hangingfire's adventures in fandom

Other places where I have fic:

The Pit of Voles (I'm a sucker for reviews, even there)
A Teaspoon and an Open Mind
Yuletide Treasure
fanfic_luckydip on LJ

Per the suggestion from sneer: Charlotte Rampling picspam!

All can be clicked to embiggen. Also, there's tons more to look at over at charlotterampling.net.

( Some pictures are a bit NSFW )

So, hi. You've already experienced some of my teal deer tendencies in my prompts, no doubt, so I'll use this space to sum up my general fic preferences, not specifically directed towards any one fandom.

For me, fanfiction's a way to get into the heads not normally gotten into and to ask questions left unanswered. I'm not a big fan of "here'a a scene from [episode/chapter/book] from Other Character's point of view" in such bald terms, but I like it when we can get insights and alternate angles that shed new light on the canon we already know. I like seeing more of female characters in canons where maybe they don't always get centre stage. And I really like it when fanfic makes me look at the canon in a whole new way.

ETA more things I like: witty dialogue, literary geekery, discovering that someone isn't what we always thought they were, satire, humor (even gallows humor if it's called for), misunderstandings leading to new insights, people being brilliant (especially women), hope in despair, romance in cynicism, friendship, loyalty, and satisfying endings (which may or may not be the same thing as "happy").

Content-wise, my tastes are pretty broad (as you might discern poking around this journal): angst, comedy, tragedy, suspense, what have you. No objections to sexual content, except as delineated in the specific comments on individual fandoms (e.g. not so much on explicit slash in the Wimseyverse). Gratuitous violence, gore, and non-con can be problematic, especially in canons where they don't really fit for me (Wimsey and Discworld, in particular), but characters get up to all kind of whacked-out stuff in the Cornelius books, for example, and in those cases, as long as the content is consistent with canon and serves the story properly, go nuts. Generally speaking, I'm not easily shocked provided it's well-executed. Go where the story takes you; I'll almost certainly be happy with it.

Good luck, and thank you!

-hangingfire

ETA again: Oh, and, uh, it's extremely unlikely that this will come up, but the one fic trope that I will never, ever understand, like, or particularly want to read is mpreg. Almost not even in Torchwood, and it's canon there. Just so you know. Although if I turn my head sideways and squint, I can almost see it for the Dancers at the End of Time, in a very bizarre way. But that's pushing it. ^_^

Title: Don't Click
Authors: UseTheForceEm and hangingfire
Rating: Barely PG, if only for Discussion of Adult Themes.
Summary: In which David Tennant introduces John Simm to the world of slashfic and photomanips.
Note: Pure crack RPF. Inspired by sam_storyteller's "Close Your Eyes and Think Of England". UseTheForceEm started it, and we found ourselves adding bits until finally Em delivered the closing punchline, beyond which I felt I could add nothing. ^_^ We beg the forgiveness of all involved. Really beg. Earnestly. We were just having a bit of a larf.

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( David? Am I supposed to be whipping you over the TARDIS console? )

I am going to have to go into news-addiction rehab when this whole election is over.

I just got a piece of spam ostensibly from "rhys.williams".

Unfortunately, the content of it was extremely boring, but it was good for a quick giggle.

The latest trailer for Frank Miller's film adaptation of The Spirit? Was enough to finally make me retire my Miho usericon from LJ and JF.

Really, this Shortpacked strip had it right from the get-go.

Title: Lucy in the Maybe World
Rating: R for sex, violence, physical and psychological abuse, and coercion issues. Almost all the bad stuff, in other words.
Summary: In which Lucy Saxon is alone with her memories, over the course of a night and a day.
Note: S3 spoilers abound. Songs referenced: "In the Maybe World" by Lisa Germano, and "Destroy Everything You Touch" by Ladytron. Many many thanks and much love as always to innocentsmith, for being a marvellous beta-reader once again, and to UseTheForceEm, to whom I owe so much for the Master's characterisation.
X-Post: Teaspoon
Disclaimer: No affiliation with Doctor Who or the BBC. No money is being made from this.

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( You can always set the world on fire and it's only a matter of knowing where to place the match. )

My husband reads even less manga than I do, but thanks to a couple of positive write-ups by people whose opinions he respects, he got started on Death Note. And he's really enjoying it. He's just about to start Vol. 7. (Those of you who know the series will know he's in for a shock or two. Heh heh.)

So last night, I was telling him about how the online Death Note fandom is made up of 13-year-old girls of all ages and genders:

Me: ... and apparently there are a lot of girls who think Light's just a woobie who needs TWU WUV. Apparently they missed the part where he's, you know, just a little bit sociopathic.
Him: And gay. I mean, come on, he's got all these women throwing themselves at him and he's just all "meh"...
Me: And his most intense relationship is with L?
Him: They fight like a married couple!

