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

[phibby.livejournal.com]

You mean shota (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Shota)? That's what I call it. Unless we're talking girls; then it's loli (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lolicon). The term's cutting a bit close with Harry Potter as the kids get older, but it's still the first thing that pops into my head.

I'd never heard the term "chan" used in this context before, and it took me a bit to Google for anything related. Might be because I'm exposed to anime and manga fanfiction/fanart more than Harry Potter, so I'm used to the Japanese terms.

Although I love me some good slash, shota (and loli, for that matter, though I have more experience with shota) doesn't do anything for me, especially when it's sexually explicit. Sort of a pain in the ass when all typical Japanese yaoi/BL PC games have the token shota character. I have no interest in shota HP fic (too much good slash out there to waste time on that), and the only Snape/Harry fic I've read, although horribly fascinating, turned me off. I've never read any loli HP fic, and I don't plan to, though I know Snape/Hermione is popular.