Bitch, please.
Jan. 23rd, 2009 08:17 am![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
marguerite_26First, I am not speaking of any individual when I say this. This is something that has been bothering me for a while because I get told this a lot. Frankly, it is driving me insane.
Harry/Scorpius does not equal chan.
Cross Gen does not equal chan.
Why do people think this? Is ALL Snarry chan? I'm sure there are plenty of Snarry authors that would be unimpressed to hear that. We can accept that in every pairing there are some 'common squicks' that are more prevalent than others, like Harry/Lucius and non-con. But they do not have to go together.
What if people went around saying HP fandom is full of nothing but teens having sex in the Room of Requirement? Ok, granted, some people do say it. Doesn't that make you want to scream? I mean really, wouldn't it drive you nuts if someone reduced your fandom to a bunch of teenage fumblings? Like the entire fandom was restricted to Hogwarts days? The boys could never grow up and get careers?
I've written 8 Cross-gen fics including 6 Harry/Scorpius. NONE are chan. Chan is not implied by ANY pairing. Chan is about the ages of the characters.
Draco/Scorpius implies incest. It just DOES.
Harry/Scorpius DOES NOT IMPLY chan. Please stop assuming that. If you don't want to read the pairing, don't read it. I really don't care. Maybe Harry/Draco is all that you ever want to read. Maybe you don't like age disparity. Maybe the epilogue makes you want to spork you eye out. Totally understandable. But please don't dismiss the pairing because some fics in the ship are chan. There are chan Harry/Scorpius fics. There are also wonderful of fics with Scorpius over 17. If anyone wants non-chan harry/scorpius recs, you just let me know.
*jumps off soapbox*
Harry/Scorpius does not equal chan.
Cross Gen does not equal chan.
Why do people think this? Is ALL Snarry chan? I'm sure there are plenty of Snarry authors that would be unimpressed to hear that. We can accept that in every pairing there are some 'common squicks' that are more prevalent than others, like Harry/Lucius and non-con. But they do not have to go together.
What if people went around saying HP fandom is full of nothing but teens having sex in the Room of Requirement? Ok, granted, some people do say it. Doesn't that make you want to scream? I mean really, wouldn't it drive you nuts if someone reduced your fandom to a bunch of teenage fumblings? Like the entire fandom was restricted to Hogwarts days? The boys could never grow up and get careers?
I've written 8 Cross-gen fics including 6 Harry/Scorpius. NONE are chan. Chan is not implied by ANY pairing. Chan is about the ages of the characters.
Draco/Scorpius implies incest. It just DOES.
Harry/Scorpius DOES NOT IMPLY chan. Please stop assuming that. If you don't want to read the pairing, don't read it. I really don't care. Maybe Harry/Draco is all that you ever want to read. Maybe you don't like age disparity. Maybe the epilogue makes you want to spork you eye out. Totally understandable. But please don't dismiss the pairing because some fics in the ship are chan. There are chan Harry/Scorpius fics. There are also wonderful of fics with Scorpius over 17. If anyone wants non-chan harry/scorpius recs, you just let me know.
*jumps off soapbox*
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Date: 2009-01-23 01:59 pm (UTC)♥
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Date: 2009-01-23 02:12 pm (UTC)are terminally pervycan tolerate chan can read those.no subject
Date: 2009-01-23 02:16 pm (UTC)Now I need to figure out if Scorpius is 16 is considered chan, or is the cut off 17. LOL!
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Date: 2009-01-23 06:54 pm (UTC)Seriously, though, for me it's not about a particular age per se as it is about how the characters are written (although I agree that pre-pubescent kids always = chan in my book). There are some very mature 15 and 16 year olds out there, and if it's written well, I can buy seeing them with an adult without thinking of it as chan.
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Date: 2009-01-23 02:35 pm (UTC)OMG!!!!!
I have just printed it and have read the first two paragraphs. I am soooooo freaking excited. *stares at pairing list* Wooooot!!!!
ok... gotta go read. :D
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Date: 2009-01-23 06:55 pm (UTC)