Comments | mousapelli: A better explanation than African Monkeys

mousapelli

A better explanation than African Monkeys

Dec 02, 2003 21:11

We were talking about AIDS the other day in English, and I was musing about how it was really similar to Lycanthropy because it's blood-spread and all. And then today, it all coelesced into this perfectly creepy ficlet.

If anybody's interested, Ludovic Dugas and his work with dissociative patients is real, i didn't make that up.

( The Most Ridiculous First Name I've Ever Heard )

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blippfrogg December 3 2003, 02:54:26 UTC

so. creepy.

nice job.

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mousapelli December 3 2003, 04:04:06 UTC

wow, that's quite the coincidence. I'm sorry.

I read Paul Monet's Borrowed Time for a class several years ago, and the quiet desperation and just the lack of knowledge really stuck with me. Nobody is about quiet desperation so much as Remus is. It's all disturbingly plausible.

thieving_gypsy December 3 2003, 03:15:08 UTC

EEE. Followed a link from sociofemme's journal, and... just eee. That is CREEPY AS ALL HELL. But brilliant.

You're great. *friends you*

mousapelli December 3 2003, 04:09:54 UTC

I'm creeped out by it, and I wrote it, for god's sake. Thanks!

I have to tell you that this is a very t00by moment for me, because I've read "Fairy Boys" about a zillion times. It's what inspired the whole glam rock band story that I ended up spending two months on and posting just last week. Being Friended by you is sort of like having Curt Wild lean down from the stage and ask "do you want to sing a verse or what?"

*Friends you Back*

thieving_gypsy December 3 2003, 10:25:46 UTC

!!!

I need to work, but I'll be back later to read that. <3!

musesfool December 3 2003, 03:36:39 UTC

Good god, that's creepy.

I mean, since PoA first came out, I've been equating Remus as metaphorically HIV+ (it could be anyone! And we don't want him teaching our kids! It doesn't matter that he's only dangerous if bodily fluids are exchanged, and he's taking medicine for it now!), but this is just... creepy and so very sad.

mousapelli December 3 2003, 04:12:53 UTC

the comparison is certainly easy to make, i'm honestly surprised i've never seen any fic call lycanthropy an STD before. I guess most werewolves don't hang about long enough to test the theory...Poor Remus sure is taking a beating from me this week.

BTW--your icon is really hot

isiscolo December 3 2003, 10:08:21 UTC

I actually started to write a lycanthropy-as-STD fic, but never got anywhere with it. I'm glad someone else did, so I don't have to.

musesfool December 3 2003, 19:27:20 UTC

i'm honestly surprised i've never seen any fic call lycanthropy an STD before.

Well, the fact that it's referred to as a curse (I believe, though I can't cite text to back that up atm), and that wizarding medicine seems so far beyond Muggle, it doesn't really make sense that STDs would still be a literal problem in their society.

However, metaphorically, yeah, that's exactly what it is.

BTW--your icon is really hot

Thank you. It's one from a SBRL icon set liviapenn made. (the one on this post is another from the same set.)

dphearson December 3 2003, 04:00:07 UTC

First, the title was fucking hilarious. I laughed so hard my roomie came in to find what was going on.

Second, this was incredibly creepy- and what Renus does in the fic is simply horrifying. And you kept one aspect of Remus' character in check- his reluctance to take responsibilty. Very, very telling indeed.

mousapelli December 3 2003, 19:29:08 UTC

I just remember that the first time somebody told me Patient Zero's name was "Gaetan" I thought they were making fun of me. I was like "HONESTLY, you'd think they could have come up with a better psuedonym than 'GAY-TON' for chrissakes."