~~ on suspension of disbelief & pet-peeves. in other words, HATE.

I'm like some semi-evil H/D-reading/reccing -machine-. It's scary. I'm scared -.-

( So... um... yeah... compulsive linking again... )

EDIT - Overall, I guess I'd want to rec ljash's `Perspective' - it's understated, well-paced, tightly written and affecting. While I have some issues with it, I think it does a beautiful job of retaining an even keel and never really going overboard with any of its plot or characterization choices. As usual, the Draco wasn't My Draco (or even what I'd consider really canonish!Draco), but it still -works-, which is all I can ask for, really~:)
    Also really enjoying `The Gods Themselves', because it's surreal and semi-meta and it has Draco and Hermione in Arithmancy class, which is like, whoa~:) Loveloveloveloveit. :D
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And... Slytherlynx's fandom pet-peeves post made me realize that I'm actually both much more and much less peeved about fanficcy things than when I had started. Pairings squick me a lot less, for one thing. I sort of hate Draco/Snape, but not really with any passion. Any two characters can be written well as a concept, I think. Obviously, a lot of concepts suck and could never be believable with certain characters (that is to say, certain characterizations are just ridiculous in any context), but you -can- get anyone together believably and well if you really wanted to. I mean, you -could-, you really could. You could also write any single character well and have a brilliant story-- you could.

That's why it bothers me that people say H/D sucks as a pairing, mostly because I read so much of it and thus -know- that a lot of it is objectively well-written. I would be the first to say that there isn't any perfect H/D, but then, there's no perfect X pairing, either as far as I know. Anyone who wants to recommend a brilliant 100% perfect fic of some other pairing for review is free to do so here, and I'll read it.

I think in general, any pet-peeves happen because so many instances of misuse of a particular idea/concept/situation had occurred. Like... possibly just because it's ridiculously hard to pull off a certain idea, possibly because it just doesn't make sense with the canonical source and grates on one's mind. On the other hand, I've read enough OOC fic to know that great writing can make up for an awful lot. So yeah. It all comes back to a) people's stupidity in behavior; b) bad writing. I've heard that irinaauthor's H/G is Really Good, and I fully believe it's possible, though I hate H/G. I don't want to read it, especially, but hey.

Same with hating Snape or Lucius or Ron or Harry or Draco-- they do all get mishandled, which is what I dislike much more than the character. People are all interesting in the right writer's hands, aren't they? What's a boring person, anyway? Just a person who has no capacity to do interesting things-- but in fiction, -any- character can be made to do interesting things because the writer controls the circumstances the character's in. So I say I hate Lucius, but that's because I'm utterly bored with the things most writers do to Lucius. That's why I totally understand Slytherlynx's point about liking her own versions of pairings/ideas she dislikes-- one simply wants to see what one thinks works for these situations, and other things just grate.

I realize that some ideas (pairings, plot-devices, etc) just annoy one because they embody some ideal one hates. Like, such-and-such pairing is "all about" such-and-such. Which is why I would have said I hate Draco/Snape-- it's "all about" the sort of dysfunctional power-play and control issues that grate on me. So I guess maybe Harry/Draco could be "all about" er... opposites-attract and love-overcomes-all (or whatever) which might be Really Annoying. To someone. Also, Harry Doesn't Like Draco That Way, which means the fics grate on one's sense of how we perceive "reality"-- which I both understand and yet think is a limitation.

I actually really hate characters randomly stuck together for the writer's kink, something that feels superficial and un-thought-through. For instance, writing H/D because it's "hot" because Harry is dark-haired and Draco's blond. And then you have the sheer implausibility of this pairing (and many others). Some people like implausibility (hello, Dobby/Squid), some don't. I'm in the middle-- I like implausibility that is sold to me through gorgeous leaps in characterization and beautiful flowy writing and loveable, powerful interpretations of the characters. So I can see why you could be bothered by things you think would "Never Work" or never happen.

( Nevertheless.... *commences ramble on the suspension of disbelief in fiction* )