Current mood:	Fan-Fucking-tastic
Entry tags:	fandom: harry potter, pairing wars, your kink is not okay

There IS NOTHING KINKY about Snape/Harry! Uh. Wha?
There's this really great little community on LJ called ship_manifesto whose sole purpose is for writers to post essays talking about why they 'ship specific pairings. No shipping wars are allowed, though concrit on the various essays is allowed. Everything's gone hunky dory for a long while and I've learned all about various fandoms and pairings through it. [/shameless plug for friend's nifty comm.]

Anyway, tigress35 posted this Snape/Harry 'ship manifesto, in which she details why this pairing hits her Teacher/Student and sub/dom kinks for her. The essays here, you'll recall, are supposed to be about why writers *personally* 'ship the pairings, not about why the pairing should be your OTP, too.

Alan Rickman and Daniel Radcliffe are both good-looking and charismatic people, which makes the pairing work for me on a purely aesthetic level (of course, some do not like picturing the characters based on the film actors). Yet, beyond that, I personally have a Teacher/Student and Experienced/Innocent kink. I love the idea of the experienced man (although stories where Snape is inexperienced despite his years are intriguing as well) debauching the innocent.

Anyway, some people are really into her essay, and some people make polite your kink is not my kink but that's OK! kinds of posts.

kelex also (at first) politely disagrees that her story was about Teacher/Student/abuse kink at all, but Tigress admits that it hit her kink anyway, whether the writers intended it to or not, what with artistic intent being different than artistic effectiveness and all. Also, she doesn't think Kelex is being all that polite. It kind of disintegrates and mushrooms from there, and comments are turned off for a couple of hours by the mods to allow everyone to cool off, but opened back up the same day.

The post then immediately becomes a magnet for irrationally angry/distraught people, with:

1. alchemia stating how very very sad this post made her (*woe!) and went on to post in her own LJ how personally offended she is that no one can respond to her brilliant LJ comment for four whole hours.

2. People who are offended that their story was recced as a kink fic and helpfully provide their own preferred lingo (it's a "forced bondage" story, dammit, not a PWP!!)

3. In the "Everyone's a damned critic" category is anais_rhys, who trolls that forget the shipping debate - your story summarizing pains meeeeee!

4. The one lone voice of reason wondering can't we all just get along?

Silly girl. Of course not. This is the Harry Potter fandom we're talking about.

ETA: ladysorka has helpfully provided a link to her own wanking, in which she is very, very ashamed that she gets off on is involved with this pairing, when other people get off on are into it for reasons she poopoos. I am dying. From the laughter.