Ah, yes, Divergence of Sequences and Series is an intriguing one! And I can certainly understand the difficulty of finishing things haha. Personally I'd like to be able to make much more progress on my longform stories, but that can be a lot of effort for me sometimes and I find deadlines so grueling.
I think that while your interpretations are certainly very AU, I'd also say that 'sexy Plagueis' or 'sexy Palpatine' interpretations are also...very AU. And yes, I feel similarly about In my case I just don't want to see sexually aggressive depictions of Sith characters. I simply don't particularly want to see noncon in any context. I don't assume depiction of such things constitutes endorsement, but I know what I personally find upsetting, so I generally try to avoid them. I'm okay with reading some depictions of consenting sexual activity involving Sith, and I'm obviously okay with certain romantic pairings (esp. Sidious/Talzin obviously), but I'm very particular and I find many things just don't appeal to me for one reason or another.
It's been a while since I read much HP related stuff, but fans can certainly have much more nuanced takes on the material than anything Rowling says. Like Voldemort had this incredibly disadvantaged upbringing (as one does when one grows up in an orphanage) and she makes him the main antagonist, more evil than any of the other characters, including the privileged Malfoys who the narrative seems to judge as more morally forgivable simply due to nothing other than their more privileged position in society. Snape came from a very disadvantaged background too, and even if the narrative judges him good enough to 'redeem', it seems to judge him as less worthy of life than the Malfoys, given that Rowling seemingly intended the ending to be read as a conventional 'happy ending' (and given what I've read about her saying regarding Snape in the past).
I wouldn't know if there's any link between liking Snape and wanting Sith redemption, but certainly there could be some common themes going on there. And, thanks for the info! I tend to hyperfocus on particular fandoms (such as my current Star Wars fixation), but it's still interesting to hear what people are doing in other fandoms where I have the context to know what's going on, like I do with HP. Wormtail is an often-neglected character that I certainly feel that Rowling unfairly shafted, as she did with many of her more complicated characters.
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Date: 2019-09-19 12:45 am (UTC)I think that while your interpretations are certainly very AU, I'd also say that 'sexy Plagueis' or 'sexy Palpatine' interpretations are also...very AU. And yes, I feel similarly about In my case I just don't want to see sexually aggressive depictions of Sith characters. I simply don't particularly want to see noncon in any context. I don't assume depiction of such things constitutes endorsement, but I know what I personally find upsetting, so I generally try to avoid them. I'm okay with reading some depictions of consenting sexual activity involving Sith, and I'm obviously okay with certain romantic pairings (esp. Sidious/Talzin obviously), but I'm very particular and I find many things just don't appeal to me for one reason or another.
It's been a while since I read much HP related stuff, but fans can certainly have much more nuanced takes on the material than anything Rowling says. Like Voldemort had this incredibly disadvantaged upbringing (as one does when one grows up in an orphanage) and she makes him the main antagonist, more evil than any of the other characters, including the privileged Malfoys who the narrative seems to judge as more morally forgivable simply due to nothing other than their more privileged position in society. Snape came from a very disadvantaged background too, and even if the narrative judges him good enough to 'redeem', it seems to judge him as less worthy of life than the Malfoys, given that Rowling seemingly intended the ending to be read as a conventional 'happy ending' (and given what I've read about her saying regarding Snape in the past).
I wouldn't know if there's any link between liking Snape and wanting Sith redemption, but certainly there could be some common themes going on there. And, thanks for the info! I tend to hyperfocus on particular fandoms (such as my current Star Wars fixation), but it's still interesting to hear what people are doing in other fandoms where I have the context to know what's going on, like I do with HP. Wormtail is an often-neglected character that I certainly feel that Rowling unfairly shafted, as she did with many of her more complicated characters.