So I decided to look transfem Harry Potter fanfiction up as a joke and oops I remembered how much I liked reading fanfic as a kid and now I'm back into it. So I ended up making lists of fanfiction that i've read, mostly to keep track of what I've already looked at or not, but also to just start making little notes about what I thought about it.
Most of my notes will be via my AO3 Bookmarks page but I wanted to highlight below some stories that i think are special.
Little guide to my notes by the individual fanfic names:
- 🏳️⚧️ there's a focus on transgender identities.
- ⚠️ Its unfinished and hopefully still ongoing.
- (#/5) my very informal, yet legally binding rating (fyi 2 is okay).
the fics
- No Ghosts, No Mistletoe Persona 3 words: 3,786 (4/5)
Hamuko and Junpei have a bros christmas ;_; this author does a lot of neat Persona fics, highly recommend browsing their stuff. - Tethered 🏳️⚧️⚠️ The Martian words: 31,963 (3/5)
Basically an epilogue that's about how your boy who survived the Mars is actually your girl.
Content Warning: Harry Potter
Yeah I got back into fanfic because of HP and I still read way too much of it. Everything below will be that wizard franchise made by a rich terf who is actively ruining people's lives so don't feel bad if you decide to ignore all of it.
The other pages
Some specific niches that get their own page.
- Pansmione fics: easily my favorite ship in this cursed fandom.
- Severitus fics: an entire genre of Severus Snape raising Harry Potter, lmao.
Some authors who I adore, along with an example work of theirs.
- Inwardtransience is like my absolute favorite. Some extremely long and fascinating stories with very thought-out world building, with common themes of dealing with trauma and linguistics obsessions. If you can handle the content warnings, I'd extremely recommend The Good War, otherwise Children of the Gods is cute as fuck. Her unfinished KOTOR fic is also fascinating, same with To Reach Without which really personally means a lot to me, even if its not her best work.
- dirgewithoutmusic who did a bunch of what ifs. the girl who lived (again) being one of my favorites, I was trying to not cry by the end of it.
some individual fics
- Departure from the Diary ⚠️ words:177,586 (4/5)
Tamelyn Riddle finally escapes from that damn diary into Harry Potter's mind, she is definitely a bad influence on him, lmao. Also its a slow-burn romance between the two, I could not stop reading lol. - Idiots words: 14,861
Potter and Malfoy instantly become friends and realize they should keep this hidden because of the prejudices of wizarding society. - Just One More Step 🏳️⚧️⚠️ words: 13,602 (4/5)
An eggfic about a post-books homeless Potter.
yeah there's even smut.
- Even the Night words: 3,143
Some cute Drarry thats mostly them hanging on a roof. - A Place to Fall words: 2,071 (4/5)
Ginny and Pansy have been dating for a month and its Valentine's day.