The North Sea...

[ilkee]

Look, look! My drabble won Mod's Choice at dramione_ldws  Draco's Birthday Rumble Invitaional! *FLAILS*

And kali_elecktra made shinies! *shows shinies*

Comments

[drcjsnider]

Hooray you and your win!

[ilkee]

Thank you!!!

[margaritaabate]

beautiful and gorgeous and lovely story.

as for boys: hell, someone always gets hurt...LOL, no fears, they bounce right back.

[ilkee]

Thanks lady!!!
boys: see, in my normal mind, i know that kids are tough, but my mommy brain makes me completely irrational and blow everything waaaaay outta proportion. Iz nogood! :(

[bambu345]

I absolutely adored this drabble, and I'll confess that I voted for it.

There's such elegance of style and verity in your tone. Just a gorgeous piece of work.

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Lane change

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My dad gave me a piece of advice about raising boys: you need to let them take the small falls, because if they don't learn how, they won't know how to take the big ones.

[ilkee]

lol@ And...Lane change! :) Very good advice. I've never considered myself to be overly protective, and even with my worrying, I don't think I am in practice. In my head, though... one of those little falls is accidentally tragic. Not like, don't climb trees because you might fall and break your arm. More like, don't climb trees because you might fall and break your spine and be paralyzed for life. It only takes once. Gah! It's horrible. More horrible because my rational brain is way stronger than my irrational one, so I will always let Luca climb trees, but inside I'll be an unraveling mass of anxiety.

Does your dad have any advice on not being irrational or a complete lunatic? I could use that. :)

Thank you so much for your comments about the drabble. It was really tough for me, so you liking it makes me feel like I succeeded after all. Thanks!

[potterentourage]

OMG You = Me, in regards to raising boys!! I sooo don't want to be one of those mom's who raise a pu**y-ass boy who's scared of everything, but the other part of me is screaming "BUT I DON'T WANT MY BABY TO GET HUUUURRRRTTT!!!!" Beautiful drabble Ilke, and congrats on a well deserved win!!

[ilkee]

We can commiserate when our little guys are giving us heart attacks every three seconds!! :) There is lots of research that shows that little boys are often left to cry longer, given less sympathy when they are hurt or scared, get considerably less info/instruction about feelings, and talked to less than girls. Boo to raising "tough guys". Equates to raising emotionally immature people. bbPE and bbIlke can be adventurous, brave, AND emotionally intelligent. Bitches!!

[eevilalice]

Lovely as always, especially the pacing and voice (little bits like, "(It's his birthday today, did you know?)" and how it's echoed when he starts to say it out loud). Love "her hair wild and a hundred flicks of her wrist," and that "He touched her leg" gets its own paragraph. The bit about kids' ice cream dripping too close to his shoes--that WOULD annoy the hell out of Draco, wouldn't it? ;)

Ooh, and the repetition of her name.

I don't see what would have been ambiguous about this.

Anyway, congrats on the Mod's choice!

I've got Where the Wild Things Are from Netflix right now. Can't wait till I have the time to settle down and watch! But I do want to say I'd hope if you had a girl you'd expect she'd be as capable of fantastic recklessness as any boy! :)

[ilkee]

Ambiguous may have been the wrong word or idea. Sometimes I don't give enough info to inform the reader what's going on. Like in my first drabble about the library and Draco secretly reading the books Hermione read as a way of getting to know her. I think it confused some people. Either way, I think you hit the nail on the head with "polarizing".

Fantastic Recklessness! Wooo! Absolutely. I myself have been fantastically reckless many many MANY times. And I know the joy of destroying things first hand. I don't want to spoil the movie for you, but we should totally talk more about it afterward. I think that having been a lifeguard and knowing way too much about spinal injuries from reckless behavior (and how WAY more boys get aquatic spinal injuries than girls) plays into my irrational fears. I'm sure I would worry about all these things and more with a girl.

Oh - I love that you always point out that things that I didn't even notice like the echoed lines... * sigh *

Thanks!

[ilkee]

OMG! I love the idea of a tale a soldier would tell after coming home. And the idea of a mythical Hermione - that needs to be a line in a story - or the theme or plot or something.