Newt, oh, newt, yes!

[resonant]

I'm finding as I write that I really can't hear wizards using those mild bedroom blasphemies that I use so much. "God!"

Harry and Hermione, yes. Anyone wizard-born, no.

I'm also finding that I have a lot of difficulty writing a sex scene without them.

Comments

heh

[mz-bstone.livejournal.com]

Somehow "Merlin!" just doesn't do it, does it?

Hecate might work?

B (lol, thinking of moaning merlins)

[resonant8.livejournal.com]

"Hecate" is three syllables, yes? It has a good sound for being spat in anger, but not so great for being moaned in pleasure.

I've seen "Merlin" quite often in HPdom. I can believe that someone raised in a wizard culture would say it under some circumstances (exasperation, emphasis, just trying to be funny). Last night I was reading a story by ... Sushi? ... in which someone said, "Merlin's tackle!" I loved that.

But in bed? Sounds wrong to me.

Long, long ago I remember reading a Voyager story in which Chakotay, in the throes of love, hissed, "Spirits and ancestors, do something!" -- which I believed and quite liked. Tricky to come up with appropriate slang for fictional cultures! If I don't find something that sounds right to me, I'll be forced to get by with ohs and ahs and yeses.

[(Anonymous)]

Not keen on most of the Merlin terms, but I do like Merlin's tackle. ::g:: I suppose you could use the names of the founders -- Godric's gonads, or Salazar's shite, perhaps. Or perhaps not.

Then again, there's nothing wrong with ohs and ahs and yeses.

Carla