Varying degrees of reality

[pauraque_bk]

robkaiote, a RL friend of mine, has a post about the time he was expelled from school for witchcraft.

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So... is it just me, or is there no RPS in HP? I've only come across it once, and given the vastness of the fandom (and its proclivity for taboo-busting), that seems strange. Is there a seamy underworld of HP RPS that I just don't know about?

If there isn't, why not? einini suggested that the lack may stem from the young age of the primary actors, but... knowing this fandom, I frankly doubt that would stop anybody.

Any thoughts?

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In case anyone's missed it, villainny is hosting a mass anonymous crush confession. If you're an HP person, it's worth a look, 'cause it's already up to 589 (!) comments, and one of them just might be about you.

Orgy organizer: You just named me in the same sentence with three phenomenal writers, maybe in the top ten of the fandom. Do you have any idea how good that makes me feel? Whoever you are, you rule. And I'm glad my writing makes you feel... like that. ;)

Timidly in the wings: *smooch*

Good speller: Maybe I should have a mnemonic song, like Mississippi. Do you think that would help?

Paranoid stalker: The calls are coming from inside the house!

Person who is possibly less anonymous than she could be: *lick* The fact that we don't live closer to each other is wronger than a wrong thing.


Dude, so many people have crushes on switchknife. Switch is the coolest kid in school.

Comments

[switchknife.livejournal.com]

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...?

[pauraque]

I think you and lolaraincoat are onto two sides of the same explanation: The actors in the HP movies just aren't that interesting. They're certainly not more interesting than their characters, as you point out, and they're not even especially interesting compared to other actors, as Lola points out.

I'm usually hesitant to explain any Slash Paucity with "those people/characters just aren't slashy/interesting", because that frequently seems to be no object. Especially in HP fandom, which culturally likes to write things just for the hell of it, *because* they're off the wall.

On the other hand, I read the article on LotRiPS at crack_van, and was forced to admit that, hey, those actors really do behave in a slash-conducive way, and the story of how they came to make those movies really is a pretty interesting one. That phenomenon isn't as random as it first appeared, and the same rules wouldn't generate a similar phenomenon in HP.