Thursday, May 17, 2012
To my boyfriend! My vey own Light!
“‘I love you’ means that I accept you for the person that you are, and that I do not wish to change you into someone else. It means that I will love you and stand by you even through the worst of times. It means loving you even when you’re in a bad mood, or too tired to do the things I want to do. It means loving you when you’re down, not just when you’re fun to be with. ‘I love you’ means that I know your deepest secrets and do not judge you for them, asking in return that you do not judge me for mine. It means that I care enough to fight for what we have and that I love you enough not to let go. It means thinking of you, dreaming of you, wanting and needing you constantly, and hoping you feel the same way for me.”
— Jonathan Safran Foer
Fire or Hire?!
My life is not hard, it never was. But that doesn’t mean it’s easy. I’m just one of many girls post-university struggling to find paid employment and make ends meet. Actually, it is quite a lot like everyone else’s situations only I’ll, very soon, have to stop sponging off my parents or have delusions about being someone great that will “go down in history” or anything like that.
I did study literature at university, I had dreams and I still do. I don’t expect to be a writer right away. Neither would I want to. But I always wanted to do something within the industry, and thought (perhaps naively?) that studying my passion would allow me to work with it in some way. Editing, Book PR, translations, freelance writing for newspapers and magazines, that kind of thing.
People aren’t lying when they say the job market’s hard. I know other people think that graduates should stop moaning about being unemployed because LOTS of people are unemployed, but it really is an indescribably demoralising experience to come to the end of those 3/4 glorious years, in which you have worked hard, despite what some people think (ok, I could have worked harder). But I achieved good things, and was ready, am ready, to knuckle down and really make myself invaluable to an employer.
Thankfully I’d worked part-time before, and my university is still not over, so I still have time to search and my mom will keep me from starving and living under a bridge, at least until graduation. At first I tought I ought to hold out for that big break, but as time passed I started looking for part-time work. Any part-time work. I guess I got desperate, the end of the semester is fast approaching and I just don’t wanna be a burden to my parents. People tell me I need to lower my standards, but I’ve applied for so many things: Jobs in hotelary and turism, cleaning jobs, dogsbody stuff, bar and restauration work, comertial, even those awful sales jobs where you stand on the street annoying people. Part-time work is my compromise: “Yes, I will go into the job market, I will work every single day in something that I do not love, will probably never enjoy and has absolutely nothing to do with the field I’ve studied all those years for. And not only will I be underpaid to do it, but also I’ll apparently have to practically beg for it.”
But I’ll not do it full time. I’ll not accept that as the interity of my life. I’ll keep my dreams alive. I’ll not accept the status quo.
It’s demeaning. Like adding insult to injury. I’m a person, I maybe a young person, and I’m not saying I’m entitled to more than anyone else, but I certainly should not have to settle for less than I deserve.
I’m not asking for favors, and I’d really appreciate it, if people stopped treating me like I am. I’m just asking for an opportunity to prove that I can do this. Work. Prove myself. If I suck, for heavens sake- Fire me! But Gods, please give me an opportunity to screw up first, before automaticly assuming I will.
The good news is, I’ve the right “fresh-out-from-university-looking-for-a-job” profile: I’m good looking, and friendly, active, easy-going, responsible, fast-thinking, hard working... I’m very hireable, even without much work experience. But I was born like that, there’s nothing to be proud in that. I’m using all my skills because I have to, because starting in a few weeks, I’ll be all alone. By myself. And still waiting for my big opportunity, my dream job. I’ll keep signing up for it; I don’t know if they’ll be able to employ me, they say it’s the economy. Perhaps it is, but I think it’s the mentality, this loser mentality, this “I’ll even work for free” if you just give me an internship with your company, because my mom and dad pay my bills, and I’ve to tell them I’m doing something with my life, or else.
I refuse to do that, I refuse to accept a reality in which I busted my ass for others during 3/4 years, in which I studied and I (well, my parents did but you get the point) paid for a higher education, to do what? To work ridiculous hous, full weeks, with no guaranties, no security, no carrer oppurtunities or goals, for pratically no pay! Am I supposed to be okay with that? I’m sorry NO! I’ll say no, and I’ll NOT be sorry about that, everytime people offer me an internship or an underpaid job, I’ll say no, and scream it if I have to. Scream it with all my power, with all my will... above that little voice in my head, that sounds suspiciously like my mom’s, and that says I must get a job. I will refuse to be a willing slave. I’ll say: “I’d rather starve”.For, it’s true that you cannot eat dignity, but you can die in your mind, in your heart and in your self-respect with plenty of food in your stomach. I’ll never willingly accept that as my fate, I deserve better, Gods I know I do. I don’t know if this is the way, but I’m positive that it’s a step in the right direction. I just wish everyone would do the same: Put their foot down for what they believe in! If we all said no, they’d not do it! The mentality would change, the productivity would rise (because people would actually want to do the jobs), and I’ll be dammed if the economy wouldn’t rise with it!
