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timepiececlockMore about my strange new fascination with Draco/Hermione fanfics of Harry Potter ficdom. I realize now that I’m totally projecting my spuffy fannishness onto this pairing... but it’s so easy! I can’t help it.
For example, did you guys know that you can trace the history of Spike from BTVS by reading the right D/Hm fics? I swear:
-Season 4 Spike, who is self-obsessed, pretty, petty, snarky, cute, and mischievously amoral can be found reincarnated as Draco in the fic Draco Malfoy the Amazing Bouncing...Rat
-Spike of BTVS season 5, who is flirty, dangerous, more than an little manipulative, hasty, sincere, ridiculed, and crushing on someone he shouldn’t, can be found reincarnated as Draco in Must Be Hell Freezing Over.
-If you want to seeSpike Draco with the lurid sex, destructive secrets, and dark yet touching lust-based-but-maybe-more-later-relationship of season 6, read Adamo Fidelitas.
-And now I’m reading this lovingly angsty fic that hasSpike Draco found lost and near catatonic in a dirty alley in Cairo (with longer hair!), reeling internally from a traumatic experience involving flashy lights and torture that led to his current state of depression/rage/listlessness with masochistic tendencies, great misunderstood guilt, and a profound desire for redemption...which of course leaves the Scooby Gang Potter & Co. unsure of how to behave around him and causes the pure and good Buffy Hermione to want to comfort and heal him and discover the secret of his changed ways. That’s called Buffy Season 7 Sympathy for the Slytherin.
See what I’m talking about? It’s mad coincidence, I say.
I even found one on ff.net where Draco dies a noble death (in the dark, underground) while telling Hermione to forget about him and escape... but that one kind of sucked, and I’m not linking it.
P.S. What does it say about my life that I not only live my romance vicariously through fanfic, but now also live my fanfic romance vicariously through other fanfic?
P.S.S. Just for note, all these fics are super super cool and well-written and all that normal envious jazz that oft colors my posts to a nice tint of green. This is a rec post, officially.
For example, did you guys know that you can trace the history of Spike from BTVS by reading the right D/Hm fics? I swear:
-Season 4 Spike, who is self-obsessed, pretty, petty, snarky, cute, and mischievously amoral can be found reincarnated as Draco in the fic Draco Malfoy the Amazing Bouncing...Rat
-Spike of BTVS season 5, who is flirty, dangerous, more than an little manipulative, hasty, sincere, ridiculed, and crushing on someone he shouldn’t, can be found reincarnated as Draco in Must Be Hell Freezing Over.
-If you want to see
-And now I’m reading this lovingly angsty fic that has
See what I’m talking about? It’s mad coincidence, I say.
I even found one on ff.net where Draco dies a noble death (in the dark, underground) while telling Hermione to forget about him and escape... but that one kind of sucked, and I’m not linking it.
P.S. What does it say about my life that I not only live my romance vicariously through fanfic, but now also live my fanfic romance vicariously through other fanfic?
P.S.S. Just for note, all these fics are super super cool and well-written and all that normal envious jazz that oft colors my posts to a nice tint of green. This is a rec post, officially.
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Date: 2003-06-10 03:03 am (UTC)LOL -- tad bit scary, I agree ;o).
I haven't gotten as far with my Potter-mania yet as to read fanfiction on the books, but now that Buffy's over.... :o(
I just got really happy when I read your post (better admit now that I do stalk you every now and then ;o) ). It wasn't until I saw HP2 in the movies that the obvious Spike-MiniMe thing with Draco struck me. Now I am totally fan of him, and an obsessive Draco/Hermione shipper -- whenever anyone wants to talk to me about it :oP
However, it does seem like maybe there's slight inspiration from the Buffyverse in those fics you recced, doesn't it...? But like you, I don't think I want to complain! :o)
Anyway. I HATE this anonymous-thing :oS Just because I don't have an LJ! -- I'll link you to my blog, so I don't feel like a total creep ;o)
- TheTigergirl (http://www.blurty.com/users/thetigergirl/)
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Date: 2003-06-10 03:11 am (UTC)It's a new thing for me. Like... only-a-week-old thing. And right now, only this one ship.
I don't think I'll write it, because frankly the magic-things vocabulary I'd need to sound anything like canon terrifies me.
It wasn't until I saw HP2 in the movies that the obvious Spike-MiniMe thing with Draco struck me.
:g: Didn't strike me until someone pointed me to the Bouncing Rat fanfic.
Now I am totally fan of him, and an obsessive Draco/Hermione shipper -- whenever anyone wants to talk to me about it :oP
Oooooo! Got any recs? I inhale fanfic at a rate you wouldn't believe.
However, it does seem like maybe there's slight inspiration from the Buffyverse in those fics you recced, doesn't it...? But like you, I don't think I want to complain!
Really, the similarities are only surface. But I like to have fun with my fandoms and find connections like this. ;)