This was a thoroughly enjoyable fic, thanks for sharing. Loads of laughs.
However, you do realize that you’ve opened up a whole lot of hurt upon the world, right? Not only will every fanfic author be thinking “How would the ‘actors’ react to my work?” (I know this because I did this very thing) but they will use it to poke fun at one another as well.
I can see it now...
“I can’t read the author’s name,” Severus said, scrutinizing the script. “Not only is it in ‘net-speak’ but it has a number of ‘heart’ symbols.”
“Oh, bollocks, it’s another fangirl,” Ron said with heavy disappointment. “Glomping and squeeing galore.”
“I wonder how many times I’ll say ‘OMG’ and ‘wicked’?” speculated Luna dreamily.
“And I’m certain we’ll all be huge fans of Panic! At the Disco, Good Charlotte, and My Chemical Romance,” Ginny offered (NOTE: I got these names from the list of “Recent Stories” - please don't think I actually listen to them). “There’ll be at least one scene where said band or bands will play at Hogwarts.”
“That also means Harry and I are going to be lovers,” Draco hung his head.
“And I’ll be having your baby... again,” Harry said to his lover/enemy. “I have no idea why these people think crapping out a baby is a beautiful thing.”
“Harry, I’m sure they don’t have you ‘crap out the baby,’” scolded Hermione.
“I don’t have a birth canal, just a urethra and a rectum, that’s it,” Harry pointed out. “How else would the baby come out?”
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You have unwittingly wreaked havoc on the world of fanfiction. Thanks, it’ll be fun.
Shawn (a.k.a. cloneserpents)
Author's response
- the idea came to me while mowing the lawn and trying to plot out the final chapter of Acts of Betrayal. The previous night I had read parts of an incredibly bad fic using the "Actors from the Movies are somehow inserted in the place of their characters" cliche.
I first ran into that stupidity in Trek fandom more than 30 years ago, I don't know why people seem to think it's a good plot... Much less it's opposite where the Characters are put in the place of the actors.
So there I was, mowing the lawn (which I hate, but she-who-must-be-obeyed insists) in the heat (which I also hate, It's the 21st century, why isn't the outside climate controlled yet? And where's my jetpack, back in the early '60s we were promised jetpacks) when I thought, hey why not just have it be their job? They have lives outside the stories, they come together, go through what needs to be done to do their show, then back to their lives?
That would allow enemies to be friends, friends to be acquaintances, and allow each character to be completely utterly different than how they are show 'on screen' without the silly 'oh, you have them OOC' complaints.
- Now I doubt that this is in any way original, of the millions of monkeys pounding away at their keyboards I'm sure someone has done some variation of this in the past, but I don't recall ever reading one.
- Thanks for your kind words.