Themed list: Werewolves
Posted on June 20, 2008
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The list was compiled for McKay’s (scribbulus_ink), on the occasion of her birthday.
Werewolves in HP fiction.
Have a look at this list compiled by Lira_Snape: A cure for lycanthropy.
What I take:
- since the theme is not Remus Lupin but werewolves, I take fics that deal with werewolves in several particular ways. The fics MUST BE lycanthropy-centric. NOT Remus-centric. The hardship of being a werewolf must be shown in a very detailed way. So, far not every fic where Lupin transforms or where the author muses about the influence of the moon on him qualifies.
- I’m interested in lycanthropy shown either as an illness, or as a social problem, or in the respect of personality traits, as in, care of a werewolf child, werewolf social problems (an inability to find a job that is only mentioned isn’t enough), werewolf physiology and psychology etc. In other words, anything important for understanding lycanthropy.
- of Lupin’s personal history, I accept fics that show us how he was bitten, how he reacts on the lessons about werewolves when he’s a student at Hogwarts, the night of the prank from Lupin’s POV, and some other events that can be considered particularly meaningful.
- we should be shown either serious, or detailed, or novel approach to the problem.
- accepted by default are the fics:
a) where somebody else is turned (except those AU fics where somebody else is a werewolf, as explained in King Draco’s section);
b) where somebody stays with the werewolf when he changes to observe the change or keep him company (and where it’s shown in detail);
c) where we can see things from the changed werewolf POV, when we can see *how* the wolf in the man sees the world.
- I’ll take only a couple of fics that explore the concept that werewolves mate for life that I consider the best, as well as no more than a couple of those that argue the concept.
Anyway, please, remember that the fics must deal with something that can be applied to most lycanthrops rather than only to Remus. Read more
Themed list: Voyeurism
Posted on May 31, 2008
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Voyeurism in HP fanfiction
What I take:
- fics where one character watches another. For this list, voyeuristic stories are the stories in which the observer is sexually aroused by the ongoings of others. Please don’t confuse it with bystander fics (where the bystander character is not aroused by observing the couple/main pairing). It might also help: the focus in a voyeurism fic usually is on the voyeur and what (s)he is thinking and feeling while the focus in a bystander fic is what the bystander observes.
- I’ll also take fics where a character watches others have sex, even if doesn’t arouse them;
- the person being observed should NOT know that they’re being watched.
- the voyeur should NOT join in/get involved in the same scene they are watching. The last two are my personal quirks for the list.
Themed list: Founderfics
Posted on May 31, 2008
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Founderfics (fics that feature or are about Hogwarts founders), for Naatz for answering my “Snape pursues Harry” challenge.
What I take:
- fics where we can see Hogwarts Founders: Godric Gryffindor, Helga Hufflepuff, Rowena Ravenclaw, and Salazar Slytherin, any one of them or all together.
- it can be a ‘pure’ Founderfic, i.e. historical fic where we can see the Founders in their time (10th century).
- it can be a time-travel fic where one (several) of canon characters travel(s) a thousand years back in time and meet(s) the Founders or, on the contrary, where one of the Founders travels forward to the modern era.
- it can be a portrait of a Founder only if it plays a significant part in the fic.
King Draco’s code, or What I don’t take:
- no Merlin fics if there are no Founders;
- no Highlander cross-overs;
- no portraits of the Founders if all they do is say a couple of words. A portrait must play a significant part in the fic or be a real character of the fic in some way;
- no fics where there’s only some Founder’s heirloom, be it an artifact, a book written by them or something else of the kind;
- no fics where the Founders are just mentioned / spoken of. We must see them as actual characters in the fic;
- no fics where there are heirs of the Founders but no Founders themselves or if the Founders appear briefly, only for the sake of proving/explaining the heritage;
- kill Mary Sue! I won’t accept a fic where there are suddenly Salazar and Rowena’s super-powerful heirs in a college in America even if there are the Founders themselves in the fic;
- absolutely no WIPs that have only a chapter or two written. I’ve seen dozens of abandoned fics while searching;
- no drabbles;
- do not bring fics you haven’t read;
- do not bring fics you didn’t like;
- do me a courtesy, please, do not leave only a link. I’d appreciate the following info: author, title, pairing, rating, WIP status; which of the Founders we are told about and how it’s done.
