HP Instarec and self-destructive rant. Ooh, I'm gonna get it for this.

[devin_chain]

And here I just told seperis how relieved I was to feel I might actually get over Potterfic. Yeah, the stuff lately just leaves me feeling too pervy. That's not necessarily a bad thing, but in this case, lately the fandom just seems to want to hurt all the characters way too much. Lots of bdsm, torturefic, that sort of thing, which I love in small doses, but all at once? Pass. And all the Percy and Neville stuff? I respect that others find these characters appealing. But I just don't. Sorry. I'm in it mostly for the Snarry, but I'll read about Ron, Draco, Hermione -- sometimes Lucius -- in essence, the characters I'm invested in already by Rowling's portrayals in the novels. The others? Not especially well developed, so they smack of Mary Sue to me. Okay, they're not exactly flat characters, but just not my cuppa. (Oh, I'm going to get flamed over this. Goodbye to half my flist.) Oh hell, and as long as I'm drawing flames, I might as well say that I'm sick of drabbles in all fandoms. They're too easy, and there's nothing I hate worse than thinking I'm getting a short story and then clicking a link to find the synopsis was longer than the fic itself. One paragraph? Please. I'm waaaaaaaaaaaaaay over the drabble.

Yeah, yeah. I know. Who am I to bitch when I haven't posted fic in months? That's an excellent question, and a relevant complaint, and nobody feels worse about it than I. Grad school has me pinned to a wall, slowly fucking me with a one inch dick. I won't be able to post fic until May at the earliest. Which, incidentally, means I offer any and all un-friending amnesty. Please drop me from your flists with no ill will from here if you feel so inclined.

Okay, so back to the instarec:

So here comes the Snarry novel "A Choriambic Progression" by Mairead Triste and Aristide . OMFG. Character development. Plot. Adherence to canon. Settings we haven't seen before, but that fit. Magics we haven't seen before, but that also fit. Wow. And a story I can believe. Yeah, I'm one of those who doesn't think Snape would just hop into bed with a student and not angst over the choice. He resists here, and he gives himself hell. I love when he quips about finding himself in a Nabokovian nightmare. Read. This. Now.

I shed tears, both happy and sad.

I don't think I can say enough about this one. Fantastic, and more than a little welcome as I came *this close* to abandoning the fandom -- and who cares whether I quit reading HP, I know, but, okay, *I* care. I'm drawn back in. Wow. Nothing beats a well conceived Snarry novel. When this fandom is ON, it's one of the most richly imaginative out there. So many characters. So much magic.

ETA: The story is at Inkstained Fingers
http://inkstain.slashcity.net/isf/archive/21/achoriambic.html

Another ETA: Can't believe I left out Remus, Sirius, and Albus. Yeah, I'll happily read about them, too. And drunken McGonnegal (sp?) and Sniping Hooch.

Comments

[rivier.livejournal.com]

I might as well say that I'm sick of drabbles in all fandoms. They're too easy...

::cries guiltily::

You're absolutely right! I guess at the moment, I can't stop writing the damned things, because the dicsipline is good for concentrating the mind, and I tend to run on wildly when word allowances are unlimited. A good drabble should be akin to a good haiku - not just about the limitation, but about how to transcend that constraint with a measure of grace. A good drabble shouldn't be 100 words full stop - it should leave you feeling like that little bundle of words was actually worth your time to read.

Also, my own life-time is so cramped at the moment, that the thought of embarking on anything longer than a five-minute write fills me with the jitters. Drabbles make me feel like I haven't withered and died creatively... well, not totally, yet.

I really do understand why they irk you, though. I guess they're just more fun for the producer than the consumer, on the whole.

[devin-chain.livejournal.com]

Ack! And see, I completely get that about the time. You also hit my poet button by mentioning Haiku. Erm, my chosen profession dictates I right concisely, so what do I complain about? *kicks self* But I love a good, long story. I don't write many of them, but I'm happy to complain. Shame on me. I'm just being selfish.

[shaggirl.livejournal.com]

I know what you mean about the kink overload. I think the recent 3-kinks challenge at pornish_pixies has everyone trying to top each other (heh).

I love teh pr0n, and tend to gorge myself on it when I'm interested in a new fandom, but I'm all about the long, plotty reads.

[devin-chain.livejournal.com]

You mean it's not just me? Oh thank God.

*hugs hard*

[deadlychameleon.livejournal.com]

*g* Generally, I'm a Harry/Draco OTP, but there are some very good Snarry fics out there. I prefer the ones where Harry's a little bit older than a student (or at least 16+). I'll bookmark this one.

