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[aprilstarchild]

So 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 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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[aprilstarchild.livejournal.com]

If there's one thing I've always been, it's a Fan. What I'm a Fan of changes, but nevertheless, I'm a Fan. I think it's a personality thing, and either you are or you aren't.

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 emmagrant01's fics, so when she recs a story, I tend to check it out. I also read stories recc'ed to me by real life friends like ourglasslake. So, really, once you find one author or story you like, it's a doorway to many many others.

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.