Fandom Crazy: An Epic Saga

[drakyndra]

I take back everything I have said about the craziness of Doctor Who fandom. There is no fandom crazy like Harry Potter crazy.

...And yet somehow I, little fandom n00b that I was, managed to remain completely oblivious to all this until about 2 years ago.

Comments

[danel4d.livejournal.com]

This is truly wondrous - thanks for linking it. I mean, I'd heard bits of it before - the fall of Gryffindor Tower, the thing with the nanny, a little bit about MsScribe... the really strange thing is that MsScribe certainly isn't a bad author - none of it is stuff that must be sporked, it's certainly not badfic, and by many accounts she can write pretty damn good sometimes. Why did she do it? It's kind of like Jeffrey Archer - pretty reasonably successful by anyone's lights, why did they have to cheat and lie just to get more?

[drakyndra.livejournal.com]

I think it's that she wanted in with the BNFs. And as someone said in one of the comments to them, it's not like now, back then BNF-ness was a Big Fucking Deal. "They made people, and made pairings" was the quote, I believe. The analogy would be getting into the popular crowd at school - some people will do pretty much anything to achieve that.

[danel4d.livejournal.com]

I suppose it's true enough that BNFs made pairings - hell, I've heard it said that the Draco Trilogy is mostly responsible for making Harry/Hermione as a 'plausible' a pairing as it was in fandom. Similarly with Draco - you still get people to this day - wasn't there another wank about it really recently - complaining that canon Draco isn't as 'good' as that Draco... didn't the Draco trilogy basically create fanon Draco, complete with leather trousers, snarkiness, and all?

[drakyndra.livejournal.com]

I have to agree with you about the Harry/Hermione thing - until I read those fics (Well, the first two, I got bored by then and never read more than a chapter of the third) - I would never have considered it, what with the screamingly obviousness of Ron/Hermione and all. And I don't know if the trilogy created fanon!Draco, but since it was pushed to pretty much everyone when you entered the fandom, it certainly got it the massive exposure and popularity.

[danel4d.livejournal.com]

ZOMG!! Part five is up!

[drakyndra.livejournal.com]

Eek! And I was half-way through mina_de_malfois, too. *races off to read*