If wishes were horses...

[sarea]

You know what D/G needs? Its own site, where writers can register and post their D/G-oriented fic. All ratings would be accepted. The rules would be, "D/G, and whatever the hell other ships you want." Portkey and Checkmated are both fine sites, but they're H/Hr and R/Hr oriented, which means that a D/G writer is in this awkward position of having two places to archive his/her fic, depending on what the subpairings in the story are. This also means that sometimes, story direction gets decided by where the story can get posted, which is not the ideal way to plan a story -- and yet, who can blame a writer for doing so?

After corresponding with the lovely bunny_wabit, I now know for sure that you can't "break" the H/Hr ship on Portkey regardless of which ship pairing you're placing the story under. And because it's an H/Hr-focused site, the reverse isn't true for the others (you can post H/Hr stories that break the other ships). That is completely the prerogative of the site's maintainers, and I respect that. Sure, it bothers me a little, but the main issue is that that means, even though Portkey is a D/G-friendly site, I can't post the whole spectrum of what I might write wrt D/G. I can only post D/G + H/Hr or D/G + no Harry romance + no Hermione romance fics. That is way limiting for me. From what I can tell of the rules at Checkmated, it's the exact same kind of limitation, only w/ R/Hr instead of H/Hr. And in fact, I'm not even allowed the option of D/G without R/Hr, which at least at Portkey would be acceptable (meaning D/G only).

I'm just throwing this out there, mainly to vent, and maybe with the hopes that someone who can actually do something about it will hear my plea. I don't have the expertise, personality, or resources to create/maintain such a site, but something like that would rock my socks off.

Comments

*clears throat nervously*

[kaz814.livejournal.com]

Can I offer my site House Rivalry (http://hr.nearheralways.com) as a possible solution? HR takes any Ginny/Slytherins fic, and even if she doesn't end up with a Slyth in the end, as long as she's with one somewhere along the line, it's accepted. HR is an auto archive (though mod approval is required for the first three submissions to keep grammar/punctuation/spelling standards up) and has beta readers and (soon) tips on writing in general and writing Ginny pairings in particular. We have some G/D fic, though the archive is fairly new, but it's growing.

That said, anyone want to write a How to Write Ginny/Draco Fic essay for the site?

Re: *clears throat nervously*

[sarea-okelani.livejournal.com]

It's definitely a step in the right direction, thanks for linking us. And I really like the idea of mod approval for initial submissions as a quality check.

Still, in my heart of hearts, what I long for is a pure D/G auto-archive. I think it deserves it! :D

Re: *clears throat nervously*

[gianfared.livejournal.com]

Oh, well, I was posting my comment and fighting with evil Lj when you posted this. *sigh*

That was a sweet answer. If you don't get your D/G auto-archive, do consider the lovely community at HR.