Fic Rec: Learning to Cope (HP, T, Genfic)

[hobgoblinn]

I'm finding that sometimes you can navigate the dreck on FanFic.Net by clicking on the favorites of authors you enjoy. Another cool thing to do if you're procrastinating is to click on the profiles of people who review your work or add you to their alerts and see what else they like to read or have written.

Not that I would know that or anything.

That exercise today led me to Bluebird88 and three really nice one-shots dealing with the character of Snape. I recc'ed them on the_new_library, and you can find my entry here.

In other news, I'm 4,000+ words in on part 6 of "In Loco" already, mostly tweaking and reordering already written material, but adding some new connectors or things I know now that I didn't know when I wrote these parts. And Easter has been very relaxing, if only because I've been kind of sick and Wee Hob has been very good about letting me rest (or hugging me so he can get the virus in time for school tomorrow. Not sure which.) There were no confrontations at Mass this morning, but I did get another Death Glare. Wee Hob said he got a few himself. Ah well.

Happy Easter to all who observe it, and happy day to everyone else.

Comments

[hobgoblinn.livejournal.com]

I've been lucky in both fandoms so far-- haven't seen much honest to god flaming and nastiness personally. But then, I don't write lightning rod shipfic, either. And I don't read that much of it. Genfic doesn't draw the same kind of fan. I think you can find historical examples of equal nastiness in both fandoms, trolling back through fandomwank's wiki. HP fandom may have a younger contingent, and of course, the canon inconsistencies can lead to some lively discussions. But I haven't see any devolve to namecalling and the like.

Is the Buffy fandom really active in ff net? I haven't had a lot of response to my Buffy fic there, but then, it's been archived elsewhere and none of it is new. That may change when I start posting my 06 nano novel out there.

And you are now on my Favorite Authors page, too. I'll have to drop by later and see if there's anything archived out there I've missed.