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nny1. Alan Rickman isn't really Snape. He's a fantastic actor, and I really enjoy his portrayal of Snape, and... that *voice*... but he's probably not the best choice for the role. He's too old, he's not greasy enough, and his "anger" tends toward the quietly threatening rather than the homicidal rage. Plus, if a younger actor had been cast, we could've had David Wenham as Lupin. *g*
2. Lupin is, I fear, in danger of turning into a big ol' sap. I am watching JKR very carefully, with my ruler poised ready to give her a sharp rap over the knuckles. He's far too understanding, and becoming a shoulder to cry on- I'd like to see more of the wolf in his character. Just 'cos he's English, polite, and likes tea, doesn't mean he has to be a big nancy. Look at Giles!
3. I really don't like Tonks all that much. She just seems far too much like a Mary Sue. You have the weird power no one else has got (neatly encapsulating the odd-coloured hair and eyes thing), you've got endearing clumsiness, you've got the fact that she's the only youngish, attractive female... I don't know. I'm not interested. However, despite my distinct lack of love for OOC-ness, I feel she's a character that has been redeemed to an extent in fandom, by folks such as
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lamardeuse and copperbadge.4. I wasn't overly bothered that they left Peeves out of the film. I was far *far* more bothered by the bastardisation of the Bloody Baron. He was supposed to be *scary*, not a laughing fool!
5. I love to be squicked, but my definition of squick is far different from the generally accepted one, I think. I love something that'll make me screw up my nose, cause an involuntary "Eeeeeew!", make me giggle. I don't consider subjects such as incest or noncon to be squick, I consider them to be NO GO AREAS.
6. The Weasley twins are *not* fucking. My own personal theory is that George wants Harry, but that's beside the point. I do *not* like incest. I really don't understand why anyone else would, though I'm not going to judge anyone for it. I will accept cousins (like Merry/Pippin), but I don't think there's anything hot about sex with immediate family.
7. I have nothing against songfics. I don't think people should use the entire set of lyrics from a song as an excuse not to come up with a plot, nor have the characters quote songs extensively to save themselves from having to come up with dialogue. However, I think that choosing a fic that quotes poetry as inspiration over one that quotes a song is needless quibbling over semantics.
8. I hate the idea of intellislash, from what I understand of it. However, I don't know enough about it to make an informed decision, so I won't be drawn into discussion about this one, for fear of causing offense.
9. I'm not interested in PWPs. In the hands of a decent writer I *will* read them, but I'd much rather find a story with plot. I get far more out of a long slow build up followed by a well written kiss than I do out of pages of thrusting and moaning and such.
10. I don't want Sam's babies. I *fear* Sam's babies.
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Date: 2003-11-20 11:11 pm (UTC)Just out of curiosity, what's 'intellislash'? The 'intelli-' part makes me suspect I'm rather stupid for not knowing. *blush*
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Date: 2003-11-20 11:22 pm (UTC)no subject
Date: 2003-11-20 11:34 pm (UTC)But trust me...you *really* don't want to know :-)
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Date: 2003-11-20 11:40 pm (UTC)*snicker* And according the Intelliarchive, I "emulate" their style. This amuses me.
You know, I think I like my dark little corner of web. To make a pointlessly fangirlish analogy, I'd rather be in my cupboard under the stairs with my Hogwarts letter than in Dudley's second bedroom without it :-P
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Date: 2003-11-20 11:48 pm (UTC)you're welcome...hp is about as wankerish as it comes (which was actually a big reason for me to hold out as long as i did before checking it out :-)...it's not a happy place when you're a bnf around here apparently, so i'm with you in the cupboard :-) (<-- sorry, that came out slashier than intended :-)
and this is the second time i ran into you today, though the first one has apparently disappeared...bad cath for breaking the rules *g*
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Date: 2003-11-20 11:52 pm (UTC)no subject
Date: 2003-11-20 11:54 pm (UTC)Nice meeting you :-)
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Date: 2003-11-21 12:00 am (UTC)Oh well, there's plenty of room for a party in my cupboard :-)
Regarding the quibbler post, I think that got deleted since they're now taking votes on the whole domain/message board idea. A message board seems to be the popular choice at the moment, so I think we'd get the same "category" deal going on there. So that's good. HP is just a huge fandom to be doing recs in :-P
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Date: 2003-11-21 12:07 am (UTC)snapledore...well...*tries really hard to be polite and refrain from shuddering *g*...well i did read a couple that were...interesting... love the mainstream slash concept...though i really think there's something to it, b/c i read a lot of teenie harry/draco the same way i used to read angel/buffy het...it's all about the big love and the soul mates forever...only now it's cool to do it with the gay (in my other current fandom of choice it's all about the joshtin...and if you don't get the reference...well, good for you :-)
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Date: 2003-11-21 12:21 am (UTC)And speaking of snapledore, I know it's not everyone's cup of tea...but don't I remember you saying that one of mine wasn't so bad? Might have been "Winter Kept Us Warm"? I admit, when I first got into fanfic (age 12 or so) I was much into the "big love and soul mates forever" but I'm a jaded little creature, and by the time I started writing HP at sixteen my tastes had much changed. I don't read much fic with the younger characters now unless it's by an author I know, or it's been recced by someone whose tastes are in sympatico with mine.
