[woeeee...! or, H/D ITSELF IS NOT CRACK!!1]

Ahh, I think I've finally figured out what's wrong with me and why I can't happily read most H/D fics. I mean, I even find one I enjoy, and there's always something to obsess over. Something that reminds me of a million -other- fics that made that same choice that annoyed me then, and that somehow annoys me more 'cause it's so constant and it seems like no one cares 'cause everyone seems to do it like it's nothing (and often enough, it comes down to giving Draco Special Powers™ of any sort, yes, especially if it's not a crackfic written for the sole purpose of playing with that idea in a silly way).

Anyway, my point is that it's all about suspension of disbelief. Everyone and their brother suspends disbelief especially when they read an unlikely (everyone says!) slash pairing like H/D, right? The name of the game, right? It's what you're supposed to do, right? Especially if you ship them, right?? No. Well, not me.

( Eh. Just getting it out of my system. Yeah, AGAIN. *sigh* )

In a way, maybe it's just that I think the one thing that -makes- a cracky premise (pairing-wise or plot-wise) even work in the first place is a more rigid adherence to the known & established. I think if you're writing something wild and out there (and in a sense, the very idea of H/D is crack enough in itself, forget Veela!Draco or whatever), you're even more bound by the necessity of grounding the action in characterizations that stick to the basics, the known quantities.

It's like, I need that feeling that 'this is them' to go and suspend my disbelief about bigger things in the story. And it's especially hard when a certain plot-device is just so common it's taken for granted, as if it -has- to be this way, as if the relationship couldn't work if -something- wasn't out of whack in the regularly-scheduled-reality dept. That just makes me sad, man. And I don't read crackfic to be sad :/
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EDIT - Nevermind, got cheered up reading one of Jei's cute Heero/Duo ficlets. Ahhh, I love friendship-about-to-turn-into-love stuff done right ♥.

[Ms Irate & Grumpy yet Gentler than Average Reader at your service]

I think I'm experiencing a resurgence of... something. Or other. Fandomy. I blame MsScribe!!1 >:O!!
    But anyway, I think furiosity's Don't Like? Don't Read! a Tragedie in Five Acts pretty much sums up my life in fandom :D :D Hahaha, I too was Ms Gentle Reader once upon a time. And then I read too many questionable fics of the same questionably plausible pairing for a questionably long time, 'tis true. *wibble*

What I wanted to say was-- though I have no problem with headers/warnings etc. in theory, I've never seen them as useful in the 'don't like, don't read' fangirl philosophy of avoiding fics I wouldn't like...
    ( Er. Had to weigh in on the whole uselessness of that strategy. At least, for me. :/ )

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So many people hatin' on H/D fanon cliches here made me a happy, happy (less alone!) fanpoodle! :X!