Where have all the muses gone?
Feb. 11th, 2008 12:47 pm![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png)
Am I the only one really craving post TDH fics?
August, I could understand there being so few post TDH fics. WIPs that had been started before needed to be posted. September, again, I could understand.
But half a year later... I don't understand that.
There's so much backstory and a nineteen year gap to work with. So why not write about that? That's what I think a lot of us are more interested in.
I mean, I don't mind it if people don't want to stick to pre-TDH universes, I just don't know why more people don't want to work with the new canon.
August, I could understand there being so few post TDH fics. WIPs that had been started before needed to be posted. September, again, I could understand.
But half a year later... I don't understand that.
There's so much backstory and a nineteen year gap to work with. So why not write about that? That's what I think a lot of us are more interested in.
I mean, I don't mind it if people don't want to stick to pre-TDH universes, I just don't know why more people don't want to work with the new canon.
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Date: 2008-02-11 05:57 pm (UTC)I had so many fanfic ideas post-DH, and I wrote a bunch of them this summer. I may write some more - I may not. I'm at a really peaceful place right now with the HP world, and I really am enjoying not being The Harry Potter Nerd. Which is odd, because I'm in England...
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Date: 2008-02-11 06:07 pm (UTC)Not just you. I'm in exactly the same place.
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Date: 2008-02-11 07:45 pm (UTC)I'm more talking about the fact that even though many people are still in fandom and writing fanfics, their fanfics are still pre-TDH. It's not a bad thing, but I'm curious as to why more people aren't writing post TDH fic as opposed to the pre TDH stuff, with the exception of WIPs started before TDH.
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Date: 2008-02-11 07:55 pm (UTC)DH came out at the best fandom time possible for me. I was becoming so disheartened by my other main fandom and it really helped ease the fall.
And every single one of the fic ideas I've had (outside the one I wrote for a secret santa- the prompt was pre DH) has been post DH. Although, there is a strong lack of post DH fic regarding a lot of subjects I'd like to see...
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Date: 2008-02-11 09:26 pm (UTC)I feel the same way. Where's all the Dumbledore fic? The fic on how the heck Scorpious got such a horrid name? The fics where little Teddy looks up to Harry? Etc.
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Date: 2008-02-12 03:01 pm (UTC)At least She's still writing (although she's very miffed about losing Remus and Tonks)...
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Date: 2008-02-13 08:52 pm (UTC)Anyway,
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Date: 2008-02-11 09:48 pm (UTC)The problem is that the way DH closes, even pre-Epilogue, there's so much things that is set in stone -- H/G and R/Hr (I'm using shippings because that's what usually fuel fanfics) are established and there's difficulty in getting around them. And then if you want to go beyond shipping, there's jobs and whatnot to work with, but there's going to be a lot of postulating and inventing of concepts never seen in the books (something as simple as how does the government exactly work). It's a lot of possibilities, and that's probably why people want to just do the pre-DH canon.
That, or pre-DH there's still Voldemort and Slytherins running around on the high ground.
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Date: 2008-02-11 09:54 pm (UTC)The people who still like the books are hampered by the fact that those 19 years were peaceful, and while the epilogue wrapped things up nicely, it didn't really cause a lot of plotbunnies. Unless you really like second-gen fic. At least, that's my impression and personal feeling.
As for backstory ... I think the people who prefer writing about backstory are fairly specific about what they want to write about, and that means there's a good chance they were Jossed, and probably don't want to write anymore.
And we're all tired. Maybe in a few years we'll have a fandom renaissance.
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Date: 2008-02-11 09:55 pm (UTC)That 19 year gap is rather daunting because, I think, we don't know where the characters go afterwards. The glimpse in the epilogue is just a glimpse, whereas before TDH, people knew that eventually Ron/Hermione are going to get together, so it's easier to write something about that process of building a relationship; you know what the end result is.
Also, it's been roughly 17 years since the series started, I believe? The people who started reading the books from the very beginning are college/graduate students now or are branching out into the workforce. We still love our Harry Potter series, but we just don't have that much time to commit anymore to writing and fandom in general. It's something I've noticed that's been happening to a whole host of fandoms recently.
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Date: 2008-02-12 02:46 pm (UTC)That said, check out the comm thegoldenseeker. I'm a reccer for it. Although a lot of the recs are older or non-DH compliant, usually at least one per newsletter is post-DH.
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