Varying degrees of reality

[pauraque_bk]

robkaiote, a RL friend of mine, has a post about the time he was expelled from school for witchcraft.

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So... is it just me, or is there no RPS in HP? I've only come across it once, and given the vastness of the fandom (and its proclivity for taboo-busting), that seems strange. Is there a seamy underworld of HP RPS that I just don't know about?

If there isn't, why not? einini suggested that the lack may stem from the young age of the primary actors, but... knowing this fandom, I frankly doubt that would stop anybody.

Any thoughts?

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In case anyone's missed it, villainny is hosting a mass anonymous crush confession. If you're an HP person, it's worth a look, 'cause it's already up to 589 (!) comments, and one of them just might be about you.

Orgy organizer: You just named me in the same sentence with three phenomenal writers, maybe in the top ten of the fandom. Do you have any idea how good that makes me feel? Whoever you are, you rule. And I'm glad my writing makes you feel... like that. ;)

Timidly in the wings: *smooch*

Good speller: Maybe I should have a mnemonic song, like Mississippi. Do you think that would help?

Paranoid stalker: The calls are coming from inside the house!

Person who is possibly less anonymous than she could be: *lick* The fact that we don't live closer to each other is wronger than a wrong thing.


Dude, so many people have crushes on switchknife. Switch is the coolest kid in school.

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[pauraque]

Ah, see, this starts to answer my question. You guys are there, you're just hiding out.

So, what can you tell me about the world of HP RPS? What are the main pairings people write? What are the seminal fics? What is there in the way of fanon? Do most of your writers also write FPS?

I'm asking out of curiosity, just because I'm interested in the structure of the fandom, and of fandoms in general. Though I don't really read RPS, I'm interested in the different ways fandoms deal with it, how marginalized it is, etc.

[slinkhard.livejournal.com]

Ok...
Main pairings: Tom/Dan.
Although I've also come across Dan/Alan, Tom/Jason, Bonnie/Emma, Alan/Gary, Tom/Rupert, Dan/Elijah Wood (don't ask me to explain it, I don't understand it myself!), Chris/Sean, Tom/Emma, Dan/Rupert, Alan/Jason, Alfonso/Daniel and Kenneth/Rupert (phew...)

Seminal fics...it's such a small community that there aren't any as such, imo, but the ones that have been around the longest are probably stuff by lunadeath02 and jade1x2. Oh, and marysia's one off.

Recently the quality has improved somewhat (not to be snobbish, just imho) - thisveryinstant, veuki, emmagrant01, hautemonde, slytherinpride and paranoidkitten have all written lots of hp stuff you may have heard of (?) Depends where you lurk.

As far as I know, everyone (including me) also writes hp fic. Veuki, hautemonde (Rube, now deleted), and emmagrant01 also lurk in different fandoms, but if you want to know more about any of the authors, the names I've used are their ljuser ones (too lazy to type in code.)

Fanon? None that I know of. Information basically gleaned from interviews (If anyone asks me about something referenced in mine, I usually provide a link to said interview/media.)

If you want to know anything else, feel free to ask!
Although I'd advise you to read some - like hp, there's a variation in quality, but it's such a small fandom, it'll take no time, and really fill you in.