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lesyeuxverts) wrote2008-03-02 08:30 pm
lesyeuxverts) wrote2008-03-02 08:30 pm
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Wheee!
Now that I have regained some small measure of coherency, I return to you with a rec: For Blood and Wine are Red (Albus/Gellert, NC-17. Summary: It's not that Albus doesn't know better.)
This was my gift from![[insanejournal.com profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/external/ij-community.gif)
hp_springsmut, and it is amazingly, unbelievably, freaking perfect. It reads the way that canon would read if JKR was a better writer *cough*I didn't say that*cough*. The characterization, the setting, the plot and the writing - it's completely perfect all the way through.
It's the little things that really, really, REALLY make this story. The use of Oscar Wilde and the reference to his imprisonment paralleling Albus's father's ... the use of poetry throughout ... the amazing, poetic language ... the strawberries. The way that Gellert looks like a priest the first time that Albus sees him (OMG, the person who wrote this must know me really well! *looks around flist suspiciously* That detail just made me squee out loud!) The use of Legilimency and Occlumency. The teapot. The socks. EVERY FREAKING DETAIL is PERFECT, and the story is woven out of all of these details together to make a brilliant, amazing, perfect tapestry.
The family situation - the way that Albus relates to his brother and sister - YES, this is the way that it must have been. Precocious, brilliant, feeling tied down ... feeling guilty when he inadvertantly neglects them ... this is exactly how it must have been and these are exactly the kind of experiences that must have shaped the Albus that we know later in his life. This is one of the stories that manages to meld so seamlessly with canon and yet hits you upside the head with new insights into the HP-verse. It's absolutely amazing.
The sex scene is particularly poignant - Albus's insecurities, his shame, the way he thinks about his family and worries about his own position. The way they get undressed, the way they talk to each other. It's absolutely amazing, ABSOLUTELY AMAZING. The ending is OMG FREAKING BRILLIANT ... *flails some more* ... okay, apparently I've degenerated into incoherency again, so I'll just skip off and read my amazing, fantastic, wonderful gift again.
I'm absolutely dying to know who wrote this for me ... one of you, dear flist? I think that the author must have known me very well in order to write something THIS perfect for me!
This was my gift from
hp_springsmut, and it is amazingly, unbelievably, freaking perfect. It reads the way that canon would read It's the little things that really, really, REALLY make this story. The use of Oscar Wilde and the reference to his imprisonment paralleling Albus's father's ... the use of poetry throughout ... the amazing, poetic language ... the strawberries. The way that Gellert looks like a priest the first time that Albus sees him (OMG, the person who wrote this must know me really well! *looks around flist suspiciously* That detail just made me squee out loud!) The use of Legilimency and Occlumency. The teapot. The socks. EVERY FREAKING DETAIL is PERFECT, and the story is woven out of all of these details together to make a brilliant, amazing, perfect tapestry.
The family situation - the way that Albus relates to his brother and sister - YES, this is the way that it must have been. Precocious, brilliant, feeling tied down ... feeling guilty when he inadvertantly neglects them ... this is exactly how it must have been and these are exactly the kind of experiences that must have shaped the Albus that we know later in his life. This is one of the stories that manages to meld so seamlessly with canon and yet hits you upside the head with new insights into the HP-verse. It's absolutely amazing.
The sex scene is particularly poignant - Albus's insecurities, his shame, the way he thinks about his family and worries about his own position. The way they get undressed, the way they talk to each other. It's absolutely amazing, ABSOLUTELY AMAZING. The ending is OMG FREAKING BRILLIANT ... *flails some more* ... okay, apparently I've degenerated into incoherency again, so I'll just skip off and read my amazing, fantastic, wonderful gift again.
I'm absolutely dying to know who wrote this for me ... one of you, dear flist? I think that the author must have known me very well in order to write something THIS perfect for me!