A Literary Dance

Blake: Justin made me uncomfortable with his sexual comments and advances, did not make me feel safe doing intimate scenes and joked about how he wasn’t HR trained when it was brought up to him. Other crew members saw these instances occur and are supporting me

Justin: Ok that may be true but she was really mean and bossy and tried to take over MY movie and her husband made fun of me for being a performative feminist :( also Taylor Swift was there

100x more famous than your attacker

Be the mother of his children

A royal duchess married to a prince

Part of a beloved celebrity couple

It doesn’t matter, if you have boundaries, if you rock the boat, if you’re too bossy, too mean, not a perfect angel who lets a man walk all over her then you’re nothing more than a good for nothing hussy.

Of course there’s also the appeal to student/teacher and other taboo fiction in general. These are fake people, in a completely made up world. Playing around with the characters like they’re a kid’s dolls hurts exactly no one and can help scratch an itch somewhere deep in people’s subconscious. Age gap in general is super popular in fiction, as is a power imbalance. All things that are an inherent part of the snarry dynamic, if they don’t do a time travel or de-age or grew up together thing (all of which is possible to find if you want snarry without any of those dynamics). Beyond the taboo, a big part of it is basically the decision to care for and protective instead of abuse.

Snarry fics tend to be behemoths because so much care is generally taken to show both how their views on each other change, and also how sev works hard to never abuse all the ways he has power over Harry and instead chooses to take care of him. And for Harry, it would be someone looking out for him and his needs and desires beyond what the is right for the greater good.

There’s a lot more but idk how to put it all into words. It’s like asking someone why they like chocolate ice cream instead of strawberry. Sometimes it’s just a preference. And again, since it’s all fictional and make believe and you can EASILY avoid it by using the tagging and filtering systems built into fandom space, it hurts no one. It’s just for fun for those who are into it. And you don’t have to understand it. Just avoid it if you’re not into it. And if it comes across your feed for some reason, just say nothing, don’t judge, and keep on scrolling.

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