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[swatkat]

Lovely post here that you all might want to read. I'm definitely one of the Cold Pricklies the OP is talking about. *g* "All slashers make the homoerotic subtext of their canon explicit, but not all think it's appropriate to also make the emotional subtext explicit" - this articulates the very reason that a *lot* of the fic in my favourite pairings (slash *and* het) have me gritting my teeth and pressing the back button.

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Re: Part II

[nell65.livejournal.com]

This is where being outside the fannish discussions presents a problem

I, um, didn't 'get' it.

I mean - I got the point of the exercise well enough, but I thought the reverse gender qualities assigned were fairly random.....?

And didn't take into account the way many fans would react to Harriet the same way they react to Buffy or Nikita - which would be to belittle Harriet while building up Herman as the noble saviour in times of trouble?

So, maybe I didn't get the point at all?

Re: Part II

[swatkat24.livejournal.com]

Uh, I understand. It was a tongue-in-cheek response to the endless whines about *every* *single* female character in the Potterverse being a stereotype/Mary Sue. *g*

And didn't take into account the way many fans would react to Harriet the same way they react to Buffy or Nikita - which would be to belittle Harriet while building up Herman as the noble saviour in times of trouble?

This reminds me of another lovely post I'd read sometime back... *goes to look*

Swatkat