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We are all familiar with my mad fanfiction love by now, yes? Well, I have found a new story and people, my love for it is LIKE THE OCEAN in its breadth and depth. I do not have the words to describe its awesomeness and yet, I am compelled to try. To try a lot, as it happens. Below I've typed up my observations from the week or so I spent immersed.
Oh, you think I am kidding, but this story is, in fact, a series and I'm pretty sure it's longer than all of the actual HP books combined. Which is hella impressive, considering the first story started updating less than a year ago. And oh yeah, the sixth book's a WiP with daily updates. Daily updates of length and substance, yet.
Also, someone, please to be reading this because I want someone to talk to. Anyway:
I am so in love with the Sacrifices Arc. It is like a special gift from the universe to me. Slytherin!Harry, Harry befriends snakes, Snape mentors Harry, Harry-Draco friendship that will become Harry/Draco slash, politics and alliance building, which I adore all the more madly for the rarity. And also, it is forever-long. And it's well-written. Basically, it's like Christmas on my computer right now.
Seriously, every few chapters I'm chanting my love for various characters: Harry, Draco, McGonagall, Luna, Narcissa, the Hufflepuffs. And even if I don't find Lucius admirable, I find him fascinating; he's all twisty and plotty and interesting.
I want Lily and Dumbledore both dead. Because 1) I think they're too stupid and self-righteous to let well-enough alone otherwise and 2) they totally deserve it. They brainwashed him and that was bad enough, but spelling him? What the fuck, no! That's not being the good guys! That's not fighting for right and truth and whatever! That's asking for a sniping! Or, y'know, the nearest magical equivalent.
HOMG, so long. Been awake for 38 hours now. Reading this series for 27. So tired. But the biggest story is yet to come! And I want to know what happens, because wow, so AU by now. AU enough that you can't really guess the plots. Which, y'know, yay, but. Fuck it, sleeep.
Oh god. I am so worried. The farther I get, the more the "multiple character deaths" warning worries me. Because she killed Sirius way before he would have died in canon, and she's going to kill people who, in canon, live, and I am afeared for my beloveds. For Snape and McGonagall and Hawthorn and Regulus and Narcissa and Millicent and Hermione and Percy and Scrimgeour. And when I contemplate the end of Book 7, I am also afeared for Harry and Draco, because of the big warning saying it'll be the darkest book in the series and oh god, don't kill them. They are beautiful and brilliant and beloved and fuck, do I want them to live. And dude, if Snape or McGonagall (oh, how I love McGonagall) dies, I am going to cry like a little bitch, just be left sobbing brokenly at my computer screen.
I am fairly certain Calypso McGonagall has shown up in two anecdotes and it is nagging me. I think the first time I saw the name, it was the name of the girl who stopped a feud by casting a spell to call a husband out of the opposing family and then fucking him right there on the battlefield. But I'm pretty sure that's also the name of the Lady that's McGonagall's ancestor, the one who defeated her enemy and then was a told by a Seer that her foe's second could still be redeemed and so took her in and they fell in love and adopted a child. I mean, one could totally be named after the other, but it's a tad annoying. And okay, fine, yes, nothing a normal person would notice, especially if they took a normal span of time to read the stories instead of being dumb and crazy enough to 1) read the whole thing in four days and 2) immediately start re-reading because it just rocks that hard.
It's horrible to say, but one of the many, many reasons I'm going to rec the Sacrifices Arc is that the child abuse is so interesting. Because usually there's emotional, physical, or sexual abuse, sometimes in combination, sometimes not. But this is systematic emotional abuse that has carries many of the consequences of physical abuse, combined with magical abuse like nothing I've ever seen. It's all fascinating, and horrible, and fascinating.
For another reason, I - okay, first, there is a quirk of my speech you may or may not be aware of. I'll see someone doing something that is a massively bad idea because it'll piss someone else off liek woah and I'll be saying/thinking "Oh my god, s/he will kill you and eat you!" As with most things like this, I blame Richard. Anyway, there's your background.
