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

[sarea-okelani.livejournal.com]

Hi! Yes ... really, the only true reason to have a D/G-centric archive is to be able to find D/G-specific fic quickly and easily ... otherwise, you could go to a number of sites and look for it. It'd be lovely to have a "home" the way these other ships do.

I've already told Kaz this, but what the heck, I like hearing myself talk ... while I think HR is great and definitely a step in the right direction, what I'd really like to see is something just for D/G, because it's my little OTP and I loff it. <g>

Okay, and I've just seen in my mailbox that you saw my answer to Kaz, but I'm posting this anyway, because I wrote it, goddammit. <g>

[gianfared.livejournal.com]

*snort* Amen, sister! You go to all the trouble to write the damn response, you should post it! LOL

I'll have you know that I adore your OTP and share your taste. I mean really, is there any other? *sigh* I just requested a SMUTASTIC D/G fic as my reward for my shared win of The Squick Fic from Hell Challenge. What else could a girl want but the goodness that is D/G? ;o)