The end days ...
Oct. 18th, 2007 08:14 pm![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
blamebrampton... may well be nigh, as I have now agreed with George W Bush twice in recent weeks, first on Burma and now on the Dalai Lama.
This short comic had me giggling like a nutter.hpdm4ever recced it and I had to follow. She is right and wise and it will make you smile even if the Snarry is as the anthrax to you.
In very happy news, the wonderfulleochi has drawn and painted Albus and Scorpius, and they are just beautiful. You can see her images here and here and here. She is a genius at capturing young expressions; take a look at her original narrative through images in other recent posts; it is nothing less than delightful.
I'm sure I had some deep and meaningful reason for posting tonight, but I was distracted by the cat being feeble and needy and keeping me up far too late ...
This short comic had me giggling like a nutter.
hpdm4ever recced it and I had to follow. She is right and wise and it will make you smile even if the Snarry is as the anthrax to you.In very happy news, the wonderful
leochi has drawn and painted Albus and Scorpius, and they are just beautiful. You can see her images here and here and here. She is a genius at capturing young expressions; take a look at her original narrative through images in other recent posts; it is nothing less than delightful.I'm sure I had some deep and meaningful reason for posting tonight, but I was distracted by the cat being feeble and needy and keeping me up far too late ...
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Date: 2007-10-18 06:08 pm (UTC)I saw that comic too, it's so sweet and whimsical that it almost makes me into a Snarry fan. Almost.
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Date: 2007-10-19 09:42 am (UTC)Yeah, I was v ambivalent about the Snarry, but have now read THREE good Snarry things this week. Fandom is eating more of my brain daily ...
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Date: 2007-10-19 01:57 pm (UTC)Links please? What the heck, might as well walk on the wild side.
There are several things that have prevented me from getting into Snarry:
1. The eww! teacher squick. Even if Harry is grown-up, it still sort of makes me uncomfortable.
2. The difference in ages mean that Harry and Snape can never be in a relationship as true equals. And equality is very important to me when I write and read Harry/Draco.
3. It's hard to imagine Snape with his robes off, and I'm not sure I want to.
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Date: 2007-10-19 02:18 pm (UTC)I have the exact three issues, although less of a number three when I think of Alan Rickman (Mmmmmmmm .... sorry, where was I?). In recent years I have done a lot of slapping of my RL friends when they take advantage of the young. I can live with it more when they are also being taken advantage of (ie, if some 19-year-old girl is happy to put up with shagging one of my 39-year-old mates in return for her rent being paid and constant worship, I will not necessarily scream at my friend, but I will introduce the 19 yo to hot 22 year olds.)
Anyway ... this was number one; sansa's Life in Kind was number two: http://sansa1970.livejournal.com/68196.html and now that I have slept more than four hours in a row I am off to reread and comment on how fabulous a writer she is, because she is; and jadzialove's Unexpected, which is flocked (she's a genrous friender (and friend!)) at http://jadzialove.livejournal.com/28885.html#cutid1 this last is smutarama, but clever, affectionate and not manipulatve in any way, which deals neatly with my Snarry issues.
I think that all three have Harry as an adult makes me less squeamish about the whole thing. Particularly because I can look at a number of my 20-year-old friends and think "If I allowed such bad behaviour, I could totally do you ..."
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Date: 2007-10-19 02:34 pm (UTC)When I was 17, I dated a 30 year old. Of course I thought I was so sophisticated and that I knew what I was doing, but of course neither of these things turned out to be true. Now I think of this guy as a child molester, though I wasn't that young. He was immature and needed a very young person to be impressed by him.
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Date: 2007-10-19 02:48 pm (UTC)Yeah, it's a hard one. I shagged a number of people in their 30s when I was in my late teens. Each time it was because I convinced them I was a lot older and cheerfully used them as taxis and dinner tickets, because I was a poor wee orphan lass (well, Mum wasn't on the same continent, so it was virtually true) and it was so much easier to live off their dollar than mine. At the same time, I told a number of other people the same age that I was 13 because they just gave me the screaming heebie jeebies and I wanted an incontrovertible reason to make them go away. It really ends up being case-by-case and motivations such as those of your chap are NOT good and need to be discouraged. With Ice-cold spoons and cricket bats if necessary.
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Date: 2007-10-19 02:56 pm (UTC)I just started Sansa's fic. I love it! But of course - I love everything she's written.
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Date: 2007-10-19 02:59 pm (UTC)She IS good, isn't she?
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Date: 2007-10-19 03:05 pm (UTC)And re Sansa...mmmm, yes! I was really happy when I first discovered her fics.
Reading good writers leads to better writing, I think.. it's like nurturing yourself by eating a well-prepared, nourishing meal.
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Date: 2007-10-19 03:17 pm (UTC)Alas, my Machiavellian side sometimes threatens to take over the universe. I regularly thwart myself. When you grow up spending many hours sitting around communes waiting for adults to stop inspecting their navels, the only choices available to you are despair or evil. And evil is so much more fun.
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Date: 2007-10-19 03:23 pm (UTC)"A Mile in His Shoes" is one of my favorites - full of wonderful orginal characters, and with a gorgeously-described setting. It's on so many rec lists- and for good reason.
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Date: 2007-10-19 03:37 pm (UTC)As I patiently explained to my friends as a teenager: "Why be suicidal when you're not the problem? If you really feel someone deserves to die, surely you should be killing the person who's making you feel like this?" I'd hasten to point out that my friends were generally not in possession of guns.
Oh no ... I just read the first paragraph and am hooked, but I need to go to sleeeeeeeeep!
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Date: 2007-10-19 03:38 pm (UTC)Pleasant dreams.