*shrug* To each his/her/its own :-)
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Date: 2003-11-21 12:27 am (UTC)yes, liked that one a lot actually (one of the few i alluded to above :-)
12-16-omg just put me in the old folks home now :-) but yes, i think the true love thing is both a new fan and definitely a young girl thing...some of us grow up :-)
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Date: 2003-11-21 12:33 am (UTC)You know, I'm totally embarrassed by the stories I thought were good when I was twelve. I started off in the X-Men fandom, and the Mary Sues...Of course, it was when I started to realize that some of them were bad that I thought: Hm...maybe I can do better. And thus a life-consuming obsession was borne :-P
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Date: 2003-11-21 12:40 am (UTC)and yes, i shudder to think back on the stuff i read when i first discovered fandom (and i didn'thave the excuse of being 12...i was a grown woman finishing my lit diss :-)
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Date: 2003-11-21 12:37 am (UTC)More than just preferring fic about older characters, I have a relative obsession with those characters that are considered unnatractive or non-sexual (Dumbledore, Filch, Snape, Hagrid, McGonagall.) Every human being is a sexual creature, and I find examinations of the least obviously sexual people to be the most interesting.
But then, I'm an odd little bird ;-)
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Date: 2003-11-21 12:43 am (UTC)no subject
Date: 2003-11-21 12:57 am (UTC)*snickers*
I have a real problem with Skinnerfic. I'm sorry. I used to enjoy fics by people like Aries- plenty of angst and slush, but eventually they grated because they really were too OOC. Krycek was never gonna be self-sacrificing and nice.
The ones I wrote in the fandom were absolutely hideous; I only like one of them now.
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Date: 2003-11-21 01:04 am (UTC)and yes, aries...memories...i think the ueberschmoop became a problem for me after a while...wasn't that Krycek rentboy fic one of hers? Loved it...and then the sequel..hm... Yeah, lots of OOC, but if the writing is good, I don't mind it all the time...like Josan, for example.
friended you and atdelphi btw, b/c i did have to flock my lj and feel like such a pretentious bitch for it :-)
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Date: 2003-11-21 01:11 am (UTC)no subject
Date: 2003-11-21 01:14 am (UTC)I can't remember my favourite XF writers any more. That's really sad... I'll have to go look at RatB again. *g*
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Date: 2003-11-21 01:31 am (UTC)And I'll admit, when I've had a rough day, I have a soft spot for that rather cuddly Skinner who gives Krycek a happy enough ending. Totally off on a tangent, but earlier today I was amused to find out that the building my French teacher's office is in (I go to UBC) is indeed the FBI building from X-Files. I thought it looked familiar :-P
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Date: 2003-11-21 01:51 am (UTC)and while we all like to bitch about the happy fics and the not quite spot on characterizations i'm with you...sometimes i want that...othertimes i crave the...dare i say it...intellislash *bg*
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Date: 2003-11-21 02:14 am (UTC)Oh, and Nny was right - I was happier before I knew what "intellislash" is. I think I'll stick with my original categories: Great Writing, Good Writing, Mediocre Writing, and Piss-Poor Writing.
That does me just fine.
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Date: 2003-11-21 02:19 am (UTC)you're a frosh?...hand me a gun so i can kill myself :-)
i was just out in the northwest for the first time ever...we visited family in penticton for 2 weeks...i loved it so much!!!
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Date: 2003-11-21 02:31 am (UTC)And I'm definitely loving the west coast. I was born in Northern Ontario, not far from the arctic (which is just mindboggling weather) and grew up with the smoggy humidity of Southern Ontario. So having the Pacific Ocean literally right outside my window (complete with nude beach) is a very cool thing indeed ;-)
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Date: 2003-11-21 02:39 am (UTC)*envies you sth fierce*
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Date: 2003-11-20 11:19 pm (UTC)Are you going to get on Y!M tonight, love?
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Date: 2003-11-21 01:58 am (UTC)no subject
Date: 2003-11-21 12:27 am (UTC)I second you on this (maybe-not-quite-so) unpopular opinion. And join you in the fear.
I am watching JKR very carefully, with my ruler poised ready to give her a sharp rap over the knuckles.
You and I, Nny, you and I.
He's far too understanding, and becoming a shoulder to cry on.
God, yes! I wouldn't mind this part of his characterisation so much if there was some KickAss!Lupin in the novels, as well.
*keeps fingers crossed*
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Date: 2003-11-21 02:04 am (UTC)no subject
Date: 2003-11-21 05:49 pm (UTC)Agreed. She might do to him what she did to Hermione, who became way too omniscient and perceptive in OotP. Little Miss Perfect.
We don't need a perfect Lupin. He should be allowed the same flaws as the next man (i.e. Snape).
Hopefully this'll happen with Remus, also... though I hope it doesn't end the same way.
I don't know... Death might be merciful compared with what they did to Movie!Remus...
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Date: 2003-11-21 01:04 am (UTC)2. ...
3. I second that. Very annoying. Forgot another Mary Sue trait she has "annoying connection to canon character" (Sirius' cousin)
5. Twincest... I can take it or leave it but have read some excellent fics dealing with it. I like the way Telanu writes about it in A Wizard's Song. With Harry having an appropriate reaction, I mean.
7. Songfics very rarely work. In fact I can't think of any that really worked for me.
8. Several intellislashers in my friends list so will not comment. Much. It is a general label they were given and I don't think it is exactly fair, there are different styles within the group itself. I don't think the archive was a particularly smart idea but they've already gotten so much shit over it I won't add to it.
9. Somedays I feel like a plot and a well-written kiss, somedays like thirty pages of thursting and moaning...
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Date: 2003-11-21 02:08 am (UTC)The twincest in AWS I can put up with. I'm not happy about it, but Harry's reaction and their hiding of it seems pretty realistic... Since it's incidental I can get past it to the story. But it's not something I would ever choose to read as a pairing.
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Date: 2003-11-21 01:27 am (UTC)Well, then, thank you intensely for beta-ing the other day! *worships*
6. The Weasley twins are *not* fucking.
Word. (Notice The Dungeons twins' reaction to this.)
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Date: 2003-11-21 02:09 am (UTC)