Hola, HP fen!

[icarus]

Hola, HP fen!

One of my coworkers is an HP writer. Harry/Draco. Just starting out in fandom having only been exposed to ff.net so far.

We (anime fanfic author extraordinaire, katmaxwell, and myself) are hooking her up with an LJ, although I understand many HP people have fled to InsaneJournal. I'll point her towards Fiction Alley of course, heidi8, but I'm far out of the loop in Harry/Draco-land these days -- if I ever was in the loop.

Some questions for you all:

- Where's the HP porn these days?
- Where do you post your Harry/Draco fic?
- Where are the comms?
- Where's the porn?
- Who are the latest and greatest Harry/Draco authors nowadays?
- Who's writing the fine Harry/Draco and HP meta nowadays? (Yes, regan_v's great for meta, but she hates Draco.)
- Where are the beta readers because, no, although she's a writing tutor, she'd not heard there are beta readers out there.
- What classic Harry/Draco fics would you send her to?
Yes, yes, I know I should know, but I figure you know better since I was more into Snape. And Harry/Ron. And Ron/Draco. And Percy.
- Where's the porn?

Annnd... any advice for a new HP writer?

*Icarus rolls out the red carpet for all and sundry*

*crickets chirp*

No takers on the red carpet?

Comments

[incidental-fire.livejournal.com]

Hm...I'm not really in HP much anymore either, nor was I ever a huge H/D fan, but I came up with a few things that might/might not be useful.

First, yes, most of the HP fandom (*particularly* fic posting) has pretty much completely gone to IJ. As far as I can tell, some people are still at LJ for the personal connection, but generally still post at IJ. I have no idea where people post their H/D fic on a general basis, so looking at the IJ profiles of some of the authors is probably the best bet.

For fic recs, I'd suggest looking around at painless-j's (http://painless-j.net/) lists, as she has probably the best set of thematic lists (separated by theme, pairing, kink, etc.) I've ever seen.

For Harry/Draco fic in general, there's a few fests that might be worth looking around. hd_holidays is one of the still-at-LJ exceptions, and they had a *huge* turnout for the fest that was around the winter holidays. The Harry/Draco World Cup (http://asylums.insanejournal.com/hd_worldcup/) is currently going on, with posting in a month or so, I think (similar set-up to the McShep games).

A few fics that I've liked: (browsing through the few HP bookmarks I still have)
Kiss A Boy In London Town (And Other Intimate Misadventures of A Society Whore) (http://asylums.insanejournal.com/merry_smutmas/15327.html), by femmequixotic, from this year's Merry Smutmas (which has other H/D as well). Very well done.
One Night at the Ministry (http://www.etc.slashcity.net/maeglin/viewstory.php?sid=147), by Maeglin Yedi. From early 2006, and *hysterically* funny. Even now going back and reading it makes me laugh so hard my sides hurt.

To find porn specifically, there's always The Restricted Section (http://www.restrictedsection.org). You have to register for a username/password (not difficult, IIRC), but all they have are NC-17 fics of all shapes and sizes (or, you know, all kinds of pairings). They don't screen for how good the story is, but they do reject on basic spelling/grammar issues.

Hope this helps a bit!

[incidental-fire.livejournal.com]

Eeenteresting. After looking at the hd_prophet, it looks like the H/D portion of fandom may not have left LJ as en masse as other portions. So that part of my earlier comment may be null and void (or, at least, not quite as valid).

[icarusancalion.livejournal.com]

Either that, or the Harry/Draco is just as massive as it's always been, and splitting the group didn't reduce it by any measureable amount. *g*

[incidental-fire.livejournal.com]

Heh, there is that possibility as well. :)

[icarusancalion.livejournal.com]

That banner for the HP Prophet... uh.... I wouldn't want to have it open while at the school library. That's all I'm saying.

[incidental-fire.livejournal.com]

::spits Diet Coke onto monitor::

Um, when I looked at the comm earlier, the header didn't load for whatever reason. But, uh, yes, I would say that opening that at school would not be...preferable.