Top/bottom roles may not be a squick for me, but they annoy me enough I might stop reading. I'm with thinking that people who take on permanent roles are KINKY. And if it's a kink, it's worth acknowledging that not everyone -- or even most people -- do it that way, and it needs some defending in the community. Because one thing I know about the glbtqueer community, if anyone knows what you do, it's subject to commentary.
I was just re-reading Beren's Corruption series the other day,where at the end Draco says he'll tell Harry a certain secret "about the time you let me top." Now THAT'S a reasonable use of personal roles -- Harry's ended up with dark critters inside him helping run his life, and Draco's acknowledging that it's going to be that way and he'll just have to live with it.
My biggest squick is the writer referring to them as "the blonde," or worse, "the Blonde Slytherin" and so forth. It's seldom a relevant aspect of their character; and post Hogwarts, I think the Slytherin stuff would be equivalent to "old school tie" but not a definition of one permanently.
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I was just re-reading Beren's Corruption series the other day,where at the end Draco says he'll tell Harry a certain secret "about the time you let me top." Now THAT'S a reasonable use of personal roles -- Harry's ended up with dark critters inside him helping run his life, and Draco's acknowledging that it's going to be that way and he'll just have to live with it.
My biggest squick is the writer referring to them as "the blonde," or worse, "the Blonde Slytherin" and so forth. It's seldom a relevant aspect of their character; and post Hogwarts, I think the Slytherin stuff would be equivalent to "old school tie" but not a definition of one permanently.