More to Ashwinder
I uploaded an html version of The Old Chestnut (aka 'Letter from Exile One Merciful Morning') to Ashwinder, and hope to heaven it's formatted properly. When I pasted the text in, it looked fine in the Preview. However, once I hit 'post story' and then went back in to edit it, all the formatting disappeared and a great chunk at the end didn't show. I re-did this several times. Similarly, if you go in to 'edit' a second time (after hitting 'preview' again), bits of formatting disappear from the rendered version. In the end I checked the preview, deleted everything in the edit box, edited the html a final time, checked and checked html copy, pasted in, hit Preview and then Post without modifying anything in the editing box. Dunno if anyone else has found this or if I am unusually stupid at IT. (Probably latter). Just hope I haven't caused the moderators at Ashwinder a pile of headaches, or irritated the readers with one great big block of text.
On which point, I have split it up into shorter paragraphs. Several readers (well, two) at Fictionalley complained about overlong paragraphs onscreen.
Put in every angle-bracketed tag so carefully too.
Wonder if anyone will notice the insertion of a very moralistic little paragraph that isn't in any of the other versions...
Looking at all the stories at Ashwinder now, I think anyone reading the 'Letter' there for the first time will think it packed with 'Snermione' clichés and find it really hazy on some parts of the backstory. It's like a template for a Snape-Hermione fic, rather than a proper fic.
I put in a warning about Snape's OOCness. He's far too literary and 'refined'.
Somehow I'm going to have to explain his 'reconstructedness' re: women in 'Decoding'. Book 5 definitely showed him as someone who didn't hack it in the 'manliness' stakes as a student, and who might therefore have joined Voldemort to prove he wasn't a weedy little oddball. I wonder if anyone has had their Snape come to understand the DEs brand of fascism as specifically patriarchal (all that angsting about 'inadequate fathers')? Riley worked all that in through his Slytherin-Strega female relatives but I haven't gone for a wholesale 'herstory' Slytherin House - more the idea that the House has a double-history: one side very genealogical/patriarchal always intertwining and challenged by a subversive feminine thread. So Blaise and Hermione's Afterword would trash the telelogical idea of the Houses being summed up by the single 'character-Founder'.
On which point, I have split it up into shorter paragraphs. Several readers (well, two) at Fictionalley complained about overlong paragraphs onscreen.
Put in every angle-bracketed tag so carefully too.
Wonder if anyone will notice the insertion of a very moralistic little paragraph that isn't in any of the other versions...
Looking at all the stories at Ashwinder now, I think anyone reading the 'Letter' there for the first time will think it packed with 'Snermione' clichés and find it really hazy on some parts of the backstory. It's like a template for a Snape-Hermione fic, rather than a proper fic.
I put in a warning about Snape's OOCness. He's far too literary and 'refined'.
Somehow I'm going to have to explain his 'reconstructedness' re: women in 'Decoding'. Book 5 definitely showed him as someone who didn't hack it in the 'manliness' stakes as a student, and who might therefore have joined Voldemort to prove he wasn't a weedy little oddball. I wonder if anyone has had their Snape come to understand the DEs brand of fascism as specifically patriarchal (all that angsting about 'inadequate fathers')? Riley worked all that in through his Slytherin-Strega female relatives but I haven't gone for a wholesale 'herstory' Slytherin House - more the idea that the House has a double-history: one side very genealogical/patriarchal always intertwining and challenged by a subversive feminine thread. So Blaise and Hermione's Afterword would trash the telelogical idea of the Houses being summed up by the single 'character-Founder'.