Request for a friend.

[conuly]

ladydiana has a tiny problem. After reading HBP, she went out to find some interesting discussion - and somehow managed to find nothing by chan, slash, and so on. Mostly non-PG stuff. I'm still not sure how she did that.

Anyway, believing as I do that fanfic in HP is overwhelmed with all sorts of romance, I offered to beg youse guys to show up with lists of gen fic, and also links to interesting, non-slashy discussions on HP from, oh, the last month or so.

Lists of good references to find these things would also be appreciated.

Because, honestly, if I were looking for talk, and all I found was a bunch of stuff I'm not interested in, I'd be a little freaked out too.

While you do that, I'll be sorting out my bookmarks, separating the wheat from the chaff. See, I'm addicted to the written word, and I have a perverse fondness for not-so-good stories, so I'll have to sort out all the urg fic and discussions before I can point her in that direction.

And I know, a lot of you don't like fanfic at all. That's your perogative. I have a nice side discussion with Diana right now about the concept of the author owning the story. I'm not entirely sure where I stand on that issue, but I have some vague feelings about it.

Comments

[ladydiana.livejournal.com]

HAHAHAH. You remind me of my friend. Who hates kids but seems to like babies. :P

[azarias.livejournal.com]

I'm neutral on babies provided that they're 1. clean 2. quiet 3. someone else's responsibility. Also helps if they're actually born at the time; pregnancy squicks me something fierce. Kids are messy, loud, and unpredictable, not to mention entirely too impressionable. Teens are that, plus the fact that I used to be one not long ago and wish that I could go back in time and kick myself until I spat out some of my emo.

Really, my goal in life is to be the crazy cat lady who terrifies kids who try to cut across her lawn on the way to school.

(Ironically, I've recently started reading The Authority comics and fallen completely in love with the cuteness of a character who's introduced as a newborn and shown growing up through the series -- double-cuteness when she's with her scary superhuman battlemachine dad who is wrapped securely around her finger and tied into a bow. She's a special case.)