Who are the Drarry Veterans?

[snowgall]

Because I'm curious about these things, I wondered which authors had been writing Drarry for the longest time. There have been literally thousands of Drarry fanfic authors over the years (not kidding: I've got over a thousand names in my database alone). So in order to find an answer to this question I decided to limit my results by these requirements:

• The author should have published their first Drarry fic before Deathly Hallows came out on July 21, 2007
  I needed some cut-off date to start with, and this seemed as reasonable a way to limit the list as any


• Authors should still be currently writing Drarry
  What this means for me is that an author will have published at least one new Drarry fic since May 1, 2014 (i.e. approximately in the last year)


• Authors should have written at least five Drarry fics in this time period
  I included this restriction because there were a few authors in my database who happened to have written one early Drarry and another one more recently but who usually write for other fandoms or ships. It didn't feel as comparable to the other authors on this list who had been more dependably Drarry/HP focused.
  

So who did I come up with using these restrictions?

Author	Early fic example		Recent fic example
alisanne	12/2006	Holiday Assignment	05/2015	A Good Night (AO3 here)
charmed310	02/2007	You took WHAT?	04/2015	Whole (AO3 here)
create_serenity	12/2005	I Don't Want To See That In Your Mind	04/2015	Carnal Desires (AO3 here)
dysonrules	03/2007	Draco's Escort Service (AO3 here)	12/2014	Twelve Months (AO3 here)
enchanted_jae	11/2005	The Remedy	03/2015	Potion First, Passion Second
femmequixotic	12/2006	Gone Down The Angel On A Lonely Night (AO3 here)	12/2014	A Private Reason for This (AO3 here)
gatewaygirl	09/2004	Whispers (AO3 here)	07/2014	Breaking the Curse (AO3 here)
lomonaaeren	05/2007	A Year's Temptation (AO3 here)	04/2015	Dark Land of Wonders (AO3 here)
lordhellebore	12/2005	Saving Angel	03/2015	Go Gentle (AO3 here)
mab	03/2004	Best Two out of Three * (AO3 here)	01/2015	'Twas Brillig (AO3 here)
megyal	04/2007	When Love beckons to you, follow him	03/2015	The first of all pleasures (AO3 here)
melusinahp	07/2007	Bells and Whistles	12/2014	Chaos Theory (AO3 here)
oldenuf2nb	07/2007	Anything for Charity	06/2015	Something Spectacular
pir8fancier	10/2004	Lettered (AO3 here)	02/2015	Eight Things that Annoy--HIJACKED BY DRACO MALFOY, FANGIRL
ravenna_c_tan	04/2006	Tempus (AO3 here)	07/2014	Beautiful Oblivion (AO3 here)
samaelthekind	03/2006	All I Ever Wanted (AO3 here)	08/2014	Getting Off And Getting Even (AO3 here)
sassy_cissa	05/2007	Three Little Words	03/2015	Seamus Finnigan is Lucky He's Alive (AO3 here)
sdkshelly	06/2006	Good Day To Be Alive (AO3 here)	07/2014	Pub Night (AO3 here)
taradiane	09/2004	Inevitable (AO3 here)	12/2014	Love Comes Tumbling (AO3 here)
twistedm	03/2006	Captured	05/2014	Harry Potter and the Obnoxious Heirloom (AO3 here)
zeitgeistic	07/2006	Black, in the Smothering Dark	07/2014	Potential Gravity (AO3 here)

* the original link to mab's early fic "Best Two Out of Three" is locked. But here's a screenshot for anyone who'd like to see the evidence :)

My database is large but not infinite. Any omissions are unintentional - if you know of an author who should be on this list who I didn't include, please let me know ASAP!

Keep in mind:

• You might be wondering where faithwood and who_la_hoop are on this list. So far as I can tell, they published their first Drarry fics after DH came out. If I'm wrong about that, I would love to know it!


• If an author has currently written a fic which is still anonymous for a fest, I can't know that, so I couldn't factor that in. I'm sorry if that means I left anyone off this list. Let me know after reveals, and I'll fix it.


• Co-authorship sometimes messes up my search results (for *reasons*) so if an author co-authored early fics I might not have realized it and may have missed them in my search. Let me know and I'll add them in!


• If an author's early fics aren't dated, then I can't know when they were published and so couldn't include them in my search. Please try to verify dates for me if you think I've missed someone. (Oh hey, another reason dates matter :)

Comments

[huldrejenta.livejournal.com]

This post made me happy, because
1) statistics are always interesting
2) it's all kinds of lovely to see so many people not only loving H/D for so long, but also continuing to give us wonderful stories to enjoy
3) you're awesome to write these posts and doing the research!

[vaysh]

This is such an awesome list. Thank you!! :)

[kitty_fic]

Thank you for this! What a great list! <3
I really love all your stats!

[snowgall]

Oh interesting!

I was going to title the middle column "Earliest fic" but I soon realized that I couldn't possibly know for sure which fic was an author's earliest, as I haven't scoured every archive and blog. So I just called it "Early fic example" since all I needed was one example of a fic published before DH to make my point :)

But if you can find me a link to your earliest fic, I'd be happy to edit the chart!

