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I'm going out to buy my poor starving kitties some food, but first--![[livejournal.com profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/external/lj-userinfo.gif)
diamond_dust06 has brought back an old meme, so I give you:
1. Ron/Draco. Totally Not Believable. They HATE each other. I know, you say, 'Oho! Harry and Draco hate each other, too!' It's different, I tell you. Harry and Draco feed off of their animosity. There's a dynamic there that's not even on the same level. Ron and Draco are the youngest generation of the Wizarding version of the Hatfields and the McCoys, and they will never get past that. And besides...(see #5).
2. Hermione/Draco. See above. When Draco says 'filthy mudblood', he means it. He doesn't give her the respect deserving of lint, never mind think of her as potential girlfriend material.
3. Harry/Ginny is canon, whether you, or I, or anyone likes it. Harry/Hermione will never be canon. Get over it. I don't like H/G, but um. The author is the god of the universe she creates.
4. Seme and uke. I not only don't get it, I hate the very idea of it. Why can't a fair-haired, slender guy be dominant in a relationship? What he have to be submissive just because he's fairer and shorter than the other one? What does size and colouring have to do with personality? It. Doesn't. Make. Sense. Maybe this is why I can't get into Anime.
5. Ron is straight, except in matters Trio, because that's different. That's the Trio, the Holy Trinity, the Three Musketeers, all for one, one for all, OT3--you get the picture. But yeah, Ron is so straight. So, so straight. A zero on Kinsey. Maybe even a -1.
6. Draco is not strikingly handsome. He's got pointy features and is only a shade or two shy of Albino. He's not ugly, either, but um. Not a pinup boy.
7. For that matter, Tom Felton is not strikingly handsome, either. Rupert Grint is much better looking than Tom, as much of a w00bie as our fisherguy is. Again, not ugly, but. Which is why I think that visually, Tom is perfect as Draco.
8. I don't get fics that feature very minor characters, i.e. Hannah Abbot/Blaise Zabini, Lee Jordan/Terry Boot, that kind of thing. If someone's writing stuff like that, why not write original stories? Because these characters have almost NO backstory at all.
9. Alan Rickman, as much as I completely adore him, is too old to be Snape. I love his portrayal of Snape, but he's still too old by at least ten years. The Marauders, etc. in the movie were aged up to fit with Alan's Snape, and as much as I love David Thewliss and Gary Oldman as Remus and Sirius, they're too old, too. These people should be in their late thirties, early forties tops.
10. Sirius? Is deader 'n dirt. He isn't pining, he's passed on! Do I think we'll hear from him again? Sure. But from the Great Beyond, nothing more.
Oh, and:
BONUS!!
11. I like Harry's hair in the GoF film (also Ron's). Remember, this is right in the middle of the post-Nirvana grunge era. Teenage boys grew their hair.
Okay, now, off to buy cat food. I'll try to contain my joy.
I'm going out to buy my poor starving kitties some food, but first--
diamond_dust06 has brought back an old meme, so I give you:1. Ron/Draco. Totally Not Believable. They HATE each other. I know, you say, 'Oho! Harry and Draco hate each other, too!' It's different, I tell you. Harry and Draco feed off of their animosity. There's a dynamic there that's not even on the same level. Ron and Draco are the youngest generation of the Wizarding version of the Hatfields and the McCoys, and they will never get past that. And besides...(see #5).
2. Hermione/Draco. See above. When Draco says 'filthy mudblood', he means it. He doesn't give her the respect deserving of lint, never mind think of her as potential girlfriend material.
3. Harry/Ginny is canon, whether you, or I, or anyone likes it. Harry/Hermione will never be canon. Get over it. I don't like H/G, but um. The author is the god of the universe she creates.
4. Seme and uke. I not only don't get it, I hate the very idea of it. Why can't a fair-haired, slender guy be dominant in a relationship? What he have to be submissive just because he's fairer and shorter than the other one? What does size and colouring have to do with personality? It. Doesn't. Make. Sense. Maybe this is why I can't get into Anime.
5. Ron is straight, except in matters Trio, because that's different. That's the Trio, the Holy Trinity, the Three Musketeers, all for one, one for all, OT3--you get the picture. But yeah, Ron is so straight. So, so straight. A zero on Kinsey. Maybe even a -1.
6. Draco is not strikingly handsome. He's got pointy features and is only a shade or two shy of Albino. He's not ugly, either, but um. Not a pinup boy.
7. For that matter, Tom Felton is not strikingly handsome, either. Rupert Grint is much better looking than Tom, as much of a w00bie as our fisherguy is. Again, not ugly, but. Which is why I think that visually, Tom is perfect as Draco.
