Very yummy, but filled with enough red dye to turn your tongue bright red (red velvet cake = german chocolate cake with lots of red food coloring in it, and of course, the two red stripes in the icing took more red food coloring).
I thought HP fandom had burned the ability to be this intensely emotionally affected by the fate of a fictional character out of me, but apparently not, because this, weirdly, goes deeper. With Sirius Black, I had the excuse of having spent two years of intense fannish participation in Sirius/Remus fandom, and reading hundreds of fics about him/them, but I was mostly angry at and disgusted with Rowling rather than actually grief-stricken (and OotP completely soured me on the series).
With Steve... there's next to no fic and I've never seriously participated in Marvel fandom (no RPing, no message boards, just much reading of canon) and yet I honestly feel as if an actual person I know has died. Which is utterly ridiculous, but *shrugs* maybe it's because Marvel feels so much more like a fully realized world than HP-verse.
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I thought HP fandom had burned the ability to be this intensely emotionally affected by the fate of a fictional character out of me, but apparently not, because this, weirdly, goes deeper. With Sirius Black, I had the excuse of having spent two years of intense fannish participation in Sirius/Remus fandom, and reading hundreds of fics about him/them, but I was mostly angry at and disgusted with Rowling rather than actually grief-stricken (and OotP completely soured me on the series).
With Steve... there's next to no fic and I've never seriously participated in Marvel fandom (no RPing, no message boards, just much reading of canon) and yet I honestly feel as if an actual person I know has died. Which is utterly ridiculous, but *shrugs* maybe it's because Marvel feels so much more like a fully realized world than HP-verse.