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So I was talking to my_daroga the other day and we each thought of something there needs to be fic for. Mine was silly but when I couldn't get to sleep last night in PMS-induced insomnia, I decided there were all sorts of things that should have fic, and don't, and if there is you need to point me to it, and then I need to whine about how there's not enough

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[lynnenne]

And now Mordred totally looks like VK in my book which means people should fic him even more.

Reading just now this made me realize that Mordred has *always* looked like VK in my head. Weird creepy foreshadowing...

You could read Salman Rushdie's The Ground Beneath Her Feet, in which a Freddie Mercury-like character plays the role of Orpheus and a Cher/Madonna crossover is Eurydice. Except that, you know, it's Rushdie, so you'll end up reading 10 times more words than necessary.

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Reading just now this made me realize that Mordred has *always* looked like VK in my head. Weird creepy foreshadowing...

You mean he looked like VK before you knew what VK looked like?

He always had black hair, black eyes, a very thin pale face, very thin pale lips that sneered a lot. In fact he looked like a young Snape, in my mind.

I've never actually read any Rushdie.

[samsom]

Get out of my brain.

I've shipped Hades/Persephone since I was twelve but I've never read a book that satisfied the way I saw them.

Also, I shipped Arthur/Guinevere, because Lancelot was just rock star hero worship.

And, I've wanted to read fic on Mary Shelley/Byron since I saw Haunted Summer in the early 90's. Byron is the original bad boy, and his mother issues are enormous. Plus, I'd sort of like to read about him and his sister.

[rahirah]

There is "A Little Princess" fic. Unfortunately I can't tel you how good or bad it is, because every piece I've seen links to is shipping of some kind, and there are some things I just don't want to see sexualized.

[lettered]

Yeah, actually, I have seen a link or two to Sara/Becky and to Miss Minchin/Amelia. I admit that when I was little I imagined Sara growing up and meeting a Dashing Hero, but now all I really want is lots and lots of gen of her playing with the Large Family and looking at rooftops with Ram Dass and taking care of Mr. Carrisford or when she was still all wretched and stuff, talking to Melchisidec and making stuff up for Becky and seeing Lottie and Ermengarde on the sly.

*sniffles*

[lokapala]

Arthur/Lancelot, Arthur/Guenivere, Guenivere/Lancelot, G/A/L

Yes. Yes, please.

And you forgot Tristram and Yeseut! Or, Tristan and Isolde, to be all English and modern. King Mark needs love! Actually, everyone there needs love, exept Tristan and Isolde. These two need a reality check. *sigh* I know only one such fic, and it's professional, written in Polish and was never translated into English (For some reason Andrzej Sapkowski is translated into German, French and even Portuguese, but not English. Weird people). But it's really good. Extremely bizarre, named La Maladie and you would've liked it, if one can judge by the things you write.

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These two need a reality check.

Agreed, which is why I have difficulty being interested in the 'verse. Well, okay, yeah, in that movie they just put out I totally wanted Mark to get some, but Tristan and Isolde themselves just really bug me. The thing about Lancelot and Guinever is that they *could* be very similar to those two, but I've seen enough versions where they're far more mature, so I tend to respect them more.

I know only one such fic, and it's professional, written in Polish and was never translated into English

Ack! Too bad. I'd read it.

[m_phoenix]

I love so many of these ideas!

-Jane Austen/Charlotte Bronte time-travel.

Yes, please let there be fic.

Coleridge/Buffyverse cross-overs. Because Christabel could be about Darla. Geraldine is probably actually in fact Darla's real name, because we all know she had Daddy!issues. And that also explains why Coleridge is so afraid of women. And since Angel said he met him, there should be:

I would totally read that. Maybe there could me an opium/laudnum/Orpheus angle too? Oooh, weird trippy fic.

On ff.n there's about 1,500 fics for that newest King Arthur with Clive Owen, which isn't very much for total fics about the legend.

I've been saying for ages that all these King Arthur stories are basically fanfic anyway. I've always loved the stories but i have to admit that film made me want to spork my own eyes out. The thing that bugged me most was all the talk of historical accuracy, when they kept getting everything wrong. I was pretty familiar with the era and areas it was meant to be set in and it was worng, wrong, wrong. Um, sorry

[lettered]

Maybe there could me an opium/laudnum/Orpheus angle too?

There needs to be way more historical fics with opium in 'em, imo.

The thing that bugged me most was all the talk of historical accuracy, when they kept getting everything wrong.

It was grossly inaccurate, but I think the point was supposed to be that Arthurian stories were always set much later, while historians now do agree that the lengend probably comes from a guy who united Britain against the Saxons after most the Romans left.

I tried to reread it years later and just couldn't get into it. It's still the best version of the story IMO, but whan I was older and had been writing myself I found the writing style bothered me.

This is why I'm so afraid of rereading it. The style enamored me so in 7th grade that I'm pretty sure it would turn me right off now.

Have you ever read the trilogy of books that Mary Stweart wrote from Merlin's POV?

Yes. I didn't really enjoy them nearly as much, but they were interesting.

I think in Mists of Avalon Lancelot was in love with

[m_phoenix]

while historians now do agree that the lengend probably comes from a guy who united Britain against the Saxons after most the Romans left.

True, and even though history gets pretty sketchy after the Roman period that was till no excuse for what they did in the film, or the rather bizzare existance of what looked like a huge glacier in southern Scotland! Also, as a lot of it was based around ex legonaries living round Hadrian's wall they should have done much better because they have huge quantities of evidence about what life was like for them. In one of the forts they even found hundreds of letters from the Roman period that had been thrown away. Um, sorry, it seems that film still has the power to get me all ranty *g*

This is why I'm so afraid of rereading it. The style enamored me so in 7th grade that I'm pretty sure it would turn me right off now.It's always so sad when that happens. I still treasure the story though, it had a big impact on me at the time. Especially as a year later I went to Glastonbury and just kept drifting

[lettered]

it seems that film still has the power to get me all ranty

haha I understand. It is pretty atrocious. Even so, I watched it again recently, because I didn't know the first time through that Horatio Hornblower was playing Lancelot. It does not improve on further acquaintance.

Especially as a year later I went to Glastonbury and just kept drifting around in a romantic teenage daze thinking about the book the entire time.

Eee! So cool! That book was *definitely* what birthed my Anglophilism.

Yes, he was pretty hard to figure out, but for some reason I was still convinced he was painfully in love with Arthur and just couldn't say so.

It's possible! My vision was so unslashy in those days it might've been explicitly written in, and I would still miss it.

I really wanted that scene to go for, well y'know, a few chapters

Since I was pretty young, I kept wishing she'd get past all the sex and onto the story! ;o)

I always loved the Lady of the Lake too.One can do so many interesting things with who she might've been or *what*