INTERACTIVE: 30 DAYS OF FAN FIC MEME || DAY TEN

[slytherincesss.livejournal.com]

DAY ONE - How did you get into fan fic?
DAY TWO - What fandoms have you written in?
DAY THREE - Favorite characters?
DAY FOUR - "Muse" character?
DAY FIVE - Pushy characters?
DAY SIX - Male or female characters?
DAY SEVEN - Fic affecting your view of a character?
DAY EIGHT - OCs
DAY NINE - Favorite Pairings

10 – Pairings – Have you ever gone outside your comfort zone and written a pairing you liked, but found you couldn't write, or a pairing you didn't like, and found you could?

We welcome your participation! There is no minimum or maximum requirements for your answers -- they can be as long or as short as you'd like. I will include my answer as a comment.

Comments

[slytherincesss.livejournal.com]

You know, in a way I can answer Harry/Draco for this question. I initially did not like the Harry/Draco pairing for a few reasons. First, the fic I read way, way back in the day was often so grossly OOC, it completely turned me off of the pairing. There was a time where the majority of H/D fic was just this uber cheesy, overly emotive, not-based-in-canon, ridiculouos genre, and I absolutely hated it. This is not to say that I don't like or appreciate seeing the emotional side of men -- I certainly do. But it's just so tricky to do it right (and Lord knows I'm not saying I do it right -- I do the best I can, but, you know, one person's trash is another person's treasure; it's subjective) and I'd read these fics where the boys were crying all the time and professing their undying love for one another . . . it was all just so bad. So, so bad. And because I was a hardcore canon whore, I was completely unable to suspend disbelief in order to be more forgiving about characterization choices authors might utilize that I myself would not. As well, coming in as a primary het shipper, back in the day there were these unbelievable lines drawn in the sand between het shippers and slashers, where this was a small but vocal group of slashers who yowled all over the place that slash is inherently intellectually superior to het fic simply because it was slash. Now personally, I can't think of a more inane argument. That's like me saying het fic is inherently better than slash because it's het. I mean, that obviously makes no sense. But the "Intellislashers" (that's what they called themselves) were very adamant about slash being superior. The whole attitude just really got under my craw and my response (whether it was right or not . . . probably not . . . ) was to kind of put my hand up to the slash side of fandom and lurk in my comfort zone.

Full answer here (http://slytherincesss.livejournal.com/467137.html).

[deirdre-aithne.livejournal.com]

Harry/Scorpius was one of those pairings that made me go "O.o what?" until I wrote it as a gift fic for the winner of one of the word wars. And then I fell in love with it. *is totally a sheep sometimes*

[slytherincesss.livejournal.com]

I love cross gen - yum!

[meglw0228.livejournal.com]

Yeah, I love Harry/Severus and tried writing it once...I can never get Severus to sound even remotely in character.

There's quite a few pairings that I've tried that I didn't like at first and found I enjoy writing, almost everything I've tried!

[amt149.livejournal.com]

I've never wrote anything I don't like. Basically, I'm a very picky person and if I don't like it, I won't want to get started. Similarly, I can't always write for what I like. I ship Alicia/Olivia, but I just can't write femslash, I guess. I used to like H/Hr, but I couldn't get the ball rolling for it.

I guess I'll write anything as long as I can get it moving forward.

[crazyparakiss.livejournal.com]

Draco/Asteria, I thought "Eh not my thing," then wrote it as a pinch-hit for emo-fest and fell in love with the canon pairing. I don't write it often, but I do enjoy exploring their relationship in AS/S fics. :D

[uniquepov.livejournal.com]

Sometimes I have insane difficulty writing het. IDEK. I also have a lot of trouble writing Voldemort wins! scenarios and pairings.

I didn't think I could write Snarry - I have an issue with the level of resentment and bitterness inherent in their canon!relationship - but after having written a few fics, I can see the way the dynamic could have evolved.

[tigersilver.livejournal.com]

Seconded on both points. I've read so much het (good, awesome and awful), it bores me silly at this point. So, slash is more fun for me. Plus I can get behind supporting the need for more positive fiction for LGBT youth and I think slash fanfiction is a huge resource for that. It inspires me as het does not.
Cross-gen is not so much an issue in HP because canon allows for extra-long lived characters. What's a squick when the younger set are teens (for me, personally) is no longer when everyone's over 40. But still...there has to be a real spark to lure me in.

[rebecca_selene]

I wrote Luna/Xenophilius chan for the hp_kinkfest. I still don't understand why. *headdesk*

[hpfangirl71.livejournal.com]

When I first read H/D I was truly intrigued but never imagined myself as a slash writer since I knew nothing about gay sex but now that has all changed and I write mostly slash and a fair amount of it is my OTP Harry/Draco. I also thought I would never write a threesome and got converted away from that idea through the Drapery threesome. Also I wrote Ron/Charlie for a Weasley Slash Fest and realized I loved that pairing!!