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 03:37 pm (UTC)Crack and fluff doesn't necessarily mean glossing over complication. And really, you should allow people to write and view pairings as they wish.
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Date: 2009-01-23 03:41 pm (UTC)I'll re-read what I wrote and try to word it better. :D
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Date: 2009-01-23 03:57 pm (UTC)I understand feeling protective of a pairing that is new, but people will write the couple as they see it. I think variety in anything is a good thing, but maybe thats me.
I wasn't trying to say that you needed to suddenly turn Scorpius into a girl. But when a writer rides the fence of age there is going to be a chan concern. But I was saying that doesn't need to define the pairing at all, just because a few writers are interested in exploring that dynamic. But so far it has been, and I thought you were trying to say you would like people to see the pairing as something beyond that.
I apologize if our wires got crossed somewhere.
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Date: 2009-01-23 04:49 pm (UTC)The Great Garden Gnome Rebellion (http://marguerite-26.livejournal.com/186243.html)
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Date: 2009-01-23 06:32 pm (UTC)*loves you to death*
Feel better, sweetheart!
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Date: 2009-01-23 03:47 pm (UTC)This is what I MEANT to say...
Do see your point, that sometimes a fic with 'general appeal' could open someones eyes to the pairing. :D
But I don't think I could write a fluff Harry/Scorpius. I like them all angsty and complicated and I think that creates the passion between them. Fluff (or crack) is generally not my thing and particularly with cross-gen I don't like it. At least the few that I have read, I didn't appreciate and since then, I've stayed clear.
But your idea of old Harry/Scorpius fighting over looking at the ass of the hotshot auror is pretty funny.
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Date: 2009-01-23 04:01 pm (UTC)Really we are agreeing that Harry/Scorpius does not equal chan.
Plus we keep replying to each other at the same time. Hence proving why the internet is poor for these types of discussions.
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Date: 2009-01-23 04:08 pm (UTC)So I was trying to say, I don't think I could write it, not that I think it shouldn't be written.
*sigh*
it's the little things that cause the most confusion.
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Date: 2009-01-23 04:30 pm (UTC)