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snarryhols (snarryhols) wrote in snarry_holidays,
@ 2007-11-13 18:15:00

Entry tags:

art, au: magic, rated: r

The Compass, for lilyseyes
Title: The Compass
Artist: umbrus
Giftee: lilyseyes
Rating: R and does fluffiness count?
Pairing: Snarry
Warnings: (please continue to warn for DH spoilers) nudity
Disclaimer: Do you see Severus chasing Harry or vice versa? Well, ok maybe we do, sometimes, but I still don't own Harry Potter.
Summary: Severus giving Harry his Christmas present.
Artist Notes: I know you asked for NC-17 but this was as close as I got. I think it works well for what you wanted as the scenario (Severus wants the perfect gift for Harry, one that will express what he can't verbalize and bonus if Severus thinks Harry might be slipping away from him). I tried to work in the slipping away part though I don't know if it actually came across. I hope you like it!

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(Anonymous)
2007-11-20 03:32 am UTC (link)

Ya, the people who insist they are normal really annoy me. I mean how the hell do they know they're mental state or beliefs or behavior coincide with more than 50% of the world's population! well, there really isn't a normal state that would describe more than 50% of the population. I could go on but I won't.

As for you-are-so-like-my-prof insane, this is a special category reserved for people who somethings (about 70% of the time) says things that doesn't make sense the first time around because they speak entirely in differentials, integrals and eigen vectors. If you don't know what they are or how horrid they can become, you are lucky. Stupid things are all from high-level math and they give me no end of headaches (I doing Engineering Science, for some strange reason we need to learn more math than the math majors. Stupid soul sucking program!)

Ohhh! lots of languages! that's so cool and awesome. I wish I knew more languages especially Japanese cause I really want to go there and well actually experience the culture. Really traveling the world would be so much fun and ya linguist/archaeologist would be awesome fodder for stories with all the cool things you are likely to see. Is that what you are studying?

I'll stop now, in fear of sounding too pushy or creepy or what have you and scaring/creeping you out.

-Lian

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inoru_no_hoshi
2007-11-20 11:55 pm UTC (link)

*nodnod* I don't think there is any way to define "normal" short of a place where every bit of behaviour is proscribed. And honestly, the world would be HELLA boring if everyone were "normal". (When are those colonies on the Moon and Mars going up, again? xDD)

Agh. @_@ I see. Math is... *shudders* I hate it with a passion, and I can only do up to basic algebra with any sort of ease. :P It just does not make sense to me at all past there, even if I can do it with a ~~little~~ okay, a lot of work. Haha. (More math than math majors? WTF is up with that? xD;;)

Oh, I have this plan to have written and at least basic spoken understanding of at least 15 languages before I die. At LEAST. (Yes, I AM a language geek, how ever did you guess? xDD) Traveling the world would be totally awesome...a shame it takes a hellacious amount of money to do. :P Nah, I'm not studyig it yet - no money for college/uni. But I will. I WILL. *shakefist at sky*

Haha, it takes a loootttt more than that to creep me out. :P I'm the sort of person who likes to scare themselves by reading Stephen King before bed. xDDDD

~Mara~

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(Anonymous)
2007-11-21 01:30 am UTC (link)

ya, I think I'd die of boredom or horror if everyone was the same.

Language geek, huh? Awesome! (is that why your username is in what I think is Japanese?)

I'd love to be able to learn languages. I need to be in the environment to learn a language and even than it only goes as far a spoken. I hate writing, freaking spelling and grammar always confuses me and I never get it perfect.

I've always wanted to see the world, to see all kinds of different thing! and of course try them! Anything new is interesting to me and anything I don't know makes me curious so going to different places is a must. Plus I'd get to see all the culture and history... I'll see the world one day, I will. Really that's part of the reason I'm doing engineering science and putting up with all the evil evil things. This way I can do less school and make more money, eventually I'll have enough to do everything and have everything I really want.

In the mean time I'll settle for planning, dreaming and taking electives that interests me (this year I'm doing introductory linguistics which thankfully doesn't require detailed knowledge of any specific language).

