index - biographies Disclaimer About the intellislashers About this archive Am I an intellislasher? ABOUT THE INTELLISLASHERS Intellislashers are, roughly put, a reasonably tightly knit group of friends who write Harry Potter fanfiction. The term has a long and disputed history, but the most generally recognized definition is given in a discussion here, where Marvolo wrote: *clears throat* As far as I know, the term "intellislasher" was coined last spring and used among the members of the FA crowd (Heidi, Cassandra, the then-sane Stacey, myself, etc.) in reference to the group of slashers on LJ who basically could all play Seven Degrees of Slytherlynx; Rhoddlet, P-Z, Olympia -- basically all of the Post-Split Veelas -- Serious Black, Tradescant, sqeakyclean, Ravenchel, Kay Taylor... the list goes on. I think the best explanation for why there’s the prefix of intelli- is because that during a period of fandom in which most slash you could find was utter crap (well, it was. despite the fact there were some obscure good fics circulating around then, most slash was either painfully mainstream and canned H/D, or just completely unreadable toss.), these people sprang up and started writing sophisticated, decent slash that catered to a picky palate. They were largely adventurous with the sorts of things they wrote, and managed to break down a lot of walls that were still remaining in the realm of HP slash even six months ago. This style of elegant-slash, I suppose you could call it, is largely emulated these days. There are a lot of people who have followed along in the wake of this "finding a need and filling it" with their own versions, and relatively new people are being called intellislashers today; at this point in time it mostly refers to a certain community of people, and I don't think it's ever been intended as anything other than a positive term. ABOUT THE ARCHIVE Q: What happened to all the other Intellislashers? A: Almost all the Intellislashers are archived on here; the only one that we could think of who isn't is the lovely Ms. Hirsch. Archival on here was sort of by group consensus as to who was an Intellislasher, but it was also completely voluntary, and the archivist spent a substantial amount of time gnawing her fingers over who was willing to be archived or not and what stories they wanted archived. In fact, it's sort of amazing that almost all of us are on here because we're such a weirdassed, divergent bunch that we couldn't stumble our way through to Sunday at the end of the week together if we had any control over it. Q: Why did you guys start an archive for intellislash? A: Mostly because we felt like it. Most of us have our work archived in other places on the internet, but it's all scattered. We felt like giving some of it a central residence -- and well, why not? Q:Why isn't the archive regularly updated? A: For a variety of reasons, the primary one of which is that this archive isn't supposed to be a comprehensive archive of the authors' writings. Most of the authors on here have websites of their own that are regularly updated with new works,and this website is just intended as a sort of introduction to l'esprit intellislash. Q:You guys have het on here. And gen. A: Yes, we do, don't we? (Intellislasher isn't a style of fanfiction. It's not a style of writing or even a certain aesthetic approach. We're a bunch of friends who wrote and critiqued and hung out together, and people started calling us the intellislashers. And since we're the intellislashers, anything we produce has to be intellislash, right?) AM I AN INTELLISLASHER? The better question is: do you want to be? If you do, then you're not. No, really. We mean it. If you only knew the details of our midnight cabalistic rituals, you'd run back into the arms of mainstream H/D so fast that Lucius Malfoy would be short of a hemipene and Hagrid a goat -- not to mention the fact that unrelenting self-hatred is so bad for your health. DISCLAIMER Harry Potter, Draco Malfoy, Tom Riddle and all recognizable characters belong to J.K. Rowling, Bloomsbury Publishing, Scholastic, Inc., AOL/Time Warner, Inc., among others. No harm is intended, and no infringement is meant. index - biographies