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reenkaYou know, if I had to pick one reason for why I don't really pay attention to the fandom at large anymore (both fic and meta), it'd be because I'm so very sick and tired of seeing rehashed arguments, stale debates, and (what I think of as) done-to-death-and-back silly characterizations being brought back from the dead (in unoriginal ways) over and over again.
But the thing that makes me groan and click away the fastest is probably the overwhelming amount of enthusiasm inevitably directed at bashing character Y or bemoaning how pairing X/Z makes no earthly sense and can you please explain your not-earth-logic, and just basically pulling some uber-subjective opinion/idea from your arse and running with it just for fun, not because it really makes any sense upon longer consideration. And actually, I do that all the time, but-- the point is, I'm not clamoring for attention as if I -am- making sense. Granted, it's a rather fine distinction, but... since I can't expect everyone to pack a disclaimer for every paragraph, naturally I avoid. Simple enough.
Anyway, since I tend to feel this amorphous sense of distance and discord with the majority take on... things in HP fandom, I was pretty surprised when I saw this thread where people defended H/D to charges of being unstable and unrealistic and not "healthy" for basically the same reasons I might give. I was like, wow, so I guess there -is- some definite common ground here (at least among fellow shippers) that I've just been missing-- but then the question arises: if all these people do actually see these characters in a similar way, why do the fanfic I see being written not bear out these views--?
If H/D shippers are all a-okay with the ship not being fluffy or stable or likely to result in a happy ending, if we're both aware and all right with Draco not being a 'nice person', then why is he constantly made so attractive and utterly sympathetic in nearly every fic I can think of--?
Basically, is there an implicit, conscious disconnect involved between how people perceive canon/fanon and the characters & how they actually want to see them in fic--? If-- if a large number of shippers seem to actually -like- the ship for not being a typical eventually-fluffy romance, why then do most of the fics end up being written that way? Why would people actually not write things the way they see/imagine them in the first place, realism aside? I've long been confused by this.
This also reminds me of the entry on fanon!Lucius where most people agreed that yeah, he's not 'really' a pimp-cane wearing S&M enthusiast in canon, but, y'know, clearly that's more fun to read/write about, since pretty much no one writes canonish!Lucius that I've seen. Though to me, it's much more obvious why fanon!Lucius is more fun than why would fans ignore their -own- preferred fanon of their OTP.
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Also: holy &*@! on a platter, this Draco pic and all the other HBP bathroom scene fanart totally gives me my fandom mojo back, if only for a minute <333333!!1 Woooow.... *___*
And omg, omg, OMG I've not read Sirius/Remus fic this good in far too long!! Mmm, even the title: 'All This Blood (Under My Skin)'. Yes. *sigh* I do love them so; my two idiots ♥♥
But the thing that makes me groan and click away the fastest is probably the overwhelming amount of enthusiasm inevitably directed at bashing character Y or bemoaning how pairing X/Z makes no earthly sense and can you please explain your not-earth-logic, and just basically pulling some uber-subjective opinion/idea from your arse and running with it just for fun, not because it really makes any sense upon longer consideration. And actually, I do that all the time, but-- the point is, I'm not clamoring for attention as if I -am- making sense. Granted, it's a rather fine distinction, but... since I can't expect everyone to pack a disclaimer for every paragraph, naturally I avoid. Simple enough.
Anyway, since I tend to feel this amorphous sense of distance and discord with the majority take on... things in HP fandom, I was pretty surprised when I saw this thread where people defended H/D to charges of being unstable and unrealistic and not "healthy" for basically the same reasons I might give. I was like, wow, so I guess there -is- some definite common ground here (at least among fellow shippers) that I've just been missing-- but then the question arises: if all these people do actually see these characters in a similar way, why do the fanfic I see being written not bear out these views--?
If H/D shippers are all a-okay with the ship not being fluffy or stable or likely to result in a happy ending, if we're both aware and all right with Draco not being a 'nice person', then why is he constantly made so attractive and utterly sympathetic in nearly every fic I can think of--?
Basically, is there an implicit, conscious disconnect involved between how people perceive canon/fanon and the characters & how they actually want to see them in fic--? If-- if a large number of shippers seem to actually -like- the ship for not being a typical eventually-fluffy romance, why then do most of the fics end up being written that way? Why would people actually not write things the way they see/imagine them in the first place, realism aside? I've long been confused by this.
This also reminds me of the entry on fanon!Lucius where most people agreed that yeah, he's not 'really' a pimp-cane wearing S&M enthusiast in canon, but, y'know, clearly that's more fun to read/write about, since pretty much no one writes canonish!Lucius that I've seen. Though to me, it's much more obvious why fanon!Lucius is more fun than why would fans ignore their -own- preferred fanon of their OTP.
~~
Also: holy &*@! on a platter, this Draco pic and all the other HBP bathroom scene fanart totally gives me my fandom mojo back, if only for a minute <333333!!1 Woooow.... *___*
And omg, omg, OMG I've not read Sirius/Remus fic this good in far too long!! Mmm, even the title: 'All This Blood (Under My Skin)'. Yes. *sigh* I do love them so; my two idiots ♥♥
