After the Rain (fan)
| Fan | |
|---|---|
| Name: | After the Rain |
| Alias(es): | Lady deMimsy, Fretful Porpentine,[1] a_t_rain |
| Type: | fan writer |
| Fandoms: | Harry Potter, Rarelit (Shakespeare, Dickens etc.), Vorkosigan Saga |
| Communities: | Godric's Hat, omniocular |
| Other: | |
| URL: | a_t_rain on LiveJournal After the Rain on FictionAlley a_t_rain on AO3 |
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After the Rain is a fan writer best known for her Harry Potter fanfiction.
She got into fandom after the publication of Order of the Phoenix in 2003 through the Chamber of Secrets Forums. In response to the question "How did you get into fanfic writing?" she wrote in 2006:
Canon withdrawl [sic], mostly. About four or five months after OotP was published, after everybody I knew had mostly settled down to discussing other things, I suddenly realized that I was obsessed with Harry Potter theories and I Had To Talk about them. Which led me to the CoS forums, after a few weeks of trial-and-error lurking on other boards.[...] There was a thread at CoS dedicated to rewriting canon scenes from Snape's point of view, and I thought it looked like fun, so I jumped in. And then was very startled when people told me I was writing fanfic :)[2]
After the Rain was an administrator for the Godric's Hat discussion board, starting in July 2006.[3] She was also a member of omniocular, an invitation-only community for gen fic and art.
More recently, she has mainly written in the Vorkosigan fandom, especially for Captain Vorpatril's Alliance and the characters of Byerly Vorrutyer and Dono Vorrutyer.
An Author Review
"She writes with a dry but periodically hilarious tone and plots of the inevitable-in-hindsight variety. I'm particularly fond of The Adventures of Icarus the Invisible Poltergeist and Running Close to the Ground."[4]Micah
Fanworks
Harry Potter
After the Rain has published 30 fics at FictionAlley, and had also posted stories to the now-defunct Godric's Hat archive.[5] Some of her most popular stories include:
- My Teenage Fan Club (Lupin-centric humour; 2004)[6]
- An Interesting Little Legal Problem (gen novel, 2004)[7]
- A Fair Fellowship of Young Squires (Marauders era one-shot, 2004)[8]
- Happy Birthday, Mr. Dark Lord (dark humor one-shot, 2004)[9]
- Running Close to the Ground (Peter-centric novel, 2004)[10]
- Remedial History (Nott-centric novel, 2004-2005)[11]
- The Adventures of Icarus, the Invisible Poltergeist (Marauders era one-shot, 2005)[12]
In 2006, After the Rain posted explanations for some of her stories' titles[13] as well as a meme about her writing process.[14]
Shakespeare & Other Drama
- Honest Knaveries (Shakespeare: The Merry Wives of Windsor, 2006)
- The Sin of Pandarus (The Duchess of Malfi, 2006)
- Best Men Are Molded Out of Faults (Shakespeare: Measure for Measure, 2008)
- A Wilderness of Monkeys (Shakespeare: The Merchant of Venice, 2010)
- These Late Eclipses (Shakespeare: King Lear, 2010)
- Love's Labour's Won (Shakespeare: Love's Labour's Lost, 2010-2011)
- Oranges and Spice (Shakespeare: Hamlet, 2011)
- Pseudonymous (Shakespeare: Hamlet, 2011-2012)
- Beau Jest; or, The Countess of Babylotion (Shakespeare: Twelfth Night, 2012)
Vorkosigan Saga
- A Bit Too Much Good Work Novel-length retelling of Captain Vorpatril's Alliance from Byerly's PoV; By/Rish (2015–16)
Other Fandoms
- A Still-Life Watercolor of a Now-Late Afternoon (The Graduate, 2007)
- Star (Great Expectations, 2011)
Crossovers
- The Jaws of Hell are Open to Receive Thee (Harry Potter / Doctor Faustus, 2006)
- The Lamentable Comedy of Severus, Half-Blood Prince of Denmark (Harry Potter / Shakespeare, 2008-2009)
- Severus, Half-Blood Prince of Denmark, and the French Physician (Harry Potter / Shakespeare, 2010-2011)
References
- ^ a_t_rain at LiveJournal. first post! 25 March 2005. (Accessed 22 December 2012.)
- ^ a_t_rain. Reply to LupinsLittleSister. 16 June 2006. (Accessed 02 August 2013.)
- ^ a_t_rain. plug, plug, plug. 09 July 2006. (Accessed 02 August 2013.)
- ^ Fanfic Recs/Harry Potter Authors And Websites on TV Tropes, wayback capture. (Accessed October 21, 2020)
- ^ "After the Rain's profile". Archived from the original on 2007-01-31.
- ^ Described by After the Rain as her most popular fic "by an extremely large margin". 21 August 2006. (Accessed 02 August 2013.)
- ^ "rec at Dark Lord Potter Forums". Archived from the original on 2017-02-22.
- ^ recs at Know it Alls, at Straight Dope, & by jncar
- ^ recs at TV Tropes & at Know it Alls
- ^ recs by clytaemnestras & such_heights; art by ani_bester
- ^ rec by ohmytheon; art by gangstersteph
- ^ recs at Coffee and Chocolate & Gioia Recs
- ^ a_t_rain. A meme 'cos I'm bored. 23 February 2006. (Accessed 02 August 2013.)
- ^ a_t_rain. The Fanfic Writer's Meme. 21 August 2006. (Accessed 02 August 2013.)