Why does everyone allways think the same in fics? Either everyone is gay or everyone is homophobic etc etc. never a decent mix. This comes up in lots of cases, for instance - religeon in the WW... a lot of people have posted here saying 'clearly they aren't wiccan' (well indeed not, given that wicca is young and not atall the same sort of magick ( Read more... )

This is expanded from a comment of mine over at fanficrants.

( Rantage, cut for those who have dial-up )

As has been mentioned in quite a few of these posts, JK Rowling doesn’t really say very much about religion in her books. This probably has a lot to do with the fact that if she did, it would piss off a lot of parents, which is not how she got to be richer than the Queen ( Read more... )

And, yes, they're probably almost as common in slash fic as they are in het ( Read more... )

In the real world, it’s very true-a person who is racist is also likely to be sexist and homophobic. There are lots of reasons for this that I won’t get into because it would just start a big political argument that no-one here especially wants to have.

However, purebloodism, or what you want to call it, is not actually racism. ( No flames please, I shall use them to cook my lunch! )

A few details about the 1970s, from someone who actually lived through them.

( The Sexual Revolution. It wasn’t as much fun as you think. )

There's a tendency (and I've been guilty of this myself--in fact, the main reason that my big WiP is hugely stalled is because I realised I had done this and I'm not sure how to undo it) to assume that life in the Wizarding 1970s was pretty happy-go-lucky, and that MWPP had really "normal" teenage years, and then, sometime between 1979 and 1980, ( Read more... )

This community has taken off like gangbusters! So many lovely and unlovely cliches for us to snark at!

Here's one that makes me grind my teeth and search for booze every time I see it: The Arranged Marriage. Now I'm perfectly willing to believe that the Founders had arranged marriages. And I suppose it's possible that the very upper echelon of ( Read more... )