lists = LOVE.

[reenka]

Top 5 Reasons I Like Sara:
1) She's incorrigible. And possibly also plucky. But definitely incorrigible.
2) She's straight up, vodka-style. But also frothy and fruity. It's a thing.
3) She keeps me in line with her Justin Icon of Doom (tm).
4) She can almost-nearly make me interested in reading AU popslash pornfic, because. Sara!porn. But I like her original!fic most ;p
5) I'm not merely a minion, I'm also a friend. Ask me how!

Top 5 Reasons Rachel Is Insane:
1) It's cuter that way.
2) She's afraid of Moore(cock).
3) The little kittins are sekritly in charge.
4) She calls her H/D fic "Draco/Blaise". It's okay, we understand. Acceptance is the first step to recovery. <3
5) She speaks my language (d'oh!) 'Tis the LANGUAGE OF PORN!

Top 5 things Harry and Draco get wrong about each other:
1) Draco thinks Harry has all the attention and love he could ever possibly need, never struggled for anything, is the perfect Gryff poster boy, etcetc.
2) Harry thinks Draco needs to be put in his place, and therefore deserves the hard knocks, full-stop. Most of the time.
3) Draco thinks Harry is invulnerable, these puny barbs can't hurt him, he has the ego of an elephant, etcetc.
4) Harry thinks Draco-- oh wait, he really doesn't bother to -think-, does he. He just automatically assumes Draco is Up To No Good, and must be Stopped. Because he's Pompous, Petty and Pointy. Which... he is, but.
5) Draco thinks Harry is to blame for everything. Really, he should stop whining (to his father, no less) and face some facts about himself.

Top 5 frequently overlooked but secretly adorable characters:
1) Warren (Buffy)
2) Bones McCoy (Star Trek)
3) Ron (HP)
4) James (HP)
5) Fuji (PoT-- MUWAHAHAHAH.)

Top Five Things You Would Least Like To Hear In a Comment on One of Your Fics, Particularly If They Are Sincerely Meant as a Compliment:
1) That was so great, you really know how to spell. Amazing.
2) That was nice, and I really hate Harry/Draco (or that was a great Harry/Draco, they got together yaye!)
3) Will there be a sequel? It didn't seem finished.
4) I didn't really understand, but really great descriptions/sex/etc!
5) Write more.

Top Five favorite fairy tales/fairy tale characters:
1) Beast (rawr, baby.)
2) Rumpelstiltskin
3) Tam Lin
4) Kai
5) the Princess in Twelve Wild Swans

Top Five Reasons Harry Should Be In Slytherin:
1) The only person he's more obsessed with than Draco is probably Voldemort (absolute obsession corrupts absolutely. heh.)
2) People would finally stop writing wimp!Harry fics (WHY PEOPLE, WHY??!) and Draco would so be his minion, because Harry is Just. That. Badass. SCORE.
3) He would be a really hot Dark Lord. Also score with the latent hero guilt.
4) You could have hot Harry/Ron rivalslash, ahahah (WHAT.)
5) To torture Snape. (*bows, bows*)

Comments

[scoradh.livejournal.com]

Am pained, now. I mean yes, the kittens PWN me with absolute and total control, but ... did you have to announce it to the whole world? I was happy in my denial-land. SNIFF.

Top 5 things Harry and Draco get wrong about each other:

Just. All of them. I have to go edit now to make my storees more like that.

H/R rivalslash. This faintly disturbs me. Come on, FRECKLES?

[notrafficlights.livejournal.com]

The way your brain works is a terrifying beautiful thing.

[loftily.livejournal.com]

Oh, Reena. Are the egos of elephants really that big? It's only that they have perfect memories. :( Must you insult them so. :(

[fictualities.livejournal.com]

Great lists. The "Top five things Harry and Draco get wrong about each other" was especially cool; you nailed them in five sentences.

Will there be a sequel? It didn't seem finished.