Needless, to say that'd been running through my head for several books, directed at Dumbledore re: Harry. And then, oh, then it actually happened and it made my life.
God, I love this story. It may be my absolute favorite HP fic, ever; it's damn sure in the top three (the other two being Blood Magic and Underwater Light).
It's just so wonderful. The OCs rock; they're so complex and three-dimensional. I love Adalrico Bulstrode and Dionysus Hornblower, for example, and oh! The puellaris witches! They win for "interesting magical concept". Not that they're lacking in competition, and they're not particularly integral to the plot, like the webs, or the wild Dark, or the absorbere gift, but they're just so damn cool and different. Also, I kind of desperately want a way for Indigena Yaxley to join Harry instead of Voldemort, she's that awesome, although, wow, is that ever unlikely, what with the Red Death and her righteous vengeance waiting in the wings. And hey! Hawthorn! Favorite werewolf ever!
And the canonically minor characters! After the attack on Woodhouse? Lucius/Narcissa = OTP! And Percy is such a ridiculous Gryffindor that I cannot but love him, and Moody is crazy-awesome, and Justin Finch-Fletchley is a rock star, and Zacharias Smith calling on Helga Hufflepuff is the most romantic thing ever, omg. And oh, Regulus; I kind of adore him, not least for having the fortitude to befriend Snape in his Death Eater days. And finally, I desperately admire Scrimgeour, even if most recently (as of the Aurors' assault on Woodhouse) he's being kind of dumb.
Also, Minerva McGonagall is my beloved. She's all honorable and Gryffindorish and badass. One of my favorite bits is where she threatens Narcissa with the name of somebody she fought, and Narcissa thinks about how they never could transfigure that guy back and eventually, his wife had to smother "it" in the night. Love.
Plus I love Harry and I love Draco and I triple mega-heart their relationship so much that I cannot even coherently give reasons why, it's just babbling about things like Draco outdancing Lucius and the bottles and the Room of Requirement that time with the pendulum and Silver-Mirror and fuck, Woodhouse, actually, every time they're at Woodhouse together there's awesomeness and oh god, the bit, after Marietta Edgecombe's attack, oh god, HEART.
The fact that it's quite possibly the most massively epic story I've ever seen (350+ chapters and counting) just makes life win that much harder.
Oh, you think I am kidding, but this story is, in fact, a series and I'm pretty sure it's longer than all of the actual HP books combined. Which is hella impressive, considering the first story started updating less than a year ago. And oh yeah, the sixth book's a WiP with daily updates. Daily updates of length and substance, yet.
Also, someone, please to be reading this because I want someone to talk to. Anyway:
I am so in love with the Sacrifices Arc. It is like a special gift from the universe to me. Slytherin!Harry, Harry befriends snakes, Snape mentors Harry, Harry-Draco friendship that will become Harry/Draco slash, politics and alliance building, which I adore all the more madly for the rarity. And also, it is forever-long. And it's well-written. Basically, it's like Christmas on my computer right now.
Seriously, every few chapters I'm chanting my love for various characters: Harry, Draco, McGonagall, Luna, Narcissa, the Hufflepuffs. And even if I don't find Lucius admirable, I find him fascinating; he's all twisty and plotty and interesting.
I want Lily and Dumbledore both dead. Because 1) I think they're too stupid and self-righteous to let well-enough alone otherwise and 2) they totally deserve it. They brainwashed him and that was bad enough, but spelling him? What the fuck, no! That's not being the good guys! That's not fighting for right and truth and whatever! That's asking for a sniping! Or, y'know, the nearest magical equivalent.
HOMG, so long. Been awake for 38 hours now. Reading this series for 27. So tired. But the biggest story is yet to come! And I want to know what happens, because wow, so AU by now. AU enough that you can't really guess the plots. Which, y'know, yay, but. Fuck it, sleeep.
