victory over boredom and polka dots
Mar. 8th, 2005 12:47 am![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
ciroccojWoo-hoo! All done my article, and found a very cute Harry Potter fic: Harry Potter and the Polka Dot Plague, at Bright Shiny Objects, which ![[livejournal.com profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/external/lj-userinfo.gif)
bear pointed to a few weeks ago.
Yes, Harry Potter - I have now read five, count'em, five, Harry Potter fics! And I can't help noticing that all three of the ones I've read so far at Bright Shiny Objects have been good. Mind you, I'm staying away from the ones whose descriptions engage my insta-squick reflex, but still. Much better than the two other Potterfics in my life. One of them was ::meh:: and the other one kept me teetering between a fetal position under my computer, muttering There is no God, and screaming laughter at the snarky commentary of a previous reader, who, among other things, got increasingly irate at the writer's inability to spell Hermione. I believe it also inexplicably involved marijuana (wha?), and a sudden, startling, and rather obscene alternative use for a broom.
Go read the Polka Dot Plague. Cute. True to the characters, mostly, except for some dialect oopses. And no squick :)
Two little quotes:
Snape stared at him with an expression of pure loathing that would've been quite menacing if not for the polka dots.
I guard the boy's life, and he looks at me as if I'm something he scraped from the bottom of a cauldron. I wear a pair of socks, and he decides I'm "decent." Gryffindors.
bear pointed to a few weeks ago.Yes, Harry Potter - I have now read five, count'em, five, Harry Potter fics! And I can't help noticing that all three of the ones I've read so far at Bright Shiny Objects have been good. Mind you, I'm staying away from the ones whose descriptions engage my insta-squick reflex, but still. Much better than the two other Potterfics in my life. One of them was ::meh:: and the other one kept me teetering between a fetal position under my computer, muttering There is no God, and screaming laughter at the snarky commentary of a previous reader, who, among other things, got increasingly irate at the writer's inability to spell Hermione. I believe it also inexplicably involved marijuana (wha?), and a sudden, startling, and rather obscene alternative use for a broom.
Go read the Polka Dot Plague. Cute. True to the characters, mostly, except for some dialect oopses. And no squick :)
Two little quotes:
Snape stared at him with an expression of pure loathing that would've been quite menacing if not for the polka dots.
I guard the boy's life, and he looks at me as if I'm something he scraped from the bottom of a cauldron. I wear a pair of socks, and he decides I'm "decent." Gryffindors.
