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hieronymousb . My dear, you've hit some TL,DR buttons with these topics! XD
SasoSaku - My Naruto OTP, a pairing that has grabbed a hold of my brain and refuses to let go. What is it about it that fascinates me so much? Perhaps it's because it involves my favorite male character and my favorite female character. Maybe it's because I love pairings that have a power struggle element to them; Sasori is a control freak, definitely, but Sakura has a bit of an aggressive, dominating streak as well (I imagine she is more than capable of playing the submissive when she feels like it, however.)
I see Sasori as having interest in her because she is the type to push back, as he seems to generally look down on women as being weak and overly-emotional, yet he himself acknowledges Sakura's strength despite her tendency to wear her heart on her sleeve. I mean strength in a general sense, as it seems to be her intellectual prowess in creating an antidote for his poison that really earns his respect on top of her other abilities as a ninja; that he is capable of acknowledging her that much feels significant for such a narcissisticasshole character. I also am intrigued by the idea that Sakura appreciates the attention of someone who can really challenge her.
There's all sorts of other interesting psychological facets to think about as well due to all the lovely Issues that Sasori has, and Sakura isn't completely without them either (Sasuke's fucked-up effect on her ideas about relationships for one.) Sakura has proven to be the type of girl that has an interest in fixing people too (just see how she deals with Sasuke, Naruto, and Sai,) and Sasori does need a lot of fixing. Sasori seems to crave emotional connections, deep down; it's loss and the loneliness caused by the death of his parents that drives him to seek a body that doesn't feel pain, with the expectation that it will also mean he won't feel emotional pain anymore. Sadly, those feelings lingered even if they were suppressed, and in the end it causes him to effectively commit suicide.
The poor fellow is clearly in need of sexual healing, dear Sakura. Won't you help a psychotic puppet dude out?
That leads into the physical side of the relationship. They're incredibly sexy together, and well, the kink potential is truly amazing. It rather makes sense in a way, as if they're interested in a physical relationship at all it immediately implies perversion on both sides: Sasori's a pervert just on account of Sakura being half his age, and Sakura's a pervert because she wants to have sex even though he has a freakin' puppet body. Sasori has a zillion abilities that lend themselves to being used in incredibly kinky and depraved ways, down to his most basic: he's a puppet master who can potentially attach chakra strings to people and manipulate them as puppets; the D/S potential is in the stratosphere. Maybe that's another reason the pairing continues to hold my interest so much; I can get so creative with it when it comes to writing smut!
Harry Potter - Oh Harry Potter, a fandom I lurked in for years, how I love and yet hate you at the same time. First four books, I love you, entertaining characters, an intriguing setting, fun stories overall. It's when we get into book 5 that the trouble starts for me, and it's where the frustrating developments/disappointments begin to start. This is already TL,DR so I'll try to keep it brief (unless you want me torant elaborate further in another post:) Ginny's out of left field character shift from cute to obnoxious, Snape's basic motivations, Dumbledore!FAIL, Voldemort's origin!FAIL, intriguing threads left undeveloped/unresolved/poorly resolved, House Slytherin!FAIL, Muggles!FAIL, romantic subplots!FAIL...you get the idea.
Actually, I'm beginning to see the parallels with Naruto here; great characters, some painful plot decisions, although there were still some things I did really like in OotP and onwards. :F
Characters are definitely what I love the most in Harry Potter. I'm crazy about Luna Lovegood, for example. She's just so quirky and plucky and awesome; I really wish she had appeared sooner and more oftenand ended up with Harry. Snape, despite some issues, is still an entertaining, snarky bastard and my favorite character. Hermione is endearingly nerdy. I love Lupin, and Neville Longbottom is amazing (and I remember reading a Neville/Mrs.Weasely fic somewhere years ago in the vein of The Graduate that was rather awesome, but I can't remember what it was called now.)
I also like some characters that you're supposed to hate, like Tom Riddle, whom I am fond of for being such a juvenile asshole. I love that he doesn't really act completely like just a younger Voldemort, but does some incredibly childish stuff like the Ginny mockery, the pompous 'check out how kewl I am' writing his name in the air thing, and so on. I like shipping him with Luna and Hermione too, as he works far better for pairing with anybody than Voldemort IMO; it's canon that he knows how to seduce women after all, so he had to be willing to get it on at some point. Even future Dark Lords can fall prey to teenage hormones!
