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Willow: You know what they say. The bigger they are... Anya: The faster they stomp you into nothin'.
'The Killer In Me'
Fan Fiction: Writers, Readers, and Enablers
This thread is for fanfic recs, links, and discussion, but not for actual posting of fanfic.
§ ita § - Dec 01, 2002 10:43:20 pm PST #1063 of 10000
Well not canonically, no, but this is transformative fiction.
P.M. Marc - Dec 01, 2002 10:44:38 pm PST #1064 of 10000
So come, my friends, be not afraid/We are so lightly here/It is in love that we are made; In love we disappear
The HP fandom is scary.
So, you know, I tend to avoid it.
Fay - Dec 01, 2002 10:45:47 pm PST #1065 of 10000
"Fuck Western ideologically-motivated gender identification!" Sulu gasped, and came.
No problem! ;o) (Presently working on a big old Draco-centric fic myself. I'm all over Redeemed!Draco)
Have you read Fearless Diva's Tissue of Silver, SA? She's still fiddling with rewrites that are really improving the pants off it prior to archiving, but the WIP in her LJ is cracking stuff.
Susan W. - Dec 01, 2002 10:45:51 pm PST #1066 of 10000
Good Trouble and Righteous Fights
What kind of scary? (she asks nervously, as she prepares to search Google)
Fay - Dec 01, 2002 10:51:11 pm PST #1067 of 10000
"Fuck Western ideologically-motivated gender identification!" Sulu gasped, and came.
What kind of scary?
Well, my forays into the fandom have been recs-based. But I know there's a lot of Snape/pupil stuff out there - up to and including Snape/Ginny. I assume most of it is when the pupils involved are of the age of conent (making it marginally less horrendous) but I had no wish to find out. Age gap stuff doesn't squick me necessarily (Mr Knightly, Colonel Brandon) and I fancy people who are more than twice my age, but Teacher/pupil (even 18 yr old pupil) just not good. But since a lot of the readers/writers in the fandom are themselves very young, they can oost after both Harry and Snape without twigging to the big scary wrongness to the degree that a card-carrying adult does.
As I said - I tend to stick with recs rather than go trawling.
Connie Neil - Dec 01, 2002 10:53:09 pm PST #1068 of 10000
brillig
How old would a fifth-year at a British boarding school be? I'm forgetting how old people are in the books. Plus, I was a clueless teenager, if htere was sex going on around me I had no idea--except for the obviously pregnant classmates, but they Weren't Talked About in my world.
Fay - Dec 01, 2002 10:54:05 pm PST #1069 of 10000
"Fuck Western ideologically-motivated gender identification!" Sulu gasped, and came.
First years are eleven-twelve. Fifth years are thus fifteen-sixteen.
esse - Dec 01, 2002 11:20:26 pm PST #1070 of 10000
S to the A -- using they/them pronouns!
Have you read Fearless Diva's Tissue of Silver, SA?
Nope. Linky?
Rebecca Lizard - Dec 02, 2002 7:47:27 am PST #1071 of 10000
You sip / say it's your crazy / straw say it's you're crazy / as you bicycle your soul / with beauty in your basket
Amber B. - Dec 02, 2002 7:58:23 am PST #1072 of 10000
I'm beginning to understand this now. It's all about the journey, isn't it?
Thanks, Fay, for explaining the Draco thing. Goodness knows I understand pairing the hero with the villain (SpikenBuffy4evah!), but my favorite villains have to show a little more ambiguity than I've seen from Draco thus far - though since I don't actually read HP fic, it's all really a moot point.