everyone always talks about the huge separation between canon!draco and fanon!draco. there's all this disdain for fanon!draco, and all this disdain for canon!draco (from different camps). usually, the people who like canon!draco like his honesty about his nastiness and patheticness (that is, he just can't help being a twerp, even though it'd be in his own best interests), and the people who like fanon!draco... um. honestly, i don't know. i think they like sexgods and silver hair and passionate icyness. i mean, fanon!draco is cool as a cucumber, collected as a london debutante, intelligent as a human razor, and aware of his many dastardly virtues. he is the ultimate symbol of everything most people around the ages of 14-16 either think they want or want to be.
reading the first half of the first chapter of `kisses sweeter than wine', i realized the major problem with this (and why it offends me that anyone thinks if i like lots of fanfic with lots of draco in it, i like -that- draco in it) isn't that it's not realistic -draco-. it's not realistic for -anyone-. i don't see what's so interesting about a sexgod. i mean-- `sexgods' is there on my list of interests because i read the georgia nicolson books by louise rennison, and adored them. georgia is a hoot. and anyway, it's plenty obvious that the "sexgod" is merely a joke, and not meant to be set up as "true love".
it's the sort of thing you -think- is true love when you're 16. you think if he's "cool" and "happening", he must be the ultimate dream boy. he's beautiful, he's blond-- he'll break your heart. oh yah, i've got enough familiarity with teen-dream romances to know "the type". he's the boy you'll never get. you're too gawky, too silly, too ungainly (hello, harry sue) for a DreamBoat like that. oh yes.
it offends me somewhat, that this has become the posterboy for fanfic draco. true, this is the draco that is the stand in for all the teen girls' fervent ideals of Mr Blond-God Jock. but honestly, it's rather insulting to be assumed to want that. i mean-- that's tantamount to calling all fanon a plebe-fest. which it might be, to a large degree, but it's not -totally-.
in `kisses sweeter than wine', this is definitely "the draco". harry wants him because he's so cool. who in the hell buys this? my god.
it occurred to me to wonder, what -i- thought of (in the beginning, and now too, i guess) as "the draco", reading fanfic. why do i say i love him?
( i do think the question of `what is my idea of fanon!draco' is rather connected to why i think harry/draco is the Ultimate Ship, and why i fell so hard for it, almost a year ago, now... )
reading the first half of the first chapter of `kisses sweeter than wine', i realized the major problem with this (and why it offends me that anyone thinks if i like lots of fanfic with lots of draco in it, i like -that- draco in it) isn't that it's not realistic -draco-. it's not realistic for -anyone-. i don't see what's so interesting about a sexgod. i mean-- `sexgods' is there on my list of interests because i read the georgia nicolson books by louise rennison, and adored them. georgia is a hoot. and anyway, it's plenty obvious that the "sexgod" is merely a joke, and not meant to be set up as "true love".
it's the sort of thing you -think- is true love when you're 16. you think if he's "cool" and "happening", he must be the ultimate dream boy. he's beautiful, he's blond-- he'll break your heart. oh yah, i've got enough familiarity with teen-dream romances to know "the type". he's the boy you'll never get. you're too gawky, too silly, too ungainly (hello, harry sue) for a DreamBoat like that. oh yes.
it offends me somewhat, that this has become the posterboy for fanfic draco. true, this is the draco that is the stand in for all the teen girls' fervent ideals of Mr Blond-God Jock. but honestly, it's rather insulting to be assumed to want that. i mean-- that's tantamount to calling all fanon a plebe-fest. which it might be, to a large degree, but it's not -totally-.
in `kisses sweeter than wine', this is definitely "the draco". harry wants him because he's so cool. who in the hell buys this? my god.
it occurred to me to wonder, what -i- thought of (in the beginning, and now too, i guess) as "the draco", reading fanfic. why do i say i love him?
( i do think the question of `what is my idea of fanon!draco' is rather connected to why i think harry/draco is the Ultimate Ship, and why i fell so hard for it, almost a year ago, now... )
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