NEW BELOVED
We are all familiar with my mad fanfiction love by now, yes? Well, I have found a new story and people, my love for it is LIKE THE OCEAN in its breadth and depth. I do not have the words to describe its awesomeness and yet, I am compelled to try. To try a lot, as it happens. Below I've typed up my observations from the week or so I spent immersed.
Oh, you think I am kidding, but this story is, in fact, a series and I'm pretty sure it's longer than all of the actual HP books combined. Which is hella impressive, considering the first story started updating less than a year ago. And oh yeah, the sixth book's a WiP with daily updates. Daily updates of length and substance, yet.
Also, someone, please to be reading this because I want someone to talk to. Anyway:
I am so in love with the Sacrifices Arc. It is like a special gift from the universe to me. Slytherin!Harry, Harry befriends snakes, Snape mentors Harry, Harry-Draco friendship that will become Harry/Draco slash, politics and alliance building, which I adore all the more madly for the rarity. And also, it is forever-long. And it's well-written. Basically, it's like Christmas on my computer right now.
Seriously, every few chapters I'm chanting my love for various characters: Harry, Draco, McGonagall, Luna, Narcissa, the Hufflepuffs. And even if I don't find Lucius admirable, I find him fascinating; he's all twisty and plotty and interesting.
I want Lily and Dumbledore both dead. Because 1) I think they're too stupid and self-righteous to let well-enough alone otherwise and 2) they totally deserve it. They brainwashed him and that was bad enough, but spelling him? What the fuck, no! That's not being the good guys! That's not fighting for right and truth and whatever! That's asking for a sniping! Or, y'know, the nearest magical equivalent.
HOMG, so long. Been awake for 38 hours now. Reading this series for 27. So tired. But the biggest story is yet to come! And I want to know what happens, because wow, so AU by now. AU enough that you can't really guess the plots. Which, y'know, yay, but. Fuck it, sleeep.
Oh god. I am so worried. The farther I get, the more the "multiple character deaths" warning worries me. Because she killed Sirius way before he would have died in canon, and she's going to kill people who, in canon, live, and I am afeared for my beloveds. For Snape and McGonagall and Hawthorn and Regulus and Narcissa and Millicent and Hermione and Percy and Scrimgeour. And when I contemplate the end of Book 7, I am also afeared for Harry and Draco, because of the big warning saying it'll be the darkest book in the series and oh god, don't kill them. They are beautiful and brilliant and beloved and fuck, do I want them to live. And dude, if Snape or McGonagall (oh, how I love McGonagall) dies, I am going to cry like a little bitch, just be left sobbing brokenly at my computer screen.
I am fairly certain Calypso McGonagall has shown up in two anecdotes and it is nagging me. I think the first time I saw the name, it was the name of the girl who stopped a feud by casting a spell to call a husband out of the opposing family and then fucking him right there on the battlefield. But I'm pretty sure that's also the name of the Lady that's McGonagall's ancestor, the one who defeated her enemy and then was a told by a Seer that her foe's second could still be redeemed and so took her in and they fell in love and adopted a child. I mean, one could totally be named after the other, but it's a tad annoying. And okay, fine, yes, nothing a normal person would notice, especially if they took a normal span of time to read the stories instead of being dumb and crazy enough to 1) read the whole thing in four days and 2) immediately start re-reading because it just rocks that hard.
It's horrible to say, but one of the many, many reasons I'm going to rec the Sacrifices Arc is that the child abuse is so interesting. Because usually there's emotional, physical, or sexual abuse, sometimes in combination, sometimes not. But this is systematic emotional abuse that has carries many of the consequences of physical abuse, combined with magical abuse like nothing I've ever seen. It's all fascinating, and horrible, and fascinating.
For another reason, I - okay, first, there is a quirk of my speech you may or may not be aware of. I'll see someone doing something that is a massively bad idea because it'll piss someone else off liek woah and I'll be saying/thinking "Oh my god, s/he will kill you and eat you!" As with most things like this, I blame Richard. Anyway, there's your background.
