A brief aside...

[graculus]

Blair Sandburg is not, by any stretch of the imagination, 'exotic'.

Likewise Daniel Jackson is not 'willowy' or 'frail' or anything similar. At no point in the show's run (or even in the movie) could he be accurately described that way.

Ditto for Ezra Standish.

And let's not get started on the whole subject of competent, self-sufficient individuals bursting into tears at the slightest opportunity (be it running out of coffee, stubbing their toe, their favourite pot plant dying...).

Doesn't reading something like that just make you want to go "Have you actually *seen* the show?"?

Comments

[graculus.livejournal.com]

Yes, yes - why can't Snape have greasy hair and bad teeth?

For the same reason, I guess, that Harry always has a six-pack and Quidditch-toned muscles (whatever those are - I wouldn't think that clamping your legs round a thin piece of wood would give you all that impressive upper body development, myself).

Nobody is allowed to be ordinary in fic.

[innocent-lex.livejournal.com]

You're forgetting all that time Harry spends hanging off his broomstick when he's been attacked by some enemy.