[ SECRET POST #3064 ]

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⌈ Secret Post #3064 ⌋

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Comments

[caerbannog]

It's not a new thing?

I like the odd gender swap where bits are tweaked. If it was canon Harry with girl problems I pronouns i wouldn't bother because I'm not into fics that are basically copy paste with tweaks. So there's gonna be differences (and I love when they explore uniquely girl challenges).
I'm imagine most ppl, at minimum, don't want to do a copy paste with changed pronouns. Then it's a matter of how much they change it

Sigh there was a really good gender swap someone recc'd here and I was getting really into it then it went all Christian on my ass and I bailed. But it was so good up until that point ;-;

[(Anonymous)]

I think, to be honest, it's not actually a question of how much they change. It's a question of... most of those fics aren't good. They're not good.

[caerbannog]

Most fics in general are bad. I'd guess it falls under the same ratio as all fanfics (fake % but let's say 75% shit, 20% readable, 4%good and 1%amazing) but because there's just less of this trope in general, the bad ones are more obvious and the good ones are fewer.

[(Anonymous)]

I kind of liked a WIP Harry Potter genderswap fic called "The Never-Ending Road". It's a WIP that is pretty well-written. It has some of the same problems defined in the above secret, though. I also have a problem with the Harriet/Snape pairing because it's a bit creepy in my opinion.

[caerbannog]

Yeah I tried to get into that one but...Harry/snape no matter the gender is such a NOTP. Took me years to even get interested in hermoine/snape...that is too far. I always picture harry/Harriet as so young.

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Harry/snape no matter the gender is such a NOTP

Yeah, mine too. I think girl!Harry/Snape is even more offputting tbh because the Lily parallels would probably be stronger for Snape...which I might be into if it were a dark fic or something, but not really in a truly romantic context

[mimi-sardinia.livejournal.com]

I sympathise with you on the issue of someone going all Christian - I once acted as beta for a while for a writer doing a huge genderswap (always a girl) Final Fantasy VII fic. It started to get to me after a while her anti-slash attitude and that one of her reasons for writing a genderswap fic was so she wasn't writing slash.

I think it bothers me a bit more than other folks because I am Christian but getting interested in slash made me accept homosexuality.