Little black dresses of fandoms

[gryphonrhi]

I've been thinking about little black dresses of fandom while I sort out what I'm writing next. Partly I've been thinking not just about who are the LBDs but what makes them LBDs. To me, it seems to come down to two things:

1) They could turn up anywhere (and/or people come to them).
2) You can easily imagine them running into/talking to almost

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[singletailwhip]

The very first ever slash story I read - when I began reading it I didn't know what slash WAS - was a Sharpe story that paired Methos with Richard Sharpe . For those who don't know the Sharpe stories they are set in the Napolianic era, mostly in Spain during the Peninsular Wars. I was so ignorant of fan fic in general and slash in particular, that I thought it was so weird that the author used a name from another show for their character - I was half way through the story before I realized that it was the same character in Highlander. So - that first story opened my eyes to fan fiction, slash writing, AND hot man-on-man sex all in one go (oh the visual - Sean Bean and Peter WIngfield - woooof - stays with me to this day). LOL

So my vote will always go to Methos as the LBD of fandom - with 5000 years of history, you can't tell me the guy couldn't fit in anywhere he had a mind to, and as an ancient and self-protective immortal certainly he can be plausibly written in any past, present and future story.

And he's so *pretty*, too. :-)

[gryphonrhi]

Gah! Methos was the second LBD in fandom, and I forgot to put him on the list. (But then half of the HL characters are LBDs, which is how the fandom has so many crossovers.) Thank you for the reminder - as soon as I quit headdesking....