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characters, I was afraid that once I had watched the anime, I would have to
concede that canonically there were main heterosexual relationships. Once
that happened, I would have had to concede the validity of my preferred slash
pairings to my notions of the canon and source text as the original or
invariable.
Interestingly enough, as my fandoms expanded, and I chose to read
more fics from different fandoms at once, this rigid notion of the source text
canon versus the fanfic fanon diminished. I had read too many Alternate
Universe fics at that point, and had seen fandom, fics, and the permutations in
both as only another dimension or variation on canon and source text.
Nonetheless, I am rigid and picky in the fics that I read: I prefer to read long
fics that are very detailed, and grammatically correct. I do not have enough
patience for what I consider bad fics (but many other fans might praise as
good): out of character fiction (in terms of canon or fanon), without a reason
supplied; bland and unoriginal writing; fics that are not well researched. I do
not read death fics, and sometimes I will not read specific off-canon fiction (if
it is obviously anachronistic or poorly researched) or specific genres, such as,
besides death fics, male pregnancy fiction. Similarly to Eiko I tend to read
specific fics and specific pairings in specific fandoms, and these fics do
happen very often to be in prevalent genres of that fandom: Harry Potter
fiction, as already mentioned, tends to be written in a somewhat darker
setting. I, too, enjoy reading Harry/Draco fics in terms of the range of
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