What a morning.

[_melodic_]

So I woke up at 7:30am this morning to a loud booming noise and the windows/floors shaking. I was a bit on edge since I work in Chelsea and was only a few blocks from the bomb that went off the other week. I luckily was far enough away and safely inside the restaurant but getting home that night was insane. There were firetrucks and cop cars

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[ravenclawsquill]

Yikes, what a scary start to the day! I'm glad you're okay and hope you enjoy your quality time!

(And I'm with you re Dramione. I've never understood it, but lately it's become a full-on squick for me. Perhaps it's because Dramione shippers seem to write a VERY different Draco from Drarry shippers?)

[_melodic_]

Indeed, but luckily the rest of the day has been uneventful and relaxing.

Yes, I am so squicked by Dramione that I even feel my insides squirm uncomfortably when I scroll through my flist and see the pairing listed. It's crazy!

[digthewriter]

Aw..my dramione hater bbs. ♥

as I texted _melodic_ the other day and I was rather crass... I'm promoting hp_drizzle in all the HET comms b/c I'm hoping to attract more HET readers since those fuckers prompted so much.

I find it rather surprising that so many people have prompted Draco/Hermione and so many authors have picked up those prompts, yet the comment count is no where near the Harry/Draco love.

Like if you leave an HD prompt and even if you get a crappy story, the original prompter still says SOMETHING. Dramione lovers don't seem to have that sort of courtesy... Some of these stories are half way decent... even if I don't like the Draco chracterizations. (Also, dude, you betaed one of the DRA/HER stories for drizzle...)

Do you think it might be b/c HET fics are dime a dozen on LJ? I tend to scroll past them unless I'm intrigued by the pairing and most of the times, I'm not.

I'll read the occasional Nev/Pansy or Ron/Pansy but that's about it.

Anyway, I'll stop rambling now.

/as you were

[ravenclawsquill]

I had noticed the lack of comments - and even left a few comments on some of the shorter DRA/HER fics because it's crap to write a fic and get zero feedback. It seems really rude to ignore a fic written for your prompt.

Perhaps it's because the standard of DRA/HER fics tends to be quite poor so people who don't actively ship it don't want to take a chance?

(Also, dude, you betaed one of the DRA/HER stories for drizzle...)

Guilty! It was a one-off: I offered because the writer was just getting back into the fandom (much like me) and didn't have a regular beta. Thankfully the writing was good! I'll be sticking to slash/femslash/gen in future though.

(Listen to me making excuses!)

Het (except maybe Pansy/Theo) just doesn't float my boat. Especially the explicit stuff. Perhaps it's because there's literally no non-squicky way to describe erm ... lady parts?

/so sorry _Melodic_ for hijacking your post and writing about lady parts.

[ravenclawsquill]

I'm full of crap. It can't be the lady parts or I wouldn't read femslash.

/end lady parts

[digthewriter]

I like reading PG-13 HET stories b/c I'd like to avoid the explicit parts b/c I just don't find it hot at all and that's weird when I'm bisexual ... In most stories, nowadays, sexual details have taken a back seat and I'd much rather read characterizations and my thing w/ het stories is that a woman is the main character and in most fanfiction she doesn't really have a strong personality ... many of the m/m books i read/listen to do a good job of having a strong female side character but there's a diff between HET romance (for me) and Slash romance b/c in slash I'm interested in romance, in HET I'm interested in the woman's strong suits and not just her getting her happily ever after with a guy (*rolls eyes*) If I want pure pwp, I'd rather read m/m and not f/m

If that makes sense.