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sophia_sol) wrote2011-01-17 11:07 pm
sophia_sol) wrote2011-01-17 11:07 pm
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In which I continue to be obsessed with Dresden Files, surprise surprise
Welp, remember how I said I'm not shipping Harry/Thomas? I'm still not shipping Harry/Thomas. Yes, I've read all the (grand total of 16!) fics that the AO3 has for that pairing, but I'm not shipping it, or at least not exactly. It's weird -- I mostly just read the fics out of this interest, this fascination, with how the shippers would choose to go about it. And mostly the ways they choose to go about it are not the ways I would have chosen, or the ways I would find interesting. Which is either a good thing or a bad thing. Good in that fic is the number one best way to convert me to a new ship, and none of these did that. But bad in that now I'm getting all thinky in my head as to how I would go about doing a Harry/Thomas fic.
And mostly I'm just sitting here and going "but...but....my boundaries! What happened to my line?" Because I gotta admit this is looking dangerously close to shipping.
But it's weird in that I'm quite sure there are standard practices in place already as to how incest gets dealt with in incest-shipping fic, the tropes that everyone understands and expects, the things that would make a shipper roll their eyes at the noob thinking she's being so ~intelligent and special~ with her wonderful ideas as to how to do this thing as if they haven't been done a thousand times before. I know this. And I know that I know none of them, incest being ostensibly my line in the sand.
So what this means is that I'm left trying to construct my hypothetical Harry/Thomas that I'm never going to actually write without any feel for the subgenre, which is the sort of thing that ends up with mainstream authors creating godawful pretentious scifi because they don't know the genre.
Just for the record, the Harry/Thomas in my head involves a slight au from the books, in which Harry and Thomas somehow end up together (or at least having sex together) well before finding out they're brothers, long enough before that they have the time to get comfortable with the thing they have, to enjoy it, to realize it makes them happy. And then they find out, and are like OH CRAP, but in the end the allure is too strong.
Except I just remembered that Thomas most likely knows about their brotherhood from before their very first meeting, so that sort of situation would then end up with some uncomfortable power dynamics, where Thomas is purposefully keeping some very important information from Harry. So that doesn't work so well.
And now I really have no idea what sort of Harry/Thomas my totally-not-shipping-it brain wants, because none of the fics I've read have been it, and I can't come up with any ideas, and yet I can't let the thought go that it could be fascinating and wonderful if done right.
WHAT IS "DONE RIGHT", BRAIN? TELL ME. PLEASE.
can you tell I'm fresh out of Dresden/Marcone fics?
And mostly I'm just sitting here and going "but...but....my boundaries! What happened to my line?" Because I gotta admit this is looking dangerously close to shipping.
But it's weird in that I'm quite sure there are standard practices in place already as to how incest gets dealt with in incest-shipping fic, the tropes that everyone understands and expects, the things that would make a shipper roll their eyes at the noob thinking she's being so ~intelligent and special~ with her wonderful ideas as to how to do this thing as if they haven't been done a thousand times before. I know this. And I know that I know none of them, incest being ostensibly my line in the sand.
So what this means is that I'm left trying to construct my hypothetical Harry/Thomas that I'm never going to actually write without any feel for the subgenre, which is the sort of thing that ends up with mainstream authors creating godawful pretentious scifi because they don't know the genre.
Just for the record, the Harry/Thomas in my head involves a slight au from the books, in which Harry and Thomas somehow end up together (or at least having sex together) well before finding out they're brothers, long enough before that they have the time to get comfortable with the thing they have, to enjoy it, to realize it makes them happy. And then they find out, and are like OH CRAP, but in the end the allure is too strong.
Except I just remembered that Thomas most likely knows about their brotherhood from before their very first meeting, so that sort of situation would then end up with some uncomfortable power dynamics, where Thomas is purposefully keeping some very important information from Harry. So that doesn't work so well.
And now I really have no idea what sort of Harry/Thomas my totally-not-shipping-it brain wants, because none of the fics I've read have been it, and I can't come up with any ideas, and yet I can't let the thought go that it could be fascinating and wonderful if done right.
WHAT IS "DONE RIGHT", BRAIN? TELL ME. PLEASE.
can you tell I'm fresh out of Dresden/Marcone fics?