In Which I Ramable About SSHG Fanfic

Sep 24, 2020 15:18


It appears that my last post on here was 2017. How in the heck has it been 3 years?

SSHG fanfic. My original fanfic OTP. My first foray into the rabbit hole as fanfic, actually. And the one that still sticks with me today. My tastes have changed, quite a lot, actually. But the essence and the ideas of the stories stick with me. There are basic ( Read more... )

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mundungus42 September 24 2020, 22:12:32 UTC
AHHHHHHH I was so happy to see your name pop up on my friends page!! Hi!!!

Oh MAN this takes me back!!

The first SSHG fics I read were Textualsphinx's "Letter from Exile one Merciful Morning" (Dec 5, 2000) and "To Sever the Silver Lining from a Cloud" (Dec 8, 2000), and I was totally hooked on the ship after reading those. IIRC, I and other nascent shippers lost their mind over them. She followed it up with such classics as "Why Slytherins are Sexier" and her sadly unfinished "Decoding the Heart" in 2001, "A Sorting Song by Severus" in 2002, and "Snape the Knife's Sorting Song" in late 2002 ( ... )

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ginny_weasley31 September 25 2020, 05:20:21 UTC
Gah, I love that you were around for that! I, sadly, was not. In 2000 I was busy starting my last year of nursing school with 3 little kids. I started reading in winter of 2004. The first fic I ever read was "I Wanna Teach DADA" by Sirron. A friend was an SSHG shipper (I thought she was crazy) and she liked that oneshot and sent it to me with the assurance that it really wasn't an SSHG fic. Then she tried sending me a Snape/OC fic and I was not a fan so I gave up on that. In January of 2005 I was on a chat with that same friend and another gal who both were giddy with excitement when SW69's "The Succubus" updated. I had to go see what the fuss was about, so read that and I wanted something complete... so they sent me to read Cloak of Courage aaaand that was all it took. ;) I think I spent the next two weeks doing nothing but binging on Diet Coke, chips, and fic. My husband was not happy. LOL!

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mundungus42 September 25 2020, 18:48:17 UTC
OMG I can't imagine dealing with all of that at the same time! I'm so glad you found your way to SSHG, and you have been an indispensable part of the ship for my entire time on LJ (I just found out we both joined LJ in 2005!).

And now I'm curious, when did you discover fandom and HP? I discovered that fandom existed in 1998 when I was a summer camp counselor and one of my campers wrote fic and sent me to my first fanfic archive (X-Files!). So I read a shit-ton of X-Files fic (I even wrote a paper about it)! A dear friend who was in grad school at the time introduced me to loads of classic sci-fi and fantasty, and she loaned me the first 3 HP books (there were only three then!), but I didn't start reading HP fic until that same friend started reccing HP fic to me.

It took me a while to figure out SSHG was my OTP, but hoo boy, it's been a hell of a ride.

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ginny_weasley31 September 25 2020, 19:37:50 UTC
Let's see. I first read HP about a year after GOF was released. My grandma bought the 4 books for my son for his birthday. I think it was July 2001. I read them through and liked them. Then I had a bunch of surgeries and was off work in 2003 and a friend bought me OOTP as a recovery gift when it was released. All hell broke loose that fall personally (I stopped working, had 4 kids, and life was generally a mess) and by February of 2004, I was at loose ends. I found Mugglenet and there was a forum through them for people looking at clues and secrets trying to figure out what was going to happen next in the series. I started posting on that and read the books half a dozen more times. Some of the people there were very into fanfic, so I had heard about it, but I didn't read anything. I couldn't wrap my head around anything that wasn't cannon. But through that I made HP friends and those were fanfic followers, including a couple of SSHG shippers. But when I got sucked into fanfic... I got SUCKED in. LOL! I wrote my first fic after only a ( ... )

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mundungus42 September 25 2020, 20:52:34 UTC
*huge hugs* I'm so glad you found your way to fandom when you needed it. And hoo boy do I hear you about fic as therapy: brave people speaking their truth through fanfic helped me reframe a bunch of stuff that messed me up for a number of years. LOL, it also took me some time to get past the "but how can it be valid if it's contradicted by canon??" but the good ship SSHG did it for me, too :D And my time in the Sherlock fandom really brought home the fact that fans are writing far more interesting things than the credited writers.

I occasionally dabble toes in other ships, but despite loving reading and writing in some of those other ships, they just cant' give me the dazzling variety of contexts in which the characters just make sense together that SSHG does.

*more hugs* Thank you for reminding me how much of a positive force fandom and specifically this ship have been in my life. I sometimes take it for granted, I think.

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