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salineaHave you ever been 'converted' to a pairing by a fanfic?
What fanfiction was it? (yay, rec)
In what circumstances did it happen? (were you already in the fandom, were you a newcommer to the fandom and that was the first fic that settled your taste, did the fic bring you into the fandom? etc.)
How did you find this fanfic? (big list of recs, personnal rec from a friend, a bit of a random event? etc.)
How much of a convert did you become (biggest OTP, one of your favourite ships, just one ship among others? etc.)
Do you still love this fanfic just as much, or did you tastes change once you were into the ship?
Has the opposite ever happened to you, has a fanfiction succeeded to repulse you from a pairing on a permanent basis (don't link to it! that could be considered wanky ^^ unless that was the objective of the fic, of course)
What fanfiction was it? (yay, rec)
In what circumstances did it happen? (were you already in the fandom, were you a newcommer to the fandom and that was the first fic that settled your taste, did the fic bring you into the fandom? etc.)
How did you find this fanfic? (big list of recs, personnal rec from a friend, a bit of a random event? etc.)
How much of a convert did you become (biggest OTP, one of your favourite ships, just one ship among others? etc.)
Do you still love this fanfic just as much, or did you tastes change once you were into the ship?
Has the opposite ever happened to you, has a fanfiction succeeded to repulse you from a pairing on a permanent basis (don't link to it! that could be considered wanky ^^ unless that was the objective of the fic, of course)
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Date: 27 February 2007 08:40 pm (UTC)Changeling by
I'd been in the fandom for a few months. I was already a big Tonks fangirl, but Fleur not so much.
I thnk I read it because she and
It's not an OTP, but it is something I write occasionally and tend to read whenever I stumble across it.
And I still think it's an awesome fic. :)
As far as a fanfic repulsing me from a pairing, I don't recall that ever happening. Fortunately I seem to be able to shrug off badfic and not hold it against the pairing. I *was* put off a pairing once by the attitudes of some of its more prominent fans, but not by the fics they wrote.
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Date: 28 February 2007 11:06 am (UTC)Oh, I'll have to check out this fic. Never thought of it before but Tonks/Fleur sounds like an interesting pairing (I love prissy girl/tomboy brat dynamics ^^)
I'm glad most people don't seem to be repulsed away from a pairing because of a badfic ^^ it's a rather sad thing. It did happen once to me, not so much because the fic was badly written so much as because it convinced me their characters dynamics was not to my liking.
I did get into the HP fandom as a whole (and into Snupin) because of a fanfic, I was wondering if I was the only one in this case! ^^
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Date: 27 February 2007 11:06 pm (UTC)I don't really have much else because, well, I'll read almost anything as long as the writing's good. But yeah. In Between Days. I still go back and reread that every few months because it's still that good, even though it's been Jossed to hell. She and I have the same conception of Severus (well, except for the shagging-Harry-Potter thing), and that's an incredibly rare thing.
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Date: 28 February 2007 01:12 pm (UTC)I'm extremely picky about Snarry as well, so I can sympathize ^^
Thanks for answering!
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Date: 28 February 2007 12:31 am (UTC)I can't remember the exact fanfic, because this was ages ago, but I know it was by Canis M.
I was already in the fandom, but I read mostly Remus gen or some Remus/OC (I didn't think they were Sues back then, but I don't know what I'd say about that now...).
I found the fic because I was looking for *good* Remus/Sirius. The ship hadn't been obvious to me from canon, and I'd only found OOC badfic about them before, but I knew people who had similar tastes to mine and liked the pairing so I wanted to give it a chance. Most of my friends were reccing Canis M's fics.
I never became a *huge* R/S shipper, and certainly not one of those in the "it's so canon" camp. But I did like the couple, and it made me have an open mind towards non-canon pairings; it taught me that non-canon doesn't necessarily mean OOC.
I haven't read her fics in ages, and the ones I know were written before OotP so I'm not sure if I'd see the characters in the same way today. But as for the objective quality, yes, they were very good fics.
The opposite never happened to me. There are couples that I like and get regularly destroyed by badfic, but when that happens I just go back to canon (or good fic, if it's not a canon pairing) and remember why I loved the ship in the first place.
