Fanfiction For Grownups-THE POINT

[mdartagnan at yahoo.com]

Wow, two messages in one day. There must be something wrong with me. ^^
UUU

As one of the "grownups" (sic) who answered to your questions, I feel 
compelled to answer. Yet again. 

First, I think you have not looked for fanfiction as much as you 
imagine. You have already been pointed to Fictionalley.org, a great 
resource. But I must speak in behalf of Fanfiction.net. Yes, there's a 
lot of rubbish in there, but to the site's honor, every good fanfic 
I've read was originally posted there (CoW, SoL, PoU); of course, that 
was before the advent of FictionAlley.org. I know it seems like a 
daunting task considering the archive's size, but believe me, when you 
*want* to find a good story, you will be able to do so. ^^
On the other hand, there are also rings and resources, as 
Fandomania.net, in case you want to look for even more fanfiction. 


> In later posts I indicated that Slash and Fluff Romance were not 
> neccassarily the most mature themes.  I did not say "sex is bad", "no 
> more naughtiness", or "put some clothes on".  I just said that these
> were 
> the foundations of adolescent fanfiction, and were not what I was 
> looking for.


The problem was that you generalized, and that's the first "no-no" on 
any conversation. Believe me, I couldn't care less if you disliked 
slash or romance, but I couldn't stand what you said about writers 
wanting to "undress a couple of characters and, since they couldn't 
chose, they undressed both". You wrote it and it's all on the message 
archive. 


> I would like to see fanfiction that read like a real novel, that
> dealt 
> with real themes, just like the ones dealt with in the HP books 
> themselves. 

I insist, there are many of them, and even novel-sized. To the titles 
everyone else has mentioned, let me add "Sin of Lycaos" and its sequel, 
"Wolf by Ears". And this one, just as the others, is a "multi-themed" 
work, which you're looking for. 

  
> It is a mature trait not to take one's self seriously, something that 
> has been sadly lacking here.  

It is a mature trait never to generalize, especially when one isn't an 
expert on the topic. ^^UUU


> Though I suppose if you 
> did feel that way, it was because you knew that you were contributing 
> to the wealth of self-serving fanfiction that has become the norm.

I thought the reasons of my replies were clear. If not, I apologize. 
Must be the language barrier. 
And I doubt my stories could be considered withing the "wealth of 
self-serving fanfiction that has become the norm", basically, because 
no one here has read them. The simple reason: they're in Spanish and 
only in my site. ^^


> It seems that I have inadvertently upset the Hive.  Funny, but this 
> all reminds me very much of secondary school.

Was this really necessary? 

 
> THE POINT AGAIN: WHERE ARE GOOD MATURE FANFICTIONS FOR GROWNUPS?

In many places, as long as you know where to look. 



Marijose
Back to lurking. Unwillingly, but maybe for the best. 



"You know? 
Night I left the city
I dreamt of a werewolf"
— a-ha meets JK