Harry and Draco -- But the little girls understand

[themostepotente]

WARNING -- SERIOUS FANDOM RANT

Is anyone as sick of pointless, plotless, inane, and tritely written Harry/Draco like I am?

I mean seriously, why the fuck do most people who attempt to write this pairing insist on following the SAME GODDAMN BORING outline?

Sound familiar?

Boy meets boy
Boy hates boy
Boy crushes on boy
Boy ends up fucking boy
Boy angsts
Boy still hates boy

Lather. Rinse. Repeat.

What...the...fuck?

What about this pairing zaps the creativity from some people?

Where is it written that *gasp* established H/D with plot is a big fucking no no?

I don't profess to be the best H/D shipper. Far the fuck from it, but at least my H/D stories were different from the norm.

Oh fucking wheee, let's use the same fucking story and just change the kink. I see it all the time. I see the same shitty H/D authors being recced.

Fuck this.

If you hate seeing this as much as I do, voice your opinion. To the creative H/D writers - you KNOW who you are. Give me a shout out, hmm?

If you hate this pairing, tell us all why.

Really disgusted.

--P

Comments

[dementedsiren.livejournal.com]

Damn, I'm coming late to this.

I started out your typical rabid H/D shipper, cliche's and all. I read all the big fics, most of the small ones, and loved quite a few.

And then I read more. And more. And they all became exactly the same. Seriously, the same three or four cliches repeated over and over again until I could tell you after a thousand words or so how a 20 chapter fic was going to end.

Then I started writing fanfic, and while I've dabbled in H/D (mainly in humor, actually, and not much recently) I found that I really don't like writing it. I'm not sure why, but as much as I came into the fandom on the H/D wave, I don't write it. Go figure.

And now, I find myself skipping H/D fics unless there from author's I know and already like for their merits, and not for the pairing.

So thank you for having the balls to point this out to a fandom that tends to avoid saying that it's fics can be crap.

[themostepotente.livejournal.com]

Damn, I'm coming late to this.

Bah -- you're never late to the party :-)

So thank you for having the balls to point this out to a fandom that tends to avoid saying that it's fics can be crap.

Heh -- me and my big cyber balls are never afraid to speak out in the name of improving (or at least attempting) the H/D ship.