I don’t really like to say that it’s my way or no way, but with my life, it kind of is.
If nothing else, than to fail spectacularly will be a liberating experience.
Students, graduates, friends... Unite! Fight for what you believe, and never, ever give up!
Sara <3
Friday, May 4, 2012
Watch As I Flame You!
THINGS YOU SHOULDN'T DO IN FANFICTION
*A bossy list by Fanfiction Author Raining Ink. Your mileage may differ.*
1. Accidentally write a Mary Sue.
Go now, and Google Mary Sue. Write one if you must. But please, realize that you're doing it; and give us a warning in the fic summary.
2. Infantilize a teenager or adult character.
Dear Hurt/Comfort author, if your sixteen-year-old protagonist is constantly whimpering, clutching a plush toy, looking at people with "vulnerable liquid eyes," sucking his thumb, or otherwise acting like a small child, you are probably tap dancing on your reader's gag reflex. This syndrome plagues Harry Potter fan fic, especially Severitus/Sevitus. It is not cute. It is supremely creepy.
3. Have an explicit sex scene in every chapter.
I know. It's a shocker, right? But a lot of us actually read fan fiction for the plot. I will wade through a whole lot of explicit scenes to get to the nuggets of plot (and almost every fic worth its salt has some plot even if the author didn't realize it), but I don't enjoy it. Please at least let me know in the summary if I'm going to have to skim massively to find the story amidst all of the insert Tab A into Slot B.
3.5 Have an explicit sex scene at ff.net.
That M rating? It's M, not NC-17. They are not equivalent. I feel pretty strongly about this, though I used to barely notice it and I've never bothered to report anyone. If you're going to write smut, write it somewhere else. There are a lot twelve and thirteen year olds digging through this site. I think we've got a responsibility to keep it clean, or at least clearly labeled.
4. Write without a Beta if you suck at English grammar.
Don't feel embarassed. A whole lot of people fail at grammar. Betas are cute and plentiful and so gosh darn helpful that it will make you feel all tingly inside when you get one. If you are really bad, get two Betas. It's good for you. It's good for your story. It's good for your readers. And I can promise that you'll get more reviews if your grammar and spelling are up to snuff.
5. Write a "Group of Characters read the Book in Which They are Featured" Fic.
DO NOT DO IT.
I'm sure I'm hurting some feelings with this, but there is a very good reason not to. I have never, ever, read one of these that wasn't a horendous work of plagiarism. Yes, it's fun and funny to see how Draco Malfoy responds to the first chapter of Harry Potter and the Sorcerer's Stone. Super. BUT. You can't write this fic without copying massive amounts of the author's original work. I've seen entire chapters of novels retyped. The fact that the "writer" (aka typist) used quotation marks didn't change the fact that I could have read the original author's story without paying for it. This is plagiarism, not fanfiction. It is illegal, unethical, and stupid.
6. Use your story as a political or religious platform.
Put it on your profile page, not in your character's mouth. Harry Potter really doesn't care if you like Sarah Palin or not.
(Quite frankly, none of the rest of us do either.)
7. Write abuse scenes solely to garner sympathy for a lame character.
Abuse is a serious issue. Don't make a mockery of it. If you're going to deal with it, don't just insert it into your story to "juice things up" or to make everyone feel super sorry for your protagonist so that they will understand when he/she starts carrying around a teddy bear at age sixteen and sucking his/her thumb. (See number 2.)
8. Summarize canon.
Seriously? It's fan fiction. We're fans. We don't need you to give us every detail about how Harry Potter grew up with the Dursleys or how Percy Jackson is really a demigod. We got that memo. Write something new.
8.5 Write an AU in which nothing new happens.
Summary says: Harry is really the reincarnation of Merlin, sent to Earth to save it from alien invasion, and Voldemort is really the female leader of the invading force. Rock on. And then, for 100,000 plus words, the characters do the exact same things they did in canon. Voldemort may be pink tentacle monster, but it hasn't changed anything. Not even the dialogue. This baffles me.
