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Aug. 22nd, 2006 12:08 pm![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
badstarhttp://www.theage.com.au/news/education-news/harry-potter-and-the-chamber-of-zealots/2006/08/18/1155408026089.html
The article is about Lumos, the Harry Potter convention.
This part really gets me:
In reference to writing Harry Potter gay slash fiction...
"It's empowering. We are reversing the gender roles. We are saying we like porn: deal with it," Rachael says.
So...what you're saying is that to take a fictional character that you didn't make up- an adolescent character at that- and write stories about said character in pornographic scenes with another character that you didn't make up...is...empowering?
Please. The stupid, it hurts.
If you like porn so much and want to write about it...oh, I dunno...call me crazy, but why on earth not make up your own characters- preferably adult ones- and write stories about them?
(Yes, yes I know, there are adult characters in the Harry Potter book, whatever. I never really understood people's desperate wanting to write fanfiction anyway...and some of the writers that I've seen are so unbelievably talented, why not write their own original stuff? Just. Don't. Get. It.)
The article is about Lumos, the Harry Potter convention.
This part really gets me:
In reference to writing Harry Potter gay slash fiction...
"It's empowering. We are reversing the gender roles. We are saying we like porn: deal with it," Rachael says.
So...what you're saying is that to take a fictional character that you didn't make up- an adolescent character at that- and write stories about said character in pornographic scenes with another character that you didn't make up...is...empowering?
Please. The stupid, it hurts.
If you like porn so much and want to write about it...oh, I dunno...call me crazy, but why on earth not make up your own characters- preferably adult ones- and write stories about them?
(Yes, yes I know, there are adult characters in the Harry Potter book, whatever. I never really understood people's desperate wanting to write fanfiction anyway...and some of the writers that I've seen are so unbelievably talented, why not write their own original stuff? Just. Don't. Get. It.)