BTW, Tom/Luna because they're so radically different that their interaction would be fascinating. Tom/Hermione because they're both insanely smart, they'd have fun power struggles since they're both dominant types, and well, I've always seen Hermione as having a bit of a dark streak that she usually keeps under wraps but manifests occasionally. The 'SNEAK' hex in particular is nasty as hell, if you really think about it.
I love the Malfoys! Draco for being a cowardly little asshole, Lucius for being a grown-up asshole, and Narcissa for being an amazingly badass evil mom who actually cares about her family. I loved that faceoff against Harry in Malkin's shop where Draco is being all dorkily protective of his mom.
I really dig Percy Weasely in all his pedantic, nerdy glory; I still think Arthur was being kind of an asshole in the whole situation that led to the estrangement, considering that (from my perception) Percy had been busting his balls all those years to try and get his father's approval only to have said father appear to shit all over his hard work in a way that gave Percy the impression of jealousy; they only promoted you because of your connection to me? Yeah, that will go over real well, Arthur. I have a bit of a soft spot for Percy/Hermione; I can't resist ultranerdy bookworm fluff.
Oddly, I haven't really been that excited about the movies lately; I suppose finishing the books cooled my interest some? My fandom activities consist mostly of reading the occasional fic these days; I was a lurker in places like the HPforGrownups ML, but stopped visiting it years ago and don't really delve into meta for the series anymore.
sci-fi - I've had a love affair with sci-fi as far back as I can remember; my first movie memory is of a giant screen at a drive-in emblazoned with the image of Darth Vader (God, I'm old) from when I went to see the original Star Wars. I was crazy about Star Wars for many years, and although I've cooled a bit thanks to some of the decisions Lucas has made with the more recent films, I love the KOTOR games. I'm a bit of a Trek fan as well, particularly of TOS and TNG, and I was quite into Babylon 5 for awhile. More recently I haven't been watching that much sci-fi though outside of anime.
SF Books seem to where I mostly get my fix nowadays. I particularly love authors like Arthur C. Clarke (The Fountains of Paradise is probably my favorite of his books) and Larry Niven (I actually like his Known Space short stories best) that really delve into the hard science details. Then there's Asimov, and I dig David Weber's Honor Harrington books (they make me think a little of Legend of the Galactic Heroes.)
I think a big part of my love for sci-fi comes from my fascination with science, particularly astronomy and the other space sciences; I'm a firm believer in space being humanity's future home, and I'm fascinated by the endless possibilities that it represents. There was a time in my life where I was planning on being an astrophysicist, but I ended up an artist instead. Life is funny that way.
I'm also a big technology geek, so I'm intrigued by sci-fi's exploration of how technology impacts humanity. Stories like The Diamond Age, where nanotechnology is ubiquitous, for example; also, the anime Denno Coil, for computer augmented reality and how children have totally embraced the technology, and thus their perception of the world is in a sense different from that of their elders who grew up in a world without it.
everyone x everyone - Two things come to mind. First, Pain/Konan-related orgies, because it has recently come to my attention that these two introverted and depressed villains are somehow the swingiest couple in Naruto! Numerous characters seem to fit right in to that incredibly hot PK sandwich so very nicely, it's kind of nuts. That is, of course, reserved for those times when Konan being the target of a multiple Pain bodies pileup gets dull. We all know that introverts are always the biggest sex fiends, after all, so it makes perfect sense; I still don't know how they can stay so down with all the hot sex they're having though.
I mean, you already start out with Pain/Konan/Girl!Pain, and then there's Pain/Konan/Karin, and then you have Pain/Konan/Itachi (somehow I think there's more moping than sexing. Emo porn?) and then the awesomeness of Pain/Konan/Deidara, and then Pain/Konan/Sakura, which leads into the epic foursome of Pain/Konan/Sasori/Sakura that I'm writing a fic for. And the latest appears to be the frightening Pain/Konan/Deidara/Karin, which will definitely result in the utter destruction of the bean bag chairs and any other flammable, breakable furniture in the vicinity. And then there's what just occurred to me when writing this: Pain/Konan/Madara, where Madara mindfucks them both at the same time.