9. Write entirely in dialogue.
I'm seeing more and more of this. I know it's easier, and it makes your chapters look longer on paper, but really? Dialogue is great when it's resting on top of good exposition. Otherwise you're trying to build a pyramid from the top down.
10. Be Evil.
This is for everyone and anyone out there who reads or writes fan fic. It's supposed to be fun. It's supposed to be friendly. If you're one of those withered souls who looks for opportunities to rain on everyone else's parade, get lost. We don't need you. Criticism should be constructive, plagiarism should be utterly foreign, and you should never poke someone just to see if they bleed.
*A bossy list by Fanfiction Author Raining Ink. Your mileage may differ.*
1. Accidentally write a Mary Sue.
Go now, and Google Mary Sue. Write one if you must. But please, realize that you're doing it; and give us a warning in the fic summary.
2. Infantilize a teenager or adult character.
Dear Hurt/Comfort author, if your sixteen-year-old protagonist is constantly whimpering, clutching a plush toy, looking at people with "vulnerable liquid eyes," sucking his thumb, or otherwise acting like a small child, you are probably tap dancing on your reader's gag reflex. This syndrome plagues Harry Potter fan fic, especially Severitus/Sevitus. It is not cute. It is supremely creepy.
3. Have an explicit sex scene in every chapter.
I know. It's a shocker, right? But a lot of us actually read fan fiction for the plot. I will wade through a whole lot of explicit scenes to get to the nuggets of plot (and almost every fic worth its salt has some plot even if the author didn't realize it), but I don't enjoy it. Please at least let me know in the summary if I'm going to have to skim massively to find the story amidst all of the insert Tab A into Slot B.
3.5 Have an explicit sex scene at ff.net.
That M rating? It's M, not NC-17. They are not equivalent. I feel pretty strongly about this, though I used to barely notice it and I've never bothered to report anyone. If you're going to write smut, write it somewhere else. There are a lot twelve and thirteen year olds digging through this site. I think we've got a responsibility to keep it clean, or at least clearly labeled.
4. Write without a Beta if you suck at English grammar.
Don't feel embarassed. A whole lot of people fail at grammar. Betas are cute and plentiful and so gosh darn helpful that it will make you feel all tingly inside when you get one. If you are really bad, get two Betas. It's good for you. It's good for your story. It's good for your readers. And I can promise that you'll get more reviews if your grammar and spelling are up to snuff.
5. Write a "Group of Characters read the Book in Which They are Featured" Fic.
DO NOT DO IT.
I'm sure I'm hurting some feelings with this, but there is a very good reason not to. I have never, ever, read one of these that wasn't a horendous work of plagiarism. Yes, it's fun and funny to see how Draco Malfoy responds to the first chapter of Harry Potter and the Sorcerer's Stone. Super. BUT. You can't write this fic without copying massive amounts of the author's original work. I've seen entire chapters of novels retyped. The fact that the "writer" (aka typist) used quotation marks didn't change the fact that I could have read the original author's story without paying for it. This is plagiarism, not fanfiction. It is illegal, unethical, and stupid.
6. Use your story as a political or religious platform.
Put it on your profile page, not in your character's mouth. Harry Potter really doesn't care if you like Sarah Palin or not.
(Quite frankly, none of the rest of us do either.)
7. Write abuse scenes solely to garner sympathy for a lame character.
Abuse is a serious issue. Don't make a mockery of it. If you're going to deal with it, don't just insert it into your story to "juice things up" or to make everyone feel super sorry for your protagonist so that they will understand when he/she starts carrying around a teddy bear at age sixteen and sucking his/her thumb. (See number 2.)
8. Summarize canon.
Seriously? It's fan fiction. We're fans. We don't need you to give us every detail about how Harry Potter grew up with the Dursleys or how Percy Jackson is really a demigod. We got that memo. Write something new.
8.5 Write an AU in which nothing new happens.
Summary says: Harry is really the reincarnation of Merlin, sent to Earth to save it from alien invasion, and Voldemort is really the female leader of the invading force. Rock on. And then, for 100,000 plus words, the characters do the exact same things they did in canon. Voldemort may be pink tentacle monster, but it hasn't changed anything. Not even the dialogue. This baffles me.
9. Write entirely in dialogue.
I'm seeing more and more of this. I know it's easier, and it makes your chapters look longer on paper, but really? Dialogue is great when it's resting on top of good exposition. Otherwise you're trying to build a pyramid from the top down.
