Comments | betweenthebliss: old drabbles, 2 of 3

betweenthebliss

old drabbles, 2 of 3

May 14, 2009 10:00

old drabbles crossposted from killerbeautiful. here we've got Harry Potter, Labyrinth and Narnia.

( HP : Luna/Goyle : RPG Canon (Career Advice) : rated PG )

fic: labyrinth, fic: narnia, fandom: is thought provoking, life: issues, fic: harry potter, fic: mine, fic: drabbles, discussion in comments

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nickhornby May 18 2009, 15:55:22 UTC

Squee! Though my foray into HP fic was what feels like ages ago (mainly in the never-ending break between books 4 and 5, but then I felt like I had too much trouble keeping apart canon from the unfurling world of so many other combined imaginations, and chose to, mainly, shut myself off (much like a decision I made with the films)), I will always, always, always hold a giant place in my heart for Snape-Hermione. Always. Especially if the fic is epic in length and/or in scope. My heart will be forever broken that Pawn to Queen went unfinished, though I completely understand why ( ... )

betweenthebliss May 18 2009, 17:40:48 UTC

hehehe omg yeah, the fact that pawn to queen was never finished still makes me die a little. i loved snape/hermione for a long time too, and that's the one fic for the ship that i always really wished had gotten finished. >.>;;; i totally understand your quitting while you were ahead though, lol. i ultimately stopped caring about hp fandom because it was too big and unwieldy-- there was SO much drama and ridiculous wanky bullshit that it stopped being fun-- i mean actually i was never really IN the fandom except in the sense that it was the only fic i read for like, uh, three years or so? and i followed a lot of the big-name writers on LJ, but i never knew any of them terribly well, and i certainly never wrote anything of substance. it got me into RPing on LJ, for which i'm grateful, but as a fandom i'm really glad to be shut of it ( ... )

nickhornby May 18 2009, 18:07:03 UTC

"[P]lease don't write novel-length slash fanfic, write a fucking novel with gay characters so there is more exposure and visibility for it in the world"... i mean not that i want there to be less good fic in the world either, lol, but at the very least i would love to see writers who are really talented to get PAID for their writing!

I so hear you. I think one of my frustrations that turned me off of fic (and realize when I say that, I've been extremely limited to only HP fic)--even though there are so many talented writers in the world and so few of them can ever be published--is that these wonderfully talented people end up playing in a universe which someone else has created, and, therefore, their characters and stories can't end up getting out there in the big bad (sometimes profit-making!) world and change some lives.

I'm completely not trying to discredit all the hard work that goes into writing fic ("playing" seems like a really bitchy thing to say, I realize), but it often, when it's sustained over a period of years, it ( ... )

betweenthebliss May 18 2009, 19:57:10 UTC

yeah, it's hard, because no matter what fandom you're writing in, you're still working with something that can never circulate off the internet, and never among "legit" circles-- and again, obviously, not harshing on fanfiction here, but it's true-- it's not illegal, but it's not something the larger literate population of the world sees as legitimate. and it's fun to play-- i don't take offense to that word, b/c while the writing is serious, ultimately you /are/ just having fun w/someone else's world-- and it can be rewarding, as well. reading and writing fic has given me a lot of ideas for my own original writing, which is great ( ... )

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