Needless, to say that'd been running through my head for several books, directed at Dumbledore re: Harry. And then, oh, then it actually happened and it made my life.
God, I love this story. It may be my absolute favorite HP fic, ever; it's damn sure in the top three (the other two being Blood Magic and Underwater Light).
It's just so wonderful. The OCs rock; they're so complex and three-dimensional. I love Adalrico Bulstrode and Dionysus Hornblower, for example, and oh! The puellaris witches! They win for "interesting magical concept". Not that they're lacking in competition, and they're not particularly integral to the plot, like the webs, or the wild Dark, or the absorbere gift, but they're just so damn cool and different. Also, I kind of desperately want a way for Indigena Yaxley to join Harry instead of Voldemort, she's that awesome, although, wow, is that ever unlikely, what with the Red Death and her righteous vengeance waiting in the wings. And hey! Hawthorn! Favorite werewolf ever!
And the canonically minor characters! After the attack on Woodhouse? Lucius/Narcissa = OTP! And Percy is such a ridiculous Gryffindor that I cannot but love him, and Moody is crazy-awesome, and Justin Finch-Fletchley is a rock star, and Zacharias Smith calling on Helga Hufflepuff is the most romantic thing ever, omg. And oh, Regulus; I kind of adore him, not least for having the fortitude to befriend Snape in his Death Eater days. And finally, I desperately admire Scrimgeour, even if most recently (as of the Aurors' assault on Woodhouse) he's being kind of dumb.
Also, Minerva McGonagall is my beloved. She's all honorable and Gryffindorish and badass. One of my favorite bits is where she threatens Narcissa with the name of somebody she fought, and Narcissa thinks about how they never could transfigure that guy back and eventually, his wife had to smother "it" in the night. Love.
Plus I love Harry and I love Draco and I triple mega-heart their relationship so much that I cannot even coherently give reasons why, it's just babbling about things like Draco outdancing Lucius and the bottles and the Room of Requirement that time with the pendulum and Silver-Mirror and fuck, Woodhouse, actually, every time they're at Woodhouse together there's awesomeness and oh god, the bit, after Marietta Edgecombe's attack, oh god, HEART.
The fact that it's quite possibly the most massively epic story I've ever seen (350+ chapters and counting) just makes life win that much harder.
Oh, you think I am kidding, but this story is, in fact, a series and I'm pretty sure it's longer than all of the actual HP books combined. Which is hella impressive, considering the first story started updating less than a year ago. And oh yeah, the sixth book's a WiP with daily updates. Daily updates of length and substance, yet.
Also, someone, please to be reading this because I want someone to talk to. Anyway:
I am so in love with the Sacrifices Arc. It is like a special gift from the universe to me. Slytherin!Harry, Harry befriends snakes, Snape mentors Harry, Harry-Draco friendship that will become Harry/Draco slash, politics and alliance building, which I adore all the more madly for the rarity. And also, it is forever-long. And it's well-written. Basically, it's like Christmas on my computer right now.
Seriously, every few chapters I'm chanting my love for various characters: Harry, Draco, McGonagall, Luna, Narcissa, the Hufflepuffs. And even if I don't find Lucius admirable, I find him fascinating; he's all twisty and plotty and interesting.
I want Lily and Dumbledore both dead. Because 1) I think they're too stupid and self-righteous to let well-enough alone otherwise and 2) they totally deserve it. They brainwashed him and that was bad enough, but spelling him? What the fuck, no! That's not being the good guys! That's not fighting for right and truth and whatever! That's asking for a sniping! Or, y'know, the nearest magical equivalent.
HOMG, so long. Been awake for 38 hours now. Reading this series for 27. So tired. But the biggest story is yet to come! And I want to know what happens, because wow, so AU by now. AU enough that you can't really guess the plots. Which, y'know, yay, but. Fuck it, sleeep.
