I'll read widely-recced fics (except mpreg and fics I know are rape rather than sex-play or dub-con) sometimes just to give them a chance, but I often find them disappointing. After all, one reason people rec fics is that they hit personal kinks, and so it doesn't really matter if the fics have a lot in common with the others that preceded them.
1) I like the idea of someone who's powerful enjoying a position that's widely conceived as less powerful (which is why I often like stories where Harry is magically powerful and yet bottoms). But it's so rarely done well. Instead, as you said, the bottom ends up unable to fight off any of his own enemies, even when the author bestows superpowers on him.
2) I've run into some widely-praised fics where the authors are obviously talking through Draco. No, thank you.
4) I wish I knew of more fics that dealt with the emotional scars of Harry's childhood, rather than resorting to physical or sexual abuse. Now you know why I am so addicted to psychological fics!
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1) I like the idea of someone who's powerful enjoying a position that's widely conceived as less powerful (which is why I often like stories where Harry is magically powerful and yet bottoms). But it's so rarely done well. Instead, as you said, the bottom ends up unable to fight off any of his own enemies, even when the author bestows superpowers on him.
2) I've run into some widely-praised fics where the authors are obviously talking through Draco. No, thank you.
4) I wish I knew of more fics that dealt with the emotional scars of Harry's childhood, rather than resorting to physical or sexual abuse. Now you know why I am so addicted to psychological fics!
And thank you.