10. Be Evil.
This is for everyone and anyone out there who reads or writes fan fic. It's supposed to be fun. It's supposed to be friendly. If you're one of those withered souls who looks for opportunities to rain on everyone else's parade, get lost. We don't need you. Criticism should be constructive, plagiarism should be utterly foreign, and you should never poke someone just to see if they bleed.
HI KAWAI BURNING ALL THE WAY FROM JAPAN!!!
Sunday, September 18, 2011
The Flames of Summer Wither and Die Away
http://vimeo.com/13667092
Goodbye summer!
And I totally love that dialogue!
Goodbye summer!
And I totally love that dialogue!
Wednesday, August 17, 2011
Burning Bacon...
Its 4.00 am and I just caught the craziest chat conversation in LetMeWatchThis, my favorite movies' site.
Apparently "idroppedmyspoon" (that's his/hers web name) started this yesterday and its still going!
It's impossible to put all the names of the people chatting or even to include all post but these are the best!
Start frying!!!
Rebel Without a Bacon
There's something about Bacon
Girls Gone Bacon
Jennifer's Bacon
No Bacon Attached
The Sisterhood Of The Travelling Bacon
Mr and Mrs Bacon
The Lost Bacon
Bacon and Stitch
Flight of the Bacon
Bacon Dearest
Mom and Dad Save the Bacon
Journey To The Centre Of The Bacon
I Know What Bacon Did Last Summer
Before The Devil Knows You're Bacon
Die Hard: With a Sausage
BACON WARS
Inubacon
NaruBacon
How To Make Friends And Influence Bacon
Bad Bacon
FaceBacon
Winnie The Bacon
Girls Just Wanna Have Bacon
Bacon Trek
Titanic Bacon
Black Snake Sausage
The Rise of the Bacon
The Truth About Bacon
Bacon The Documentary
Interview With A Bacon
You want the bacon? ...You can't handle the bacon!
Bacon Grease AND Bacon Grease 2
The Bacon Diaries AND The Diaries of Bacon Jones
...It's my way or the baconway...
Stop or the Bacon Shoots!
Pulp Bacon
Billy the Bacon
The Bacon in the Middle
Must....resist...bacon
Guns and Bacon
Monsters vs Bacon
League of Extraordinary Bacon
...go bacon yourself you bacon bacon...
BaconStone
Trading Bacon
The Bacon of the Dead Bacons
"Its Bacon, Captain, but not as we know it."
Dirty Bacon
there's a movie with john candy called "canadian bacon" for real...
Beastly Bacon
Green Day : St. bBacon
No Country for Old Bacon
Don't Tell Mom the Bacon's Dead
Baconquest
Bacon this....
The Princess Bacon
The Bacon Gates
... I spit on your bacon!
Fried Green Bacon
Honey I Shrunk The Bacon
Bacon Impossible
Is Harry on the Bacon?
Downtown Bacon
Who Framed The Bacon?
Bacon Everlasting
Letmebaconthis :)
Meet Joe Bacon
Night of the Living Bacon
Bacon The 13th
the phantom bacon
The Bacon of the Opera
Eggs
With Bacon
Balls of Bacon
Final Destinbacon
the bacon family values
Dude, where's my bacon?
Beavis and Bacon-Head Do America
Searching For Bobby Bacon
Jason vs Bacon
The Fast and the Bacon
The Importance of Being Bacon
Supper Bacon!
Harry potter and the Bacon Hallows
The Mask of Bacon
...because bacon's what' cookin'...
Over the bacon
Save the Last Bacon For Me
Say Something Bacon
Spy Bacon
Don't be a bacon to South Bacon while drinking your Bacon in the Bacon Pretty in Bacon
Coffee and Baconettes
Never Been Baconed
Raiders of the Lost Bacon
Who's Afraid of the Bacon?
I'm hungry
The Meaning of Bacon
Finding Bacon
Ingloriuos bacon
The Bacon Mile
Harry Potter and the Chamber of Bacon
Live Free or Die bacon
Bacon Soldiers
Chainbacon massacre
Beyond the Valley of Bacon
The Woman in Bacon
The Bacontrix
Wake up if ya smmmmmmeeeeeeeellllllllllllll the bacon!
