Queens of Crime
While I wait patiently for my rarewomen assignment, I'll share a fic I wrote with you. It's just a little Carmen Sandiego character study that I wrote as a way of getting my fanfic groove back after so much stress. I was beginning to wonder if the well had run dry for me on this fandom, but nope. Well, let's just say i still have a lot of plotbunnies but not usually easily executed one-shots, so I decided to just write it.
Canyon (1470 words) by kmo
Chapters: 1/1
Fandom: Where on Earth is Carmen Sandiego?
Rating: Teen And Up Audiences
Warnings: No Archive Warnings Apply
Characters: Carmen Sandiego
Additional Tags: Angst, Character Study, Villain Protagonist
Summary:
Carmen reflects on the nature of canyons, grand and otherwise.
While I'm on the subject of female criminal masterminds, let me give you my review of Queenpin by Megan Abbott
This is a full on noir that is all about passing the Bechdel Test. It's about a nameless female protagonist's tutelage under an older glamorous lady gangster- the eponymous "queenpin." It pretty much has everything I could ever ask for in a book- female mentor-student relationship, complicated relationships between women, gorgeous vivid prose. It's not explicitly femslashy, but it's like "not explicitly femslashy" the way Once Upon a Time is "not explicitly femslashy." It feels so revolutionary to take the standard noir format and put the women center stage as actors, rather than just damsels in distress. I didn't much care for the protagonist's relationship with a sleazy gambler dude, but I think the reader is supposed to dislike him. There were a couple really grisly scenes that for some odd reason sent me running for my smelling salts- which is strange because I'm no stranger to violence as depicted in ASOIAF. I think the vivid language might have made it seem extra alive.
Highly recommend, because you get awesome prose like this:
"She was solid gold, fourteen-carat, barely burnished despite twenty years of hard molling. But beneath it, I knew, beneath that gold and stardust, she was all grit and sharp teeth gnashing, head twisting, talons out, tearing flesh. I hated her. And I felt closer to her than ever. Goddamn her."
In other news, I just finished Jacqueline Carey's newest book, Dark Currents! I liked it. So expect an extra special review post from me about it soon.
This entry was originally posted at http://kmo.dreamwidth.org/ Comment here or there as the spirit moves you.
Canyon (1470 words) by kmo
Chapters: 1/1
Fandom: Where on Earth is Carmen Sandiego?
Rating: Teen And Up Audiences
Warnings: No Archive Warnings Apply
Characters: Carmen Sandiego
Additional Tags: Angst, Character Study, Villain Protagonist
Summary:
Carmen reflects on the nature of canyons, grand and otherwise.
While I'm on the subject of female criminal masterminds, let me give you my review of Queenpin by Megan Abbott
This is a full on noir that is all about passing the Bechdel Test. It's about a nameless female protagonist's tutelage under an older glamorous lady gangster- the eponymous "queenpin." It pretty much has everything I could ever ask for in a book- female mentor-student relationship, complicated relationships between women, gorgeous vivid prose. It's not explicitly femslashy, but it's like "not explicitly femslashy" the way Once Upon a Time is "not explicitly femslashy." It feels so revolutionary to take the standard noir format and put the women center stage as actors, rather than just damsels in distress. I didn't much care for the protagonist's relationship with a sleazy gambler dude, but I think the reader is supposed to dislike him. There were a couple really grisly scenes that for some odd reason sent me running for my smelling salts- which is strange because I'm no stranger to violence as depicted in ASOIAF. I think the vivid language might have made it seem extra alive.
Highly recommend, because you get awesome prose like this:
"She was solid gold, fourteen-carat, barely burnished despite twenty years of hard molling. But beneath it, I knew, beneath that gold and stardust, she was all grit and sharp teeth gnashing, head twisting, talons out, tearing flesh. I hated her. And I felt closer to her than ever. Goddamn her."
In other news, I just finished Jacqueline Carey's newest book, Dark Currents! I liked it. So expect an extra special review post from me about it soon.
This entry was originally posted at http://kmo.dreamwidth.org/ Comment here or there as the spirit moves you.