All your points are excellent, sweetie! I would also only like to read something like that if it were, like you said, credibly written and not overly teach-y.
Hee! I think the appeal of the art is that it isn't at all teach-y, and it isn't dark in the sense of dealing with heavy issues. It shows magical trench warfare, and that's about it.
You probably read this in my Hols sign-up, but this is a scenario that I would like to see:
AU WWI: Manfred von Richthofen!Draco and British ace!Harry, with flying battle scenes and maybe Draco and Harry blowing out each others planes (brooms?) and landing in France's countryside/wilderness, stranded. Non-magical or magical.
Now, while I know Richthofen is controversial, I think a story like that would be exciting and different, and really just another way of putting Draco and Harry together in a stressful situation. It isn't set up to be terribly teach-y or intensively about the war. Rather, the time acts like a base setting for the boys and their character development.
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Date: 2010-07-26 05:04 pm (UTC)Hee! I think the appeal of the art is that it isn't at all teach-y, and it isn't dark in the sense of dealing with heavy issues. It shows magical trench warfare, and that's about it.
You probably read this in my Hols sign-up, but this is a scenario that I would like to see:
AU WWI: Manfred von Richthofen!Draco and British ace!Harry, with flying battle scenes and maybe Draco and Harry blowing out each others planes (brooms?) and landing in France's countryside/wilderness, stranded. Non-magical or magical.
Now, while I know Richthofen is controversial, I think a story like that would be exciting and different, and really just another way of putting Draco and Harry together in a stressful situation. It isn't set up to be terribly teach-y or intensively about the war. Rather, the time acts like a base setting for the boys and their character development.
What are your thoughts about that? :-)