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Date: 28 February 2007 07:09 pm (UTC)Remus gen is ♥ I've read one the other day I need to rec!
Having an open mind about non canon ships is important yes ^^ I think, for myself, it's X that learned me that. So many groovy crack!pairing in X ^^
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Date: 28 February 2007 10:34 am (UTC)Earthquakes (http://web.archive.org/web/20030728101140/www.mancer.net/x/txt/earthquakes.shtml) by Ashlea of former Technomancy glory (and since Technomancy alas no longer exists, I had to link to the archive-org...hope it works!)
Already in X fandom for quite a long time, but mainly based at the Dreams of Sakura message board. At that stage, I read fic fairly often, but mostly Sei/Subaru (heh).
Happened to follow and link and then another link and there was Nymphomancy! *lol* After a few weeks, I found out that these people also wrote non-pr0n on a different webpage & so I began to read through those fics as well.
BIG convert. I hadn't thought much about Keiichi before (apart from that it was really sad when his mother died & he was NOT stupid like the general fandom said he was), but after reading that fic I was totally "ARGH, Keiichi can't get killed off! He's the one for Kamui! Kamui has to save him & then they have to help each other live their lives afterwards, OTP!!!"
Absolutely -- love the fanfic still, but not so much the pairing. I think the fic said everything I needed to hear about Keiichi and Kamui - how they don't really understand each other at all on a normal living day-to-day basis, but underneath this they do understand all the other painful unspoken things. As far as the OTP thing goes, I've let that go. If/when X gets completed I'll be happy with a random throw-away comment about how Keiichi survived (...now, if there's a comment about him NOT surviving, I'll be booking the next plane to Tokyo and plotting my terrible revenge ;D).
However, I must say that the fic did start my absolute immutable love for Keiichi. (Isn't it great when you can blame someone else? *lol*)
No, not by a fanfic.^^
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Date: 1 March 2007 07:41 pm (UTC)thanks for answering!
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Date: 1 March 2007 04:56 am (UTC)I actually converted myself to a pairing. Grey's Anatomy fandom - I wrote a Meredith/Addison oneshot on a whim, sort of in response to an offhand comment/dare made at the TWoP forums. Then I got so much positive feedback that I ended up turning it into an ongoing story.
By the time I'd written chapter 11, I'd accidentally become a Mer/Ads OTPer.
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Date: 1 March 2007 07:43 pm (UTC)Thanks for answering!
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Date: 1 March 2007 05:30 am (UTC)http://www.tittisrealm.com/thinline/archive/0/eighttimes.html
Having discovered fanfic I was reading mostly Harry/Draco stories, but a lot of them were too teenage and too prettily romantic for me. And then I clicked on this story at the restricted section archive by accident I think (I was a lurker at the time and it was definitely not from a rec.) It's Snape/Black, and it's hot and emotional and dark and so good. I proceeded to read all of her Snape/Black stories, and then I think most of the stories on The Thin Line (a Snape/Black) archive.
I really did become a convert, not just to the pairing, but to Fabularasa's vision of Snape and Black. They are men. They are complex and intelligent and broken and grown up and immature all at the same time. They are men. I can't say that enough. I was such a relief after all that teenage angst.
I still love this ship, but it's rare that a new Snape/Black story comes along, and I've since branched out into all sorts of pairings (mostly with Snape though) and indeed other fandoms.
Anyway if anyone out there is reading HP fanfic and hasn't read Fabula's stories (unlikely I know) then please go check them out. (I think most of her stories are on the archive I gave the link for above.) Jossed by canon they may be, but eh, who cares.
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Date: 1 March 2007 07:48 pm (UTC)Snape/anyone OTP ^^
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Date: 1 March 2007 05:35 am (UTC)www.intertexius.com for the story.
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Date: 1 March 2007 03:11 pm (UTC)which I still need to finish reading some day, I can see how it would convince someone ^^no subject
Date: 1 March 2007 05:39 am (UTC)Have you ever been 'converted' to a pairing by a fanfic? Yes.
What fanfiction was it? I can think of a few off the top of my head. There's probably dozens more I'm forgetting.
