Rambles: Switchback and Slashfic
Dec. 12th, 2005 07:35 pm![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
mhalachaiFound: An ending to the Switchback saga. Without telling anything, I've been at a loss as to how I was going to wrap it all up. Well, today, in my melodramatic mood (thinking about Switchback always makes me want to metaphorically fling myself off a bridge), I found a way to end it all. The story, I mean. Now all I need to do is write the intervening 90 chapters.
I was thinking yesterday, about my fic tastes. For the most part, I've self-identified as someone who isn't really into slash (for the sakes of this post, we'll focus on the HP fandom). I've got a few authors who write amazing slash (and I'm not talking the sex... I tend to avoid most sex concepts in HP-land) characterization, and those ones I'll read.
But last night, in my fit of pique, I nostalgically wandered around looking for the first HP slash fic I ever read, The Lodger by![[livejournal.com profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/external/lj-userinfo.gif)
mad_martha. It's Harry/Draco, and it's an amazing story, because there are characters that make sense, Draco in particularly. It's a story about two people who aren't able to let go of the past, because the Wizarding World won't let them.
Anyway, I looked at some of her other stuff**, and came to a realization:
It's not that I'm not a slash fan. I just don't like a lot of fic.
I need fic with solid characterization. You want to make Harry gay? Sell me on it. You want to make Dumbledore the bad guy? Make me believe it. Outside a very few items (such as things I deem squicky, such as chan/incest/rape/etc), I'll read anything that the author has invested solid time and effort into making true to the characters as we've seen them so far.
Additionally, I haven't got a lot of time for new fic, so I do tend and try for quality.
I'm going to stop tormenting you all now, and will go eat something before I die.
ETA: ** And her stuff I like, I think I should just add here :)
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I was thinking yesterday, about my fic tastes. For the most part, I've self-identified as someone who isn't really into slash (for the sakes of this post, we'll focus on the HP fandom). I've got a few authors who write amazing slash (and I'm not talking the sex... I tend to avoid most sex concepts in HP-land) characterization, and those ones I'll read.
But last night, in my fit of pique, I nostalgically wandered around looking for the first HP slash fic I ever read, The Lodger by
mad_martha. It's Harry/Draco, and it's an amazing story, because there are characters that make sense, Draco in particularly. It's a story about two people who aren't able to let go of the past, because the Wizarding World won't let them. Anyway, I looked at some of her other stuff**, and came to a realization:
It's not that I'm not a slash fan. I just don't like a lot of fic.
I need fic with solid characterization. You want to make Harry gay? Sell me on it. You want to make Dumbledore the bad guy? Make me believe it. Outside a very few items (such as things I deem squicky, such as chan/incest/rape/etc), I'll read anything that the author has invested solid time and effort into making true to the characters as we've seen them so far.
Additionally, I haven't got a lot of time for new fic, so I do tend and try for quality.
I'm going to stop tormenting you all now, and will go eat something before I die.
ETA: ** And her stuff I like, I think I should just add here :)
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Date: 2005-12-13 04:36 am (UTC)LOL .. really not the point of the post, I realize .. but such a sane and sensible thing to say, and to do. :)
re: fic, and slash . . I have to be really, really sold on the character's perspective to get into slash that involves males (femmeslash being entirely different - I have no problems with that, provided it makes sense for the characters and I like the pairing and all). It's only happened once that I can recall - that I've read a story with a slash pairing and actually enjoyed reading that part. Usually there's just a degree of alienness, of I-do-not-belong-in-this-picture, that makes it just weird to read.
-Sonya
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Date: 2005-12-13 05:16 am (UTC)-Sonya
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Date: 2005-12-13 05:27 am (UTC)no subject
Date: 2005-12-13 05:26 am (UTC)What I find interesting is that in a fandom like HP, where most readers/writers are females below the age of 25, there's so little femslash, and what I have found is OOC smut. Anyway.
I was wondering the other day, if I were to write slash in the AB universe, who I'd do... JC/Asher, of course. Nathaniel/anyone. Maybe some JC/Richard with severe issues. Can't see slashing Jason with anyone*, nor Micah. I think my problem (?) is that I use canon characterization to the extremes.
(* One day I may write the Jason/Nathaniel kiss that's mentioned in chapter 39 of Inevitable... in which Jason realizes that no, he's really into chicks. One day....)
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Date: 2005-12-13 05:29 am (UTC)And .. you *want* to hop on IM and dissect those chapters from Danse Macabre, don't you? *bats eyelashes*
-Sonya
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Date: 2005-12-13 05:30 am (UTC)PS: I want to read that Tara rel'n one day, you know. Totally. My two fave characters.