Jada Rene
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| Name: | Jada Rene |
| Alias(es): | jadarene |
| Type: | fan writer |
| Fandoms: | The X-Files, Harry Potter, others |
| Communities: | weekinthelife |
| Other: | retired |
| URL: | author site: http://www.jadarene.iwarp.com/index.html, later http://www.jadarene.gillyweed.org/ (defunct)
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Jada Rene (also jadarene) is a fanfiction author, notably in Harry Potter and The X-Files fandoms. In Harry Potter fandom, she is best known for her Draco/Hermione works. She is also known for her limericks, which she posted daily to her LiveJournal.[1][2]
Her original, for-profit projects include SNATCH Comics, an original femslash comic for which she created the story, and Jasmine Falls, an original series updated weekly. Jada also wrote for Juxtapose Fantasy.[3]
Jada's LiveJournal was deleted by 2011.[4] She has also deleted much of her fanfic from elsewhere on the web. Since then, some fans have sought saved copies of her fanworks from others.[5]
Fandom History
Jada was writing X-Files fic by 1999 and started writing Harry Potter fic in early 2003.[6]
In response to a call for fans' "fandom journeys", Jada wrote in 2006:
How I got started in fandom, generally: A friend asked me to write her an X-Files fic; I did, we posted, and I got sucked into the X-Files fandom where I wrote numerous fics. How I got started in the Harry Potter fandom: Right after Goblet of Fire was published, I read all four books at once. There is a scene in GoF where Draco pops up in the woods. It gave me a plot bunny for a Draco/Hermione story. I wrote, I posted, and after I posted Arabian Knight (which you can find at: [Coloured Grey] ), I continued reading fic, scouring all the archives for anything good. It was a short list at the time. I found a lot of good Harry/Draco stuff, though, which ended up giving me a plot bunny for one of those. So then I wrote a H/D fic which I posted to Fiction Alley ( ["Don't Let Go"] ).There I found another author, dementordelta, who writes Snarry. She and I emailed back and forth and she read my H/D and liked it. She gave me codes for an lj, and this was back in the day when you had to have codes to get one. At that point, I started writing daily HP limericks, and have been doing that for the past three years. I also continue to write fic, primarily H/D, D/Hr, Sn/H, or H/Weasley. My pairings actually vary a great deal.From this fandom, I finally understood yaoi, and came to really love slash fic because the fandom embraced it and there actually was enough of it to go around. There may be a huge shortage of slash fiction in the bookstores, but in fandom, you can find somethig to satisfy the readers' craving. I've also been privileged to meet so many great people, several of whom I've forged close friendships with, and whom I have taken as friends in my regular life and not just my online life. I would have to say that the very best thing I've gotten from the fandom is the freedom to form friendships outside the basis of geographical constraints. Meeting people who actually share my specific geeky interests has enabled me to really be myself and not have to hold back parts of my personality for fear of shunning. It's a relief, it's a joy, and I'm grateful for my fandom experiences. In the beginning, I posted in X Files for the joy of writing and to improve my craft in an informal setting. With HP, I just went nuts. I've almost written one thousand dirty HP limericks, and a ton of fics because they were all scenes I would have loved to see, were the characters able to play out the situations I set before them. Now I feel like I really am here to play, and to entertain myself and my friends with very similar interests. I haven't really seen a lot of changes in the fandom, and I think that's probably because I came to HP only a few years ago, so I missed a lot of the fandom formation. I'm just grateful to be a part of it now.[7]
Fanfiction
Note that the following list is likely incomplete.
The X-Files
- Desk Job (Feb 1999)
- Sequel: Work For It (Mar 1999)
- Sequel: Payback's a Redhead (Mar 1999)
- Hot Tub Homina (Feb 1999)
- Silk Slip of the Tongue (Feb 1999)
- Mr. and Mrs. (Feb 1999)
- Arcadia: Necessary Smut (Mar 1999)
- The Last What If (Apr 1999)
- Pop (Apr 1999)
- Johnny Appleseed (Aug 2000)
Harry Potter
- The McGuddah, Draco/Hermione (2003)
- Arabian Knight, Draco/Hermione (2003). Commissioned art by reallycorking (Aug 2006), commissioned art by lizardspots (Jun 2008, art offline)
- Sequel: English Muffin (2003)
- Toast in the Morning, Draco/Hermione (2003)
- Part 2: Tea in the Afternoon (Feb 2004)
- Part 3: Jam at Night (2006 or before)
- Don't Let Go, Harry/Draco (Sep 2003)
- A Work of Heart, Harry/Draco (Sep 2003)
- Learning By Heart, Draco/Hermione, for dhr_valentine (Mar 2004)
- Obsession Is, Draco/Hermione (Mar 2004)
- Paperback, Draco/Hermione, for dhr_valentine (Mar 2004)
- A Good Explanation, Harry/Draco (Sep 2004)
- Seven Ways in Seven Days, Draco/Hermione, collaborative fic by Jada Rene and others (Oct 2004)
- Honey, Honey, Draco/Blaise, written for the It's Always the Quiet Ones Secret Santa Fic Exchange (Nov 2004)
- Future Flower, Draco/Hermione and Harry/Snape (Jan 2005)
- Labour of Love, Harry/Draco, part of the collaborative series One of Your Fathers (Aug 2006)
- Greenhouse Three, Harry/Hermione/Draco (2009 or before)
- Thank You, Harry/Hermione/Draco (2009 or before)
Other
- Indiana Jones and All the Sexy Sex, Indiana Jones, Indy/Mutt (Jun 2008)
References
- ^ jadarene - User Profile at LiveJournal, archived 26 April 2004 by the Wayback Machine: "I write Dirty Limericks every single day at my LJ." Her journal name was later "Jada, The Dirty Limerick Writer". In 2005, she had a website called the Limerick Lounge (see LJ archived 12 February 2005).
- ^ Limerecs definition at Urban Dictionary: "Fandom term coined by idiotic_savant. When your fanfic is recommended through a limerick, generally written by jadarene, it is a limerec." Posted by Chrystal Barr, 18 June 2004.
- ^ jadarene at LiveJournal. CONTEST: Win Free Stuff!, posted 08 June 2004. Archived 15 June 2004 by the Wayback Machine.
- ^ jadarene - Purged Account, archived 27 September 2011 by the Wayback Machine.
- ^ For example, see Fic Search (posted 22 June 2010) and FIC SEARCH (posted 03 July 2011) at dramione. See also Comment on "Updates and Recommendations", posted by dreamyink on 03 January 2011, which links to "Arabian Knight" and "English Muffin" at the Restricted Section and notes that they are "two classic fics and the only ones of hers left up anywhere on the internet. I would recommend saving them before they're deleted as well."
- ^ jadarene, commenting on raffyv's post on LiveJournal. Reply to "2 questions for all D/Hr shippers!": "I started writing HP fanfic about, what? A year and a half ago, and got my live journal a year ago, and have been writing d/hr ever since..." Posted 18 November 2004.
- ^ featherxquill at Dreamwidth, "TELL ME ABOUT YOUR FANDOM JOURNEYS". Untitled comment by jadarene, posted 26 September 2006.