Absolution (http://recalibration.adamao.org/absol1.html) by
From the Ashes (http://www.dymphna.net/ucsl/archive/elliedee-fromtheashes.txt) by Ellie Dee (I don't know if she has an LJ). Jonathan Levinson/Amy Madison. Another pairing that I'd never expect to work, but this story left me wanting Jonathan/Amy to become a canon pairing (which, at the time it was written, was still possible). I always liked Jonathan, and I wanted to see him have a happy ending and get the girl. I think it would have been nice, too, to let Amy be redeemed. This story does both.
Hitching a Ride (http://www.fanfiction.net/s/2512838/1/) by Meltha (again, I don't think she's on LJ). Harmony Kendall/Jayne Cobb. OK--this one might not really count, since it's a crossover, not two characters who would be likely to meet, otherwise. However, as a character in the fic observes: "Morally bankrupt, kind of evil, and just a little dumb. . . . They're made for each other.”
In what circumstances did it happen? (were you already in the fandom, were you a newcommer to the fandom and that was the first fic that settled your taste, did the fic bring you into the fandom? etc.) In the fandoms.
How did you find this fanfic? (big list of recs, personnal rec from a friend, a bit of a random event? etc.) "Absolution" I found pointing and clicking around Silverlake. "From the Ashes" was recced at the TWOP boards. "Hitching a Ride" was written by Meltha, who is one of my favorite fan fic authors, in general. I tend to read all her work.
How much of a convert did you become (biggest OTP, one of your favourite ships, just one ship among others? etc.) None of these are OTP for me, but they are also ships which I could support and never would have considered without these fics.
Do you still love this fanfic just as much, or did you tastes change once you were into the ship? Still love. However, by the time I had found all of these, I was already a discerning fan fic consumer.
Has the opposite ever happened to you, has a fanfiction succeeded to repulse you from a pairing on a permanent basis (don't link to it! that could be considered wanky ^^ unless that was the objective of the fic, of course) Fan fiction has turned me into a pretty big pervert. There's very little that freaks me out any more (Incestuous RPS BDSM twincest? Bring it on!). However, two pairings that I recall recently seeing that freaked me out for some reason were Philippe/Raoul (in The Phantom of the Opera) and a Keira Knightley/Jack Davenport RPF. I don't know *why* exactly those two squicked me so much, given my high fan fic tolerance level, but I had to shut down my browser and hide under my bed for a week after that.
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Date: 1 March 2007 03:10 pm (UTC)Boy, these all sound like very fun, interesting crack pairings. You're tempting me to get back into Jossverse fandom to read them. It's so much fun when people get a ship that make people go O_o;; and actually make it work well ^^
Thank you for answering!
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Date: 1 March 2007 06:01 am (UTC)Have you ever been 'converted' to a pairing by a fanfic?
I was indeed converted to Ron/Pansy by a fic.
What fanfiction was it?
Maya's Flame and Shadow (http://www.lasairandmaya.com/flameshadow.html). I think it's one of the must reads; though it's not quite my favorite Ron/Pansy, it is the most accessible since it's not a WIP and it's just a long one shot.
In what circumstances did it happen?
I was pretty new to HP fandom at the time, maybe involved for some months; I've only been in fandom a year or so now. I was Ron/Hermione only. R/Hr was my OTP and most of the fic I read focused on them. Flame and Shadow was the first fic I can remember reading that directly contradicted R/Hr, at least it's the first that made an impression.
How did you find this fanfic?
I believe I was looking through
How much of a convert did you become
A pretty big convert! Ron/Pansy is a close second to R/Hr in my book, now. I hunted down as much Ron/Pansy as I could find for awhile, and it led to me at least being open to most Ron het fic. I'm not quite so avid now since I think I've read most of the good Ron/Pansy out there. I'm not reading so much fic in general, anymore. I think it's because the sheer amount of fic available when I first got into fandom greatly exceeds the current output of new fic.
Do you still love this fanfic just as much, or did you tastes change once you were into the ship?
