MEME: five fics featuring women...
magnetic_pole's post about some of the fics she'd written about women got me thinking about mine. Here's five:
"Revisions" (Harry Potter/Dark Is Rising fandoms; Hermione Granger/Susan Bones NC17)
http://community.livejournal.com/hpvalensmut/48935.html
This was written for hp_valensmut last year, for zeldaophelia, and extends the Will/Bran/Jane relationship begun in her story When Sleep Comes. It's my one femslash fic (outside of stray drabbles), and I'd like to write more once my OTP-WSiPs stop kicking my ass ten ways from Thursday. Hermione/Susan was the pairing I liked best of the four Z suggested (the other three being Ginny/Luna, Susan/Ginny, Hermione/Tonks), in part because I ship Tonks/Ginny (for no good reason other than it's fun) and in part because I frankly enjoy breaking Hermione and Ron up. Yes, I know it's canon, but it just doesn't work for me, and I think one could have a lot of post-canon fun with "We thought we were destined for each other, but boy were we wrong."
Then again, I'm not sure I want to spend too much time with that theme, at least not with other people's characters. There's enough of that theme in my personal history that I fancy it would be best dealt with on my own playground (e.g., without the pre-characterizations (a/k/a baggage) that come with someone else's canon, and vice versa. Mind, those pre-characterizations are precisely why writing fanfic is its own mad addiction -- both because they make drabbles possible, and because it's wicked fun to engineer and explain improbable pairings -- but to each its realm.)
"Unwritten" (Harry Potter fandom; gen)
http://mechaieh.livejournal.com/119158.html
This was written for dames_magique "Fic-a-Feast" challenge, and includes Susan, Hermione, and Luna. It strikes me that I like to show different attitudes/approaches to food preparation, having run the gamut in my own time, and that I made a point (not consciously) of characterizing the three women via the comments on the meal. I should do more of that...
"Just So But Not Too Much" (Harry Potter and Lord Peter Wimsey fandoms; Molly Prewett, gen)
http://community.livejournal.com/placet/5712.html
Another woman, another kitchen. I need to revise the part about the muffins someday.
"Hounding of the Baskervilles" (Harry Potter fandom, with hints of others; Snape/Lupin, PG-13)
http://community.livejournal.com/hp_classic/40139.html
Yes, it's a Snupin story, but the Tonks here received an almost obscene amount of love (I'm not kidding about the "almost obscene" -- one reader offered me naked pictures after reading about The Hat (*grin*)). And I'm pleased with my characterization of Tonks's mum, even though she doesn't actually appear in the story -- coming up with lines such as "Andromeda's hatred of headcoverings was legendary" is the sort of thing that makes me dance self-congratulatory jigs in the living room. *g*
Traces (Harry Potter fandom; Draco/Bella/Luna)
http://bronze-ribbons.livejournal.com/521.html
Another one for dames_magiques. Women's loyalties interest me. Again, same issues as mentioned above, but there's so much that can be done with (and to) Luna. I really do hope we see more of her in Book 7.
So where's the Tonks/Ginny, you may ask? Well, I do have stray drabbles scattered about, but what you should actually do is hop over to corvidae9's and start reading Come Together, which is almost finished and is wilder, bodacious-er, cheekier, and sassier than anything you're going to see from me. It's knowing and it's fun, and just thinking about it makes me break out into gigglefits.
"Revisions" (Harry Potter/Dark Is Rising fandoms; Hermione Granger/Susan Bones NC17)
http://community.livejournal.com/hpvalensmut/48935.html
This was written for hp_valensmut last year, for zeldaophelia, and extends the Will/Bran/Jane relationship begun in her story When Sleep Comes. It's my one femslash fic (outside of stray drabbles), and I'd like to write more once my OTP-WSiPs stop kicking my ass ten ways from Thursday. Hermione/Susan was the pairing I liked best of the four Z suggested (the other three being Ginny/Luna, Susan/Ginny, Hermione/Tonks), in part because I ship Tonks/Ginny (for no good reason other than it's fun) and in part because I frankly enjoy breaking Hermione and Ron up. Yes, I know it's canon, but it just doesn't work for me, and I think one could have a lot of post-canon fun with "We thought we were destined for each other, but boy were we wrong."
Then again, I'm not sure I want to spend too much time with that theme, at least not with other people's characters. There's enough of that theme in my personal history that I fancy it would be best dealt with on my own playground (e.g., without the pre-characterizations (a/k/a baggage) that come with someone else's canon, and vice versa. Mind, those pre-characterizations are precisely why writing fanfic is its own mad addiction -- both because they make drabbles possible, and because it's wicked fun to engineer and explain improbable pairings -- but to each its realm.)
"Unwritten" (Harry Potter fandom; gen)
http://mechaieh.livejournal.com/119158.html
This was written for dames_magique "Fic-a-Feast" challenge, and includes Susan, Hermione, and Luna. It strikes me that I like to show different attitudes/approaches to food preparation, having run the gamut in my own time, and that I made a point (not consciously) of characterizing the three women via the comments on the meal. I should do more of that...
"Just So But Not Too Much" (Harry Potter and Lord Peter Wimsey fandoms; Molly Prewett, gen)
http://community.livejournal.com/placet/5712.html
Another woman, another kitchen. I need to revise the part about the muffins someday.
"Hounding of the Baskervilles" (Harry Potter fandom, with hints of others; Snape/Lupin, PG-13)
http://community.livejournal.com/hp_classic/40139.html
Yes, it's a Snupin story, but the Tonks here received an almost obscene amount of love (I'm not kidding about the "almost obscene" -- one reader offered me naked pictures after reading about The Hat (*grin*)). And I'm pleased with my characterization of Tonks's mum, even though she doesn't actually appear in the story -- coming up with lines such as "Andromeda's hatred of headcoverings was legendary" is the sort of thing that makes me dance self-congratulatory jigs in the living room. *g*
Traces (Harry Potter fandom; Draco/Bella/Luna)
http://bronze-ribbons.livejournal.com/521.html
Another one for dames_magiques. Women's loyalties interest me. Again, same issues as mentioned above, but there's so much that can be done with (and to) Luna. I really do hope we see more of her in Book 7.
So where's the Tonks/Ginny, you may ask? Well, I do have stray drabbles scattered about, but what you should actually do is hop over to corvidae9's and start reading Come Together, which is almost finished and is wilder, bodacious-er, cheekier, and sassier than anything you're going to see from me. It's knowing and it's fun, and just thinking about it makes me break out into gigglefits.