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Ribbons (bronze_ribbons) wrote in lupin_snape,

#1 tends to be my default position when reading, regardless of the author's OTP or focus: as far as I'm concerned, Snape and Lupin were/are together unless the author tells me otherwise. And maybe not even then. ;-)

That said, I tend to read everything (including canon) through either a personal fanon lens or with my "let's make mayhem" gear on. (To be clear, I don't see this as a case of fannish entitlement, since I do not expect authors or other readers to accommodate this in any way -- it's just my private game, and I don't bring it into discussion anywhere unless I'm with folks on the same canon-as-a-playground wavelength.)

What inspired this: I'd skimmed your posts yesterday on self-sporking and "Love equality" (but not commented upon yet, because like every other damned thing these days, I need to go back and really read them when work/holidays aren't squeezing me). So I was working out and walking the dog and thinking about what it would be like if I were to self-spork one of my own fics, and it struck me that there would be a lot of this:

Lupin: Woman, you seriously have a ____ fetish. That's the second fic you've done that in.
Snape: And an issue with ________. That's the third fic in which you've had me say that.
Ribbons: Every preacher has the one sermon they preach over and over again in different forms. :-p
Lupin: Oh God, that again? Could you be any more like a Yorkshire terrier with that device?
Snape [sotto voce]: I've spelled it to cause a diversion in ten minutes. Then we can sneak off into another fic where we actually have sex.

But seriously - I have some of the same preferences about Snape and equality as you do -- and, actually, across the board, which is a main reason why I'm not into cross-gen fics as a whole: I prefer my lover-adversaries to be worthy of each other (or equally terrible) - which does happen often in cross-gen, don't get me wrong, but the negotiations between, say, a smart youth and a stunted adult, just don't fascinate me as much as the dynamics possible between two dangerous, canny adults. (There's also the lived-it, not-escapism-for-me aspect of it - I once dated someone who was 20 years older than me, and he did try to play the age card a little too often...)