I'm trying to picture Sasori and Sakura inviting a third person, and the only one that comes to mind is Deidara (because they're crazily hot as a Sakura-centered threesome.) If you can think of another, let me know!
I also think of how I seem to always keep taking on more and more ships at random and tend to be easily swayed to adopt more, so it's like I ship everyone x everyone! The kink meme got me interested in Madara/Itachi, for example (maybe it's because I've recently realized, Madara is an insanely sexy mindfucking asshole, and thus excellent for pairing up in twisted ways, like with Konan.)
artwork - I'm an artsy-fartsy type myself, with a design degree; this is one of the things that makes me gravitate towards artist characters like Sasori, Deidara, and Sai, and it's also what makes me so interested in fanart and in artists on the Internet in general. I've been visiting and collecting Japanese fanart site links since the late 90s, and although many of my old favorites are gone I still keep finding more, and also finding artists on sites like DA and pixiv.
There's also my own artwork that I've been working slowly on improving, because I let my drawing skills lapse for a number of years. I've found looking at the work of other artists on the net has really inspired me to stick with improving my skills, and also they're a great educational resource for discovering styles and techniques that I like that I can learn from or incorporate into my own style. I'm intrigued by how different artists visually interpret the same character, to see what elements of the character's designs they emphasize or de-emphasize, and to see how they adapt those elements to their own style. I'm not as interested in artists that try to mimic the original's style as much as possible, although they can be visually impressive. Drawing a character as closely to the original as you can for the sake of analysis is not a bad exercise though. I've spent a lot of time drawing character eyes in close to their original style, for example, and then over time I adapt the elements that I think are the most recognizable to my own style.
I've even had artwork inspire fic ideas; for example, I found a portrait of a character that had a visual element to it I really liked that I thought would be an interesting throwaway detail in a story, and some of the decisions I made on a whim to take that detail into account ended up spawning a multi-chapter fic idea.
hieronymousb . My dear, you've hit some TL,DR buttons with these topics! XDSasoSaku - My Naruto OTP, a pairing that has grabbed a hold of my brain and refuses to let go. What is it about it that fascinates me so much? Perhaps it's because it involves my favorite male character and my favorite female character. Maybe it's because I love pairings that have a power struggle element to them; Sasori is a control freak, definitely, but Sakura has a bit of an aggressive, dominating streak as well (I imagine she is more than capable of playing the submissive when she feels like it, however.)
I see Sasori as having interest in her because she is the type to push back, as he seems to generally look down on women as being weak and overly-emotional, yet he himself acknowledges Sakura's strength despite her tendency to wear her heart on her sleeve. I mean strength in a general sense, as it seems to be her intellectual prowess in creating an antidote for his poison that really earns his respect on top of her other abilities as a ninja; that he is capable of acknowledging her that much feels significant for such a narcissistic
There's all sorts of other interesting psychological facets to think about as well due to all the lovely Issues that Sasori has, and Sakura isn't completely without them either (Sasuke's fucked-up effect on her ideas about relationships for one.) Sakura has proven to be the type of girl that has an interest in fixing people too (just see how she deals with Sasuke, Naruto, and Sai,) and Sasori does need a lot of fixing. Sasori seems to crave emotional connections, deep down; it's loss and the loneliness caused by the death of his parents that drives him to seek a body that doesn't feel pain, with the expectation that it will also mean he won't feel emotional pain anymore. Sadly, those feelings lingered even if they were suppressed, and in the end it causes him to effectively commit suicide.
The poor fellow is clearly in need of sexual healing, dear Sakura. Won't you help a psychotic puppet dude out?
That leads into the physical side of the relationship. They're incredibly sexy together, and well, the kink potential is truly amazing. It rather makes sense in a way, as if they're interested in a physical relationship at all it immediately implies perversion on both sides: Sasori's a pervert just on account of Sakura being half his age, and Sakura's a pervert because she wants to have sex even though he has a freakin' puppet body. Sasori has a zillion abilities that lend themselves to being used in incredibly kinky and depraved ways, down to his most basic: he's a puppet master who can potentially attach chakra strings to people and manipulate them as puppets; the D/S potential is in the stratosphere. Maybe that's another reason the pairing continues to hold my interest so much; I can get so creative with it when it comes to writing smut!
