I do think there is some subtext for pairings like H/D and H/S, in the way there isn't for completely random pairings like Arthur/McNair or something (though knowing this fandom, someone's probably written the latter).
Oh yes, definitely. I think some of the most interesting slash pairings are so because there's a good mixture of attraction and repulsion. I remember always feeling that really strongly in X-files with Mulder/Krycek. Even if it wasn't sexual in canon it LOOKED sexual and was related to it because of that--this reluctant attraction. Even if the characters didn't want to get to each other, they did. Both H/S and H/D have plenty of that, I think. Whether you ship one or the other (or both) probably is more like liking different versions of the same song rather than completely different music. Maybe that's why there is, I've heard, squabbles between them. People are maybe trying to make their own ship seem more different from the other than it is.
It's funny because in terms of just character dynamics I love H/S, H/D and D/S. It's just the only one that a primarily like to see played out through slash is H/D, for whatever reason. Though I think that ideally H/D should encompass all three relationships just as H/S and S/D should-that is, getting H/D together should not suddenly make Draco and Harry disconnected from Snape, just as H/S should not have to require a cutting off of Snape and Harry from Draco. I don't mean they all have to be together, but these three people all feel strongly about each other in whatever way they do, and the third person shouldn't be erased because two are slashed, imo.
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Date: 2004-07-07 07:56 am (UTC)Oh yes, definitely. I think some of the most interesting slash pairings are so because there's a good mixture of attraction and repulsion. I remember always feeling that really strongly in X-files with Mulder/Krycek. Even if it wasn't sexual in canon it LOOKED sexual and was related to it because of that--this reluctant attraction. Even if the characters didn't want to get to each other, they did. Both H/S and H/D have plenty of that, I think. Whether you ship one or the other (or both) probably is more like liking different versions of the same song rather than completely different music. Maybe that's why there is, I've heard, squabbles between them. People are maybe trying to make their own ship seem more different from the other than it is.
It's funny because in terms of just character dynamics I love H/S, H/D and D/S. It's just the only one that a primarily like to see played out through slash is H/D, for whatever reason. Though I think that ideally H/D should encompass all three relationships just as H/S and S/D should-that is, getting H/D together should not suddenly make Draco and Harry disconnected from Snape, just as H/S should not have to require a cutting off of Snape and Harry from Draco. I don't mean they all have to be together, but these three people all feel strongly about each other in whatever way they do, and the third person shouldn't be erased because two are slashed, imo.