Re: OT: Harry

Dear lord, I knew this would come up.  *sigh*

I have friends who found Legolas/Gimli stuff.  They started quoting things
about fuzziness, and maintain that discussions of a person's "elfhood" are
common.  Made me want to cry just thinking about it.

There are a couple of levels of slashy stuff out there.  Favorite pairings
are (across series): Sirius/Snape, Sirius/Remus, Snape/Harry (don't ask),
Draco/Harry, Data/Geordi, Paris/Kim.  There are others, of course, and
female slash (they usually abbreviate to "femslash") is rarer but present,
with heathy showings from Janeway/7, Torres/7, and Crusher/Troi.  HP adult
fanfiction site RestrictedSection just finished their "slashers do het"
challenge, and are about to do a female slash challenge.  Yay for them.
Anyway, I avoid slash most of the time, because it's usually done badly.
It's Mary Suism without the immediate draw of criticism for self-insertion.
They get away with it because we already know that Picard, Janeway, etc. are
godlike and perfect.  The number of times that I've run into 7of9's sexual
stamina references (even in otherwise non-adult fics) leads me to believe
that much of the romantic fiction out there is just Mary Sue II stuff --
they know they can't get away with a 20th century character who suddenly
finds herself in Kirk's arms, so they do this instead  (in HP fanfiction,
it's a 16 year old American transfer student, who is almost always Muggle
born and catches the eye of Harry, Snape, or Draco -- and quite often joins
the cheerleading squad, something that canon Hogwarts doesn't even have).

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Fool and fracture 'em;
How can they hear the truth above the roar?"
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> -----Original Message-----
> Behalf Of Sally Caves
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>
 strong--having to be pursued, falling into the same problems, etc.  (Have
> they started slashing the LOTR?  Or have done all this time?
> Leg'o'lamb and
> Gimlet, in _Bored of the Rings_.  But most of the slash stuff
> I've seen has
> been very serious and artful.)
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