And you are special ♥

[snowgall]

This comment made me happy because
1) thoughtful replies are always interesting
2) it's lovely to get feedback on things I post
3) you're awesome to tell me what you appreciated about it! ♥

[snowgall]

You're very welcome!

And you're another author who I had to go back and double-check my data on. The earliest fic I know for you is "Summer of the Dragonfly" which was published May 2008. I was worried I missed something earlier and should have included you in the chart.

Let me know if I made any mistakes!

[snowgall]

*squishes you*
♥♥♥

[vaysh]

No, your data is perfectly correct. I came to H/D only after DH had been published. I was in LotR before, since 2003 but not as an active writer. :)

[germankitty]

Awesome list, and I may just have found some new reading material (or at least gotten reminders for some early favorites that fell by the wayside under the sheer mass of Drarry goodness and deserve a revisit).

Yay stats!

[snowgall]

I'm so glad I could point you to new (that is, new-to-you) fics!

No kidding about the sheer mass of Drarry goodness! There are SO MANY fics on my "to read" list and so many more still coming out that I think I may never read all that I planned to.

But this is a good problem to have :)

[germankitty]

Actually, I suspect that I may have read most of them as a lot of the authors you listed are among my favorites/must-reads, but I definitely don't think I've read all of their fics, so I'm looking forward to going through the list. ;-)

As for "to read" stuff, let me just say that I'm on my third Kindle ... and let's not get me started on my bookmarks and Diigo "read later" items, 'kay? *grins*

[zeitgeistic.livejournal.com]

Ooh this is neat. I'm on my phone so can't give a huge comment but I published my first fic (HD) in 2005. :D

There were several one shots but my first novel length was The Hush Of War and the prequel to that which began in 2005 and 2006.

[kitty_fic]

I thought abotu leo_draconis, but the earliest fic I can find for her was 2008...

There's also naadi, who was writing fic as early as 2002 I believe? and creating stories through art up to last year (although I believe she's announced she's no longer going to create for fandom?) So I'm not sure how she fits in this due to the fact that she's an artist and may have officially left fandom as of 2015...

I'm guessing that artists would qualify for a separate list :)

[lordhellebore]

Oh, this is lovely! :D And I feel special being mentioned.

"Comfort" is from 2009, though - I simply use December 2005 to store all my chapter index pages. If you ever look at chaptered fics of mine, make sure to check chapter 1 for the date.

My earliest (and not very good at all) Drarry is Saving Angel, which is indeed from 12/2005.

[snowgall]

Oh thanks for clarifying the dates! It can be so hard to date things accurately! But in this case, I'm glad that my mis-dating didn't cause me to leave you off the list or anything :)

I'll fix this in just a bit. ♥

[birdsofshore]

Ooh, another fascinating post <3

[snowgall]

Thanks for the info! I did see you had "Hush of War" on AO3 and your A/N said you had started it before HBP. But I couldn't find where it had been published before AO3, so I didn't use that one.

Fortunately you had also published "Men Who Had Mothers" before DH came out, so I could use that one for reference.

When you get a chance (and aren't still limited by being on your phone) I'd love it if you could send me a link to where I can find the first publication of "Hush of War".

Thanks!

[mab.livejournal.com]

I posted my first fic on an ancient site where I also post my original fic. I've temporarily made my stories visible to guests, though it's all my really old stuff that I don't want everybody to access.

Best Two out of Three (http://storywrite.com/story/7638745-Best-two-out-of-three.-An-NC-17-HP-homo-erotic-comedic-fan-fic--l-by-Queen-Mab-adult) is here. For some reason the site updates over the years have made weird changes to the formatting (line numbers) and the post date isn't showing, but if you look at the first comment, you'll see it was left 9 years ago.

Great list!

[snowgall]

Oh, these are good suggestions!

I found the same results for leo_draconis. The first fic of hers I can find is "The Gazebo" which dates to Oct 2008.

And yeah, the most recent fic I know of for Naadi is "The Everblooming Rose" (which is really a graphic novel, but I'll count it) and that was published in Dec 2013. It's a pity she's not writing anymore, because I really love her stuff.

A lot of the lines I'm drawing are totally arbitrary - why July 2007 as the publish-before date and why May 2014 as the publish-after date? Mostly just because I needed to draw lines *somewhere* and those made some sense to me as reasonable dates. (Using the publication of DH seemed like a good reference point for defining "veteran" and allowing at least a year before today's date because fic writing takes time).

And artists are a whole 'nother wrinkle to consider. Mostly, I just don't have the data at my fingertips for that!

[snowgall]

Thank you so much for sending me the link! I'm such a crazy person about getting accurate dates for fics, so I really appreciate it!

I'll add this to the chart in just a bit ♥

[snowgall]

♥♥♥

[sassy-cissa.livejournal.com]

This is so cool and I'm a bit chuffed to see my name on there. My first fic was actually in January of 2006 - although it's perfectly fine that it's not listed.

It is decidedly a first fic.

[mab.livejournal.com]

Sure thing, though if you add that link to the chart, it will have a message saying only site members can view it. As soon as I switch it back. I'll leave it as is a few hours.