So yesterday's reading has got me thinking about the Harry Potter fandom

[lodessa]

1) Yesterday's adventures in HP fandom history made me realize that, while they didn't originate the claim, we probably have SugarQuill in large part to thank for the idiotic notion so prevalent in the fandom that Sirius/Remus is canon.

2)You know I started posting HP fic on ff.net in the summer of 2001. It was thanks to qt_ninja that I got into it. I joined FictionAlley fairly soon, and spent some times on the boards but I never posted much fic there because their standards as far as everything being perfect grammatically ecetera felt like too much effort to borther with more than posting the preface to my Minerva epic... so my interest waned quickly. Plus I found searching for stories confusing and the messageboard system to be a disjointed feeling way to handle feedback. However, it was there that I first started using the username Lodessa. I was aware that Cassandra Claire's Draco Triology existed (even before the fight with ff.net and the plagerism drama) but you know I never read it. I was at sea and quite unsure, so I never got too involved with the fandom drama of the era. OotP utterly destroyed my conception of the Marauders... which had been what I started writing fic with, but really my interest in HP and fic had vanished before that, thanks to a preoccupation with some local bands instead. I dabbled, but for a few years I really didn't do much of anything. That was until hobviously (though the journal wasn't called that then) decided to get involved in HP fandom and created a journal for the purpose. I had been an lj user in a non fandom capacity since January 2002, but her decision spurred me to look at lj in a whole new light and to reconsider the fandom I had lost contact with. I quickly followed suit and created lodessa just before the start of '05. Everything else... is in the archives.

3) I look at my fic list and find that the over half of my total number of fics posted in this journal are HP based (that's not counting the 2001/2002 stuff). Yes, some of them are barely more than drabbles, but considering that over half the time I've had this journal that I've sort of felt like distancing myself from that fandom and focusing on others... it is noteworthy.

4) Also I want to aknowledge nentari for being the second non RL fandom friend I made. She's an amazing writer, seriously should be publishing Original Fiction, and I was totally blown away when I read her fic after meeting her because of qt_ninja. nentari, you are a wonderful human being, and if I ever make my way to Portugal I hope you will agree to meet me in person.

5)There is probably a lot more I could say about HP fandom, but I feel it's best to leave it at this for the moment.

Comments

[nentari.livejournal.com]

*hugs* Thank you so much for your words, sweetie. They brought me a smile at the end of a rather weary day :)
I'm making a slow return to fic writing after my long hiatus, and hopefully I'll be able to show you something very soon.

Also, if you ever come to Portugal, I'll welcome you with open arms. *hugs again*

[lodessa.livejournal.com]

*hugs* I'm sorry your day was a tiring. You are wonderful and I'm glad to hear you are getting back into writing and hopefully I will make it to Portugal sooner rather than later.

[mojotastic.livejournal.com]

Oh HP fandom. I know little about it, other than it is batshit insane a lot of the time, but you have to love it.

Also? Ironically one of the only HP fics I ever read was Cassandra Claire's Draco stories. And it was just on a whim one day, because the description sounded good, not because I had heard any hype about it. I find that kinda funny, considering they're some of the best known stories in the fandom. :)

[adelynne.livejournal.com]

Someone rl recommended them to me, and I read straight through from DD to what existed of DT. But I was never a big fangirl in that regard. Every time she used a Buffy or Babylon 5 quote it threw me out of the story (mostly because I knew the original context, and no. Just no.), and I'm rather glad she's improved so much as a writer from the onset of the story. But eh to the other stuff.

[lodessa.livejournal.com]

HP fandom is such a huge leviathan that it really is unlike any other fandom. It's also like the tabula rosa of fandoms because so many people are farmiliar with HP.

[lostdreamer56.livejournal.com]

I don't really write in HP; I read it quite a lot, but I don't do too much writing in it. And I'm pretty new to the whole fandom universe, but I know that HP is a very elaborate verse. And the whole history of the fandom was very interesting, from the parts I read.

[lodessa.livejournal.com]

Yeah. Honestly HP is so vast that I will always feel a newbie.

[caitiedidit.livejournal.com]

we probably have SugarQuill in large part to thank for the idiotic notion so prevalent in the fandom that Sirius/Remus is canon.

You are so lucky you are a new friend, otherwise I would totally take this as my invitation to smack down my standard SQ rant. Grrr. Argh.

So you were on FA? Did you hang out in the SCUSA forums at all or around the scary shipping debates?

[lodessa.livejournal.com]

Haha... rants are always wlecome in my journal.

For anyone else reading though, I should probably state that I wasn't trying to smacktalk SugarQuill in general with my post or start up old wars or something.

I was on FA briefly, mostly the SCUSA forums and less with the debates. Honestly I somehow managed to avoid most of the ship wars in fandom by pure luck or obliviousness.

[cyn-ful.livejournal.com]

forgot to mention that you met the love of you life...me...through the fandom. *smiles* believe it or not...i'm catching up for once.

*hugs*

[lodessa.livejournal.com]

muah! I love you muchly ♥

[cyn-ful.livejournal.com]

I love you too!! *muah*

[lodessa.livejournal.com]

*hugs*