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Apr. 9th, 2018 07:28 pmI am starting to develop opinions about Harry Potter fic.
I find this peculiar because I haven't read most of the books or watched whole movies.
But I started with astolat and now I'm having opinions.
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I also seem to like fic where Harry and Draco fix up a magic house together. How there's enough to be a theme I don't know, but I like it. Especially as an after the war metaphor, they've both got to put their houses in order, and heal all the damage. And if they can only do so properly together, brilliant. I could read a dozen of those.
... that seems a bit niche.
... I mean repetitive formula involving sex scenes seems perfectly ordinary, but somehow home renovation with the big payoff kiss does not.
... fanfic has revised my standards in ways regular fiction would find eyebrow raising.
I kind of want to start writing something with some bits I've found from HP fic and want to respin. Poke the whole justice system and why their prisons are so awful. Go on a righteous crusade to get those poor sods some basic health and human relationships education. Teach them some PE that doesn't happen so far off the ground.
I mean in some versions of ceremonial magic you're basically dancing, so it could only help to concentrate on movement for one facet of their education, and I'm always up for a good layered dance scene where all the tensions get transmuted into wordless form.
... I feel vaguely like I picked that up in Highlander, they just do it with swords...
I don't know. I should just sit down and write. And be fine with it being rubbish, going nowhere, and having no audience. Because it would still be wildly superior to a solid five years of purely not writing. Which is what has happened since college.
... you know I can kind of understand the 8th year stuff, I was at college a really long time, I want to send HP characters there as mature students so they can get some foundational learning in, the familiar environs and opportunities seem rich with possibility.
I'm just looking for more. Or different. Or something.
So anyways. HP fic. Why am I even.
*shrug*
I find this peculiar because I haven't read most of the books or watched whole movies.
But I started with astolat and now I'm having opinions.
( Read more... )
I also seem to like fic where Harry and Draco fix up a magic house together. How there's enough to be a theme I don't know, but I like it. Especially as an after the war metaphor, they've both got to put their houses in order, and heal all the damage. And if they can only do so properly together, brilliant. I could read a dozen of those.
... that seems a bit niche.
... I mean repetitive formula involving sex scenes seems perfectly ordinary, but somehow home renovation with the big payoff kiss does not.
... fanfic has revised my standards in ways regular fiction would find eyebrow raising.
I kind of want to start writing something with some bits I've found from HP fic and want to respin. Poke the whole justice system and why their prisons are so awful. Go on a righteous crusade to get those poor sods some basic health and human relationships education. Teach them some PE that doesn't happen so far off the ground.
I mean in some versions of ceremonial magic you're basically dancing, so it could only help to concentrate on movement for one facet of their education, and I'm always up for a good layered dance scene where all the tensions get transmuted into wordless form.
... I feel vaguely like I picked that up in Highlander, they just do it with swords...
I don't know. I should just sit down and write. And be fine with it being rubbish, going nowhere, and having no audience. Because it would still be wildly superior to a solid five years of purely not writing. Which is what has happened since college.
... you know I can kind of understand the 8th year stuff, I was at college a really long time, I want to send HP characters there as mature students so they can get some foundational learning in, the familiar environs and opportunities seem rich with possibility.
I'm just looking for more. Or different. Or something.
So anyways. HP fic. Why am I even.
*shrug*