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So I'm kind of just poking ineffectually at the internet, because I don't have the brains/stamina for goodfic right now and I burnt myself out on badfic? Like, BADFIC. But of precisely the right genre to make me keep reading it?
Okay, so there's hilarious-bad and eye-gouging-bad and so-bad-it's-awesome and but-she-tried-so-hard-bad and then there's that "bad" into which a lot of h/c falls, bad like McDonald's food, where you know it's unhealthy and contrived but also DELICIOUS? This was like McDonald's-bad only if someday McDonald's combines the Big Mac and McRib, adds 2 pieces of cheese and 10 slices of bacon, deep-fries the pickles and onions, and then injects it with heroin in front of you. THESE STORIES? So-unhealthy-they-should-come-with-an-attached-waiver.
I will admit it; I enjoy Harry/harem stories. So when I found some on my computer, I tried to read all three series. I actually made it through most of the first (there was time travel! and like, eight other fic kinks of mine), and of the second (it was much creepier, but I was apparently in some kind of zone?).
I had to tap out of the third. Because LITERALLY, magic was forcing a MASS BREEDING, as in, Harry was compelled by MAGIC ITSELF to father HUNDREDS of babies, on HUNDREDS of witches. Ages 13 - 120. While he himself was 15. And if he refused to fuck any of them, including Bellatrix Lestrange, they would go crazy, and then probably die.
Plus there was the creepy thread of homophobia even in the story with the background slash - gay dudes were creepy mysoginist pedophiles, while lesbians were hot and fun and totally up for some of Harry's magic cock (IT WAS LITERALLY A MAGIC, SHAPECHANGING COCK, BTW) - and the chan-het and the pimping of an underage boy to adult females against his will, NO, it does not make it okay that it was his girlfriend(s)'s idea and she/they eventually made him say yes and it was for the Greater Good and he kind of liked it in the end... REVERSE THOSE GENDERS FOR A SECOND. Would you ever see that presented as something healthy, or even acceptable?
THIS ICON HAS NEVER BEEN MORE APPROPRIATE.
Okay, so there's hilarious-bad and eye-gouging-bad and so-bad-it's-awesome and but-she-tried-so-hard-bad and then there's that "bad" into which a lot of h/c falls, bad like McDonald's food, where you know it's unhealthy and contrived but also DELICIOUS? This was like McDonald's-bad only if someday McDonald's combines the Big Mac and McRib, adds 2 pieces of cheese and 10 slices of bacon, deep-fries the pickles and onions, and then injects it with heroin in front of you. THESE STORIES? So-unhealthy-they-should-come-with-an-attached-waiver.
I will admit it; I enjoy Harry/harem stories. So when I found some on my computer, I tried to read all three series. I actually made it through most of the first (there was time travel! and like, eight other fic kinks of mine), and of the second (it was much creepier, but I was apparently in some kind of zone?).
I had to tap out of the third. Because LITERALLY, magic was forcing a MASS BREEDING, as in, Harry was compelled by MAGIC ITSELF to father HUNDREDS of babies, on HUNDREDS of witches. Ages 13 - 120. While he himself was 15. And if he refused to fuck any of them, including Bellatrix Lestrange, they would go crazy, and then probably die.
Plus there was the creepy thread of homophobia even in the story with the background slash - gay dudes were creepy mysoginist pedophiles, while lesbians were hot and fun and totally up for some of Harry's magic cock (IT WAS LITERALLY A MAGIC, SHAPECHANGING COCK, BTW) - and the chan-het and the pimping of an underage boy to adult females against his will, NO, it does not make it okay that it was his girlfriend(s)'s idea and she/they eventually made him say yes and it was for the Greater Good and he kind of liked it in the end... REVERSE THOSE GENDERS FOR A SECOND. Would you ever see that presented as something healthy, or even acceptable?
THIS ICON HAS NEVER BEEN MORE APPROPRIATE.
