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I was thinking earlier about how in both of my primary fandoms, the most popular slash pairings are antagonistic, whereas the most popular het pairings are -- what do you call that? -- extended friendships. "Buddy" pairings. You've got Mulder/Scully and Harry/Hermione-Ron/Hermione for het, and Mulder/Krycek and Harry/Draco for slash.

In HP, the most obvious "buddy" slash pairing (Harry/Ron) is relatively neglected[1], and the biggest antagonistic het pairing (Snape/Hermione) is nowhere near as popular as its "buddy" counterparts. The primary antagonistic het pairing in XF is Krycek/Scully, something of a niche interest. It's hard to make a judgment about buddy slash pairings in XF, because there aren't any really obvious ones (unless you count Mulder/Skinner, which doesn't approach the popularity of Mulder/Krycek).

I can think of many examples and counter-examples from other fandoms, so I wouldn't say this is a meta-fandom trend, but might it say something about the tone of a specific fandom? Or its relative attitudes toward slash and het?


[1] Though, of course, the second most obvious buddy slash pairing (Sirius/Remus) is much more popular. There may be other issues in S/R that remove it a few steps from other HP slash pairings -- its association with H/G and R/Hr, and the tendency to feminize Remus.

Date: 2004-02-19 07:12 am (UTC)
From: [identity profile] cedarlibrarian.livejournal.com
Someday the Harry Potter fandom is going to figure out that Remus is the alpha, has always been the alpha (why was he made prefect, tyvm?), and always will be the alpha. Until then, I will growl at them.

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Date: 2004-02-20 06:26 pm (UTC)
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*joins you in the growling*

Remus is the most frequently and egregiously mischaracterized person in HP fic. I don't care what David Thewlis looks like, as long as he knocks some sense into Remus fandom.

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