I love that picture meme, it's the best ever! And it came up with some really good pics for my ships! And lol, yes, I hadn't realized that the Stargate looked like Xena's chakram. I guess because it's usually presented on a massive scale, I never really related it to anything else...Well spotted!
*headdesk* You're probably right. You know, I never understood those people that blamed themselves for something when it was obviously the other person's fault and yet- I can't snap myself out of thinking if only I was more fun, more outgoing, then she'd want to hang out with me. Ugh, it's kinda true such rubbish but I go on those mental loops anyway.
Also. 'Tout suite'! I had to look that up, very cool! Unfortunately one of those phrases that looks better written than verbally expressed, but ah well. *adds to vocab*
Hee, evil!T'Pol rocks my socks. Even if she did squick me out with these lewd scenes with a creepy spider. WHY was she looking so ecstatic as it crawled over her body, WHYYYY? *applies brain bleach*
Oh my god. I'm so excited you're going to read it later. I was totally thinking of you when I read it. I was never really into the whole idea of Snape and Harry til you brought up the adoptive father idea. That's not the plot in this fic but discussing it with you made me a little more open to the whole idea of this 'Sevitus/Severitus' thing.
Anyway, REALLY, that fic totally is epic awesome! And if I can say that about one that doesn't involve my ship at all, you know it must be something special.
In an alternate universe, this COULD have been the published Harry Potter book, no kidding. It's so- well-rounded? Like, no offense to these types of fics, but some are very narrow in scope, focusing only on the ship in question, which isn't a bad thing in my eyes when they're the only people I care about anyway. But I'm impressed by fics that make you feel like you're in the middle of a whole new world populated by real, breathing characters.
And omg, it's so great, these characters make reasonable decisions- not always the best decisions, they're not unrealistically infallible, but they're not hampered by plot-required stupidity and I don't think I was once tempted to pound their heads into a wall! I actually like her Harry, it's incredible. And the quartet is awesome. And I think I'm repeating myself from my post, so I'll shut up now.
Except to say that it fixes EVERYTHING I had an issue with in the series, namely because as the author said:
After thinking for months about things I disliked in canon, I have accepted that JKR is a professional writer—a professional writer—who had a seven book contract. In order to fulfill that contract and earn money, she had to create situations that would draw the story out and make each adventure last a full school year. To do this, she required characters who did not communicate very effectively—or at all. She also required absurdities like the whole premise of Goblet of Fire. However, my Harry now has a mentor whom he will trust, who is intelligent and has a broad knowledge of the Dark Arts. He will talk to him, and vice versa. Minerva McGonagall will also be more personally interested in Harry and consider his best interests. I do not have to make the mystery last an entire school year to fill a book, so events may transpire very differently and more quickly than in canon.
I'll warn you now, there's a minor romance involving one of the main characters. It made me want to smash a window when I first read it but it was really well-written and I grumpily decided to go with it in the end. [At least it's not as bad some the R/Hr I refuse to put up with- bad enough it's canon, I ain't gonna read it in fics, even if the mentor relationship is superb]
:D I wish I could wipe the memory of reading it just so I could go back and enjoy it for the first time all over again. *sighs* Just a shame I can't find anything of that standard in the rest of fandom, I had to find the most brilliant fic on the first go and now nothing else can measure up, ack.
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*headdesk* You're probably right.
You know, I never understood those people that blamed themselves for something when it was obviously the other person's fault and yet- I can't snap myself out of thinking if only I was more fun, more outgoing, then she'd want to hang out with me. Ugh, it's
kinda truesuch rubbish but I go on those mental loops anyway.Also. 'Tout suite'! I had to look that up, very cool! Unfortunately one of those phrases that looks better written than verbally expressed, but ah well. *adds to vocab*
Hee, evil!T'Pol rocks my socks. Even if she did squick me out with these lewd scenes with a creepy spider. WHY was she looking so ecstatic as it crawled over her body, WHYYYY? *applies brain bleach*
Oh my god. I'm so excited you're going to read it later. I was totally thinking of you when I read it. I was never really into the whole idea of Snape and Harry til you brought up the adoptive father idea. That's not the plot in this fic but discussing it with you made me a little more open to the whole idea of this 'Sevitus/Severitus' thing.
Anyway, REALLY, that fic totally is epic awesome! And if I can say that about one that doesn't involve my ship at all, you know it must be something special.
In an alternate universe, this COULD have been the published Harry Potter book, no kidding. It's so- well-rounded? Like, no offense to these types of fics, but some are very narrow in scope, focusing only on the ship in question, which isn't a bad thing in my eyes when they're the only people I care about anyway. But I'm impressed by fics that make you feel like you're in the middle of a whole new world populated by real, breathing characters.
And omg, it's so great, these characters make reasonable decisions- not always the best decisions, they're not unrealistically infallible, but they're not hampered by plot-required stupidity and I don't think I was once tempted to pound their heads into a wall! I actually like her Harry, it's incredible. And the quartet is awesome. And I think I'm repeating myself from my post, so I'll shut up now.
Except to say that it fixes EVERYTHING I had an issue with in the series, namely because as the author said:
After thinking for months about things I disliked in canon, I have accepted that JKR is a professional writer—a professional writer—who had a seven book contract. In order to fulfill that contract and earn money, she had to create situations that would draw the story out and make each adventure last a full school year. To do this, she required characters who did not communicate very effectively—or at all. She also required absurdities like the whole premise of Goblet of Fire. However, my Harry now has a mentor whom he will trust, who is intelligent and has a broad knowledge of the Dark Arts. He will talk to him, and vice versa. Minerva McGonagall will also be more personally interested in Harry and consider his best interests. I do not have to make the mystery last an entire school year to fill a book, so events may transpire very differently and more quickly than in canon.
I'll warn you now, there's a minor romance involving one of the main characters. It made me want to smash a window when I first read it but it was really well-written and I grumpily decided to go with it in the end. [At least it's not as bad some the R/Hr I refuse to put up with- bad enough it's canon, I ain't gonna read it in fics, even if the mentor relationship is superb]
:D
I wish I could wipe the memory of reading it just so I could go back and enjoy it for the first time all over again. *sighs* Just a shame I can't find anything of that standard in the rest of fandom, I had to find the most brilliant fic on the first go and now nothing else can measure up, ack.
*hugs you back*