Reminiscing is fun!
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annundrielSo I'm sitting here triple-backing up some of my writing on LJ and listening to music. I was working on my little bit of HP fanfiction and the "Can't Help Falling in Love" by Elvis came on and I just busted up. The only time I've ventured into writing anything HP-related was in high school, and you know who it shipped? Severus Snape and Petunia Dursley. And it worked in my head, and Neesha's head 'cause she totally had a hand in it. There was a big back story for them and it was angsty and not happy and kinda schmoopy and just very over-the-top-romance-novel stuff. So much fun. Anyway. It was just very ironic to be editing that and all of the sudden hear "but I can't help falling in love with you" crooned in my ear.
At the moment, I kind of can't believe I went there at all in my HP fannishness.
And now I just found out that Natasha has never been covered in mud! ::gasp!:: I thought everyone got covered in mud at some point in their lives. And not just mud from the spa. When we were little, EB and I used to change into our swimsuits and go outside to make mudpies. We would then sit in the mud and make butt-prints on the patio. Mine were always bigger because I would roll around as much as I could without actually getting up. EB just sat there.
I also remember that we used to sort of pretend that we were like the children in the first Boxcar Children book. Grandma had a bunch of old pots and pans and glasses, all kind of chipped, dinged, and dirty. We'd fill them with water and raspberries, sticks and leaves, and then pretend to be getting by.
Then there was the hayhouse every summer. One of the best things ever. If you can't have a treehouse, have a hayhouse. We'd play Robin Hood and make our own bows from sticks and bailing twine. Then we'd pick corn from the field and eat some and then bury the cobs. We'd dance around it in a circle and chant, "To the corn! To the corn!"
Oh! There was also Town. Town was fun. Town was a game about a town called Town in a county called County. Mr. Bear (as played by EB) ran the newspaper, Mr. Bear's Newspaper. I frequently changed characters and jobs, but was probably mostly Miss Panda, whose claim to fame was that she had visited the land of Oz. She was always trying to prove it and even got some pictures in the newspaper to support her claims. Sometimes they'd visit the city of City.
But the best thing we ever did? Had to have been the Jones Sisters. From an older, fandom-knowing person, I now see that we were really just Mary Sue-ing ourselves into Indiana Jones, but it was so much fun. EB and I were Indiana Jones' crime-solving younger sisters. And there was our arch-enemy, bajillionare Julian Buggies (who, if there was ever a movie, would be played by John Hannah). For awhile we fought him. But then his sister, Juliana Buggies showed up and it turned up and started dating Indiana. Turned him evil! Julian approached us and it turned out he wasn't so bad and really didn't like his sister or evil!Indiana. So we teamed up and dropped a bomb on them, which only mutated them. But we lived with Julian in happiness and solved crimes and swam in his olympic sized swimming pool.
Whenever we play mystery games, we're still always the Jones Sisters.
Sigh. Good times, good times.
At the moment, I kind of can't believe I went there at all in my HP fannishness.
And now I just found out that Natasha has never been covered in mud! ::gasp!:: I thought everyone got covered in mud at some point in their lives. And not just mud from the spa. When we were little, EB and I used to change into our swimsuits and go outside to make mudpies. We would then sit in the mud and make butt-prints on the patio. Mine were always bigger because I would roll around as much as I could without actually getting up. EB just sat there.
I also remember that we used to sort of pretend that we were like the children in the first Boxcar Children book. Grandma had a bunch of old pots and pans and glasses, all kind of chipped, dinged, and dirty. We'd fill them with water and raspberries, sticks and leaves, and then pretend to be getting by.
Then there was the hayhouse every summer. One of the best things ever. If you can't have a treehouse, have a hayhouse. We'd play Robin Hood and make our own bows from sticks and bailing twine. Then we'd pick corn from the field and eat some and then bury the cobs. We'd dance around it in a circle and chant, "To the corn! To the corn!"
Oh! There was also Town. Town was fun. Town was a game about a town called Town in a county called County. Mr. Bear (as played by EB) ran the newspaper, Mr. Bear's Newspaper. I frequently changed characters and jobs, but was probably mostly Miss Panda, whose claim to fame was that she had visited the land of Oz. She was always trying to prove it and even got some pictures in the newspaper to support her claims. Sometimes they'd visit the city of City.
But the best thing we ever did? Had to have been the Jones Sisters. From an older, fandom-knowing person, I now see that we were really just Mary Sue-ing ourselves into Indiana Jones, but it was so much fun. EB and I were Indiana Jones' crime-solving younger sisters. And there was our arch-enemy, bajillionare Julian Buggies (who, if there was ever a movie, would be played by John Hannah). For awhile we fought him. But then his sister, Juliana Buggies showed up and it turned up and started dating Indiana. Turned him evil! Julian approached us and it turned out he wasn't so bad and really didn't like his sister or evil!Indiana. So we teamed up and dropped a bomb on them, which only mutated them. But we lived with Julian in happiness and solved crimes and swam in his olympic sized swimming pool.
Whenever we play mystery games, we're still always the Jones Sisters.
Sigh. Good times, good times.
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Date: 2005-08-02 02:50 pm (UTC)(no subject)
Date: 2005-08-02 07:38 pm (UTC)Y'know, I still have never seen Children of the Corn. Maybe we should rent it next year, and scare the bejeebus outta me. There's a big corn field right outside this year. And one right next door. It's kinda spooky.
And, omg, if crop circles turn up, I'm totally moving to Seattle and never leaving.
Memories are nice
Date: 2005-08-02 03:33 pm (UTC)I can still see Petunia and Snape snoggin in a broom closet somewhere. Well, maybe. It's still fun to imagine that they had a past.
*snoggles*
Re: Memories are nice
Date: 2005-08-02 07:34 pm (UTC)I still rather like Snape/Petunia and the past we imagined for them. I think it makes Petunia a lot more interesting and layered than she is in the books. (And isn't that what fanfiction is for in a way?) They were fun to play with. Maybe I'll go back and play with them some more at some point. Natasha has expressed interest.
Hey, do you think anyone else out there 'ships them? Or do you think we're it?
::snoggles::
Re: Memories are nice
Date: 2005-08-02 07:37 pm (UTC)*snogglets*
Re: Memories are nice
Date: 2005-08-02 07:39 pm (UTC)::snoggles::
Re: Memories are nice
Date: 2005-08-02 07:59 pm (UTC)That was from something that I can't find the title of...Ch 7... http://www.terion.net/blind.html. And: http://www.fictionalley.org/fictionalleypark/forums/showthread.php?s=&threadid=56213
Ahem. Now I'm going to be a good houseguest and not sit here on my sister's computer.
*snoggles*
Squee!!
Date: 2005-08-02 08:35 pm (UTC):D
This is just too cool.
(Although, wouldn't it be neat if we were first?)
::snoggles::