#Fanfic harry potter crossover archive#
#Fanfic harry potter crossover series#

People have taken it upon themselves to read it for audiobooks in a practice known as podficcing. There are now YouTube reviews of this fic.

#Fanfic harry potter crossover archive#

And now it now has more than four million hits on Archive of Our Own. Jump to January 2021: By the end of the month, the story had reached just under a million hits. By November 2020, it had just under 300,000 hits. By mid-2019, it had somewhere around 100,000 hits on Archive of Our Own. Here’s some more numbers: The fic finished publishing in November 2018. All the Young Dudes in particular really had its moment in the second year of the pandemic, starting around the winter. The growing interest in All the Young Dudes of late has this movement of reclamation to thank, but there’s another factor: Fanfiction TikTok. Stories focused on Wolfstar, the relationship between Remus and Sirius, fall into both those categories-not least since queerness was largely excluded from Rowling’s version of the Harry Potter universe. Fanfiction as a genre allows for people to write characters into a universe that maybe otherwise wouldn’t have been there or had been given short shrift. At the same time, there’s also a lot of class exploration, a dynamic hinted at in the Harry Potter books but more fully explored in All the Young Dudes. It’s a slow-burning love story told from the perspective of Remus, who is a werewolf, and thus explores the experience of being a gay man in 1970s Britain and being a werewolf in the wizarding society. What makes All the Young Dudes so engrossing is how detailed and invested it is in building a world outside of the one Rowling created. First I said, “I’m not reading a 500,000-word fanfiction.” Then I said, “I’m going to read the first two chapters of this 500,000 word fanfiction.” Fast forward two weeks, and I’m skipping Zoom meetings to read this fan fiction. Once I started, All The Young Dudes was inescapable.

#Fanfic harry potter crossover series#

(It’s indisputable fact that if you live at home for longer than three weeks, you regress into a teenager.) Despite having read the entirety of the Harry Potter series as a child, I hadn’t read any fan fiction of the series before last year. I first started reading All the Young Dudes in November 2020, while I was living at home.