[ SECRET POST #6389 ]

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⌈ Secret Post #6389 ⌋

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Comments

[fscom]

07. https://i.imgur.com/tLvgMi3.jpg

[feotakahari]

Really not sure how you’d turn Draco into a conventional romance hero. TV Tropes says it involves leather pants?

[(Anonymous)]

I can think of quite a few romances where the sneering and arrogant male lead changes (some of) his beliefs in his superiority through the power of loooooove.

[(Anonymous)]

If people insist on treating Heathcliff, no not the cat, the WH guy, as a romantic hero then Draco surely qualifies. Somehow.

[sabotabby]

I enjoy that you specify not the cat.

[(Anonymous)]

Leather Pants Draco is an ancient fandom staple where he is hot, snarky, and Learns The Errors Of His Ways Due To The Power of Love/never actually believed in the shitty things but pretended he did, usually For Reasons.

He is frequently shockingly well read on Muggle literature and often paired with Hermione (which is a tragedy because Hermione in LeatherPants!Draco fic resembles her canon self even less than Draco does; when Harry is paired with Draco instead, they both are generally a LITTLE more IC) but sometimes Ginny in a ~Romeo & Juliet~ sort of scenario. It's dramatic! It's angsty! It's sexy! Someone gets a makeover! There will be brooding hotly at the top of the Astronomy Tower.

Honestly, they're pretty fun, if usually kind of terrible and not at all in character. It's like the inverse of Ron the Death Eater and those are ALSO fun, if terrible.

[(Anonymous)]

Good for her!

[(Anonymous)]

Haha same

[(Anonymous)]

Never heard of this writer but she sounds painful. I wish people would just write original fiction and leave fan fiction alone!

[(Anonymous)]

Eh. Happens all the time these days.

[(Anonymous)]

I do admire her hustle. I wish I had her hustle, frankly.

[(Anonymous)]

DA

Same

[(Anonymous)]

These fanfic authors filing off the serial numbers to their fics frustrate me.

Mostly because the most obvious, boring, cliche pairs are always the most popular ones.

I give Reylo a lot of grace because the tension and conflicts between Rey and Kylo Ren had a lot there canon-wise. It could go either way, pre-RoS and especially even more pre-TLJ, on whether or not there was any romantic tension between them.

Dramione *trying not to roll my eyes*
I feel like Dramione and Harmonie were mostly fans OCing Hermione and pairing her with their preferred cute actor.
And Dramione in particular I don't like because it runs on the "enemies to love" trope well. And I hate it because canon Draco sucks so much (and not in an "author-is-a-bad-writer" way) and it's already annoying to see Hermione be 1/2 of most HP ships.

I've never been in the popular ships in the HP fandom and they were always incredibly ugly (IMO it drew out really nasty traits from people I used to think were friends - surprise, they weren't my friends, they were bitchy fandomers who resorted to 6th grade levels of bullying when anyone didn't agree with them).

Not to say canon should dictate a good pair (I tend to like crack ships), but I tend to not the most popular M/F ships in my fandoms because they tend to fall into the most clicked and used romantic tropes.
And I get it, they're popular for a reason. But it's frustrating because shipping drama will still affect my POV with fanfics that get published.