Bitch, please.

[marguerite_26]

First, 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*

Comments

[leela-cat.livejournal.com]

Umm.... gah?

I've never quite figured out the age limits of chan either, but I always assumed that it was 16 or 17. But then again, Walking the Plank has a chan (16-18) on its archive. I assumed that's about legalities, especially for Australians who aren't legally supposed to read anything sexual with anyone under the age of 18.

For me the lines about 16 for reading and 17 for writing. That's more about personal experience though, and about growing up in countries where the age of consent was 16.

[marguerite-26.livejournal.com]

or me the lines about 16 for reading and 17 for writing.
do you mean you must be 16 to read about sex and 17 to write about sex?

And yeah, either way we define chan I think the easiest is to simply state the age we are talking about because someone is going to define it differently.

[leela-cat.livejournal.com]

do you mean you must be 16 to read about sex and 17 to write about sex?

Umm... no. I guess that was completely unclear. I refuse to be a hypocrite about reading and writing about sex, because I was doing both at a very young age (and you can blame my mother's porny bodice rippers for that).

What I meant is that I can read stories where one of the characters is 16, but experience has shown that the youngest age I write it is 17. Although I've written at least one story that implied sex occurred when one of the characters was 16.

And, yes, that's what I do in my warnings. I don't say "chan" but I'll say "Scorpius is 17" as I did for my Snape/Harry/Scorpius (and isn't that some nice cross-gen for you. *g*)

[marguerite-26.livejournal.com]

Triple cross gen!!! Woot! I did love that fic. :D

And yes, that makes perfect sense about the reading/writing. We often have different rules about what we enjoy to read as oppose to write.