Potter meme day 8

( questions done )

Day 8 Thoughts on fanfic.
 
As a reader, I love it because it's such an excellent remedy against The Last Page Blues.
 
As a writer, I love the possibilities of that endless, ready made tapestry against which to set our stories. There's the intertextuality between the books and fanfics, and between the fanfics themselves.
And the option to improve on the original! Snape dead? Sez who?

And the best bit of all: the fanficcers! It's the sheer fun of booting up the PC in the morning and checking what everyone has been up to, and OBLIVIATE!
 
Allow me to elaborate slightly on the icon-text.  I'm honoured to see that my untimely demise was too painful to contemplate, and I've spent many a happy hour reading your inspired and often entertaining tales. I do applaud them most sincerely. But I'd still like to point out a few minor details, in a spirit of constructive criticism.

I'm not a fan of inquisitive eleven-year-olds, and I'd rather not live next-door to one. CHAN That's not CHAN,  I'm begging for a decent afterlife, that's all. Adela is a charming child ... Find your own parchment, will you?  
I'd rather not live next-door to a Quidditch-pitch, either. Does that mean that I should still ask Rolanda No! And do you have to use that frightful orange ink? I thought you liked orange? You looked charming ... Of all the unbearable things, Football!TRS ...
And what I do in my study is my own business. Kindly do not hang over my shoulder in order to render an (utterly fanciful) account of the notes I make in the margin of documents.  TRS!PWP of the worst kind. 
I must admit, however, that I do appreciate the company you've chosen. "I mostly appreciate" might even be more accurate. Comments like these might seriously damage your health. I said, get your own parchment! You need a good beta.

Oh, and while I'm perfectly willing to admit to partaking of the occasional Vodka Shot  in the company of a fellow Head of House (the stuff' isn't a par on Ogden's Old, but I'm always willing to try a new potion), I most emphatically deny seducing Professor Trelawney. And Professor McGonagall would like to add that Lockheart should be so lucky.

But generally speaking, Dear Authors, your stories are a delight. Keep up the good work. And if you ever see a stuffed rhinoceros in an antiques shop, don't buy it. You're only saying that because Alastor  That will do!

( Questions yet to come )

Potter meme day 8

( questions done )

Day 8 Thoughts on fanfic.
 
As a reader, I love it because it's such an excellent remedy against The Last Page Blues.
 
As a writer, I love the possibilities of that endless, ready made tapestry against which to set our stories. There's the intertextuality between the books and fanfics, and between the fanfics themselves.
And the option to improve on the original! Snape dead? Sez who?

And the best bit of all: the fanficcers! It's the sheer fun of booting up the PC in the morning and checking what everyone has been up to, and OBLIVIATE!
 
Allow me to elaborate slightly on the icon-text.  I'm honoured to see that my untimely demise was too painful to contemplate, and I've spent many a happy hour reading your inspired and often entertaining tales. I do applaud them most sincerely. But I'd still like to point out a few minor details, in a spirit of constructive criticism.

I'm not a fan of inquisitive eleven-year-olds, and I'd rather not live next-door to one. CHAN That's not CHAN,  I'm begging for a decent afterlife, that's all. Adela is a charming child ... Find your own parchment, will you?  
I'd rather not live next-door to a Quidditch-pitch, either. Does that mean that I should still ask Rolanda No! And do you have to use that frightful orange ink? I thought you liked orange? You looked charming ... Of all the unbearable things, Football!TRS ...
And what I do in my study is my own business. Kindly do not hang over my shoulder in order to render an (utterly fanciful) account of the notes I make in the margin of documents.  TRS!PWP of the worst kind. 
I must admit, however, that I do appreciate the company you've chosen. "I mostly appreciate" might even be more accurate. Comments like these might seriously damage your health. I said, get your own parchment! You need a good beta.

Oh, and while I'm perfectly willing to admit to partaking of the occasional Vodka Shot  in the company of a fellow Head of House (the stuff' isn't a par on Ogden's Old, but I'm always willing to try a new potion), I most emphatically deny seducing Professor Trelawney. And Professor McGonagall would like to add that Lockheart should be so lucky.

But generally speaking, Dear Authors, your stories are a delight. Keep up the good work. And if you ever see a stuffed rhinoceros in an antiques shop, don't buy it. You're only saying that because Alastor  That will do!

( Questions yet to come )