I agree with fpb in that I see the appeal of HD but not so much for the sex. I'm more like you in that aspect, I suppose. I like reading HD for the plot more so than anything. I have skipped entire paragraphs of stories where it becomes PWP and too graphic. -____-
True many HD stories become entirely OOC and AU but I've always looked at it in good fun. It's only fanfic. I mean, I love reading HD but whenever everyone is gay it annoys me. Whenever a character is too feminized that annoys me. I read it because of the angst and drama involved. I like stories where one of the characters fights the other the entire way. Perhaps that's why I also like Draco/Hermione or Ron/Pansy or Pansy/Harry. As you've prob. noticed, I don't like canon pairings too much because they're obvious. They've happened. Why would I read yet another epilogue to JKRs?
As for the slash warning drama over at MNFF -- my personal opinion is to keep the category and get rid of the warning. Or add a "het" warning.
And I understand the basic principle behind the original poster but the fact is that the category serves the purpose of making stories easier to search not for discrimination. If the search feature at MNFF was more like FF.NETs then I'd agree with the original poster. But as it stands, the current search feature is useless.
I never meant to say that there is any attraction - let alone any attraction to me - in the thought of enemies having homosexual sex. "Ending up in bed" was sloppy short-hand for the completion of a full-time relationship, in the classic rom-com fashion. And I agree that I can't read writers like Switchknife who make everyone gay. kennahijja escapes the censure (mostly), because she is a genius and genius can do most anything, but other than her, give me a credible bunch of people with all sorts of interests and maybe one or two homosexuals among them. And, please, avoid descriptive sex scenes unless they have some serious purpose. The word "yes", vibrating in the night air, has a suggestive power that no three-page account of physical act, were it even written by DH Lawrence, can achieve; and most of us are not DH Lawrence.
About slash warnings, there are fans who dislike and avoid het. I have at least two fan letters who complimented me on writing the first het they had ever wanted to read. So it is sensible to put it in merely as a descriptive term, unless you want to surprise your readers.
True many HD stories become entirely OOC and AU but I've always looked at it in good fun. It's only fanfic. I mean, I love reading HD but whenever everyone is gay it annoys me. Whenever a character is too feminized that annoys me. I read it because of the angst and drama involved. I like stories where one of the characters fights the other the entire way. Perhaps that's why I also like Draco/Hermione or Ron/Pansy or Pansy/Harry. As you've prob. noticed, I don't like canon pairings too much because they're obvious. They've happened. Why would I read yet another epilogue to JKRs?
As for the slash warning drama over at MNFF -- my personal opinion is to keep the category and get rid of the warning. Or add a "het" warning.
And I understand the basic principle behind the original poster but the fact is that the category serves the purpose of making stories easier to search not for discrimination. If the search feature at MNFF was more like FF.NETs then I'd agree with the original poster. But as it stands, the current search feature is useless.
-shrugs-
/two cents =]
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About slash warnings, there are fans who dislike and avoid het. I have at least two fan letters who complimented me on writing the first het they had ever wanted to read. So it is sensible to put it in merely as a descriptive term, unless you want to surprise your readers.
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