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ciroccojHad to do something to keep my brain from atrophying today while I worked on my CRT and GLB papers. Ugh. So I skipped around and found some mighty good fic, and decided to share :)
M*A*S*H: so much for the afterglow, by Kyra Cullinan: "Afterwards, Hawkeye listens." Post-series.
Snippet:
In Korea, he talked constantly. Wisecracks and puns, a steady stream of verbal armor to block out the noises around him, the horror that was every single breath. Here, there's no need to build a wall of sound around himself, and he's quiet, quieter than he's ever been.
Oz: Descent, by Rustler: Augustus Hill, my most favouritest Oz character, thinks about running.
Snippet:
He has dreams where he's running so hard his heart thumps wildly in his chest, and he can feel the sweat breaking out on his brow. Running, running, in the night. Running toward...nothing. But he can't stop. He hears the rapid footsteps of hard-soled cop shoes pounding behind him, and he's naked, barefoot, wincing over gravel and broken glass littering the rooftop.
Rooftop.
No. Shit.
Can't. Stop.
Harry Potter: SUBLIMATION AND THE SNITCH: QUIDDITCH IN HUMAN SEXUAL RELATIONSHIPS: by Remus J. Lupin, Hogwarts School, History of Magic Class, Year Seven Thesis, by![[livejournal.com profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/external/lj-userinfo.gif)
skyhawke.
Snippet(s): (no, I couldn't have just one - you have no idea how tough it was to limit myself!)
Position titles alone are heavily sexual in nature, descriptions of pursuit and capture -- Seekers, Chasers, Keepers, and of course, the most blatant among them, Beaters. It is not coincidence that Beaters have been, in this case correctly, stereotyped as the most extroverted, sexually active and virile members of any Quidditch team; it is a deep-seated societal archetype at work [fn 20].
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[20] I am sure, Professor, that Sirius Black's short but spectacular tenure as Gryffindor Beater, before he was thrown off the team for indecent activities[fn 21] in the locker room, bears out this assertion better than any factual quote I could give.
[21] And what goes on in the locker room on his own time and with consenting companions is entirely his own business, I must say, and hardly reason to ban him from playing.
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APPENDIX:
Oi, I think Quidditch is the best thing ever. I mean when you're getting to that point where the Snitch is just in sight, and you know you're gonna grab it -- and you're just straining and your heart's thudding and even if it's cold you're sweating and trying so bloody hard...you know, just going for it...and then you grab it! It's the best feeling in the world.
Here, Remus, are you feeling okay? Only you've gone all flushed...
-- James Potter, Gryffindor Team Seeker, Hogwarts School
So....if you're right about all this...then it was my societal duty to get in with that Starling girl in the locker room, right? I mean, it was practically a subconscious imperative. Golly. I want to be a Beater for the REST OF MY LIFE.
-- Sirius Black, former Gryffindor Team Beater, Hogwarts School
M*A*S*H: so much for the afterglow, by Kyra Cullinan: "Afterwards, Hawkeye listens." Post-series.
Snippet:
In Korea, he talked constantly. Wisecracks and puns, a steady stream of verbal armor to block out the noises around him, the horror that was every single breath. Here, there's no need to build a wall of sound around himself, and he's quiet, quieter than he's ever been.
Oz: Descent, by Rustler: Augustus Hill, my most favouritest Oz character, thinks about running.
Snippet:
He has dreams where he's running so hard his heart thumps wildly in his chest, and he can feel the sweat breaking out on his brow. Running, running, in the night. Running toward...nothing. But he can't stop. He hears the rapid footsteps of hard-soled cop shoes pounding behind him, and he's naked, barefoot, wincing over gravel and broken glass littering the rooftop.
Rooftop.
No. Shit.
Can't. Stop.
Harry Potter: SUBLIMATION AND THE SNITCH: QUIDDITCH IN HUMAN SEXUAL RELATIONSHIPS: by Remus J. Lupin, Hogwarts School, History of Magic Class, Year Seven Thesis, by
skyhawke.Snippet(s): (no, I couldn't have just one - you have no idea how tough it was to limit myself!)
Position titles alone are heavily sexual in nature, descriptions of pursuit and capture -- Seekers, Chasers, Keepers, and of course, the most blatant among them, Beaters. It is not coincidence that Beaters have been, in this case correctly, stereotyped as the most extroverted, sexually active and virile members of any Quidditch team; it is a deep-seated societal archetype at work [fn 20].
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[20] I am sure, Professor, that Sirius Black's short but spectacular tenure as Gryffindor Beater, before he was thrown off the team for indecent activities[fn 21] in the locker room, bears out this assertion better than any factual quote I could give.
[21] And what goes on in the locker room on his own time and with consenting companions is entirely his own business, I must say, and hardly reason to ban him from playing.
====
APPENDIX:
Oi, I think Quidditch is the best thing ever. I mean when you're getting to that point where the Snitch is just in sight, and you know you're gonna grab it -- and you're just straining and your heart's thudding and even if it's cold you're sweating and trying so bloody hard...you know, just going for it...and then you grab it! It's the best feeling in the world.
Here, Remus, are you feeling okay? Only you've gone all flushed...
-- James Potter, Gryffindor Team Seeker, Hogwarts School
So....if you're right about all this...then it was my societal duty to get in with that Starling girl in the locker room, right? I mean, it was practically a subconscious imperative. Golly. I want to be a Beater for the REST OF MY LIFE.
-- Sirius Black, former Gryffindor Team Beater, Hogwarts School
