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Here's a review I got for HP and the Dysfunctional Malfoy prick:

(I have nothing against this reviewer. I'm just using their review as an example of something I see fairly often in the fandom that annoys me)

"a nicely written story, despite the grammer errors and Draco's unbelivable attitude towards Potions or Potter. A very nice story overall, and update soon"

I'm not complaining about the comment on grammatical errors. I know there are plenty because I usually don't use a beta and I'm too impatient to look the story over very carefully (a bad habit I need to overcome)But some people's sensitivity in regards to what is believable/unbelievable in fanfiction irritates me. How believable is Harry and Draco shagging in the first place? If we want to stay so true to cannon, we might as well forget the sex and have Draco spewing enless insults while Harry sits there going, "Er..."

Now, I know there are many stories where the portrayal of the characters is very true to canon despite the gay!sex, and I congratulate the authors of those stories. But HP and DMP is the kind of story that just couldn't be without making the character/situations unbelievable. The whole premise is unrealistic. I've certainly never heard of a guy who can only get an erection when around/thinking about one person. Personally, I think the fandom would be boring if every story was true to canon. And I won't even get started on how believable fantasy is in the first place.

*is annoyed*

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I was just thinking about some of my old friends, and realized that smut writing began way earlier for me than with fanfic. My last year at middle school and my first year or two at high school, one of my friends and I used to write stories about us with various celebrities we liked. We'd usually work on a story together, each of us taking the notebook for a few days and writing part of the story (neither of us had our own computer at the time). Then we'd have sleepovers and read what the other wrote/ plot together. It was so much fun! Not nearly as much fun as it is now, though, with fanfiction and being able to post it on the internet and get reviews and even make internet friends.

Oh yeah, and since my handwriting is so awful, I once typed out a sex scene from one of those stories on my dad's computer and printed it out. Unfortunately, I forgot to take it out of the printer and my dad found it. My friend was over at the time, and my parents were like "we have to talk to you later" I was soooo mortified and wanted my friend never to leave. Thankfully, they never did say anything about it, but later I found the printed out scene in a drawer. When I found it, I knew what they were saving it for, which my mom confirmed once when she said something about a piece of my writing that they were saving to show me when I got older to embarrass me. But I stole it so ha!

I can just imagine my mom years from now checking every drawer in the house saying, "It must be in here somewhere."