No Style No. 21: The Sorting Hat says bugger off.
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Gasp! Two panels! …well, one panel reused and edited.
The weekend edition post about J.K. Rowling outing her own character reminded me of a conversation I had in a Starbuck’s a few years ago. I’ll bet everyone who’s ever been hit on by a male Potter fan has had some rendition of this conversation. The Starbuck’s was annexed onto a Barnes and Noble, as so many of them seem to be these days, and I’d just stopped in to buy a few books and then settled at the Starbuck’s to read one of them and have a latte. I didn’t even realize it was the release night of one of the books in the HP series, though it didn’t take long to figure it out with all the impatient Potterites swarming the store and the coffee shop.
And it didn’t take long for this guy to come zipping up to me to deliver what he probably thought was the most clever line ever. I don’t remember who he actually said; it wasn’t Dumbledore, I do remember that. I just subbed that in to be relevant to current issues. It might have been Snape or Remus or…bah, I don’t remember. But I do remember just how fast he hauled arse out of there. I probably could have been a bit nicer about telling him I wasn’t interested, but where’s the fun in that?
…this is why I’m going to be (newly) single for a long, loooong time. [snrk]
If the art looks a little odd, it’s because it’s wholly tablet-drawn in Photoshop with a stark black brush instead of a light pencil. I’m actually pretty pleased with it; except for the differences in the line heaviness, it’s not that far off from art done by hand on paper. I got lucky last night and managed a little decent hand-eye coordination with the tablet. Normally my tablet drawings look a bit more drunken than this, although the lines are still a bit more scribbly than my pencil lines.
I don’t remember what book I was reading back then (it might have been Stephen King’s Everything’s Eventual, but I’m not quite sure), but if you’re curious about the book actually depicted in the comic, it’s a story from my childhood that I recently rediscovered when I saw a movie version of it on Toon Disney. As a child I read Angela Sommer-Bodenburg’s The Little Vampire so many times that I wore out the cover on the library copy, and the local library fined me for it. Yesterday I went on Amazon and ordered a copy of it, so hopefully it’ll be here soon.
I remember being fascinated by the relationship between the young boy and the young vampire; back then I was too young to look for subtext (and there really wasn’t any there, it is a young adult book) and really didn’t know about homosexuality at all, but I think that book honestly may have been one of the things that first triggered a subconscious interest in other boys. I can’t believe I forgot about it, but it has been well over a decade. S’pose I bought a copy out of nostalgia; I can’t wait to read it again, even if I’m a bit old for it now and age will probably wear away much of the wonder and the gloss.
Who knows, maybe I’ll still love it.
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October 22nd, 2007 at 12:33 am
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October 22nd, 2007 at 1:23 am
I was up doing one last email check before bed, and I’m glad I did. That made me laugh so hard I nearly choked.
Can’t say I’ve ever had a cheesy Potter pick-up line, but I did have a drunken anime fan try something particularly cheesy at Anime Expo in Long Beach.
October 22nd, 2007 at 1:23 am
“I’ll bet everyone who’s ever been hit on by a male Potter fan has had some rendition of this conversation.”
O_o
…Strange. I think I never got over my initial impressions of HP-slashers as 13-year-old girls. =P
No matter though, well done!
October 22nd, 2007 at 1:34 am
ROFL I avoided all the “coming out” parties for the HP series. Lack of sleep and inconsiderately squealing preteen (teen, adult, and a few elderly) girls are not conducive to a patient Amy. As a side note, I bought the fourth HP novel–finally–in hardcover. Now I have a complete hardcover set.
I may read them again someday.
And, no, I rarely get giddy-fangirl over anything. Even my giddy-fangirl interest in gay asian guys is momentary. I tend to remember that they’re regular people, too.
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October 22nd, 2007 at 3:24 pm
Kujo: You know you have to tell the story now, right?
Indikaze: There are teenage-to-adult male slashers in almost every fandom. In my experience, they’re often scarier and more rabid than the 13-year-old girls.
October 22nd, 2007 at 10:41 pm
I honestly don’t remember what he said exactly (subconscious memory block?), but I was wearing some t-shirt about cosplay and he made a pun about playing dress-up together. I do remember that I just kind of stared at him until he backed away and left.
And I agree, male slashers can be quite creepy. At Anime Expo I went to some get together for some slash stuff for the series I like and there are some … well, some people are way out there. Way, way, out there.
October 24th, 2007 at 6:53 pm
A girl once offered to show me ‘wandless magic’ whilst i was waiting in line for the fifth book (yes, i’m a groupie, or was until the 6th).
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