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

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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).