♥♥♥♥♥....

[reenka]

...I think I'm going to stare at this image and not look away for like... the rest of my life......
(Which makes more sense after this and this. WAH.)


...omg, seriously, I want like a huge poster of it so I could stare at it every day and go OMG HARRY LOVES DRACO :(( :(( :(( :(( :((

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[yourpoison.livejournal.com]

Hee, Protective Bonds and Irresistible Poison and Origins and the now-gone Tower with a View and The Losing Side and The Shining Prince and The Silver Chain and Love Under Will and The Marks We Bear and How Harry Potter Got His Groove Back... those were all the fics I read in the very beginning that made me love H/D <3<3<3<3<3<3

Now, though, the concepts and characterizations will prolly seem silly, so I try not to reread them. Heh. But the love remains ♥

[shatterglass.livejournal.com]

IP, yup, and Checkmate and Transfigurations and Tissue of Silver and LUW and Resolutions and then a whole pile of really terrible ones that I have blocked out of my memory due to embarrassment. Funny how at first everything in fandom is pure-gold crack and then after a while you stop and think: Er, some of these fics are kind of bad.

[yourpoison.livejournal.com]

Dude, most of those fics are kinda bad ^^;;;
...And some are sappy. *staggers back in horror* :>


But yeah, I think it's typical to have a honeymoon period. It's really almost heroic that I manage to read H/D at all anymore. Or possibly just sad. Yeah... sad -.-

[shatterglass.livejournal.com]

I feel a bit like H/D is the honeymoon period.

Hee, but I have such a romantic attachment to some of those that even as I reread them I'm all "this is bad, man, but YUM." I can still get the honeymoon feeling back, sometimes. And it's nice.

[yourpoison.livejournal.com]

Ahaha, that's so true!! Omg, yeah, it's like, then you wake up and go, 'omg, he doesn't even BRUSH HIS TEETH' and 'OMG HE JUST FALLS ASLEEP AFTERWARDS AND I CAN'T TAKE HIM ANYWHERE' and so on >:D

But then he sort of looks at you with those puppy eyes and you think 'okay, still got a hot arse' and it's like... yeah, he's still got it sometimes, especially when he shuts up :))

[shatterglass.livejournal.com]

especially when he shuts up Haha. Exactly. I have this affection for fics that do this--that suppose that Harry and Draco manage to stay together longer than .466 of a millisecond (long enough for them to be all WTF why am I with this guy). And then of course one of them shuts up.

[yourpoison.livejournal.com]

Though I am still in my happy place where DV!Harry and Draco (when they're not angsting about how OMG HE DOESN'T WANT ME) know they're, er, friends 'cause they're like, well, obsessed, and mindbonded, but also they make each other laugh and Harry thinks Draco's so cute even when he's being all regal and 'get me that sandwich, Potter' and it doesn't matter if they're totally different because their hearts are the same ♥♥♥

[shatterglass.livejournal.com]

Go ahead, remind me why I love DV, why don't you? Even though the suspense of it all is an advanced form of torture. I will not read the rest 'til it's done, I will not read the rest 'til it's done...

[yourpoison.livejournal.com]

Yeah, I feel the same way! I stoped when the suspense got to the point where I'd start shaking a little when I thought about it :))
Even in the beginning of the 'breakup' arc I was so overwhelmed I wrote a fanfic thingie just to feel better. And then the next chapter with the kiss, it -again- killed me and I wrote a fanfic -again-. It's just... bad for my health :)) So if someone dies or there's happy het endings, I just wanna know first ^^;;;

See, see, I think in DV it's just visible, but it's always possible. It just takes a really long while, but.... I dunno, mebbe I'm just deluded and wanna believe they're cuter and more intense and funny than they are :-? But if I'm wrong I don't wanna be right :>

[shatterglass.livejournal.com]

It's funny that we're talking about this now, because my sister just finished reading everything Cassie's posted and I let her tell me all of the major plot points over dinner. Temporary insanity; I usually don't let people spoil me. But I told her she has to read the end before me and if it isn't Harry/Draco or if it is too angsty she has to warn me away from ever reading it.

