April 29 - May 3rd

[oulangi]

God. I'm starting this on Cinco de Mayo which is like the World Tequila Marketing kick off day. I must be nuts. Or drunk. I bet it's like June or something before I finish this. Fuck it. I just finished a hellish tour of LA's Mexican bars, I begged off going to WeHo with friends so I could pour myself a killer Margarita, load up the sshp_prophet and read some

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[ashenmote]

Sorry for being rude and not commenting on the fic recs but where's this pretty toes icon from? I like.

[oulangi]

Thanks! I took a picture of my toes to show somone how to make an icon. Then I decided I liked it enough to use it.,

[ashenmote]

Wow. Overall, the icon looks like a printing in a certain style of art which I couldn't name because I know nothing of art. Is that some special filter you've run over the pic or does your RL look neat like this?

And those are nicely shaped feet. If I iconed mine I would be in for a mass defriending. I have to get by on my pretty hands alone, woe! :D

[oulangi]

HAHA Thanks! No special filters. I just snapped a pic w/ my camera to show a friend how to make icons. It wasn't even taken in California, just a lazy summer day in Boston.

[half_elf_lost]

Ah! Truths is my crackhead entry into HP slash. I'm addicted and they are responsible. I swore I never had time for anything else beyond LotR.

[oulangi]

I love that series, and amazingly it keeps getting better! I found HP an easy transition in part because fanon Snape is close to fanon Erestor.

[half_elf_lost]

I never drew that bridge before, but you're right! Simply love the always-cantankerous but sexy-as-hell Snape.

[oulangi]

Heh. You should get into it with Meg and I sometime. We have this kooky theory about fandom archetypes and a whole string of Erestor/Snapes as examples.

[atrata]

So, I read this a while back and meant to thank you for saying nice things about my story, but I didn't get around to it. aubrem e-mailed me the link today to ask if I'd seen it, and that reminded me, so here I am. :)

Anyway. I think this: Do you suppose that Snape's role as a spy and Voldemort' s mastery of Leguimancy forces Snape to rearrange his own head to *stay* in that childish place so if Voldemort looks all he'll see is hate hate hate? is a really fucking cool idea, and not something I'd really thought of.

Um... that's all I got. I tend to do most of my exploration of Snape's psyche with fiction, so I don't often think about it in terms like that, and that sentence has really stuck with me.

[oulangi]

You're very welcome, You give great Snape ;)

This is part of my grand Theory of Snape.
It always bothered me that the memories in Snape's pensieve were awful and humiliating. It seemed that if he wanted to excise the memories - well, he could put them in a bottle, right? But that he had them out for viewing was either JKR being particularly ham-handed with the exposition *or* there was some need/reason for Snape to relive the very worst moments of his life. What made sense (to me at least) was that he was intentionally keeping himself there and using the pensieve as a tool to rearrange / control his thoughts and emotions. It fits with his emotional retardation and his bizarre Potter hatred.

[hasaidreamer]

I just stumbled across you from a mention on my flist - Thanks for the review! ~V