Welcome ( was Ron/ Definition of "Shipper" & "Mary Sue")

[Cassandra Claire]

No: HPFGUIDX 7430


Ebony wrote: What you've described is known as a slash pairing... 
Slashers are  fans who advocate a relationship between two characters 
of the same  sex in a creative work.  
> 
> Although I'm not a slash writer myself, I've found some well-
written  slash (mostly Sirius/Lupin and Harry/Draco) at ff.net.  And 
while I'm  a tiny bit vocal about my support for H/H, I don't think 
H/R slash  would bother me as much as the H/R ship.  As a matter of 
fact, it  might work if a really good fanfic writer tried it.  Any 
takers?
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*Cassandra wanders late into this discussion.* I can give you 
recommendations, Ebony. Or you can join the hpslash egroup, which as 
of the moment I believe has as many members as this one does and 
produces about 10 stories a day. They label all their fics by pairing 
so if you come across a pairing you don't like (Hagrid/Tom Riddle 
springs to mind) you can just skip it. Or you can email me offline 
and I'll mail you some decent Harry/Ron recommendations. 
I certainly wouldn't recommend reading most of the slash fics if you 
are of the opinion that everything in fanfic *must* follow the canon 
to T. The slash writers know perfectly well that they're creating an 
alternate universe, and frankly, the possibility of Harry and Ron 
hooking up doesn't strike me as all that much less likely than Draco 
turning into a sexy good guy <vbeg> in leather pants. I must say that 
at first the slash fic struck me as a bit out there, but then again, 
six months ago I recall saying to a friend of mine "What do you mean, 
post my story on the Internet? Nobody writes Harry Potter fan 
fiction. There's no such thing."

cassie