*L* Oh, my. I solemnly swear I will never force you to write Snape/Cynthia;)
I just wish people would stop asking me to read them (they see that I write Snapefic, so they go, oh she'll read my stuff). Romance with Snape is 95% of the time OOC, and it really doesn't interest me.
Do you get emails from people asking you to read their Snapefic, by any chance? Because I do all the time, and I haven't figured out why this is considered acceptable.
The one I got today was an email (as was the last one, but that particular person had reviewed every single one of my fics and was open to constructive crit. which meant I was willing to make an exception). Other ones before have been part of reviews, and I usually give them a chance by looking at their summary and maybe even trying a few paragraphs. If I don't like it, I pretend I never recieved the request. I think I get more requests from people to read their Harry'sfather!Snape fics than anything else.
I have absolutely no idea why it's considered acceptable, especially when they email (though to be fair, this last person was asking to archive Intersections along with her request for me to read her fic). When they do so by review, I can sort of understand, since I have done it once or twice in the past, though I don't bother to now.
Well, they do send emails/reviews asking me to read their fics. I don't flame them...though one girl did get a very harsh review from me for...well it would take too long to explain.
You'd feel like snogging him even more if you saw him in person saying that. I've got to see him in person saying that twice.
Where do I get my ideas from? I make them up. Out of my head.
Some dumbass has asked him that at I think every book signing he's been to. The answer seemed quite polished.
He's fae, I swear. He's got glamour or something. I didn't know what he looked like, but when I first saw him, I knew who he was. He's not classically handsome, I suppose, but he's the most beautiful man I've ever seen in my life.
I feel so stupid for saying that, but it's true. I am so in love. And he's really really nice too.
No. I don't read romances as a general rule. Occasionally I will make exceptions if I like the author, but even so, reading romance doesn't interest me. I could care less about who gets together with who.
Snape/Sinistra is better than Snape/OFC, since at least her name and profession are canon. But I don't want to read Snape romances any more than I want to read H/D romances. I don't mind if the romance is a sideline in an ongoing plot, but when it takes over the story...
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OK, I can understand that. I write Snape/OFC . But I don't write or read anything that's *just a romance*. (The Snape/OFC and Tom/Ginny people sometimes get very annoyed with me because I make them wade through a lot of plot to get to the mushy and smutty bits.)
I mean, I write tons of romantic chanslash in LW, but it's romantic chanslash with a PLOT that Niki and Becky and I have spent quite a bit of time fiddling with.
I guess what bugs me about all this OFC stuff is that people do dumb shit like take the name Blaise Zabini (which isn't even a girl's name, duh!) or Sinistra or even for crying out loud Hermione Granger, who DOES have a personality, and if they wrote the same story but called the character something else, they would be flamed, but they get praised for it. There are tons of characters like Blaise Zabini or Sinistra who are basically OFC's and you know, the fact that they have a name or profession/House in Canon doesn't mean they're not original characters. I mean, take any four Blaise Zabinis of either gender. Cassie Claire's is a conniving nouveau riche bitchling, Riley's is a Mafia Princess, Uriel Llewellyn's is a mean boy top, mine is a Discordian Riddlespawn. You're telling me these aren't OC's?
I write a LOT of OC's and they aren't all just there to be romantic leads/heroines...
And my Blaise is a shy, loyal boy of Spainish ancestry:P Of course they're basically OCs, but at least when you give them a canon name then you have at least a few details to go on and the chances of Mary sueage are much lower. I have nothing against OFC's. I write them all the time, but I really don't have any urge to see them in relationships with canon characters.
I think my biggest complaint against romance is that characters get OOC. This happens the most with Draco and Snape and even the thought of it makes me cringe. There are exceptions, and sometimes if it's done well, I don't even mind the OOCness, but I can count those fics on one hand.
Well, you don't tend to put your characters in relationships, period. It's not that I have this big urge to see canon characters in rels with OC's-- it's that sexuality is a big part of everything I write, whether it's fanfic or original fic. I don't think I've ever written anything truly G-rated; even if there's no actual sex in it there's a theme. OK, maybe the stories where Snape is like, 11.
I agree with you that there is a lot of heinous OOC-ness out there though, and esp. with the Slyth boys. I am very grateful that the people who do read my stuff think I'm not OOC.
I try hard not to be, although LW probably isn't the best place to gauge my IC-ness because I got tired of hearing how much people hated Lucifer and made him a little less bigoted and mean than I had originally intended to on the grounds that he IS only 12 and Voldie probably has a lot to do with how mean he got later.
I think it's located at Witchfics and compared to other Snape/OFC fics it's really good. TThe other character is an ex-Hufflepuff tecaher and runs around in yellow robes *g*
I feel like snogging Neil Gaiman after reading this. Will resist the urge to read his blog regularly.
I also feel like snogging Neil Gaiman on a regular basis but then feel guilty because he and his family seem so happy.... So instead I ply him with j-rock cds whenever I get a chance to see him.
He must think me very odd.
Other than that, the next person who asks me to read a Snape/OFC romance will die. That is all.
Not even a Potions accident gone wrong that splits him into two people, one of which is female and has his "kinder, gentler" personality (if he has one heheheh) and then proceeds to fall t00bily in love with his other half?! Also the accident would of course be caused by Neville, be wholly irreversible, and give Snape's hair a much needed cleansing? And maybe give him new and sassy clothes? And whitens his teeth?!
