Which Fanfic Archive are You?
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|---|---|
| Title: | Which Fanfic Archive are You? |
| Creator: | Fandom Bitches |
| Date(s): | April 2002 or before |
| Medium: | quiz |
| Fandom: | Harry Potter |
| External Links: | http://www.geocities.com/fandombitches/fanficquiz/index.html (offline) |
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Which Fanfic Archive are You? was an online quiz created by the Fandom Bitches, an anonymous group of Harry Potter fans that turned out to include Cassandra Claire and members of her "Inner Circle".
The Fandom Bitches also created the quiz "Which Inner Circle are YOU?" Although popular with many fans, the quizzes were perceived as pro-FictionAlley and anti-The Sugar Quill and Gryffindor Tower, thus contributing to tensions between members of the archives (see Fandom Bitches).
The introduction on the Fandom Bitches homepage states of the quizzes: "feel free to be righteously indignant - any offense was, of course, intended."[1] The quiz page was subtitled "bitchiness in bitesize packages".[2]
Quiz Results
Note that the following list is likely not comprehensive.
You are Fiction Alley. You’re probably the best fanfic archive, but your commitment to pleasing the ignoriant majority often works against you. You probably run the fandom, but you’re too PC to ever admit it. Our advice: embrace the power of the Ring, slap on the jackboots, and crush the fandom under your heel like you know you want to. You have nothing to lose but your souls.[3]
You are Diagon Alley. You are harder to get into than the Reading Room at the British museum, and just as as exclusive. You are the polar opposite of everything Sugarquill stands for : you embrace everything dark, angsty, psychosexual and slashy that the fandom has to offer. You should probably change your frontpage motto to Harry Potter For Slightly Twisted Folk, but the ongoing nude disco on your MB makes you a fun place to hang out.[4]
You are Suqarquill [sic]. You 're so perky, it's a little frghtening. You live in your own little universe in which Ron is never, ever a bad person and in fact may be the little-acknowleged main character of the series. Your fans love you rabidly, but those who don’t sail the “Good Ship” may find your mantras, creeds and view of canon a little hard to swallow. It doesn’t matter, you don’t need their approval, thank you very much. Oh, and it’s not orange, dammit. It’s Gryffindor gold.[5]
References
- ^ http://www.geocities.com:80/fandombitches/, archived 22 November 2002 by the Wayback Machine. (WebCite)
- ^ Fandom Bitches - quiz, archived 04 December 2002. (WebCite)
- ^ heidi8 at LiveJournal. Well, there goes *my* need to ever make a quiz..., posted 07 April 2002. (Accessed 30 January 2018, WebCite.)
- ^ gaiasrealm at Blogspot. Untitled post, posted 09 April 2003. (Accessed 30 January 2018.)
- ^ amanuet at Blogspot. You are Suqarquill..., posted 17 June 2002. (Accessed 30 January 2018.) Typos in original: cf. tomphelton at Blogspot, amaterasu at LiveJournal.