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mood” when she will want to read something different, “like last night, when I
all of a sudden wanted to read Lucius/Snape, which tends to be very dark.”
What is interesting about the pairings that she enjoys, is that they have a wide
range of possibilities to them: both Harry/Draco and Justin/Chris can have fics
written about them that range widely from fluff (or easily-digestible “cute”
fic) to angst (or heavier cost, psychologically dramatic fic). They reflect the
kind of fic that she likes in general, a more diverse and original kind of fic,
rather than a replica of the canon source text. Admittedly, most fics are
written for the purpose of adding on to and exploring the source text. But
when Eiko says that she will more often look for novel-length Harry Potter
slash, which by default is more detailed and in which the author has a very
rich take on the world of HP, she means equally that she wouldn’t as much
enjoy such a long fic if it resembled too closely Rowling’s creation.
When you’re dealing with a fandom, especially Harry
Potter, with that kind of canon, for me, the purpose is to
use it to fill in the points that aren’t so fully explained in
the book. It’s because it is its own universe, but in canon it
leaves a lot to be elaborated in. So in that case it’s not as
interesting to read fics that are close to canon.
For me personally, I used to be, as will be narrated further below,
serially monogamous in my fandoms: I would read fics in only one fandom at
a time, and with very specific pairings. Once these constraints opened up
however, I found myself attracted to both fics of shows I was a fan of, as well
as fics in a fandom, in which I had not perused the source text. My very first
fandom in which I read yaoi fanfic, was the Japanese animation series Weiss
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