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I am terrible at writing canon!Draco. I need a canon!Draco beta who will kindly and gently point out areas where he could be canonly, rather than scream at me that he is a bastard who will not have an almost-polite conversation with Harry under the circumstances.
I still love you, Pyrae.
In original fiction news, I finished chapter two of Shadows and Light, which is the first book of The Trilogy. I really really like Seth. He will be my Zacharias in The Trilogy, a.k.a, the one who will not do anything I tell him to do, but I will love him anyway.
In further original news, Hannah is bugging me to edit my first story, which was finished a few weeks ago. The first order of business is to read it over, and I'm not quite ready to do that yet. And also, I must go all the way back to chapter sixteen and rewrite almost all of it from there on, because that is where Zacharias kidnapped the story and made it all about him. That is where the plot ended and the Dying Possibly-Gay Pretty Blond Boy became all of a plot that I needed. *sigh* I hate rewrites.
Today I am reading "'I' is for Innocent" by Sue Grafton. It is surprisingly good. Much better than the "H" book, which I did not like.
And now, my mother's views on LOTR.
Mother: (on phone) It only won because they wanted a clean sweep. They should have picked something with Substance and Real Acting.
Mother: (to Nae) It doesn't matter that they won all those awards. They didn't get any acting nominations. Thus there was obviously no Real Acting in that movie.
Nae: Mom, you have not seen it. You wouldn't understand. I mean, the part at the end with Frodo -
Mother: Do not speak to me of your Frodo. I do not want to hear about a movie that does not Mean Anything. It lacks Substance.
Mother: And it isn't even a real movie. It was made from a book.
Nae: (thinking) You haven't read the books either, I bet. (out loud) Your beloved Seabiscuit was a book.
Mother: Yes, but it was based on real life.
I cannot win. I could go on and on. I could get into her "only girls who wear makeup and put their hair up deserve a driver's license" argument. I could get into the "you are a conformist because you refuse to do anything the popular girls would do" argument. But that is neither here nor there. My point is that my mother is crazy, but at least she has given me a concise viewpoint of the LOTR-haters. It is always so nice to hear opinions that I don't agree with and then snicker about it later.
I do have one good thing to report. My father is not a narrow-minded bastard, after all.
Mother: (during awards) Dear, tell her that Seabiscuit was better than Lord of the Rings. You saw them both.
Father: (silence)
Nae: He's not talking 'cause he knows you're wrong.
Mother: Dear, you know I'm right.
Father: (sort of smirking)
Nae: Mom, give it up. You did not even see the movie.
(Peter Jackson wins for Best Director)
Mother: Oh, come on. That one is all about giving it a clean sweep. He can't win, for he is a Democrat and thus Evil Incarnate. (not exactly what she said, but the meaning is there.)
Nae: Erm. This is about movies. Not about political affiliation.
Mother: Of course, dear. Of course.
You see? You see what I have to live with? Oh, to be eighteen and living with my grandparents, who are just as opinionated but at least they have food in the house.
I still love you, Pyrae.
In original fiction news, I finished chapter two of Shadows and Light, which is the first book of The Trilogy. I really really like Seth. He will be my Zacharias in The Trilogy, a.k.a, the one who will not do anything I tell him to do, but I will love him anyway.
In further original news, Hannah is bugging me to edit my first story, which was finished a few weeks ago. The first order of business is to read it over, and I'm not quite ready to do that yet. And also, I must go all the way back to chapter sixteen and rewrite almost all of it from there on, because that is where Zacharias kidnapped the story and made it all about him. That is where the plot ended and the Dying Possibly-Gay Pretty Blond Boy became all of a plot that I needed. *sigh* I hate rewrites.
Today I am reading "'I' is for Innocent" by Sue Grafton. It is surprisingly good. Much better than the "H" book, which I did not like.
And now, my mother's views on LOTR.
Mother: (on phone) It only won because they wanted a clean sweep. They should have picked something with Substance and Real Acting.
Mother: (to Nae) It doesn't matter that they won all those awards. They didn't get any acting nominations. Thus there was obviously no Real Acting in that movie.
Nae: Mom, you have not seen it. You wouldn't understand. I mean, the part at the end with Frodo -
Mother: Do not speak to me of your Frodo. I do not want to hear about a movie that does not Mean Anything. It lacks Substance.
Mother: And it isn't even a real movie. It was made from a book.
Nae: (thinking) You haven't read the books either, I bet. (out loud) Your beloved Seabiscuit was a book.
Mother: Yes, but it was based on real life.
I cannot win. I could go on and on. I could get into her "only girls who wear makeup and put their hair up deserve a driver's license" argument. I could get into the "you are a conformist because you refuse to do anything the popular girls would do" argument. But that is neither here nor there. My point is that my mother is crazy, but at least she has given me a concise viewpoint of the LOTR-haters. It is always so nice to hear opinions that I don't agree with and then snicker about it later.
I do have one good thing to report. My father is not a narrow-minded bastard, after all.
Mother: (during awards) Dear, tell her that Seabiscuit was better than Lord of the Rings. You saw them both.
Father: (silence)
Nae: He's not talking 'cause he knows you're wrong.
Mother: Dear, you know I'm right.
Father: (sort of smirking)
Nae: Mom, give it up. You did not even see the movie.
(Peter Jackson wins for Best Director)
Mother: Oh, come on. That one is all about giving it a clean sweep. He can't win, for he is a Democrat and thus Evil Incarnate. (not exactly what she said, but the meaning is there.)
Nae: Erm. This is about movies. Not about political affiliation.
Mother: Of course, dear. Of course.
You see? You see what I have to live with? Oh, to be eighteen and living with my grandparents, who are just as opinionated but at least they have food in the house.