Because I just Cannot Leave It Alone, I shall have to address the common question ![[livejournal.com profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/external/lj-userinfo.gif)
rubymoth raises, meaning that she writes porny fluffy crackfic & feels guilty she's not writing more 'serious' canon-extrapolative fic which she "could" be.
What bothers me with this is sort of self-centered, meaning that I may or may not have gotten a reputation for wanting said 'serious' fic involving things like the Ministry and Horcruxes (*yawn!!*), if nothing else 'causeshaggirl & I came up with the idea for the Big Bang and stuff.
But. These things have to be taken in context, you know? Fandom changes all the time. At that time, the years after OoTP, no one wrote what I would remotely call IC or canon-compliant (forget extrapolative, because people can and do extrapolate without being compliant, and can be characterization-compliant without being plot-extrapolative).
( gnuh. -.- )
Bottom line: a lot of times, 'plot' is a crutch writers use to pretend they're being canon-realistic-- or like, reality-realistic, whereas really the characterizations are seriously on crack and/or not even paid attention to because they're All In The Service Of Plot. :P
EDIT - I'm not saying it's somehow easier or more common to see in-character H/D PWPs or vignettes; I mean, maybe a -little-, but I don't think it's inherently easier to do, just perhaps more vignette-writers are more -interested- in characterization. That is, fact remains that whether or not you're interested, it's a hop-skip-and-a-jump to what I like to call the 'Bad Crack', 'cause people have some pretty weird ideas of what canon is; and no, 'bad crack' isn't just 'obviously stupid cliches', it's any characterization that takes ridiculous short-cuts, ignores history, white-washes conflict, etcetcetc, given you're not writing future!fic, which I'm not interested in anyway 'cause I got burned so many times. Though I still like Antenora's post-war!Harry fics; it's literally the only variant I can remember where he's even remotely badass (& I don't mean dom!), though, besides maybe 'Transfigurations' & some stuff byshaggirl & marksykins. :P
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And now... back to reading crack!porn and writing angst!porn, so that life is a beautiful healthy balance. :o
rubymoth raises, meaning that she writes porny fluffy crackfic & feels guilty she's not writing more 'serious' canon-extrapolative fic which she "could" be.What bothers me with this is sort of self-centered, meaning that I may or may not have gotten a reputation for wanting said 'serious' fic involving things like the Ministry and Horcruxes (*yawn!!*), if nothing else 'cause
shaggirl & I came up with the idea for the Big Bang and stuff. But. These things have to be taken in context, you know? Fandom changes all the time. At that time, the years after OoTP, no one wrote what I would remotely call IC or canon-compliant (forget extrapolative, because people can and do extrapolate without being compliant, and can be characterization-compliant without being plot-extrapolative).
( gnuh. -.- )
Bottom line: a lot of times, 'plot' is a crutch writers use to pretend they're being canon-realistic-- or like, reality-realistic, whereas really the characterizations are seriously on crack and/or not even paid attention to because they're All In The Service Of Plot. :P
EDIT - I'm not saying it's somehow easier or more common to see in-character H/D PWPs or vignettes; I mean, maybe a -little-, but I don't think it's inherently easier to do, just perhaps more vignette-writers are more -interested- in characterization. That is, fact remains that whether or not you're interested, it's a hop-skip-and-a-jump to what I like to call the 'Bad Crack', 'cause people have some pretty weird ideas of what canon is; and no, 'bad crack' isn't just 'obviously stupid cliches', it's any characterization that takes ridiculous short-cuts, ignores history, white-washes conflict, etcetcetc, given you're not writing future!fic, which I'm not interested in anyway 'cause I got burned so many times. Though I still like Antenora's post-war!Harry fics; it's literally the only variant I can remember where he's even remotely badass (& I don't mean dom!), though, besides maybe 'Transfigurations' & some stuff by
shaggirl & marksykins. :P~~
And now... back to reading crack!porn and writing angst!porn, so that life is a beautiful healthy balance. :o
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