More Dresden Files Fanfic fears

[matrixrefugee]

I think I was trying to amuse myself in a wierd way when I thought of these possible horrors:

--Harry as a fluffy-bunny Pagan/Wiccan, and his equally fluffy Mary Sue twin-sister who's a high priestess. I must have been thinking of a horrid "Constantine" fic I sporked over on the late, lamented GAFF forum, which featured the snarky demon hunter in a similar cringe-inducing scenario. The fluffy-bunnies among the fanbrats seem to feel the need to patch paganism/Wicca into any fandom featuring magic, even if there's little to no evidence that it's there, or that any of the canon characters are of this religious persuasion: LOTR, Harry Potter, you name it. Mind you, I don't doubt some of the members of the White Council just might happen to be Pagan/Wiccan. Injun Joe is quite obviously an American Indian shaman. I sometimes get the odd feeling that the Merlin might be a Druid, don't ask me why. And I have wierd little images of Molly dabbling in Wicca of the fluffy bunny variety to piss off her parents. But Harry is an agnostic; he's not keen on religion and he's tenterhook-ish around the concept of God. I can't remember what the term was, but there's some fancy theological name for a person who believes that other people's G/god/s/ess/es exist, even if they themselves do not worship these entities; Harry is obviously that sort of person. And if I remember correctly from "Death Masks", someone (might have been Father Forthill) asks Harry when he's going to convert from paganism, and he has to remind this person he just does magic.

--Harry/Thomas slash. Please, God, no, though the shenanigans in "White Night" are hysterical, I can't help thinking Jim Butcher unwittingly cursed a million lemon fics into existence (though, perhaps he's read some Harry/Thomas slash and decided to play around with the idea on his own canonic terms; I have a feeling he probably *does* read fanfic, when he gets a minute between finishing the final draft on the next Codex Alera book and working on "Small Favor"). Just because Harry was pretending to be Thomas's boyfriend in order to justify his presence in his half-brother's apartment, does not mean that he really *is*.

(Note: if someone here likes the pairing, please don't think I'm bashing it. The concept, as with any incestuous slash pairing, gives me the heebee-jeebees.)

Thank God for the dresdenfic community, which is mostly pretty good. I'm afraid to check on FF.N for fear of what I might find...

Comments

[beckyh2112.livejournal.com]

Will you spoiler cut the White Night stuff? Not all of us have read it yet.

[dark-puck.livejournal.com]

Seconding the request for a spoiler cut. While I read it a week before release, several folk don't have the cash to buy it and their libraries do not yet have it.