More on Strange SHIPS

[linda_mccabe <lmccabe@sonic.net>]

Oh ho ho,
This is a topic that interests me.  I stumbled across a thread on 
Fiction Alley Park a few months ago that had me howling with 
laughter.  It's called Biggest Squicks IV: Ships that make you 
seasick.  Here's the link:

http://www.fictionalley.org//fictionalleypark/forums/showthread.php?
s=&threadid=15849

I had to read it in spurts because I was laughing so hard at the 
mere thought of some of these ships.  Now many of the messages are 
repetitive.  Most people posting find the same ones very skin 
crawling.  Specificially anything using necrophilia or ghost/human.  
There's also a consistent theme that any bestiality or 
Animagus/animal pairing is just plain wrong.  People had come across 
Hermione/Crookshanks and Harry/Hedwig.  Ugh!

And there's the incest issue as well.  Specifically Weasleycest and 
if you can believe it: twincest.  Those are things I really don't 
want to read.  I also couldn't read any teacher/student pairings or 
Sirius/Harry.  That's just abuse of trust and it goes on far too 
frequently in the real world for me to want to see that creep into 
the Potterverse.

On a side note, I personally don't like Remus/Sirius simply because 
I adore both of those characters and don't want to see what I think 
are the two sexiest adult characters in canon paired off together.  
I mean, where does that leave the adult female to fantasize herself 
as fitting in?  And don't give me Snape!  Ewwww!

But what made me just shake my head in wonder was the reported 
reading of a pairing that I can't fathom how it would move any 
plot.  And I ask you...how could *Hagrid/Tree* be used to further a 
plot function?  And I don't want to even consider what kind of 
character development it would serve either.

Ahh, I put in my posting on that thread that I purposefully included 
two unusual pairings that I knew would elicit a visceral response 
from my readers.  They were very minimal and implied, I wouldn't 
have spent too long on it because it disgusted me as well.  Those 
were Voldemort/Lilith Lestrange and Gran Longbottom/Lucius.  The 
last one was actually with the intent of having the reader grab 
their stomach in revulsion while fighting fits of laughter.

Athena

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