Rambles: Switchback and Slashfic

[mhalachai]

Found: 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.

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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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[mhalachaiswords.livejournal.com]

Yuppers. If I have spare time, I'm less likely to wade through the Pit of Voles (is that what they're calling FF.net these days?), and instead just write my own badfic.