Oh No! Another Bacon Movie
Captain Bacon
Saving Private Bacon
Beauty and the Bacon
Bacon Falls
Mr Bacon
rise of the planet of the bacon
forrest bacon
Bacon Act
Bacon-nights
Clash of the Bacon
Conan the Bacon
A bacon flew over the cuckoos nest
Immortal Bacon
Forbidden Bacon
the hills have bacon
read the bacon, it tells you everything
Eyes Wide Bacon
7 days in Bacon
The Baconism
...you had me at bacon...
Number twenty bacon
silence of the bacons
Bacon of the Lambs
Borat: Cultural Learnings of Bacon for make benefit glorious Bacon of Kazakhstan
ice ice bacon
the BAcon Saga
cowboys and bacon
Fear and Bacon in Las Vegas
A Bacon Runs Through It
brokeback bacon
I now pronounce you Chuck and Bacon
IF YOU BACON THIS, YOU CAN BACON THAT
Bacon Returns
Bacon, James Bacon...
bacon me if you can
it's kind of a funny bacon
clockwork bacon
Bacon Attacks!
the rocky horror bacon show
playboy bacon
gossip bacon
a time to bacon
the bacon who could fly
The Saddest Bacon in the World
Big Bacon
A NIGHTMARE ON BACON ST.
the bacon video horror that made me puke on my aunt gertrude
Natural Born Bacon
anyone know of a good BACON?
the bacon kid
Bacon and Prejudice
The Bacon who shagged me
a Bacon too far
bridgette jones bacon
The Bacons Of Madison County
the bacon musketeers AND The Three Bacons
Dr. StrangeBacon: or, How I Learned to Stop Worrying and Love the Bacon
UltraBacon
Mr. Poppers Bacons
edward bacon hands
Million dollar bacon
teenage mutant hero bacons
X-bacon
Queen of the Bacon
3000 Miles to Baconland
Finding Bacon
A Fish Called Bacon
The Lord Of the Bacon: The Fellowship of the Bacon
True Bacon
American Bacon
The Bacon of Monte Cristo
The Bacon Network
Bacon, The Bacon Slayer
Mars Needs Bacon
the twin bacons
And much more bacon...
Apparently "idroppedmyspoon" (that's his/hers web name) started this yesterday and its still going!
It's impossible to put all the names of the people chatting or even to include all post but these are the best!
Start frying!!!
Rebel Without a Bacon
There's something about Bacon
Girls Gone Bacon
Jennifer's Bacon
No Bacon Attached
The Sisterhood Of The Travelling Bacon
Mr and Mrs Bacon
The Lost Bacon
Bacon and Stitch
Flight of the Bacon
Bacon Dearest
Mom and Dad Save the Bacon
Journey To The Centre Of The Bacon
I Know What Bacon Did Last Summer
Before The Devil Knows You're Bacon
Die Hard: With a Sausage
BACON WARS
Inubacon
NaruBacon
How To Make Friends And Influence Bacon
Bad Bacon
FaceBacon
Winnie The Bacon
Girls Just Wanna Have Bacon
Bacon Trek
Titanic Bacon
Black Snake Sausage
The Rise of the Bacon
The Truth About Bacon
Bacon The Documentary
Interview With A Bacon
You want the bacon? ...You can't handle the bacon!
Bacon Grease AND Bacon Grease 2
The Bacon Diaries AND The Diaries of Bacon Jones
...It's my way or the baconway...
Stop or the Bacon Shoots!
Pulp Bacon
Billy the Bacon
The Bacon in the Middle
Must....resist...bacon
Guns and Bacon
Monsters vs Bacon
League of Extraordinary Bacon
...go bacon yourself you bacon bacon...
BaconStone
Trading Bacon
The Bacon of the Dead Bacons
"Its Bacon, Captain, but not as we know it."
Dirty Bacon
there's a movie with john candy called "canadian bacon" for real...
Beastly Bacon
Green Day : St. bBacon
No Country for Old Bacon
Don't Tell Mom the Bacon's Dead
Baconquest
Bacon this....
The Princess Bacon
The Bacon Gates
... I spit on your bacon!
Fried Green Bacon
Honey I Shrunk The Bacon
Bacon Impossible
Is Harry on the Bacon?
Downtown Bacon
Who Framed The Bacon?
Bacon Everlasting
Letmebaconthis :)
Meet Joe Bacon
Night of the Living Bacon
Bacon The 13th
the phantom bacon
The Bacon of the Opera
Eggs
With Bacon
Balls of Bacon
Final Destinbacon
the bacon family values
Dude, where's my bacon?
Beavis and Bacon-Head Do America
Searching For Bobby Bacon
Jason vs Bacon
The Fast and the Bacon
The Importance of Being Bacon
Supper Bacon!
