I admit to being occasionally bemused at how Crack_van is basically a multi-fandom slash recs site. Gen and het recs are, if not exactly unusual, definitely in the minority.

Sirius learned to change himself into a dog in order to hang out with Remus when he was in wolf shape.

Wow, really? No wonder there's so much S/R slash.

B/S is still, by the numbers, the most popular pairing.

I've gone on digest on BBF a while back, but I thought the proportion of B/S out of the total number of recs went down significantly compared to, say, late S5-early S7? I may be mistaken though, since it's been a while since I read my last B/S fic (my eyes usually skip over these nowadays; It seems I've developed major intolerance to the whole 'epic romance' genre, in any fandom.)

You know, the Draco-Spike character type is such a fannish archetype: ambiguously-evil and sometimes complex lust-object. You've got Draco, Spike, Krycek, Sark, Lindsey, and probably some more I'm forgetting. I kind wish someone (preferrably unbiased by the lust-object aspect *or* the character-hatred) would do an essay on the topic.

I have a ridiculous affection for Draco/Neville, and as you might imagine, it's rare like a rare thing. Curses.

You know, the Draco-Spike character type is such a fannish archetype: ambiguously-evil and sometimes complex lust-object.

The thing is, there's no ambiguity to Draco's evil in the actual books. He is nothing but snobbish and cruel. He kind of gets fluffy puppy-ized a lot for fic purposes.

More of that silly QE thing...Thom and Pembleton talking interiors. [link] And more on topic, closest in Homicide to that would be Kellerman,(dirty shoot..maybe) or if you make allowances for unconventional appearance, Munch.(possibly, I think, hell yes, definitely, killed perp Gordon Pratt)

You know, the Draco-Spike character type is such a fannish archetype: ambiguously-evil and sometimes complex lust-object.

Lex. Scorpius. Methos, depending on the incarnation.

Is the question really that complicated? It's the Bad Boy phenomenon.

In my quest for H:LOTS fic I could read at work (lunch break -- fic's ok, but not the NC-17 stuff), I found Munch Ado about Nothing. A world of bwah.

Well, Bad Boy Archetype, Hauteur Subtype. Not to be confused with the supercilious self-hater subtype or the unselfconscious id subtype.

You know, suddenly I am wondering what people do when they want to write fanfic about people who, in real life, have no lips. Because maybe it's just the fandoms I've been in, but I swear the plump male lip is the fulcrum with which you can move a 10MB opus. So, what do people do, if they're huge fans of, like, a Jack Nicholson character?

Lex! I knew I was forgetting someone major.

He is nothing but snobbish and cruel.

Huh. The character as well as the actor who played Draco in the movie did nothing for me, so I'd imagined maybe the movie-Draco was simplied/dumbed down from the book since the character seemed so popular. I'm a bit of a canon-characterization Nazi so the whole concept of fanon-Draco invented to fit a certain archetype sounds very cracked to me, but eh, it's not my fandom. Maybe I'm missing some idiosyncratic HP fandom dynamic.