Anti-news department

[nonelvis]

Eleven years after the first Harry Potter book was released, io9.com* discovers there is Dumbledore slashfic.

*Admittedly, io9 hasn't been around more than a year, but COME ON.

Comments

[nonelvis]

I have no idea. I'd certainly heard of fanfic many, many years before I started reading or writing it. Who are these incredibly sheltered folks and how can we convince them to read our porn?

[papilio-luna.livejournal.com]

When I started reading and then writing fic myself, I had to very patiently explain to the Hubs that not all fic is slash. In his mind, they were one and the same. And he's very much not someone who Moves in These Circles and even he had heard so much about slash (and weird pairings) that he thought that's what all fanfic was!

[otherwise-nyc.livejournal.com]

I thought the tone of the piece was kind of strange -- Annalee totally knows about slash, duh. I don't read io9 often enough to know what she thinks of her readership, though? I mean, it does seem like some of the commenters were like, "WTF?" and some were "ho hum" -- so perhaps she wasn't sure which way they'd take it.

I had the impression from something she twittered a week or two ago that she just sort of felt like writing a column about Dumbledore slash, though. :)

[nonelvis]

Yeah, I had to figure Annalee knew about it, which is one of the reasons the piece struck me as being so out of place. It was absolutely the kind of piece Danny always called "anti-news" on NTK ;)

(though I can certainly understand the desire to share when one has found some particularly nice porn ...)