I do like it a lot, though it's been awhile since I've read it. It's tied for second place in Ron/Pansy with
Has the opposite ever happened to you, has a fanfiction succeeded to repulse you from a pairing on a permanent basis
Not a specific fic but Hermione/not-Ron fic has mostly turned me off of reading it. Before getting involved in fandom I liked Ron and Hermione equally but the treatment of Ron by fandom and especially in Hermione/not-Ron fic has made me much more of a Ron fan than Hermione.
I've wondered, though, if I'd read a compelling Hermione/not-Ron story instead of Flame and Shadow would I be much more open to that fic now? Hard to say, but since enough people ship her with enough people I don't think she's missing out and Ron could use a bit more attention anyway.
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Date: 1 March 2007 11:14 am (UTC)I was about to comment about the exact same fic converting me to Ron/Pansy. I love Ron/Pansy now, but I've only read three good fics about the pairing.
Strangely enough I don't do well with Hermione/not-Ron either, unless it's Hermione/Harry/Ron, or Remus/Hermione(/Sirius).
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Date: 1 March 2007 07:43 am (UTC)I'd been in HP fandom for a couple years, and was working my way through, I believe,
While Snarry is not my biggest OTP, it is one of my favorite ships, and I'd say it makes up the majority of what I read most days.
And yep, it's still my favorite!
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Date: 1 March 2007 09:42 am (UTC)no subject
Date: 1 March 2007 08:23 am (UTC)Have you ever been 'converted' to a pairing by a fanfic?
Indeed. In fact, I was converted to a whole fandom by a fanfic. I wasn't even remotely interested in the Harry Potter fandom, and I certainly didn't comprehend Harry/Draco at all. Also I was totally clueless to the concept of twinslash and am now a Fred/George shipper.
What fanfiction was it? (yay, rec)
<b>Have you ever been 'converted' to a pairing by a fanfic?</b>
Indeed. In fact, I was converted to a whole fandom by a fanfic. I wasn't even remotely interested in the Harry Potter fandom, and I certainly didn't comprehend Harry/Draco at all. Also I was totally clueless to the concept of twinslash and am now a Fred/George shipper.
What fanfiction was it? (yay, rec)
<a href"http://mercurystar.livejournal.com/32975.html">This entry</a> discusses it. Sadly, I think both of the fics are long gone now (Oh wait no, Aja's is still up on Schnoogle), considering both of the authors were the centers of wankfests supreme. (*cough*If anyone happens to have A Tower With A View saved I'd love to read it again for nostalgia's sake*cough*)
<b>In what circumstances did it happen?</b>
Well I've been a slasher since before I knew what slash was. I was entrenched in Askewniverse fandom, had been into Vampire Chronicles fandom the year before, was vaguely interested in Tolkien fandom, and was starting to get further into Velvet Goldmine fandom. I had only just recently come to love Harry Potter, having originally dismissed it as a "yuppie fad" that would go the way of Beanie Babies. (How wrong I was.) But an HP convert I had become, and although the idea of chan grossed me out (still does, usually) I was still slightly interested in at least checking out the HP fandom.
Since it was a really long time ago I don't quite remember, but I recall reading the first fic mentioned after randomly googling Harry Potter fan fiction (or maybe even Harry Potter slash) just to see what came up. Then I started reading, intent on being highly amused, and ended up being totally drawn in.
<b>How did you find this fanfic? (big list of recs, personnal rec from a friend, a bit of a random event? etc.)</b>
Like I said, I googled it. I really wasn't looking for something in seriousness, but before I knew it I was an HP fandom lover, and an H/D shipper at that. It suddenly all made so much sense to me.
<b>How much of a convert did you become (biggest OTP, one of your favourite ships, just one ship among others? etc.)</b>
Well, H/D is probably my biggest OTP in the fandom(besides Hermione/Ron but I always thought that was a given) but F/G gives them a run for their money.
<b>Do you still love this fanfic just as much, or did you tastes change once you were into the ship?</b>
I'm really not sure, since I can't read one of them, and haven't given the other one any thought for years. I'm still into Harry/Draco but I'm torn between buying into certain parts of the fannon and bucking the cliches of the fanon at the same time (stuff like submissive!Draco, abused!Draco, incestuous!Malfoys etc...I'm not sure I want to buy into those parts of the fannon, but at the same time I can't seem to write anything else. o_O)
<b>Has the opposite ever happened to you, has a fanfiction succeeded to repulse you from a pairing on a permanent basis<b>
Not that I can recall. Though stumbling on some unlabled mpreg did keep me away from fandom entirely for a little while...but only to write my own (unfinished) stuff.
