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A Friendly but Earnest Challenge - Finding the GQFs!

Mar 07, 2005 00:19

Ok, why is it so hard to find Harry Potter fics I like!!?! The unfortunate thing is, I've seen some excellent writing... but often for pairings or plotlines that I can't at all see happening and therefore don't read. The unlikeliness factor/disturbance factor just nags at me relentlessly until I stop, despite the quality of writing. This is what ( Read more... )

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rleonc March 9 2005, 21:35:33 UTC

Hey Ana!
I must say that I strongly disagree in a lot of what you state here, but I'll leave my comment much later tonight because right now I don't have the time to elaborate a good response ^_^

Cheers!
Rosali (HCR)

soul_awakenings March 9 2005, 22:23:54 UTC

Hey, Rosali!! I was *waiting* for you or someone who disagreed with my ships and ideas to say something!! ;) I respect your opinions, of course, but I'm sure we have some very different opinions :) Should make for an interesting conversation and I look forward to seeing what you have to say! :D And of course, with no hard feelings beforehand nor afterwards, either! XD

soul_awakenings May 3 2005, 05:46:25 UTC

Hey Rosali! Just thought I'd let you know that I haven't forgotten your huge email to me! You obviously took the time to respond thoughtfully, and I owe you a thoughtful response and discussion back. Seeing as I just finished school a few days ago and am finally settling into having a bit of time on my hands, I'm now starting to read a lot of these rec'd fics in the lj comments, and in a week or so I will send a reply to your email! Til then! :)

rleonc May 3 2005, 06:45:27 UTC

Cool! I had thought you just didn't feel like responding or something lol. It WAS quite long after all.

Read my fics, please! :D I would LOVE to hear your comments; especially since you have such good argumentative and writing skills.

Was and Will Be is what I like to call my Masterpiece (it's quite long... long chapters), and What is Love? is the one that has recieved the most reviews despite it quite a simple storyline.

They are both at Portkey

Looking forward to your reply! And reviews if you decide to read my fics :D

How saddening it is to Watch the canon die heerotomoe March 11 2005, 03:58:41 UTC

From what I can tell, you don't have any asking for het from Luna so I'm bringing some. >:o

There are two fic ships that I read - usually it's H/D, but my true and absolutely hardcore one is Harry/Luna. To me, it is the most canonical of all het ships I have ever seen explored and the only one, other than R/Hr, that I can truly see developing in the later books. To me, H/G doesn't cut it, and far worse is TEH H/Hr that I despise. IT'S SO UNREALISTIC AND STUPIDLY SAPPY AND WHAT THE HELL HAPPENED TO SOMETHING CALLED CHARACTERIZATION

Being disagreeable:

Spinning by Aldalindil
(PG-13 | Harry/Luna) Luna spins a tale of mice and dragons, lions and gold, and a hero who doesn't know her... Set during the spring of GoF. One-sided.

Red String by seldear
(PG-13 | Harry/Luna) They'd never been 'ordinary'. My favorite one so far. ;_;

These are less het ships than gen, but I think there's a bit of Ron/Luna subtext in Observing Ron. Shades of Purple is its prequel and very much gen, but it's really necessary to read firstly in order to enjoy ( ... )

Re: How saddening it is to Watch the canon die rleonc May 3 2005, 06:51:03 UTC

You are very wrong there. H/Hr is not unrealistic and uncanonical at all. There are plenty of evidence from canon that can point to that ship. Besides, it was kind of agressive, your comment... oh well, it was aimed only at Ana.

However, I can see where you're coming in both you backed ships, but I could argue most of the resons with just as good counter-arguments. Anyway...

Re: How saddening it is to Watch the canon die heerotomoe May 3 2005, 13:57:01 UTC

I probably got into the fandom (or reading fanfiction, really) about three or four years ago. At that time, I encountered many different het ships, the most popular of which were H/G, D/G, H/Hr, R/Hr, and D/Hr. H/G I shot down right away. I found it not even a bit possible--there was no interest on Harry's part and, frankly, I found the gushy, sugary sweet stuff very boring. No excitement at all. although there is this one fic that cadesama pointed out to me... >.>Now, the others lasted much longer, although I think I've read maybe 4 R/Hr fics, so there wasn't much of that, but I think the reason of that was because there was no Harry. Love the dear boy ( ... )