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I would prefer not.
It's a dismal season to read other people's FLs. Everyone is posting recs for yuletide that I have no desire to read. I read a recc'd fic once; no truly, I read the whole thing. It was one of those reccing communities ![[livejournal.com profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/external/lj-userinfo.gif)
incandescens friended, which should be a recommendation in itself, and the reccer said she reread this story at least once a month because it'd just worked its way under her skin and stabbed her periodically with its quiet loveliness.
Before McGonagall can stop her Hermione looks in a mirror that shows what might have been but won't. She sees herself with small children and a loving older dark-haired man. She's pierced to the soul. McGonigall looks at her with immense pity. In years after, Hermione sneaks away from Ron and the kids on the day it happened and she and Minerva sit crying in each other's arms because Hermione will never be married to Snape.
Hermione. Weeping. Because she can't marry Snape.
This is why print yaoi never works as well as visual. And this is why I always think Yuletide is such a dangerous activity, fraught with the potential for monumentally cringe-worthy moments.
(Anyway, if you're going to do that theme, this is how you do it:deepfryerfire.)
incandescens friended, which should be a recommendation in itself, and the reccer said she reread this story at least once a month because it'd just worked its way under her skin and stabbed her periodically with its quiet loveliness.Before McGonagall can stop her Hermione looks in a mirror that shows what might have been but won't. She sees herself with small children and a loving older dark-haired man. She's pierced to the soul. McGonigall looks at her with immense pity. In years after, Hermione sneaks away from Ron and the kids on the day it happened and she and Minerva sit crying in each other's arms because Hermione will never be married to Snape.
Hermione. Weeping. Because she can't marry Snape.
This is why print yaoi never works as well as visual. And this is why I always think Yuletide is such a dangerous activity, fraught with the potential for monumentally cringe-worthy moments.
(Anyway, if you're going to do that theme, this is how you do it:
ErisedETA: Somehow I thought most people knew this justly famous drabble. So much for assumptions about huge fandoms. Authored by
He liked to use the mirror- to brush his teeth, to comb his beard, to straighten the folds of his robe. To reassure himself that all he saw was his reflection- and to prove that he was still human, a pair of woolen socks.
But the socks were never his- always too big or too small. There would be dainty pink wand-patterned stockings, or boatlike men’s winter woolens: the socks of lovers uncourted, the socks of friends never made. Or dozens of baby booties to mock his empty mantelpiece, which overflowed with the photos of children and grandchildren never born.
deepfryerfire.)
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Is that Dumbledore drabble yours? ♥ I vaguely recall in distant past a very good one along very similar lines, but not by whom. Dumbledore + socks = greatness, it seems =)
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The drabble's not mine.
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But your drabble is not cringeworthy at all. in fact quite lovely.
I daren't rec. fics to folk. I would be too worried about letting them down. I do if someone asks and I know that they may be of like minds on whatever subject... but even so never without a disclaimer. ^_^
edited because I have woxin on the brain ... and it still kind of fits!
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^_^ its because I am not keen on Harry Potter . Saw the first film and that's about it! Har.Probably one of few who was
dare I say it with no fear of being lynched?not impressed by it. I think I did pick up a book once out of curiousity, looked at a few pages and then put it back.no subject
My lj is not a fic rec community, but for all intents and purposes that's what it has become. Except I'm the only one posting, so the fics I rec are skewed totally towards what I like. XD If it works for other people, that's great. But I never post a rec to something just because it's pairing A/B or author X.
Originally it was just a way for me to keep track of my favorite fics, so that I could find them quickly and go back to them (I'm an obsessive/compulsive fic re-reader!). It's kind of gotten out of hand now, though, to the point where the personal posts are the rarity. But it's fun and it keeps me off the streets and out of trouble. XD
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And on another note, I love the Suggestion of Something Else picture quite considerably. When my scanner and I are again speaking to each other I shall display it to the world. Thank you very much!
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