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May. 22nd, 2019 08:26 am![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
popkin16I have fallen down the rabbit hole of Game of Thrones fic. I fully expect to climb back out of said hole - sometimes I take brief detours into other fandoms, but I always end up missing John & Rodney fiercely. I've already started to miss them, lol.
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mcsheppers posts will once again be posted every day. Sorry for the slack, guys~
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mcsheppers posts will once again be posted every day. Sorry for the slack, guys~
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Date: 2019-05-22 04:12 pm (UTC)no subject
Date: 2019-05-22 08:31 pm (UTC)Meanwhile, DGW and I were talking on Twitter about a gym AU. I need to finish my book ASAP so I can start writing fanfic again!! :)
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Date: 2019-05-22 09:21 pm (UTC)I can understand your feelings about John and Rodney, and though my walk-abouts are probably longer I still always find my way back too. :D (It's a curious feeling, missing fictional character but it does seem to happen regardless. :))
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Date: 2019-05-22 09:36 pm (UTC)no subject
Date: 2019-05-22 09:58 pm (UTC)I dove down the Hannibal rabbit hole for a bit, and while there's some good stuff there it's not a staying fandom for me (right now).
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Date: 2019-05-23 03:07 am (UTC)Maybe a bit of a break is just what you need. Enjoy the vacation. snerk! Just don't EVER abandon us completely...I haven't been in The Fandom long, but there are people who aren't around anymore, or just not very often, and I MISS them.
It is a bit odd for me, I have other fandoms I enjoy and a couple of ships, but NONE have ever given me the joy and satisfaction of John and Rodney. I hope you enjoy GofT. I wouldn't mind seeing a few recc's on anything you find worthy. 💙
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Date: 2019-05-26 11:59 pm (UTC)omg, a gym AU. I WANT ITTTT. And I want your book too...basically I'm greedy. I love your stuff!
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Date: 2019-05-27 12:00 am (UTC)It makes me happy that you will always find your way back to John and Rodney :D It really is weird to miss fictional characters. We get so attached lol.
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Date: 2019-05-27 12:01 am (UTC)I've never been in the Hannibal fandom, though I've seen some of the eps. The show scared me off, if I'm honest. I'm not sure I can handle fic about cannibals. But it's a pretty well loved fandom, from what I can tell!
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Date: 2019-05-27 12:07 am (UTC)It is a bit odd for me, I have other fandoms I enjoy and a couple of ships, but NONE have ever given me the joy and satisfaction of John and Rodney.
SAME. Nothing comes close.
I did enjoy my GoT detour lol. There's some good fic there. It's so weird - I ship Jaime/Brienne, and there's TONS of canon reasons to do it. But Jaime was previously in a relationship with his twin sister, and incest is one of my hard squicks. It's very weird to me. But the fics I read aren't about them, not completely, so I guess that makes the difference.
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Date: 2019-05-27 12:09 am (UTC)I would read the hell out of the fic you described though LOL.
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Date: 2019-05-27 12:39 am (UTC)LOL, I binge-watched the whole series as a carrot to get through my medieval literature paper. Read a (often dry, boring) chapter of John Mandeville, watch a Hannibal episode. :) It's really not for everyone, though--it's dark, it's very twisted, it's gory. Of all the Bryan Fuller shows, I think I'd need to be in a really specific mood to rewatch Hannibal. And by the end it's kind of a hot mess, but at least it's a hot queer mess with two queer couples? So there's that.
The fic...well, the fic skews towards "gleeful serial killer husbands" rather than "actual moral quandries complicated by love" so I get not wanting to dive in. There's some lovely fic but only if you go with the murderhusbands aesthetic; the second type (my preference) is a lot harder to come by.
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Date: 2019-05-27 04:34 am (UTC)no subject
Date: 2019-05-27 07:27 pm (UTC)I've gotten my feet wet with Gendrya too, but as you say they are very often a side pairing, and frankly I feel like it is super hard to get Arya just right (at least for me). Also, I find that unlike Jaime and Brienne, the dynamic between Gendry and Arya loses something without the canon context making AUs, not as fun. *shrug* I'm probably going to keep trying because I'm holding out for someone to write an epic Arya and Gendry explore the world story. ;D
I've also fallen into Jonsa and Jorleesi as well as some minor and rare pairings just for fun. But as with John and Rodney, I tend to start to miss Jaime and Brienne and end up gravitating back to them pretty quickly. :D
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Date: 2019-05-28 01:59 am (UTC)As for the gym AU, I go to a gym where there are a lot of "Happy Valley Housewives". They put on full makeup and wear designer gym wear, and then stand around on the equipment bitching about their husbands, personal chefs, step-kids, etc. I can just see Rodney going to this gym only because John sold him a "platinum" membership and flirted with him a little. :)
I'll get there!!! :)
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Date: 2019-05-28 02:12 pm (UTC)Ehhh I think the only way I could read gleeful serial killer husbands is if they focused ONLY on bad guys and it'd have to be amazingly well done. I don't tend to like darker characters and such. Real life is dark enough these days lol.
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Date: 2019-05-28 02:13 pm (UTC)Oh god, what a gym. I mean, I suppose it could be funny to listen to their conversations and shake your head at them - or it could be very annoying. I love the idea of Rodney going to a gym because John flirted with him into a platinum membership *grins*
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Date: 2019-05-28 02:16 pm (UTC)You're right in that it's difficult to write Arya. And I do like their canon dynamic, which is hard to transfer. I've noticed that both Brienne and Arya were regarded as ugly - horseface Arya and Brienne the Beauty - but both got love. I like that trope I guess.
I'm relieved I'm not the only one who starts to miss fictional characters and their relationship LOL.
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Date: 2019-05-28 07:29 pm (UTC)I think a lot of the merry serial killer fics tend to have them focus on bad guys, but it really varies. I've never been interested enough to dive into that end of the fandom willy-nilly. And yeah, real life, especially lately, is dark enough without adding to it. :D
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Date: 2019-06-12 03:46 pm (UTC)I really have to agree with you about the Braime AUs, it's such a departure for me too but I do love the AUs almost more than the canon-setting stories with them. My absolute favorite is when it's a Modern Westeros setting (or Regency Westeros, or Victorian Westeros) basically an AU that brings Westeros out of the pseudo Middle Ages. *squees over the worldbuilding*
I think the finale pissed a LOT of people off, I'd say myself included but truthfully I was emotionally bankrupt by "The Bells" and had no more fucks to give the finale. *grumbles bitterly about the scattered Stark pack anyway*
I don't think Arya's supposed to be ugly though, she's at an awkward age and has a sister with whom she is contentious hence the mean name. But I believe she was supposed to grow into her looks, even if she doesn't become conventionally pretty like her sister (unlike Brienne). That being said I love the thought of the adorable and slight girl being the thing that goes bump in the night *waggles eyebrows* getting to be with a boy that thinks that's super hot. It is a good trope though. :D
Oh yes, missing fictional characters is a strange and wonderful thing and it's one of the best things about fanfiction that it fills that longing. :)
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Date: 2019-06-16 02:49 am (UTC)I don't think I've read nearly enough of those - I Looooooooooove Victorian/Regency AUs!!
I think it especially burns because they had set it up so well, and then they wanted to go for shock factor rather than anything that made sense. So it's like...WE COULD HAVE HAD IT ALL.
I think in the book she had the nickname "horse face Arya". I know I've read that somewhere, and back when I was actually watching GoT, I was on the wikia for the books all the time looking stuff up lol. But Arya definitely grows into herself, and I love her confidence. And you're right, it is AMAZING to think of this slight girl being the terror of Westeros loll.