Album of the Sang Real (Snape gen)

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Notes: Uh... ok, notes just in case anyone does happen to read this, which isn't expected given that I don't have the faintest idea how long it's been since I did any journaling outside of games... this fic happened after I watched Antwone Fisher for class. Not that it has anything to do with the film. Which I watched under protest--not because I

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Whee, you posted it! \o/ I've already said I like this, but now let me pick out which bits especially. Like this:

But that’s all right: a prince doesn’t marry the court damsels, either. A prince marries ash-girls, and raises them. A prince graces the women of the earth.

It turns out that a prince had better not marry a man of the earth if she wants to keep her castle.

You really must persuade Sev!muse to tell you how his parents met. (And then persuade him to allow you to tell the rest of us :D )

I also like the brief disconnect I get from seeing the lowercase 'prince' referred to as 'she' -- I can't properly articulate why, but there it is, all the same.

(This is his grandfather’s old school scarf, delivered the day before he undertook the long journey to London for the express train that will pass his home hours into the trip. It lies gathering dust at the foot of his bed: the warm colors give life to his sallow coloring, but he knows by then that he won’t want it. Doesn’t want it. This is his mother finally turning away from

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He says he doesn't want to think about them courting, thank you so very much, they're his parents. (I interpret this to mean that, being the pessimist he is, his bad memories have totally eclipsed all the rather older good ones and made the prospect of Toby-chan touching Eileen in any way a bit traumatic, and he's trying to normalize it.)

Hee! Once you get done with Slayers, I'm going to have to get you started on Utena. Although that seems to be harder to find; at least with Slayers the dub is around online... I think a large part of it comes out of the wizarding standard coincidence of, you know, big ruddy earthy half-giants being called Rubeus, slick shysters being called Bad Faith, arithmancers with the surname of Vector, confident little swots being given names out of mythology and Shakespeare... names matter for wizards, whether it's a question of personal narrative, seductive or repellant (as in Sirius's case, I have to think) family history, or predestination. I know Sev didn't convince Sirius that names weren't just ID-

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He says he doesn't want to think about them courting, thank you so very much, they're his parents.

BWAH. Fair enough :D

I've heard other people mention Utena, too -- is it manga-able? And for Slayers, just finished the ep. where Lina loses her [SPOILERS]. I see what you mean about Xel, too -- I don't mind the sudden appearances. It's the sudden disappearances that make me sadface :( DAMN IT JUST STAY IN ONE PLACE AND DO SOMETHING AWESOME, FFS.

I know Sev didn't convince Sirius that names weren't just ID-tags, but I guess I've kept thinking about it since then.

I don't think Sirius does think that about names (vut if Sev has that impression, I may have misrepresented what Sirius does/does not[Sirius sighs wearily and says that you just can't get good typists, these days]).

'someone who wanders around annoying people'.
Eheheh, I like that a lot :D Added to which his middle name means 'usurper', so...

Oh, good, I'm glad the scarf paragraph worked; I wasn't sure whether or not to put it in, since the rest of the fic is linear.Well

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Is! But I know it's another one of those where the manga, movie (do not watch the movie!) and anime are all significantly different from each other, and I haven't read the whole manga.

Loses her...? Oh, I dunno, the disappearances are kinda fun. 'I'm only a shadow,' after all. (g) And earlier in the same episode, behind the tree... nyaaaan!(blinks

[shyfoxling]

Here from daily_snitch. Very interesting catalogue of imagery!

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Thank you!

[archon_mentha]

This is all kinds of awesome. I love the rhythm of it, and the seemingly-effortless way it describes their very complicated lives.

So glad you posted! You've been missed, and not only because this is awesome (which it is). ♥

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Aw, thanks. I think a writable bunny was my reward for being dutiful. So theoretically I should watch the other movie I'm supposed to do a paper on now, right? Only it's Crash. :(

Yes... have also missed people, you especially. Online has been a bit tough to handle recently.