Oh god. I am so worried. The farther I get, the more the "multiple character deaths" warning worries me. Because she killed Sirius way before he would have died in canon, and she's going to kill people who, in canon, live, and I am afeared for my beloveds. For Snape and McGonagall and Hawthorn and Regulus and Narcissa and Millicent and Hermione and Percy and Scrimgeour. And when I contemplate the end of Book 7, I am also afeared for Harry and Draco, because of the big warning saying it'll be the darkest book in the series and oh god, don't kill them. They are beautiful and brilliant and beloved and fuck, do I want them to live. And dude, if Snape or McGonagall (oh, how I love McGonagall) dies, I am going to cry like a little bitch, just be left sobbing brokenly at my computer screen.
I am fairly certain Calypso McGonagall has shown up in two anecdotes and it is nagging me. I think the first time I saw the name, it was the name of the girl who stopped a feud by casting a spell to call a husband out of the opposing family and then fucking him right there on the battlefield. But I'm pretty sure that's also the name of the Lady that's McGonagall's ancestor, the one who defeated her enemy and then was a told by a Seer that her foe's second could still be redeemed and so took her in and they fell in love and adopted a child. I mean, one could totally be named after the other, but it's a tad annoying. And okay, fine, yes, nothing a normal person would notice, especially if they took a normal span of time to read the stories instead of being dumb and crazy enough to 1) read the whole thing in four days and 2) immediately start re-reading because it just rocks that hard.
It's horrible to say, but one of the many, many reasons I'm going to rec the Sacrifices Arc is that the child abuse is so interesting. Because usually there's emotional, physical, or sexual abuse, sometimes in combination, sometimes not. But this is systematic emotional abuse that has carries many of the consequences of physical abuse, combined with magical abuse like nothing I've ever seen. It's all fascinating, and horrible, and fascinating.
For another reason, I - okay, first, there is a quirk of my speech you may or may not be aware of. I'll see someone doing something that is a massively bad idea because it'll piss someone else off liek woah and I'll be saying/thinking "Oh my god, s/he will kill you and eat you!" As with most things like this, I blame Richard. Anyway, there's your background.
Needless, to say that'd been running through my head for several books, directed at Dumbledore re: Harry. And then, oh, then it actually happened and it made my life.
God, I love this story. It may be my absolute favorite HP fic, ever; it's damn sure in the top three (the other two being Blood Magic and Underwater Light).
It's just so wonderful. The OCs rock; they're so complex and three-dimensional. I love Adalrico Bulstrode and Dionysus Hornblower, for example, and oh! The puellaris witches! They win for "interesting magical concept". Not that they're lacking in competition, and they're not particularly integral to the plot, like the webs, or the wild Dark, or the absorbere gift, but they're just so damn cool and different. Also, I kind of desperately want a way for Indigena Yaxley to join Harry instead of Voldemort, she's that awesome, although, wow, is that ever unlikely, what with the Red Death and her righteous vengeance waiting in the wings. And hey! Hawthorn! Favorite werewolf ever!
And the canonically minor characters! After the attack on Woodhouse? Lucius/Narcissa = OTP! And Percy is such a ridiculous Gryffindor that I cannot but love him, and Moody is crazy-awesome, and Justin Finch-Fletchley is a rock star, and Zacharias Smith calling on Helga Hufflepuff is the most romantic thing ever, omg. And oh, Regulus; I kind of adore him, not least for having the fortitude to befriend Snape in his Death Eater days. And finally, I desperately admire Scrimgeour, even if most recently (as of the Aurors' assault on Woodhouse) he's being kind of dumb.
Also, Minerva McGonagall is my beloved. She's all honorable and Gryffindorish and badass. One of my favorite bits is where she threatens Narcissa with the name of somebody she fought, and Narcissa thinks about how they never could transfigure that guy back and eventually, his wife had to smother "it" in the night. Love.