8. I don't get fics that feature very minor characters, i.e. Hannah Abbot/Blaise Zabini, Lee Jordan/Terry Boot, that kind of thing. If someone's writing stuff like that, why not write original stories? Because these characters have almost NO backstory at all.
9. Alan Rickman, as much as I completely adore him, is too old to be Snape. I love his portrayal of Snape, but he's still too old by at least ten years. The Marauders, etc. in the movie were aged up to fit with Alan's Snape, and as much as I love David Thewliss and Gary Oldman as Remus and Sirius, they're too old, too. These people should be in their late thirties, early forties tops.
10. Sirius? Is deader 'n dirt. He isn't pining, he's passed on! Do I think we'll hear from him again? Sure. But from the Great Beyond, nothing more.
Oh, and:
BONUS!!
11. I like Harry's hair in the GoF film (also Ron's). Remember, this is right in the middle of the post-Nirvana grunge era. Teenage boys grew their hair.
Okay, now, off to buy cat food. I'll try to contain my joy.
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Date: 2005-09-26 04:16 pm (UTC)(no subject)
Date: 2005-09-26 08:24 pm (UTC)Malfoy*brandishes wand*
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Date: 2005-09-26 04:55 pm (UTC)I don't see Ewan as Remus as much as I love him. I would've liked to have seen Ralph Fiennes as Remus personally. :)
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Date: 2005-09-27 01:15 am (UTC)He could be Fanon!Sirius. :)
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Date: 2005-09-27 01:26 am (UTC)Anyway, one of the episodes was about a haunted/cursed circus which was kind of a take off on Something Wicked This Way Comes. Jason played the cursed Ringmaster who is a lot sexier than Jonathan Pryce as Mr. Dark.
and yes, definitely fanon!Sirius. :)
(yummy Neil Icon. I still need one)
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Date: 2005-09-27 01:46 am (UTC)(no subject)
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Date: 2005-09-27 11:10 pm (UTC)And? He's a nice guy. He charmed my socks off when I met him at Worldcon.
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Date: 2005-09-26 05:50 pm (UTC)Although Rickman is PERFECT for Snape, absolutely perfect, if here weren't so damn old. I just squint and pretend I don't see his jowls. :o)
Oh, and Sirius? If you hadn't nailed 'im to the perch 'e'd be pushing up the daisies! *chortles*
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Date: 2005-09-26 07:49 pm (UTC)The seme/uke scenario: Portraying the lovers as equals acting on mutual agreement is simply not done. At the very least the seme must push the relationship and the uke must resist it (at first).
The height rule: The seme must always and without fail be taller than the uke. If the heights and natures of the original characters don't fit, they are adjusted, e.g. a short agressive character is either made taller so that he can be seme, or his behaviour feminized to turn him into a proper uke.
The hair color rule: The uke has fair hair, the seme has dark hair. As with the height, adjustments are often made to make the characters fit the rule, though it's not as strictly "enforced".
It's just Silly.
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Date: 2005-09-26 07:57 pm (UTC)(no subject)
Date: 2005-09-26 08:19 pm (UTC)(no subject)
Date: 2005-09-26 05:58 pm (UTC)I'm pretty sure I agree with everything you've written here. Love the anime bit (which I just DON'T get) and Ron *grins some more*
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Date: 2005-09-26 07:50 pm (UTC)Veilperch!(no subject)
Date: 2005-09-26 08:08 pm (UTC)parrotanimagus is no more! He has ceased to be! 'E's expired and gone to meet 'is maker! 'E's a stiff! Bereft of life, 'e rests in peace! If you hadn't nailed 'im to theperchveil, 'e'd be pushing up the daisies! 'Is metabolic processes are now 'istory! 'E's off the twig! 'E's kicked the bucket, 'e's shuffled off 'is mortal coil, run down the curtain and joined the bleedin' choir invisibile!! THIS IS AN EX-PARROTMarauder!!I promise, this will be my last Python post for today. Honest.
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Date: 2005-09-26 08:21 pm (UTC)After all, I didn't expect a kind of of Spanish Inquisition.
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Date: 2005-09-26 07:40 pm (UTC)a great job. It's just that he's too old for the part, Canonwise, because he's supposed to be in the same year (or near to) as Harry's parents.
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Date: 2005-09-26 09:41 pm (UTC)I see minor character fic as a way to flesh out JKR's universe. Why not create a backstory for a character? Sure, you could be writing original fic, but the odds are you're here and writing fanfic because you love the universe. Having said that, I've not written any and I doubt I ever will, because I have more Harry-centered bunnies than I will ever be able to write... :-P
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Date: 2005-09-27 01:50 am (UTC)(no subject)
Date: 2005-09-27 01:51 am (UTC)Hang on, I'm still thinking...
;-)
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