From you're "There is no sex, true" - should I read that to mean that most people expect sex in a h/c story?
I got the impression, but then again, it was by fannish osmosis rather than direct questioning and polls. Maybe I'm wrong about other people's expectations, of course. My own, like yours, tend to be that it's the exception rather than the rule when an author can convince me people want to have sex under these circumstances.
Do you have any stories that you wrote on request or as response to ficathon promts, that you'd otherwise never have written, but liked anyway when they were finished?
Abso-fraggin-lutely, as Delenn would say. The Remix Redux ficathon, for example, caused me to write Survival (http://www.fanfiction.net/s/4220540/1/Survival); while I enjoyed watching the tv series Rome, I otherwise wouldn't have written fanfiction set in it, being too married to direct historical fiction set in that era. iamsab dared me to write Kira/Dukat for DS9. To quote from my author's notes, this has obvious obstacles in canon, and we’re talking pre-“Waltz” Dukat here. However, I saw it as a challenge – would it be possible to explore that particular relationship, and not necessarily just in a sexual sense, without changing Kira into a Harlequin heroine or changing Dukat into a whitewashed Knight? Then I recalled the “Five Things Which Never Happened...” format which I have used before, in another fandom, and suddenly everything clicked. In a rather dark way.*g* And presto, Five things which never happened between Kira and Dukat (http://www.fanfiction.net/s/1775250/1/Five_Things_Which_Never_Happened). And then there was hobsonphile, for Multiverse2005, prompting a B5/Firefly crossover, with a requested Vir/Inara pairing. This caused me considerable headaches in advance, way more than gen prompts for the Multiverse ficathon I had written before and after, like "Bester meets Garak" or "Garak meets Torchwood", and at last I pulled it off and wrote Pretty in Pink (http://www.altogetherelsewhere.net/multiverse/prettyinpink.html).
Oh, and lastly, for something purely B5: Visiting Hour (http://selenak.livejournal.com/254488.html) was written for a B5 ficathon where my prompt had been “Anna/Morden, something that’s both fucked up and includes Morden’s family in some way, be it as a comment or a reason for his actions”. The later was a clear allusion to the tie-in novel The Shadow Within, featuring what I nicknamed Woobie!Morden. (He did it all to save his family.) An idea I loathe. And even if I didn't, Anna/Morden would not have been something I ordinarily would have thought of. And there was the not so small issue that any Anna/Morden taking place after she got modified by the Shadows and before her death would have been non-con, as she hardly was in a position to knowingly consent to sex in that state. Which would have fit the criteria "fucked up" but presumably not in the way the prompter had wished for, plus I didn't want to write it. (Not into rape fic, me.) So the challenge was to me to write something I could believe without compromising my own view of the character while also writing something to make the prompter happy. I'm pretty proud of the result.
Strangely, I still can't find anything remotely h/c in your stories for the pairing - except if you'd count that kissage snippet you just added to the list.
*g* My big B5 hurt/comfort story is Miracles for Londo and Vir. I think generally speaking I have elements of hurt and comfort in stories but usually mixed and mingled with other story needs.
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Date: 2009-09-04 08:44 am (UTC)I got the impression, but then again, it was by fannish osmosis rather than direct questioning and polls. Maybe I'm wrong about other people's expectations, of course. My own, like yours, tend to be that it's the exception rather than the rule when an author can convince me people want to have sex under these circumstances.
Do you have any stories that you wrote on request or as response to ficathon promts, that you'd otherwise never have written, but liked anyway when they were finished?
Abso-fraggin-lutely, as Delenn would say. The Remix Redux ficathon, for example, caused me to write Survival (http://www.fanfiction.net/s/4220540/1/Survival); while I enjoyed watching the tv series Rome, I otherwise wouldn't have written fanfiction set in it, being too married to direct historical fiction set in that era.
Oh, and lastly, for something purely B5: Visiting Hour (http://selenak.livejournal.com/254488.html) was written for a B5 ficathon where my prompt had been “Anna/Morden, something that’s both fucked up and includes Morden’s family in some way, be it as a comment or a reason for his actions”. The later was a clear allusion to the tie-in novel The Shadow Within, featuring what I nicknamed Woobie!Morden. (He did it all to save his family.) An idea I loathe. And even if I didn't, Anna/Morden would not have been something I ordinarily would have thought of. And there was the not so small issue that any Anna/Morden taking place after she got modified by the Shadows and before her death would have been non-con, as she hardly was in a position to knowingly consent to sex in that state. Which would have fit the criteria "fucked up" but presumably not in the way the prompter had wished for, plus I didn't want to write it. (Not into rape fic, me.) So the challenge was to me to write something I could believe without compromising my own view of the character while also writing something to make the prompter happy. I'm pretty proud of the result.
Strangely, I still can't find anything remotely h/c in your stories for the pairing - except if you'd count that kissage snippet you just added to the list.
*g* My big B5 hurt/comfort story is Miracles for Londo and Vir. I think generally speaking I have elements of hurt and comfort in stories but usually mixed and mingled with other story needs.