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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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My intro to slash was totally offline. I was in middle school and a few friends got really into LoTR. Every day at lunch it was all "blah, blah gay hobbits" "yada yada elf-fucking" and I just assumed the books were just (strangely, anachronistically) full of same-sex love for the first few weeks. Then realized these friends were writing and trading this stuff and started asking lots of questions and they told me all about the wilds of the internet. I never got into LoTR but figured it couldn't be the only thing there were stories about. I was right! And there was Xena femmeslash and Buffy slash and some Buffy/Spike shipping (the moment when your fanfic OTP becomes canon is a special moment. I remember it vividly.) But my fic-reading tapered off pre-college and there was about a 10-ish year hiatus.
Then one day I caught my bff/then-roommate guiltily reading HP fic. I don't think she expected me to respond with "OMG I had forgotten about this!!! Point me to the good stuff!" She did, but was more of a Harry/Tonks or Harmony shipper, and while the fics were good and I could see how it worked in those scenarios and I LOVED being back in the HP universe, the pairings didn't click for me. Largely because fanfic had (with the spuffy exception) always been gay, and that's what I wanted, what felt like my fic home.
I was drawn into Snarry first. I liked Snape's snark/intelligence/taciturn-ness against Harry's optimism and that they had this shared experience of going through the war, but I'm not a fan of chan and bought that Harry would respect and appreciate Snape, but not really that they would end up boning. But then there were Snarry authors who also wrote Draco/Harry and I started to wonder. I was a little skeptical at first but was also on a major femmequixotic kick, had read all her Snarry and Snaco on Skyehawke and would follow her writing anywhere, so gave it a shot. And it was like the heavens opened! All the things I loved and wanted from the dynamic but without the chan and the snape-specific baggage, and everywhere I looked there was so much good writing and smut (your gif...yes. exactly.) and all these tropes and variations on the theme and so many more stories to be told and it just seemed like an amazing wonderland. And it still does!
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LOL! It's hard to explain slash logic to someone when they don't know about fandom in the first place. I tried with a friend, and she couldn't get pass the "but they aren't gay."
And it was like the heavens opened!
That's what I'm talking about, this moment of illumination when you go, "yes, yes, this is the real deal." Happy moment. <3
I was lucky, I think, because that first slash fic I read, it was very good, back then it was one of the best, and to this day, I re read it and I still find it's one of the hottest I've read, very well done, kept them IC and made it work. I think HP, as a fandom, has an amazing fanfic/fanart quality. We're really bless with all the talent and the lovely people being part of it.