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aprilstarchildSo a few fanfictions seem to guess that one of the Horcruxes will be at the orphanage where Voldemort grew up. I'm of a mind to suspect the same thing.
But my real point of this post: gaaaah out-of-character (OOC) Snape. I can handle OOC Harry, or OOC Draco, depending on the context--if it's many years from now, if it's a crackfic. But OOC Snape drives me up the wall.
I firmly believe he's on "our" side. That does not make him a nice person. It does not mean he likes Harry, at all, or has any patience for teenagers being fuckwits.
He may be OOC by the end of a longer story, but the plot better give him a damn good reason for changing--I read a Hermione/Snape story that
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ourglasslake linked to, a good long while ago, that did this pretty well. He was much different at the end, but it was believable. At least for me. I realize that for everyone, where the edge into OOC starts, is going to be different.OMG. Mushroom soup. I've eaten far too much of it. *burp* Damn. Also, made a disaster of the kitchen.
EDIT: So of course the best thing to finish that meal off with, is a tequila sunrise. Heh. There goes the last of the tequila in the house. I thought we had more. My parents seem to be drinking all my alcohol (you should see how little is left of the citrus vodka I bought last summer, and I've consumed very little of it), which I think is really funny. I have a bottle of vanilla vodka in there now. Let's see how long it lasts.
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Date: 2006-02-26 03:01 am (UTC)I guess it's just hard to really do some characters well. Draco tends to be one of them--But for me that doesn't matter as much, because fanon!Draco and canon!Draco are pretty much two different people anyway.
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Date: 2006-02-26 03:11 am (UTC)Have I ever linked you to Last Tango in Paris? I can't remember. I *love* the Draco in this story (it's a trilogy). And the Severus. And the Hermione. It's just *so* well-written.
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Date: 2006-02-26 03:14 am (UTC)I'm currently reading a not-very-good fic from the Big Bang site (it's all H/D that begins right where HBP leaves off, but the emphasis isn't on the slash), but some of the art is really good. And this (http://bigbang.expecto-patronum.net/art/life_bbb_uw1.html) picture gave me the giggles. That's Snape in the background. He's transfigured their robes into muggle clothes, and damn if they don't all look pretty hot in'em. *lol*
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Date: 2006-02-26 08:24 am (UTC)Hell, the word "fan" is a shortening of the word "fanatic," but I have no idea how far back that goes.
I mean, like, seriously. Crackfic, mary-sue, britpick: fanfiction is just full of its own made-up words.
Out of curiousity, what don't you like about the idea of fanfiction?
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Date: 2006-02-26 08:01 pm (UTC)It is simply not very aesthetically pleasing to my sensibilities. I suppose I could say it seems kind of pointless. I've never understood the fannish mentality. You could say I am an HP fan, but not a Fan. I adore HP, and I eagerly await the next book and movie. I will get very excited as that approaches. However, the Harryverse is a very small portion of my life. I have no desire to immerse myself in that world.
Plus at least 90% of it is probably crap, by Sturgeon's Law (probably more so, since these are amateurs with no editors). I don't doubt there are some gems, but I don't have the time or inclination to wade through the rest to find them.
I don't mean any of this personally. Fanfiction is no more strange than some of my own idiosyncracies, and I can appreciate its creativity. It's just not my thing.
BTW, the Wikipedia post on Fanfiction is interesting: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fanfiction
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Date: 2006-02-26 08:15 pm (UTC)I've figured out ways to find better fanfiction, because you're right, most of it is crap. One way is to find an author or fan whose tastes I trust, and only read stories that are recomended to me. For instance, I love
All good fanfiction actually does have editors. They're called betas, and many fanfic communities and mailing lists won't accept unbetaed stories.
Fanfiction, I recognize, is hardly high literature, although I've read some stuff that's as good as canon. It's just a desire for more...there's too much time between books and movies, and I want more, dammit. *lol* And I like seeing how different authors play with characterization.
Aaaand I'm pervy and like reading slash.
I've actually read the wikipedia entry. It's not bad...the only problem is that every fandom has slightly different customs, so it's hard to talk about the particulars of fanfic in ways that are universal, although there are some exceptions: for instance, slash almost always means the same thing and is in every fandom.
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Date: 2006-02-26 08:32 am (UTC)Fanon often connotates things in the fandom that become generally accepted, as well as just any fan's version of something--fanon!Draco is not one characterization of Draco, although many of them have things in common.
For instance, Harry's dad and his friends (James Potter, Sirius Black, Peter Pettigrew, and Remus Lupin) are often called The Marauders in fandom...even though they're never actually called that in the book. The map they made is called the Marauder's Map, but last I checked that referred to whomever's using the map, not the people who made it!
So, yeah: titling those four the Marauders is fanon. Another common one is to call Harry, Hermione, and Ron, The Trio.
Heh. I found a very HP-centered fanfiction dictionary over here (http://fanfiction.mugglenet.com/terms.html), there are certainly others out there.