Seamus/Dean: Common? Rare? Anyone care?
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starrysummer is looking for common HP pairings to disallow from a rarepair list and there was a bit of discussion about Dean/Seamus (legomymalfoy put it on her list of common pairings).
I just want to note that Dean and Seamus:
1. Have not been Potter-puff'd.
2. Aren't on a recent spate of 50 pairing icons which, by the way, included Neville/Ron. ETA: Thanks tolight_music, nimori added Seamus/Dean to her roster. Hurrah!
Now, I'm not trying to be a Sensitive Negro™ here, but what is up with that? I hate to be the person who always comments on posts like that with "Where is so-and-so?"; I have enough artist friends to know how irritating that can be. But is that the way to get these two roommates of Harry on some goddamned icons, when folks are making mass icons? And surely being consistently left off these kids of things means that good olddeamus is far from a common pairing.
Is this the tragic mulatto of pairings—too common to be rare, to rare to get any love? Is it the bridesmaid of pairings—in the background so often that people think it's common, but never in the spotlight? Or is the tragic mulatto moniker more directly parallel because they're an interracial couple? (And you know, I hate playing that race card.)
ETA:musesfool, writing about James/Lily on starrrysummer's aforementioned post about rarepairs, makes a great point about frequent background pairings like James/Lily.
Thoughts?
fanfic100 stuffs.starrysummer is looking for common HP pairings to disallow from a rarepair list and there was a bit of discussion about Dean/Seamus (legomymalfoy put it on her list of common pairings).I just want to note that Dean and Seamus:
1. Have not been Potter-puff'd.
2. Aren't on a recent spate of 50 pairing icons which, by the way, included Neville/Ron. ETA: Thanks to
light_music, nimori added Seamus/Dean to her roster. Hurrah!Now, I'm not trying to be a Sensitive Negro™ here, but what is up with that? I hate to be the person who always comments on posts like that with "Where is so-and-so?"; I have enough artist friends to know how irritating that can be. But is that the way to get these two roommates of Harry on some goddamned icons, when folks are making mass icons? And surely being consistently left off these kids of things means that good old
deamus is far from a common pairing.Is this the tragic mulatto of pairings—too common to be rare, to rare to get any love? Is it the bridesmaid of pairings—in the background so often that people think it's common, but never in the spotlight? Or is the tragic mulatto moniker more directly parallel because they're an interracial couple? (And you know, I hate playing that race card.)
ETA:
musesfool, writing about James/Lily on starrrysummer's aforementioned post about rarepairs, makes a great point about frequent background pairings like James/Lily.Thoughts?
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Date: 2005-11-27 05:03 am (UTC)First of all, to really like a pairing, you have to have a special interest in at least one of the two characters, and all in all, even if Dean and Seamus are likeable characters, I'm not sure the way they appear in the books works to their advantage. For instance, in HBP, Harry is jealous of him for a while and then he gets dumped by Ginny. I don't know, I'm not sure about my own theory, lol.
I think what is very true is that they are percieved as a background pairing, and perhaps people don't feel 'challenged' by that, hence the lack of interest.