There isn't much RPS here... jade1x2 put up some TRULY sordid Alan/Daniel smut a while ago (a series!) which, predictably, I read. And salivated over. Wildly OOC, as slash featuring these two must be, but who the hell cares.
I think the reason we prefer FPS in this fandom is because the book's characters are just so much more interesting. I mean, can Rickman possibly measure up to Snape? Of course not. (Well. Jade's Nabokovian version was quite tasty, but...) And Daniel, while quite the sweetie (and also quite the jailbait--er, you didn't hear me say that, it's just my fetish for virgins speaking), can't possibly measure up to Harry Potter in terms of the angst, the prophecies or the we-have-to-have-sex-before-Voldemort-kills-us desperation. :D
Also, I was a fan long before the movies came along, and for a while I felt as though the actors were encroaching on holy territory. Yeah, I know. Pathetic. I got over that, and have learned to get some joy out of the movies regardless of the fact that my characters (the ones in my head) look so different from the ones on screen.
As for the crushes... woah. Perhaps being gender-neutral is more of a turn-on than I imagined. *blinks* In any case, I'm trying to be courteous and reply to everyone, and am hoping to get some answers out of people as to why everyone thinks I'm an unequivocal top. They're right, but that's what scares me. How do they...?
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Date: 2004-03-31 05:57 am (UTC)I think the reason we prefer FPS in this fandom is because the book's characters are just so much more interesting. I mean, can Rickman possibly measure up to Snape? Of course not. (Well. Jade's Nabokovian version was quite tasty, but...) And Daniel, while quite the sweetie (and also quite the jailbait--er, you didn't hear me say that, it's just my fetish for virgins speaking), can't possibly measure up to Harry Potter in terms of the angst, the prophecies or the we-have-to-have-sex-before-Voldemort-kills-us desperation. :D
Also, I was a fan long before the movies came along, and for a while I felt as though the actors were encroaching on holy territory. Yeah, I know. Pathetic. I got over that, and have learned to get some joy out of the movies regardless of the fact that my characters (the ones in my head) look so different from the ones on screen.
As for the crushes... woah. Perhaps being gender-neutral is more of a turn-on than I imagined. *blinks* In any case, I'm trying to be courteous and reply to everyone, and am hoping to get some answers out of people as to why everyone thinks I'm an unequivocal top. They're right, but that's what scares me. How do they...?