No, okay, NO, it's not slash! I'm sorry, I'm new to this corner of fandom, and I'm getting used to the lingo, but I'm pretty sure I used it correctly:
Consenus is, "Severitus" was originally a particular challenge, not unlike the "Marriage Law" Challenge, and it's been somewhat appropriated to cover fics that share some of the same characteristics as those in the challenge. The name comes from the originator of the challenge. "Sevitus" denotes fics that deal more generally with Snape as father/father figure, but many authors use "Severitus" interchangeably with it.
Also:
Originally, Severitus meant only fics that followed all the guidelines set out in the Severitus Challenge, but through fannish drift, it has come to mean any story where Snape is a father (or father figure) to Harry. Sometimes fics which do not satisfy the challenge guidelines, or in which Snape is not Harry's biological father, are called Sevitus.
http://fanlore.org/wiki/Severitus_%28Trope%29
I would NEVER read the two of them as a slash pairing. EVER. *scrubs brain* That's why I asked for recs, because I wanted to avoid stumbling across Snarry fics. [No offense to slash fans that may be reading this, it's not the m/m thing, I'd be just as eager to avoid R/Hr fics, etc.]
It's like Twilight: when you're aiming for long, quality takes a dive.
Haha! I hadn't thought of it like that, but point.
As beta on Hermione Granger, the Slytherin, I've been reading the early books so I can offer constructive criticism in relation to the fic and I was surprised at how...non-offensive Harry was to my sensibilities. The kid is still WAY too passive to be a hero, and he never DOES ANYTHING to warrant his Chosen One status [FFS, try using Parseltongue on the basilisk, you twit, rather than begging pitifully for help] but he was actually rather endearing before the hormones and chest monsters descended. Huh!
It really was when the books started getting longer that the quality dropped. I've been hating on DH and HBP so much that I hadn't really considered that played a role in it.
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Date: 2010-02-25 02:38 am (UTC)Consenus is, "Severitus" was originally a particular challenge, not unlike the "Marriage Law" Challenge, and it's been somewhat appropriated to cover fics that share some of the same characteristics as those in the challenge. The name comes from the originator of the challenge. "Sevitus" denotes fics that deal more generally with Snape as father/father figure, but many authors use "Severitus" interchangeably with it.
Also:
Originally, Severitus meant only fics that followed all the guidelines set out in the Severitus Challenge, but through fannish drift, it has come to mean any story where Snape is a father (or father figure) to Harry. Sometimes fics which do not satisfy the challenge guidelines, or in which Snape is not Harry's biological father, are called Sevitus.
http://fanlore.org/wiki/Severitus_%28Trope%29
I would NEVER read the two of them as a slash pairing. EVER. *scrubs brain* That's why I asked for recs, because I wanted to avoid stumbling across Snarry fics. [No offense to slash fans that may be reading this, it's not the m/m thing, I'd be just as eager to avoid R/Hr fics, etc.]
It's like Twilight: when you're aiming for long, quality takes a dive.
Haha! I hadn't thought of it like that, but point.
As beta on Hermione Granger, the Slytherin, I've been reading the early books so I can offer constructive criticism in relation to the fic and I was surprised at how...non-offensive Harry was to my sensibilities. The kid is still WAY too passive to be a hero, and he never DOES ANYTHING to warrant his Chosen One status [FFS, try using Parseltongue on the basilisk, you twit, rather than begging pitifully for help] but he was actually rather endearing before the hormones and chest monsters descended. Huh!
It really was when the books started getting longer that the quality dropped. I've been hating on DH and HBP so much that I hadn't really considered that played a role in it.