I know exactly what you mean (and good grief, I've actually read that Harry/Snape story - in several versions, even, before I learned to spot the signs and avoid it!); there are always parts of fandom that seem to have an axe to grind, and aren't afraid to show it.
I had a hard time in the HP fandom, actually, since I was into H/D but didn't agree with most of the lj-based (and lj was where I were at the time) fandom's take on the characters. The fic was good, but to me it felt wrong, which was terribly frustrating, haha.
It's funny, because I actually touched on the subject in a post (http://lanjelin.dreamwidth.org/5890.html) that I made earlier today. It's mostly about why and how authors use the seme/uke labels, what they mean, and their relation to slash, but some of it is about the characterisation that goes along with it.
I'd like to add that I don't think that it's always a case of reading against canon, or writing characters OOC; often it's just a case of differing interpretations, and even though I (naturally!) prefer my own, the other one can have just as much support in canon. Mostly it's for characters that hasn't got a very thorough characterisation in canon, of course - it's hard to have really wildly different versions of a main character, without outright ignoring pieces of the canon.
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Date: 2010-03-13 06:19 am (UTC)I had a hard time in the HP fandom, actually, since I was into H/D but didn't agree with most of the lj-based (and lj was where I were at the time) fandom's take on the characters. The fic was good, but to me it felt wrong, which was terribly frustrating, haha.
It's funny, because I actually touched on the subject in a post (http://lanjelin.dreamwidth.org/5890.html) that I made earlier today. It's mostly about why and how authors use the seme/uke labels, what they mean, and their relation to slash, but some of it is about the characterisation that goes along with it.
I'd like to add that I don't think that it's always a case of reading against canon, or writing characters OOC; often it's just a case of differing interpretations, and even though I (naturally!) prefer my own, the other one can have just as much support in canon. Mostly it's for characters that hasn't got a very thorough characterisation in canon, of course - it's hard to have really wildly different versions of a main character, without outright ignoring pieces of the canon.