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author | Matěj Cepl <mcepl@cepl.eu> | 2020-06-12 00:59:39 +0200 |
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committer | Matěj Cepl <mcepl@cepl.eu> | 2020-06-12 10:17:25 +0200 |
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diff --git a/faith/intro-to-femHarry.rst b/faith/intro-to-femHarry.rst index 15bc42a..d490692 100644 --- a/faith/intro-to-femHarry.rst +++ b/faith/intro-to-femHarry.rst @@ -12,9 +12,9 @@ Cepl’s Introduction to fem!Harrys There are two types of fem!Harry stories: -1. Where Harry (with different name, of course) is naturally +1. Where Harry (with a different name, of course) is naturally a girl, always was and always will be. Usually, I guess, the - motivation is that the author is a woman and she feels + motivation is that the author is a woman, and she feels uncomfortable writing from the male point of view (I know something about that, somehow, without me wanting it, most of my stories have a female protagonist, and it is really hard). @@ -32,14 +32,17 @@ There are two types of fem!Harry stories: turned to a girl (or he was born as a girl and then his sex was magically hidden and now he/she turns back into his natural state). There are many wrong reasons why somebody - could write such story. First of all, and I am afraid it - applies to most of them, the author wanted to write a lemon - and femslash was more juicy for (I guess, usually) him. One - unashamedly so is IMHO `11396276`_ and I will leave it at - that. The second is that they are Snape/Draco fans and they - didn’t want to write a slash story, so they turned Harry into - a girl to suite them better to their planned pairing. One - classical example would be `Snape's Daughter by Tribi`_ with + could write such a story. First, and I am afraid it applies to + most of them, the author wanted to write a lemon and femslash + was juicier for (I guess, usually) him. One unashamedly so is + IMHO `11396276`_ and I will leave it at that. Or there is + non-smutty, just fun, variant in `Pranking The Tournament by + Gardevoir687`_. + + The second is that they are Snape/Draco fans and they didn’t + want to write a slash story, so they turned Harry into a girl + to suit them better to their planned pairing. One classical + example would be `Snape's Daughter by Tribi`_ with the unbelievably horrible choice of name for the main protagonist (I won’t even write it here). I am not a big fan of either Snape or Draco, so when the story turned to be Drarry, I quit, @@ -49,26 +52,29 @@ There are two types of fem!Harry stories: it suffers from the deluge of smut (including some of the most obnoxious tropes like magical-hormone-makes-you-horny), but if you skip that, there is a rather good story hidden beneath it. - Alternative to that “something weird happened” is `A Fair Life - by Rtnwriter`_, where it is Harry (the canonical male one)’s - death in the Forbidden Forest in the end of DH and returning - back as a girl on the eve of the announcement of champions for - the Triwizard tournament and it is so far rather decently - written Hermione/Harry femslash (not even too smutty). Similar - idea with different execution is `A Different Perspective by - StellaStarMagic`_, where the canonical Harry jumps after - Sirius into the Veil in the Death Chamber of the Department of - Mysteries, but he is kicked back by rather Pratchettish Death - into being a twin-sister of more or less canonical Harry - Potter just before the letters from Hogwarts are delivered to - them. She is sorted as a Hufflepuff, and it develops into - so-far interesting timeline repair story. Usually the sticky - part of gender bender stories is treatment of unease of the - former Harry with him being a female suddenly with all bits in - wrong places. One example of rather anxious treatment of the - situation is `To Reach Without by inwardtransience`_ which - turns into rather interesting pairing of Harry/Susan Bones, - but again further the development, more weird it becomes. + + An alternative to that “something weird happened” is `A Fair + Life by Rtnwriter`_, where it is Harry (the canonical male + one)’s death in the Forbidden Forest at the end of DH and + returning as a girl on the eve of the announcement of + champions for the Triwizard tournament and it is so far rather + decently written Hermione/Harry femslash (not even too + smutty). Similar idea with different execution is `A Different + Perspective by StellaStarMagic`_, where the canonical Harry + jumps after Sirius into the Veil in the Death Chamber of the + Department of Mysteries, but he is kicked back by rather + Pratchettish Death into being a twin-sister of more or less + canonical Harry Potter just before the letters from Hogwarts + are delivered to them. She is sorted as a Hufflepuff, and it + develops into so-far interesting timeline repair story. + + Usually, the sticky part of gender bender stories is the + treatment of unease of the former Harry with him being + a female suddenly with all bits in wrong places. One example + of rather anxious treatment of the situation is `To Reach + Without by inwardtransience`_ which turns into the rather + interesting pairing of Harry/Susan Bones, but again further + the development, weirder it becomes. ---- @@ -87,6 +93,9 @@ There are two types of fem!Harry stories: .. _`11396276`: https://www.fanfiction.net/s/11396276/1/ +.. _`Pranking The Tournament by Gardevoir687`: + https://www.fanfiction.net/s/13132217 + .. _`Snape's Daughter by Tribi`: https://www.fanfiction.net/s/7618752/1/ |