LOL! I like to think your healthiest relationship with HP was back in those days when you'd never read it.:-D
So you can't sell me on things like 'eternal victimhood', but you can sell me on say, Twue Wuv, so maybe it just depends. The true serious offenders (like the Snape Will Save Him people) are just wrong because they don't know crap about human nature, in my view, not because Snape Just Wouldn't.
You know, you might have hit on something there. Because on of the things about the most troublesome fics is that they're so biased in a way that's just unrealistic. I mean, I guess one could say that even in canon things will always work out for Harry etc., but it's not the same. He still lives in a world that's populated by people who are doing their own thing. Where as then there's fics where you can sort of tell you're listening to one person's view of the world where nobody else is given any inner life beyond how they feel about the issue the author's writing about, like the main character. It's like if you listen to a person IRL who thinks they're always right and everyone else is just mean to them and you can't help but know that they're either in denial or lying.
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Date: 2010-03-11 02:43 pm (UTC)So you can't sell me on things like 'eternal victimhood', but you can sell me on say, Twue Wuv, so maybe it just depends. The true serious offenders (like the Snape Will Save Him people) are just wrong because they don't know crap about human nature, in my view, not because Snape Just Wouldn't.
You know, you might have hit on something there. Because on of the things about the most troublesome fics is that they're so biased in a way that's just unrealistic. I mean, I guess one could say that even in canon things will always work out for Harry etc., but it's not the same. He still lives in a world that's populated by people who are doing their own thing. Where as then there's fics where you can sort of tell you're listening to one person's view of the world where nobody else is given any inner life beyond how they feel about the issue the author's writing about, like the main character. It's like if you listen to a person IRL who thinks they're always right and everyone else is just mean to them and you can't help but know that they're either in denial or lying.