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[parthenia]

Are the stars in some sort of especially ugly alignment right now? So yesterday, I posted my merry return-to-form LJ item, and then almost immediately got a call from kids' club about E. being ill. Brought them home (no work), and well, what with one thing and another, ended up shouting at everyone and melting into a great big teary tantrum at about 7 pm.

Indeed, my meltdown was so awesomely, incredibly, majorly epic, I was beginning to slightly fear for my own mental health. B. brought me dinner in bed and E. brought me her softest teddy bear to cuddle. Anyway, cut to 11 pm and P. made a kind of sqeak from his bed, and that was the first of several bouts of sickness...

Bit of a sleepless night.

He's off school today and I either have a milder version of what he's got or alternatively, have yet another overdose of empathy-created illness. Good job I never tried to be a medic.

Anyway. Two things, no three:

1) Any recs for fanfic from HP or (gasp) Torchwood? Canon compliant, long, awesomely good?

2) Can I interest any of you good folk in a spare ticket for the Fratellis this coming Friday at the Albert Hall?

3) E. had her birthday and I made an overcompensating cake of purple awesomeness:



The other week P. had a much delayed party and I made a cake of lesser awesomeness (honestly, orange icing on chocolate would have looked nicer than black on grey);

but it made us both laugh.


On that note I think I will go and lie down.

Comments

[meredyth-13.livejournal.com]

Your cakes rock!

*sends hugs and sympathy with a big cup of tea*

I will think on the recs and see if I can come up with anything brilliant!

[parthenia14.livejournal.com]

You're reading the H/D stuff, aren't you? I looked at worldcup and hyperventilated a bit at the volume (also? if those comments are critical, then I'm a willowy 6-footer). One of the most intriguing things is that you get really good stories which go completely off the boil once Draco appears. I think it has become really hard to write non-fanon Draco.

[meredyth-13.livejournal.com]

I'm reading, not all of it... but most of it. I didn't even go read them... my rant was more along the lines of 'I'm sick of hearing about this kind of crap' than anything more.

Funny, in my head you rather are a willowy six-footer - and it has nothing to do with what size or height you actually are.

I think I've only read two fics so far that didn't feel... young, or forced. I've had nice things to say about most of them, some I didn't have anything constructive to add, and some I didn't finish. But there's just a feel, so far, something not quite MY H/D. In all honesty, I'm hoping it's the prompts that they've chosen to post first, because it feels like the JOY (all caps) has gone out of writing H/D. Even the EWE and Fanon writers seem to have lost the spark of wonder that was key in the H/D that I love. There's been one or two fics with a real canon Draco - and he wasn't much joy, although very interesting. I think it's hard to remember just who Draco was in the books - when you read so much fic and don't go back to the source very often.

For me it was always about what we could do to canon Draco to make him... more - real, maybe. He was always a dimension or two short of a personality, and it was those leaps, the ones that felt good, whether they were light or dark, that I loved seeing bounced off Harry.

*sigh*

I talk too much. ;)

[parthenia14.livejournal.com]

I haven't really read good H/D since reading the Golden Age (hahahaha) stories that were written round about Order of the Phoenix. There must be some good stuff around the Half Blood Prince even if TDH was a bit of a damb squib in that regard.

I think I've lost my interest in the fanon creations, really, which seem to have become quite one-note.

[meredyth-13.livejournal.com]

*hugs*

Well, I'm clinging to Maya's fanon Draco, because OMG, I love her writing. Actually, I'm quite possessive of the small stable of H/D writers whose work I love. I cling to them like an annoying limpetty creature.

I have, however, just been sunk into the pits of despair. I KNOW there are some awesome writers writing for this fest... and one would like to assume that the teams were assisting each other and beta-ing, but OMG, someone just committed the Unforgivable, and I have gone into private flaily mode.

*sigh*

[parthenia14.livejournal.com]

See, I thought you were merely calling for drugs. :D Which was entirely understandable.

My 11 year old still says 'tooken', it's quite amusing.