~~stories can't be sinful, can they? why, -yes they can-!

it occurs to me that when you really care about something, it's easiest to completely get burnt out and apathetic and against it. ok, obvious. but still. there are some things that i read that make me almost -hate- harry/draco. hate it. hate it. i hate that they do this to my precious. *laughs* i want to renounce it and say, this is not my precious! gah! is not! i don't like anything like this and it's just all wrong, and is -that- what i was going on about? is -that- what people think this -is-??! because if they do, i just want to never hear of it again.

but the only thing worse than -hating- a fic with your favorite pairing, and wanting to never read anything like that again, is not being able to really hate it, because you are so in love with their love that you can't help but care about these ciphers that are really in no way "harry" or "draco". they aren't, and yet i can't quite convince myself enough so that i don't care what happens to them. completely insane. i mean, i hate this fic. i hate it. and yet i -care- about them, and i bother to feel upset at the way this fic treats them in the first place. i mean, i think this fic exemplifies everything that can possibly be done wrong with this pairing. everything. i didn't think that'd be possible, but here it is.
    when you would easily call something "the worst h/d fic ever" and yet you still feel emotionally attached to the characters just because of the stupid associations in your head that have nothing, really, to do with the fic, you know there is a problem.

i mean, ok. this is the person's first h/d story. i should be gentle. but to hell with that. it's my problem, of course, that any time i find an hp fanfic author i think might be interesting, the way i test them is by reading an h/d fic, if they ever wrote one. i can't even -judge- any other type, not as thoroughly. i can't tell you if your sirius/remus fic is the most brilliant thing ever-- i can't compare it to much of anything and i'd be guessing if i said the characters sounded off and sirius would -never- do this or that.
    i used to be like this with art. it didn't matter what you usually draw to me, i just wanted you to draw a princess in a pretty dress. this was when i was little. but still, same idea. i could judge princesses. i couldn't judge slime monsters, not really.

i should've just stopped reading when it started with draco crying. because a draco that cries is so uncool as to be in a whole new universe of uncoolness, and honestly, just how cool was he to start with?? obviously i have no sense of self-preservation. sigh.

EDIT: ok. things that make me cry in horror and defeat, as far as characterization, aka, Worst Sins Imaginable:
    ( cut for your pleasure... )

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P.S. - am i reccing a really weird-but-cool buffy/faith smut fic? why, yes i am. `strawberry road'. mmm. what fic -should- be like, pairing be damned (says the buffy/spike shipper, mind you).