In this paper I look at how gender is performed in fanfiction, specifically in gender-swap stories within the Harry Potter fandom. Fanfiction is not constr
One political domain squatter isn't just your average muggle looking to cash in, though he'd be happy to do that, too.
I would like to share a bit about the events that precipitated the writing of Harry Potter and the Crucible of the Soul. In 1998, when there was no Harry Potter phenomenon, I heard of the J.K. Rowling book from my children. Their friends had read an "amazing" book and encouraged them...
Harry Potter and the Methods of Rationality HPMOR.com is an authorized, ad-free mirror ofEliezer Yudkowsky‘s epic Harry Potter fanfic,Harry Potter and the Methods of Rationality(originally under the pen nameLess Wrong). The story is complete now, so therss feedfor the story mirror won’t ...
Treading water, as any Professor Trendhound does in such situations, I said that I could live with it, if done by Cronenberg, but thought Saw and Hostel were nasty. "No, no," it was explained. "Slash -- as in fanfic." I didn't know Fanfic from Harpic.Sutherland, John...
"Harry Potter and the Methods of Rationality is the sort of thing that would technically be called a fanfic, but is more appropriately named a work of sheer genius. It takes the basic Harry Potter story and asks, "what if, instead of a boy locked in a closet, he was a child genius ...
He is seen as a being that extends beyond the Harry Potter texts with Rowling perceived as a flawed interpreter of his supra-textual essence. While a Snape religion may be seen as the extreme end of the Harry Potter fandom, I argue that religions of this nature are not uncommon, ...