Lira ([info]lira_snape) wrote,
@ 2006-06-28 11:40:00
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My lists

A short listing of my themed lists, pairing lists and favorite stories listing.


My themed lists
(Unless noted otherwise, my lists are sorted alphabetically within a category, disregarding articles.)

Harry-centric
Harry sends his mind back in time to his younger self
Powerful Harry
Harry is related to one or more of the Founders
Harry gets a new magical focus
Harry changes his name - legally or for the purpose of hiding
Harry as an Unspeakable, Hitwizard or similar
Harry on a Chocolate Frog Card
Harry has a phoenix
Hogwarts-AUs (Harry-centric)

Dumbledore
Manipulative Dumbledore
Grandfatherly Dumbledore and Dumbledore as mentor to Harry
Dumbledore in Harry/Snape-fics

Mentorship, adoption, different childhood
Mentorship and Adoption (Harry-centric)
AU: Harry doesn't grow up with the Dursleys

Diverse
A Cure for Lycanthropy or the Longbottoms
Trunks, portraits and other dimensional doors
Normal pregnancy
Animagus Stories
Magical or multiple Animagi

Pairing lists
Harry paired with an unusual female canon character
Harry/Ginny
Harry/Hermione
Harry/Luna
Harry in three-, foursomes or similar - het Harry with only girls - though there can still be slash in secondary pairings or femme-slash
Harry in three-, foursomes or similar - mixed Harry with both girls and guys
Harry in three-, foursomes or similar - slash - Harry with only guys
Harry the Casanova - Harry with a Harem, in a stable Multi-ship or paired with many different partners throughout the fic
Animal Sex - Sex or implied sex between animals or humans that are transfigured into animals

Character lists
Delacours - Fleur or Gabrielle - Also contains quite a bit of Fleur/Bill.
Snape is evil and nasty

Themes that I might make lists for - Tell me what interests you most (of the topics posted). If many people vote for the same theme, I'm likely to make that list first.


Personal favorites
Family and mentorship
Sixth and seventh year fics
Timetravel, dimensional travel and similar
Romance - Harry/het
Romance - Harry/slash
Humor and Stuff making you think
(I made those favorite lists a while ago and don't always update them with the new stories I find, in particular if I put the story in another list. Check through my other lists and look for stories marked with "##" to find my absolute favorites that I forgot to add to my lists of favorites.)


When posting Ratings, I mixed up T, K and K+ on ff.net, mistakenly believing that T meant PG and K/K+ PG-13. I am working on correcting this error - at least in one direction so that no PG-13 fic is labelled as PG. Even after I'm done there might be several PG fics left, though, which are still labelled as PG-13.
Also when I first started making fic-lists, I didn't quite understand the difference between R and NC-17, so to be safe I might sometimes have labelled an R fic as NC-17.
If you find a fic labelled too high or too low, feel free to point it out to me. I'll gladly correct my errors.


Writing Help Links


If you like my lists, you might also want to check out [info]lothy's List of Lists.


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[info]jadzia7667
2006-06-30 05:39 pm UTC (link)
You have such fun lists - thanks for putting 'em together.

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[info]lira_snape
2006-06-30 05:53 pm UTC (link)
*blushes* Glad you think so! :D

But I'm curious how you noticed that post. I made it mostly as an easy way to refer to all lists - and played around with dating it back in time. (I hadn't tried this before and was most fascinated by that option! lol)

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[info]lira_snape
2006-06-30 05:57 pm UTC (link)
Oh! Just realized! Even if I backdate it horribly, it still appears in friends' diaries...
I guess in that case I'll go correct the date...

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[info]yamato__ishida
2006-07-03 09:49 am UTC (link)
Hi Lira,

those are great lists. I hope it's okay if I link your lists in my community here: http://community.livejournal.com/hp_germanfandom/8332.html

Thanks,
Yamato

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[info]lira_snape
2006-07-03 10:51 am UTC (link)
Of course. It's fine. I'm glad that people appreciate my lists! :)
Thanks for the compliment!

You are aware of [info]painless_j and [info]lothy's lists as well?
Painless in particular has twenty or thirty very diverse lists.

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[info]luna_k
2006-07-17 11:54 pm UTC (link)
Great lists! I'm adding this to my del.icio.us bookmarks, and will now spend the next couple hours pouring over all these recs. Thanks for compiling!

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[info]lira_snape
2006-07-18 09:14 am UTC (link)
I'm glad you think so! :D
Hope you can find lots of stuff you like! :)

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Another List That Might Be Useful
(Anonymous)
2006-07-18 05:06 pm UTC (link)
I have a list of Powerful, Training, and Fighter fics mainly from FFN.net. There are two, one with completed stories and one with uncompleted stories. If they are helpful or useful, feel free to post the link somewhere.

www.fareryniel.tk

P.S. Your lists are amazing and inspired me to start my own.

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Re: Another List That Might Be Useful
[info]lira_snape
2006-07-18 06:07 pm UTC (link)
Thank you, I'm flattered to hear that! :D - I got the idea from [info]painless_j's lists. Check them out, she also has a listing for lists by others. (You might want to drop her a post telling her about your lists and most likely she'll add them to her list of "lists by others".) [info]lothy also has a lot of lists (all of them can be found via her profile and are also linked in painless_j's lists.)

It's also always a good idea to send a notice of such lists to the two lj-communities [info]hogwarts_today and [info]daily_snitch. They post the daily news concerning HP-fandom everyday. (You can find their emails easily by checking out the communities.)

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[info]allizarin
2006-07-29 01:06 am UTC (link)
Hey, just wanted to tell you that the link for "Harry changing his name" (paraphrased) doesn't quite work.

