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for Breeding Lilacs out of Dead Land.

by mbassan

person spaz141
schedule April 8, 2004 at 12:00 AM
I\'m more scared now - lot of controversy surrounding your story. you must be proud to inspire reaction for a fan fic. thanks.
person Kim
schedule April 8, 2004 at 12:00 AM
This is very very wrong. First, the parents draw out their daughter\'s severed finger, and then they\'re off having sex. I used to like this fic, but now I can see it for the disgusting exposition of retarded ideas that it is. You have officially gone beyond the pale. I will not be reading any more of this.
person spaz141
schedule April 7, 2004 at 12:00 AM
I should have smelled a kidnapping. Yikes! I\'m a little freaked. thanks.
person Denali
schedule April 7, 2004 at 12:00 AM
\"Before reading the next installation of BLooDL, I\'d like to recommend you this nice little parody one of my more enthusiastic flamers wrote, called: \"Mowing Weeds\". Yay! I\'m a celebrity!\"

No. No you\'re not. I have read this muddled piece of something and to be honest, you know so very little about much of what you write. Did I miss something? Are you a trained therapist? You actually had the balls to write something about the proper way to handle a person who has committed terrible acts. You are WRONG. How do I know? Only because of a degree in counseling social work and being a licensed psychotherapist. Learn before you write. And don\'t ask for criticism if you\'re not willing to accept it and move on. Not everyone will like your work. That\'s life.
person AnglicWitch
schedule April 7, 2004 at 12:00 AM
Hi, i\'ve been a huge lurker, who usually doesn\'t come out to say anything. period. But i feel that the discussion at WIKTT has blown out of complete proportions and that you deserve way more support than the stuff that has come out over there. You write beautifully, and portray Hermione realistically (rather than some perfect goddess) and Snape having that affair seems like something he would do in comparison to the \"i think i\'m ugly i don\'t deserve anybody why would you want me\" fanon severus snape. Though I am not a survivor, i feel that i may understand the need for forgiveness for Snape.

Anyway, if i could keep talking about your fic i would, but i can\'t due to classes, but I applaud you on your writing and am very excited to read what happens next.

-AnglicWitch
person AureliaFlint
schedule April 7, 2004 at 12:00 AM
I have been reading this story for some time now and I think I am ready to review. You seewasnwasn\'t sure I liked this story. But this story hooked me. It is well writtten and a few typos are not the end of the world unless this is your honors thesis. I really enjoy the litery references. Poetry isn\'t my favorite genre but the quotes are apt and well used. This story reminds me of a movie I once saw called Damaged with Jeremy Irons. Hermione and Severus are to me damaged people as is Harry to a degree. Ron is not, that is why Hermione cannot be with him. I think that\'s why I read this story. The characters are real and the story doesn\'t have a moral. It\'s like life. Sometimes if you live your life in a morally socially responsible way, it will still screw you over. Severus\'s personal connection to an abusive father and having a Holocust survivor for a mother have taught him not to expect much from life. I wonder how you are going to end this story.
person Candace
schedule April 7, 2004 at 12:00 AM
Good as always!! :D
person ellisonian
schedule April 7, 2004 at 12:00 AM
I thought that I could read this, as I have read many with similar themes... and you do have interesting titles for chapters. I am deeply offended by the idea of Hermione getting romantically involved with someone who has raped her thou As As a survivor, I can tell you that it is completely unbelievable and unrealistic and ruins the entire story. She isn\'t someone who had a romantic relationship with him before- which may have been abusive- there is no ground work for a relationship to exist after the attack. A child, who in this story is also very Mary-Sue, isn\'t a way to create romance or love. Not good enough.

I hope you never need find out the way such an event affects your life personally, but you do need a swift reality check unless you are trying to promote the idea that rape is in some way beneficial.
person Deb >^..^< .
schedule April 7, 2004 at 12:00 AM
Chapter 22
person hope
schedule April 6, 2004 at 12:00 AM
The fact that I am still reading this story says something unhealthy about me I\'m sure. I think your Hermione is seriously disturbed. I was \'squicked\', for lack of a better word, by the hg/ss sex.
Too many things about this story bother me, and that is my right. I had hoped at the beginning that you would take things in a more believable direction and it hasn\'t happened for me. I kept hoping for more explanation for the characters actions and reasoning within the story and it has not been forthcoming. I do not think I can continue to read this wiithout driving myself crazy.
I am a WIKTT member and have read all the controversy and I must say I agree with many of the detractors of this story. I think in many places it is unclear. I think any woman who goes back to her rapist to form a supposed romatic relationship is in need of psychological help. While that would not be a bad thing in a story I don\'t think you\'ve shown us why Hermione would do that. Firgiving him is a damn site different from entering into a relationship with thim. You have not shown us that he regrets what he did or that he\'s not going to to it again. In fact you\'ve shown us that he\'s verbally abusive of kids. You give no justification for why Hermione would subject her daughter to Snape.

I kept waiting for it all to be explained. It wasn\'t to my satisfaction.

ANd when it turned into a \'romance\' it turned my stomach.

I will not even get into the fact that I find Snape\'s reasoning about where blane lies for the Holocaust... He\'s a fictional character and you may have some reason for him to be blaming all Chirstianity for it. (In my humble opinion the blame lies with Hitler, the Nazits and their collaborators, and it was motivated by many more things than just religion) For the record, I am neither Jewish nor Christian.

Keep writing, I think you have talent. Keep working on it.
But you have lost my as a reader for this story.

Blessed Be!