mrsronweasley | (no subject)

So, I was thinking more about fanfic, in general, and due South and "Harry Potter" in particular, and here's what I came up with. And because I prefer torture as method of communication with others, you all get to hear it.

See, the reasons I can't get behind the concept of "Ray/Ray" all boil down to this one thing: it isn't the happy ending I am looking for. Let's face it: most of the time, slash is fulfilling something that we feel is missing or will never happen. Most slash fans are, as a rule, disappointed with canon outcomes, and they expect to be. We do, you know? What we saw in "Prisoner of Azkaban" was gorgeous, and it wasn't going to last. We knew this, on a certain level, though I certainly held out hope. It SUCKED. The hope lasted for years, because it took JKR so damn long to write OotP, and we almost came to believe it would be real. And, for the majority of OotP, it really was. Who didn't see it? Very few, in fact. They were THERE. As

arborealis said, all those years ago, "we had them, we had them." Sure, HP fandom houses ALL sorts of slash, slash so crazy, even the most die-hard het-haters can't abide by it. (Dumbledore/Hagrid must have broken more brains than it took to think up.) But Remus/Sirius was the one pairing that actually had canon backing. With OoTP, the happy ending for those two was shattered. With HBP, the illusion was destroyed.

But, then...there's due South. Slash fans never had it better. If watching the show felt too good to last, if with every episode of another potential romance for either characters seemed like that was be it, there goes the slash that we see so clearly in canon, and they can only exist in fanfic from now on, the ending kind of, well, blew a lot of minds. Fraser has a chance with Frannie: he doesn't take it. Fraser has a chance with Thatcher: he doesn't take it. He takes Ray, he takes Dief, and they literally ride off into the sunrise. No slash fans have had it better. At least not that I've seen.

So, this is the reason I can't get behind Ray/Ray: it messes with my only happy ending. While Remus might have chosen to run back into the closet after Sirius's unfortunate demise (I may sound flippant, but all these years, it still hurts and pisses me off beyond belief), then Fraser never ran back, and neither did Ray. They ran forward. And for a popular television series, that is fucking amazing.

I read slash for the happy. I read it for the escapism. I read it for the real unreality, and I read it because I want to believe the world is a place where these things are possible. I mean...I honestly do see due South as a romance. A quirky, weird romance, but a romance. It's about all different kinds of love: platonic love, brotherly love, familial love, unexpected love, unrequited love, fulfilled love. And things like...Ray/Ray, or -eek- Snape/Remus, they... they don't work for me. Because they're more complicated than it's worth. I can appreciate it on a human level, on a level where mistakes happen, and things get fucked up, and it's sad and heartbreaking, but that's not how I want to see it. It probably sounds whiny and childish, but if we're here to fulfill a fantasy, I want mine to be happy and fulfilled.

Deep thought of the day. I'll go and write other "deep thoughts". Because work is slooooooooowwww... and it is gooooooooood...

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I'm so glad that SGA is going in the right direction. Or at least not veering away from it. *g*

Here's hoping for the day that the main slash pairing of something gets to officially, on-screen get together at the end. Because lets face it - if it's the last ep who cares if you piss off some of your demographic? *hearts!*

Hear, hear! :D *toasts*

Love you!