NaNoWriMo and a Meme
I've got just shy of 9,000 words on my NaNo and I'm pretty happy with what I've written so far. I thought I was going to write the HP Shakespearean Romp, but what I seem to actually be doing is working on Avengers short stories.
I'm not sure how that happened, but I just wrote 1600 words of Bucky POV stuff set during Captain America: The First ( Read more... )
I'm not sure how that happened, but I just wrote 1600 words of Bucky POV stuff set during Captain America: The First ( Read more... )
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I was trying to make this sound British. "mum" and "curry take-away" were meant to add ambience. This apartment was also heavily influenced by an apartment I shared with a husband, a baby, and two room-mates. We were all of us slobs.
"Hermione, I'm-"
"Ron, don't you dare say you're sorry! I swear you two make me crazy! I'm tired of feeling like I'm Wendy living with the Lost Boys. Honestly!"
I love the idea that Harry and Hermione have a shared childhood identity (being raised as muggles) that Ron just doesn't have. Rowling doesn't touch on it much, but Harry and Hermione would have plenty of cultural references that Ron just wouldn't get. Also - in the apartment that theirs is based off of, I used to refer to myself as ( ... )
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I do love the Wendy/Peter/Lost Boys connection here because I think the whole lot of the kids who fought in the war probably have some sort of Lost Boys connection with each other. Not that they don't want to grow up but they also had their childhoods sort of ruined and I can see them clinging, in some ways, to being children. And do we ever really grow up? I mean, really?
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Thank you! That is such an awesome thing to say!
I was telling Koren the other day that I really wish I'd been writing more/more actively participating in fandom back in Harry Potter's hey-day. It's clearly not a dead fandom even now, but 5-10 years ago things were definitely more happening. I've been reading HP fic since the early 2000s, but have always been pretty much a lurker.
Anyway, I wish we'd known each other back then too -- and further, I wish I'd found (or that there had existed) an equivalent kind of community for HP as the Best Bar is for C/N.
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My bestest friend in all the world at that point was an early ficcer and was very well known as the predominant Ginny/Snape writer of the time so I basked in her glory for awhile. That was plenty for me!
I don't think there really is an HP equivalent of the bar. While I thought, at the time, that I had found something like that, it was still a very divisive place with a lot of backstabbing and general uneasiness about it. Feelings just seem to run very high in that fandom.
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Harry cursed when she disapparated, and Ron let out a low whistle. "What was that about?"
"Well, it was about we're pigs for one thing, but she knew that when she took us on. D'you think it's that time...?" Harry let the question dangle.
Oh Harry, bless. Not every time a woman yells at you is down to her period. Sometimes she's just yelling because you sat on your bum listening to Quidditch on the wireless instead of cleaning up like you'd promised.
Ron's ears reddened. "Shouldn't think so mate, no little red check marks on the calendar in the loo." The two shared and awkward silence, broken by Ron clearing his throat. "Well, anyway. It is a bit thick in here isn't it?"
I love how Ron is the one who thinks about how Hermione keeps track of these things. Harry nodded, and set the flowers down gingerly on top of the stack of papers on the table. Ron had bent down to gather up the groceries off the floor, and Harry spared a moment to admire the way Ron's old ( ... )
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Yes! Exactly this -- earlier I said that Hermione holds them together, and that's true, but so does Ron. He's the one that really genuinely groks the other two. But then Harry does too -- he's the one that the other two rallied around and behind that one time they saved the world. And really, that's exactly why H/R/Hr works for me as a Trio -- because they are truly points on an equilateral triangle . Each angle perfectly balancing the other two.
I truly love Harry checking out Ron. Even though there were only a few references, I thought they really added that special something to the two of them.::grins:: I'm so glad that worked. Like I said before, I wanted to show that Harry/Ron also have a relationship ( ... )
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I love that your Ron has grown up and has gotten past the jealousy. Once he realizes that he is well and truly loved, he can let it go. It makes him such a strong character to have that in his past but to have moved past it.
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