Ohkay!
It's now like, 10 past 8, and I'm tired. Hahaha the weekend was super fun, like I've told you all before, and now I'm just putting up my slash post. I couldn't find good banners for any of the other pairings except for HPDM, so yeh. Sorry! Haha, but they ARE the hotter ship ^.^. ENJOY!!!
I just have the sudden urge to rant on about slash pairings. My life must be pathetique. Who gives a shit anyway? Here goes: [these aren't listed in any particular order of favour]
1. Harry/Draco.
This particular ship has, in the style of Monty Python, many many many variations. There's veela!Draco, creature!Harry, vampire!Harry, creature!Draco, straight!Harry, top!Harry, bottom!Harry, top!Draco, canon!Draco... yeah. This is the most common HP slash fic, and there are numerous LJ communities that devote all their time to pursuing this topic. It can be canon, OOTP, AU, whatever, Harry/Draco is one of my favourite pairings. There's just something about a dominating Draco corrupting an oh-so-canon Harry (the meek, perfect, Golden Boy). Or a dark!Harry, secretly Slytherin, worming his way into innocent!Draco's life during the angsty post-war period... yeah. I'm obsessed ^.^
2. Harry/Lucius.
Face it, guys. Older means more experienced, innit? And Malfoy Sr. should have enough of it to educate a bunch of first-years in no time! The fics that people tend to write about these two are mostly post-war ones, with creature!Harry, or some kind of bonding thing that keeps those two together. From sworn enemies to.. something else! Alot of them are angsty, with dark!Harry, top!Harry, or top!Lucius. This is a pretty dark pairing, with alot of hurt/comfort, violence, and other physical things. But there are those romantic ones, with AU!Lucius and canon!Harry that are really really nice to read. They're basically the only Luc/Harry that I read. Oh well, this couple gets 4.5 stars from me!!!
3. Harry/Snape.
The Boy Wonder and the snarky greasy Potions Master. Imperfect, but oh so sweet. There's just something about the cute childish happiness of Harry managing to offset the depressing, cynical side of Snape that makes such fics so adorable. Vampire!Snape fics are v. common, but canon!Snape and daisychain!Harry are the cutest. Come on, who can resist a chan-Harry? Seriously! There's not much to write about this pairing, but the improbability of such a thing happening is the major appeal in itself :)))
4. Harry/LV
Okay. This pairing creeps me out, sometimes, because alot of authors keep to the canon!Riddle view, with him as a cruel sadistic bastard. The true gems of this ship are those timewarp ones set in the Maurader era, with future!Harry and uncorrupted!Riddle. The former starts off by warping back to the past to save the world, but gets caught up in SO much more... XD. Most fics from this are bloody, wartime, and angsty, but those that aren't.. well, they are just wonderful.
5. Jack/Beckett
You'd be v.surprised at the number of people that actually know of this pairing. It's very much the same as Harry/Lucius/Draco, the bitter enemies coming together out of hate and revenge, which slowly gives way to softer emotions. It's quite the sweet pairing, with mostly hurt!Beckett and sweet!Jack, a far cry from their movie personas. PoTC slash has a smaller community compared to HP slash, but alot of the works here are well-written, and absolutely squee-worthy!
6. Jean Claude/Nathan
This is from the Anita Blake novels, a pairing I think PW might appreciate :). I've read a number of them, with a majority as top!JC and one with a v.bottom!Nathan. The natural command JC would have over Nathan is a sweetener, and most fics have Anita involved, getting jealous of Jean Claude's attention for Nathan. The animal sides of both characters are very much played-up in the slashfics, but that adds to the beauty of it all. One of the pairings that I've gained from visiting PW's links, and one that I will continue reading for a while :D
7. Jack/Will
This is just a side slash of mine, because I'm not that fond of it. It's a good pairing, but too many people keep a canon!Jack and a meek!Will, which kinda spoils it for me. The blushing, innocent Will may have its merits, but not with a annoyingly canon Jack. I've grown out of my fangirl obsession withi this couple, and it's starting to bore me. One can only read so much of sickeningly-pirate!Jack before you want to smash the screen in. I'm this close to abandoning the ship, really... It was good while it lasted, matey!
8. Will/Norrington
YAY! This is JUST AS GOOD AS Harry/Draco. The hate, the fight over one woman, which slowly blossoms into a fight for one another's affection. People come up with magnificent plot bunnies for this sorta thing, and I can't really blame them! top!Will and canon!Norry is perfect, with the latter being all proper and just so Norrington that he needs a little spice on the side to brighten up his life. Will/Norry/Beckett is another common side trio of this slash tree, with Beckett as the jaded lover out to win his Norry back. I'm just starting to get into this ship, but I really really like the works done by some of the writers. jennavere of HP slash fandom fame, has done some good one-shots for this particular pair. Go to her LJ for more!
Yeah. I'm done now :). I just really needed to write something down about my reading habits, and I have. I'm actually contemplating doing an English assignment on one of jennavere's stories. They are that good. Seriously.
Kays, no time to chat. I've gotta take a shower and get ready b4 my aunt comes.. I'm going out for the weekend. I might post at her house, but not that likely.
MUACKS!
Oh, and I like chocolate. (: