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marguerite_kruxThis fic, The Headmaster’s Tale, by tearsofphoenix made me realize there’s another item I can add to the list of Why Snape is the Awesomest Ever. He’s reappointed as headmaster with this reasoning:
“…and we acknowledge the recipient of this offer, Professor Severus Snape, to have been the best Headmaster Hogwarts ever had, at least in recent centuries, he being the only Headmaster all of whose students stayed safe and alive – and that during the most adverse of times - thus succeeding where even his highly honoured predecessors, Armando Dippett and Albus Dumbledore, failed.”
WIN. Death Eater occupation and still he manages to protect all the students, even when all the teachers and Dumbledore's Army defiantly acts against him. What a hero.
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Okay, look, I completely agree that teacher/student relationships in RL just should not happen. Under any circumstances. Mitigating factors in fandom provide exceptions to this rule but the key word is FANDOM.
My love for Hermione/Snape in the Harry Potter!verse is one such exception and I refuse to justify it. But the thing is, this pairing mainly works for me because of the extraordinary circumstances they face, where all sorts of lines are blurred because of the situation they find themselves in. I would never ship a student and teacher in a show that’s more reflective of real life. A show such as my recent guilty pleasure, Glee.
There is no magic, except what the kids create onstage. There is no war, except that which Sue wages on the rest of the world. It’s just ordinary, if talented, kids at an ordinary school with- okay, not exactly ordinary teachers, they’re all freaks in their own way, lol.
Still. Despite the chemistry I see between Rachel and Will, I refuse to ship them. REFUSE. They might go beyond the usual teacher/student dynamic- things get intensely personal between them, they have expectations of each other and engage on a different level than he does with any of the other Gleeks, but although I like both characters, that’s not reason enough to ship them.
That said, I feel kinda smug when I read that the original premise of the show? Totally had teacher/student sex. Because I so called it from the first moment I saw them together.
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All right, I blame ed_84 who is the reason I’ve been tempted back to Legend of the Seeker.
I gave up on it halfway through the first season because it was all about Richard/Kahlan. I adore Kahlan, ‘k, mad love for that woman because she is the definition of awesome but I just don’t get her and Richard.
He irritates the hell out of me- I don’t know why the series felt his character would work better as green wet-behind-the-ears newbie instead of being familiar with magical arts and trained by Zed from childhood. He blunders around making mistakes and endangering his life and that of poor Kahlan, who has to tag around after him, saving his ass which he inevitably puts at risk because he doesn’t pay attention to her wise counsel.
And he’s one of those bloody annoying types that are all about ‘listen to your heart, not your head’ which means he’ll jeopardize saving the frakking kingdom on a whim because it’s ‘the right thing to do’. No matter if everyone’s condemned to hell on a platter because of his bleeding heart. Let’s follow the pretty girl and help her brother instead of, oh, I don’t know, ELIMINATING THE VICIOUS VILLAIN?!
So although I think Kahlan is fabulous, the show shipping her hardcore with Richard made it hard for me to keep watching. I prefer men to immature boys, even if he is pretty hot without his shirt on, that’s like, his one saving grace, and it’s not enough for me.
But ed_84’s icon of a hot blonde chick with the caption- ‘there is no theory of evolution, just a list of creatures Cara has allowed to live’ intrigued me. You have to be a certain type of fierce to carry that attitude off. For instance, you’d never see a pic of Jennifer Keller with that caption- unless it was in mockery.
So I researched Cara and fell madly, deeply, intensely in love. Jetgirl78 picspammed her and Kahlen over here- lots of shiny pics, so go check the pretties!
[Warning: I’m perilously close to shipping Cara/Kahlen now. I’m not ordinarily into femslash, but god. For these two, I’d totally make an exception. This is the fault of jetgirl78’s amazing picspam, so just be aware it might convert you…]
I’m usually wary of new characters joining a show- I don’t like change, or the way they mess up familiar dynamics. But in this case, the shake-up’s revived my interest in the show. LotS was a bit claustrophic for me before- it was about the ship and the old batty wizard. If you’re not a fan of either, there’s nothing there for you. But CARA! She throws the balance back in favor of watching the show. Her and Kahlan’s combined awesome more than compensate for my antagonism towards the toothless puppy that is Richard.
