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jmc_bksWell, to be honest, my first venture into HP ff was the crossover Stephen Colbert-Harry Potter piece that I linked to a while back, Harry Potter and the Eagle of Truthiness. SC as Dark Arts professor was pretty funny, IMO.
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eeyore9990 for her guidance on HP fanfic. Eeyore9990 posted a comment over at SBTB, so I queried her for suggestions and received links to several excellent stories and archives to start with. Aside: The Biochemist writes FF and moderates, but I have no idea what or where, and I've never read it (knowingly). Our conversations on the subject tend to be on the meta rather than particular pieces of fanfic. It felt safer and less imposing to ask someone else for some recs. Of course, after the fact, I mentioned it and she gave me some other recs.
Anyway, I've read some really well-written fan fiction in the past week or so. And some very imaginative stuff (I mean that in the best way, not as a snide commentary, like, oh, how *interesting*). As I read a bit more, I find the combinations fascinating, and in some ways quite antithetical to my own reading of the canon.
What have I learned? There is a huge, Huge, HUGE group of people out there obsessed with a Harry-Snape relationship. And an equal number of Harry-Hermione shippers. [Where'd that come from? It was clearly Hermione-Ron from the second book on, IMO.]
I've also learned the following about myself: while I have very few boundaries when it comes to squickiness and am open to gen, het, slash, etc., Harry-Snape doesn't work for me. Love is the other side of hate, blah, blah, blah, but I can't get past the antipathy. Plus I think they are too much alike in a lot of ways. And the whole Lily-James-Snape history is too much baggage. I wonder if a great deal of the Harry-Snape ship is a result of Alan Rickman being cast in the films? The Biochemist thinks so, at least, and she should know, being a big AR fan.
The Biochemist sent me an link to Henry Jenkins' blog -- he's a media prof at MIT (I think) who attended Phoenix Rising, a Harry Potter conference in New Orleans last week. We'd talked about him before, or she had, when we talked about metas and the dynamics of fandom. Check out his interesting post on Harry Potter as a media phenomenon going against the tendency for fragmentation in media and entertainment as a media production that has gathered a huge, huge fan base that crosses age, race, financial, etc. lines.
I need to post a thank you to
eeyore9990 for her guidance on HP fanfic. Eeyore9990 posted a comment over at SBTB, so I queried her for suggestions and received links to several excellent stories and archives to start with. Aside: The Biochemist writes FF and moderates, but I have no idea what or where, and I've never read it (knowingly). Our conversations on the subject tend to be on the meta rather than particular pieces of fanfic. It felt safer and less imposing to ask someone else for some recs. Of course, after the fact, I mentioned it and she gave me some other recs. Anyway, I've read some really well-written fan fiction in the past week or so. And some very imaginative stuff (I mean that in the best way, not as a snide commentary, like, oh, how *interesting*). As I read a bit more, I find the combinations fascinating, and in some ways quite antithetical to my own reading of the canon.
What have I learned? There is a huge, Huge, HUGE group of people out there obsessed with a Harry-Snape relationship. And an equal number of Harry-Hermione shippers. [Where'd that come from? It was clearly Hermione-Ron from the second book on, IMO.]
I've also learned the following about myself: while I have very few boundaries when it comes to squickiness and am open to gen, het, slash, etc., Harry-Snape doesn't work for me. Love is the other side of hate, blah, blah, blah, but I can't get past the antipathy. Plus I think they are too much alike in a lot of ways. And the whole Lily-James-Snape history is too much baggage. I wonder if a great deal of the Harry-Snape ship is a result of Alan Rickman being cast in the films? The Biochemist thinks so, at least, and she should know, being a big AR fan.
The Biochemist sent me an link to Henry Jenkins' blog -- he's a media prof at MIT (I think) who attended Phoenix Rising, a Harry Potter conference in New Orleans last week. We'd talked about him before, or she had, when we talked about metas and the dynamics of fandom. Check out his interesting post on Harry Potter as a media phenomenon going against the tendency for fragmentation in media and entertainment as a media production that has gathered a huge, huge fan base that crosses age, race, financial, etc. lines.
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Date: 2007-05-23 01:59 pm (UTC)I'm absolutely attracted to Rickman's Snape, but not Rowling's Snape.
Marianne McA
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Date: 2007-05-23 02:56 pm (UTC)I haven't read that much (and very little that is utterly without relationship), but my sister just sent me this link for gen fics:
http://community.livejournal.com/springtime_gen/43346.html
I'll post more as I find them.
jmc
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Date: 2007-05-23 10:30 pm (UTC)I didn't mean to say that I don't read relationships, or wouldn't read non-canon relationships, more that the wildly unlikely relationships I've read haven't worked for me - so far. But I haven't read enough fanfic to make a proper judgement: I've only really been looking for it over the last couple of weeks. I think I'm just in a pre-HP7 feeding frenzy at the moment, and if I can't have the book, good fanfic is the next best thing.
MMcA
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Date: 2007-05-25 08:48 pm (UTC)kate r