Dear confused Harry/Draco fan writer
Dear confused Harry/Draco fan writer
If you are writing Harry/Draco m/m slash presumably you are doing so because you like the idea of Harry Potter and Draco Malfoy together in a relationship. That being so, please explain why you have made either Harry or Draco act and look like a teenage girl/young woman rather than the maturing teenage boy or, if you are writing post Hogwarts, the young man they are going to grow into. There is nothing wrong with being feminine, nothing wrong at all, BUT Harry and Draco are neither female nor feminine. Check how they are described in the books, particularly the last one, read their words and see how they react, look at the actors that depict them if you must. Also, and this might come as a surprise to you, but being female, feminine, shorter, smaller and younger does not automatically mean that you are going to be the submissive person in a relationship and, here’s a very, very radical thought, it may further surprise you to know that many relationship are based on equality not stereotypical concepts of dominant/submissive, nurturer/provider etc. So, having considered all of the above, you're never going to write another story where either Harry or Draco are described as feminine and beautiful (and wear white to the wedding to denote their virgin status!) are you? Good, because I was beginning to wonder why the hell you wanted to write m/m slash in the first place if the first thing you sought to do was to feminise one of the guys.
Yours hopefully
A frustrated reader (though I suppose it's my fault for enjoying Veela stories) who almost wishes she liked Harry/Snape because I'm certain that no one has ever called Snape either beautiful or feminine, and if they have I really, truly, honestly and sincerely do not want to know. *g*
I knew right away that Rock Hudson was gay when he did not fall in love with me - Gina Lollobrigida
If you are writing Harry/Draco m/m slash presumably you are doing so because you like the idea of Harry Potter and Draco Malfoy together in a relationship. That being so, please explain why you have made either Harry or Draco act and look like a teenage girl/young woman rather than the maturing teenage boy or, if you are writing post Hogwarts, the young man they are going to grow into. There is nothing wrong with being feminine, nothing wrong at all, BUT Harry and Draco are neither female nor feminine. Check how they are described in the books, particularly the last one, read their words and see how they react, look at the actors that depict them if you must. Also, and this might come as a surprise to you, but being female, feminine, shorter, smaller and younger does not automatically mean that you are going to be the submissive person in a relationship and, here’s a very, very radical thought, it may further surprise you to know that many relationship are based on equality not stereotypical concepts of dominant/submissive, nurturer/provider etc. So, having considered all of the above, you're never going to write another story where either Harry or Draco are described as feminine and beautiful (and wear white to the wedding to denote their virgin status!) are you? Good, because I was beginning to wonder why the hell you wanted to write m/m slash in the first place if the first thing you sought to do was to feminise one of the guys.
Yours hopefully
A frustrated reader (though I suppose it's my fault for enjoying Veela stories) who almost wishes she liked Harry/Snape because I'm certain that no one has ever called Snape either beautiful or feminine, and if they have I really, truly, honestly and sincerely do not want to know. *g*
I knew right away that Rock Hudson was gay when he did not fall in love with me - Gina Lollobrigida