Intro

[singtoangels.livejournal.com]

Hi everyone. Just wanted to introduce myself. I'm Sing, writer of much stuff. I also play around with CG and support the lovely lizardspots.

Slash pairings I fancy: Ron/Draco *my absolute favourite*, Lucius/Percy *don't look at me that way, I'm a pioneer, blast it! Just look at my icon*, Harry/Snape *on occasion*, Ron/Snape *mostly due to the lovely story Teaspoon from the Snape FQF*

Slash pairings I loathe: Harry/Draco *yes, I know it's akin to sacrilige, but I really despise this pairing. They just don't seem to have any chemistry to me. Don't try to change my mind, I already tried and it didn't work* Remus/Sirius *this one has chemistry, but it's so freaking fluffy 99% of the time that I can't stomach it. That and the fact that Remus must be heterosexual because he's mine and would be of no use to me gay. Meh! There are few stories with this pairing that appeal to me at all. And bottom!Lupin makes me retch.*

I'm about to attempt another slash story. I've only written one and it was pre-slash. That is, if you discount the dysfunctional Lucius/Percy relationship/side story in An Ideal Death Eater. But I found the FQF here and was delighted because it completely destroyed my writer's block.

Cheers,
Sing

Comments

[mamalaz.livejournal.com]

Slash pairings I fancy: Ron/Draco *my absolute favourite*

Slash pairings I loathe: Harry/Draco *yes, I know it's akin to sacrilige, but I really despise this pairing. They just don't seem to have any chemistry to me. Don't try to change my mind, I already tried and it didn't work*

My kinda person! :D

[singtoangels.livejournal.com]

Yay! MamaLaz, the Goddess, likes me! Woot!

[ashe-frost.livejournal.com]

I ship H/D, and generally can't stomach R/D, but I can see it. I mean, Ron and Draco hate one another much more equally than Harry and Draco, don't they? Harry just thinks Malfoy's an evil little twat, but Ron loathes him with all he's worth. And Draco hates Harry and despises him and loaths him but it's more out of jealousy than anything. And if you take the jealousy away, there's just going to be a lot of fluff. Of course, you don't have to go that route, but it can go that way. Anyway, Draco hates Ron just for being who he is, and Ron hates Draco the same way. They don't know why they hate each other, just that they're supposed to, and they just *do*.

And they're really very different. A lot more opposite than Harry and Draco. It's not really so much light/dark with H/D as we'd like to think. Because they're much more peices of the same puzzle than polar opposites, whereas Ron and Draco are just.. Completely and totally different. Aside from the pureblood (another thing going against Harry the half-blood), Draco and Ron really are opposites. Rich, poor. Aristocratic, common. Wand, fist. Words, violence. Efeminate, blokey. 100% Slytherin, 110% Gyrffindor. Spoiled, not spoiled. Whereas Harry and Draco were made to be similar because the best rivals are those who have to compete to beat one another.

When it comes to a duel, Draco would win against Ron. Because, no matter how courageous and righteous Ron is, that won't help him in a duel. What helps him in a duel is to know a lot of hexes, curses, and spells. Which Draco obviously does, or he wouldn't have been able to cast that sperpensortia spell in second year. But in a duel with Harry, we wouldn't really know who would win. I mean, Harry's good, but Draco has more training than Harry, and probably knows more spells. So, while even if we assume that Harry is more powerful, Draco still has a fair chance.

In a physical fight, Ron would kick Draco's arse, hands down. Harry and Draco.. Who knows? Harry and Draco seem to be about the same size and build and neither have much experience fighting back...

And, well, it's just like that over and over.. Harry and Draco are evenly matched so the whole opposites attract thing wouldn't quite work on them. It has to be more of a kindred spirit thing, because they really are so similar. A villian is just a hero perverted, after all. Draco's the villian to Harry's hero. But Draco is the black to Ron's white. The evil to Ron's good. I can see sense in either couple, but I really just wanted to talk about it, because I like figuring out why I like them as a couple.

I also like Sirius/Remus because I mean.. Dear god.. It's almost canon! They give Harry a Christmas gift from both of them and Remus treats Sirius the same way Mr. and Mrs. Weasley treat one another. I like bottom!Remus, though. Mainly because Sirius is more aggressive and Remus is more nurturing, which in my mind makes Sirius more masculine. Though, I really don't know if how masculine you are has anything to do with you taking it up the arse. But in my mind, the fact that Remus is more the scolding wife type, so that makes him bottom. Whether or not it's wrong.

A pairing I hate?? Anything involving Ginny Weasley. Draco/Ginny, Harry/Ginny, Hermione/Ginny, Ron/Ginny, Bill/Ginny. GInny anyone. Unless it's maybe Neville. Ginny did redeem herself a bit in book 5, but she's still got a lot of redemption left. I could probably handle her with a secondary character, like Seamus or Dean, because then I wouldn't have to hear to much about her. Just don't like the girl. Not much of a fan of Tonks either, though she is kind of cool. I just don't see the point for her existance.

Anyway, so, yes. That is my ramble for the day.

