I don't think your opinion will be unpopular! I have a feeling if anything will be unpopular it will be any given decision I would make about how to classify a difficult fic. Somebody somewhere would probably disagree with me no matter what I did!
It's one of the reasons I didn't try to think overly long about where a fic belonged: I was looking at like 1500 fics overall, and of those maybe 30 or so (like 2%) had ambiguous/debatable notes about who topped or bottomed. So I just made quick executive decisions about them and moved on - many I listed as switching, but a few I thought still counted as top or bottom. I knew that if I asked for opinions about each fic that I'd get disagreement, and then I'd never get this post done :) But since it's only a few fics spread over many years, my choices really don't change the overall picture, I promise!
And funny that you find smut hard to write because you really do it so well :)
I guess the thing about IDK my BFF Hermione for me is that Draco's characterization really feels strongly bottom!Draco to me (and oh god here I go opening up a can of worms with trying to psycho-analyze what makes a character seem like a top or bottom. I told myself I wouldn't do that!) But it's not just his character, really, it's his whole history and actions too. Raitala really delved into that in her remix last year! But I do understand that since there's that one scene that most people would consider it a switching fic.
But I just double checked, and capitu lists it as switching (she's very good about that) so I've got it as switching. No worries.
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Date: 2015-03-18 05:03 pm (UTC)It's one of the reasons I didn't try to think overly long about where a fic belonged: I was looking at like 1500 fics overall, and of those maybe 30 or so (like 2%) had ambiguous/debatable notes about who topped or bottomed. So I just made quick executive decisions about them and moved on - many I listed as switching, but a few I thought still counted as top or bottom. I knew that if I asked for opinions about each fic that I'd get disagreement, and then I'd never get this post done :) But since it's only a few fics spread over many years, my choices really don't change the overall picture, I promise!
And funny that you find smut hard to write because you really do it so well :)
I guess the thing about IDK my BFF Hermione for me is that Draco's characterization really feels strongly bottom!Draco to me (and oh god here I go opening up a can of worms with trying to psycho-analyze what makes a character seem like a top or bottom. I told myself I wouldn't do that!) But it's not just his character, really, it's his whole history and actions too. Raitala really delved into that in her remix last year! But I do understand that since there's that one scene that most people would consider it a switching fic.
But I just double checked, and capitu lists it as switching (she's very good about that) so I've got it as switching. No worries.