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la_mort_noir made me an icon to go with the promenade cheekbones from that badfic I mentioned. Isn't he pretty? *cuddles Sandsy*
Actually, I've wanted to see Johnny in a Sands kinda role since, oh, 1992, when John Waters said in an interview: "Johnny could play a wonderfully sexy mass murderer." Yep. That he could. And that he did.
I was planning to talk about immortality in HP, but decided to talk about sex instead. Who needs immortality anyway, eh?
The advantage of writing fanfiction in a fantasy fandom is that I can ignore certain rules of our society and pretend that they don't apply in the fictional universe. When writing HP fanfiction, I make my characters cheerfully bisexual, mainly because I can't be bothered to deal with Gay Issues. While one can argue that the HP universe is in many respects rather old-fashioned, there is also another point of view (the one I adopt): Obviously, in HP, men and women have equal rights and there are much worse sexual perversities one can commit than sleeping with a member of one's own sex. An equality of sexes (which goes as far back as to the time of the founders, two of whom were female) indicates that traditional gender roles are non-existant. For many centuries, witches have been receiving the same education as wizards and they also have equal job opportunities as wizards.
The fact than rather than being forced into the quintessential female role of housewives and mothers women interact with men as equals, indicates that wizards have not assumed the quintessential male role of hunters and protectors. What's that got to do with sex? Well, wizards are not trained to be the stronger sex. They're not trained to be dominant and in charge.
I'll get back to that point, but first I want to say a few words about the "worse sexual perversities" business: In a society where sex with giants, werewolves, (possibly) vampires, Veela and whatnot is, if not socially accepted than at least possible, sex with a member of the same species seems like the lesser evil.
To elaborate the sex issue: I derive large portions of what I write about sexual interaction from my personal experience. And I am lucky enough to move in a society where homo and bisexuality are considered as normal. And by 'normal' I mean that people don't feel the need to discuss the issue: I never came out as bisexual, because, really, I never came out as sexual in the first place. Seeing as I never went to my parents telling them that I started to sleep with men, I never went to tell them that I started to sleep with women, either. I know quite a few people who are bisexual to some degree, and it is not something that defines who they are in social terms (as in: members of the gay community) or how they are perceived by others.
Now, since we do live within a society where men have traditionally assumed the dominant role, many men don't easily reconsile with assuming the submissive part. It's the old top vs. bottom discussion. As a (likewise cheerfully bisexual) friend of mine put it: A man is not supposed to get fucked. Said friend does all manner of things with other men, but he would not let them fuck him, and he does not want to fuck them. It's a psychological thing, and it's based on that ingrained assumption that men are quintessential tops. (Note to self: Should ask him what he thinks of the whole prostate stimulation business.)
So in a nutshell what I do is: I take my RL experience of sexual versatility and combine it with sexual equality in HP and make my men bisexual. Because I can.
la_mort_noir made me an icon to go with the promenade cheekbones from that badfic I mentioned. Isn't he pretty? *cuddles Sandsy*Actually, I've wanted to see Johnny in a Sands kinda role since, oh, 1992, when John Waters said in an interview: "Johnny could play a wonderfully sexy mass murderer." Yep. That he could. And that he did.
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I was planning to talk about immortality in HP, but decided to talk about sex instead. Who needs immortality anyway, eh?
The advantage of writing fanfiction in a fantasy fandom is that I can ignore certain rules of our society and pretend that they don't apply in the fictional universe. When writing HP fanfiction, I make my characters cheerfully bisexual, mainly because I can't be bothered to deal with Gay Issues. While one can argue that the HP universe is in many respects rather old-fashioned, there is also another point of view (the one I adopt): Obviously, in HP, men and women have equal rights and there are much worse sexual perversities one can commit than sleeping with a member of one's own sex. An equality of sexes (which goes as far back as to the time of the founders, two of whom were female) indicates that traditional gender roles are non-existant. For many centuries, witches have been receiving the same education as wizards and they also have equal job opportunities as wizards.
The fact than rather than being forced into the quintessential female role of housewives and mothers women interact with men as equals, indicates that wizards have not assumed the quintessential male role of hunters and protectors. What's that got to do with sex? Well, wizards are not trained to be the stronger sex. They're not trained to be dominant and in charge.
I'll get back to that point, but first I want to say a few words about the "worse sexual perversities" business: In a society where sex with giants, werewolves, (possibly) vampires, Veela and whatnot is, if not socially accepted than at least possible, sex with a member of the same species seems like the lesser evil.
To elaborate the sex issue: I derive large portions of what I write about sexual interaction from my personal experience. And I am lucky enough to move in a society where homo and bisexuality are considered as normal. And by 'normal' I mean that people don't feel the need to discuss the issue: I never came out as bisexual, because, really, I never came out as sexual in the first place. Seeing as I never went to my parents telling them that I started to sleep with men, I never went to tell them that I started to sleep with women, either. I know quite a few people who are bisexual to some degree, and it is not something that defines who they are in social terms (as in: members of the gay community) or how they are perceived by others.
Now, since we do live within a society where men have traditionally assumed the dominant role, many men don't easily reconsile with assuming the submissive part. It's the old top vs. bottom discussion. As a (likewise cheerfully bisexual) friend of mine put it: A man is not supposed to get fucked. Said friend does all manner of things with other men, but he would not let them fuck him, and he does not want to fuck them. It's a psychological thing, and it's based on that ingrained assumption that men are quintessential tops. (Note to self: Should ask him what he thinks of the whole prostate stimulation business.)
So in a nutshell what I do is: I take my RL experience of sexual versatility and combine it with sexual equality in HP and make my men bisexual. Because I can.
