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Rhysenn was a fan fiction writer and involved in the Harry Potter fandom.

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[edit] Timeline in fandom

Heidi Tandy is a thirtysomething lawyer in Florida, and has earned her HP Fanfic stripes beta-reading for Cassandra Claire, Ebony (aka AngieJ), Penny & Carole and Rhysenn. Somewhere around practicing law and raising her 18 month old son Harry, she finds time to write *A Surfeit of Curses* (SoC)- that explains why a chapter a month is about all she can do...
In SoC, what begins with Draco coming back to Malfoy Manor after the end of 4th year swirls into a series of flashbacks, a visit with Hermione Granger in search of Rita Skeeter, and a surprise discovery in Diagon Alley. Heidi is also the author of a Rowling/Austen crossover series on ff.net, "Homage". [13]
  • On June 8, 2001, Heidi made a post on the hpslash list which was perceived as an attempt to get slashers to join another mailing list to defend Cassandra Claire's slash writing. [14] The text of this e-mail is:
re: OT: COMPLETLEY OUTRAGED!!!
Punker wrote about Eliza's fanfic site:
I am only posting this because all these things are on a public
message board - (first, a note - Eliza is 14ish, and I don't even
think she's online much these days because she's dealing with final
exams, but...still....)
Eliza has never made any secret that she is an anti-slash person -
back around New Year's there was a long discussion on HP_Fanfiction
about slash - people like Al, Rhysenn, Cassie, Minx and others chimed
in on this issue, and Eliza eventually posted in response to this
post from cassie:
http://groups.yahoo.com/group/HP_FanFiction/message/570
  • Cassie ponders about where to fit a / into DS.* My favorite pairing
after Harry/Draco (which I really can't make work) is Remus/Sirius,
and Sirius needs to marry Narcissa so H&D can stay related, and
anyway, Remus has been turned, possibly permanently, into a big wolf.
That leaves Ron, I guess, available for.....um.....well, we'll see.
  • grins* The Ron/Draco knife-throwing scene I believe started out as a
response to the Teenage Witches who asked for a scene with Ron and
Draco where Draco starts taking off his clothes. They tend to ask for
peculiar things, but then they are peculiar people. ;) (she also
mentions Lucius-redemption in that post - it's an interesting little
bit of history!)
Eliza's response follows:
http://groups.yahoo.com/group/HP_FanFiction/message/576
From: "Eliza Diawna Snape"
Date: Sat Dec 30, 2000 4:04 pm
Subject: Re: [HP_FanFiction] Re: Draco sightings, Ron/Draco and
Lucius M.
>*Cassie ponders about where to fit a / into DS.
Oh, please, Cassandra, don't do it. Trust me on this; you may think slash is
perfectly accepted my most people, but, call me close-minded, I don't really
care, I believe it's wrong. I'm not going to start preaching at you, and so
far during this entire discussion I've stayed quiet about this, but if you
add a slash, I'm going to stop reading DS, and take the story off my site.
That's not a threat... I'm not trying to scare you into not thinking about
it. Don't get me wrong, you can write what you like... but, even when the
story is good, I have a very hard time getting myself to put it up. Thats
one of the reasons you will NEVER find PoU on my site, not because I think
its not a good story, but because of the ratings. Basically, if you add
slash, you're going to offend a lot of people, including me.
-Eliza, who is wondering how many people are going to start yelling at her
for this.
You can read a lot more on the thread by joining at
http://groups.yahoo.com/group/HP_FanFiction/ if you want a little
historical perspective on it. Believe me, flaming Eliza will get you
nowhere. She thinks what she thinks - and at the moment, she's not
changing it. Grr. However, DS is still up there, despite, well,
hintiness in some of the more recent chapters of a ben/gareth thing.
Oh well!
The view at the time, on the hpslash (mailing list) mailing list, was that Heidi was trying to get people to rally to Cassandra Claire's defense and create a flame war between the slash and het contingents.

[edit] Rhysenn and Cassandra Claire

There has been some speculation that in addition to Aja, Stacey and IvyBlossom, Cassandra Claire had another favorite that predated these three women. That favorite was Rhysenn. If this theory is true, Rhysenn's involvement with Cassandra Claire existed by January 2001 as Rhysenn had plugged Cassandra Claire, was a character in her stories and was chatting with Cassandra Claire by this time. She would also later co-found a mailing featuring her and Cassandra Claire's work. During the whole plagiarism debacle, Rhysenn would be one of Cassandra Claire's biggest defenders. The major argument against Rhysenn being a favorite of the same sort as Aja, Stacey and IvyBlossom is that, during this period, there is little discussion of Cassandra Claire having any sort of symbiotic writing relationship with Rhysenn which was one of the most important characteristics of Cassandra Claire's relationships with her favorites.

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[edit] Stories by Rhysenn
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