OotP and me.
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jlhSo I've come to a few conclusions.
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ivyblossom and vanityfair*
I've really been struggling with my feelings on writing from new canon all week, and then I suddenly realized: one week. It hasn't even been a week. Kudos to those of you who have had time to read canon five or six times by now; I've read it once, and I barely have the time to read a chapter a day. I neither absorb nor write that quickly. I can't imagine that I will be producing anything of merit regarding OotP until I've finished this slow read and have a think, and I would think it would be S/D as they are the only ones that jump out at me at the moment. *hugs the little ship that could*
Speaking of ships, someone on the Wolfstar, the Sirius/Remus ship over at FA, pointed out that there are plenty of James/Lily shippers and they are BOTH dead. So I don't know why Sirius/Remus should sink. No, perhaps it doesn't have a future, and no, it doesn't look like Sirius ever really was able to come back. But oh, what clues! Whatsubtext! What backstory! *loves* Nothing is dead. The only ship that took a hit was Ron/Hermione (points at the Sugar Quill). But that's what you get for betting on canon.
What I'm hoping, and this really follows on what Ivy was saying, is that the AU becomes less of a pariah. I've always looked to fanfic for the "what-if", the characters that won't be featured by JKR, the answers she will likely never give us. I've never cared for predictive fic; JKR will tell us all of that sort of thing sooner or later. (I also am not a big fan of canon speculation.) It seems to me that during the, as SQ called it, Three Year Summer, readers were looking to fic to fill the yen for new canon. But I'd much rather see fic that does something canon probably won't do, and I don't just mean slash. I'm very much hoping that we won't call every story with a still-living Sirius "denial fic" and that the previously-scorned AU will garner a bit more respect.
Speaking of which, I'd been futzing with the outline and arc of a big post-H EWFS sequel, but hadn't gotten as far as I'd liked because of one thing and another, and then Ali said, wait until new canon. Which was absolutely the right advice, but in a sense, I needn't.
Which is to say, EWFS will certainly not be recanonized (why? it's done!) and the sequel will be pulling from events in EWFS. There are tons of small things that I can work in from OotP, I'm sure, like further details of the universe. But no, Sirius won't be dead; I need him too much. Whether I keep the posited romantic history for Ron and Hermione is up for grabs, but it certainly makes it easier to explain why and how Seamus and Dean grew apart during that year. That said, I was on the subway a few days before the book was released and I realized, no matter what happened, Seamus and Dean would not be coming back to school relatively out of the closet, Seamus would not have an affair with Justin Finch-Fletchley, and Hermione and Seamus woul not become close friends. So, EWFS unsurprisingly, is going off into that good AU. How AU it will be depends on how the sequel shapes up.
I also have a few fics that were finished but never posted anyplace that will need homes and that obviously were written before OotP. So look for those, because they are good and worth reading, I think. And of course more smut! How could I not? But not for a good little while.
Until then, duckies, rearead book 5. Or read Tithe
*looks at recent posts from
ivyblossom and vanityfair*I've really been struggling with my feelings on writing from new canon all week, and then I suddenly realized: one week. It hasn't even been a week. Kudos to those of you who have had time to read canon five or six times by now; I've read it once, and I barely have the time to read a chapter a day. I neither absorb nor write that quickly. I can't imagine that I will be producing anything of merit regarding OotP until I've finished this slow read and have a think, and I would think it would be S/D as they are the only ones that jump out at me at the moment. *hugs the little ship that could*
Speaking of ships, someone on the Wolfstar, the Sirius/Remus ship over at FA, pointed out that there are plenty of James/Lily shippers and they are BOTH dead. So I don't know why Sirius/Remus should sink. No, perhaps it doesn't have a future, and no, it doesn't look like Sirius ever really was able to come back. But oh, what clues! What
What I'm hoping, and this really follows on what Ivy was saying, is that the AU becomes less of a pariah. I've always looked to fanfic for the "what-if", the characters that won't be featured by JKR, the answers she will likely never give us. I've never cared for predictive fic; JKR will tell us all of that sort of thing sooner or later. (I also am not a big fan of canon speculation.) It seems to me that during the, as SQ called it, Three Year Summer, readers were looking to fic to fill the yen for new canon. But I'd much rather see fic that does something canon probably won't do, and I don't just mean slash. I'm very much hoping that we won't call every story with a still-living Sirius "denial fic" and that the previously-scorned AU will garner a bit more respect.
Speaking of which, I'd been futzing with the outline and arc of a big post-H EWFS sequel, but hadn't gotten as far as I'd liked because of one thing and another, and then Ali said, wait until new canon. Which was absolutely the right advice, but in a sense, I needn't.
Which is to say, EWFS will certainly not be recanonized (why? it's done!) and the sequel will be pulling from events in EWFS. There are tons of small things that I can work in from OotP, I'm sure, like further details of the universe. But no, Sirius won't be dead; I need him too much. Whether I keep the posited romantic history for Ron and Hermione is up for grabs, but it certainly makes it easier to explain why and how Seamus and Dean grew apart during that year. That said, I was on the subway a few days before the book was released and I realized, no matter what happened, Seamus and Dean would not be coming back to school relatively out of the closet, Seamus would not have an affair with Justin Finch-Fletchley, and Hermione and Seamus woul not become close friends. So, EWFS unsurprisingly, is going off into that good AU. How AU it will be depends on how the sequel shapes up.
I also have a few fics that were finished but never posted anyplace that will need homes and that obviously were written before OotP. So look for those, because they are good and worth reading, I think. And of course more smut! How could I not? But not for a good little while.
Until then, duckies, rearead book 5. Or read Tithe
