Harry Potter Fanfic

[thistlechaser]

I have some unexpected time off from work, and I fell into reading some old Harry Potter fanfic. And when I say old, I mean it.



I have no interest in the canon anymore, but there's so much good fanfic out there. My rec page was last updated in 2003 (heh...), so nearly all the links are broken, but some stories have been reposted elsewhere.

I wonder what happened to the authors though. Some I had been close with, and some I only knew in passing. I just finished one of my old favorites When We Were Gone Astray by Malecrit. I remember speaking in comments to her (him?) 20 or so years ago. I wonder what they're doing now.

isiscolo I have stories listed from you on Geocities (heh!), thedarkarts.org, and isis.arithmancy.net. At least there's AO3, hopefully that will stay online for a good long time.

loupnoir, yours are on my old page, too (also from when they were on thedarkarts.org).

I should probably venture out and try new stories instead of reading all of my old favorite ones.

Comments

[thistle-chaser.livejournal.com]

Agreed, it doesn't feel like that long ago, but it really was.

While I love the way we can make so many friends online, the "vanishing without a trace" thing is unique to this. If a friend you knew RL vanished, you'd go to the police! But online, it's sadly common place.

[jeane nevarez (from livejournal.com)]

So true. Makes me realize how little I actually know the people I think of as my "online friends", if I have no way to contact them, or don't know any of their other friends to reach out to, when they disappear.

[thistle-chaser.livejournal.com]

Yep. I'd never ask for an online friend's phone number, because to me that would be crossing a line. But the other side of that coin is no way to contact them if they vanish...

[jeane nevarez (from livejournal.com)]

Exactly