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The One Where They're Animals.

[(Anonymous)]

literally.

Maybe they're all the same animal - different breeds of dog, cat, etc. - or they're all different (ie., Marcone's a tiger who finds Harry the wolf who's injured needs protection from Nic the snake). Author!non chooses the animals, plot, location, and what happens to the characters who are already animals (are they still the same animals? different? human?).

Only requirement is that all the humans are animals.

pornstar names

[(Anonymous)]

I'm having fun trying to fill this prompt, but I'm having a little trouble thinking of a pornstar alias for fake!Harry. Any suggestions?

Re: Mini Fill: Honey, I'm Home

[(Anonymous)]

Sweet!

Re: pornstar names

[(Anonymous)]

Hmmm. The standard methods don't really work for Harry (Blackstone Mister? I dunno.)

However, then I thought about pulling from other magicians' names, how about Randy Dynamo? (For James Randi and, um, Dynamo.)

Or did you want something that was a more direct sound-alike reference to Harry's name? Hmmm.

(OMG YAY FILL FOR THIS YAY!)

Life of Pi

[(Anonymous)]

Harry is stuck on a boat in the middle of the ocean. Marcone is his Richard Parker.

Crack or deadly serious, I don't care. I just wanna see what someone will do with this.

Re: pornstar names

[(Anonymous)]

Or how about something like "Larry Warden" (or "Barry Knight" depending on when you're setting it?)

Re: pornstar names

[(Anonymous)]

Harry Biggerstaff.

(frozen) Re: The Prettiest She-Males in the Room

[(Anonymous)]

This fic prompt made me go ♥_♥ at all the characters. Yayyy for queer theory-knowing Ivy!

(frozen) Re: The Prettiest She-Males in the Room

[(Anonymous)]

I like your prompt but with one caveat-- this meme has abused Harry a lot already, it feels a little cheap to also designate him the villain for lack of a less-aware main character. I think he knows a lot better than to use that word; he's a good guy for all his (many many) failings. Couldn't someone else who isn't supposed to be somewhat likeable say it?

Re: Being a Serious 5 Year Old is Tough

[(Anonymous)]

Hey Authornon! I adored your fic-ness. It was totes awesome.

(frozen) OP Here

[(Anonymous)]

Um... This prompt wasn't designed for making Harry a villian. In fact, Harry's my favorite character and I didn't plan for anyone to say she-male.

This was suppose to be a fun prompt in which shows the silly side of the Dresden Files. I was just inspired by a game in which for each round you lose, your opponent gets to write on your face and you have to leave it like that for either the entire day or until you can get somewhere to wash your face.

Couldn't anyone tell that since Kincaid and Harry were playing a game and Ivy was applying their make up that this is a silly/crack prompt?

D:

(frozen) Re: OP Here

[(Anonymous)]

NA: I think it's well-established that the original prompt was worded with extremely poor taste, to say the least.

The comment you are replying to looks like it is geared toward the prompt inspired by yours, where someone is appropriately schooled on the varous facets of queer theory and how, even forty years ago, "shemale" was never meant to be anything but offensive.

(frozen) Re: OP Here

[(Anonymous)]

I think the poster you're replying to was referring to the fic I outlined in my reply, not your original prompt. This is the joy on anon memes! :D (And I like Harry too, I just find his constant lack of sensitivity about sexuality and gender issues frustrating yet adorable.) I think everyone knows that yours was meant to be fun.

(frozen) Re: OP Here

[(Anonymous)]

Caveat-anon here-

Yes, I was talking about your idea for a fic. I just happen to disagree that Harry-- a man who lived through the 80s and early 90s-- would call anyone a 'shemale' casually, or even in anger. Maybe, MAYBE he would a fae, since he has a strong fae/human disconnect. But he knows that it is a bad word he shouldn't be using.

No lie, I know he's a BALL of unexamined white/male/cis/able privilege. But in the same way that he can obliviously use 'a crazy person' without taking that conscious step over to 'retarded', or call Martin's hair 'gay' without ever thinking it was okay to drop the word 'faggot', I don't think he would go to that level of offensiveness.

So to make him casually use 'she-male' in the context of a fic makes him seem like he's been conveniently shoehorned into the villain role so that everyone else can look awesome. Why not make the offender someone who's either a) a hateful fuck, or b) someone so disconnected with modern society that their last reference for slang WAS the 1970s/1980s and they think that's just what you call trans* people? It's not like Dresdenverse is shy on old-timers who spend a lot of their time away from society or humans at all.

Kincaid PWNS ALL!

[(Anonymous)]

OMFG! Your Kincaid was so freaking hilarious. I am dying in my chair of laughter. So, so much awesomeness:)

Re: pornstar names

[(Anonymous)]

I second this name! Lol.

[(Anonymous)]

Racebend the characters, then add a kink? (Obviously racebending isn't a kink. But I like kink and I like racebending so both in one story is awesome.)

Please don't fill this unless you think you can write it without Fail. But if you can... how would Marcone and his crime syndicate -- and therefore his relationships -- be different if he were black or Cambodian or Mexican? How would Murphy relate to Harry if he were Ojibwa? Etc?

YES I LIKE SERIOUS SOCIAL COMMENTARY WITH MY HOT PORN SO SUE ME.

Re: pornstar names

[(Anonymous)]

Harry Breastman!

Oh. God, that's horrible. Lol.

Re: Marcone = Batman

[(Anonymous)]

You forgot 'has enough money to build whatever the fuck he wants?' Check' on your list lol.

Re: pornstar names

[(Anonymous)]

NGL, my absolute favorite is his Magician Drag Queen name, Devine Copafeel. THE BEST NAME EVER.

Re: pornstar names

[(Anonymous)]

sorry, that was meant to have < /not helpful > after it

(frozen) Re: The Prettiest She-Males in the Room

[(Anonymous)]

I just wanted to tell you that I really appreciate you saying this <3 I was considering mentioning something because it's such a loaded issue and I move in the circles where "she-male" is something you don't say, ever, but I wasn't sure how to approach the issue. I applaud your courage.

[(Anonymous)]

In case you haven't read them, and to tide you over:

Luck, which is part of the Racebending Revenge, challenge: http://archiveofourown.org/works/97484

and implicit racebending in this book/tv/Bridge of Birds fusion, set in ancient China that never was: http://archiveofourown.org/works/87838

(frozen) Re: OP Here

[(Anonymous)]

This isn't really the place to go into this in depth, so I'll just leave it that I think, based on personal experience including our OP, that it would be entirely possible for a person of Harry's age and situation to be a decent person and not understand how bad that word is until someone tells him. I think we'll just have to disagree on that. (It wasn't really meant as a serious prompt anyway! I pulled all of the serious bits of it into the genderqueer!Archive prompt downthread.)

Re: pornstar names

[(Anonymous)]

Harry Wandsworth?