She nodded solemnly, of course.

No, you're right. No delusions there. :D

[yourpoison.livejournal.com]

I deeply suspect it won't be H/D as in, 'and then they kissed and Hermione gritted her teeth' and such, but if there's more laughing at jokes and being happy together and affectionate and 'oh Draco' and 'yes, Potter?', I will be happy, because that is enough. ♥

[shatterglass.livejournal.com]

Right well. -grinning- That's pretty much what I mean.

[shatterglass.livejournal.com]

(And also, you can tell from the ones I listed how awful the ones I can't remember are. -amusement-)

[yourpoison.livejournal.com]

Hee!! Oh man, I was never able to like Checkmate (NOOOO, NOT THE KISSES LIKE CARAMEL AND EYES LIKE VELVET, NOOOOO), and I've just never had any interested in post-Hogwarts and ToS just came out too late into my fandom career... but the rest... yeah, I've liked them all at one point.

And torturously, I remember all the worst ones, too. *facepalm* NO WONDER I'M SO BITTER, SEE :))

[shatterglass.livejournal.com]

Wow, your brain hasn't imploded?

Checkmate was my first and it is like crack, man, because it is my first. And so I still am all adflhn about it because it IS honeymoon for me. Despite how much I dislike the style. -laughs-

ToS, on the other hand. I love the way FD writes and would follow her most places. Like the Star Wars universe, see how much I like her? :D:D

[yourpoison.livejournal.com]

I think this journal itself is a chronicle of the slow implosion of my brain from fandom ^^;;; It's... a close thing :>

Haha, I can't talk, 'cause really, I still have a great fondness for IP and... uh... well, I'm not about to defend the writing :> :> I just haven't even -read- ToS-- it was so famous & popular and I put it off and off and off... just like I put off Transfigurations, but I read that even though it was post-Hogwarts and loved it and blew my post-Hogwarts fanon!Draco load entirely, I think :))

[shatterglass.livejournal.com]

Hahaha.

Wow, you haven't read it? Clearly I love it, so. But it's on the Transfigurations level with me -- smart, funny, not cliche, characters different than we know them but still fascinating. The post-Hogwarts thing is really just an excuse to slightly Sue-ify the characters, of course, but when the writing is good I am all for it. :">

[yourpoison.livejournal.com]

The post-Hogwarts thing is really just an excuse to slightly Sue-ify the characters
I love how you just... say that so casually :))

But yeah, that's why I said it came out too late in my fandom career, when I was already bitter and resentful and WHY IS NO ONE WRITING IC!H/D LONGFIC, WHY WHY WHY YOU INFIDELS??! etc. I liked Transfig so much 'cause even though there were OOC characterizations all around, Harry rung true to me and that made me hold on. I was just... so happy he didn't like Draco's sudden coolness. I was like, YOU GO HARRY!!1 (Wish-fulfillment, I guess, hee).

[shatterglass.livejournal.com]

-admires own irreverence- :D

I really loved the ToS Snape, I think. Also there is a thing with a chair that is just so great. Ahh, I love it like a person, imperfect and wonderful. I shall never ever be objective and should cross literary criticism off of my list of potential careers.

[yourpoison.livejournal.com]

should cross literary criticism off of my list of potential careers

I probably should too, before the bitterness drives me to biting ears off small children fangirls dogs ^^;;

[yourpoison.livejournal.com]

Though I do think The Shining Prince (and sequels) and probably Origins stand the test of time, writing-wise (though I dunno, the characterizations...). And you just can't beat IP for angsty-yet-lovelorn!H/D, heheh, or Protective Bonds for mindbond fic or The Silver Chain for lots and lots of boysex, etcetc :))

[shatterglass.livejournal.com]

I'll make sure I haven't missed any of those, then. Because after all, the end of summer is for reading crackhd!fic, right? Not finishing my summer reading. -scoffs-