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Date: 1 March 2007 08:53 am (UTC)I was hesitant to post this here, because... well, there's not much more to be said and the rest of the questions don't apply. Well, okay, maybe the third one does a bit, because I did read some Fraser/Vecchio (I'm a Fraser/Kowalski fan) on recommendation, and the stories were enjoyable, but ultimately they didn't convert me to anything, and even after reading them I never sought that pairing out again.
I think the reason may be that for me, the pairing is the basis of everything else. If I don't already feel that 'there's something there', something I desperately want to know more about, I don't even go looking for fanfic. And if I don't feel that there's something there, if I don't have that deep down gut feeling about it, then no fanfic can really convince me. It can make me entertain the notion intellectually, and that may be a nice way to pass an afternoon, but in the end I simply revert to what I feel about a pairing, not what I think.
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Date: 1 March 2007 03:02 pm (UTC)I've read some fics that were good and enjoyable, but don't convince me of the pairings at all before, I can relate.
In my own experience it depends of how I entered a fandom. Sometimes it's because I love a work so much I get on the internet to find more of it, and usually in that case I already have an OTP (It was like that for me in BtVS, X/TB, SKU). Other times I see a fandom everyone talk about so I try it out, or I liked the work before but not enough to enter fandom because of it but now that I see the fandom I'm curious to see how it is... in this case fics can often be what persuades me of an OTP (HP, Coldfire, Good Omens, YnM). So I partially agree with you ^^
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Date: 1 March 2007 09:01 am (UTC)Yes. Army of You (http://www.avif13.dsl.pipex.com/tentacle/text/tf-aoy.html) by
Was already in the fandom.
Megatron/Starscream is not an OTP to me in the sense that I have no set OTP when it comes to Starscream (regardless of what the icon says), but it's definitely a favourite 'ship.
Still love that fic, yes.
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Date: 1 March 2007 02:56 pm (UTC)Thanks for answering!
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Date: 1 March 2007 09:41 am (UTC)For Harry/Draco it was
For Draco/Neville it was A. J. Hall's Lust Over Pendle (http://www.lop.shoesforindustry.net/), of course. I'm sure a lot of D/N shippers got there via her.
For Sirius/Remus it was
For Harry/Cedric it was Emma Grant's Get a Clue (http://emmagrant01.livejournal.com/205202.html).
For Draco/Ron it was Bec's (although it was
For Percy/Oliver (very very recently) it was
For Snape/Harry (although I was never as completely sold on this as the others) it was Telanu's Your Horoscope for Today (http://www.walkingtheplank.org/archive/viewstory.php?sid=319), because oh yes, the coffee. (http://ashes.exitseraphim.org/writing/ifyouwant.html)
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Date: 1 March 2007 09:45 am (UTC)no subject
Date: 1 March 2007 12:43 pm (UTC)I went through this period of reading the Silverlakes (http://silverlake.imjustsayin.net) updates in their entirety, regardless of fandom. This lead me to read Let Your Shadow Out (http://silverlake.imjustsayin.net/kathe-letyourshadowout.html) by
But then, an example of when it didn't (though it could have): One Thing That Didn't Happen at Seattle Grace the Time Everyone Almost Blew Up (http://annakovsky.livejournal.com/161389.html), Grey's Anatomy, by Kovsky. It's Bailey/George, and it's beautiful and it actually works but it didn't convert me.
I'm not sure I could be converted so in a fandom in which I'm more active. I think this is because I've got more of an idea of the characters, and I'm already so familiar with them. When I watch new TV shows, because I live in Australia I tend to wait until five or six eps have aired and mainline them all at once, so I can make a decision after watching them quickly, and as a result don't tend to start reading fic until I've got a better grasp on them. So I think that makes me less susceptible to awesome writing in terms of conversion. :o)
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Date: 1 March 2007 01:48 pm (UTC)What fanfiction was it? Say It with Flowers (http://i-bleed-words.livejournal.com/tag/say+it+with+flowers), a three chapter fic which I wrote for
In what circumstances did it happen? (were you already in the fandom, were you a newcommer to the fandom and that was the first fic that settled your taste, did the fic bring you into the fandom? etc.) I left fandom for a length of time, and when I came back, I was looking for something different. I found it here.
How did you find this fanfic? I wrote it.
How much of a convert did you become? It's probably my biggest OTP, though I do still ship other pairings.
Do you still love this fanfic just as much, or did you tastes change once you were into the ship? It's not my favorite anymore, but I still enjoy it.
Has the opposite ever happened to you, has a fanfiction succeeded to repulse you from a pairing on a permanent basis? Never on a permanent basis, but I don't read Eriol/Tomoyo anymore unless I know the author. That's the only guarantee that the fic won't suck.
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Date: 1 March 2007 02:55 pm (UTC)The 'I converted myself to this pairing' answer is really interesting. It does work well, I think, when you want to try something new and unexpected and because you work for it and discover it, it feels especially precious ^^ I hadn't thought of it when I asked the question, but I guess it did happen to me a couple of time with some crack pairings :)
Thanks for answering!
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Date: 1 March 2007 07:23 pm (UTC)You know, if there's so many Snack converts on a mere meta entry, then why isn't there more being written ;_; *is frustrated with her flailed Snack craving*
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Date: 1 March 2007 05:35 pm (UTC)I can't say that before I read this writers stuff that I didn't like the idea of Remus having someone in life because I did like the idea. From the second Tonks appeared OoTP it was obvious she was set for Remus and from the way he introduced her to Harry, it was clear he fancied her. So I was happy to see how the relationship would work out.
Then I started Britpicking for someone writing Remus/Tonks stuff when there wasn't much of it about and the first few stories were good, they were intelligently written and seemed to stay with the character and how he might behave outside of the Hogwarts influenced situations. But then the reviews went to the writers head and she changed the way she was writing making Remus into the hero protective type who ran to Tonks aid ever second, ignoring the fact she was an Auror and should be doing the taking care of if anything. I even tried to tell the writer that actually the Remus type of man exists in the UK, there are a lot of them and they never do the macho hero thing, they are always articulate and well mannered in all situations. Finally I kept getting nightmarish images of He-men looking Remus fighting all before him to save his stunningly beautiful and weak as water Tonks and enough was enough.
Thanks to this writer I now hate this ship and I pray as I said that either die in the next book. Poor Remus what a fate, as if he hasn’t had a hard enough life now he is to end up with tacky Tonks.
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Date: 1 March 2007 07:13 pm (UTC)I do hope they won't die. I hate the idea of them together, but I rather adore them separatly ^^
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Date: 1 March 2007 06:43 pm (UTC)Harry has no female match in the series. From day one Hermione has been Ron's. (Anyone who says different never saw Star Wars and the cheap gimmick JKR borrowed.) Cho never really was his equal, and Ginny seemed way to flippant about their breakup to really seem like anything worth mentioning.
Granted Harry and Ginny had their share of snogging (or more) in that hour by the lake. I'm sure they got what they expected out of each other. As soon as Harry had something to do he dropped her.
People try to come up with rationalizations for this: nobility, honor, pride, etc. but when it comes down to it, Harry already put Ginny in danger. Breaking up with her put her in no less danger.
The only equal Harry really has is Draco. They fight like Ron and Hermione, Harry is concerned when he finds Draco crying, they have a lot of the same interests.
It's pretty obvious in Book 6 that Draco is realizing what he's getting into with the Dark Lord and switching sides wouldn't really surprise anyone at all. (Or at least, defecting as a refugee.)
For the most part, it's just another ship I read.
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Date: 1 March 2007 07:11 pm (UTC)no subject
Date: 1 March 2007 07:47 pm (UTC)Before I was just a general Draco fan. I read everything with Draco in there. I've read slash too, but thought they are too smutty.
Maya's description of H/D in UL is just so natural. It's like there can be no other way.
I became a hardcore H/D fan by reading "Dark Side of Light," also by Maya. It's my favorite fic.
