in a web of glass, pinned to the edges of vision

brief realization regarding Harry Potter slashfic:

colubra

7/27/05 10:21 am

Harry Potter lends itself to slash-fic not because of any subtextual homoerotic content. Not because they put goodlooking young men in the movies as Harry, Draco, &c.
No, it's because 'Tom Marvello Riddle' 'Tom Marvolo Riddle' (corrected with thanks to kaninchenzero and redshrike for catching my misspelling) ALSO anagrammatizes to 'dildo valor mortem'.

We now return you to your non-brain-hurty workday.

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• eac

  7/27/05 05:28 pm (UTC)

  

  O, thanks for that.

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• rani23

  7/27/05 05:34 pm (UTC)

  

  Ow.

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• kaninchenzero

  7/27/05 05:56 pm (UTC)

  

  It leaves an extra 'l' floating around somewhere, but that's quite close enough to make my brain curl up in despair. Thank you so very kindly.

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  • colubra

    7/27/05 05:59 pm (UTC)

    

    my bad: it's 'Marvelo' not 'Marvello'.

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    • redshrike

      7/27/05 08:19 pm (UTC)

      

      um you're going to hate me *cough* marvolo*cough* feel free to delete

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      • colubra

        7/27/05 08:20 pm (UTC)

        

        naaah. :)

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• sinick

  7/27/05 06:16 pm (UTC)

  

  And, as one slashfic author has noted, Alan Rickman has the anagram of anal_cram_ink

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• st_rev

  7/27/05 06:42 pm (UTC)

  

  Brave dildo of death? What?

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• whatifoundthere

  7/27/05 06:46 pm (UTC)

  

  You're not kidding about making my brain hurt. That's AWFUL Latin.
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  ;)

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  • colubra

    7/27/05 06:58 pm (UTC)

    

    So it fits in with the rest in the books, doesn't it.

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    • celeloriel

      7/27/05 08:51 pm (UTC)

      

      seamlessly, yup.

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• peverel

  8/2/05 04:23 am (UTC)

  

  This comment has absolutely nothing to do with the post I'm commenting on. Oh well.
  
  I don't know if you're watching Rock Star: INXS. If you're not, try and watch tomorrow at 10 (I think -- check for PST). One of the really good contestants will be performing 'The Man Who Sold The World,' and doing a very emotional rendition of it, apparently.
  
  Figured I'd let you know.
  
  Pev
  

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