What To Allow For
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resonantNot going to do that Purity Test. I always score so depressingly virginal that I can't truly feel like myself again until I go through my chat logs and find the one where anne said, "If you have Res, you can have sex."
In other news:
When I was a teenager, our newspaper published a column called "What To Allow For." (Later I was a newspaper columnist, so I can now imagine how it came to be written -- "Shit, two hours to come up with something wise and funny.")
It was cute. Just lists of those things that predictably come up to complicate matters. "What to allow for in general: Weather. Traffic. Stupidity. What to allow for in work: Vacations. The tendency of meetings to exceed their scheduled time by forty-five minutes."
Anyhow, it's applicable to any subject.
What To Allow For in Writing Slash In General:
- Heterosexuality.
- Obliviousness.
- The "he/he" problem in sex scenes.
- Characters being guys and hence having no idea what they feel.
What To Allow For in DS Slash:
- Fraser being not exactly a guy, but nevertheless having an entire battery of techniques designed to protect him from knowing how he feels.
- Reader confusion caused by people referring to Ray Kowalski as "Detective Vecchio."
- The actual Detective Vecchio.
- The time it takes to get Fraser's boots unlaced.
- Lack of privacy at the Consulate.
- Victoria.
- Stella.
- Chicago winters.
- Dief.
What To Allow For in HP Slash:
- Virginity.
- The war.
- Full moons.
- The fact that an invisibility cloak doesn't render the wearer unhearable or unsmellable.
- Defensiveness.
- The fact that Harry will never just ask a damned question.
- Curfew.
- The fact that no one can Apparate on Hogwarts grounds.
- Voldemort's apparent failure to read the Evil Overlord's Guide.
In other news:
When I was a teenager, our newspaper published a column called "What To Allow For." (Later I was a newspaper columnist, so I can now imagine how it came to be written -- "Shit, two hours to come up with something wise and funny.")
It was cute. Just lists of those things that predictably come up to complicate matters. "What to allow for in general: Weather. Traffic. Stupidity. What to allow for in work: Vacations. The tendency of meetings to exceed their scheduled time by forty-five minutes."
Anyhow, it's applicable to any subject.
What To Allow For in Writing Slash In General:
- Heterosexuality.
- Obliviousness.
- The "he/he" problem in sex scenes.
- Characters being guys and hence having no idea what they feel.
What To Allow For in DS Slash:
- Fraser being not exactly a guy, but nevertheless having an entire battery of techniques designed to protect him from knowing how he feels.
- Reader confusion caused by people referring to Ray Kowalski as "Detective Vecchio."
- The actual Detective Vecchio.
- The time it takes to get Fraser's boots unlaced.
- Lack of privacy at the Consulate.
- Victoria.
- Stella.
- Chicago winters.
- Dief.
What To Allow For in HP Slash:
- Virginity.
- The war.
- Full moons.
- The fact that an invisibility cloak doesn't render the wearer unhearable or unsmellable.
- Defensiveness.
- The fact that Harry will never just ask a damned question.
- Curfew.
- The fact that no one can Apparate on Hogwarts grounds.
- Voldemort's apparent failure to read the Evil Overlord's Guide.
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Remarkable, isn't it....
Date: 5/6/03 11:02 pm (UTC)Re: Remarkable, isn't it....
Date: 5/7/03 12:53 am (UTC)Re: Remarkable, isn't it....
Date: 5/7/03 07:46 am (UTC)What drives me nuts...
Date: 5/7/03 07:49 am (UTC)Maybe it's because I'm nominally a grown-up now, or maybe because I have kids myself -- but I think it still would have bothered me when I was a teen and preteen. Why the fuck can't he trust some adult, at least some of the time?!?
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Date: 5/7/03 11:52 am (UTC)Or, if that's too difficult, maybe trust Hermione?
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Date: 5/7/03 01:09 pm (UTC)And that's exactly what makes him Voldemort, long talks about what he's been doing, is going to do, how he and Harry are alike (diary Tom), &c ;)
Yup, Verbose!Voldemort
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Date: 5/7/03 01:22 pm (UTC)(no subject)
Date: 5/7/03 07:06 pm (UTC)~Sheena
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Date: 5/9/03 08:44 pm (UTC)Or, if that's too difficult, maybe trust Hermione?
Because he's been taught for essentially as long as he can remember (ten years of his life) that no one will help him and that asking for help will get him a) ridiculed, b) punished, or c) both of the above.
You only open up and get shot down so many times before you stop even trying and then, eventually, you stop even considering trying. Harry, given the Dursleys, probably hit that point around age six.
- Andrea
ETA: He trusts Sirius, to an extent. (also fixed the damn tags)