Themed list: Shakespearean HP fics
Posted on May 28, 2008
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Shakespearean HP fics, for the incredible, adorable, dearly loved Isiscolo. Happy belated birthday! I hope you’ll find here something you haven’t read and that you’ll like.
What I take:
- X-overs with and cover-versions of Shakespeare’s works;
- stories inspired by Shakespeare’s works when the original can be traced in the fic [relatively] easily;
- stories where HP characters make stage performances of Shakespeare’s plays;
- if it’s a fic based on a sonnet, it should be more than just a couple of quotations; the whole fic should be the interpretation of the sonnet.
In other words, I take stories where the characters of HP-verse can (this way or that) act as Shakespearean characters or in Shakespearean situations.
King Draco’s code, or Big No-Nos:
- no Draco/Ginny, Harry/Pansy (or anything else, and particularly no Draco/OFC) based on Romeo and Juliet. There are dozens of them, inpired by Leonardo di Caprio’s smile;
- no WIP rule is on today. I’ll accept a WIP only if it’s more than halfway through and the updates are regular;
- if a character reads/recites some Shakespeare, it’s not enough;
- a Shakespeare’s line in the title or epigraph is not enough either;
- pretty please, no silly parodies based on “To be or not to be” monologue;
- no drabbles;
- do not bring fics you haven’t read;
- do not bring fics you didn’t like;
- do me a courtesy, please, do not leave only a link. I’d appreciate the following info: author, title, what Shakespeare’s work the fic ‘covers’ and in which way; pairing, rating, WIP status
Themed list: detective HP fics
Posted on May 26, 2008
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A fair warning: I’ve been out of HP fandom for quite a while by now. As I read HP fiction nearly not at all nowadays, please don’t expect these listings of mine to be kept up to date. If you report a broken link or suggest a new addition, I might fix/add it… in half a year. So please don’t use these lists as a proper gateway but rather as a general guidance for what to look in other places if you find a dead end here. For new stuff, check comments.
This list is for Geoviki. Go read her fabulous story A Thousand Beautiful Things!
Detective fics in HP fandom
What I take:
- the main thing in a detective story is investigation. I’m asking you to take into consideration the following:
- an investigation should be either conducted by the authorities/organisations/any figure of authority/person in charge and/or be thought of as *investigation* by those who carry it and/or the fic should feature handwriting/blood/hair/etc analysis and systematic compilation of evidence aimed to reach, eventually, a suspect;
- a story can be entirely detective, but also it can be action/adventure or mystery with a strong detective element;
- crossovers with the classics of the detective genre such as stories about Sherlock Holmes or Agatha Cristie’s fiction fit automatically.
Themed list: genderbending
Posted on May 17, 2008
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Here is the list of gender-bending HP fics, for Iulia Linnea.
What I take:
- I was corrected while looking for the fics that I should have used the word “sex” instead of “gender.” That’s quite right. I’m interested in the fics that feature sex change here. But, since it somehow has already stabilised in fandom that the fics I mean are called “genderbending” or “genderfuck”, I’ll leave the title be.
- I take fics where a character’s sex is changed a) as a result of a spell/potion, be it accidentally or intentionally; in such a case the change should not be just a minor detail but be significant for the fic; b) by the author, i.e. AU fics where, for example, Harry is a girl (they will be marked AU on the list.) Mind that in any case the character(s) in question must be of the opposite sex, even if only for a while, not just *seem* to be. So, fics like The Perfect Wife, by LinW (Nesting Hedwig) go to the x-dressing list rather than here.
- where a character is a hermaphrodite.
- note that the point of this list is that a character’s sex changes while he/she remains in the same person’s body. It means no Polyjuice.
King Draco’s Code, or What I don’t take:
- no cross-dressing fics or other gender exploration or experimentation. They go to the cross-dressing list.
- do not mix gender-switching fics with body-switching. While the sex of a character might be changed during body switch if they were a man and a woman, those fics are not the focus of this list. If you are interested in them, you might want to check the list of recs of body-switch and gender-switch rec list, compiled by Ignited or my own list of Polyjuiced and bodyswap sex.
