Self Promo Meme Day 6
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netgirl_y2kDay 5. Something for a minor fandom/pairing/character
This is tricky because I haven't done Yuletide for years, and I am very rarely in small fandoms. I'm in fandoms that feel small to me, because I'm only interested in a small corner of them. For instance, Merlin is one of the biggest fandoms of recent years, but it seems tiny to me because I can dismiss 90% of its fanworks out of hand as stuff I'm just not interested in. In ASOIAF too; I read more widely there, but I also do a hell of a lot of scrolling. It was in ASOIAF that I learned the virtue of finding a few authors whose stuff works for you, and then stalking the hell out of their AO3 works and bookmarks.
I think Legend of the Seeker (oh, you beautiful tropical fish of a show) is as small as I get.
Only Love Can Break Your Heart (Legend of the Seeker, Cara/Kahlan, Richard/Kahlan)
This was another one for the pick a pairing, pick a trope meme. I used to write a lot of tropey fic; less so these days, my ASOIAF stuff tends towards future fic or canon divergence AUs, with strong overtones of 'the women are the strong ones.' Although, one of these days I am going to write my Sansa Stark: reluctant werewolf fic.
The trope was that one where people have the names of their, ahem, soulmate written on their wrists. Which is one of those tropes (not unlike A/B/O) which came to prominence when I wasn't paying attention. It's also (once again, not unlike A/B/O) a trope that does extremely little for me. Soulmates, destiny, and obsessive love all being huge turn-offs of mine; there's an OK Cupid profile for you!
The fic's only twelve hundred words, but it's kind of a deconstruction of this trope, and why it doesn't work for me. To whit, what if your soulmate is a terrible person? What if they live on the other side of theplanet kingdom and you never meet them? What if you've fallen in love with somebody else before you meet them? What if somebody is your soulmate, but you're not theirs? What if the general consensus is that magic tattoos are no basis to run a society on, and the whole thing is regarded as more of a guideline, or a suggestion?
I think someone with more interest in the trope than me, and with a longer attention span, could do fascinating long fic in this vein.
Also, my thing with Legend of the Seeker, and why I never got into it as much as I wanted to, is that Cara/Kahlan is an awesome femslash pairing, but that Richard is what would happen if a golden retriever puppy got turned into a real boy, and he should never be sad.
Of course, my headcanon for them is that Richard and Cara both love Kahlan, but that they have the best kind of sibling dynamic and will always try to avoid treading on each other's feelings. Kahlan loves them both, and after a fair bit of awkwardness (Richard) eye-rolling (Cara) and adorable smiling (Kahlan, but also Richard and Cara) they could Work Something Out.
This is tricky because I haven't done Yuletide for years, and I am very rarely in small fandoms. I'm in fandoms that feel small to me, because I'm only interested in a small corner of them. For instance, Merlin is one of the biggest fandoms of recent years, but it seems tiny to me because I can dismiss 90% of its fanworks out of hand as stuff I'm just not interested in. In ASOIAF too; I read more widely there, but I also do a hell of a lot of scrolling. It was in ASOIAF that I learned the virtue of finding a few authors whose stuff works for you, and then stalking the hell out of their AO3 works and bookmarks.
I think Legend of the Seeker (oh, you beautiful tropical fish of a show) is as small as I get.
Only Love Can Break Your Heart (Legend of the Seeker, Cara/Kahlan, Richard/Kahlan)
This was another one for the pick a pairing, pick a trope meme. I used to write a lot of tropey fic; less so these days, my ASOIAF stuff tends towards future fic or canon divergence AUs, with strong overtones of 'the women are the strong ones.' Although, one of these days I am going to write my Sansa Stark: reluctant werewolf fic.
The trope was that one where people have the names of their, ahem, soulmate written on their wrists. Which is one of those tropes (not unlike A/B/O) which came to prominence when I wasn't paying attention. It's also (once again, not unlike A/B/O) a trope that does extremely little for me. Soulmates, destiny, and obsessive love all being huge turn-offs of mine; there's an OK Cupid profile for you!
The fic's only twelve hundred words, but it's kind of a deconstruction of this trope, and why it doesn't work for me. To whit, what if your soulmate is a terrible person? What if they live on the other side of the
I think someone with more interest in the trope than me, and with a longer attention span, could do fascinating long fic in this vein.
Also, my thing with Legend of the Seeker, and why I never got into it as much as I wanted to, is that Cara/Kahlan is an awesome femslash pairing, but that Richard is what would happen if a golden retriever puppy got turned into a real boy, and he should never be sad.
Of course, my headcanon for them is that Richard and Cara both love Kahlan, but that they have the best kind of sibling dynamic and will always try to avoid treading on each other's feelings. Kahlan loves them both, and after a fair bit of awkwardness (Richard) eye-rolling (Cara) and adorable smiling (Kahlan, but also Richard and Cara) they could Work Something Out.