*chortles* Yes. Horrifying.

yeah you better recognize

[addictedkitten.livejournal.com]

re: 5, shh, don't go saying that, you'll make other people think they can be my friend and I like to keep my circle small and exclusive, the better to reject the unworthy and make them cry.

And I am totally incorrigible, ain't nobody's corriged me yet.

4) You could have hot Harry/Ron rivalslash, ahahah (WHAT.)

UM yes please and thank you. :o

See, okay, the thing with no longer writing HP is that I no longer get retarded-ass feedback like your examples up there, which is GREAT, but also people don't really do the proper review thing either, which I miss sometimes. And this: I didn't really understand, but really great descriptions/sex/etc! might be just you, you pretentious weirdo. I say that with love. And because that's what I get re: my original fic. Clearly we are soul sistaz.

Also I was Googling myself the other day and someone had recced the comment thread (recced! a comment thread! wtf!) from a million years ago where I was writing veela!Draco fic at you. People are so weird.

IS THIS ENOUGH OF A COMMENT FOR YOU YET? This better tide you over for like the next sixteen rambly meta posts I desultorily skim.

*fear* :O

[yourpoison.livejournal.com]

Y'mean 55-person strong? :)) (Although it seems like people love it when you try to make them cry.)

I KNOW RIGHT?! Suddenly the rivalslash!H/R struck me, and it was like a revelation, what with Slytherin!sneaky-and-ambitous-and-cold!Harry and fiery!not-in-Harry's-shadow!uber-Gryffindor-jock!Ron. <3<3<3 Ahahaha I almost liked it better than H/D for a second there :>

Man, do they really give different sorts of feedback in other fandoms?? *wibbles* I feel so deprived now :( I'd just be happy if people STOPPED, yes, STOPPED telling me I need to write a sequel. Grargh.

Clearly the fandom is desperate for veela!Draco and takes it where it can find it. I mean, I myself now want a link :))

I uh, duly appreciate the blessings you have chosen to reign upon me, my Queen ♥ (In other words, I really didn't mean to guilt-trip you about it, eheheh.)

[yourpoison.livejournal.com]

HEEE! It's like, okay, right, 'cause ze kittins pwn me as well!!1 :O! Like, your icon in particular is one of my favorite kitten pics evar. *sigh* THOSE ICKLE WIDDLE PAWWWWS :(( (I should... really buy a cat. I think I'm salivating. This can't be healthy.)

With H/D... what puzzles me, I think, is like, if one agrees with me (and most people do? usually, on H/D I mean), why -wouldn't- you write your fics like that to start with--? Like, I myself almost never 'perform' up to my own standards with H/D, but then I'm always aware of it and constantly haunted with a constant sense of failure, the need to keep going, keep pushing, keep writing 'til I achieve It. You know. It. Uh. Which I wouldn't want to inflict on you, naturally, but am wondering why I'm alone in this crushing constant self-recrimination in terms of characterizing them perfectly-- like. Unless it's that people agree but it's not as -important- or something :-?

The freckles~! They are nothing compared to the hotness that is suddenly-dom!Ron and coolly-accessing!Harry and like. Just. I need a moment. ^^;
...I think Harry would be more introverted and cruel if he was in Slytherin, and Ron would so be his natural enemy, and yet sekritly they would of course naturally get along (so it'd be like cliched H/D fic, ahahah, more than actual H/D is likely to be). Even more sexy if it started out with Harry going after Ginny to get at Ron, Ron losing it (of course, his SISTER! with that NASTY SLYTHERIN OMG!!1) and then... yeah... *happy sigh* Um. -.-

[yourpoison.livejournal.com]

Hee! I take pleasure in my own perversity, I admit :D
...though sometimes one needs to step back and say, 'man, that's just... fucked up'.

[yourpoison.livejournal.com]

Wah! No worries, I love elephants! ♥!
...and their egos... they must match, right... that's one big brain, you know.....