- somebody Polyjuicing themselves into a person of the other sex doesn’t qualify;
- Tonks changing her sex doesn’t count;
- Blaise, whether a boy or a girl in a certain fic, doesn’t count due to the fandom confusion about him that lasted so long;
- no WIPs that have only a chapter or two written;
- no drabbles;
- do not bring fics you haven’t read;
- do not bring fics you didn’t like;
- do not bring fics the authors of which show no grammar or spelling skill even if you liked them;
- do me a courtesy, please, do not leave only a link. I’d be really grateful if you tell me (besides the title and author) whether the fic is a WIP or completed, whose sex is changed, what the pairings and the rating are. Read more
Themed list: Animals
Posted on March 28, 2008
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As a present for Ntamara’s birthday, this is an innocent brother to Ntamara’s Mater List of Bestiality Fiction in Harry Fandom.
Animals in HP fanfiction (non-bestiality)
What I take:
I’m interested in animals: animals’ POV, animals’ behaviour, interactions between human and animal.
- stories where non-canon pets play an important part. For example, if the main character owns a cat or a dog (fish, rabbit, whatever) and this pet is actually present in the plot, not just mentioned, such a fic fits.
- stories where canon pets interact mostly with somebody other than their canon owner or where their part is significant and differs from canon. For example, if Hermione’s cat Crookshanks is very attracted to Harry.
- non-canon Animagi, which includes any known Animagus (i.e. Professor McGonagall, Sirius Black, Rita Skeeter, Peter Pedigrew, James Potter) as any other animal than what they are in canon;
- any other character as an Animagus;
- non-Animagi transformation into animals. If Draco Malfoy gets stuck as the unfortunate ferret, it fits. However there’s a HUGE number of fics of this type, and the risk of coming across a bad!fic is too high so I will be picky.
- canon magical creatures only if they play some special part that wasn’t written in the books (like Buckbeak’s part in Sirius’ escape). For example, if Luna befriends a Thestral and together they save Ron etc, it will fit.
- Charlie’s work with dragons or the life of a dragon reserve fits only if it’s shown in great many detail.
What doesn’t fit:
- canon magical creatures if they play the same part (even if their role is expanded) they had in the books;
- canon Animagi;
- bestiality stories. If you have doubts whether a fic contains bestiality or not, err on the side of caution.
- centaurs or werewolves don’t fit; firstly, they are not animals in my opinion, secondly, half the fics with Remus would fit otherwise and we would drown in them.
- if an Animagus transformation is mentioned but there are no details (like in Amanuensis’s No Happy Memories), that won’t do.
- no WIPs that have only a chapter or two written;
- no drabbles;
- do not bring fics you haven’t read;
- do not bring fics you didn’t like;
- do me a courtesy, please, do not leave only a link. I’d appreciate the following info: author, title, pairing, rating, WIP status; how the fic fits here.
Themed lists compiled by others
Posted on March 3, 2008
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A fair warning: I’ve been out of HP fandom for quite a while by now. As I read HP fiction nearly not at all nowadays, please don’t expect these listings of mine to be kept up to date. If you report a broken link or suggest a new addition, I might fix/add it… in half a year. So please don’t use these lists as a proper gateway but rather as a general guidance for what look in other places if you find a dead end here. For new stuff, check comments.
A couple of words first
Please, don’t ask me to re-make some of these lists because I’d “do it better.” Because, it’s impolite at best.
I don’t know whether they are updated regularly or not and which of them are. But in any case there are lots of fics on each of these lists. I don’t include here the attempts of themed lists that didn’t collect a lot of fics.
All these lists have different structures, but usually the compilers explain their rules.
NB: List of Lists, compiled by s8219: a large collection of links to themed and pairing lists. Very good! Last Update: October 22, 2005.
NB: List of Lists, compiled by Lothy (Lanta): a very serious source that includes links to masterlists sorted by character, theme, kink. Very good!
NB:List of lists, compiled by Littleroo27 Read more
Themed list: Parseltongue and Parselsmut
Posted on March 2, 2008
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This list is for Lazlet because she’s fantastic.
RULES
What I take:
- fics where Parseltongue is used a) extensively, b) originally, c) in sex. If they weren’t posted to hd_parseltongue.
- fics where somebody besides Harry, Voldemort, and Gaunts can speak Parseltongue, for whatever use.
- fics where Harry’s talking to snakes is a requirement of his job or business (like in Tayefeth’s Snakes and Ladders).
