darkartsandcrafts said

I can see why Harry is attracted to the Weasley family dynamic, but I would find it unbearable. I always loved Percy. I ship him with Barty Crouch JR, but that’s a ‘these two people were maybe in the same room together at some point’ ship.

Wow, and here I thought the undeveloped Slytherin bully types were good for dark!Percy shipping. Perciver is slightly more plausible, being of the “these two characters shared a bedroom (possibly alone – there were no other known Gryffindor boys in their year) for seven years, and so had lots of opportunity for interaction that Harry wouldn’t have seen” variety, with a dash of subverting jock/nerd clichés since they’re actually similarly ambitious and driven to the point of obsession.

Percy is just so easy to slash, and usually in a way that’s at least somewhat dark and angst-ridden.

swampbenders yes please! and making a bit of sense out of book 2’s plot would be nice. (also just in general, i was unaware percy was your fave hp character and i think that is super-interesting! what appeals to you about him?)

You’re not the first person to ask about the swampbenders, and I’m already halfway through writing a post that briefly picks apart the cultural references involved. The idea for Book 2 mainly comes from some observations I’ve made about the Water Tribes as they’re presented in both AtLA and LoK, and how they might explain a little better Unalaq’s motivations up through the Civil Wars episodes. I say “might” because Book 2 is generally so poorly-written/developed that it needs all the help it can get. On that note, while it’s not exclusively about Book 2, this long but very excellent essay by beccatoria argues that Book 2 was where the show’s creators began to setup LoK as a deliberate and total deconstruction of the conventional narrative of the preceding series. It’s definitely worth a read.

I was going to say that Percy is a complicated HP fave for me, but then that’s true of both the other characters I’d potentially give that slot to (Fleur and Umbridge if you’re wondering, though writing about them here would be even more of a tangent). Long ago I wrote about how I don’t find the representation of the Weasleys as this ideal family unit to be all that palatable (even aside from my expected ethnic biases), and I feel like Percy has a lot of unexplored potential to challenge that paradigm. He’s already the black sheep of the family even after his character development at the end of the series, at least if we’re considering JKR’s post-series writing canonical, and his character hits a number of queer notes here and there that make him easy to read that way. Like most people who ship him with Oliver Wood, I do so in full knowledge of the fact that it’s a curiously sensible crack ship that allows writers to explore Percy’s myriad issues while in a stable M/M relationship – unlike shipping him with Marcus Flint or someone like that, which offers little more than hate sex fodder.

I can now say with some sense of accomplishment that I have two ships that required me to search through decade-old Livejournals and databases filled with links to long-defunct sites from an earlier era of internet fandom in order to find a decent amount of fic.

lovemakingtea:

ship?
sink?

Ship ~~though I prefer calling it Olivercy~~

To anyone who think’s I’ve been hard on Enjolras/Éponine for being cracky (as opposed to being hard on it for being offensively heteronormative), this is my self-deprecating rebuttal. It just makes so much sense and it’s really only crack by omission and there have been some really well-done fics… *continued crack ship whining*

Not to detract from the non-stop Les Mis, but…

…the date upon which I shall be stolen away by the Fire Emblem fandom has been moved up considerably – North America gets a free demo of the English release of FE13 on the 17th, yay. Though I am grieved by the marginalization of the incestuous and homoerotic subtext that is practically a series staple (and what there is will undoubtedly be toned down in translation because it might offend the children, or something), the shameless employment of eugenics is hilariously wrong enough to make it worth playing and pairing everyone up into “neat little heterosexual rows.”

It always bothered me that I mentally use that description all the time to lampoon heteronormativity even though I’ve read neither the article from which it was originally taken nor the novel the article was criticizing (Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows). For the theoretical follower wondering how I can write about Harry Potter at length on my blog without having read the last book, I should note that my OTP for the series only really appears in books 1-3 and 4-5 to a lesser extent, and fandom osmosis made me aware of the only scene of any relevance to either character in book 7.

Back on topic, I was going to mention that I’ll have to delay the final post of my Slashing Amis series by one more day, though as noted I can’t afford to put anything Les Mis-related off much longer.

…Wow. How am I ever going to tag such a scatterbrained post? Here goes nothing!