I think my first actual fanfiction experience must have been just after GoF. I remember looking for Harry Potter online and finding this story where everybody cried and at the time I thought it was fairly dreadful but I was willing to take what I could!
Years later, when I went to uni (just after the release of OotP) one of the girls in my halls was into Stargate and HP fandom. She introduced me to the concept of shipping and fanfiction and then I was away! I stuck to Marauders era, gen, H/G and R/Hr. I thought that slash was dreadful, although the only example I had was a time-travel Marauders era fic where it was Harry and not James who had saved Snape from werewolf!Remus. It was Snarry and kept referring to Snape as Harry's 'greasy little lover' or something equally terrible. I wrote a lot of fanfiction and became pretty active in fandom.
After graduating I fell out of fandom a bit and by the time I got back into it all the canon pairings bored me. I read the Draco trilogy because everyone did, and some of Mistful's writing and discovered that Harry/Draco was way more fun and that there was so much excellent H/D writing out there. And so much hotness! I haven't been much of a presence in fandom since university (10 years ago now, ohmigod) but I'm trying to access my creative writing side a bit more recently. So here I am.
I love how everyone starts off and then discovers slash and then POW. It's just so much more compelling for me, and way hotter to read!
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Years later, when I went to uni (just after the release of OotP) one of the girls in my halls was into Stargate and HP fandom. She introduced me to the concept of shipping and fanfiction and then I was away! I stuck to Marauders era, gen, H/G and R/Hr. I thought that slash was dreadful, although the only example I had was a time-travel Marauders era fic where it was Harry and not James who had saved Snape from werewolf!Remus. It was Snarry and kept referring to Snape as Harry's 'greasy little lover' or something equally terrible. I wrote a lot of fanfiction and became pretty active in fandom.
After graduating I fell out of fandom a bit and by the time I got back into it all the canon pairings bored me. I read the Draco trilogy because everyone did, and some of Mistful's writing and discovered that Harry/Draco was way more fun and that there was so much excellent H/D writing out there. And so much hotness! I haven't been much of a presence in fandom since university (10 years ago now, ohmigod) but I'm trying to access my creative writing side a bit more recently. So here I am.
I love how everyone starts off and then discovers slash and then POW. It's just so much more compelling for me, and way hotter to read!