Guide to Completed SSHG Novellas (Post DH Year One): Canon

[harmony_bites]

For renitaleandra and silburygirl

I searched through FanfictionNet, AdultFanfiction, The Archive at the End of the Universe, Skyehawke, Fiction Alley, Restricted Section, Granger Enchanted, WIKTT Archives, Ashwinder, The Petulant Poetess, OWL, Digital Quill and the sshg_exchangeBelow is listed every single completed SSHG story I could find between 10,000 and 40,001 words posted

Comments

[duniazade]

Another superb list and commentary! Thank you again.

[harmony_bites]

Thank you for letting me know you appreciate it--next week shorts--which has a certain wonderful story from an Exchange with a writer whose name starts with D..... *grins*

[duniazade]

Woot!

*smooches you*

*looks guiltily at half-chewed story for next exchange*

[harmony_bites]

**looks guiltily at half-chewed story for next exchange*

You said the bad word... ::Looks guiltily over her shoulder for the Eye of Shiv::

::shrieks:: ::starts typing madly::

[kribu]

Not so surprisingly, I think I've read most (although not all) the ones on this list... and very few of the ones in the other post, i.e. the non-canon ones. Although one or two of those did sound interesting, too!

It really is interesting to see here just how big a part the exchange plays these days - I suspect the post-DH year would have been quite a bit poorer without the wonderful stories we got from the exchange, even if one assumes that at least a few of the same authors would have come up with something else otherwise.

[harmony_bites]

I think there are some authors that might not have contributed a SSHG this year at all w/o the Exchange. It's become popular, even from authors of other ships. It's review rich, and anonymous so everyone is on the same level playing ground and the challenge aspect does seem to force a lot out of the box. So yeah, it is one of the bright spots in the ship--it and GS100 seem to bring a lot of people out to play who wouldn't otherwise.

[e_danae]

Wow, there is more canon-compliant after DH stories that I would hope! Blessed be the SSHG Exchange for being the inspiration for many of them.

And blessed be you for another wonderful list!

[harmony_bites]

Awww, you're welcome, I hope you'll find lots to enjoy here!

[cflower3]

I think that canon grounds a story in many ways. And, like you said, it can give ss/hg more depth as characters. I tend to stay away from post-DH at least if it comes to the Epilogue being true (Hermione married to Ron with two kids). I'm fine with post-HBP though and anything before...moving into the classics.

Happy Saturday! I for one am looking forward to my October break which is this week. :)

[harmony_bites]

Ah, but don't you know about the Buzzy exemption? That's what I call it, after a drabble of a_bees_buzz that made you of (and pointed out in her AN) that there's nothing in the epilogue to say she married Ron ever, or that those are her children.

But I don't mind canon compliant, to me 36 is hardly old, or even 56. And if Hermione is mature and accomplished then those aspects that make the pairing squicky to me disappear. And I love DH Snape. That he can love. So many wonderful things I thought in "The Prince's Tale" That "always" and "anything" showing how passionately he could love, that "only those I couldn't save" showing it wasn't only about Lily but cared about others too, his helping the trio.

I think there's a wealth there and its a shame so many shippers want to turn their back on canon. If the ship depends only on the classics it will die. It's as simple as that. It'll be a dead ship, like Latin is a dead language. We need to encourage the good newbies--because I don't think we're getting the old authors back.

Enjoy your break!

[cflower3]

"sigh

[harmony_bites]

I do like EWE stories too (Epilogue? What Epilogue?) Since it's just ignoring 2,000 or so words of 7 books, some of massive length, it doesn't do damage to the characters, and some of my favorite stories this year were of that kind. It gives a lot more leeway to all the characters.

I do prefer Hermione to be at least mid-twenties though, even if a lot of the stories I imprinted on early in the ship were 7th year or not much later (like Falling Further In, Soul Searching, Fire and the Rose, A Terrible Temptation.) I think it can make a nice and fresh change to see a Hermione who has had some living. Given a 20 year gap in ages, a more experienced, mature Hermione for me equalizes things quite a bit, and makes Snape seem less, well, pervy, less the kind of man whose main attraction to her would because she's *young*

And you know, of the above, I really adored "Witches Sabbatical"--that one features a fully canon compliant, mature Hermione. And because it was only on this out of the way com, I doubt many in the ship have read it.

[lipasnape]

I don't always leave a comment, but I immediately put your lists in my memories. I use them, too. Whenever I'm at a loss what to read, your lists come up with ideas. This work of yours is a real tribute to Hermione as we like her.
Thank you very much indeed.

[harmony_bites]

I'm glad you're enjoying them. It was fun discovering some of the less squeed ones. Thanks for letting me know.