Grad school has me pinned to a wall, slowly fucking me with a one inch dick.
You know, checking my lj is the first thing I do in the morning. Generally it's better than coffee. This morning is no exception. *hugs* Hopefully the grad school will lay off a bit over the summer.

-Silverkyst

[devin-chain.livejournal.com]

I confess what makes it possible for me to read Harry at 16 having sex with an adult is my own experience -- I mean, when I felt emotionally ready to handle sex with an older person. It happened around sixteen, not before, though I was certainly attracted to older men and vice versa before that age. 16 was the year that attraction stopped feeling gross and started feeling pretty fantastic. I admit I was somewhat precocious.

Anyway, that's why chan squicks me badly, but Harry feeling stirrings at fifteen that he acts on at sixteen seldom bothers me.

It's a great story, though, and Snape definitely has a conscience. Lovely.

Thanks for the grad school sympathy. *hugs*

[deadlychameleon.livejournal.com]

I mean, when I felt emotionally ready to handle sex with an older person. It happened around sixteen, not before, though I was certainly attracted to older men and vice versa before that age.

*g* Sex in general sounded pretty good when I was 16 (started to when I was 15), and sex with someone who wasn't a teenage male idiot (also known as high school student) sounded pretty good as well, even if I absolutely can't see myself dating someone who was my teacher. Ever. I don't really have a problem with Harry (or Clex for that matter) in fic at that age when it's done right, in a realistic way where Snape isn't a predator.

-Silverkyst

[devin-chain.livejournal.com]

Yes. Here here to non-predatory Snape. :)

[tradesland.livejournal.com]

Yeah, the stuff lately just leaves me feeling too pervy. That's not necessarily a bad thing, but in this case, lately the fandom just seems to want to hurt all the characters way too much. Lots of bdsm, torturefic, that sort of thing, which I love in small doses, but all at once? Pass.

WORDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDD

You know, to be honest, this is the first fandom in which "a lot" of my limits had been tested in terms of character develpment, kink, morals, lube, etc. :)

Is like, whaaaaaaaaa, I mean, sometimes I feel so pervy and I get ashamed of being ashamed lol, is so embarasing, but let me tell you as you already know, this fandom is a great example of diversity as its best and worst and also is a great place to be called pervy and prude in one not very stylish line. Which I am (perv and prude I mean) and very proud of it. :)

Also there are incredible talented people, in the Smallville fandom (maybe because is way more small than the HP fandom) is a quite specific and well known number(obviously not closed and all that jazz) in the HP fandom is quite diferent and is always a bless. Ussually. :)

[devin-chain.livejournal.com]

It's such a relief to find I'm not the only one. Word back at you on the way this fandom tests my pervy limits. Big lol on feeling ashamed of being ashamed. That's exactly right.

Thanks so much for taking time to comment. :)
*hugs*

[katkim.livejournal.com]

I find I'm skimming a lot of HP fic, and only stop to read properly if the characters feel right to me. I absolutely adore Harry and Draco. I have such a crush on those two, it's embarrassing, but sometimes fanon Draco gives me a headache. He really does. I like him when he's still snarky, still obnoxious, still goofy, still loud, still a coward, constantly humiliated, small-minded, self-absorbed, arrogant, whiny, spoiled, jealous and a boy who adores his father - pretty much how he is in the books. Perfect 2D Draco with his silky blond locks can take his leather trousers and pout elsewhere *g*

Oh, and Drabbles? Word to the ninth power. I want to get absorbed in story. Drabbles and really short fic don't take me anywhere. They have to be so well written or have a really clever premise to get an emotional kick out them, otherwise I don't really read them.

[devin-chain.livejournal.com]

It's not just me! Thank you!

And yeah, sometimes I'm like, this isn't Draco. Where did this Draco clone raised by the Kents come from? I mean he can come off just that way. Too nice. Too moral. Too Clark to make a proper Draco. Weird.

*bangs head against onslaught of drabbles*

Thanks so much for still taking time to read my journal, Kat.
*hugs you hardest of all*

[dancingrain.livejournal.com]

i stayed up til 5 am last night reading that fic. I just couldn't put it down.

[devin-chain.livejournal.com]

I couldn't either when I got it. On the one hand it meant a lot of work didn't get done. On the other, I'm frustrated I can't find five more equally great brand new Snarry novels. Me? Greedy? Naaaah!

*hugs*