fandom prompt
So, there is this thing that happens sometimes in fandom, where authors will take a movie plot and revamp it with characters from another fandom filling in for the main roles. Some surprisingly awesome fanfic has been created in this fashion.
I don't write much fanfic, (honestly, I don't write much, and I need to write more.) but through my 10 years in fandom (OMG), I've learned to internalize some of the processes that goes into making fic.
That means, sometimes I will watch something, or see something and say, "WHY ISN'T THIS FIC YET?"
(Someday, I am going to write a YogaZone fanfic the will be epic. I've been doing the same 30-45 exercise routines with those people for the last 5 years. I have created A TON OF BACK STORY.)
Moving along my main narrative thread (it is there if you look), I was watching "Sungyankwan Scandal" over on www.dramafever.com . This lovely soap opera takes place in feudal Korea and involves a poor, educated girl selling test answers (while dressed as a boy) to the educated boys who want to test in to government service.
I'm on episode 6, and I'm suitably entertained (although every Korean soap opera is some version of Cinderella, I do tend to like them because they are funny).
As I watched the show, a dynamic developed between our poor urchin character and young noble men who is honorable and destined to become a councilor because of his father's position.
So, in my head, I've already re-written this as fanfic for the Merlin Fandom starring Arthur as the young nobleman and Merlin as the poor urchin. I could also make it into Inception fic, and either Arthur or Eames could fill either role (but in my head, Eames would be the poor boy and Arthur would be the arrogant noble. Mainly because the noble in the show tries to live his life on "principle" which seems more Arthur-ish than Eames-ish.
I love how class and gender seem to be interchangeable in some fannish situations.
Please steal my writing prompt and make this idea into something EPIC.
and then, send me a link so I can read it. These ideas are better on paper than they are inside my head.
I don't write much fanfic, (honestly, I don't write much, and I need to write more.) but through my 10 years in fandom (OMG), I've learned to internalize some of the processes that goes into making fic.
That means, sometimes I will watch something, or see something and say, "WHY ISN'T THIS FIC YET?"
(Someday, I am going to write a YogaZone fanfic the will be epic. I've been doing the same 30-45 exercise routines with those people for the last 5 years. I have created A TON OF BACK STORY.)
Moving along my main narrative thread (it is there if you look), I was watching "Sungyankwan Scandal" over on www.dramafever.com . This lovely soap opera takes place in feudal Korea and involves a poor, educated girl selling test answers (while dressed as a boy) to the educated boys who want to test in to government service.
I'm on episode 6, and I'm suitably entertained (although every Korean soap opera is some version of Cinderella, I do tend to like them because they are funny).
As I watched the show, a dynamic developed between our poor urchin character and young noble men who is honorable and destined to become a councilor because of his father's position.
So, in my head, I've already re-written this as fanfic for the Merlin Fandom starring Arthur as the young nobleman and Merlin as the poor urchin. I could also make it into Inception fic, and either Arthur or Eames could fill either role (but in my head, Eames would be the poor boy and Arthur would be the arrogant noble. Mainly because the noble in the show tries to live his life on "principle" which seems more Arthur-ish than Eames-ish.
I love how class and gender seem to be interchangeable in some fannish situations.
Please steal my writing prompt and make this idea into something EPIC.
and then, send me a link so I can read it. These ideas are better on paper than they are inside my head.