Make it go away!

[gwyn]

I think if I hear one more word about freaking Harry Potter and have to listen to more hysteria about spoilers, I may explode. It's bad enough that my flist is filled with posts from normally sane and rational people vowing to defriend and send ninja assassins against anyone who even so much as gives an emoticon as a reaction and kill all their family, but the excessiveness is now bleeding into other fandoms. And it is just a constant at work -- I swear, 75 percent of the copy in the past few days has been about Harry freaking Potter.

Before, I just didn't care about it. Now, I'm actively loathing it because I cannot escape it -- it's at work, at play, when I go out, when I turn on the TV. I need distraction (especially since we have two more HP stories filing today). I'm stealing a page from cereta and asking you to tell me about a pairing you like, anything but a pairing from HP for the love of god, het, gen, or slash, whatever you like -- friendships, romance, love/hate... and tell me why you like it.

I will start off with Fraser and Ray Vecchio because that is on my mind quite a bit these past few days. I love them because they look past each others' flaws and see the person inside that a lot of people miss. When most people look at Benny, they see this gorgeous, studly, upstanding Mountie who's the epitome of smart and capable and polite. But Ray's seen the darker side of Fraser, the one that would fall for someone like Victoria, the one who'd throw a knife to shut someone up... the one who can resolutely face down danger and take on being ostracized from his own profession in order to do what he knows is right. Ray knows there's a much tougher and more damaged guy in there, and he accepts it without blinking. He knows that his Benny has much more inside him, and he acknowledges it without ever acknowledging it.

And Fraser for his part knows that Ray is a good cop, a strong cop, and not just this kind of silly goombah others think he is. He trusts Ray completely, no matter how much Ray complains, and knows that if push comes to shove, Ray will choose to do the right thing. Even when Ray is doing something relatively dishonest, Fraser has faith that the good will win out. Ray is his only true friend, and he understands the value of the trust and faith Ray put in him, right from the start. Yay, Fraser and Ray V.

You speak now.

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[(Anonymous)]

re: HP, ditto except that I still do not care a fig in spite of the current hysteria. I cannot even say I am not an HP fan which that could imply that I dislike the HP phenomenon when I have absolutely no basis to do so, considering that I have never read or watched any HP stuff, nor do I plan on doing so at any time in the future.

At first it was because I thought it was totally derivative -for instance of Neil Gaiman's 'Books of Magic' which I highly recommend by the way- then I simply lost any intellectual curiosity I might have had about it in the beginning. I am not much of a follower, I guess.

But hate? Not really. I still do not care and the current spoiler-phobia only strikes me as weird, bordering on unhinged in a few rare cases.

:)

*empathy-less person here*

PS: My favorite pairing for the past couple of years? SGA's own Sheppard/McKay. They are just so stupid and so cute together on screen, just like little boys, really. And so socially inept that they totally deserve each other.

As Merry put it best: "SGA is more like... your slacker ex-boyfriend (the one you ditched because he was smart and cute but had no direction and no skills, and seemed like he was going to watch the sci-fi channel professionally for the rest of his life). The one who ended up in the military, and ever after you thought, "Whoa. John is in the military? My John? Seriously?" whenever you troubled to think of him. And then there's that geeky guy from the debate club who was sort of cute in a dorky way but who could never stop debating and just have a regular conversation so whenever you saw him in the caf you'd go sit with the pep squad so he wouldn't try to talk to you. He knew everything and thought you were sort of stupid but you were smarter than the rest of the girls and oh, by the way, a girl, so he had to try to impress you, which only made him even more annoying. When you think of him at all you probably have a vague impression of acne plus obnoxious plus wondering who told him it was okay to dress like that.

I watch SGA with a sense of horrified recognition and a vague sort of nihilistic glee, because OMG my slacker ex-boyfriend and that dork from the debate club are supposed to save the world?? We are SO DOOMED!!! I watch with the mortal certainty that somehow they are going to fuck it all up. They didn't even get into it to save the world - John was hiding out from the entire planet in Antarctica and flipped a coin to decide to go, and often gives the impression that he wished he'd made it best two out of three. Rodney probably dared himself into it and exists in a state of mild perpetual panic at the magnitude of what they're doing and what they expect of him. John had absolutely no desire to be in charge of anything, and Rodney's still upset that he had to leave his cat with a neighbor. These are guys we know. These are the guys our friends would set us up with for coffee and then after we'd go back to our friends and say, Oh, thanks BUNCHES, and by the way I'm never letting you near my social life again." from http://merryish.livejournal.com/137394.html

[kadymae.livejournal.com]

Well, I already wrote my little ode to Tim/Landry in Cereta's LJ, so ...

Black Adam/Atom Smasher.

4000 Year old "first draft" at a Captain Marvel and the nice 7 foot jewish boy next door.

Black Adam is the elect of the Egyptian Pantheon. He is, in his own way, an honorable man, the problem is, he's got a 4000 year old world view in which an eye for an eye is perfectly fine. (I mean, his wife's death wish to him was that he get revenge against her murderers, so when he found that a government of a nation had funded them -- he killed everybody in that nation.) But he's fiercely loyal to those he loves, like Atom Smasher.

A highlight reel of their very slashy relationship is here (http://community.livejournal.com/scans_daily/1079023.html). And yes, folks, that's the power of Shazam being used as a defibrilator.

Recently in 52, when Black Adam was finally depowered to end his rampage, and the JLA/JSA every other damn'd law enforcement agent on the planet was looking to get their pound of flesh, it was Atom Smasher who took Black Adam and hid him.

It's the bitter old God and the idealistic Kid Next Door.

It's two men who would do almost anything for each other.

And, they pretty much have nothing left, but each other.

I know it's going to end badly.

But I love their desperation, and their passion for what they believe in, and their willingness to be damned if it means somebody else will have a better life

Their candles burn at both ends.