Fic thoughts regarding shippers and non-shippers, and Smutmas recs!

[midnitemaraud_r]

This is such a bad time for me to be musing on meta-ish topics - I've got a busy few days ahead, I'm still feeling very out of it, and I don't know if I'll get around to promptly replying to comments… *eyes last meta post and other recent posts and blushes furiously*…but seeing as how I've been reading a lot of pairings outside my "usual" fare,

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[midnitemaraud_r]

Oi! Shut it, you! And quit gloating!

*g*

[busaikko]

Heh! Snupin will claim you yet!... And if not, would you consider my Snape OTHetP? Feel the Severus/Petunia love!

* note the tongue, firmly in cheek! *

[magnetic_pole]

Hee! M.

[midnitemaraud_r]

I'm looking at that tongue! And totally giggling at your icon! *hee!*

I don't know about the Snupin. It's definitely not happening any time soon at any rate.

[busaikko]

I find (and Snupin is the other OTP that I write) both ships (R/S vs, ah, R/S) have different challenges and restraints. Remus/Sirius is, in canon, a closed arc: we have a beginning, middle, and end to work with. The framework is sketchy enough that it can be filled in in myriad ways, and that act of filling in is where the fan-writer works. Remus/Severus (hey--I saw that cringe!), on the other hand, is an arc that is still open: there is still potential there for a happy ending (or even an unhappy one, mmm!). The fan-writer's job, then, is to make that ending plausible. If no one has for you yet, then we need to do our job better! *sucks on quill*

That said, fan-reading is eminently a matter of taste. There are thousands upon thousands of brilliant stories out there, and one reads what one likes, and generally what one likes is a scant handful of ships (or kinks). I find it very hard to read other 'ships--I just don't want to most of the time! So here's to freedom of choice! * less cracy icon this time! *

[titti]

See to me it's all about the build up, regardless if it's one of my ship or not. Stories that jump into the story and never tell me the how and why are never finished, crack stories are fun, but again, not something I would reread or rec, some PWP might be something I read if I'm in the mood, but then they'd better be exceptional, IC, and exploring kinks, with still enough background to let me know that it's Draco, Ron, Harry, etc., and not an interchangeable character.

I guess that's why I end up reading and writing stories that are a 50 pages long as a minimum. :)

[midnitemaraud_r]

Oh, I much prefer plotty stories, but I do enjoy mindless fluff and PWPs on occasion as well - in R/S that is. No Snarry fluff for me, thanks! But it depends on my mood, and of course the author. But having my own multiple background scenarios for R/S in my head already, while I absolutely prefer the build up and backstory, I don't necessarily need it.

[titti]

I can't even do PWPs in the pairings I like. I still need that how they got there part.

[midnitemaraud_r]

*hee* I just use my own imagination to create my own backstory, always thinking that I should actually write it one day, but I'm just lazy. Heh.

[secretsolitaire]

I'm starting to warm up to idea that, not only is Snape is allowed to have sex, but there might actually be some merit and entertainment value in it after all.Haha, this was me several months ago. For a while I just couldn't see Snape in any sexual light whatsoever. To be honest, I still can't find him all that sexy, for the most part (my brain keeps cataloguing "sallow skin, big nose, greasy hair..."), but what I like about reading pairings with him is that he's such a prickly, guarded sort of character -- and I like to see how he can slowly learn to open up and care about someone else in the hands of a good writer

[midnitemaraud_r]

I'll never think of Snape as attractive, and he's definitely not sexy to me either, but like you say - the prickly character is intriguing to me and I do like witty, snarky banter. I really like character interactions between Snape and Remus, but sex/romance... I just can't do it.

A Theory of Glass was fantastic, and I have a sneaking suspicion as to who wrote it! :)

[musesfool]

No, sorry, no sex for Snape. I shall not be moved. ;p

[midnitemaraud_r]

Hahahaha! I still don't think he has an ounce of sex appeal, but I do love the snark. :)