[HPforGrownups] good slash fics/slash authors?

[Jen Faulkner]

On Sun, 1 Apr 2001 andrea_richland at hotmail.com wrote:

> I'm rather new here, and I was wondering if any of you could 
> volunteer recs for slash fiction... Harry/Draco in particular? That 
> is the pairing that strikes me most even from the books.

You know, H/D never even occurred to me from canon?  H/R, yes;
Snape/Draco, yes... but I never even considered H/D until joining
hpslash way back when.  But I always prefer the buddy parings myself
(with the exception of Mulder/Krycek... but even then, I like the
stories when they were still unbetrayed partners or where they rejoin
the same side best), so perhaps it isn't too surprising.

Anyway, the best H/D writers are the Lady of Shalott (who's a fantastic
writer in general; she also has some lovely TS (The Sentinel) pieces...  
highly, highly recommended), whose story "A Weather of the Heart" is one
of the few 'classics' of HP slash; Rhysenn (also a fantastic writer) has
a really nice H/D WIP, though my favorite fic of hers is an R/D,
"Shadows and Light"; Silver has a nice, long H/D fic in four (or was it
five??) parts, beginning with "Uncontrollable Passions."

Some other good authors (though I'm not sure if any of them have written
H/D), in no order whatsoever, are Bec, who's got a terrific writing
style; BlackRose, who's also a terrific artist; Glimmer Girl, who writes
so artfully that it can make you just cry from the sheer beauty of it;
Miriam/Isabeau, who hasn't posted in a long while though; Khirsah,
though she writes mostly odd pairings; Sir Darth Smeg, a generally good
writer, and definitely the best at twincest; Nezad, for S/R; Nat, for
Snape/Dumbledore; The Brat Queen had some relly nice H/R fics;
Keelywolfe, who wrote, AFAIK, the first (posted) HP slash fic, a very
good writer; Caitlin Shaw, whose Snape/Lupin "No Choice of Poisons" is
one of my all-time favorites.

GrimSlasher's "Boys' Own Camping Adventure" seens to be pretty
universally well-regarded.

And for f/f slash, there's Minx, Shell, Bec, but as in almost all
fandoms, there's very little out there.

I've undoubtedly left people out, so I apologize for that...  this list
was just off the top of my head.  All the fics/authors I've mentioned
have posted to hpslash (or ff.net, but I think almost no fic worth the
effort of having to read it there), so the hpslash list archive on Yahoo
is an easy place to look for them until Naomi gets the hpslash archive
up and running.  I don't think there's a specifically H/D archive, but
there are ones for Snape, S/R, F/G, < R femmeslash, and a couple of
eclectically selecting general archives.

--jen :)

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