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Mordant - I know it's pathological and I should just shut the fuck up about it. It's partly that I fell in love with Harry/Snape as transformed by another fan, and partly, well, these quotes from Walter Benjamin pretty much sum up what I would like my HP fanfic to do (I am Kraus!):
He imitates his subjects in order to insert the crowbar of his hate into the finest joints of their posture. This quibbler, probing between syllables, digs out the grubs of humbug... Indeed, the exposure of inauthenticity - more difficult than that of wickedness - is here performed behaviouristically... What emerges in just this connection is how closely the cruelty of the satirist is linked to the ambiguous modesty of the interpreter. To creep - so is termed, not without cause, the lowest kind of flattery; and Kraus creeps into those he impersonates, in order to annihilate them.
So, the two best pieces of feedback I ever got were: "Your universe is so much more honest than Rowling's" and "I used to like Dumbledore but now I'm beginning to loathe him."
It's also kind of like... Children's fantasy is part of the world I live in. So the idea that "if I don't like it, I can just not read it" is like telling an anti-war protester that if they don't approve of the war, can't they just stop watching the news and pretend it doesn't exist? (I'm not sure how valid this argument is, btw, I keep meaning to start a thread on it.) |
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Your secret lover is Snape.
Your secret lover is Harry! I guess I can seethat. He's brave and has a sort of naivecharm.
Your secret lover is Draco.