More Five By Fives

[selenak]

My top five books and movie fandoms where I wish there was more fic.

1.) Sandman. There is some, but not much, especially if you discount the inevitable "a lonely teenager becomes friends with one or several of the Endless" type of stories. The fact that everything that doesn't fall into this category tends to be awesome only makes me long for

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[skywaterblue]

Ugh, people slash the Prestige? That's such a bad idea. (Unless it was something totally awesome like Tesla/Bale's character.)

I don't have a Tesla icon, alas.

[selenak]

Nah, as far as I know, Tesla remains unslashed, David Bowie notwithstanding...

[skywaterblue]

People are missing out on the potential there. I kind of want someone to write Tesla/Jareth from the Labrynth, or Tesla/John Constantine.

[selenak]

Tesla/ John Constantine: because of the Sting connection? Also, how would that work out, date-wise? (John Constantine being one comic book character who doesn't get rejuvenated on a regular basis but whose birthday remains fixed. Which still makes him non-existant and not yet born for decades and decades to come at the time Tesla lived...)

[gehayi]

What kinds of stories would you look for in Sandman fic?

[selenak]

Character exploration. Can be of the human characters, like Hob, Rose Walker, Alex Burgess. (Obviously one of the characters I most wanted to see explored was Lyta, which is why I wrote that story.) Or the supernatural characters, like Nualla, Thessaly, Lucien, Matthew, and of course the Endless. The Yuletide stories tend to be excellent, and generally what I want. Just limited to two or three a year, you know...

[nomadicwriter]

I don't think I could narrow down my favourite Sloane moments to a mere five. Though all the ones you mention are certainly among the very best. And yes, it was definitely that hostage situation in The Box that truly converted me over to the rabid Sloane-love. Before that he was just a nicely three-dimensional villain, but in The Box I realised the true depths of The Awesome That is Sloane and a brand new obsession was born.

It remains a great crime that there's so little Sloane fic out there. (Although I guess that has its upside from a writing point of view, since it has prompted me to try and rectify that issue single-handedly.)

And your #3 Londo quote is one my very favourite B5 moments ever.

[selenak]

The fact my Alias watching was longer ago than yours helps with the cruel task of having to select only five Sloane moments, I suppose.:) And that's what I thought as well when starting my Sloane writing career. Though of course after a while I reached a point where I had written basically all I wanted to. Not because the love had changed, but because my particular stories were all told.

[linaerys]

I agree about The Prestige. When I go to a slash place with that movie, it's a twincest place. The rivalry does not read slashy to me, at all, although it is fascinating.

The Prestige is a very claustrophobic little world though--into which empty spaces would you like to see more fic written?

[selenak]

Olivia in general, for example. Also Olivia running into the surviving twin post-movie. He was the one who didn't love her, but she might be the only one he could talk to about his brother. A Sarah pov; what did she realize, and when did she? Definitely the twins, growing up; what made them decide to become one person? (BTW, I agree re: if slash, then twincest.) Cutter, watching Danton change through the years. If someone can pull it off, a pov of the various clones who die...

Tesla, as a historical character, would be worth his own novel, of course, but that's another story. :)

[linaerys]

Oh yeah, that does open up some interesting stories . . .

Thanks!

[artaxastra]

I want the Sunne In Splendour too!

Have you ever read We Speak No Treason by Rosemary Hawley Jarvis? Another good look at the same subject.

[selenak]

I have, but it did not capture me as much. And of course I've read and loved The Daughter of Time.