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Fanfiction Meme Day 13

Jul 31, 2011 16:58

13 - Do you prefer canon or fanon when you write? Has writing fanfic for a fandom changed the way you see some or even all of the original source material?It's really hard to write Severus/Hermione as canon :-) More seriously, the "what if" question intrigues me, but sticking to the story is an interesting challenge. I was amused once I'd finished ( Read more... )

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besina_sartor July 31 2011, 17:25:33 UTC

Interesting. I'm just now, very belatedly, finding the hp fanfic sites. I'm not much into the student pairings, but I do have a love for Snape, usually paired with a character not from the books. Any suggestions for a Snape based fan community on here? I've no idea where to start looking. Ooh, and while I'm pestering ya, any pointers to definitions of the common abbreviations would be most welcome too :)

reynardo July 31 2011, 22:04:35 UTC

Yeah, abbreviations can cause issues (my non-understanding of EWE led to "Lucius Malfoy, Torchwood and the Sheep").

I tend to use the usual ones, so there's the Pit of Voles of course.

The Petulant Poetess which has some OC stuff, and one that's been inactive for a while but still worth the look is The Restricted Secion. Straight (ahem) Severus/Hermione at Ashwinder. All these three will require creating an account to read anything over about PG rating. TPP is edited so tends to be very well written.

Your biggest problem is going to be that most not-in-the-books characters paired with Snape are Mary-Sue Author Insertions, and a lot of those are terrible. Not all, admittedly, but a lot.

As to terminology, most are here, but it's missing a few. The main other one you'll see occasionally is MLC which stands for "Marriage Law Challenge", which was started many years ago as a writing idea and has become a Fanfic staple. (That's the "purebloods must marry Muggles" law which gives you a starting point for some interesting pairings ( ... )

besina_sartor August 1 2011, 07:29:05 UTC

Woohoo! Thank you! Too late to worry about me stepping into the pond as I've already been captured by the undertow! :D

I don't like the mary sue stuff either, as a goody-two-shoes, perfect protagonist seems nauseating, but I'll wade thru some of that in order to get to the good stuff. :)