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!

[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!

[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.

[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.

[birdsofshore]

Ooh, another fascinating post <3

[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!

[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.

[frnklymrshnkly.livejournal.com]

Thank you for yet more awesome data! This is just a giant list of happiness.

As a sidenote, I'm not sure if it's in the spirit of this list, but fourth_rose, who started writing drarry least as early as 2005, recently updated a wip that had been in a 5 year coma.

[lq-traintracks.livejournal.com]

sdkshelly!!!! :-DDDD

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[writcraft]

This is a really cool list, I'm always curious about this kind of thing too, particularly as a relative newbie (2011) who only started writing long after canon closed.

It looks as though your list takes into account people who have since changed usernames too, which is an awesome feat. Great work with this, thank you! <3

[besamislabios]

here via lj home page - top lj

This is such an awesome list! I thought of Faithwood but then I saw your disclaimer. ;)

adding you hope you don't mind. :)

[littlemissnovel.livejournal.com]

This is such a helpful list because I wanted to read some Drarry fics :D <3

[charmed310.livejournal.com]

I feel so honoured to be on this list!

[gracerene]

You and your stats! Super interesting list. I think you did a good job coming up with the restrictions. :(

[carowren.livejournal.com]

Oh this is such a great list! Friending you so I can keep up with all of your excellent content. Also, I really like the new look of your page :)

Drarry

[samaelthekind.livejournal.com]

Thank you for the inclusion! All I Ever Wanted really takes me back. Writing a blue streak was surprisingly easy at the time. Balancing writing and work has gotten a lot tougher, but part of it is that I've had so many original works in the process that it's cut into my fan fic writing time. In any case, thanks again! Peace and Love!

[obliviateamores.livejournal.com]

I love all your stats!
As an absolute maths nerd I love analysing these things too :)
And also yay, I now have some more stuff to read...

[pir8fancier.livejournal.com]

Can I quality?

First Drarry story was We Are the Champions, which debuted in August 2004, and I wrote a wee Drarry drabbley thing in February 5, 2015.

[ravenna-c-tan.livejournal.com]

Ooh, this just became my new reading list for this weekend! So many of my favorite authors are here.

I'm trying to recall who else was highly active when I first started posting on LJ in 2006, who you might be missing. Jennavere dropped off the face of the earth, Mistful went pro and deleted her fics...

What about celandineb? I'm not sure of the date of her first Harry/Draco, but I recall a Harry/Draco/Snape from about 2006/2007 that blew my socks off.

I'll have to see if dacro is still posting anywhere. I think her earliest H/D date back to 2003, but the most recent LJ entry I see is 2014.

[digthewriter]

Nice list.

I had no idea my girl zeitgeistic was this old school!

SWEET.

[create-serenity.livejournal.com]

Wow I feel very special being included in this post although even I have to admit I didn't realise I'd been around that long :)

Also I'm impressed you noticed the link between my ff.net account and my LJ account, I'm not sure anyone else had, although since I recently tied them together through my AO3 username and by cross posting a lot more I guess it's more obvious than it used to be, so maybe other people have noticed too. I tried to keep them separate for years and recently decided I didn't care any more. (That early fic is just terrible though - how embarrassing!)

Anyway a very awesome post, I'm definitely going to try to go back and read some of the earlier ones again and see how many I recognise.