Harry potter and the Bacon Hallows
The Mask of Bacon
...because bacon's what' cookin'...
Over the bacon
Save the Last Bacon For Me
Say Something Bacon
Spy Bacon
Don't be a bacon to South Bacon while drinking your Bacon in the Bacon Pretty in Bacon
Coffee and Baconettes
Never Been Baconed
Raiders of the Lost Bacon
Who's Afraid of the Bacon?
I'm hungry
The Meaning of Bacon
Finding Bacon
Ingloriuos bacon
The Bacon Mile
Harry Potter and the Chamber of Bacon
Live Free or Die bacon
Bacon Soldiers
Chainbacon massacre
Beyond the Valley of Bacon
The Woman in Bacon
The Bacontrix
Wake up if ya smmmmmmeeeeeeeellllllllllllll the bacon!
Oh No! Another Bacon Movie
Captain Bacon
Saving Private Bacon
Beauty and the Bacon
Bacon Falls
Mr Bacon
rise of the planet of the bacon
forrest bacon
Bacon Act
Bacon-nights
Clash of the Bacon
Conan the Bacon
A bacon flew over the cuckoos nest
Immortal Bacon
Forbidden Bacon
the hills have bacon
read the bacon, it tells you everything
Eyes Wide Bacon
7 days in Bacon
The Baconism
...you had me at bacon...
Number twenty bacon
silence of the bacons
Bacon of the Lambs
Borat: Cultural Learnings of Bacon for make benefit glorious Bacon of Kazakhstan
ice ice bacon
the BAcon Saga
cowboys and bacon
Fear and Bacon in Las Vegas
A Bacon Runs Through It
brokeback bacon
I now pronounce you Chuck and Bacon
IF YOU BACON THIS, YOU CAN BACON THAT
Bacon Returns
Bacon, James Bacon...
bacon me if you can
it's kind of a funny bacon
clockwork bacon
Bacon Attacks!
the rocky horror bacon show
playboy bacon
gossip bacon
a time to bacon
the bacon who could fly
The Saddest Bacon in the World
Big Bacon
A NIGHTMARE ON BACON ST.
the bacon video horror that made me puke on my aunt gertrude
Natural Born Bacon
anyone know of a good BACON?
the bacon kid
Bacon and Prejudice
The Bacon who shagged me
a Bacon too far
bridgette jones bacon
The Bacons Of Madison County
the bacon musketeers AND The Three Bacons
Dr. StrangeBacon: or, How I Learned to Stop Worrying and Love the Bacon
UltraBacon
Mr. Poppers Bacons
edward bacon hands
Million dollar bacon
teenage mutant hero bacons
X-bacon
Queen of the Bacon
3000 Miles to Baconland
Finding Bacon
A Fish Called Bacon
The Lord Of the Bacon: The Fellowship of the Bacon
True Bacon
American Bacon
The Bacon of Monte Cristo
The Bacon Network
Bacon, The Bacon Slayer
Mars Needs Bacon
the twin bacons
And much more bacon...
Tuesday, August 2, 2011
Ah! Another Beautiful Day of Reading HP fanfiction and Daydreaming... don't you just love my life?
§ You Know You’re Obsessed When… §
- You snort out loud whenever 'Chamber of Secrets', 'Harry's sword' and 'Basilisk/Tom's Monster Snake' are mentioned.
- You snort out loud whenever 'Chamber of Secrets', 'Harry's sword' and 'Basilisk/Tom's Monster Snake' are mentioned.
- You refuse to believe that Tom is irredeemably dark and Harry is completely light. Normally you like it when Harry goes dark.
- You look at the words 'time travel' and grin, immediately assuming that this is a perfect lead into a Tom/Harry fic.
- You come across a H/V fic and you cackle with glee.
- You can't wait until Harry finally crosses to the Dark side.
- You listen to the radio and notice down any songs/lyrics that remind you of your ship, and then you imagine for hours on end, a little theater scene in your mind, starring H and T, just dancing or singing said songs.
- You were giddy during the entire graveyard scene in GoF.
-You've memorised the page numbers of the Gravyard Scene
-...and the Chamber Scene
-...and all the pensieve scenes with Tom in HBP!
-...and where Snape deems them a couple.
-You've decided that the even numbered books are the best, because those are where Tom's mentioned, which leads to T/H subtext, which is fantastic.
-You realise that JK. R. didn't intend for it to happen, but you know how it is...
love happens.
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