Harry Potter - Oh Harry Potter, a fandom I lurked in for years, how I love and yet hate you at the same time. First four books, I love you, entertaining characters, an intriguing setting, fun stories overall. It's when we get into book 5 that the trouble starts for me, and it's where the frustrating developments/disappointments begin to start. This is already TL,DR so I'll try to keep it brief (unless you want me to
Actually, I'm beginning to see the parallels with Naruto here; great characters, some painful plot decisions, although there were still some things I did really like in OotP and onwards. :F
Characters are definitely what I love the most in Harry Potter. I'm crazy about Luna Lovegood, for example. She's just so quirky and plucky and awesome; I really wish she had appeared sooner and more often
I also like some characters that you're supposed to hate, like Tom Riddle, whom I am fond of for being such a juvenile asshole. I love that he doesn't really act completely like just a younger Voldemort, but does some incredibly childish stuff like the Ginny mockery, the pompous 'check out how kewl I am' writing his name in the air thing, and so on. I like shipping him with Luna and Hermione too, as he works far better for pairing with anybody than Voldemort IMO; it's canon that he knows how to seduce women after all, so he had to be willing to get it on at some point. Even future Dark Lords can fall prey to teenage hormones!
BTW, Tom/Luna because they're so radically different that their interaction would be fascinating. Tom/Hermione because they're both insanely smart, they'd have fun power struggles since they're both dominant types, and well, I've always seen Hermione as having a bit of a dark streak that she usually keeps under wraps but manifests occasionally. The 'SNEAK' hex in particular is nasty as hell, if you really think about it.
I love the Malfoys! Draco for being a cowardly little asshole, Lucius for being a grown-up asshole, and Narcissa for being an amazingly badass evil mom who actually cares about her family. I loved that faceoff against Harry in Malkin's shop where Draco is being all dorkily protective of his mom.
I really dig Percy Weasely in all his pedantic, nerdy glory; I still think Arthur was being kind of an asshole in the whole situation that led to the estrangement, considering that (from my perception) Percy had been busting his balls all those years to try and get his father's approval only to have said father appear to shit all over his hard work in a way that gave Percy the impression of jealousy; they only promoted you because of your connection to me? Yeah, that will go over real well, Arthur. I have a bit of a soft spot for Percy/Hermione; I can't resist ultranerdy bookworm fluff.
Oddly, I haven't really been that excited about the movies lately; I suppose finishing the books cooled my interest some? My fandom activities consist mostly of reading the occasional fic these days; I was a lurker in places like the HPforGrownups ML, but stopped visiting it years ago and don't really delve into meta for the series anymore.
sci-fi - I've had a love affair with sci-fi as far back as I can remember; my first movie memory is of a giant screen at a drive-in emblazoned with the image of Darth Vader (God, I'm old) from when I went to see the original Star Wars. I was crazy about Star Wars for many years, and although I've cooled a bit thanks to some of the decisions Lucas has made with the more recent films, I love the KOTOR games. I'm a bit of a Trek fan as well, particularly of TOS and TNG, and I was quite into Babylon 5 for awhile. More recently I haven't been watching that much sci-fi though outside of anime.
SF Books seem to where I mostly get my fix nowadays. I particularly love authors like Arthur C. Clarke (The Fountains of Paradise is probably my favorite of his books) and Larry Niven (I actually like his Known Space short stories best) that really delve into the hard science details. Then there's Asimov, and I dig David Weber's Honor Harrington books (they make me think a little of Legend of the Galactic Heroes.)
I think a big part of my love for sci-fi comes from my fascination with science, particularly astronomy and the other space sciences; I'm a firm believer in space being humanity's future home, and I'm fascinated by the endless possibilities that it represents. There was a time in my life where I was planning on being an astrophysicist, but I ended up an artist instead. Life is funny that way.
I'm also a big technology geek, so I'm intrigued by sci-fi's exploration of how technology impacts humanity. Stories like The Diamond Age, where nanotechnology is ubiquitous, for example; also, the anime Denno Coil, for computer augmented reality and how children have totally embraced the technology, and thus their perception of the world is in a sense different from that of their elders who grew up in a world without it.
everyone x everyone - Two things come to mind. First, Pain/Konan-related orgies, because it has recently come to my attention that these two introverted and depressed villains are somehow the swingiest couple in Naruto! Numerous characters seem to fit right in to that incredibly hot PK sandwich so very nicely, it's kind of nuts. That is, of course, reserved for those times when Konan being the target of a multiple Pain bodies pileup gets dull. We all know that introverts are always the biggest sex fiends, after all, so it makes perfect sense; I still don't know how they can stay so down with all the hot sex they're having though.
