you noticed that, actually~:)

I think Heero/Duo & Harry/Draco are both opposites attracting, yeah, and complementary-type pairings where one partner contributes what the other lacks. I don't think the opposite-sides thing defines H/D so much as their sheer and constant miscommunication and intrinsic chafing does, 'cause I don't think Draco was on Voldemort's side in years 1-4, y'know, he was just a Slytherin, and not a very good one at that :> I do think Harry is slightly more sane (less psychotic) than Heero (and Draco than Duo), but it's a close thing :>