(not another H/D post) oh shoot -.-

If people wonder why I'm such a grump and a spoilsport when it comes to H/D (which they probably don't, but work with me here), a recent comment on Aja's recent pessimistic H/D ficlet is all the answer I think is necessary. In other words, lots of people think H/D is just plain impossible as a pairing, so of course it wouldn't work.

And me being the way I am, as soon as someone says something is impossible, I want to see them proven wrong, because the truth is, when most people say something is impossible, what they really mean is that they think it -shouldn't- happen because they don't want it to. It's generally as simple as that. But even knowing that, I cannot rest with the idea that something I believe in is widely considered either impossible or so difficult as to be pointless. Even worse, there's some people who're open to the idea, but consistently point to the lack of convincingly done fic as evidence that things are hopeless and there's no use bothering with the pairing.

Now-- this critical attitude kind of amuses me because while it comes from the people who don't ship H/D, it seemed to me this sort of attention to detail -should-, theoretically, come from the actual shippers. But in the end, it is the nature of shippers to -believe- and the nature of non-shippers to question and need convincing. It's widely accepted that fanfic is there for people to see what they already know they want to see, while it's left to original fic to convince the reader and make a case for whatever direction the characters take in the story, romantic or not.

Bottom line, and why I stopped reading fanfic for my favorite pairing: I don't buy into that philosophy.

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