w00t! pr0n! except not.

[reenka]

Ahhhh, stellabelle so owns me. Yeah, she wrote another H/D fic and yeah, I'm so in love with it I have to pimp it in this most embarrassing fashion. Ahem.

Possibly this might have to do with the fact that it's called `I Have A Girlfriend, You Fucker!'. I think this and this alone could make me fall over from the sheer beauty of it all.

Also, after the_leaky's unfortunate descent into angst, I so needed this, man. Besides, there are references to like, British things in it. Like... like Kensington. Oh, the love. As well as easy!Draco and rather-stupid-but-eager!Harry. The world really should work like this. I mean, it may not, but DAMMIT IT SHOULD. Actually, it -does-, doesn't it?

Comments

[yourpoison.livejournal.com]

We're totally talking about different things, which means we're talking past each other and omg I'm only awake for Aja's sake and I'm not even reading her essay and it's 7am and my mother'll wake up soon and I have to go now, like for real, who the hell's awake at 7am without sleeping???! But.

Anyway.
Mass appeal mostly plays on the desire of the audience to escape reality.
I was talking about narrative design, the writer's end of things-- it's not about audience, I meant mass appeal for writers, meaning questions about the narrative structure and how a story's built and how it hangs together and what makes good conflict/drama/angst. This isn't about audience. Audience is an entirely different issue which doesn't explain why things do or don't get written, just whether or not they become popular. D/P is vaguely popular to the extent that it's written, which isn't very great.

Because all Mary Sues get described as pug-faced and called stupid cows by the main heroine...?
I meant, in this case, audience percepion of Pansy, not your perception or the 'IC' perception or JKR's intent-- I was talking about popularity of characters determining whether they get used, and in this case, Pansy is popular in fandom for whatever reason and is Mary Sued a lot, too. Is it IC? No, but most people don't care, thusly you can't use the argument 'but she's uncool' to explain why anyone avoids writing her, since they don't stop to see her as IC long enough to avoid her for that reason.

[malafede.livejournal.com]

NO! You can't go to bed now. I was awake that one time till 4 am even if I had to wake up at 7 to go to work just to discuss S/R with you.

Anyway. You're still talking fanon at me. I know very well that fanon Draco (!!!) and fanon Pansy exist. That was the whole point of my rant. :/ Saying that someone upgrades Pansy doesn't prove anything except that people feel compelled to upgrade her.