"Without the Lobsters" - Alice in Wonderland fan fiction

[assimbya]

Title: Without the Lobsters
Fandom: Alice in Wonderland
Character/Pairing: Gryphon, Mock Turtle, Mock Turtle/Gryphon, implied Mad Hatter/March Hare
Summary: The Gryphon muses on his relationship with the Mock Turtle.
Rating: PG
Warning: Slash, inter-species romantic relationship (albiet not a sexual one), fluff, angst.
A/N: I've been wanting to

Comments

[lodessa]

awwwww... this was so sweet and lovely suprisingly.

[assimbya]

So glad you liked it. That was what I was going for, because the idea itself was...surprisingly sweet, so I'm glad it worked. :)

[lodessa]

Exactly... its' the opposite of all the things you'd think given tha pairing and fandom and possible squicks and all.

[assimbya]

In my opinion, Alice in Wonderland fan fiction automatically transcends squicks. Possibly this is because I can't imagine anything sexual going on between the characters. And it has always seemed to me that, beyond the seeming brutality that fills Wonderland and Looking Glass Land, there are a lot fo sweet relationships. I also have to write Bill the Lizard/Random screeching bird, Red Queen/White Queen, White King/White Queen, Mad Hatter/March Hare, White Knight/White Queen and...well, there are a lot.

[mhari]

You're insane. I love it. XD

[assimbya]

I take that as the highest compliment. :D

[juushika]

The idea of Alice in Wonderland fanfiction is wonderful. It's so easy to take pieces out of text out of context—providing those pieces with a greater context is a wonderful change from normal and is really quite interesting.

Sweet premise and characterization. It makes me want to go back and reread Alice's Adventures in Wonderland.

[assimbya]

Alice in Wonderland (and, by extension, Through the Looking Glass) is one of those remarkable stories that invites fan fiction, but really doesn't need it. You can choose to look at it in all its absurd, unrealistic glory, which is such fun, or you can take the characters, and the marvelous hints that we have of them, and try to imagine what they're really like, what life is like for them. During my reading aloud of Wonderland and Looking Glass to my mom, I became quite notorious for the second, in particular as regards Bill the Lizard, but I digress. ;) This makes it extremely fun to write fan fiction for, especially given that you can go in either direction when doing so.

Thanks, I'm glad you enjoyed it. :) And rereading Wonderland is always a good idea!

[juushika]

My more recent love for the Alice books actually comes from reading them aloud with my boyfriend almost a year ago—so it appeals to me that you read them aloud with your mum. I'd read both before then, but I never appreciated them so much as I did when Devon and I read them aloud, trading chapters back and forth, basking in the language and the rhymes.

Tanget; sorry. I just had to reminise.

[assimbya]

That sounds like a wonderful experience. :) The Alice books are meant to be read aloud, they really are perfect for it. The voices of the characters, the banter...it all works so well aloud. That's probably why so many plays have been made of it. But really, the plays are useless because the book itself works just as well.

[laura_isaac]

Very nice :)

[assimbya]

Thanks.

[assimbya]

Thanks, I'm glad you enjoyed it, and that it provoked such a reaction. :)