I just adore the whole history to Cara- she was technically a baddie, she did terrible things in the course of her duties, but she’s not a paper cut-out villain. The world screwed her over, it twisted her and she’s the product of that wretched environment. It’s not a surprise she turned out the way she did- but she was strong enough to overcome those obstacles and join Richard’s little gang. The ‘dark, morally ambiguous character seeking redemption’ thing has been programmed into my preferences ever since Xena imprinted on me as a kid.
The cool thing about Cara is that she doesn’t have the same hang-ups as Kahlen about nobility and justice- as jetgirl78 says, ‘for the most part, [she] has none of those morals and code of ethics that stop others from getting sh*t done’. LOVE. I hate it when people wring their hands over the morality of a decision when it’s vital to accomplishing their goal. I’m one of the ‘ends justify the means’ kinda girls.Kahlan's sweet and all, but it's nice to have someone who won't sweat the minor details.
*wriggles with glee* So happy right now! ^_^
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In honor of the season:
Snurched from labrt2004
Following the 30 Day meme like a sheep racing to rejoin its flock. But I don't promise not to break the rules.
Day 1- your favorite song:
At the moment? You might be able to tell from my journal entry titles that it's Florence and the Machine's Blinding. Such a powerful, moving song. I can't even describe how it overwhelms my soul and floods my brain with pretty imagery and heavy concepts about independence and breaking free and empowerment and all that.
Snurched from mcgarrygirl78
The "Year in Review" meme: Go to your LJ calendar. Find the first entry for each month. Copy-paste the first line from each entry next to the corresponding month. That's the year in review, in a nutshell.
2009
January- ‘Day 7 of Happy Meme’
I know technically it was meant to be over eight consecutive days but um…Christmas and New Year’s kinda got in the way.
February- ‘…sometimes you get confused, like there’s a hint that I am trying to give you…’
It was so weird and squicky reading the papers this week- there were articles about a former teacher at mother’s school, one who was being sentenced for having sex with a student.
March- ‘…don’t make me be who I was, just let me be who I am…’
I’m not obsessing over The Lost World… no, not at all…*coughcough*
April- ‘…give a little love, give me just enough, so that I can hang on tight…’
*snurched from xfirefly9x*
May- ‘…I thought of you and where you’d gone, and let the world spin madly on…’
I know it sounds like a cliché but I found out an old high school friend of mine just died- and it doesn’t feel quite real.
June- ‘Is there a word for uncanny yet irritating?’
I am sad. :[
You guys know how I crave crackalicious cracky goodness like a drug, right?
[TLW- case in point]
July- ‘…into a darkness where the stars do drown…’
I know I’ve dropped out of sight for the past three weeks, and believe me, it’s hurt me terribly.
August- ‘…into our moonless march, come the wizard, come, the wizard comes…’
Teh funny:
Dear luxuria_oceanus, I’m don’t really how to tell you this, our affair is over.
September- ‘…I am covered in skin…no one gets to come in…pull me out from inside…’
Just randomly?
I have the Pussycat Dolls’ Buttons running through my head…
…accompanied by thoughts of Severus Snape.
‘I’m telling you to loosen up my buttons, babe…’
Dear god. Why is that the subject of intense fantasy right now?
October- ‘…the thought of thee waits, hidden yet bright, but it must never, never come in sight…’
I don’t really buy into the whole ‘things happen for a reason’ thing.
November- ‘…then I heard your heart beating, you were in the darkness, too, so I stayed in the darkness with you…’
I’ve just had one of the best weeks of my life.
December- ‘…no gentle word could wake me from this slumber, until I realize that it was you who held me under…’
Have any of you seen the old series, ‘Land of the Lost’? Mother and I were watching Castle the other day when... --------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------
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