hd_worldcup: The Devil's in the Details

[annafugazzi]

Fourth set of fics at hd_worldcup! The prompt is The Devil.

• Between the Devil and the Deep Blue Sea - Team Fanon
  Wordcount: 14,066
  Rating: R
  Warnings: AU, non-graphic dubious consent.
  Summary: Draco Malfoy always gets what he wants. Only, this time, what he wants is someone he can never have.
  Author's Note: Thanks to my betas J, S and L. Some text was lifted from DH pg. 458. I used the figurative explanation of 'The Devil'-obsession, losing control, and sexual desire.
  
  
• Smile, You’re on Camera -- Team EWE
  Wordcount: ~14,000
  Rating: NC-17
  Warning: A bit of Harry/Ginny but nothing serious or explicit.
  Summary: Harry Potter has lost sight of what it means to listen to himself—he’s depressed and confused, moving through life only to please the Ministry and the press and his friends. One day he wakes up on a train next to Draco Malfoy and that all changes.
  Author's Note: Thank you so much to Team Sheep and all who betaed. Thanks to other people who helped when they didn’t even have a stake on this team.
  
  
• Better The Devil You Know (Mehen) -- Team Epilogue
  Wordcount: ~14,800
  Rating: NC-17
  Warnings: Infidelity, misuse of magic, self-harm(inflicted by another), angst, mentions of character death.
  Summary: Any chain is freely worn. You are enslaved only because you allow it. Throught the passing of time, Harry comes to realise we are each our own Devil.
  Author's Note: Author's Note The meaning of The Devil card can be found Here Thank you to my teammates and to my betas W&W—I could not have done it without you.
  
  
• Shadowplay -- Team Canon
  Wordcount: 5,500
  Rating: NC-17
  Warnings: Imaginary non-con, violence, and bondage. Non-imaginary (in the context of a fictional story) fully consensual but slightly violent sex.
  Summary: Harry knows what he wants, but Draco knows what he needs.
  Author's Note: "Everyone carries a shadow, and the less it is embodied in the individual’s conscious life, the blacker and denser it is. At all counts, it forms an unconscious snag, thwarting our most well-meant intentions."— Jung

OK, re. the hd_worldcup... um, fandom's gone kinda splodey re. this, yes?

Have written and re-written the same two paragraphs about five times, mentioning how I haven't seen any of the authors themselves complaining about their fics being trashed, but there seems to be some hostility towards them for being "whiny" anyway, and how, folkses, it's just supposed to be fun, and...

...and then I realize I can't expand on that in any way that won't add to the wank. ::sigh::

So. To sum up:

1. hd_worldcup = fun.
   
   
2. hd_worldcup = competition.
   
   
3. hd_worldcup = people will give their opinions, for good and bad, and while we might wish some would be gentler and may roll our eyes at others, it's not quite like trashing giftfics.
   
   
4. hd_worldcup mods = doing a great job, IMHO.
   
   
5. hd_worldcup = fun.

Enjoy it, guys. We all worked too damn hard to let it go all pear-shaped, you know?

Comments

[annafugazzi.livejournal.com]

my problem is that English is the third foreign language I speak and, whenever I make a comment,
Oh to have this problem - a third foreign language, I mean :D :D :D

I am, as ever, in awe of the fact that so bloody often people who say "Please excuse my English - it's not my native tongue" have far better grammar, spelling and usage than about 75% of us native English speakers. I get a little short of breath even thinking of writing in Spanish, which was the first language I ever learned and which I still speak fluently, because I just know I'm dropping accents and conjugating oddly and all that. And don't even get me started on writing in French, which I had to do all day at school from ages 12-18. The mere thought gives me hives.

Anyway. All this to say: you certainly look like a native English speaker from this side of the screen. Go you!