Favorite Fanfic Ever and Beaurocracy
I am so happy to see that my favorite fanfic ever Bright Be the Place of Thy Soul by Beckett is back online! At least mostly. Some reasons why it is my favorite fanfic ever:
1) Intensive character development.
2) Snape is a fascinating character in this, and his past and family are very well fleshed out. He is not good, but not evil, he is human! He is self-pitying, cruel, a real DE, and yet we feel for him anyway.
3) Dumbledore and Voldemort are so powerful. The best argument I have seen for them being the most powerful wizards of the era, and it is believable.
4) Very interesting pureblood vs. muggleborn magic differences, and some reasons why the purebloods might want to be separate, but at the same time not apologetic.
5) Lucius is wonderful in this. You see why he is so twisted, but at the same time he is Snape's best friend.
6) The heaviest kink I have ever read, but it is not PWP, since it actually fits into the plot! The smut is wonderful too.
7) The DEs are scary. Their prejudice is so ingrained that even those that are supposedly non-prejudiced have the seeds within them.
8) All the OCs (and there are a lot) tend to be very well formed, balanced and human.
9) Many of the minor teacher characters are fleshed out. Minerva, Poppy, Hooch, Sinistra, Sprout, and Vector all have development, especially Minerva and Poppy.
10) Gives a great reason why the Shrieking Shack incident is Snape's worst memory.
11) The story is a complete and the first in a planned out trilogy, and has been editted many times [usually resulting in a tighter story].
12) It is long! Saved altogether it is about 10MB.
I do not want to say more, because I don't want to be spoilery. :-) But read it! Especially if you like Snape and Lucius.
*Some possible deterrants- it has a very slow pace. Lots of flashbacks, but they tend to be well done. Explicit abuse and sexual kinkiness, including torture, casual rape, chan. Some are done by the main characters, without remorse.
And in real life.... I have spent the second week of my vacation with one main goal in mind- renewing my identification papers. I know this sounds thrilling to everyone who has never done so before, but I assure you, it is a bit overrated.
Day 1- Told to go early to do the papers, so Nona (my grandmother) and I set out at nine and take the train in which we travelled in sardine like conditions (pressed up to every single person around us) to arrive at 9:45AM. We are told that we have arrived ridiculously late since only 1000 numbers are given a day, and that the procedure takes 15 days unless I have urgency, so to show urgency to bring my plane ticket. Go home.
Day 2- Arrive at 8:30. This time on the bus- safer but slower. We arrive just as they are out of numbers but complain and show plane ticket- I am permitted inside, ahead of about 800 people with numbers. I wait about an hour and a half on line to be told I need a copy of my birth certificate. Leave and get on train. As we approach a station we get off, recalling a People Registry. We are told that the birth certificate takes about 12 days, but to go to the main Civil Registry building that is quite near the National Registry (where to get ID papers). We only realize this after we are on another slow bus instead of fast train. Get to Main Civil Registry- do the line thing again and pay for 24 hours urgency.
Day 3- Go to pick up birth certificate. Am told that there was an error and that it is impossible to get. Make a fuss- told to return the next day.
Day 4- Pick up birth certificate! Finally something went right.
Day 5- Take the train which is unfortunately lacking seats or windows. Get at the National Registry about 7:30AM. Get a number! Stand in line for about 4 hours in the cold wind before I am let inside. Nona says that I will lose my documents if I read a book while standing in line so she takes my one entertainment from me. Ah, well. Talk to random strangers all morning while standing in line. Spend about twenty minutes arguing with the clerk that attends me why New York in the US is the equivalent of a province, not a county and whether it should be 'New York' or 'Nueva York' (pronounced Nwayva Shork in the accent). Finally we come to an agreement (Nueva York and it is a province instead of a county). Leave the Registry about 2PM. Cockroach walks on my hand at the train station and a street rat steals my train fare (only a peso, but still!) but still overall a good day.
Next Thursday- Have to pick up my new papers- hopefully no more problems!
1) Intensive character development.
2) Snape is a fascinating character in this, and his past and family are very well fleshed out. He is not good, but not evil, he is human! He is self-pitying, cruel, a real DE, and yet we feel for him anyway.
3) Dumbledore and Voldemort are so powerful. The best argument I have seen for them being the most powerful wizards of the era, and it is believable.
4) Very interesting pureblood vs. muggleborn magic differences, and some reasons why the purebloods might want to be separate, but at the same time not apologetic.
5) Lucius is wonderful in this. You see why he is so twisted, but at the same time he is Snape's best friend.
6) The heaviest kink I have ever read, but it is not PWP, since it actually fits into the plot! The smut is wonderful too.
7) The DEs are scary. Their prejudice is so ingrained that even those that are supposedly non-prejudiced have the seeds within them.
8) All the OCs (and there are a lot) tend to be very well formed, balanced and human.
9) Many of the minor teacher characters are fleshed out. Minerva, Poppy, Hooch, Sinistra, Sprout, and Vector all have development, especially Minerva and Poppy.
10) Gives a great reason why the Shrieking Shack incident is Snape's worst memory.
11) The story is a complete and the first in a planned out trilogy, and has been editted many times [usually resulting in a tighter story].
12) It is long! Saved altogether it is about 10MB.
I do not want to say more, because I don't want to be spoilery. :-) But read it! Especially if you like Snape and Lucius.
*Some possible deterrants- it has a very slow pace. Lots of flashbacks, but they tend to be well done. Explicit abuse and sexual kinkiness, including torture, casual rape, chan. Some are done by the main characters, without remorse.
And in real life.... I have spent the second week of my vacation with one main goal in mind- renewing my identification papers. I know this sounds thrilling to everyone who has never done so before, but I assure you, it is a bit overrated.
Day 1- Told to go early to do the papers, so Nona (my grandmother) and I set out at nine and take the train in which we travelled in sardine like conditions (pressed up to every single person around us) to arrive at 9:45AM. We are told that we have arrived ridiculously late since only 1000 numbers are given a day, and that the procedure takes 15 days unless I have urgency, so to show urgency to bring my plane ticket. Go home.
Day 2- Arrive at 8:30. This time on the bus- safer but slower. We arrive just as they are out of numbers but complain and show plane ticket- I am permitted inside, ahead of about 800 people with numbers. I wait about an hour and a half on line to be told I need a copy of my birth certificate. Leave and get on train. As we approach a station we get off, recalling a People Registry. We are told that the birth certificate takes about 12 days, but to go to the main Civil Registry building that is quite near the National Registry (where to get ID papers). We only realize this after we are on another slow bus instead of fast train. Get to Main Civil Registry- do the line thing again and pay for 24 hours urgency.
Day 3- Go to pick up birth certificate. Am told that there was an error and that it is impossible to get. Make a fuss- told to return the next day.
Day 4- Pick up birth certificate! Finally something went right.
Day 5- Take the train which is unfortunately lacking seats or windows. Get at the National Registry about 7:30AM. Get a number! Stand in line for about 4 hours in the cold wind before I am let inside. Nona says that I will lose my documents if I read a book while standing in line so she takes my one entertainment from me. Ah, well. Talk to random strangers all morning while standing in line. Spend about twenty minutes arguing with the clerk that attends me why New York in the US is the equivalent of a province, not a county and whether it should be 'New York' or 'Nueva York' (pronounced Nwayva Shork in the accent). Finally we come to an agreement (Nueva York and it is a province instead of a county). Leave the Registry about 2PM. Cockroach walks on my hand at the train station and a street rat steals my train fare (only a peso, but still!) but still overall a good day.
Next Thursday- Have to pick up my new papers- hopefully no more problems!