30 Days of Fan Fiction Meme, Day 9
Jul. 7th, 2011 09:13 pm9 – Pairings – For each of the fandoms from day two, what are your three favorite pairings to write?
Yikes, for some of these I'd be lucky to find one! I'll hit some random points instead.
Blake's 7: Probably Avon/Cally. I like them both as characters, and they're an interesting contrast, and there just this side of plausible at certain instants. Blake and Avon are more interesting, but after 12 years around B7 slash fandom, reading it, writing it, and running a long "what if they got together scenario" in my head, I just cannot see them as a sexual couple. They will not stay in bed together (except when![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png)
blakefancier writes them).
Mirage of Blaze: Well, Naoe/Kagetora, of course (they are the best love story ever), but... this is where MoB is a weird canon. Canon already does 99% of everything one could conceive of doing with N/K. The result is that most N/K fic I read feels redundant, and I can rarely think of a scenario I'd like to write. Hence my propensity to write Naoe/others or Kagetora doing something else.
Simoun: Anubituf/Guragief. Is it suspicious that in that rare story comprised of almost only fantastic female characters, I write (and like best) the only male pairing? It almost certainly does have an element of gender prejudice. But I genuinely find these two more compelling than the other choices because they are older and calmer and I like the subtlety of their friendship and quietly thwarted but persisting love.
X-Men: Charles/Erik. I have written an essay about it.
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Yikes, for some of these I'd be lucky to find one! I'll hit some random points instead.
Blake's 7: Probably Avon/Cally. I like them both as characters, and they're an interesting contrast, and there just this side of plausible at certain instants. Blake and Avon are more interesting, but after 12 years around B7 slash fandom, reading it, writing it, and running a long "what if they got together scenario" in my head, I just cannot see them as a sexual couple. They will not stay in bed together (except when
blakefancier writes them).Mirage of Blaze: Well, Naoe/Kagetora, of course (they are the best love story ever), but... this is where MoB is a weird canon. Canon already does 99% of everything one could conceive of doing with N/K. The result is that most N/K fic I read feels redundant, and I can rarely think of a scenario I'd like to write. Hence my propensity to write Naoe/others or Kagetora doing something else.
Simoun: Anubituf/Guragief. Is it suspicious that in that rare story comprised of almost only fantastic female characters, I write (and like best) the only male pairing? It almost certainly does have an element of gender prejudice. But I genuinely find these two more compelling than the other choices because they are older and calmer and I like the subtlety of their friendship and quietly thwarted but persisting love.
X-Men: Charles/Erik. I have written an essay about it.
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