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

[potteresque_ire]

*Hugs Rita*
I explained my perspective on cross-gen and chan in another post yesterday :), definitely, the two are not the same! But to me, intent is more important than age in establishing a chan relationship.

Have been thinking a bit more about this, since I am still thinking about the Harry/Scorpius fic I have in mind. The greatest difference I can see at this point between HP/DM and HP/SM is that the former almost doesn't require any elaboration of the attraction between the two men - canon took care of that for us. And in the latter (as well as in other cross gen), a good fic requires an explanation of sorts of why the two get together. Infatuation (which in bad hands often leads to chan) is the easiest way out, in a way. Blame the hormones. But while this may be acceptable for the younger of the pair, it falls apart easily with the older person. Thus to make a cross gen romance believable, it requires, as Micie would say, MAD MAD SKILLAGE in the writing. Romaine did an almost perfect job with Possession with the Heart, but it's Romaine we're talking about!! Can I honestly pull something like this off? Will I end up writing chan? NOOOOOO!!!

PS. I may take Romaine and your offer in helping with plotting and what not ♥ I need to learn how to write properly. :)

[marguerite-26.livejournal.com]

a good fic requires an explanation of sorts of why the two get together. yeah, I think if you are going to write a true relationship between them you need to work for it. Yes, they can both be hot and easily attracked to the other. We all know that Scorp has been sleeping with a Chocolate Frog Card under his pillow since he hit puberty. *g* But for the older of the pair, no explanation basically leads to a) I wanted to do your father so I'd do you instead or b) You are a fit piece of ass, what's your name again? Both can make for great fics, but not really believable 'relationships' (not a healthy one anyway).

My advice to you is don't think about PotH when thinking about writing Harry/Scorpius. If that was the first or the only H/Sc I ever read, I would be like where the heck do I even start?

Honestly, I was like that with H/D. All the fics I read were like 100k classics, the cream of the crop spanning the last three years... I was completely frozen when I thought of writing the pairing. omg... sorry totally OT.

But of course you can pull something like this off! You are a fabulous writer. You don't need to have plot write the next epic H/Sc.

Anyway... you have my addy. I'm dieing to hear your bunny. :D

[romaine24.livejournal.com]

*blush* Okay, Pie, I know and you know you can pull this off. And you also know both of us would love to hear your ideas. :)