Plus I love Harry and I love Draco and I triple mega-heart their relationship so much that I cannot even coherently give reasons why, it's just babbling about things like Draco outdancing Lucius and the bottles and the Room of Requirement that time with the pendulum and Silver-Mirror and fuck, Woodhouse, actually, every time they're at Woodhouse together there's awesomeness and oh god, the bit, after Marietta Edgecombe's attack, oh god, HEART.
The fact that it's quite possibly the most massively epic story I've ever seen (350+ chapters and counting) just makes life win that much harder.
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I am ALL ABOUT people being able to read this.
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It's not that it's the most amazing gorgeous perfectly written thing in the universe, but it's PERFECT because it's like JKR decided to become a fanfic author! I flail. I'm already making wild plans to buy a lot of ink cartridges and parchment and folders and make myself fanfic-books. After I do that, by golly, who needs the real HP books?
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Have you seen the outline for the next story? It's freaking me out.
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I'm already making plans to Photoshop cover art, buy binders that have little pockets on the front to insert the panels, and spend the ten gazillion and a half dollars it'll cost for parchment paper and ink cartridges and a three-hole punch. (First I'll go through and fix a few of the minor typos and grammar errors, of course.) AND THEN. Then I will have what I consider the real HP novels and won't have to piffle about. *clutches giant fic to chest*
I know what you mean about wanting to discuss this. I keep pushing it on my friends so I can yammer at them. I haven't read the outline for the last book, though. I'm trying not to spoil myself; when I print off bits to read, I do it with my eyes shut to avoid even the errant word. *grin*
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I would have killed to have someone to talk about that damn bird with! It's the little mysteries that drive me nuts.
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AGGH. I WOULD DIE.
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I just want Harry and Draco to live! Okay, yes, if McGonagall dies I will be left sobbing like a tiny child on an airplane, but I need Harry and Draco to live!
And she's damned careful about saying NOTHING. She'll go so far as to say not everybody dies, but that's it.
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All night long, I'm sure.
Where have you been? I've been meaning to call or something; I've movewd off campus agian...I graduate in April...I think that's it for updates. I'll give you a number as soon as I remember it.
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Sacrifices Arc!
Tis indeed the epic of epicness. I'm so busy lately, I managed to finish ASiToR, but I've not yet started on book seven...
But yeah, the fucking bird...that thing was crazy making! Fortunately for me, my brother and youngest sis are also devotees, so I have people to talk to! [they got me into fic reading in the first place, years ago...I had just read a rec for Sacrifices when they were like, Drop Everything, and Go Read! It was only on book two back then, so I did a lot of the cliffhanger, enjoying daily updates thing. It's hard lately, reading my flist and making sure to skim so I don't psuedo spoiler myself with chapter titles, or worse, having to avoid whatever she said today about the chars that she couldn't update today...
Anyhoo, hi! ;D Grand obsession, ain't it? Blood Magic is one of my other faves, too. I also love Resonance and Revolution by green gecko...she's going to come out with the final story of that trilogy in Spring. It's a Snape adopts Harry story. I can give you links if you need. It's great to read at owl.tauri.org, cuz there are some cute pictures to go with several of the chapters, but there are other archives, too.
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Oh, wow, I could not have it done from book two. I would have run mad.
I tried not to start reading book seven until it was further along, but broke a little bit ago. It is so good and yet, so horrible.
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Gah, I bet it's good and horrid!
Yeah, the Resonance-verse is one of the most enduring in my memory--I don't forget Harry's animagus form, or most of the details of his life. I do want to go back and re-read the whole thing, though--It's been awhile, and now that Revolution is Complete!, I can have a glut of it...so many other things to read, though! ;P
Cheers! ;D
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I was reading this at the same time as you were and I also DESPERATELY WANTED SOMEONE TO TALK TO because my friends just DIDN'T GET WHY THIS IS THE MOST AMAZING THING IN THE WORLD.
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