I'm sure if you wanted enough you'll get to work in linguistics or archeology eventually. With the way the world works for us if we wanted something enough and tried hard enough we can pretty much get a job in any field. Anyways, which 15 languages are you aiming for? and dare I add "why?" ^_^

-Lian

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inoru_no_hoshi
2007-11-21 12:19 pm UTC (link)

So would I. Think of what I'd have to do to get a thrill if everyone else were carbon copies of one another! xD

Yes, that is why, and yes, it is Japanese. It means, roughly, wish on a star. ^_^

I've never tried total immersion in anything to learn it, except writing and drawing, and considering where I am now re both of those, I guess it's probably a good system for me. :P Spelling and grammar thumb their noses at EVERYONE. They just do it more blatantly at some people. xDDD

Oh goodness, yes. Foreign cultures and languages and history and... yeah. One culture I really wish I could see in the flesh is that of Ancient Egypt... talk about WOW. ^__^ Planning and dreaming make everything more tolerable. :D (You'll have to tell me more about that Introductory Linguistics course at some point. Hehe.)

Yeah, true. I just have to get over my ACK-PEOPLE-mustbeshy!!! thing. Seriously, being around people irl makes me make like a clam. xDDD Wouldn't be able to tell it from this, huh? (Plus, you know, I'm mostly deaf, and that helps nothing insofar as in-person communication goes. xDD)

Hmm. Counting my native tongue, and discounting so-called "dead" languages, English, Japanese, Arabic, Chinese, Vietnamese, Italian, Greek, Welsh, German, Spanish, French, Hindustani, Hebrew... hm. Add in the "dead" languages... Ancient Egyptian and Latin, as well as a conglomerate of tongues from the ancient Middle East.

Add in whatever ones I make up myself (and there's this weird part of me that wants to learn all the forms of Tolkien's Elvish, and Klingon...), and I'll end up speaking the weirdest sentences.... xDDD

As for why... Mostly because they sound and look cool, but also because there is something indescribably wonderful about figuring out what something means. I regularly challenge myself to put together words and phrases in Japanese, just because it's one of the most fun things I can think of. I love playing with words and meanings, always have, and I think that translates into a love of languages in general.

Besides, I can get good money for "playing" like that. xDDDD

~Mara~

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(Anonymous)
2007-11-21 05:17 pm UTC (link)

Ah yes. Hoshi means star in Japanese doesn’t it? I should have remembered, stupid… though I didn’t know inoru meant wish. Guess you learn something new every day, huh? ^_^

Total immersion is usually good for learning just about anything, it’s how I learned English.

And OMG Ancient Egypt! I used to be absolutely in love with it! (I still love Ancient Egypt but it’s dampen down a bit)They were so fascinating especially their religion, I wanted to be able to go back in time and live there. I got so obsessed at one point I actually tried to learn Ancient Egyptian from this book I found (this was before I realized that I had no aptitude for languages). Well the basics of what we have deciphered, which isn’t much. I think I can still remember some of it.

You choose an interesting collection of languages they are all so different in origin and form. And the “dead” languages definitely count! I actually wanted to take Latin this year (cause studying it on my own from a dictionary wasn’t working out that well due laziness and having no one and nothing I could practice on).

Elvish? O_0 Well, if you want really weird sentences you could try to brain damage to a really specific but unidentified part of your brain. You’ll end up like that translator (I forgot from where) who knew 10 different languages. She got into a car? accident had some brain trauma and couldn’t sort out which word, sentence structure or grammar went with which language. She speaks in all the languages that she knows but interspersed with each other so the only people who can understand her was people who knew the same languages she did.

*nods* there is definitely something indescribably wonderful in figuring out what something means or putting meaning into something. Meaning is what gives things power and well... there is just something about communicating thought or feelings or emotions and they way its done.

Anyways, I think I’m going to stop myself here. I will definitely tell you more about the Linguistics course, that will probably a really long thing. I love it but have no one who also thinks it interesting. *pouts*

-Lian

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