Lobelia the adverbially eclectic

I bet he is, though. *gg* Can't you just see it?

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lazulus

Strangely enough, I actually can!

*laughs*

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Heeeeeee!!!

:)

Actually, I was thinking about Draco on the bus. I was thinking how he's always so suave in fics (which is nice, don't get me wrong), but I'd quite like to read about a jittery, less polished, slightly awkward Draco with no fashion sense. You know, just for a change.

[/draco musing]

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Um, do you want some of my fic?

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Um, do you want some of my fic?

Is this your ongoing Dudley/Draco of Doom?

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The Draco in my ongoing fic of Doom has no fashion sense and is awkward, just as you wrote in your comment. I thought you were referring to Doom! Draco!!! Would you like to read a bit of it?

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Ah, I see! No, that was just my bus-draco-ramblings. But of course your Draco is like this! How could he not be? I would like to read some, actually - I'm most intrigued by this fic.

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Would you like me to send it as an email attachment or post it in a flocked post? I will send a beginning bit; there might be some confusion about chronology as some parts are doubled over; they exist in several versions and I've put them all into the one document. If you don't mind such rawness...!

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Ooh, post it please!

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Also, I can't believe you hit upon the same Draco that I hit upon!! That is... that is really great.

:-)

And I, too, love suave, drawling, fashion icon Draco (Resonant's Draco, basically) but I just needed to write another one.

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Yes, I've been reading Mirabella's Wip Shadow of His Wings, which is great and really enjoyable, and just about the only HP I've been reading at all lately, but it is most definitely Fanon Draco, and I love Fanon Draco, but sometimes I just wonder why there aren't other Draco, that's all. Because there aren't really. And it's not like Fanon Draco really has much of a basis in canon. Canon Draco's a peaky-looking, nasty little shit.

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Ha, meant to link that: SoHW

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It is true, Fanon Draco is the Draco. And book!Draco is nasty. He's a wizard nasty version of Dudley. So why people glom onto Draco as god's gift but leave Dudley dragging in the shit... well, *puts hands on hips and glares at fandom*

Ooh, doing some HP again would be fun.

Also, Draco is pointy.

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If you're not a member of [Bad username or site: @ livejournal.com], perhaps you should join! And here is my burly icon, just for you!

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I looked at this and actually thought of posting Ricky Hatton pics before I pulled myself back from the brink. a) The men aren't nearly burly enough. b) I remembered that it is not me who is into the burly but Draco. *repeats to self: I am not Draco, I am not Draco*

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Oh, I was so hoping you'd post Ricky pictures! There's some serious diversity in that group as to what constitutes "burly." Yeah, sure. Of course you're not Draco. :P

I forgot to tell you; a few weeks ago I was watching a boxing match in England, and they showed Ricky in the audience a few times. I squeed. Well, I squeed anyway because the match was Calzaghe/Lacy, and though not burly, Joe Calzaghe is a fantastic boxer and cute and face is not smashed up! But Jeff Lacy, who lost, but hung in there with the tenacity of a terrier, is very burly, but in that really cut, lean Apollo-like way, which I'm not complaining at all, but they just aren't quite as squishy.

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omg, you are even more of a closet Dudley fan than I am!! You saw Ricky in the audience?! I'm not even sure I'd recognise him! And you watch boxing?? I hate it but must do more research -- any tips? Any jargon? Any pointers into the world of the burly boxers??

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I'm not even sure I'd recognise him!

Oh, you'd recognise him, and the announcer pointed him out in the audience before the match as one of Britain's greatest boxers.

I don't watch a lot of boxing; in the US it's so horribly corrupt that it seems like every match is fixed and there's just no point to it. But I'll watch if the husband points out something interesting- like a match in Europe, or a new fighter we've never heard of before. There really is a lot of jargon; if your Dudley is a boxer, the first thing you need to do is establish his weight class. Unless Ricky Hatton is very tall, he looked like maybe a super-middle-weight, or maybe a light-heavy-weight. You can just make that up. Then he needs an amateur and professional fight record and so on. Does he knock out his opponent every time, or do most of his fights "go to the cards?" Does he have a strong right upper-cut and devious left hook? Or maybe he's a Southpaw. Just let me know what info you need. If I don't know it, t'husband is a veritable encyclopedia of fighting jargon.

