Snack -- Vive le grudgefuck!

[themostepotente]

Well...

I just finished my second Snack -- 3000k. I'm quite pleased. The first one I actually wrote -- brilliant plan of action, executed poorly. I must go back and fix one of these days.

I love this pairing for a multitude of reasons;

They hate eachother.

They really hate eachother.

They really, really hate eachother.

So to all the gifted Snack writers -- amanuensis1, cluegirl, ellen_fremedon, fabularasa, isiscolo...

What is the key ingredient to writing this pairing and doing so convincingly?

IMHO, this is one, if not the most difficult slash pairings to pull off.

It's like...trying to snap a picture of your two-year old at Sears Portrait Studio :P

It's like...putting a pair of sunglasses and a big floppy hat on your dog, hoping he'll stay that way and strike a pose :P

They...just...won't...cooperate.

FYI -- I'd love to hear from everyone. If I have forgotten anyone that writes Snack in abundance, 'please' just give me a firm slap on the wrist, and I'll edit.

--P

Comments

[titti]

I think most of the people that have done convincingly have either: a) returned to their school years and explain their intense dislike for each other;

Wait, there is no b. I think that's the trick proving that the tension was unrequitted or unacknowledges lust and somehow they are forced to reveal it.

There have been a few, very few exceptions of good fics where they are kinda of thrown together, but then the setting has to be really believable to justify them forgetting all their animosity.

THis from someone who has written a few and has read all of the ones I archive at Thin Line.

[themostepotente.livejournal.com]

School years, yes. The root of all evil. Where it began. I agree wholeheartedly with you there.

Lack of fanfiction -- see above. This is a difficult pairing to pull off. Pity too. It was my push into fandom.

--P

[titti]

I like to think that even though there isn't as much as H/D, the SS/SB are almost always worth reading, and you don't have to pull your hair when reading DracoSue and HarryStu.