King Draco’s Code, or What I don’t take:
- no fics where Harry and Voldemort chat in Parseltongue as they would do, say, in French.
- no fics where Harry has a pet snake (or just a friendly snake), i.e. where Paseltongue is used for communications with snakes and nothing else. Such a fic would qualify, though, if Harry’s speaking Parseltongue to snakes arouses somebody else, that is if Parseltongue is a kink.
- no fics where Parseltongue is used but it’s insignificant for the fic as a whole, as in, Harry says two-three phrases to open a door. Once again, the use of Parseltongue should be significant.
- no fics from hd_parseltongue; I just don’t want to multiply things without necessity. You can simply go there and read fics to your heart’s delight.
- no WIPs that have only a chapter or two written;
- no drabbles;
- do not bring fics you haven’t read;
- do not bring fics you didn’t like;
- do not bring fics the authors of which show no grammar or spelling skill even if you liked them;
- do me a courtesy, please, do not leave only a link. I’d be really grateful if you tell me (besides the title and author) whether the fic is a WIP or completed, what the pairings and the rating are. If you tell me a little about how Parseltongue is used, I’ll be really grateful.
Themed list: Defeat Voldie 101
Posted on February 28, 2008
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This is a very spoilery list. Even the fact that a fic is put here may be a spoiler. Be warned! Also, the majority of the fics here were written before DH, understandably. So don’t expect lots of DH-compliant fics.
I’d like to express my gratitude to Dita P for her help in collecting fics for this list! Thank you, dear!
What I take:
- Since Voldemort is defeated in every third Harry fic, only the fics that show really original ways of defeating Voldemort are accepted. It means that even if something may be considered original within a certain fic but similar things were done in Harry fiction several (many) times, I won’t accept it.
- The way of killing/defeating Voldemort must be shown in a very detailed way, either with a deep theoretical base or showing us the spell/potion/combat tactics development and how it works, or both.
« go back — keep looking »King Draco’s code, or What I don’t take:
- no fairy tale or some-other-(non-Harry)-verse AU fics. But I’ll take an AU fic of “Severitus’ type”, of “Harry’s parents survived” type, etc. In other words, I’ll accept AUs that don’t incorporate strange details in Harry-verse.
- no fics where the defeat of Voldemort is mentioned in passing. If we don’t see how it was done in detail, the fic doesn’t qualify.
- no fics where the means of destroying Voldemort look like Deus ex machina. As in, Harry and his new friend Miranda find a super-hyper-powerful sword/ amulet/ ring/ book and voila, all the problems are solved. I’m well acquainted with the ways the minds of many young fanfic writers from FF net work, i.e. without any consideration of canon but with the wildest flights of fantasy. So I will take such a fic only if it’s exceptionally well-written and plausible. And not if the author in their unrestrained fancy made up something so original that it better be called ridiculous.
- here are the sub-types of the scenario that aren’t considered original:
a) the duel Harry vs Voldemort, unless the spells Harry uses are developed by the author with great creativity and in the tiniest details.
b) the same about Harry duelling/ spellcasting with somebody else’s help, unless we can see the detailed development of an original spell.
c) Occlumency/Legilimency, unless the author shows us the mechanics in a very detailed way, or if there are some unusual aspects of it involved.
d) bonds that amplify the combatants’ power (as in, Snape and Harry (Draco and Harry etc) form a soul/ mind/ blood bond that allows them to combine their powers to defeat Voldemort, etc.).
e) since defeating Voldemort “Muggle way” is a rather frequent plot, I’ll accept only the fics where this way is very well-grounded and well-written or where it’s really unusual.
f) I’m not taking any more fics where Voldemort is defeated in a ridiculous way. There are two or three of them here, and that’s quite enough for me.
- no possession scenarios even if the way Voldemort is killed is original. They all go to the possession list.
- no time-travel scenarios where somebody goes back in time to undo or change something to help defeating Voldemort; they all go to the time-travel list.
- no WIPs that have only a chapter or two written.
- do not bring fics you haven’t read;
- do not bring fics you didn’t like;
- do me a courtesy, please, do not leave only a link. I’d appreciate the following info: author, title, pairing, rating, WIP status; how Voldemort is defeated and why it’s original.
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