PS: the feeling about "too smutty?" Totally changed. The more smutty the better!!
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Date: 2 March 2007 01:23 am (UTC)Have you ever been 'converted' to a pairing by a fanfic?
Yes! Harry/Pansy. But I'm "converted" in the sense that I look for and read Harry/Pansy stuff now. Luckily the fandom for this ship is so small that I haven't gotten sick of it yet. It was Jeconais' White Knight, Grey Queen (http://jeconais.fanficauthors.net/White_Knight_Grey_Queen/index.php) that got me into the ship.
In what circumstances did it happen? (were you already in the fandom, were you a newcommer to the fandom and that was the first fic that settled your taste, did the fic bring you into the fandom? etc.)
Hmm, I had read a LOT of HP Harry-centric fics (everything except HPSS and HHr) and after reading "This Means War" explored a bit more of Jeconais' fic, which is how I found WKGK.
[I've also been totally drawn into Harry/Luna by Luna's Hubby (http://www.fanfiction.net/s/2919503/1/), Harry Potter and the Freak Parade (http://www.fanfiction.net/s/3022004/1/), and Lovegood, Boobs Gooder (http://www.fanfiction.net/s/2390865/1/) . I have no problem with Ginny (at least in canon 'cause fandom seems to hate her) but I just LOVE Harry/Luna and am aways looking for more H/L fic. ]
Has the opposite ever happened to you, has a fanfiction succeeded to repulse you from a pairing on a permanent basis (don't link to it! that could be considered wanky ^^ unless that was the objective of the fic, of course)
I am almost to the point of repulsion from H/D because of the rampant anti-Trio feelings in that shipping verse. I don't know why other people read fan fiction, but I read it so that I can enjoy the same things I love in canon reflected in fan fiction. Others may read and write fan fiction to "fix" what they perceive as errors in canon, which seems to be Harry ever having been friends with Ron and Hermione. Most Harry/Draco stuff has so little to do with canon Draco. I can't stand when authors (even the good ones ) turn Draco into the good guy and Harry and co. into the a**holes. I think canon Draco is borderline evil and I like canon that way and I also like the close relationship Harry has with his friends. In my opinion, H/D works best when it actually address what a jerk Draco has been in the past and how horrible he has treated Harry and his friends.
Anyway, I'll never stop loving the fics that got me into H/D, which are Starts With a Spin (http://maxine.under-my-umbrella.org/indexx.php?x=SWAS) and Eclipse (http://www.fanfiction.net/s/1360492/1/).
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Date: 2 March 2007 01:34 am (UTC)Here's another Draco/Neville convert seduced by AJ Hall's Lust over Pendle (http://www.lop.shoesforindustry.net/). I think it's inevitable.
I was just starting to dip my toes into HP fic, and sent out a plea to my flist: "So, where's the good stuff? By which I mean the good stuff, not the mediocre stuff."
I also have to mention
I'm not as fond of SS/HP as I am of DM/NL or DM/HP, but I'll follow a strong rec. Well...I'll follow a strong rec for anything.
As for Jossverse, the fandom in which I've played the most, I've actually pulled together some 'converter rec' shortlists on my recs page (http://www.sand-in-my-shoes.com/stultiloquentia/ficrecs.html). They're fun to think about. With the canon closed and settled (comics aside), and the fanbase shrinking, ship wars have been declared uncool, and there've been increasing amounts of intershipper lovey-dovey and adventurous toe-dipping. :)
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Date: 2 March 2007 02:08 am (UTC)I found One Last Regret (http://www.fanfiction.net/s/842769/1/) by
That's also how I found
It was
I found the Literal Game on Sam's Skyehawke page, after discovering the fic on LJ, I assume. (Although I cannot remember how.)
I think that was after
I know I shied away from Ron/Harry until I read
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Date: 2 March 2007 02:48 am (UTC)It was
Here from metafandom
Date: 2 March 2007 07:51 am (UTC)Lasair's Veela Magic was the first fanfic I ever read, and it converted me to femslash-in-general, I think, though I'd encountered teh gay in original novels before. I was quite religious back then, but couldn't see what the big deal was if the fictional characters weren't meant to be Christian anyway.