Not That Anyone Cares, But. . .
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I have long been a lurker in the Harry Potter slash fandom. I read and read and bookmark, but I have never ever left a single comment or taken part in any discussion, challenge, poll, etc. I'm a HP-fandom ghost mouse.
I have stories for HP, though, just a few slash-ies that I periodically go back and tweak and add to. One's the Dorian Gray crossover that I mentioned recently on my other lj. Another focuses on Draco's time amidst the Death Eaters.
And the third one is essentially my 6,000+ word love letter to Severus Snape, my favorite character in the series and one of my top faves in all of literature.
So let me just get this out, and you'll never see me geek out about the books, films, or any of these self-indulgent stories again.
I cried like a wet baby when I read the scene in the book, and then I reread it and wept even harder, so I knew going in that when that scene (and you know the one, but I'll give you a hint: Severus [to Harry]: Look at me.) came up in the last film the waterworks were gonna come a pourin' down.
It was beautiful, and would've made me instantly fall in love with Alan Rickman if I hadn't already been mad for the guy since the first Die Hard. The delivery was there, and the tone as well -- the feeling of it, the desperation, despair, futility, and sheer pointlessness of that act of Voldemort's. All of it, all of that horrid, pathetic, sad, miserable, lonely, persevering life just wiped out for nothing, no purpose at all, and the only witness to it, the only one still living at the end who knows the truth, is. . . Harry.
Fuck, yeah, I'm crying right now. That scene, that plot development, makes the series. A hero's only as good as his villain, granted, but the character Severus Snape just elevates the whole series, making it something even more remarkable -- something utterly poignant and true. Snape ain't a good guy, but, you know, he's not the worst guy out there either. He's flawed. Oh, Christ, how he's flawed. And that's what's so perfect about not only Snape, but also the entire cast of Harry Potter characters: they're really fucking real.
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And, on that note, I give you something incredible and indescribable:
The Death of Narcissa Black
Read/study this, and know what it is to be creative and talented. This is, quite literally, art, and each panel is simply a wonder to behold. GO NOW!!!!
. . . and forgive me my trespasses. . . :/
I have long been a lurker in the Harry Potter slash fandom. I read and read and bookmark, but I have never ever left a single comment or taken part in any discussion, challenge, poll, etc. I'm a HP-fandom ghost mouse.
I have stories for HP, though, just a few slash-ies that I periodically go back and tweak and add to. One's the Dorian Gray crossover that I mentioned recently on my other lj. Another focuses on Draco's time amidst the Death Eaters.
And the third one is essentially my 6,000+ word love letter to Severus Snape, my favorite character in the series and one of my top faves in all of literature.
So let me just get this out, and you'll never see me geek out about the books, films, or any of these self-indulgent stories again.
I cried like a wet baby when I read the scene in the book, and then I reread it and wept even harder, so I knew going in that when that scene (and you know the one, but I'll give you a hint: Severus [to Harry]: Look at me.) came up in the last film the waterworks were gonna come a pourin' down.
It was beautiful, and would've made me instantly fall in love with Alan Rickman if I hadn't already been mad for the guy since the first Die Hard. The delivery was there, and the tone as well -- the feeling of it, the desperation, despair, futility, and sheer pointlessness of that act of Voldemort's. All of it, all of that horrid, pathetic, sad, miserable, lonely, persevering life just wiped out for nothing, no purpose at all, and the only witness to it, the only one still living at the end who knows the truth, is. . . Harry.
Fuck, yeah, I'm crying right now. That scene, that plot development, makes the series. A hero's only as good as his villain, granted, but the character Severus Snape just elevates the whole series, making it something even more remarkable -- something utterly poignant and true. Snape ain't a good guy, but, you know, he's not the worst guy out there either. He's flawed. Oh, Christ, how he's flawed. And that's what's so perfect about not only Snape, but also the entire cast of Harry Potter characters: they're really fucking real.
------------------------------------------------------------------------------
And, on that note, I give you something incredible and indescribable:
The Death of Narcissa Black
Read/study this, and know what it is to be creative and talented. This is, quite literally, art, and each panel is simply a wonder to behold. GO NOW!!!!
. . . and forgive me my trespasses. . . :/