Usually I don't hop aboard the f_wank train, but in the case I fear I had to put my proverbial foot in it.
Now, having no background to your reading or slashing experience I'm afraid I can't bring specific pairings that you favor into this argument, but I hope you still hear me out.
Based on you logic, how could anyone pair Harry and Ron? Or Harry and anyone who's nice to him? Or Dean and Seamus? Ron and Hermione? Aren't their canon relationships all based on friendship? How is that so different from the MWPP era fiction?
I also think you have a misunderstanding of much of the MWPP fic. By your own admission you have never read nor 'touched' any MWPP fiction. How do you know the basis for it?
While admittedly there are those who only write PWP or fluff or smut in the era, that's not the basis for why people write these fics. They see this wonderful relationship between the four boys that is based on all of the higher human emotions that you so eloquently stated above. They see Sirius and James as the 'stars of their year' and their kindness in befriending two loners in their house. These people don't believe that their friendships are based on sex, they just see the possibility that this 'depiction of free, warm, luminous friendship' could breed another of the higher human emotions, namely love. How is that perverted or wrong?
I also have to raise a point about your dislike of Draco. He's admittedly a bastard in canon, but that's how Rowling writes all of her dark characters. She has a penchant for two dimensionalizing characters she doesn't like and discrediting their possibilities. Regardless to this fact, I still think he'd be a bastard, but thats not why I like him in fiction. There's only one simple reason I do: he has possibility. Canon!Draco has a whole side to him that simply never gets explored. There are so many possibilities and directions to take with his character. Don't get me wrong, I'm not a fan of redeemed!Draco. I just feel that he has options Rowling won't take. As both a reader and a writer I couldn't possibly pass that up.
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Date: 2004-08-19 01:25 pm (UTC)Now, having no background to your reading or slashing experience I'm afraid I can't bring specific pairings that you favor into this argument, but I hope you still hear me out.
Based on you logic, how could anyone pair Harry and Ron? Or Harry and anyone who's nice to him? Or Dean and Seamus? Ron and Hermione? Aren't their canon relationships all based on friendship? How is that so different from the MWPP era fiction?
I also think you have a misunderstanding of much of the MWPP fic. By your own admission you have never read nor 'touched' any MWPP fiction. How do you know the basis for it?
While admittedly there are those who only write PWP or fluff or smut in the era, that's not the basis for why people write these fics. They see this wonderful relationship between the four boys that is based on all of the higher human emotions that you so eloquently stated above. They see Sirius and James as the 'stars of their year' and their kindness in befriending two loners in their house. These people don't believe that their friendships are based on sex, they just see the possibility that this 'depiction of free, warm, luminous friendship' could breed another of the higher human emotions, namely love. How is that perverted or wrong?
I also have to raise a point about your dislike of Draco. He's admittedly a bastard in canon, but that's how Rowling writes all of her dark characters. She has a penchant for two dimensionalizing characters she doesn't like and discrediting their possibilities. Regardless to this fact, I still think he'd be a bastard, but thats not why I like him in fiction. There's only one simple reason I do: he has possibility. Canon!Draco has a whole side to him that simply never gets explored. There are so many possibilities and directions to take with his character. Don't get me wrong, I'm not a fan of redeemed!Draco. I just feel that he has options Rowling won't take. As both a reader and a writer I couldn't possibly pass that up.