fic - gah is it gen?

The Pure and Simple Truth is now available on Archive of Our own here. This really is one of the things I'm proudest of having written. I'm having trouble figuring out how to categorize it. It's about how Draco, Harry, Pansy, Hermione, Ron, Goyle, Blaise, and Luna all became friends, but it's based on a fic where Draco and Harry hook up. There's a definite love story there, but I don't feel like that's the focus. There's no sex or making out, and very few other elements of the "romance" genre, and large parts aren't about the Harry/Draco at all. Does anyone think it would be wrong to post this story in a gen comm? Because I think many people who don't like Harry/Draco would still like it, and it's possible some people who like Harry/Draco won't like it because it's not really centered around H/D. But I don't want to false advertise. Anyone got any ideas about this? Help would be so appreciated!

It's also available on Dreamwidth:

Author: lettered
Title: The Pure and Simple Truth
Pairing(s): Harry/Draco, but this fic might as well be gen. Besides Harry and Draco, mostly canon pairings
Rating: PG
Warnings: No porn. No plot. No, really!
Summary: Harry, Draco, and Hermione go to a pub. Harry, Draco, and Pansy go to a pub. Harry, Draco, Pansy, and Hermione go to a pub. Harry, Draco, Hermione and Ron go to a pub. Harry, Draco, Hermione, Ron, and Pansy―you guessed it―go to a pub. I could go on. In fact, I did. Harry, Draco, Hermione, Pansy, Ron, Blaise, Luna, Goyle, Neville, and Theodore Nott go to a pub. In various combinations.
Word Count: 70,000 It happened by accident.
Disclaimer: J.K. Rowling wrote Harry Potter, in case you didn’t know, and talekayler wrote Nunquam Securus
Author's notes: Nunquam Securus is a short fic about how Harry and Draco navigate romance amidst their entwined circle of friends. This fic is the back story about how that circle formed.

Thank you so, so much talekayler for writing this fic, and for signing up for remix, giving me the opportunity to write this story. Thank you to stultiloquentia for her quick beta, to ravenclown for some points of crit and enthusiasm, and the mods for their patience and kindness. And even though she will never see this, thanks to my_daroga for putting up with me while I wrote this.

The Pure and Simple Truth

fandom angsting and moaning

I also posted The Eighth Tale on AO3 here.

People say I suck at summaries, so I probably didn't adequately explain that fic. It deals with timey-wimey and time paradoxes, possible futures that might also be possible fanfics, Harry/Draco sex, and then a sad ending. The fic was actually the summary of a fic that I'm not actually going to write, so I think it does have some problems, but I'm quite happy with it as a fic in its own right.

I'm going through and trying to make sure I put all my fics in the places they should go (which sometimes takes forever!) Sometimes I can't tell whether a fic I write lacks visibility, which means I should try harder to put it somewhere, or whether it lacks appeal, which means I definitely should stop trying. What do you do in a situation like that? I feel like the window where people might read your fic is usually gone in about 3 days, unless it gets linked elsewhere, and what if in that time, not many people read it? Did that mean it was no good, you just posted at the wrong time, a catastrophe was happening, your header sucked, people just don't know your name, or what?

It's an interesting fandom phenomenon that sometimes I care way too much about, I admit. However, I can't even count the number of times (especially in HP fandom!) I've seen people say things like, "I thought I knew all the good writers out there!" . . . which is a sad thing for new and old writers to hear, and "If you haven't read this fic, you're not really in this fandom!", when it's a fic I've never heard of . . . which, I guess, you know, means I'm not in that fandom! I don't think it's meant to be for serious, but it's still a weird and somewhat confusing thing to hear.