Guide to Sugar Quill

[author_by_night]

1. Yes, we are canon obsessed, and yes, we freely admit to being a bit opinionated on that time to time. There are brilliant sites wherein canon and fanon can be tossed together like a caesar salad; SQ isn't one of them.

2. Maybe the latter is annoying, but it's just as annoying for those of us who can't find a fic archive - other than SQ - that doesn't have more Draco porn and evilistehsexay fics than fics that I actually recognize as close to canon. We have a right to be canon based.

3. Would you go to a book club meeting and ask why they don't discuss movies?

/end rant

Comments

[locked-door998.livejournal.com]

That's why I love the Quill; Jo's canon is the best. Yes, I'm an elitist, but the best kinds of people are like that, and I'm not gonna change - I will always find leatherpants!Draco rather sickening.

[miss-sophia.livejournal.com]

Dude, first Vala and then you with the Dumbledore-as-Harry's-grandfather thing. Did someone try to assert this over at SQ or something?

Well, it's utterly ridiculous. JKR herself said so (http://www.jkrowling.com/textonly/en/rumours_view.cfm?id=2), albeit in a somewhat cryptic manner. But that's par for the course for her. :)

[author-by-night.livejournal.com]

Yeah, someone on SQ did. But I won't really get into what exactly happened here, because I was asked not to by someone on the pro-SQ end of things. I'm actually going to edit that bit.

[miss-sophia.livejournal.com]

Ah well. It's better than Snape vs. Sirius wank.

[author-by-night.livejournal.com]

Too true.

[chocolatepot.livejournal.com]

Is it better than Molly vs. Sirius wank? 'Cos that's what was going on the last time I was at the Quill. Yeah, it's seriously been that long.

[miss-sophia.livejournal.com]

Hmmm...Personally, I think I'd take Molly vs. Sirius wank over Snape vs. Sirius wank, mainly because I don't think the first kind is as extreme and tinhatted as the second. I do recall seeing it at the Quill a few months ago.

Do you go by the same name over at SQ? I recall you saying somewhere here or on JF that you've been a Quiller, but I don't recall anyone with a screenname like yours over there...although then again, I'm fairly new (November 2005) and am not on there all the time anymore now that LJ and F_W and hp_cornfield and... have taken over my life.

[chocolatepot.livejournal.com]

Molly vs. Sirius wank can be pretty extreme, but generally the people who like Molly also are more inclined to be sympathetic to Sirius unlike Snape and Sirius. I do remember it being quite rabid a while ago. Someone named "Issy" came along and actually got the Sirius thread (aka Teh Reason For My Existence) closed twice - though now that I think of it, I don't remember if that was over Molly or Snape.

I'm Miss E Bennett on the Quill (ages ago, before the standardization of author names and screen names, I was *gulps* Iamthehermionegir1), but I have 300 posts over four or five years and haven't been there in a long while, so you're unlikely to see me.

[miss-sophia.livejournal.com]

"Issy"? I think you may be referring to Essi, no? Essi is a rabid Snape apologist. She hates Sirius with a passion and, IIRC, has been the cause of recent reincarnations of the Sirius thread getting shut down in the past month or two. Well, to be fair, there were a couple of people arguing against her, and so it was the collective wank that got the thread shut down. But yeah. There's no point in trying to change her mind; she hates Sirius. I think she actually posted an anti-Sirius rant to a comment I made on theregoesyamum's Neville vs. Snape hp_essays post a week or so ago, but it (her comment) got screened by the mods.

I agree that the Molly vs. Sirius wank tends to be a bit easier to deal with because Molly and Sirius are not as diametrically opposed as Snape and Sirius. That's why I don't mind it as much.

Hmm, yeah, I don't think I've seen you at SQ. Are you on the SQ87 by any chance?

[chocolatepot.livejournal.com]

I thought for about two minutes about figuring out the 87 thing, and then decided it was too much work. :D

[miss-sophia.livejournal.com]

I think the search for 87 is what led me to F_W, so I'm quite thankful for that. :P

[stmargarets.livejournal.com]

I see a pattern as well. :) Oh dear. Well, we at the Quill can out gun anyone - we have canon and anvils and who knows what else in the arsenal - and they have . . . a whole lotta wishful thinking.

[miss-sophia.livejournal.com]

This is true...although at times some of the canon issues get a little wanky. Just a wee bit. I guess I'm just a bit jaded from all the Snape vs. Sirius wank these days.

[stmargarets.livejournal.com]

Oh yes, there's plenty of room for wank (what a hideously accurate word) within canon as well. Still, I think it's fine for the Quill (or any other site) to fight for its standards.

[miss-sophia.livejournal.com]

Oh, absolutely. I couldn't agree more. I don't understand why someone would want to change things at the Quill (if that's what was going on...) when they could just go somewhere else and indulge in AU-ness, non-canon-ness, or whatever it is they wanted. There are many little corners of the Web. Go find yours and be happy. :)

Of course, this is the same argument I make to the Harmonians about why they shouldn't waste their breath arguing that H/Hr just might be canon after all. Just enjoy the fanon and be happy, man.

*le sigh*

[author-by-night.livejournal.com]

Yeah... really. But some people dont get it.

[talimeeka.livejournal.com]

AMEN! I love the SQ for what it is. If people don't like it they can go elsewhere. Nobody's forcing them to stay.

[abbers44.livejournal.com]

*applauds*

Anything in particular set off this rant of glory? *is nosy like Snape*

[author-by-night.livejournal.com]

Just a fanbrat.

[h311ybean]

*points to icon* :D [/Quillish snark]

[author-by-night.livejournal.com]

Yay!

[tipsytoe.livejournal.com]

Too true. I truly appreciate the Quill for being the only place I trust when I want that fanfic that doesn't make feel so cheated.

[author-by-night.livejournal.com]

Me too. :)

[valerie-valerah.livejournal.com]

*applause* Nicely put :D I <3 the Quill.

[author-by-night.livejournal.com]

:) Me too

[albuspwbd.livejournal.com]

3. Would you go to a book club meeting and ask why they don't discuss movies?

*snickers*

(Sorry, too lazy to log out of my RPG account.)

[author-by-night.livejournal.com]

Lady Narcissa, I assume, then?

And glad you liked my last point!

[albuspwbd.livejournal.com]

(Replying from my mail client, so still in my RPG account.)

Erm. I'm going to assume I know what you are talking about and realise that I forgot to mention who I was which was really infinitely stupid.

- jamc91 (Heh.)