Hahaha Maya. I reconciled myself by thinking Maya's Draco was his own AU. Possibly also his own planet, and his own gov't and his own fanclub all rolled into one. I feel I can be generous 'cause I know Maya *meant* to make him pathetic but simply *failed*, haha (ahh! sometimes our wit is our greatest enemy... this is def. the case for Maya). Though Loki not being badass would make me cry. D:
Yeah, theoretically I agree with you-- emotional health for Harry (or anyone!) *shouldn't* have to mean marrying your best friend's little sister. I mean, whuh--? They can just-- grow up! Right? So logically I see that, and yet I don't see H/D from it without the corruption I mentioned (I can see, like, Harry/OFC), *unless* you do the thing you mentioned and delete books 5-7 from existence (but I luuurved book 5). The thing that happened to me with book 6 is a crux, though, in my thinking about all this. I mean, it's not like I loved it the way I did with OoTP, but it was like, 'real' to me, in part 'cause it really reflected a lot of what I thought *should* happen in book 6 (and fanfic never realized). So to get some stuff I wanted to happen, I could only go to HBP (and book 7 is just part 2 of HBP). Anyway, I don't think ickle!Harry is incompatible with OoTP!Harry at all-- he *needed* to flip his shit, and the boy was crying out for hormones and creepy Dumbledore reveal big-time-- but then I was stuck 'cause HBP seemed logical to me, at least in regards to Dumbledore and Snape and Draco, if not necessarily Harry (esp. re: Sirius). I loved the whole anger/fear thing on Draco's part, and Harry's fixation (always there!). Anyway, it was a weird mixture of stuff I wished didn't happen and stuff I thought had to happen. Some stuff about Draco's characterization only seems sucky 'cause people wrote bad fanfic about it, for instance, but at the time, I was more miffed that dark!Harry got snuffed so easily. Meh. And yet, the larger context of HBP made *sense*, so I felt stuck with canon, canon, canon, and I'm an all-or-nothing person in some ways.
Still. You're right-- third/fourth-year!Harry would think epilogue!Harry was like, Dursleyfied, wtf. Fifth-year!Harry would be disgusted with his behavior re: Sirius and Draco. First-year!Harry would be freaked out at his own darkness, Crucio-ing, Dumbledore/Draco/Snape stuff and pretty much everything about DH!Harry. I wrote this fic (http://www.skyehawke.com/archive/story.php?no=2822) once and it's telling that in my head, this is pre-HBP!Harry post-war, as happy as I could make him, and he wasn't paired with anyone except his broomstick. ^^;;
Ok you're right, Spock breaking his preconceptions is awesome (which is why it's my kink! right! melting-the-ice kind of goes with melting-the-dogma, haha). But poor baby, it hurts. You're right, though, that by the time he admitted he needs Jim as a friend, fucking is secondary. I mean, yeah. This is why TOS sex is kinda boring and sometimes gross (though I stand by that Pon Farr fic being awesome and necessary for the world). But Reboot lets me play 'cause there's this sense of possibility again. Sex is more interesting when it's not a sure thing. Like, knowing that TOS K/S would be so easy (in a sense) kind of kills it, yes. Also, old. Dudes are OLD. You think GREEN is bad, last fic I read had a self-lubricating Vulcan peen with TENTACLES THAT DID THE LUBRICATING like a SEA ANEMONE (this analogy was in the fic).
The whole thing with Uhura is that I can't bear anyone being close to Spock except Jim (you know, I was uncomfortable when Bones had his katra... like....... gah creepy-crawlies, your family uncle found 'holding' your dad's penis 'for safe-keeping' falskjfaslkjasflkjaflkaj). This is what happens when you imprint on a character when you're 12. >____>
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Date: 2011-11-06 07:11 am (UTC)Yeah, theoretically I agree with you-- emotional health for Harry (or anyone!) *shouldn't* have to mean marrying your best friend's little sister. I mean, whuh--? They can just-- grow up! Right? So logically I see that, and yet I don't see H/D from it without the corruption I mentioned (I can see, like, Harry/OFC), *unless* you do the thing you mentioned and delete books 5-7 from existence (but I luuurved book 5). The thing that happened to me with book 6 is a crux, though, in my thinking about all this. I mean, it's not like I loved it the way I did with OoTP, but it was like, 'real' to me, in part 'cause it really reflected a lot of what I thought *should* happen in book 6 (and fanfic never realized). So to get some stuff I wanted to happen, I could only go to HBP (and book 7 is just part 2 of HBP). Anyway, I don't think ickle!Harry is incompatible with OoTP!Harry at all-- he *needed* to flip his shit, and the boy was crying out for hormones and creepy Dumbledore reveal big-time-- but then I was stuck 'cause HBP seemed logical to me, at least in regards to Dumbledore and Snape and Draco, if not necessarily Harry (esp. re: Sirius). I loved the whole anger/fear thing on Draco's part, and Harry's fixation (always there!). Anyway, it was a weird mixture of stuff I wished didn't happen and stuff I thought had to happen. Some stuff about Draco's characterization only seems sucky 'cause people wrote bad fanfic about it, for instance, but at the time, I was more miffed that dark!Harry got snuffed so easily. Meh. And yet, the larger context of HBP made *sense*, so I felt stuck with canon, canon, canon, and I'm an all-or-nothing person in some ways.
Still. You're right-- third/fourth-year!Harry would think epilogue!Harry was like, Dursleyfied, wtf. Fifth-year!Harry would be disgusted with his behavior re: Sirius and Draco. First-year!Harry would be freaked out at his own darkness, Crucio-ing, Dumbledore/Draco/Snape stuff and pretty much everything about DH!Harry. I wrote this fic (http://www.skyehawke.com/archive/story.php?no=2822) once and it's telling that in my head, this is pre-HBP!Harry post-war, as happy as I could make him, and he wasn't paired with anyone except his broomstick. ^^;;
Ok you're right, Spock breaking his preconceptions is awesome (which is why it's my kink! right! melting-the-ice kind of goes with melting-the-dogma, haha). But poor baby, it hurts. You're right, though, that by the time he admitted he needs Jim as a friend, fucking is secondary. I mean, yeah. This is why TOS sex is kinda boring and sometimes gross (though I stand by that Pon Farr fic being awesome and necessary for the world). But Reboot lets me play 'cause there's this sense of possibility again. Sex is more interesting when it's not a sure thing. Like, knowing that TOS K/S would be so easy (in a sense) kind of kills it, yes. Also, old. Dudes are OLD. You think GREEN is bad, last fic I read had a self-lubricating Vulcan peen with TENTACLES THAT DID THE LUBRICATING like a SEA ANEMONE (this analogy was in the fic).
The whole thing with Uhura is that I can't bear anyone being close to Spock except Jim (you know, I was uncomfortable when Bones had his katra... like....... gah creepy-crawlies, your family uncle found 'holding' your dad's penis 'for safe-keeping' falskjfaslkjasflkjaflkaj). This is what happens when you imprint on a character when you're 12. >____>