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Tell me about your first time...
... Reading fanfic, reading slash.
I remember when I found fanfiction. It was after I read Goblet of Fire and was waiting for OotP to come out. I found a story, I don't remember how, I didn't know what "fanfiction" was, so I thought it was just someone writing how they wished/dreamed/thought the books would continue; a short story inspired by the books. And so read it.
In retrospect, I realise this was a Draco/Hermione story. It was PG (from what I recall) and it was good. I was a bit confused though, because I didn't understand why Draco was being nice all of the sudden, and why Hermione wanted to hang out with him instead of Harry and Ron. I didn't know what "ships" were either! But still, I thought it was a pretty nifty idea.
Went looking for more. Did some more searching and Ta Dah! Slash. Or rather: SLASH
I read my first slash fanfiction. It was Harry/Draco, NC 17 and a PWP to boot! It was pretty much the hottest thing I had read in my life, up to then. It was. . . it was like seeing life in colours, with the celestial illumination and miracle music and all. (For a more accurate illustration of my actual reaction, see here. Yes. That was me all right.)
I was all, "Oh, this is awesome. I wonder if there's more?" (Only, you know, in CAPS LOCKS and with a crazy/obsessed glint in my eyes.)
And thank you, Internet, because, yep, it turned out there was quite a bit more out there. :D
I found websites and slash web-rings. Eventually I made my way to the yahoo groups, which is where the Harry Potter community lived; slash, femslash, het, it all happened through yahoo groups, later on I found fanfiction.net (I still remember when ffnet was cool), and after a couple of years there, it all moved to livejournal. The rest, is history.
But man, what a thrill; finding, discovering! Opening your eyes to something new, falling in love with a fandom, finding people who loved something as much I did and created all these amazing stories and art, being part of something bigger. *happy sigh*
What about you? How did you find fanfiction? How did you find Slash? Was it Harry Potter first or a different fandom?
I remember when I found fanfiction. It was after I read Goblet of Fire and was waiting for OotP to come out. I found a story, I don't remember how, I didn't know what "fanfiction" was, so I thought it was just someone writing how they wished/dreamed/thought the books would continue; a short story inspired by the books. And so read it.
In retrospect, I realise this was a Draco/Hermione story. It was PG (from what I recall) and it was good. I was a bit confused though, because I didn't understand why Draco was being nice all of the sudden, and why Hermione wanted to hang out with him instead of Harry and Ron. I didn't know what "ships" were either! But still, I thought it was a pretty nifty idea.
Went looking for more. Did some more searching and Ta Dah! Slash. Or rather: SLASH
I read my first slash fanfiction. It was Harry/Draco, NC 17 and a PWP to boot! It was pretty much the hottest thing I had read in my life, up to then. It was. . . it was like seeing life in colours, with the celestial illumination and miracle music and all. (For a more accurate illustration of my actual reaction, see here. Yes. That was me all right.)
I was all, "Oh, this is awesome. I wonder if there's more?" (Only, you know, in CAPS LOCKS and with a crazy/obsessed glint in my eyes.)
And thank you, Internet, because, yep, it turned out there was quite a bit more out there. :D
I found websites and slash web-rings. Eventually I made my way to the yahoo groups, which is where the Harry Potter community lived; slash, femslash, het, it all happened through yahoo groups, later on I found fanfiction.net (I still remember when ffnet was cool), and after a couple of years there, it all moved to livejournal. The rest, is history.
But man, what a thrill; finding, discovering! Opening your eyes to something new, falling in love with a fandom, finding people who loved something as much I did and created all these amazing stories and art, being part of something bigger. *happy sigh*
What about you? How did you find fanfiction? How did you find Slash? Was it Harry Potter first or a different fandom?
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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!
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I KNOW! I read all sorts when I first started digging into fanfiction. :D But since I discovered slash pretty much in the same breath as fanfiction, I was never truly invested in canon pairings, aside from, you know, them being canon. When it came to fanfiction, my OTPs have always been slash. :D