Yes, and all the strawberries, you see...

[pauraque_bk]

Back to work starting today. Prepare for resumed lunchspam. (asphodeline, I got your letter, and I'm writing back. *hugs*)

malograntum and I saw PoA last night. We didn't know until we got there that it was open-captioned, but decided to go in anyway, as we'd both seen it multiple times already. It didn't turn out to be a bad thing-- there were a few lines I hadn't been able to catch before that I was glad to see written out. Not least of which was the shrunken head's response to Stan's "Muggles don't see nothing, do they?", which I'd never been able to understand. The head replies, "But if you stick them with a fork, they feel." How very... ominous.

(Oh, and malograntum, look: stanthe_man.)

I was also amused by some of the very faint dialogue between Dumbledore and Fudge that they decided to caption, and annoyed that they didn't caption what Snape says after "There are several ways to become a werewolf." Mal thought he said "Being born with the power of shape-shifting", which is very odd, if true. He does say something about "shape-shifting", that's certain. Anyone have a clearer sense?


[ETA: Oh, I remember the other thing I was going to say. I've randomly started writing a AJPW-verse ficlet. What's with that?

My co-worker is right, it smells like puke in here. It's good to be back.]

Comments

[florahart]

He does say something about being born a werewolf, in there. Can't quote it.

[pauraque]

It sounds to me like, "There are several ways to become a werewolf: *something something* shape-shifting, being bitten by a werewolf..."

It's that "something something" that's troublesome.

[asphodeline.livejournal.com]

*hugs back*
Sooooo glad I got the right address!!

[malograntum.livejournal.com]

Ha! The little black dress of the fandom, indeed. Thanks for the pointer. Sadly, it looks like the activity there has trailed off. (Also, randomly: I think the desire to show one's appreciation for a character by making them have lots of sex is another example of that thing we were talking about that we couldn't come up with a word for.) (That was a very useful statement, I know.)

Since I don't know nuffin', can I ask what AJPW-verse is?

[pauraque]

AJPW-verse="And Just Plain Wrong" universe. And Just Plain Wrong is an AU fic by amanuensis1 that I think could fairly be said to have captured the fandom's imagination last year. The premise is that Voldemort has won and the DEs have taken over Hogwarts.

We all read it, and were shocked and appalled and delighted, and then juxiantang wrote a sequel, which unfortunately isn't available online at the moment (Juxian is having technical problems). Then arachnethe2 wrote another sequel. Then I wrote another. Then caesia390 wrote yet another. None of this was planned, it just happened spontaneously, which I think is kinda cool.

(A word of warning: The first two fics in the series involve a lot of violence and graphic rape. No, more graphic than that. No, MORE. The other three aren't so extreme, but are still part of a story arc about sexual slavery, so click with care. [I feel compelled to point out that my part only has one paragraph of sex in it. And is coincidentally the thing I'm proudest of that I've written in this fandom.])

I think the desire to show one's appreciation for a character by making them have lots of sex is another example of that thing we were talking about that we couldn't come up with a word for.

I think it's related, yeah. Though it's not expressing the relationship between two characters using sex, it's expressing the relationship between an author and a character using sex, vicariously.

As it happens, I understand AJPW (the first part) as a special case of this same phenomenon... it takes the general shape of Harry's life in canon (as he perceives it), exaggerates and distorts it to a grotesque degree, and sexualizes the whole thing.

(Longest. comment. ever.)