Fuzzy fic categories: wartime and postwar

[sulky_rhino]

I've been thinking about different fic categories for the past few days. Mainly because of snarry_games, but also because I keep a rec list where I organise fics into different categories. The categories I've been thinking about are the wartime and postwar categories.

I've been asked a few times why I haven't divided the fics on my rec list into wartime and

Comments

[fiona_fawkes]

You think too much. I'm happy to have your fic lists uncategorized.

[sulky_rhino]

I know. :/ It's strange how when I should be writing stuff for uni and thinking about those things, I end up thinking about other things. That always happens. :)

[iulia_linnea]

I would say that a fic is set post-war if the writer has declared the war over in some way, but that may not satisfy you if the fighting is still going on. In life, I don't think the end of a war is ever very clear, either.

[sulky_rhino]

Of course, it's the writer's decision. :) It's only sometimes that the writer uses it in a weird way... Imagine if the writer of Paris would say the fic was postwar and you'd read it because of it... O_O But that so rarely happens.

Just.. my brain working too much, you know. :D

[sulky_rhino]

Yes, it does! :) And I'd say that most of the fics which are post-Hogwarts are also postwar, and the other way around. :)

[mordyn4]

Heh, there's always a war somewhere...

I agree, I find that delineation problematic, but what were the last teams? Romance and angst? That's even worse. My fave fics are angst wrapped in romance. I mean, unless the difference was unhappy ending verses happy ending...

I suppose, like most things, I'd subjectively place fics on a scale from wartime to postwar and these writers will have to hope that their fic falls on the correct half of the scale. :| Matrix? *groans* Don't get me started.

[sulky_rhino]

I don't mind the fact that they have wartime and postwar teams in snarry_games. :D I was just wondering how people decide what's wartime and what's not... I've seen so many weird stories marked postwar (not in the Games), and I thought those were misleading the reader. So, umm, yes, I don't exactly know why I posted this. It's probably just my brain working too much, haha. :D

[therealw]

I've sometimes seen fics categorised as "post-Voldemort" instead of post-war, which would indirectly solve one of the issues you were pointing at, although when we hear "post-Voldemort" we inmediately associate it with a peaceful, post-War, OBHWF future, right?

As for the Hogwarts/post-Hogwarts question, I agree that the Horcrux hunt has thrown off the "classic" divide, because they won't go back until (if they do, but I'm pretty sure Hermione will) they're at what used to be "post-Hogwarts" age... I'm not helping at all, am I? XD

[sulky_rhino]

Post-Voldemort... I do that in the HBP H/D list. It doesn't always fit, but I just use it whenever it feels right, hehehe. :P