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annafugazzi

The downslide of her hottiness

Apr 12, 2009 11:36

Happy Easter, to those of you who celebrate it, and Happy Sunday, to those who don't! (And Happy Monday to Australians, New Zealanders, and time warp dwellers.)

Once again, a set of links that defy classification.

First off, another Ravenous Romance book review by Jane, for Making a Scene, by Trudy Doyle. This is the same woman who did the review ( Read more... )

links, recs

Comments 7

elizardbits April 12 2009, 15:46:14 UTC

AHAHA YES. corvidae9 has an entire switch 'verse, which has unfortunately not been updated recently (I think the last post was about a year ago? maybe?), but it is very srsly awesome indeed.

annafugazzi April 13 2009, 03:50:28 UTC

Oh I know! I'm almost at the last one she wrote, and it's making me so sad because it's so awesome I want to see all the books get Switched.

::sniff::

calanthe_fics April 12 2009, 18:05:15 UTC

I must protest in the strongest terms! 'Spunk' is an awesome word that should be used an awful lot more than it is.

:)

And I actually mean that.

annafugazzi April 13 2009, 03:53:22 UTC

LOL!

::makes mental note to try to slip some spunk into the next fic I write::

::unless it's helping my 9-year-old write that Marauders kidfic he wants to write::

::in which case it'll have to be 'spunky'::

nonajf April 12 2009, 18:43:42 UTC

You know I can understand Slytherin!Hermione, and even Gryffindon!Crabbe and Goyle. But Ravenclaw!Ron breaks my brain.

I will have to read that.

annafugazzi April 13 2009, 04:00:15 UTC

What's hilarious about this is that they're wrongly sorted. I've read excellent AUs where the Sorting Hat just made a different decision - Harry as a Slytherin, Hermione or Draco as a Ravenclaw, etc - and it's neat to see authors make you believe that yeah, of course, Harry could totally be a Slytherin with just a little tweak of what's already there in canon. What's neat about this fic is that the kids are not where they should be... but they don't realize that. Ron's and Pansy are not actually that smart. But they believe they are, so they start acting like they are. Or they believe that some random skills they have (eg Ron being good at chess) are manifestations of their innate intelligence. It's a very cool reversal of the regular Sorting-AU dynamic. And Hufflepuff Draco wondering how the hell he ended up in Hufflepuff is very cute too :)

nonajf April 13 2009, 13:04:42 UTC

Ah, that's sounds really amusing!

It also sounds like the psych studies they used to do: set certain expectations in the person's mind and see how reality would map to it. They'd tell teachers that an incoming student was really bright and, no matter past school experiences, oftentimes that student would perform accordingly. Unfortunately, it works the other way as well. I think they also did the same thing with students.

I'll definitely have to read this story now!