Who are the Drarry Veterans?

[snowgall]

Because I'm curious about these things, I wondered which authors had been writing Drarry for the longest time. There have been literally thousands of Drarry fanfic authors over the years (not kidding: I've got over a thousand names in my database alone). So in order to find an answer to this question I decided to limit my results by these

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[kitty_fic]

Thank you for this! What a great list! <3
I really love all your stats!

[snowgall]

*squishes you*
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[kitty_fic]

I thought abotu leo_draconis, but the earliest fic I can find for her was 2008...

There's also naadi, who was writing fic as early as 2002 I believe? and creating stories through art up to last year (although I believe she's announced she's no longer going to create for fandom?) So I'm not sure how she fits in this due to the fact that she's an artist and may have officially left fandom as of 2015...

I'm guessing that artists would qualify for a separate list :)

[snowgall]

Oh, these are good suggestions!

I found the same results for leo_draconis. The first fic of hers I can find is "The Gazebo" which dates to Oct 2008.

And yeah, the most recent fic I know of for Naadi is "The Everblooming Rose" (which is really a graphic novel, but I'll count it) and that was published in Dec 2013. It's a pity she's not writing anymore, because I really love her stuff.

A lot of the lines I'm drawing are totally arbitrary - why July 2007 as the publish-before date and why May 2014 as the publish-after date? Mostly just because I needed to draw lines *somewhere* and those made some sense to me as reasonable dates. (Using the publication of DH seemed like a good reference point for defining "veteran" and allowing at least a year before today's date because fic writing takes time).

And artists are a whole 'nother wrinkle to consider. Mostly, I just don't have the data at my fingertips for that!

[kitty_fic]

I think the dates you chose make good sense too. They seem to be logical dates to use as cutoffs.