I mean, you already start out with Pain/Konan/Girl!Pain, and then there's Pain/Konan/Karin, and then you have Pain/Konan/Itachi (somehow I think there's more moping than sexing. Emo porn?) and then the awesomeness of Pain/Konan/Deidara, and then Pain/Konan/Sakura, which leads into the epic foursome of Pain/Konan/Sasori/Sakura that I'm writing a fic for. And the latest appears to be the frightening Pain/Konan/Deidara/Karin, which will definitely result in the utter destruction of the bean bag chairs and any other flammable, breakable furniture in the vicinity. And then there's what just occurred to me when writing this: Pain/Konan/Madara, where Madara mindfucks them both at the same time.
I'm trying to picture Sasori and Sakura inviting a third person, and the only one that comes to mind is Deidara (because they're crazily hot as a Sakura-centered threesome.) If you can think of another, let me know!
I also think of how I seem to always keep taking on more and more ships at random and tend to be easily swayed to adopt more, so it's like I ship everyone x everyone! The kink meme got me interested in Madara/Itachi, for example (maybe it's because I've recently realized, Madara is an insanely sexy mindfucking asshole, and thus excellent for pairing up in twisted ways, like with Konan.)
artwork - I'm an artsy-fartsy type myself, with a design degree; this is one of the things that makes me gravitate towards artist characters like Sasori, Deidara, and Sai, and it's also what makes me so interested in fanart and in artists on the Internet in general. I've been visiting and collecting Japanese fanart site links since the late 90s, and although many of my old favorites are gone I still keep finding more, and also finding artists on sites like DA and pixiv.
There's also my own artwork that I've been working slowly on improving, because I let my drawing skills lapse for a number of years. I've found looking at the work of other artists on the net has really inspired me to stick with improving my skills, and also they're a great educational resource for discovering styles and techniques that I like that I can learn from or incorporate into my own style. I'm intrigued by how different artists visually interpret the same character, to see what elements of the character's designs they emphasize or de-emphasize, and to see how they adapt those elements to their own style. I'm not as interested in artists that try to mimic the original's style as much as possible, although they can be visually impressive. Drawing a character as closely to the original as you can for the sake of analysis is not a bad exercise though. I've spent a lot of time drawing character eyes in close to their original style, for example, and then over time I adapt the elements that I think are the most recognizable to my own style.
I've even had artwork inspire fic ideas; for example, I found a portrait of a character that had a visual element to it I really liked that I thought would be an interesting throwaway detail in a story, and some of the decisions I made on a whim to take that detail into account ended up spawning a multi-chapter fic idea.
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Date: 2009-07-03 04:32 pm (UTC)Harry Potter- seen the movies, never read the books, and I'm not in this fandom, but yeah I can see some parallels with Naruto here too :D
everyone x everyone- P/K-related orgies are awesome! I've been working on a Pain/Itachi/Konan (XD), and I'd love to see Pain/Madara/Konan and Pain/Konan/Girl!Pain, and any other combo with P/K too XDD
YAY artwork!! I do hope we get to see your stuff sometime! :D
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Date: 2009-07-04 05:54 am (UTC)Yay another convert! And chakra strings can be used in such naughty ways. :D
everyone x everyone- P/K-related orgies are awesome! I've been working on a Pain/Itachi/Konan (XD), and I'd love to see Pain/Madara/Konan and Pain/Konan/Girl!Pain, and any other combo with P/K too XDD
Oooh, I can't wait to read it. XD
YAY artwork!! I do hope we get to see your stuff sometime!
I have some on DA, but I haven't done that much drawing in the past couple of weeks since I've been doing a lot of writing. I have some pic projects that I'll be putting some time into over the weekend though I think. :)
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Date: 2009-07-03 07:14 pm (UTC)You are making me start to love SasoSaku again <3 :o)
. I was crazy about Star Wars for many years, and although I've cooled a bit thanks to some of the decisions Lucas has made with the more recent films, I love the KOTOR games.
