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[lnr]

Lovely evening round at Jan's. Stayed up too late when I got home though and tired again today. Plus seem to have another dodgy tummy so am working from home (since the nearest loo to our office is too far away for convenience). Hopefully it's just another of those 24 hour things. Should be able to get plenty done from here though.

Just realised what was slightly disturbing about the Harry Potter slash I was reading the other day (the things that were very disturbing about it were immediately obvious): it's in English. Doh! Mind I don't think I'd have the vocabulary for the French translation of it. Nearly finished book 2 of the French translations of the originals though. Can definitely feel my French improving in the process too. Was interesting to do a bit of translation for someone as part of their research during my lunch break yesterday. Don't think I made a very good job of it mind.

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[glitterboy1.livejournal.com]

Harry Potter slash

Eeek! All kinds of mental images that I really didn't want.

[meirion.livejournal.com]

there's quite a lot of rather good harry potter slash around, actually ...

-m-

[glitterboy1.livejournal.com]

I'll believe you. I would just have a hard time getting past the films. Personally, my first preference is for elves etc.

[meirion.livejournal.com]

ah, this may explain it. i've never read the books, nor seen the films, so there are no preconceptions to spoil the harry/draco romances for me :-)

-m-

[senji.livejournal.com]

Apparantly there's quite a lot of it.
(Mutter, mutter, it's not like we used to write Famous Five slash...)

[meirion.livejournal.com]

but it wouldn't have been *us* writing it, anyway; it'd have been adults or teenagers (most slash that i've read has been written by adults). but there just wasn't this whole cult thing where adults would read famous five books, was there ?

i don't *think* i ever quite got as far as writing any mallory towers or chalet school girls slash, although i think had the environment for writing such existed then as it does now i surely would have done (as a teenager).

(yes, i'm a pervert, but we all knew that anyway :-)

-m-

[ex-lark-asc.livejournal.com]

I think it may be something that's bled into English-speaking fandom from anime fandom traditions. AIUI anime or manga slash ficiton on popular characters is quite common. Also there do exist anime series which get their mileage entirely from angst-ridden gay relationships, so go figure..

[senji.livejournal.com]

Angst-ridden relationships seems to be quite a mainstay of anime :-).

[jiggery-pokery.livejournal.com]

Mind if I ask which story it was? Like as not, someone I'll be meeting this weekend probably knows the author. (Not impossible that I might be meeting the author.)

I have nothing against the concept of HP slash, but haven't yet found anything which really does do it for me. Not that I've looked particularly deeply yet.

[lnr]

Other Chambers, Darker Secrets
by Amanuensis