Dragon*Con

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I can has Dragon*Con schedule!

HP Fanfic for Adults Only- Friday at 11:30 PM

Alternative Sexualities in YA- Saturday 10 PM

YA Costume Contest- Sunday, 5:30

All of which means:

1. Come to my stuff.
2. Talk to me of queer YA.
3. What HP porn do I need to catch up on?
4. None of my shit conflicts with anythingi care about on Brit Track.
5. Friday: arrive, go to Torchwood panel, nap, talk about porn. What a life!

Comments

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I'm only dipping my toe into YA these days, but a couple of recs to give.

"Tithe" by Holly Black. It's a 14+ urban fantasy, main character is a teenage girl (16 yo) but the next most important character is a gay boy. It explicitly says in it that he reads boy on boy manga and him being seduced by an evil male character is an important plot point, so it's really quite present.

Francesca Lia Block always has gay characters in her books, though their importance varies widely -- she's written so much this isn't a drawback, really. And how gutsy was it 15 years ago to have a threesome in Weetzie Bat, her first big hit, for the purpose of having a baby, no less? Talk about "planned parenthood."

As for HP Porn, it just keeps growing by leaps and bounds. I wondered if we'd see a fall off after DH, but no, the fandom is still growing. The ranks of the slashers and het porn writers are right now being continually swelled by the boomer and gen-x mamas who are discovering the internet and that they want to grab hold of their own sexuality at the same time. More and more of them coming online all the time. Add to that the teens who are having more and more internet access and making more connections via the net than the previous generation of college age students did. Still on the rise.

Finding the best stuff often means making social contacts through LJ, for example, and getting recs from people whose taste you trust. Lots of dreck out there. Visiting the archives though, like Walking the Plank (for Snarry), The Hex Files (for Harry/Draco), and Skyehawke (for everything, not just HP!) and reading what's in the "most popular" lists is often a good indicator of the higher quality stuff...