[a smirk that quivers]
Sep. 16th, 2006 03:01 pmYou know, my knee-jerk reaction to the canon!Draco = a charming, dominating leader type interpretation is either extreme headdesking frustration or eye-rolling, but then I just thought-- you know-- everyone generally admits that canon!Draco = pathetic (whether or not you also focus on other qualities and/or think it's cute). Back in '02 or whatever, when I just got into HP, I remember reading that influential Draco Malfoy Is Ever So Lame essay and thinking 'oh yeah! wow!' and never stopping to doubt it again.
( noooo, not Draco-babble spam... :( )
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PS: For some reason I think this needs a disclaimer :/
Due to various fandom association things, I feel... uh... uncomfortable with calling myself or being accidentally perceived as a Draco fan [or a Harry fan or a Ron fan... well, fine, I'm a Ron fan]. Especially 'cause there's this connotation that Draco fans would be biased in that direction (and would be more likely to like 'Draco slash' or 'Draco fics' or have a 'Draco slant' on canon or whatever). All of that is completely alien to me & I'm not like that at all. That's actually the attitude that drives me crazy the most in fandom & as an H/D shipper. :/ I mean, I understand liking a character rather than a pairing (OTC rather than OTP, whatever), but having that mean that you skew everything to fit that character's needs/desires/perceptions turns me off the character, the pairing -and- the canon, so. (Yeah, the Harry-tilt in the books used to seriously annoy me for similar reasons until I learned to relax and just go with the Harrylove.)
Most Draco-slash pairings besides H/D [...and when I say 'most' I mean ALL, okay] make me vaguely nauseous, though Draco het [mostly Draco/Pansy with D/Hr & D/G in abstract theory] is theoretically cute [possibly because my Draco muse is so homoromantic & biplatonic bisexual]. I don't wanna lock this so only people who know I'm twitchy would read it; that seems excessive somehow, so.... My point is, I like Draco but not 'a Draco slant', which I think is actually what I'd tried to say with this whole post :/
( noooo, not Draco-babble spam... :( )
~~
PS: For some reason I think this needs a disclaimer :/
Due to various fandom association things, I feel... uh... uncomfortable with calling myself or being accidentally perceived as a Draco fan [or a Harry fan or a Ron fan... well, fine, I'm a Ron fan]. Especially 'cause there's this connotation that Draco fans would be biased in that direction (and would be more likely to like 'Draco slash' or 'Draco fics' or have a 'Draco slant' on canon or whatever). All of that is completely alien to me & I'm not like that at all. That's actually the attitude that drives me crazy the most in fandom & as an H/D shipper. :/ I mean, I understand liking a character rather than a pairing (OTC rather than OTP, whatever), but having that mean that you skew everything to fit that character's needs/desires/perceptions turns me off the character, the pairing -and- the canon, so. (Yeah, the Harry-tilt in the books used to seriously annoy me for similar reasons until I learned to relax and just go with the Harrylove.)
Most Draco-slash pairings besides H/D [...and when I say 'most' I mean ALL, okay] make me vaguely nauseous, though Draco het [mostly Draco/Pansy with D/Hr & D/G in abstract theory] is theoretically cute [possibly because my Draco muse is so homoromantic & biplatonic bisexual]. I don't wanna lock this so only people who know I'm twitchy would read it; that seems excessive somehow, so.... My point is, I like Draco but not 'a Draco slant', which I think is actually what I'd tried to say with this whole post :/
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