*lol* That has nothing to do with my (awesome, I tell you! ;)) seer's skills. Shippers just love to talk about topping and bottoming preferences. Another few months in fandom, and you'll be able to predict that, too. :)
Btw, I did try to see if some data can be gleaned from AO3. This is what I came up with: tag *Draco Malfoy/Harry Potter: 10864 times used of those:
It doesn't say a lot, because there are fics that are tagged both bottom!Harry and bottom!Draco, and obviously a majority of fics is not tagged for topping/bottoming preference (which totally is a good thing in my book!).
Another point that came to my mind are nuances: I sometimes find that in so-called switching fics, there are graphic, long sex scenes where, let's say, Draco tops, and then there is one short sex scene mentioned in passing, where Harry tops. Are those really switching fics, I wonder? (No question of earth-shattering importance, I realise, but if you put together top!Draco save lists, it becomes a problem. :))
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Date: 2015-03-18 03:45 pm (UTC)Btw, I did try to see if some data can be gleaned from AO3. This is what I came up with:
tag *Draco Malfoy/Harry Potter: 10864 times used
of those:
==== bottom!Draco:
*bottom Draco: 161
*top Harry: 101
==== top!Draco:
*bottom Harry: 117
*top Draco: 82
It doesn't say a lot, because there are fics that are tagged both bottom!Harry and bottom!Draco, and obviously a majority of fics is not tagged for topping/bottoming preference (which totally is a good thing in my book!).
Another point that came to my mind are nuances: I sometimes find that in so-called switching fics, there are graphic, long sex scenes where, let's say, Draco tops, and then there is one short sex scene mentioned in passing, where Harry tops. Are those really switching fics, I wonder? (No question of earth-shattering importance, I realise, but if you put together top!Draco save lists, it becomes a problem. :))