swimming upstream
Sep. 5th, 2003 05:21 pm![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
geovikiI feel like I'm trying to catch a river with a teacup. I cannot fathom just how many terrific HP stories exist! Every link links to another one and another one, and if I don't stop this I will go blind!
My path so far hasn't been long, like many of yours...I first found this site when I was googling "Parseltongue": Glossary
which turned out to be Ivy Blossom's guide to HP slash. From there I found Irresistable Poison. I read that before our vacation to Utah, and thought about it as we drove the long highway miles. It was like waking up, in a way: I had reached a slow spot in the stream, life-wise. Definitely rut-city. Big bugling wake-up call.
The I read all of Rhysenn's short stories, too.
After that came Cassandra Claire's Draco Trilogy
Then her combination Season in Hell/After the Flood,
which are my current top stories. But I read the reviews of that, which say "So realistic, Cassie" and I wonder what planet they live on that this is real? I call it stylized real. Hyperreal. If I ever met anyone who discussed The Potato Eaters like that, I'd back away quickly...and I was an art history librarian once upon a time.
This week I found Transfigurations
which has the best Draco ever, plus terrific plot and dialog.
And next came The Lodger by Mad Martha.
Now I'm reading Blood Magic
plus a dozen other stories that I can't even keep up with. I'm drowning..but I like it!
My path so far hasn't been long, like many of yours...I first found this site when I was googling "Parseltongue": Glossary
which turned out to be Ivy Blossom's guide to HP slash. From there I found Irresistable Poison. I read that before our vacation to Utah, and thought about it as we drove the long highway miles. It was like waking up, in a way: I had reached a slow spot in the stream, life-wise. Definitely rut-city. Big bugling wake-up call.
The I read all of Rhysenn's short stories, too.
After that came Cassandra Claire's Draco Trilogy
Then her combination Season in Hell/After the Flood,
which are my current top stories. But I read the reviews of that, which say "So realistic, Cassie" and I wonder what planet they live on that this is real? I call it stylized real. Hyperreal. If I ever met anyone who discussed The Potato Eaters like that, I'd back away quickly...and I was an art history librarian once upon a time.
This week I found Transfigurations
which has the best Draco ever, plus terrific plot and dialog.
And next came The Lodger by Mad Martha.
Now I'm reading Blood Magic
plus a dozen other stories that I can't even keep up with. I'm drowning..but I like it!
