zarah and persian boys

Can I just say how lovely it is to have zarah5 back in the fray?

Okay, then: it is fucking lovely to have zarah5 back in the fray!

:-)

P.S. Did several hours of DP research yesterday! Read my way through several tomes of mediaeval Persian poetry and a book analysing poetic metaphor in Persian poetry. Then picked up Italo Calvino's Why Read the Classics? -- have I ever mentioned that I adore and love Italo Calvino and that he'd be the one person I'd conjure back from the dead to sit at my dinner table and converse with?? -- and whaddayaknow: his third chapter is on Nizami's Seven Princesses -- which I've read!!! *falls down at own erudition*

And also, guess what: Persian poetry praises the beauty of youths non-stop. The black curls, the face like a moon, the lips like roses, the gazelle-eyes, and the down of a youthful beard -- it's boy-love paradise! Apparently, modern critics have bent over backwards in attempting to explain all this away as veiled references to women whose beauty was forbidden -- yeah, right.

( poem by kemal khojand )

laughs

Gacked from ajhalluk.


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question from a tourist in the land of hp fandom

So, hm. After having visited a few of the (truly spectacular) sights in the land of HP, I'm wondering:

Is Harry/Draco the Dom/Orli of HP? (As in: same age and equal?)

And is Sirius/Remus the Viggobean of HP? (As in: older men? Or is Bean angstier?)

And is there a Viggorli in HP? Man/boy love?

And how about the truly weird and rare -- who are they in HP? (the Kiran/Viggos and Bern/Johns?)

Can these pairings be equivalentised at all? Is there a finite number of pairings that pops up in different guises in all fandoms? Is Kirk/Spock the Viggobean of Star Trek???

And Billy? Is he Ron?