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The Perfect Proper Fandom Kiss.

May 25, 2005 10:50

Is it just me, or is there a regularly-used formula for the Fan Fiction Kiss? Did I miss that lesson?

( Follow the cut to read a preview excerpt from ch. 5 of my fic, in which the steps to a Proper Fan Fic Kiss are laid out: )

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mizbean May 25 2005, 16:37:37 UTC

I’m supposed to decide what sort of candy you taste like, usually cinnamon or vanilla or something tasty like that, though no one ever really seems to.”

HA!

Harry always tastes of chocolate and Draco tastes of cinnamon or something appropriately exotic. I recently cheered when I just read a fic where Draco tasted of toothpaste, because that really happens.

millieweasley May 25 2005, 17:22:06 UTC

And Hermione usually taste like vanilla and Snape always taste like wiskey/cognac/other liquer of choice

(I have to admit that I had Tonks taste of wine once, but that was because she just had drunk some and she was also tasting salt from crying so I don't really know if that counts.)

mizbean May 25 2005, 17:26:51 UTC

I think it counts if the character in question just ate or drank something. But the fact that certain characters are infused with a particular flavor cracks me up. Every. Single. Time.

Hermione must chew on vanilla beans, or something.

millieweasley May 25 2005, 17:47:38 UTC

So that's why! Now I get it. So Hermione chews vanilla and snape....an alcoholist perhaps? One that lights sandalwood insents to hide the sent of alcohol perhaps....*plot bunny jumping*

persephone56 May 25 2005, 17:43:45 UTC

And Snape inevitably smells of sandalwood.

mizbean May 25 2005, 17:55:46 UTC

Yes, there does seem to be an obsession with sandelwood in HP fic. I'm baffled by that.

brokendiamond May 25 2005, 17:59:25 UTC

I've never EVER seen Snape smell like Sandalwood...

...?!

mizbean May 25 2005, 18:09:27 UTC

I've been doing a lot of fic reading for a concrit community, which has been eye-opening to say the least, and it seems to be commonly used, perhaps, to cover the smell of potions on his body. Usually Snape and Harry/Lupin/Hermione/etc are in a clinch and the clinchee notices the scent on his robes. Meh.

I just can't see Snape being arsed to cover up the smell of potions, personally. If he smells at all, which Harry would have surely noticed in canon.

persephone56 May 25 2005, 18:29:06 UTC

I think also, that sandalwood is just a terribly masculine scent, used to up his lacking sex appeal. it really is nice, don't get me wrong, but, really, if I had a sickle...

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