...and it's not even slash fiction...

The day before the ball, Draco got a package from home.

It contained black velvet robes, and a stern injunction from his father to wear them and instantly cease entertaining this strange Muggle-clothing obsession.

He also ordered him to cease entertaining the Gryffindor boys in his bedroom.

Draco wrinkled his nose at the lurid description in the letter. He had no doubt about where Lucius was getting his information, and he thought that Pansy was letting her imagination run away with her.

This kind of obsession with pretty gay love was frankly unhealthy.

relationship language: definitions

One of the good things about livejournal is how useful it is for sparking off thoughts. Someone else posted a livejournal entry (which I'd link to, but it's friends-only) about relationships and language: how do you define the difference between "close friend" and "partner", especially if the relationship is not sexual? And do different words mean different things?

When I'm talking about Richard (wuzzie), I use "boyfriend", "partner", "SO" and "husband" pretty much interchangeably. I also use "lover" and "primary", but less often. In one sense, the words all mean the same thing to me - what I call someone does not define the relationship - but in another sense, they do all have nuances and shades of meaning.

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