X.
Ashe

[simmysim.livejournal.com]

woah there. o_o been thinking much about this?

i have to disagree with you on a few points. ^^;;;

first off (and i really hate to nitpick but ... well, no. i love to nitpick): i think ron would win in a duel. just cause it would end up getting sticky in there for at least a minute or two (i'm assuming this is a fair duel, where one didn't just pounce out at the other), and draco would be more likely to give it up, whereas ron has a sort of determination that draco lacks. as for the lack of knowledge in curses -- i think ron can hold his own. he probably knows quite a few curses that at least disable. your forgetting about his family -- discounting fred and george, bill is a curse breaker. i'm sure ron could hold his own.

second off: draco is not the villain to harry's hero. the only place where we know draco holds that much power is in his own head. draco has never been there when any of the really serious stuff has happened, nor has he really played that "evil" of a role. he seems more like a messenger boy for teh evil for me. *shrugs*

[mamalaz.livejournal.com]

*blushes* Hee, I wish I was a Goddess :P But yeah, you've got ACE taste :D

[ashe-frost.livejournal.com]

I still think Draco would win at a duel, regardless of Ron's talents. I think if Ron wounded Draco a little, Draco would just play dirty and do something Dark Ron'd never heard of before.

And of course Draco isn't the main villain, but he is *a* villain. So are Lucius and Snape. And the Death Eaters. Draco's just one Harry deals with face to face on a daily basis. And one who has the opertunity to do things Snape would probably like to because they're on the same level. But if you think about it, Tom Riddle is a bit of a perversion of Harry as well. Draco is, too.

But as far as *real* evil goes, I don't think cannon!Draco's come to terms with it yet. He's never seen anyone die, and I doubt highly he's been killing puppies with Avada Kedavra. I think he's just a suped up little bully who knows nothing about anything and is in for a rude awakening. It's what he does after the awakening that I'm interested in. I mean, if Draco saw Voldemort he'd probably pass out from fear. His parents apparently didn't raise him to be a stone cold dark wizard. He's not really even very good at being an aristocratic wizard. He's too emotive, and he often lacks subtley when he loses his temper, though I'm sure he practises a lot of his jibes in the mirror. The point is, anyway, that it will take a lot for Draco to become the main villain. It's one thing for a twelve year old to hope someone dies, but I don't even know if he understands what death really is. Once he grows up, he can want to kill things, or whatever, but he's not even evil at a pre-school level.

X.
Ashe

[crazybatt.livejournal.com]

This is totally random, but I like the way you think on this subject. Your view on Ron/Draco is interesting, as is your view on Harry/Draco. And, I agree with you on the duel between Ron and Draco.... ^_^;

[singtoangels.livejournal.com]

Excellent! And no, you are a Goddess. I mean, you're to Ron/Draco what Cassie Claire is to . . . Draco/Ginny. After years in various fandoms, finally batting at the edges of the idea, you pushed me over the slash edge. Someone back me up and assure the Goddess of her bloody Divinity already, will you? Well, I suppose you're a Demi-Goddess . . . you still use those dreadful epithets. Then again, look at JK Rowling and her fetish for ellipses. Horrifying. Everyone must have their faults, though.

Faster Ron, shag shag!

[singtoangels.livejournal.com]

I'm going to bypass all of this stuff to simply say this: I like slash because it's two boys. Not one boy and one boy trying to be a girl. I like the violence of it. The sweat, the blood, the anger, the shagging, the occasional cuddle. I like aggressive men. I like to see them fight, not cry. I may be mad, but that's what slash is to me. There are obvious exceptions to this rule, but it is what drew me to slash. The violence and shagging. Same as for some het pairings. There is violence (mutual, I'm not talking abuse here) and then there's shagging. And sometimes, you get lucky and they fall in love or something and make for some good angst. So when I'm looking for this type of slash - Ron and Draco generally hit the spot every time.

If I was looking for fluffy, useless drama stories, I'd turn on the telly and switch it to Coupling.

Sing

[simmysim.livejournal.com]

see. i don't think lucius would do something halfway.

either his son would be trained at all available times to be an A class villain, armed with curses and hexes to his ears. or he would be basically ignored and left to his own devices. which means that all the curses he learned were on his own, or, perhaps, from snape. ei, serpensortia. or ... he'd be abused which i don't want to get into right now.

draco doesn't push himself. at all. if ron hurt him, i think he'd just be waiting for directions on what to do next.

i think the winner of the duel is pretty hard to predict, but money's on ron.

[ashe-frost.livejournal.com]

I was going to say that maybe we'd find out in canon.. But then I remembered that JKR has the worst Gryffindor bias of anyone ever, so Draco will never win anything over a Gryffindor ever. Except maybe a verbal one up or something.. But Draco, as we know him now, is destined to lose at anything.. Though, fanfic!Draco is different. I supposed it's all in how you see him. In my mind, he'd hex Ron's freckles off. Well. Not literally. Why would Draco make ROn more attractive unless he wanted to date him or something? ANd that's a whole other fanfic..

Ashe