so lame and meta of me, but I'll post it anyway...

[timepiececlock]

More about my strange new fascination with Draco/Hermione fanfics of Harry Potter ficdom. I realize now that I’m totally projecting my spuffy fannishness onto this pairing... but it’s so easy! I can’t help it.

For example, did you guys know that you can trace the history of Spike from BTVS by reading the right D/Hm fics? I swear:

-Season 4 Spike, who is self-obsessed, pretty, petty, snarky, cute, and mischievously amoral can be found reincarnated as Draco in the fic Draco Malfoy the Amazing Bouncing...Rat
-Spike of BTVS season 5, who is flirty, dangerous, more than an little manipulative, hasty, sincere, ridiculed, and crushing on someone he shouldn’t, can be found reincarnated as Draco in Must Be Hell Freezing Over.
-If you want to see Spike Draco with the lurid sex, destructive secrets, and dark yet touching lust-based-but-maybe-more-later-relationship of season 6, read Adamo Fidelitas.
-And now I’m reading this lovingly angsty fic that has Spike Draco found lost and near catatonic in a dirty alley in Cairo (with longer hair!), reeling internally from a traumatic experience involving flashy lights and torture that led to his current state of depression/rage/listlessness with masochistic tendencies, great misunderstood guilt, and a profound desire for redemption...which of course leaves the Scooby Gang Potter & Co. unsure of how to behave around him and causes the pure and good Buffy Hermione to want to comfort and heal him and discover the secret of his changed ways. That’s called Buffy Season 7 Sympathy for the Slytherin.

See what I’m talking about? It’s mad coincidence, I say.

I even found one on ff.net where Draco dies a noble death (in the dark, underground) while telling Hermione to forget about him and escape... but that one kind of sucked, and I’m not linking it.

P.S. What does it say about my life that I not only live my romance vicariously through fanfic, but now also live my fanfic romance vicariously through other fanfic?


P.S.S. Just for note, all these fics are super super cool and well-written and all that normal envious jazz that oft colors my posts to a nice tint of green. This is a rec post, officially.

Comments

(and we're both splitting hairs here)

[rashaka.livejournal.com]

Well, if you want to get technical, there's a HUGE age difference in B/S, too

Yeah, but it's not a child-to-adult difference. That's what ooks me. of course, I assume a significant amount of the people who write that ship have any smut be done when she's at least her last year or older. But I'm hypothesizng, cause I haven't read any of that ship.

It's one of those things that doesn't bother me in fiction that would really skeeve me in real life.

It bothers me in both, to an extent. I think once you're past a certain age (las says 18), age difference between relationships is unimportant. However, I do believe there should be a line. I know that there are people in relationships out there who are commited to someone younger than them, and have decided to wait for them to grow up completely, and I think that's fine, even sweet if you are willing to wait... as long as you're legal about how you treat the relationship.

I sort of look at it in fanfic the same way. I mean, I could get into the Dawn/Xander relationship, as long as it happened in future. I wouldn't like it happnening in season 7. I can get inot Wolverine/Rogue fanfic, as long as it's set in future when she's over 18. I didn't like the whole Buffy/Angel age difference in the early seasons, but Buffy is so far from a real girl that I can accept the differences.

Re: (and we're both splitting hairs here)

[saava.livejournal.com]

True true about B/S. i would've said B/A because that *IS* and adult to child thing and not many people are skeeved by it, but hey, I know you're not a B/A fan.

*shrugs* One of my very favorite HG/SS fics (which is also HG/DM) happens in Hermione's sixth year. And it's just so brilliantly written and instersting that I never even thought about it being, you know, illegal in real life.

Of course, I think another part of the reason I like Hermione/Snape better than Hermione/Draco is that Alan Rickman brings so much to the character of Snape that it's just more *fun* to read about him than Draco who's basically a cardboard cutout if he's written anywhere near canon.

I guess for me it's definitely a matter of projecting - I identify with Hermione and I'd rather be entangled with Snape than with Draco. I see fic as a means of escape and sometimes I find it fun to read stuff that's way outside my own morality. Hell, I've read and enjoyed incest fics, which I obviously don't approve of in real life.

Re: (and we're both splitting hairs here)

[rashaka.livejournal.com]

Of course, I think another part of the reason I like Hermione/Snape better than Hermione/Draco is that Alan Rickman brings so much to the character of Snape that it's just more *fun* to read about him than Draco who's basically a cardboard cutout if he's written anywhere near canon.

I love Alan Rickman, but I do think he looks kinda old with the make-up and costuming they give him, so maybe that's why it's not working in my head. And now as I type I'm suddenly getting pictures of the Hermione actress and Alan rickman and my head's going "...Eww."

I guess for me it's definitely a matter of projecting - I identify with Hermione and I'd rather be entangled with Snape than with Draco.

That's the thing that I've always found weird about my love for Spuffy... I like Buffy as a character but I've never projected myself into her shoes. I'm more Willowish, in truth, though I've never really projected into Willow much either, on the fact that sometimes the things she did really bugged me.

I don't think I really project into Hermione... I was a lot like girls like her up until maybe sixth grade, but now I'm not much like her character at all. I've found I don't really project much. I love escaping into stories, and I get really really emotionally invested into their storylines, but I rarely imagine myself as the characters. And a lot of the characters I end up preferring (like Spike) are really not like me at all.

I see fic as a means of escape and sometimes I find it fun to read stuff that's way outside my own morality. Hell, I've read and enjoyed incest fics, which I obviously don't approve of in real life.

Yeah, much fantasy escapism is like that. I've read a lot of dark fics that I loved, filled with things I enjoyed reading about but would never do.