i love me my canon-compliant slash pairings. and dumbledore/grindelwald is almost a cliché. an escapistic, intense affair under elm trees waving in the warm summer breeze, overshadowed by moral failures and ended by The Death Of The Sister. guilty feelings ensue, lives are being changed.
i don't understand why people eeeew! at dumbledore/grindelwald just because they are old dead men now. they weren't always dead and old, you know.
old adventurers by
rosemaryandrue An old prisoner remembers. June 1997. gellert grindelwald smiles with an unbroken smile on his face.
bruises by
pica_scribit hopefully soon becoming ad/gg, but outlining probably the very reason why dumbledore went so hastily for grindelwald's philosophy (but i see that the fact that both ambitious, passionate young men were in the same situation when they met didn't hurt either: being outsiders, stuck in godric's hollow, under said elm trees....).
After much discussion in a number of comms, it has become pretty clear that Ariana's port-traumatic reaction to her attack cannot really be explained by a physical beating. It is my intention to use this as a sort of prologue for an Albus/Gellert fic at some point in the future,since all AD/GG must necessarily begin with Ariana. R for implied rape of a child, more fics and pretty pictures on
grindeldorein the comments of
"bruises" i read people comparing dumbledore/grindelwald to dumbledore/doge. but, personally, i think there never was any dumbledore/doge to speak of, not of any true importance anyway. when doge speaks/writes about dumbledore he reads like fangirling his Big Hero, rather than referring to a close friendship with emotions and secrets shared. he never knew of albus' close association with grindelwald or any of the big scheme stuff. come to think of it hardly anyone knew of the big scheme, bits and peaces at most; the ones who disliked him most probably knew the most. which makes me think that he must have been a very lonely man. astonishingly the more that he didn't seem to
feel lonely. or did he?