Dragons are usually friendly, cuddly creatures.

[sarren]

Just read a cool fic where Draco finds himself in a Mirror Universe where he's a Griffindor and Potter's a Slytherin. It's generally well written and funny, somewhat like how Maya writes Draco. And we all love Maya's Draco, right?

Though there are occasionally POV lapses that made me blink, but I am a POV nazi

A Slytherin In Gryffindor Clothing


And now for a wander through my late night thoughts, such as they are. I hesitated for several minutes before deciding to use 'nazi' to say what I wanted to say.

It's a word that's losing it's capitalisation. Passing into common usage. Does that mean we as a society are becoming indifferent to what it really represents?

Are we forgetting to be horrified?

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[psycho-tabby.livejournal.com]

Or there are just so many current atrocities that past ones do not seem so terrible when faced with all that is currently happing?

Fic sounds great :P
Hopefully I'll get a sec to read it soon!

[and_chocolate]

I think that the word may be less horrifying, but I can't imagine that the concept is any less so. It's still horrifying to me, and I'm several generations away from having actually experienced it; my kids feel the same way I do and because of their ages I doubt if they've even met anyone who was in a concentration camp.

Because English is a living language, words are very fluid -- their meanings and the emotional responses they evoke change over the course of years. Sometimes that reflects societal changes and sometimes it doesn't. I think this is the latter case.

At least I hope so.

[(Anonymous)]

Hi Fern

Wow, I found you. And the fic link. Got home and helped a friend out by typing up their resume for them. Now off to do that reading I was supposed to be doing today. Will follow up the link. Sounds fab. Re Nazi/nazi: was going to comment, but became very convoluted & out of time. Ta for a great arvo. R.

[sarren.livejournal.com]

Hello :)

We can always discuss it in person some time :)