t singsong voice
Love you love you love you love you
t /singsong voice
What you did to me was unbelievable, Connor. But then I got stuck in a hell dimension by my girlfriend one time for a hundred years, so three months under the ocean actually gave me perspective. Kind of a M.C. Escher perspective, but I did get time to think.
Angel ,'Conviction (1)'
Fan Fiction: Writers, Readers, and Enablers
This thread is for fanfic recs, links, and discussion, but not for actual posting of fanfic.
Fay - Dec 14, 2002 6:57:50 pm PST #1651 of 10000
"Fuck Western ideologically-motivated gender identification!" Sulu gasped, and came.
esse - Dec 14, 2002 7:43:00 pm PST #1652 of 10000
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Hey, Fay, can I offer my services as beta for the next three weeks? I've got nothing but time.
Fay - Dec 14, 2002 7:52:14 pm PST #1653 of 10000
"Fuck Western ideologically-motivated gender identification!" Sulu gasped, and came.
Oooooh, SA! It's HP, though - you cool with that? Well, obviously you must be. Heh. Yay. Bless you - I'll try to get it closer to finished, but you can rest assured I'll be taking you up on it. I'd love to get an idea of your impressions of the overall thing once it's closer-to-finished, rather than in bite-sized chunks.
;o)
esse - Dec 14, 2002 7:56:57 pm PST #1654 of 10000
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Sure. That's how I like to beta my stuff anyway.
Yeah, I'm cool with HP. And as a general rule, I'm cool with anything you write. It's a love/respect/attracted to thing.
Fay - Dec 14, 2002 7:59:06 pm PST #1655 of 10000
"Fuck Western ideologically-motivated gender identification!" Sulu gasped, and came.
blush
esse - Dec 14, 2002 8:00:35 pm PST #1656 of 10000
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One other thing -- fair warning that my Draco's probably different from your Draco. But I'm willing to be won over.
Fay - Dec 14, 2002 8:09:54 pm PST #1657 of 10000
"Fuck Western ideologically-motivated gender identification!" Sulu gasped, and came.
D'you want to elaborate?
t /intrigued
esse - Dec 14, 2002 8:12:12 pm PST #1658 of 10000
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I kinda side with Harry. I've been on the recieving end of mean little kids, and while I don't think he isn't irredeemable, I really don't get the joy in the bad kid, you know? I think an adult Draco, a la LoP or something, is far more interesting than, say, a look into the mind of the snotty bastard from the books.
But I'm more than willing to read something that can change my mind.
Fay - Dec 14, 2002 8:16:35 pm PST #1659 of 10000
"Fuck Western ideologically-motivated gender identification!" Sulu gasped, and came.
Ah, but you've got to take the snotty bastard from the books as your starting point - and if you re-read the books and look for instances of Draco being snotty bastardly, they are astonishingly few and far between. We're told that he's a wee shite, but we don't actually see very much of it at all. I was gobsmacked, on re-reading. He's actually perfectly pleasant to Harry, in his insecure- upperclass-brat-spouting-his-Daddy's-POV way, when first they meet in the Robe shop. And then he does make friendly overtures (albeit in a very obnoxious fashion) on the train, notwithstanding his bigotry towards the Weasleys (very much Lucius talking there, and he's 11 and being sent off to school all alone - of course he's cranking up the cocky can't-hurt-me thing). And when you factor in the nightmare of parenting that is Lucius, I'm prepared to give Canon!Draco some leeway so far. YSBMV.
Anyway, mine own version of Draco has a really harrowing thing happen to him right from the get go, and then it's pretty much all shit from then on out. I'm all about turning him from a snotty little brat into a wounded and snarky but palatable adult, which, please god, is what will happen in the story. Eventually.
esse - Dec 14, 2002 8:20:04 pm PST #1660 of 10000
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Yeah, cool. Can't wait to read, doll.
Man, I wish I could/was writing something.