Nah. It's a personal pref thing. And heavens knows, I read a lot of stuff that most people wouldn't touch with a ten foot pole. ^-^;; And, I mean, it makes sense. Canon is the basis for the whole fandom. If you're not willing to work within it, why are you writing for it, you know? I can definitely see where you're coming from. And I have to admit that a lot of the AU and Post fics that I like are mostly because they're written by fairly decent authors, who make it work for me most often in spite of then because of, and I'm not adept enough at finding good fic to be too terribly picky.
I am just...so so so protective of those two.
Exactly. I don't really know what it is exactly that they did that pissed fandom off so much, but I can not stand seeing them characterized crappily. For fuck's sake, one is Harry's godfather and the other is his best friend. They care about Harry. Harry cares about them. It's both a character trait and a canon thing. It irritates me that people are so willing to dismiss that and that they think they're justified in flipping it around so that Ron and Sirius are the "bad guys". Makes me want to bitch smack them all into next week. >.< Both because it's crappy writing (if Harry's choice of best friend and his affection in his godfather is proven to be bad judgement due to the actions of either Sirius or Ron in fic, why the hell should we trust that Harry's choice of lover will be founded on any better judgement? He becomes a very untrustworthy character then.) and because it is so contrary to what we see in the books.
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Nah. It's a personal pref thing. And heavens knows, I read a lot of stuff that most people wouldn't touch with a ten foot pole. ^-^;; And, I mean, it makes sense. Canon is the basis for the whole fandom. If you're not willing to work within it, why are you writing for it, you know? I can definitely see where you're coming from. And I have to admit that a lot of the AU and Post fics that I like are mostly because they're written by fairly decent authors, who make it work for me most often in spite of then because of, and I'm not adept enough at finding good fic to be too terribly picky.
I am just...so so so protective of those two.
Exactly. I don't really know what it is exactly that they did that pissed fandom off so much, but I can not stand seeing them characterized crappily. For fuck's sake, one is Harry's godfather and the other is his best friend. They care about Harry. Harry cares about them. It's both a character trait and a canon thing. It irritates me that people are so willing to dismiss that and that they think they're justified in flipping it around so that Ron and Sirius are the "bad guys". Makes me want to bitch smack them all into next week. >.< Both because it's crappy writing (if Harry's choice of best friend and his affection in his godfather is proven to be bad judgement due to the actions of either Sirius or Ron in fic, why the hell should we trust that Harry's choice of lover will be founded on any better judgement? He becomes a very untrustworthy character then.) and because it is so contrary to what we see in the books.
Um, and I'm going to stop ranting now. ^-^;;;;