I'm sorry, please ignore that. It doesn't deserve an answer.
I understand, believe me-- I'm on a Snape het group and there is a lot of stuff I just can't read. It just bugs me when bad writers screw up a pairing to the point that a lot of people won't read it at all. Because the fact that a pairing is popular with bad writers... gah.
I was thinking that I've heard that name before. I always think I've heard something before, except this time, I actually did. :) *checks back to review board* They compared it to "American Gods". Am I the only clueless one here as to who Neil Gaiman is? I've got the gist of it - he's an author...
*L* He also writes the Sandman comics if that helps, and if you're stories have a lot of mythic characters and/or plots I can see why they might make the comparison. I'd recommend American Gods, if you get the chance, but myths reinterpreted for a modern age have always fascinated me so I'm probably biased.
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I want to snog Neil every single damn day of my life.
*swoons till she passes out*
(He pinched my bum y'know. ;-)
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No fair! *is insanely jealous*
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I had this horrible dream last night that you and some others had chained me to a desk and were forcing me to write Severus Snape/Cynthia Rookwood.
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I just wish people would stop asking me to read them (they see that I write Snapefic, so they go, oh she'll read my stuff). Romance with Snape is 95% of the time OOC, and it really doesn't interest me.
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I have absolutely no idea why it's considered acceptable, especially when they email (though to be fair, this last person was asking to archive Intersections along with her request for me to read her fic). When they do so by review, I can sort of understand, since I have done it once or twice in the past, though I don't bother to now.
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:ffels unloved becaus enoone asks her to flame other people's fics::
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"[long review]... I liked how you put character X into this situation and how it turned out. I've done somthing similar with character Y in my story."
But in e-mail? Just for the purpose of getting you to read their stories? Maybe this just means that you rae famous now...
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Where do I get my ideas from?
I make them up.
Out of my head.
Some dumbass has asked him that at I think every book signing he's been to. The answer seemed quite polished.
He's fae, I swear. He's got glamour or something. I didn't know what he looked like, but when I first saw him, I knew who he was. He's not classically handsome, I suppose, but he's the most beautiful man I've ever seen in my life.
I feel so stupid for saying that, but it's true. I am so in love. And he's really really nice too.
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Ever read 'For the Love of Hufflepuff'?
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Snape/Sinistra is better than Snape/OFC, since at least her name and profession are canon. But I don't want to read Snape romances any more than I want to read H/D romances. I don't mind if the romance is a sideline in an ongoing plot, but when it takes over the story...
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OK, I can understand that. I write Snape/OFC . But I don't write or read anything that's *just a romance*. (The Snape/OFC and Tom/Ginny people sometimes get very annoyed with me because I make them wade through a lot of plot to get to the mushy and smutty bits.)
I mean, I write tons of romantic chanslash in LW, but it's romantic chanslash with a PLOT that Niki and Becky and I have spent quite a bit of time fiddling with.
I guess what bugs me about all this OFC stuff is that people do dumb shit like take the name Blaise Zabini (which isn't even a girl's name, duh!) or Sinistra or even for crying out loud Hermione Granger, who DOES have a personality, and if they wrote the same story but called the character something else, they would be flamed, but they get praised for it. There are tons of characters like Blaise Zabini or Sinistra who are basically OFC's and you know, the fact that they have a name or profession/House in Canon doesn't mean they're not original characters. I mean, take any four Blaise Zabinis of either gender. Cassie Claire's is a conniving nouveau riche bitchling, Riley's is a Mafia Princess, Uriel Llewellyn's is a mean boy top, mine is a Discordian Riddlespawn. You're telling me these aren't OC's?
I write a LOT of OC's and they aren't all just there to be romantic leads/heroines...
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I think my biggest complaint against romance is that characters get OOC. This happens the most with Draco and Snape and even the thought of it makes me cringe. There are exceptions, and sometimes if it's done well, I don't even mind the OOCness, but I can count those fics on one hand.
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I agree with you that there is a lot of heinous OOC-ness out there though, and esp. with the Slyth boys. I am very grateful that the people who do read my stuff think I'm not OOC.
I try hard not to be, although LW probably isn't the best place to gauge my IC-ness because I got tired of hearing how much people hated Lucifer and made him a little less bigoted and mean than I had originally intended to on the grounds that he IS only 12 and Voldie probably has a lot to do with how mean he got later.
~Azalais :)
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I also feel like snogging Neil Gaiman on a regular basis but then feel guilty because he and his family seem so happy.... So instead I ply him with j-rock cds whenever I get a chance to see him.
He must think me very odd.
Not even a Potions accident gone wrong that splits him into two people, one of which is female and has his "kinder, gentler" personality (if he has one heheheh) and then proceeds to fall t00bily in love with his other half?! Also the accident would of course be caused by Neville, be wholly irreversible, and give Snape's hair a much needed cleansing? And maybe give him new and sassy clothes? And whitens his teeth?!
I'm sorry, please ignore that. It doesn't deserve an answer.
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I'm sorry, please ignore that. It doesn't deserve an answer.
Well, at least that sounds more interesting than some...
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*runs and hides*
Azalais, too lazy to log out of Luce's journal
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*friends* Will resume to lurking.
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*friends back*