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randomalia gave me license to blather about
I've got two types -- first, canon BFF work-and-life-but-notnecessarily-sex partners brought together by work.
This is the kind I write about 99.99999999% of the time. With the exception of the Doctor(s) and Rose, it's all m/m because very few pro media writers do M-F friendship this way. Maybe it's because they have a hard time thinking of women being That Into Their Work? I don't know, but my love of the What These People Get Paid to Do a huge, huge part in why I love each pairing so much. I love the world. I love the details. I love how my pairing fits so very neatly into the world; I love what their interactions tell me about their world just as much as I love those interactions in and of themselves, and I love seeing how they interact with each other in the course of dealing with the world. Figuring out further iterations leads me to fic.
And then, I've got the "emotionally damaged partner in crazypants brother of a different mother" species, which is almost exclusively het. I don't write about because to me, it's all there in the canon. I love them almost independent of their canon, so I ain't got anything to add once it's over on-screen.
Even if I could think of something, though, writing these kinds of fic will be about executing the characters in the right style, not the ideas. That's always been my weak point with writing, and really, how could I possibly improve on how the Rome writers did Antony and Cleopatra, you know? With Cleopatra squeakily crying and curling up in Antony's lap?
(In contrast, while Antony and Atia get a lot of love, they're not OTP-status in the same way. Antony and Atia are both power-hungry Roman aristocrats from the same mold, but the crazypants is missing. They're not emotionally damaged and their relationship is pretty close, I think, to passing for normal in the crazy, crazy world of HBO-Rome. This distinction is, I think, also why I get more mental traction from the Barbara and Hornblower that CSF hints at in Commodore than, say, I do in The Happy Return.)
So, in short,randomalia, I shall answer your question by blogging mostly about canon that you don't know and don't care to know. :D
randomalia gave me license to blather about I've got two types -- first, canon BFF work-and-life-but-notnecessarily-sex partners brought together by work.
This is the kind I write about 99.99999999% of the time. With the exception of the Doctor(s) and Rose, it's all m/m because very few pro media writers do M-F friendship this way. Maybe it's because they have a hard time thinking of women being That Into Their Work? I don't know, but my love of the What These People Get Paid to Do a huge, huge part in why I love each pairing so much. I love the world. I love the details. I love how my pairing fits so very neatly into the world; I love what their interactions tell me about their world just as much as I love those interactions in and of themselves, and I love seeing how they interact with each other in the course of dealing with the world. Figuring out further iterations leads me to fic.
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Even if I could think of something, though, writing these kinds of fic will be about executing the characters in the right style, not the ideas. That's always been my weak point with writing, and really, how could I possibly improve on how the Rome writers did Antony and Cleopatra, you know? With Cleopatra squeakily crying and curling up in Antony's lap?
(In contrast, while Antony and Atia get a lot of love, they're not OTP-status in the same way. Antony and Atia are both power-hungry Roman aristocrats from the same mold, but the crazypants is missing. They're not emotionally damaged and their relationship is pretty close, I think, to passing for normal in the crazy, crazy world of HBO-Rome. This distinction is, I think, also why I get more mental traction from the Barbara and Hornblower that CSF hints at in Commodore than, say, I do in The Happy Return.)
So, in short,
randomalia, I shall answer your question by blogging mostly about canon that you don't know and don't care to know. :D
