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I've not been online as much lately, but snarry_holidays sort of lured me back. snarry_holidays has been awesome (the quality of fic and art has been great!), but now that the fest is over I'm missing my daily Snarry fix! So now I'm also following harry_holidays , hp_yule_balls , and hd_holidays (I still love Snarry best, but there's so much good Drarry out there too). Once the fests are all done I will have new authors to stalk follow :D

I also ran across this wonderful Snarry fic today: Yearning by geneticallydead . It takes place after the events of Deathly Hallows but disregards the epilogue. I've seen it recced several times now but only just got around to reading it, and I'm so glad I did.

Well, I'm done with my reading for the day. Now I've just got to decide if I want to make these cream cheese brownies with or without the Kahlua, so I know what to pick up at the market. :) I love the holidays - so many excuses to bake!

I'm so behind on reading that it's not funny, but today I discovered a new author I like! I found drachenmina by way of the story "Fly in the Ointment" (cracktastic vampire-Snarry) but am working through the longer Snarry stories. :) Eventually I'll probably link to my favorites on del.icio.us (am so far behind on that as well), but so far I love them all!

I shall probably never be caught up on my reading, but how wonderful is it that I find great stories faster than I can read them?

from the NY Times: Literacy Debate: Online, R U Really Reading?

Of course there is much well-written stuff on the internet. And even material that I previously got in printed and bound form, I'll often get online for free (see Gutenberg Project, or any number of reference material sites) or will listen to an audio version (my public library has audio book downloads online, and I get free audiobooks from Librivox). And goodness knows I spend too much time reading fanfiction myself.

Unfortunately, if the girl in the article is only checking out social networking sites and fanfiction.net... I love fanfiction, but the trash-to-treasure ratio at ff.net is... not good. :( And fanfiction won't ever replace reading an actual, paper book for me.

On the other hand, I really do think the Internet has shrunk my attention span.

I spend 2-3 hours in the car everyday because of my commute, so I end up listening to a lot of audio books. Even when I'm at home, I'll often do something else while I have my text-to-speech software read me things from my computer to save my eyes. A fair amount of that will be fanfiction.

So I was happy to find an online service that will convert text to mp3 for me for free! There's even a Firefox extension so that I can just select the text I want converted to an audio mp3 file right in my browser, or have it convert the entire page with a couple of clicks. Unfortunately, neither of the British voices is as good as the best male American voice, but I don't mind my Snarry in American English.

With the free audiobooks from my public library, the free audiobooks at the Gutenberg Project and Librivox, and the mp3s I will surely be making from fanfiction (yay snarry_games !), I'll be very well entertained during my commute. :)

Current Mood: satisfied

This is awesome. The Got Medieval blog traces the history of fanfic all the way back to the middle ages, when enthusiastic Chaucer nuts wrote their own Chaucer sequels:

Chaucer seems to have attracted this sort of activity more than other writers--or possibly, we modern readers are more interested in tracking down this sort of thing when it's done to a writer we admire as much as Chaucer.

I would so write myself into Canterbury Tales. If I weren't reading all the slash that was surely around then...?

So, did they have fan fiction in the Middle Ages? The answer is "yes," though their tastes tended less towards slashfic ... and more toward self-insertion fanfic, the variety in which the author of the derivative work makes themselves a character in the original fictional world, usually a character who is so much better at everything...

So Mary Sues go back to to Middle Ages, although slash probably doesn't. 

Gakked from joanwilder


Hey, I shocked myself.

"TIME" magazine article: "Oh, my god," Rowling concluded with a laugh, "the fan fiction."

Word.

I'm catching up, so this is a couple weeks old, but I found a comic by kokiri85 . Spoilers for "Deathly Hallows":

Black and Snape review "Deathly Hallows"

It made me laugh out loud. :D

All stories (except one) have spoilers for Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows.