Comments | chebonne: Thinking out loud

chebonne

Thinking out loud

Jun 27, 2009 12:48

There is a Remus/Sirius love and nostalgia fest going on in the comments of this post, and I've been reading some and thinking a lot.

( Ruminating, adjusting my thinky hat, has nothing to do with recent wanks, just a little bit of nostalgia on my part. )

slash, bandom, thinky thoughts, harry potter, geekery, sweet nostalgia, fandom

Comments 3

iamsupernova June 27 2009, 12:31:18 UTC

I agree with you vehemently regarding all of this. It feels like I never had anything before bandom because bandom is so amazing, but I know I started out reading Harry/Draco and then shoebox_project and then various Remus/Sirius fics (which started as a coping mechanism for before there was any proper resolution in Shoebox), and I read an InuYasha fic or two at one point (I think there was only ever one, and it was a massive, thirty-something chapter epic that I loved), and then I fell into bandom in 2005/2006. And here I stayed.

Every few months I get nostalgic and read a few chapters of Shoebox, but I've been meaning to go back and read some old favorites, if I can find them. I was not clever enough in HP fandom to dig into any obscure stuff, so I'm sure it won't be hard.

Also, if you love angst and doom in a pairing, I am surprised you didn't go in for Harry/Draco. Especially in wartime. THEY HATE EACH OTHER + THEIR ALLIANCES + LOVE POTION = INSTANT ANGST, UST, DOOM, AND EVENTUAL SEX! Wheeeeeeeee.

Plus snark. Ohhhh, snark. ♥

momebie June 27 2009, 14:55:47 UTC

I LOVE the marauders. I was in HP for years I think, before I even considered other things could have fandoms. It was HP that showed me that Queer as Folk and Good Omens had fandoms and yes I could write for them too. And I was always such a sucker for canon. Aside from having those two shagging I hated to deviate from canon. I hated AUs, really ( ... )

mlkcartonmurder June 29 2009, 00:33:15 UTC

I agree with what you're saying. I remember being a cutesy little HP fan, bouncing around Mugglenet and seeing the slash pairings. I was like, I don't think I could ever write (or read) something about two guys being together. Then I discovered Ginny/Draco, which I found absolutely incomprehensible until I read it and discovered the Romeo and Julietness of it. That started my obsession with Draco, and my deviation from all that is cannon, and eventually found me writing my first ever slash fic. A Draco/Harry that has disappeared into the folds of time.

When I discovered MCR, and the MCRmy, I was thrilled, but the idea of fanfiction about real people was something I said I'd never do. But here I am, bandom crazy and never looking back. It really is a perfect place to develop your writing skills, because there's a ready-made skeleton of a story, with the diverse backgrounds only real people can have, and all you have to do is supply the plot.