[yourpoison.livejournal.com]

Man, you could tell I'm out of practice with H/D by how long it took me to come up with that one ^^;;; I'd love to know if that was the 'widely accepted' outlook or if I'm just lucky that my flist agrees with me on these things :>

...I really do think that the need for more and more and more sequels is like the most persistent fandom virus. -.-

[seii-ryu.livejournal.com]

5) Fuji (PoT-- MUWAHAHAHAH.)

Fuji isn't overlooked. That I know of. - It's more Taka, or ... one of the million other-school boys in the series.

[yourpoison.livejournal.com]

I was mostly laughing because my main window into PoT fandom is Aja and the whole TezuRyo thing, so there's definitely some overlooking of Fuji going on in that circle... :>

[loftily.livejournal.com]

Also, people kept reviewing Transformation to ask if there would be a sequel. I was like, no. There will never be a sequel. How was that not clear to you?

I am glad you love elephants. Now you should write me a fic in which Harry and Draco ride elephants, or something. But not.

[yourpoison.livejournal.com]

Hahah, I bet they have mpreg babies and Draco grows his hair in the sequel :D :D :D :D

...I suddenly got the image of Alladin!Harry and it won't go away. He could ride the elephant (of Luuurve?) and Draco could.
....
He could...
...be the um, white ninja of death. I bet a boy that pale would look pretty scary totally out of context...

[scoradh.livejournal.com]

THERE. IS. SOMETHING. ABOUT THE PAWS. I just can't describe it. Generally I am pretty in control of myself (when I act mad, it really is just an act) but -- I see a cat -- even one of those black and white fat moggies that only a mother could love -- and I am literally "AWWWWWWW! AREN'T YOU JUST THE CUTEST WIDDLE BOY! YES YOU ARE! YES YOU ARE!"

It's quite disturbing, even to me, but my therapist will one day be a very rich man/woman, so it's all good.

I myself almost never 'perform' up to my own standards with H/D, but then I'm always aware of it and constantly haunted with a constant sense of failure, the need to keep going, keep pushing, keep writing 'til I achieve It

Well, that's just it, you see! Your It is pretty much the same It as mine (in essentials, at least). So when you write something like what you wrote there, it gives me a jolt and I wonder well, did I break that 'rule' again, or am I getting any better at writing them the way I want them to be written?

Sometimes I get bogged down in humourous meta and just, oh, the semantics of writing, and the characterisation just happens without my noticing. So I have to be more careful!

That's one dynamic I'm not so happy with -- the friends to lovers thing. I guess because it could happen to anyone, to me, if you can imagine it with them, and I don't want any of my friends to suddenly declare their lust for me. THAT WOULD BE FREAKY. So I much prefer it your way, lemme tell ya.

Harry as the Nasty Slytherin. Ohhhh.

[loftily.livejournal.com]

Obviously Draco gets dreads. :D They would really suit him, don't you think?

Street urchin Harry! Flkfjdsa!

[addictedkitten.livejournal.com]

I offer you a variation on evilhot!Justin: bitchyunderage!Justin.

I am now sort of stunned there's no Slytherin!Harry/Ron fic. What's wrong with fandom these days? Man.

I've gotten a few sequel demands since being in popslash, but I think that's mostly because they're all dirty perverts who just want more porn. Which is, eh, fair. Also, (and watch in awe as I conjecture wildly) I used to get more feedback like that in my earlier days in fandom in general, which I think is mostly because 1. I was interacting with more people who were newish to fandom and didn't yet know that asking for a sequel is fucking annoying, and 2. I just wasn't as good of a writer as I am now, and so my stories were not as carefully written (i.e. had less solid endings, didn't feel finished, were *too* open-ended to the point where it didn't seem deliberate) and sequel requests were slightly more understandable. However, I think it was a ratio of about 80% to 20% on that, so. Also, HP fandom has a much higher percentage of complete fucking retards than most fandoms, especially considering that you mostly write H/D, which is a pairing that is moron bait no matter how awesome it is.

