I'm restarting my new/favourite #HarryPotter#Fanfic thread here, since #BirdSite is well, that... Let's start with this incredible thing, which is keeping me so engrossed that I cannot put it down, other than to type this. I will add to the thread with subsequent reads, and perhaps some old favourites.
This one's courtesy of @fastfinge, so thanks for that. Basically couldn't put it down and other than leaving my house to gig, haven't stopped reading it the passed few days. Now I'm eagerly awaiting a new chapter.
Title: Harry Potter and the Art of Getting Your Shit Together
Author: MsStarryNightSky
summary: It started, for Harry, with two words he wasn’t really expecting to hear as he sat on a park bench in Surrey. His summer so far had been, in a word, awful – but the one bright side had been that even though his friends were seemingly ditching and ignoring him, everyone was ignoring him. Including the Dursley's. And then, on a park bench one afternoon, Harry hears someone behind him mutter under their breath.
@FreakyFwoof@fastfinge I loved that one, and am waiting for a chapter too. I finished chapter 20. I like the chapters are pretty long too. not really short.
@FreakyFwoof@JamminJerry (A/N: I did my laundry before writing this chapter! Then after posting, I'm going to eat a cheese sandwich. Please comment, review, follow, admire my cat, sign up to my Patreon, join my Discord, and subscribe to my YouTube! Disclaimer: The author, hereafter defined as "me" or "I", does not own any of the intellectual property belonging to the original author, hereafter defined as "them" or "they". This story, hereafter defined as "the fanfic", is an act of fair use. The author requests that they indemnify me from everything everywhere forever.)
@fastfinge Additionally, the author politely requests, nay demands, that the reader not take any element of this derivative work based on someone else's copyright and reproduce it, distribute it, store it in a retrieval system, transmit it in any form or by any means, including photocopying, recording, or other electronic or mechanical methods, download it to their e-reader, translate it, talk about it in anything other than glowingly positive terms, or use it to train artificial intelligence or machine learning systems, without the prior written permission of the author. The author reserves the right to remove this story and all traces of it from the public internet at any time, and thereafter pour mean-spirited scorn on any Reddit commenter who shares it as a PDF.
@FreakyFwoof Absolutely! I think we're all old enough to remember when every single chapter started with something like this:
Title: "The Phoenix's Path" Chapter 1/40 Author name: DragonScribe Category: Action/Adventure Sub Category: Romance Keywords: Ron, Neville, Weasleys, OC, Luna, McGonagall Rating: PG Spoilers: SS/PS, CoS, PoA, GoF, OoTP Summary: In the summer before his sixth year at Hogwarts, Ron Weasley discovers he's actually rather brilliant at something other than chess and eating. Quite shocking really, even his mum had to sit down. As he bumbles his way into actual competence (much to everyone's surprise, especially his own), the Death Eaters decide NOW is the perfect time to target the Weasleys. Brilliant timing, that. What follows is a rather mad year at Hogwarts involving exploding cauldrons, accidental heroics, and Ron repeatedly putting his foot in it with spectacular results. Canon-based with some OC. SHIPS (for those who are worried about them): R/OC initially, then very strong R/L, H/G and N/H DISCLAIMER: This story is based on characters and situations created and owned by JK Rowling, various publishers including but not limited to Bloomsbury Books, Scholastic Books and Raincoast Books, and Warner Bros., Inc. No money is being made and no copyright or trademark infringement is intended. Author notes: Many thanks to my amazing Brit-picker, Selkie, and my beta readers Ravenclaw5, Moonstone, Phoenix and Quill! You may notice references to things in the Harry Potter films (which I love!), such as the ginger highlights in Ron's hair which is actually in Rupert Grint's hair (Rupert has freckles on his arms too – I may work those in at some point in the story). Spells you haven't heard of, I made up, with the use of an English-Greek dictionary online. The name of a battle in Scotland that occurs much later in the story is completely made up, as is the location, again with the help of an English-Gaelic dictionary online. The names of some of my original characters have interesting derivations. If you have any knowledge of Celtic languages, you might get a kick out of them (and I'll explain their meanings in my Author Note's in the chapters in which they initially appear). I hope you enjoy my story.
@jscholes@FreakyFwoof@JamminJerry I’m old enough to remember when fics were posted on Usenet. They were split over multiple posts because there was a maximum number of lines for each post. So authors would say chapter 1, part 1 of 47.
@fastfinge@FreakyFwoof don't forget the authors that answer peoples questions in the author notes. shouldn't those answers be in the area where your readers comments are? or can't the author do that. I honestly don't know.
@fastfinge@FreakyFwoof sometimes I honistly swair that the author notes are longer than the actual chapters. smile. I know that probibly isn't the case, but it sure feels that way.
@JamminJerry@FreakyFwoof My favourite are the chapters that are just an authors note and nothing more. (A/N: Sorry guys! I haven't updated this week. I promise the story isn't abandoned! I will update sometime in the next thirty five years, I promise!)
@fastfinge@FreakyFwoof oh you mean something like this. chapter 16 this is just a quick note to everyone. I haven't abanded the story. I promis. I just have riters block, and bla bla bla bla bla. lol. I have even seen those in the middle of stories.
@JamminJerry@FreakyFwoof Even worse when the author goes back, edits a chapter to remove an author's note, and then the next chapter has another author's note referring to the previous deleted one!
@FreakyFwoof@JamminJerry The three of us should start a Harry Potter fanfic with a really interesting looking summary, and then just make every chapter a collection of author's notes. Just 150 thousand words of authors notes.
@FreakyFwoof@JamminJerry It could actually be kind of a fun art exhibit. Like, the story of an author told entirely through author's notes on their fic. But the actual fic is never written.
@fastfinge@FreakyFwoof@JamminJerry True. I remember using FicSave and Tyler Spivy's fanfic downloader to download stuff and after a while none of them worked. Meh, I didn't wanna read about why your self-insert vampire werewolf wizard time traveler wanted to fuck Voldemort anyways.
@FreakyFwoof@fastfinge I sadly read one that did make me feel sad the other day. there last chapter was a not ekind of like what we are talking about, but they had put in there that there x-wife had to make the hard desition to pull the plug on there 46 year old son. that was just a serious ouch to read at the end of the story. it was abanded, but still. reading a great story, only to see that as a chapter.
