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[pez]

Struck by a random urge to read PoT fic, I clicked on an old one that a lot of people said is brilliant but I never read because I wasn't interested in the pairing.

................it's okay. It's fine. There's plot and characterisation and grammar. But the pace is slack and the build up quite weak and the plot not very exciting. And perhaps I have longer memory than others or actually read more carefully because I spotted repeated phrasings and descriptions which were not done intentionally to make a point, more like the author didn't have enough of a range of ways to talk about things. I wouldn't call the fic brilliant. Am I expecting too much? Or maybe that pairing - not a major one but not unpopular either - simply didn't have great authors so anything that's "fairly good" automatically is "amazing"?

Comments

[xs (from livejournal.com)]

I find that with most fic I go back to. I guess fandom gives things a bit of a halo.

[yuki-scorpio.livejournal.com]

It does. Though I think some pairings did get the better writers. I remember the days when D1 writers were accused of skewing the fandom...