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Jun. 29th, 2005 06:59 pmIn the Bad News Dept: this wank is making me wibble like mad, but perhaps because of this the most:
It astounds me how anyone can find Harry falling in LOVE with Draco Malfoy isn't OOC.
It also astounds me how anyone can find Draco falling in LOVE with Potter isn't OOC as well.
...Mostly because I always fall for that 'rationalize your faith' straw man argument, nearly always made not by pairing agnostics (so to speak), whom I respect greatly and want to be somehow validated by, but by people with their own hidden agenda. It just really annoys me that people question concepts which -should- be questioned, but nearly always in the service of opposing bias. It's just one of those things which erodes my respect for people in general.
( Bleargh. Though I wibble about something only tangentially related. )
Anyway, little to nothing about this really has to do with UL, which I love while acknowledging its flaws, which it shares with probably 97% of even the best H/D fanfic. It should probably tell me all I need to know that the person making the above claim about H/D itself being OOC describes himself as being 'sworn to defend Lucius Malfoy' from anything at all. It's these sort of people that make me wary of rah-rah-Slytherin fans, I swear. I guess that goes for the coo-coo population in any sub-fandom.
Perhaps my whole quest to write H/D for the non-believers was flawed to start with because a lot of times it's not that people are waiting to believe a good enough reason, it's that they'd usually refuse to acknowledge a good reason if that means they were wrong.
And of course I want to somehow reach those people, 'cause I'm pretty sure both Harry & Draco are closed-minded like that, at least about each other. Hello, dysfunction! Settle in, why don't you.
~~
In the Good News Dept: I saw Batman Begins last night, and it was just as good as everyone's been implying.
( Not really spoilers, but... )
In 'other' news, when I saw the GoF movie promo poster in the theater, I just squealed and cooed and had to touch it. Repeatedly.
OMG HARRY!!!1 Looking all heroic and woobie and... *cries, is dork*
It astounds me how anyone can find Harry falling in LOVE with Draco Malfoy isn't OOC.
It also astounds me how anyone can find Draco falling in LOVE with Potter isn't OOC as well.
...Mostly because I always fall for that 'rationalize your faith' straw man argument, nearly always made not by pairing agnostics (so to speak), whom I respect greatly and want to be somehow validated by, but by people with their own hidden agenda. It just really annoys me that people question concepts which -should- be questioned, but nearly always in the service of opposing bias. It's just one of those things which erodes my respect for people in general.
( Bleargh. Though I wibble about something only tangentially related. )
Anyway, little to nothing about this really has to do with UL, which I love while acknowledging its flaws, which it shares with probably 97% of even the best H/D fanfic. It should probably tell me all I need to know that the person making the above claim about H/D itself being OOC describes himself as being 'sworn to defend Lucius Malfoy' from anything at all. It's these sort of people that make me wary of rah-rah-Slytherin fans, I swear. I guess that goes for the coo-coo population in any sub-fandom.
Perhaps my whole quest to write H/D for the non-believers was flawed to start with because a lot of times it's not that people are waiting to believe a good enough reason, it's that they'd usually refuse to acknowledge a good reason if that means they were wrong.
And of course I want to somehow reach those people, 'cause I'm pretty sure both Harry & Draco are closed-minded like that, at least about each other. Hello, dysfunction! Settle in, why don't you.
~~
In the Good News Dept: I saw Batman Begins last night, and it was just as good as everyone's been implying.
( Not really spoilers, but... )
In 'other' news, when I saw the GoF movie promo poster in the theater, I just squealed and cooed and had to touch it. Repeatedly.
OMG HARRY!!!1 Looking all heroic and woobie and... *cries, is dork*
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