Re: STAGE TWO – the subject categories

[annemehr]

Hello, all.  I'll admit first I haven't been able to download the
original files yet-- apparently my computer doesn't like zip files. My
personal technowizard (that's my husband) was a bit too busy this
weekend to help. 

By the way, I'm not experienced technically, but once we get a system
set up and I learn it, I am good with the grunt work and familiarity
with HPfGU posting culture.

--- In HPFGU-Catalogue at yahoogroups.com, "arrowsmithbt"
<arrowsmithbt at b...> wrote:
> 
> Shipping. What can I  say. You're probably aware of my animus towards
> SHIPs. Oh, I know that a lot of folk get a lot of fun from them, and
good
> luck to them, but to classify them as analysis? Really, I suppose,
they're
> a form of TBAY. Why not lump TBAY, SHIPs and FILKS into a separate 
> section? All of them are closer to Fanfic than mainstream analysis.

Shipping posts make my eyes cross, too.  We will have to sort them,
though, because people are going to look for them and we do want to be
complete.  I think we could get away with banishing them to their own
category, because as far as I can tell they don't analyse either the
text or the characters the way other posts do.  Instead, they seem to
have a logic all their own.

TBAY does not belong with SHIPs and FILKs, IMO.  TBAY is real analysis
of plot and character, much as anyone may or may not like the style. 
Besides, many threads weave into and out of TBAY as different people
join the discussion.  I think they will have to be sorted into textual
analysis and character analysis, etc., as they fit.  Or edited or
rejected, of course, as appropriate.

FILKs, now, I think we can leave out entirely.  I can't remember any
that have ever generated a canon discussion thread.  CMC (Coriolanus)
already sorts them and publishes them on his own website.  True, his
are from other sources besides HPfGU, but for us to deal with ours
seems like it would just duplicate his efforts.  We could just note a
link to his site in our final product.


> 
> Overall, I'd suggest that the categories could be
> 
> 1. Textual Analysis
> 2. Characters, Beasts, etc.
> 3. SHIPs, TBAY, FILKS
> 4. Sources and Influences
> 5. The wizarding world
> 6. Predictions
> 
> Any good?
> 
> I'll give some more thought to the sub-sections; I've got a nagging
> feeling that I've missed something.
> 
> Barry

I'd have it:

1. Textual Analysis
2. Characters: Beasts, Beings and Spirits
3. SHIPs
4. Sources and Influences
5. The Wizarding World
6. Predictions

Anne