[something like... fannish resentment of character change, the suckiness of]

According to this poll, at least, it's not fashionable anymore to be a crazed Harry/Draco shipper who BELIEVES (in all caps) that Harry & Draco are SUPPOSED to be together and anything else is a TRAVESTY and also incidentally makes Draco a CHEATING BASTARD (the caps have to be there, you see). I mean, possibly fandom's gotten saner. Or more apathetic. Or-- well, both. Ahh, maybe it's like someone-or-other said & uber-OTP-shippiness itself is on the decline... except for some pairings it would be weird, like... if you OTP Harry/Snape, I can see liking Snape with other people, but I think the shippers there have always generally been Snapelovers, so it'd be odd to me if they were like 'ooh, Harry/Ron'. Same with most R/S-ers suddenly going for R/T, but I guess that's more of a canon bitterness thing.

Anyway, what was my point? I think I just miss the old... attitude, where discussing the Sekrit Nature of Draco wasn't passé, what with HBP having laid it all out for most people, I guess. I miss 'fanon' meaning 'beyond canon' (ie, 'not hemmed in') rather than 'against canon'... though that's hard to define. Maybe you know it when you see it?
    I randomly glanced at the interests in the userinfo of an old Draco RPG journal, and it just reminded me how I wanted to get away from that sort of Draco in my own writing, mostly just 'cause a self-satisfied, overly confident character is pretty boring long-term. Sure, he's a delusional prick, but that's why you don't -feed- that & take those delusions away from him. I still think canon hasn't really done that-- it just started to rip the band-aid away. And a lot of my beef with most H/D is that it often functions to put a -bigger- band-aid over Draco's booboo (Harry-as-band-aid... *cringe*). Ergh.

I mean, there's a difference between tough love & really wanting to hurt a character....

( tl;dr, man )

Anyway, all this basically inspired by the fact that I should stick to my guns and stop reading H/D fic (worse! fluffy porny H/D fic) when I know it's not my bag these days. Uh. -.-
    EDIT - Umm... I feel rather embarrassed admitting this, but right afterwards I found 'Another Beautiful Day' by janicechess, which is cute & snarky & porny, and... okay, I only skimmed it, but I guess it's -sort- of my bag. Sometimes :P Maybe. :P!

...Possibly I wouldn't be so uptight if things were more cute more often. Hmpf.
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In other news, I was thinking about how I'm almost tempted to write for the feedback sometimes, just to get a little positive reinforcement or whatever and have people pet my ego, but then I get a comment like 'ooh, hot', and I'm like 'eh, fuck it'. I mean, what I wrote -was- mostly porn & snark, and it's not that I regret that, but I just realize I should just shut up if I can't put my fic where my mouth is.

Aaaand, first art rec in ages: nassima's Sirius and Remus as teenagers made me happy, especially the Remus. He just looks -warm- somehow.