Talk:The Draco Trilogy
I freely admit that the bit about "a reader's only contact with fandom" being from personal experience -- I've met several people who have said things like, "Oh, fanfic is terrible and weird. I mean, I read the Draco Trilogy, but that was all." I would love it if anyone knew about more sourced discussion of this phenomenon. --nextian 01:06, 4 November 2008 (UTC)
This article should probably by renamed "The Draco Trilogy - Cassandra Claire"--Aethel 01:17, 4 November 2008 (UTC)
- Agreed -- I'm renaming it. --Arduinna 02:55, 4 November 2008 (UTC)
Regarding the controversy
Livia, I tried to keep the focus on this page on the story which is why I cut the plagiarism part here short. The plagiarism page has its own Cassandra Claire section. Would you mind moving the details there? --Doro 12:13, 7 November 2008 (UTC)
- Actually, I think it belongs here. A big part of the history of the Draco Trilogy is the history of the fannish reaction and controversy: the conflict between CC fans and ff.net, the ongoing struggle to define plagiarism, FictionAlley, etc. ... Also, the plagiarism page will get unwieldy really quickly if that's where we're going to put the bulk of the history of every plagiarism controversy. I think the way it is right now is the right way to do it-- a short summary there, leading to a longer explanation with more details here. If you really think it warrants it, I suppose we could create a sub-page, "The Draco Trilogy - Cassandra Claire/Plagiarism", but honestly, the page doesn't seem unmanageably huge to me right now. -- Liviapenn 12:52, 7 November 2008 (UTC)
- Well, it might not seem unmanageably huge because there is not anything about the trilogy on it right now except for a short introduction. So yeah, I think a subpage would be a good idea if you want to keep it on this page. --Doro 12:55, 7 November 2008 (UTC)
- Well, obviously more aspects of the fannish response to/engagement with the trilogy remain to be added. But at this point, the entire section on "controversy" (not including the last paragraph concerning the ship/slash tension,) is only 745 words long. That really doesn't seem so huge that it demands its own page. Why not wait and see how the page develops? -- Liviapenn 14:31, 7 November 2008 (UTC)
connection to fictionalley
From the page: At the same time, it led to the creation of FictionAlley, a major Harry Potter archive that became the new home of the Draco Trilogy.
I have read elsewhere that although this is the way the story of fictionalley sometimes gets told, that the site was already in the works when the Draco Trilogy got banned. (Wasn't FF.net's banning of NC-17 fic also an impetous for fictionalley?) I dimly recall that the situation was compared to the JournalFen/Fandom_Wank move, but I don't have any links. Anyone?-æthel 15:23, 3 April 2010 (UTC)
fanart
I came across a site that hosts a whole gallery of Draco Trilogy fanart.--æthel 21:37, 3 August 2010 (UTC)
Cleanup?
As the current most popular page on wiki, I'm sure this page is a lot of fans' first introduction to Fanlore. I think it's important for it to be as readable and welcoming as possible, but right now it looks a little dense and formidable to me. I'm thinking first of all that each of the three stories should have their own page, where we can move longer reviews/summaries and help de-clutter this page, and then this could be more overview and history of the trilogy as a whole. Thoughts? --sparc 06:09, 2 June 2012 (UTC)
DT before FF.net?
In the "Controversy" section, it says:
- "The story first became the subject of major controversy when it was posted to Fanfiction.net where it found a different and larger audience."
Does anyone have more info about this? I can't find any indication that DD/DS was published somewhere before appearing on FF.net. (It might have been; info from 2000 is very hard to find...) --sparc (talk) 15:41, 9 April 2013 (UTC)
- She posted the Chapters to the Paradigm of Uncertainty mailing list. [1]