~~give me squeeing or give me Death

[reenka]

sabworks drew peter pettigrew (among so, so many other mind-bogglingly awesome-- and fantastical-- and often slashy-- things) and now-- now-- i think i like him. yikes. o_0 well, it was just a matter of time(??).

so like, y'all can go worship her mad skillz now XD
life is good when i get to gush. ahhh, yes. oh and, ``a brief interval before the resumption of play" is so very awesomely scrumptious my mind shuts down and refuses to review or describe or even hint at its utter glory. yes. that's what i'm always after :D and i can't believe i said that, because really it has a -lot- of quidditch in it. and me and quidditch-- we have a tepid relationship. it's heated up now.
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you won't believe how i became a semi-oliver/marcus shipper. yes. oh god it's almost embarrassing ^^;; it's a sweet and tender gangbang *dies laughing*
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and, and, and, squeeeeeeeeeeeee~~
because skysorceress posted links to artful facade 6 and, and. well. yes. i need to talk about badfic more so people don't think i'm in love with every fic under the sun ^^;;



i'm not (in love with every fic-- far, far from it). there are some things i'm critical of, and some things i can't handle, but mostly i go for emotion, and if it's got it, i tend to like it, but then there's style and plot. i feel v. v. guilty for not being more picky and it's as if my intelligence suffers by allowing me to like questionable fiction. sky's fic, i would defend till i'm blue in the face, but there are other fics i'd felt like that about, and when i see them criticized i'm like, damn, am i missing something?! i'm not a critical over-analytical person by nature, unless the mood strikes me and i feel snarky. i'm usually out for pleasure and i enjoy what i can. the only thing that trips me up is really bad word-use, flaming ooc-ness, and confusing/boring plot/pacing/structure. ok that's a lot. i don't even -know- about my fic. no one's ever pointed out a fic i thought was ok and said-- man that needs tons of work before it can be worthy of seeing the light of day. if i like sucky things, does that make my own work sucky? well at least i don't have the plebe!fic problem, since mostly, the complaints people make about my fics are to do with them being too confusing. goddamnit, IP didn't suck *sulks*

too many words, too much sugar, too much telling-not-showing, etcetc, why didn't i see it? *cries* it's in classical romance form. it's not a stylistic sort of subtlety like ``brief interval", it's more of a typical romance. but i like that, goddamnit. it's not subtle, but i find it emotionally gripping, and symbollically-rich, and real on an instinctive level-- whether or not it's too long doesn't really enter into that. i mean, i've never read a fic i thought was too long, that i really really enjoyed-- but i guess i don't read robert jordan-- i mean, yes, 22,000+ pages is too long, or whatever it was. i don't usually praise anything blindly, but like, i think a major reason i like things is just because they -grip- me, they -mean- something to me, me personally, they tell me about myself. i love it when they're well-written-- in fact, i'm pretty much a style-over-content whore, a lot of times-- but. *angst, angst, angst*

[see, this is why i don't like stories being called angst. angst is stupid whining about things that don't matter, heh.]
i liked ``draco malfoy and the heart of slytherin". it wasn't on the button, but it had slow build-up. i heart slow build-up, because it's rarely done, and fast-acting build-up is so often ruined and done badly. yes, it was rushed by the end, and i was left unsatisfied and that kiss really didn't do it for me, etc. but, slow build-up, people! draco and harry who don't have endless hints of slashiness oozing from them from the first chapter...! that was before i found `underwater light', which is so much cooler it's in another fucking dimension. this was the only story which had a believable draco & harry friendship (outside of the Trilogy), that i knew of. the only one...! dammit. *pouts* no one (that i know & respect) appreciates that. yes, it had issues. but it was slow and its draco was a tough cookie to crack, till the bitter end. damnit, some really good fics really screw up in that department. and i mean, really. irresistible poison kind of has slow build-up too, even though things are more obvious, they're not really -that- predictable, and it's pretty suspenseful and it's one chapter from the end...! anyway.

guh. why do i even care, is a very good question.
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oh.... my.... god. *deep breath*

that is poetry, man. i dig it. i so, so am one with the flow, daddy-o. yes. *moooooans*