It's really just a totally different vibe depending on what fandom you're in, and what you're writing (pairing, porn, gen, whatever). Bullshit aside, I still miss sometimes the amount of feedback I used to get in HP (or, more accurately, I see crap fics that gets pages of comments and think to myself I WOULD BLOW THIS BITCH OUTTA THE WATER if I only could be bothered to write HP fic anymore). Even if I actually probably still get more feedback than a lot of people, and thus really have no reason to bitch. Although that, of course, never stops me. :D *prances*

I will refrain from comment on the veela!Draco fic. Do you even remember that? The Potter-Malfoy-Granger-Weasley Household! OMG!

I know you weren't tryna playa hate, I was just giving you shit. *pokes you with stick*

[yourpoison.livejournal.com]

Oooh, pretty~! (He kind of looks a bit disturbed, but.)

Ahaha, 'tis true about the retards, and also prolly about me writing open-ended things too much. Woe. Even so, you would think people could learn to -try- to be annoying when they're annoying. Hmf. I could also prolly write better endings more often if I had plots more often... ^^;;;; Then again, some of my favorite feedback is the flames I get on my R/G piece :D :D :D I'm still rather proud :D

I think one wants more and more (and more) feedback if you think of it as 'attention' or people giving you your due rather than 'ohhh, so you -read- it' mixed with 'oohh, so you think it doesn't suck-- oh, okay' (which is me). Like, if 4 people think you don't suck, it's reassuring, but you'd probably use betas for that basic reassurance instead :>

...I now miss the genius that was the Potter-Malfoy-Granger-Weasley fic :( I didn't realize it was enshrined somewhere online, ahahah. Y'know, some of my all-time favorite fanfic Moments of Porn (like on Saturday Night Live?) are for fics you'd never written~:)) Like that one with Harry watching Draco & Hermione against the door. Good times, good times >:D

[addictedkitten.livejournal.com]

I do think of it as attention, and actually more of a birthright, really. People have been really falling down on the job in re: animal sacrifices, so I have to take the worship where I can get it or I get tetchy. I sometimes do have that fear of sucking, given that I haven't used betas in maybe a year and a half, excepting the SeSa fic. Also, most of the stuff I've written lately is pretty good, and it annoys me if people don't see fit to fall all over themselves in agreement. Honestly. People.

The H/D/H/R was just the bits I was improving at you here (http://addictedkitten.livejournal.com/66390.html?thread=871510). And the beginning I sent you, which sucked. Oh, that fic.

Like that one with Harry watching Draco & Hermione against the door.

I do not remember that at *all*. Are you making things up again? Dude.

[yourpoison.livejournal.com]

Hahah you don't remember? Hermione was going mad 'cause Draco wasn't givin' her lovin' (what did he see in Harry, anyway, except she kinda wanted Harry also), so she took drastic measures and just followed him-- or she may have actually wanted Harry, not sure at this point-- um. They were in the middle of having sex (Harry and Draco), but then-- I think Hermione demanded to be serviced, and Draco was being a good sport. And also I think Harry had an exhibitionism... thing :D :D :D And so Draco was on his knees licking her when Harry's like 'all right, I'ma gonna crash this party', and the rest was-- porn >:D :D (...or actually you didn't go much further. *weeps*)

...I really do wish I knew like, -anything- about popslash so I could read new-and-improved!Saraporn. :(

argh secrecy

[malafede.livejournal.com]

>You could have hot Harry/Ron rivalslash, ahahah (WHAT.)

ew.

btw, we did have (or did i?) a slytherin boss harry fic! but no h/r rivalslash. no, really.

you read POT but not Naruto???

[yourpoison.livejournal.com]

I actually don't like Slytherin!Harry at all. But one makes do :>
And I don't read PoT or -any- shounen manga, though I watched like, 2 eps of both that and Naruto, and I read yaoi doujin in both PoT and Naruto when the mood strikes me, because I have no shame or need for silly "canon". Me only likey ze "canon" if it involves ze "fucking" :P

*shallow*