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omg I love you! South paw! Devious left hook! Fight record! this jargon is music to my ears. I'm figuring that Dudley is a heavy-weight of some sort because that's what JRK says he is (but then she has no clue and is just making it up herself, *g*). For the rest, I have no idea! He's not professional because he is a hairdresser, professionally. *laughs at absurdity of own plot premise* He stopped boxing in matches when he left school but keeps a hand in for recreation. Does that exist? Can you just go down to your local club and fight a few hours on a Thursday evening?

*copies and pastes all the jargon in your comment*

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I would peg Dudley as a heavyweight too, just because I imagine him as enormous. (Hairdresser? Bwhahaha) There are boxing gyms in most cities where anyone who wants to can go fight just for fun. I'm sure they're even more prolific in the UK than they are here. They're typically in a dodgy part of town in some old, grimy warehouse-y building, with a few very hard old guys acting as "coaches," yelling at you to move your feet goddammit, and keep your gloves up, and move in and act like you've got a pair and so on. It's a very colorful environment.

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This is fantastic research. Seedy dives for boxing, oh, I can do something with that. What is the homosexuality quotient of these dives? Or homophobia quotient?

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Seedy dives for boxing, oh, I can do something with that.

Oh, there's a great martial arts school in Portland that is in the basement of an old parking garage. The students literally drive right in and park there!

What is the homosexuality quotient of these dives? Or homophobia quotient?

I would say that open homophobia is the norm, if the instructors are Caucasian and not Asian. Not so many Asian boxing instructors, anyway. However, I think there's a strong undercurrent of homoeroticism; it's a "safe" place for a man to admire another man's body, look him over, and have full-body contact if they tie up and still feel that he's perfectly "straight." They'll even comment on each other's musculature. It's even more so in wrestling, because scantily-clad, sweaty bodies totally clinging to each other, omg. And sometimes they can get each other in the 69 position. *wibbles*

But I digress. I think you could work some serious sexual tension into a boxing match! Even the viewer has more leeway - I can look at a boxer and say, "dayumn, look at that body!" and t'husband will just nod in agreement without taking his eyes off the screen.

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It occurs to me that your h will be contributing to the beta of this fic. I feel perverse!

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That is so very wrong that it's perfect! But he corrupted me so thoroughly that I owe him one every now and then!

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He corrupted you??

How?

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When I met him, I was a church-going virgin and had uttered maybe five swear words in my entire life. I think the virginity went before the church-going (he used to TAKE me to church Sunday mornings, the villain), then the mother-fucking goddamned swearing started. Within two months of meeting him, I had become a very bad girl and thoroughly enjoyed every moment of my transformation!

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He took you to church? Oh, this is fantastic! I go to church, you know. I've been going on Sundays for about two months now. I go to the Catholic church. I am not even baptised. I do it because Flylady told me that Sunday was spiritual renewal day...

*points at icon* I am easily led.

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I had no idea you went to church! But why not Protestant for heaven's sake? Is it the lure of the "smells and bells?" I've been thinking about going to the Lutheran church here. All of the university music instructors go there, and they have a great choir. That's the only reason I would go to church now, is to sing. (and trawl for piano students)

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I am married into a Catholic family. T'younger son is taking Holy Communion this summer! And I like the fact that it is a very old church and the dogma of it. I like the impersonality of it.

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How interesting! See, that's something I didn't know about you, after all these years. During the years I attended Uni in Germany, I sang with a Catholic student choir, and I have to admit, I did enjoy the antiquity of it, and the impersonality, but my Protestant-washed brain resists the dogma.

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My brain wasn't washed so I am open to any and all dogma. Well, not any and all but liking art helps to like Catholicism; they are so wonderfully not iconoclast. Maybe I should get an icon-icon??!

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Yes, Catholicism is definitely better if you like art. I usually skip the viewing of Protestant churches because they're so bare. Yes! You should get an icon-icon!

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I did!

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and also, check out [Bad username or site: @ livejournal.com]'s latest post. In the second paragraph, she discusses her odd religious habits. The rest of the post is all about Draco. :-)

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I did it! GIP.

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Perfect! All the things you do while I sleep . . .

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P.S. Strictly speaking, this is not Catholic, of course. But it is catholic with a small c!

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Well, yes. But if we keep vewy vewy quiet about it, most people won't know the difference. Maybe you'll even start a kerfluffle with your papist paraphenalia. *g* What fun!

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I would go to church today, you know, if my back weren't so terrible. Hm, maybe I should go anyway and pray a lot and hope to be healed...?

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