Comments | rj_anderson: Fic-a-riffic!

rj_anderson

Fic-a-riffic!

Jan 03, 2006 12:30

In the felicitous absence of my children (they're across the road playing with a friend, and the baby is asleep) I have written Snape/Luna, for which lizbee is entirely to blame. And not only did the universe not end, I find myself dreadfully tempted to fix it up and submit it as an honest-to-goodness fic. Only I won't, because I have to write Hermione ( Read more... )

hp, snape/luna, writing, recs, fanfic, fandom

Comments 9

kizmet_42 January 3 2006, 18:14:38 UTC

LINK TO FICS. LINK TO FICS NOW.

The Shipping Forecast is gorgeous. I think Lizbee recced it too.

persephone_kore January 3 2006, 18:40:19 UTC

My own definition of "gen" tends to be "not mainly about a pairing," which falls between "no mention of romance" and "anything but porn, really" and can admittedly go a little fuzzy in places.

omniocular looked like it could be interesting, but if they turned you down, I might as well forget it. Heh.

kizmet_42 January 3 2006, 19:00:40 UTC

That's really odd. I just read Censorship on omniocular, and I have to say, if they're turning you down for telling, not showing, they should have turned this fic down too.

Not that it's not wonderful, but still...

I wish that someone would just admit that the selection of a writer to join an archive is based on someone's selective wish and preferences.

kerravonsen January 3 2006, 20:17:39 UTC

I know that by the other working definition of "no graphic sex and let there be an actual plot, please" I've never written anything but gen, but that definition appears to be less common

And they're wrong, wrong, I tell you! This new-fangled re-definition of gen as meaning "no romance" is WRONG. They should use the X-Files term and explicitly call it "noromo" instead of trying to hijack the term "gen". Bah!

And I will continue to Bah! this until the sky falls. So there. Bah!

rj_anderson January 3 2006, 20:36:41 UTC

I like your "bah" ing, but I'm afraid it's a losing battle. Still, I was thinking of you when I mentioned that second definition...

mistraltoes January 4 2006, 02:51:10 UTC

I think it's an older vs. newer fandom difference. This idea of gen as no-romance is, in my experience, a recent one. I don't see why we have to give up our traditional definitions without some resistance. Particularly since G (general audience) movies are not devoid of romance.

And I would really like to read the Luna/Snape.

pgoodman13 January 4 2006, 01:09:31 UTC

I shall not get much into the definitions of "gen" here, since it was never much what I wrote, and considering all my writing of late has been for the Star Trek RPG, my entering the discussion wouldn't be all that useful anyway. However, there is a small piece of your post I must respond to:

"More later, since all the children have returned at once and my son is regaling me with the entire plot of Home Alone II."

There was a plot there?

rj_anderson January 4 2006, 13:47:06 UTC

I don't know, I haven't seen any of the Home Alone movies. Mercifully.