Out of curiosity, what were some of your problems with the prequels? (I'm assuming it's the prequels :P EVERYONE--myself included--has problems with the prequels LOL)
KOTOR is a GREAT series, KOTOR II is probably my favorite video game of all time.
First, Pain/Konan-related orgies, because it has recently come to my attention that these two introverted and depressed villains are somehow the swingiest couple in Naruto!
LOL TOO TRUE. Konan's a total demon in the sack, you can tell.
I'm trying to picture Sasori and Sakura inviting a third person, and the only one that comes to mind is Deidara (because they're crazily hot as a Sakura-centered threesome.) If you can think of another, let me know!
Ino, I think, would work great.
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Date: 2009-07-04 06:29 am (UTC)I'll have to keep adding fuel to the fire. XD
Out of curiosity, what were some of your problems with the prequels? (I'm assuming it's the prequels :P EVERYONE--myself included--has problems with the prequels LOL)
Yeah, it's the prequels. Weak writing, mostly, particularly in the realm of the cringe-worthy romantic subplot. There was also the whole special editions mess as well...
I'm crazy about KOTOR; everything about those games just captures the feeling of the Star Wars universe that I fell in love with as a kid so well for me, in a way that the newer movies haven't.
LOL TOO TRUE. Konan's a total demon in the sack, you can tell.
She totally is, she's one sexy lady!
Ino, I think, would work great.
Hmm...you might be on to something. Sasori might well approve of Sakura and Ino getting it on for his amusement. XD
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Date: 2009-07-04 06:39 pm (UTC)This is so true! It pretty much embodies the feeling I had when I would run around with hockey sticks pretending they were lightsabers XD (...I was six...ish XP)
InoxSakuraxSasori would be AWESOME X3 <3
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Date: 2009-07-05 06:58 pm (UTC)Omg, brb lmao forever. XD;
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Date: 2009-07-07 05:19 am (UTC)I'd love to hear your thoughts on this. I actually really liked his motivations but wished that we had more than one line hinting at the fact that he'd ended up grocking Dumbledore's ethics.
I really dig Percy Weasely in all his pedantic, nerdy glory; I still think Arthur was being kind of an asshole in the whole situation that led to the estrangement, considering that (from my perception) Percy had been busting his balls all those years to try and get his father's approval only to have said father appear to shit all over his hard work in a way that gave Percy the impression of jealousy; they only promoted you because of your connection to me? Yeah, that will go over real well, Arthur.
I agree. Arthur and Molly choose to live the life they did (poor, big family) to a certain extent, and I can't believe that they were surprised that, you know, not every one of their kids is going to be okay with that, and some of them might do something about it.
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Date: 2009-07-07 07:31 pm (UTC)(DH spoilers ahead)
My main problem with it is that it is weighed far too much towards Snape's feelings for Lily as his primary motivation, when I really would have loved to have seen more nuance to it and more development of him changing his views out of personal conviction, as you mention.
Love as motivation is used a little too much IMO, especially to excuse Dumbledore's questionable behavior. I really hated how Dumbledore's past with Grindelwald just boiled down to him falling in love with a bad person, rather than Dumbledore having his own ingrained bigotry and questionable ideas to overcome. I think it would have been so much better if Dumbledore really had to struggle with his own beliefs in his youth, and that would have added some deeper levels to his relationship with and understanding of Snape (and Draco as well, actually.)
I agree. Arthur and Molly choose to live the life they did (poor, big family) to a certain extent, and I can't believe that they were surprised that, you know, not every one of their kids is going to be okay with that, and some of them might do something about it.
Exactly, and I always felt rather sorry for Percy and his middle child syndrome. I was just glad that he survived going against the Weasley way; I thought he was so doomed when he broke ties with the family.
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Date: 2009-07-12 10:57 pm (UTC)*nods* I have a high tolerance for doing the right thing for the wrong reasons (Snape, Mai) but I think a lot of authors DO mistake the two and treat the characterization as if those two things are the same.
I really hated how Dumbledore's past with Grindelwald just boiled down to him falling in love with a bad person, rather than Dumbledore having his own ingrained bigotry and questionable ideas to overcome. I think it would have been so much better if Dumbledore really had to struggle with his own beliefs in his youth, and that would have added some deeper levels to his relationship with and understanding of Snape (and Draco as well, actually.)
I think you're right about this.