Meme on my fics

[wildestranger]

Some comments on the reversathon made think. And so, here's a meme, several mmonths late...

How To Tell You Are Reading A Story By wildestranger



1. There's a Blaise Zabini, being sarcastic and smirking and raising his eyebrow somewhere. Annoying Draco and effortlessly seducing everybody. That's my boy. *beams*
2. Everybody reads books. This is a flaw in my characterisation, I know, but I can't understand people who don't read, I don't see how they can make sense of the world. So, everyone reads, or rather I only write POVs of characters I can convincingly make into readers. Even Harry, who's practically illiterate in canon, reads. Although he gets to be terribly depressed first, and he finds reading frustrating (If I'm Your Villain), but still he reads.
3. If a particular text is mentioned, it's likely to be eighteenth-century fiction. Usually, whatever I'm currently reading, although if there's a text with particular resonance something else might be used. Montesquieu's Persian Letters, which Remus reads in The House Guest is about slavery and sexualisation of slavery. And yes, I know that there's probably three people who get my Clarissa jokes, but look, it's what my brain comes up with and what amuses me. So there.
4. Nobody gets married or has children. These things are an abomination unto the Wilde, and using them as signs of Eternal Happy Ending and Sickeningly Pink True Love make me writhe with revulsion. If, for plot purposes, someone has to get pregnant, it will be a cause of great angst and anxiety. And much swearing. And I still like to get rid of the child if I can. The only reason Lily doesn't get an abortion in What You Want is because Harry's kind of canon.
5. There is much pinning of people into walls. Because, you know, HOT, and there is sudden proximity and knees between thighs and nuzzling of neck. The nuzzling of neck was a big thing before I got into Stargate Atlantis, but after Rodney? My eyes glaze over at the mention of chins.
6. Tonks doesn't get Remus. Sometimes, she gets Charlie Weasley and sometimes she gets dignity, but she never gets Remus. So there.
7. Everybody drinks a lot of alcohol, and it's usually wine. It's a thing one does in company as well as a thing one enjoys in solitude, and like in reading books, I can't understand a world where people don't.
8. Anal sex happens a lot, and it's always told from the POV of the person on the receiving end. I trustI don't need to explain why. *g*
9. There is sarcasm, and not just by Blaise. Making fun of people (even if it silently or behind their backs) is how I verbalise things, and in fiction it's a way of arranging emotional situations, building up tension and defusing it, and a way of saying things that are just too corny when said in earnest. Nobody ever says "I love you." Overblown sentimentality is another thing that makes me writhe in disgust, so any discussion of feelings must be hidden in sarcasm and nonverbal communication.
10. There is a happy ending, even if it's not as happy as some might like. Happiness with added bitterness and anxiety and hopefully realism, but still. Or at least a decision to continue shagging in the foreseeable future.
11. Everybody fancies Remus.

Comments

[lazy-neutrino.livejournal.com]

12. The characterisation is rich and the settings are described in - well, I don't know how you do it - no detail at all, and yet just enough to place the reader, so you knw exactly where you are. Your descriptions are like conjuring tricks - magical, and I can't see how you do it though I watch and watch.
13. Everybody fancies Remus. (I thought that one bore repeating!)

[raitala.livejournal.com]

12. People don't just read, they read in beautiful old libraries and drink tea. Thus conjuring up the space where I would most like to be.

[stephanometra.livejournal.com]

11. I know I do. *g*

[loneraven.livejournal.com]

11. Everybody fancies Remus.

AMEN!

sorry.

[starrysummer.livejournal.com]

YAY #7. I'm actually starting to worry a little about my characters. People are *always* drinking and, yeah, usually wine. But wine is good, so it's all right.

[shaggydogstail.livejournal.com]

No. 5 is my favourite. There can never be too much of that.

[hibernater.livejournal.com]

I love your happy endings, because they're complex and interesting as tragedy -- just like your heroes are interesting as villians.

Also, WORD on Remus :)

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