rurounihime | Updates and Recs

You know what? Everyone should go play laser tag. It's an absolute must. Gaw, I hadn't done that for years, and then yesterday my dad and sis get it into their heads that it's time for a little quality time with the black lights and laser guns. Good stuff. i came in second out of seven in my score and I had a good time, though we were all playing everyone-for-themselves instead of temas. I need to get a group of folks together and do a team game. *sighhh* Talk about nostalgia... ^___^

Updates

~~New chapter of Darker Magic will be up soon. I just have a little more to write on that. Gonna finish that one in the coming months because book 6 is coming out and all... even though DM takes place during 7th year...

~~Also, if people would like me to focus on a new chapter of The Fourth Unforgivable (find it in my memories) as well, I definitely could. Right now that one is sort of undergoing a break period.

~~Music fic is in bits right now. It's coming along but it won't be for a while. Still haven't chosen a band name for the boys, but the suggestions I have been getting have made me grin like a lunatic, so we'll see.

~~Sparks and I just sent in Chapter 3 of In Another's Hell. I'll let you all know when it's up at Fic Alley.

Recs

Stuff I've been reading and loving lately...

Soumission Chapitre Deux by

lilysunshine1 (H/D, rated NC-17) Previous chapters here

Summary: Sometimes, the cold that comes from within feels no different than the cold from the outside.

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Staring by Tangelo Licker (H/D, rated PG-13)

Summary: Sometimes staring can get you into a bit of a tough spot.

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Ice Skating by Ebony Star (H/D, rated PG)

Summary: Harry takes a walk by the lake on Christmas morning and ends up getting an ice skating lesson from someone unexpected.

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Two of CorvetteClaire's fics (Thicker Than Blood and its sequel Adamant and Starlight). (H/D, rated PG-13). These are gorgeous! Please read them. I haven't really gotten into a long fic in a while and Thicker Than Blood had me right from the instant I started reading. Halfway through the other one. ^_~

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Okay, so those are my recs for today. Got a challenge coming at you soon. *kiss*

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hmm. i'm in general fairly flexible when it comes to canon and draco simply because there's so little in it about him, and i think that most of what constitutes my image of draco comes from fanon. if i a story is well-written i tend not to immediately think that it would clash with or seem unlikely in light of canon. that said, a lot of what you bring up makes sense, like that if lucius were really abusing draco, draco would probably act differently around him. as for lucius, i tend to not think about him, and i don't know if i have any sense of him as a character beyond someone who's cruel.

i think most of the abused!draco fics i've read don't feature lucius as the one who's abusing draco.

I don't go in for the stories where the element is just thrown in to make me feel sympathy for the characters

that's certainly not the case with the cicatrix cycle. the abuse is def. a plot element, or rather, it contributes to a significant plot element. she handles it in a way that does justice to the topic.

I guess I need to read it then. I may not do it for a while; I find that reading fic while writing fic sometimes does not work out very well for me. Gets too distracting, you know? My own plot falls by the wayside or gets mixed up too much... But there are a lot of fics I have been meaning to read. I'll definitely stick it on my list.

And yeah... I kind of a stickler for in-character portrayals, at least to a certain extent. And Draco is definitely easy to write about for the reason you mentioned, that there is not all that much to go on and so building a story around the info we have is very easy and quite tantalizing. Probably why he is my favorite character to write. ^_^

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