It's so adorable that it brings a tear to my eye. *sniffle*

*watches "The Stolen Earth*

*gets on internets*

*fucking ducks and covers*

Come get me when the wank is over, yeah? Jesus fucking Christ, I knew there was a reason why I kept my involvement in the Who fandom to my own fics and a handful of people whose opinions I trust...

Via puipui

When you see this meme, quote something from Doctor Who.

"Crush the lesser races. Conquer the galaxy. Incredible power, unlimited rice pudding, et cetera, et cetera."

2. For someone who is not me to write a crossover between the Cornelius Chronicles and Third Doctor-era Doctor Who.

Sure, I could totally write this, and it'd probably be good, too. But I want someone else to write it so that I can be surprised.

Honestly.

Why did I click on that?

Why did I click on a story that I knew was going to be about the Doctor shagging the TARDIS?

*scrubs brain*

Conclusion drawn from stats at Teaspoon and the Pit of Voles: Very few people want to read fic about what one of my friends refers to as Gooey!Master.

(That's the "Deadly Assassin" Master. Not to be confused with the snake-ish thing from the 1996 TV movie.)

On one hand, given what one knows about fandom's general predilections and preferences, this is only to be expected: Gooey!Master is neither pretty nor suave, and there is definitely no sex going on, no way, nohow.

On the other hand, I really wish people had a bit more imagination or something.

Short and to the point: OH GOD MAKE THE UNFUNNY STOP.

Carry on. I'm going to be over here ... I dunno, reading pr0n or something.

Title: Fitness
Fandom: Doctor Who
Rating: NC-17
Summary: The Third Doctor, the Brigadier, bench-pressing, and showers. The results are somewhat inevitable, really.
Author note: My inner eleven-year-old (for whom Three is THE Doctor, thanks to PBS circa nineteen-eighty-splunge) hates me for this. It all started with a picture of Three looking terribly buff in "Doctor Who and the Silurians"; then UseTheForceEm made a crack about how Three and the Brigadier must have worked out together ... and then I went and wrote what I'm pretty sure is my express ticket to the Special Hell. Thanks to x_los for beta-ing this thing in good grace, and to UseTheForceEm, who will no doubt be joining me in the Special Hell. ^_^
X-Post: Teaspoon
Disclaimer: No affiliation with Doctor Who or the BBC. No money is being made from this.

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( Still, there were extenuating circumstances. Lots of them. )

Husband: So is there Sarah Jane-Harry Potter crossover slashfic out there?
Me: *withering glance* Rule 34, dear. If you think of it, it's out there.

The poor man. He really has no idea.

So, guess what? Turns out using iMovie isn't as difficult or as frightening as I thought it would be. Apart from the bit where I somehow crashed the app and lost over an hour's worth of work, anyway.

I really, really didn't need to get into fanvidding. I so did not. But there seems to be some very dangerous conjunction between being a music geek (especially one into British music) and a Doctor Who fan, and this is the result. It was really only meant to be a proof-of-concept and a test-run on iMovie, but then I sort of got carried away...

Post this as the summary:

I’m Gallifrey Tyler, call me that at your peril, I live in central London with my mum, and I like quantum physics, bananas, converse trainers and chips. I hate pears, Art Deco, people treating fictional characters like they’re real (i.e. So what was Iago’s motivation?) and the complete body of work of Coldplay. Oh, and I have two hearts. Now who on earth could this seventeen year old boy's parents be?

Tell me this is a joke. Or a satire. Please? I mean, really. Gallifrey? That's even more cringe-inducing than "Albus Severus".

Title: Expectations
Fandom: Doctor Who
Rating: PG; allusion to animal cruelty.
Summary: Drabble. A glimpse of young Ushas. The child is mother to the woman.
Author note: AFAIK, no canon says which House the Rani came from, nor what her full name was. Blyledge features in the novel Cat's Cradle.
X-Post: Teaspoon
Disclaimer: No affiliation with Doctor Who or the BBC. No money is being made from this.

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The House of Blyledge expected great things of Ushastadeliantvar. She noticed things: the articulation of an insect's leg, the change in air pressure before a storm. She was sober, quiet; her speech had an acuity and authority beyond her years.

She looked into the Untempered Schism without flinching, returning from the ordeal with a beatific expression on her young face. When they caught her vivisecting a tafelshrew, well, that was only proof of a scientist's mind in the making, wasn't it? A little guidance and she would be all right.

Ushas looked down from her cold high place and smiled.