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
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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.
I loved Sphinx's erudite, funny, cleverly sexy fics so much that the first time I tried writing SSHG ("Westard Hoe," Apr 1, 2002) was a gentle spoof of the opening of "Decoding the Heart." Another blast from the past: it was written for Schnoogle's "April Foolapalooza!" And my first SSHG multi-chapter fics were based on WIKTT challenges: "Trail of the Black Star" (Oct 20, 2003) answered the Romance Novelist Challenge and "Absinthe of Reason" (Jan 4 2004) answered the Gryffindor Stud challenge.
CAN YOU BELIEVE IT HAS BEEN SO LONG? I sure as hell can't!
I know you and Shiv both have very busy lives, but if and when the stars align, I will absolutely 100% contribute something. I haven't written anything since the 2019 SSHG Giftfest (and OMG I still need to post the fic at FFN and AO3! oops!), but for THE Exchange and some of my earliest and longest-lasting fandom friends? I will happily take up my pen. <3
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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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I've tried other HP ships and really SSHG is the only one that I truly love. And I've tried a few other fandoms, but SSHG is my first love and I still think it's the best one, even though it still squicks people out if I tell them. LOL!
When I use my default icon here that fanfiction is cheaper than therapy... I truly mean that. I was in a bad place when I first joined fandom and it was the fanfic that helped me to heal the most. Both in reading, talking with other people, and especially in writing. Pretty much the best therapy I'd had and saved me in more ways than I can say. It's probably why this fandom, in particular, is so important to me and why I really want to commemerate things like it existing for 20 years. :)
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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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