Harry Potte recs list update

[salixbabylon]

After two weeks of working on it, ever since slash_elitists was started, I *finally* finished a project I started three fucking years ago -- a recs page for Harry Potter fanfics. I had an Excel spreadsheet with over 200 fics and I managed to cut that down to about 50 fics AND find working links for them all.

This was no small task; I had to get rid of any fics I couldn't remember (clearly not very good), all WIPS (except 2 outstanding ones), anything I simply couldn't track down at all, and *cough* re-read the ones I wasn't sure about or had been completed since I stopped reading HP two years ago (after all, if I would only read it once, it musn't be that good.)

So if you read HP slash, go, reap the fruits of my labor. :)

Frankly, I have to say, the good writers in HP slash are GREAT writers, but there are SO many crappy writers in that fandom... I would say the LOTR-FPS fandom is slightly better, the POTC slash is even better, and the LOTR_RPS is the best-quality writers of any fandom I've read.

Anyone else notice anything similar (or want to flame me for being so wrong) in their fandoms?


Also, I can't sleep. Massive insomnia. I keep getting wired and restless around 11 PM... Most annoying. Blech.

Comments

[aurient.livejournal.com]

I love your rec list - I think all my personal favourites are on it - and it's nice to know that someone else has found Seeker! Nicely done.

I would agree that LOTR_RPS has the best-quality writers - but I almost think they have to be because of the subject matter. I was hesitant about reading in that fandom until i stumbled across Zarah5's work, which just blew my mind. I haven't found much LOTR_FPS that I thought was really believable, and my personal penchant for Will/Norrington has left me with very little to read in the POTC fandom. And as for HP, I think HP slash will always be my favourite because there are so many good writers in the fandom - though I have yet to find a single hetfic in HP that I liked.

[salixbabylon.livejournal.com]

*giggle* I used to totally worship Seeker - she's truly perfected the PWP, in my opinion.

What about the RPS subject matter do you think raises the bar of writing quality?

LOTR-FPS - There is some I like, but a lot that I don't. I think with the big huge fandoms it's still only 15% readable, but there's so much more crap in the big ones that it's hard to find that 15%... Anyway, I had some recs for that fandom too, on my web page. I'd be interested in know what you consider "believable." :)

I think I remember Webcrowmancer's site (http://catthause.com/webcrow/mercy.htm) having Will/Norrington slash, but it seems down. I don't know if that's permanent or just today, though.

I guess I should work on my POTC recs next...

Het? *runs screaming* (Actually, though -- there's a het scene at thee nd of "Rat's Alley" that's kind of... um. Yeah. ;)

[aurient.livejournal.com]

I think with RPS it has to be believable but at the same time there's the angle of not wanting to invade their lives too much. For me, the writing has to be good enough to overcome concerns about using what we know of their characters to write stories about them that they might not be comfortable with. It's kind of a justification in my head for a guilty pleasure, I suppose ;)