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[info]lira_snape
2006-07-29 06:58 am UTC (link)
Ooops!

Thanks for pointing that out! :)

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[info]sernandi
2006-08-05 09:38 am UTC (link)
Thank you for the lists. They have been highly enjoyable.

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[info]lira_snape
2006-08-05 09:45 am UTC (link)
*smiles* I'm glad to see that people enjoy them! :)

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[info]katiegsr
2006-08-07 09:30 am UTC (link)
Oh how I love your lists!! [katiegsr from fictionalley as well]

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[info]lira_snape
2006-08-07 12:33 pm UTC (link)
Thanks! :D

You might also want to check out Lanta's List of Lists.

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(Anonymous)
2006-09-05 12:23 pm UTC (link)
Hey, I was just wondering if your 5-chapter WIP rule could possibly be flexed a bit depending on the situation?

You see, the thing is, I have a fic currently that's about 17,000 words but only 3 chapters long so far--and I only plan to have one, *maybe* two more chapters--but over all it would be far more than 20,000 words.

And, well, I know stories that would have had more than five chapters by the time they reached 17,000 words--and my fic would certainly have been if I didn't like lengthy chapters.

Could you possibly further your WIP statement to say something like "5 chapters or the equivalence of 15,000 words"? (Of course, in a more formal manner ^^)

If not, I can understand--but I hope you'll think about it!

Thanks!

~liath

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[info]allizarin
2006-09-05 12:29 pm UTC (link)
Hmm. The post above is from me, by the way. ^^ I seem to have been logged out or something when I posted.

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[info]lira_snape
2006-09-05 12:48 pm UTC (link)
I have of course flexed my rules about this. Jeconais has HUGE chapters and has already finished lots of fics, so I probably would accept WIPs with only one or two chapters.
Or with multichapter H/Hr I added a "one-shot" by Bobmin which has more than 50k words, so it certainly counts as a novella in my eyes.

My main reason for that rule is so that my lists won't get filled with short abandoned stories. (I can't keep checking every WIP to see if it has been updated, so the lists will contain fics that have been abandoned at some time after I made the list. I can only try to keep the abandoned fics to lengthish ones...) In case of authors who already have one or more completed fics, I'm a lot more likely to make exceptions, trusting them to know what they are getting into with a WIP. You currently have two WIPs but nothing finished, however.

I know what you mean of course: there are lots of people who write 1000-2000 words per chapter only and the rule seems to favor them. (But it's a lot harder to say "no WIPs with less than 15 000 or 20 000 words" than "no WIPs with less than 5 chapters".)

Tell you what, how about you write your fourth chapter and tell me about your fic then and I'll add it with four chapters? (From what you stated in your profile, you are optimistic about finishing the story within the week anyway?)

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[info]allizarin
2006-09-05 01:07 pm UTC (link)
Hmm. Yeah, it's only meant to be a short story that I'll be entering into a contest. Since luckily the contest deadline's been moved down two weeks, it gives me a bit of a breathing room--but I've got my next part almost done, though not quite sure if the ending will be there.

Anyway, the rewards for winning were of monetary value ($100 for first place, $50, then $25), so I couldn't resist. After all, who doesn't like a little extra pocket money?

Besides, I'll have to finish the fic, or else it'd be disqualified from the contest. So. It's pretty much gauranteed to be completed ^^. My first completed fic. I can hardly wait!

Hem, hem.

~liath

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[info]lira_snape
2006-09-05 01:21 pm UTC (link)
Lol, good luck in that case! :)

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kim
(Anonymous)
2006-12-31 06:23 pm UTC (link)
you should put fics of harry or someone else being a veela.

with harry being someones mate.

any creature fic... i love creature fics

-kim

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Re: kim
[info]lira_snape
2007-05-30 02:21 pm UTC (link)
Euh, sorry. Not doing that list.
1) Not a theme that interests me in general - there are only a very select few gems in this clichéd theme.
2) Someone already made such a list, at least for Harry/Draco, maybe others as well. Just look through [info]lothy's List of Lists to find it.

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(Anonymous)
2007-06-17 11:48 am UTC (link)

.Good luck!





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[info]adinfinitumamor
2008-02-17 03:32 am UTC (link)
this must have taken an incredible amount of time. im sure i speak for every harry potter fan when i say thankyou.

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[info]lira_snape
2008-05-05 05:06 pm UTC (link)
Thanks. It's comments like yours that really make the work worth it. :)

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[info]shini2007
2008-04-30 04:20 am UTC (link)
Have I told you how much i love you?

lol just kidding...but seriously thanks for those lists!!! I have only recently begun reading Harry Potter and I love those "Harry is betrayed, has a twin goes to Azkaban" fics and your lists led me to some great reads.(I might even continuing reading the books)

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[info]lira_snape
2008-05-05 05:06 pm UTC (link)
Thanks. I don't really have much time left over for my lists nowadays. But it's comments like yours that make me want to at least keep up those I already have (even if I don't ever manage to make any new ones.)

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Help, by Kaeim (on ff.net)
(Anonymous)
2008-06-18 07:51 pm UTC (link)
have you ever considered having people help you with some lists?

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[info]hp_kitty28
2009-04-13 02:34 am UTC (link)
Hi

I'm kindof looking for some fics that has Voldemort winning the war and Harry is still alive... Can you give me a link to where it has those story themes or could you reconmend some stories?

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[info]insularfly
2009-10-25 05:14 pm UTC (link)
Ever wanted to do a girly!Harry or girly!Draco list? :]

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