Re: STAGE TWO – the subject categories

[a_reader2003]

--- In HPFGU-Catalogue at yahoogroups.com, "arrowsmithbt" 
<arrowsmithbt at b...> wrote:
 Why not lump TBAY, SHIPs and FILKS into a separate 
> section? All of them are closer to Fanfic than mainstream analysis.

Carolyn:

Personally, as is well known, I don't care what we do with FILKS, 
chuck 'em all overboard if you like, and I share your distaste for 
SHIPing. However, as I ran through Inish Alley and all the TBay 
acronyms, I found it instructive to put them with their key 
character, and to find which ones fitted where, and which had nothing 
to do with characters really. The sheer number which get associated 
with Snape is an interesting phenomenon on its own.

One of the great problems with the FP essays as they stand at the 
moment, is that they don't give anything like a comprehensive 
overview of all the theories which have come up in association with 
different characters or events, and this index/catalogue, call it 
what you will, could fill a big gap in this respect.

If we went down the more complex database route, of course, we can 
use multiple codes, so individual posts can be linked to major 
categories in multiple ways - by character, by TBay etc.

FILKs, so I am told, are supposed to comment on something, so I guess 
they should be parked according to subject matter, rather than just 
as a genre, or we will get Howlers.

SHIPing...groan..by main associated character(s) I suppose. My 
section one on SHIPing was more for posts about SHIPing in general, 
if you look up the sample acronyms on Inish Alley. But it might be a 
difficult distinction to maintain.



Carolyn