Peer pressure is a mighty force.

[rsadelle]

I read Harry Potter and the Sorcerer's Stone today. Everyone's doing it. I can now go see the movie with my mother and not be confused. Plus, the good-looking lesbian I met last week told me I should. And so, in what is becoming my usual fashion, a pair of thoughts:

--I hope the movie is better than the book. J.K. Rowling spends seven chapters explaining things. I wanted to yell at her, "Show, don't tell!"

--No wonder people talk about George/Fred twincest. They're the most likable characters in the whole book, although Dumbledore is a close second.

Comments

Re: *very evil grin*

[rsadelle]

Are we reading the same twincest? I've found most, if not all, twincest to be overly serious and/or sappy. The twins, unfortunately, tend to lose all of their amusing characteristics in twincest.

Re: *very evil grin*

[coneyislandbaby]

Are we reading the same twincest?

Well, without getting all existential (or whatever) and saying that no, we're not reading the same twincest because no two people do see the same movie or read the same book, possibly not. The main twincest site (Weasley's Wizard Wheezes) is, AFAIK, being refurbished and isn't up at the moment, and that's been the only place I've read twincest in any great detail. I'm not sure how many of the stories are archived elsewhere, though I presumed at least ff.net for most of them. I could be wrong.

I've found most, if not all, twincest to be overly serious

I think those are probably the ones that I started reading and got a few paragraphs in and stopped.

and/or sappy.

Well, HP tends to be a sappy fandom. I've already said that I often get sugar shock from the stories, and you know how high my tolerance for sappy is. Perhaps I've been able to tolerate some of the stories you've thought were a bit too sappy, though.

Also, I find something wrong (in the very best sense of the word) with sappy incest in general. Just one of my kinks. For some reason, I find it rather yummy for incest to be sappy. It has that frisson of SBSW for me.

I do tend to be able to retain the good stories and forget the ones I don't like, though. For example, in P/K (Voyager) fandom, I can still quote from torch's stories and remember Emma Woodhouse's, but there are an awful lot I don't really remember anything about.

The twincest stories I remember most vividly right now would be We Don't Do That by Rube, posted within the last couple of weeks to hpslash (I noticed you were over there *g*). Not too sappy (IMO). Did have a rather glaring typo (list for lip...I was trying to figure out what was going on for a moment), but not too bad, and an older story, The Glitter Twins, which is simply the best twincest story I've read so far.

Oh, and one by redjester that I cannot think of the title of, but it was twins/Percy. I'm trying to find it again to read with movie visuals. I believe the author posts to ff.net.

Re: *very evil grin*

[rsadelle]

Wouldn't twincest where they're happy and well-adjusted about it and joking with each other be even more SBSW? That's what I want. Something where they don't lose their sense of humor just because they're fucking. Or, you know, something where they feel horribly guilty about it but can't stop doing it anway.

"The Glitter Twins" is really good, but I don't think that Beth Ann's portrayal of the twins' greed is accurate. They don't want money just for money's sake, they want it to make their dream of a joke shop come true. Sure, they did some really stupid things, but at least they had a good reason for doing it.

The twins/Percy story by Red Jester is "Study Session." It's not funny either.

Perhaps the best twins interaction I've come across are the bits in Telanu's Harry/Snape series. They're still funny and mischievous, but they're also into the sex.

My favorite straight (so to speak) twincest is Ailei's "Need." It's got that deep connection without being sappy, plus it has the really good sex and a great line about the twins fucking a lot of people. If you're not going to make twincest funny, this is how to do it.

Re: *very evil grin*

[coneyislandbaby]

Well, I think it all falls under the SBSW category. *shrug*

I'm sure the second one exists. I think I've read it.

That to me is a sign more of fanfic than of the story having a flaw. It's
something that seems to happen across fandoms in that one (often tiny or
insignificant) canon characteristic is blown up and becomes the defining
characteristic of the story, becoming much more exaggerated than it ever was in
canon.

I haven't read Telanu's stories yet *makes note to do so when I have a spare
minute*.

I liked Need a lot too.

BTW, which other pairings do you like/see in HP? I'm willing to give anything a
try, because there are a few pairings I never thought of that work really well for
me. I do have a teacher/student not-quite-squick (it's the below-squick thing for
me, as in it's not a squick, but if I were squicked it would be), but Harry/Snape doesn't get to me (as long as Harry's legal).

Re: *very evil grin*

[rsadelle]

Well, I've been writing mostly Harry/Draco, but apparently, that's just not the cool thing to do.

I'm also writing bits of Ron/Hermione and Snape/Draco, which is another thing that's just not cool.

Not that I'm bitter.

Because of this person, I'm now enamored of Fred/Angelina.

I want Snape/McGonagall, but there doesn't seem to be any that's any good.