Oh god. I am so worried. The farther I get, the more the "multiple character deaths" warning worries me. Because she killed Sirius way before he would have died in canon, and she's going to kill people who, in canon, live, and I am afeared for my beloveds. For Snape and McGonagall and Hawthorn and Regulus and Narcissa and Millicent and Hermione and Percy and Scrimgeour. And when I contemplate the end of Book 7, I am also afeared for Harry and Draco, because of the big warning saying it'll be the darkest book in the series and oh god, don't kill them. They are beautiful and brilliant and beloved and fuck, do I want them to live. And dude, if Snape or McGonagall (oh, how I love McGonagall) dies, I am going to cry like a little bitch, just be left sobbing brokenly at my computer screen.
I am fairly certain Calypso McGonagall has shown up in two anecdotes and it is nagging me. I think the first time I saw the name, it was the name of the girl who stopped a feud by casting a spell to call a husband out of the opposing family and then fucking him right there on the battlefield. But I'm pretty sure that's also the name of the Lady that's McGonagall's ancestor, the one who defeated her enemy and then was a told by a Seer that her foe's second could still be redeemed and so took her in and they fell in love and adopted a child. I mean, one could totally be named after the other, but it's a tad annoying. And okay, fine, yes, nothing a normal person would notice, especially if they took a normal span of time to read the stories instead of being dumb and crazy enough to 1) read the whole thing in four days and 2) immediately start re-reading because it just rocks that hard.
It's horrible to say, but one of the many, many reasons I'm going to rec the Sacrifices Arc is that the child abuse is so interesting. Because usually there's emotional, physical, or sexual abuse, sometimes in combination, sometimes not. But this is systematic emotional abuse that has carries many of the consequences of physical abuse, combined with magical abuse like nothing I've ever seen. It's all fascinating, and horrible, and fascinating.
For another reason, I - okay, first, there is a quirk of my speech you may or may not be aware of. I'll see someone doing something that is a massively bad idea because it'll piss someone else off liek woah and I'll be saying/thinking "Oh my god, s/he will kill you and eat you!" As with most things like this, I blame Richard. Anyway, there's your background.
Needless, to say that'd been running through my head for several books, directed at Dumbledore re: Harry. And then, oh, then it actually happened and it made my life.
God, I love this story. It may be my absolute favorite HP fic, ever; it's damn sure in the top three (the other two being Blood Magic and Underwater Light).
It's just so wonderful. The OCs rock; they're so complex and three-dimensional. I love Adalrico Bulstrode and Dionysus Hornblower, for example, and oh! The puellaris witches! They win for "interesting magical concept". Not that they're lacking in competition, and they're not particularly integral to the plot, like the webs, or the wild Dark, or the absorbere gift, but they're just so damn cool and different. Also, I kind of desperately want a way for Indigena Yaxley to join Harry instead of Voldemort, she's that awesome, although, wow, is that ever unlikely, what with the Red Death and her righteous vengeance waiting in the wings. And hey! Hawthorn! Favorite werewolf ever!
And the canonically minor characters! After the attack on Woodhouse? Lucius/Narcissa = OTP! And Percy is such a ridiculous Gryffindor that I cannot but love him, and Moody is crazy-awesome, and Justin Finch-Fletchley is a rock star, and Zacharias Smith calling on Helga Hufflepuff is the most romantic thing ever, omg. And oh, Regulus; I kind of adore him, not least for having the fortitude to befriend Snape in his Death Eater days. And finally, I desperately admire Scrimgeour, even if most recently (as of the Aurors' assault on Woodhouse) he's being kind of dumb.
Also, Minerva McGonagall is my beloved. She's all honorable and Gryffindorish and badass. One of my favorite bits is where she threatens Narcissa with the name of somebody she fought, and Narcissa thinks about how they never could transfigure that guy back and eventually, his wife had to smother "it" in the night. Love.
Plus I love Harry and I love Draco and I triple mega-heart their relationship so much that I cannot even coherently give reasons why, it's just babbling about things like Draco outdancing Lucius and the bottles and the Room of Requirement that time with the pendulum and Silver-Mirror and fuck, Woodhouse, actually, every time they're at Woodhouse together there's awesomeness and oh god, the bit, after Marietta Edgecombe's attack, oh god, HEART.
The fact that it's quite possibly the most massively epic story I've ever seen (350+ chapters and counting) just makes life win that much harder.