I'm glad in particular you liked #4; I have a lot of fun with Astoria. At some point (not now, NOT NOW, but when I have actual time to do so) I'd love to do a full story with her as a central focus. I enjoy a good EWE story as much as the next girl, and I sailed into fandom back in the day on the good ship H/D, but it bums me out, the way people paint her. In most fics I read she's shrill and manipulative or meek and terrified, and I just want to shake people.
JKR gave us an almost entirely undefined female character she can't ruin in a later book--why not make her a strong female character? Why not make her funny and smart and pulled together and ballsy? We so rarely get the chance, with the Potterverse women--so often have to go back through and undo what JKR's done to them. And it's a blank canvas, and I understand, I do, that people want the H/D to work out, but oh my god. If that's what we do to female characters without any canon personality traits, then that's on us, and that sucks.
Aaand sorry, didn't mean to get so into that. In conclusion: thanks for the praise it's much appreciated :D
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Date: 2010-01-06 05:27 pm (UTC)I'm glad in particular you liked #4; I have a lot of fun with Astoria. At some point (not now, NOT NOW, but when I have actual time to do so) I'd love to do a full story with her as a central focus. I enjoy a good EWE story as much as the next girl, and I sailed into fandom back in the day on the good ship H/D, but it bums me out, the way people paint her. In most fics I read she's shrill and manipulative or meek and terrified, and I just want to shake people.
JKR gave us an almost entirely undefined female character she can't ruin in a later book--why not make her a strong female character? Why not make her funny and smart and pulled together and ballsy? We so rarely get the chance, with the Potterverse women--so often have to go back through and undo what JKR's done to them. And it's a blank canvas, and I understand, I do, that people want the H/D to work out, but oh my god. If that's what we do to female characters without any canon personality traits, then that's on us, and that sucks.
Aaand sorry, didn't mean to get so into that. In conclusion: thanks for the praise it's much appreciated :D