Fanon Meme

[selenak]

So, I aquired the OT on DVD today, and I suppose it says something about my priorities within the Star Wars universe that first I went to the bonus material and played that featurette about Episode III, featuring teasing glimpses of Ewan McGregor and Hayden Christensen practicising the big duel, and Anakin getting Vader-ized. Then I watched the audio commentary version of Star Wars, Episode IV: A New Hope, or just plain SW to you and me. More on that next weekend, when the reliable internet connection private time Force will be with me once more.

Till then, I'll do this meme of alara_r's and hobsonphile's. Multifandom-wise.

Fanons you like:

- Padme kept that trinket Anakin carved for her in The Phantom Menace. Wait, that's not fanon anymore, because she wears it in one Episode III photo. (Can you tell I'm in a SW kind of mind right now?)

- Snape was in love with Lily Potter: I find the idea quite plausible, and there are some good fanfics using it. I'm sure there are also some awful ones, but I haven't read that much HP anyway.

- the between trilogies backstory fernwithy created for Anakin/Vader and Leia; I have no idea whether this counts as fanon, but I've seen at least two other writers use it, so I guess it might

- Delenn loved Lennier as well as Sheridan and reunited with him after SiL (deborah_judge convinced me months ago)

- Charles Xavier and Erik Lehnsherr were lovers; mind you, they don't have to be for me to enjoy the story, I just think it's a highly plausible interpretation within the X-Men movieverse

- Jean Grey has a sort of divorced parents relationship with both of them: does this count as fanon, artaxastra and penknife?

- and, of course: Londo/G'Kar. As with Xavier/Magneto, the great thing here is that the issues, the intensity and the amazing emotional journey in canon is there whether or not you add a sexual dimension. I'm just rooting for middle-aged folk to get equal treatment with the pretty young things in fannish treatment here, and apparently, the rooting has had effects.*g*


Fanons you hate:

- Saint!Obi and Slut!Obi; both are equally annoying

- while we're at it, Saint!Spike and Saint!Methos

- an old HL fanon, by now hopefully extinct: Cassandra as a bloodthirsty psychopath slaughtering and torturing people left and right to revenge herself on Methos, until he or MacLeod or both behead her

- grovelling Buffy begging forgiveness from Spike/Angel/Xander/Giles/whomever: no way.

- Alfred Bester, torturer at large: fanfics which have Bester torture one or several of our heroes simply because the author needs angst and he's a villain tick me off to no end. Motivations, people. Look them up.

I'd add Slut!Marcus, but I honestly don't care enough about the character one way or the other.

Fanons or fanfic trends you started or popularized:

- Londo/G'Kar. After moaning for a decade about the lack of (gen) fanfic about the two, I finally did something productive about my woe and wrote a (gen) story. This put me into contact with hobsonphile. A bit earlier, I had discovered deborah_judge who had made a remark about the complete lack of Londo/G'Kar in the fanfic world in her lj. Fast forward several weeks and an lj for Hobs and some jokes later, and an evil, tentacle-porn-shaped idea was born. It still took me some more months to have the guts to actually write the first Londo/G'Kar slash, but I do claim the honour of having done the pioneer deed. Oh, and I bullied andrastewhite into watching B5, which in turn gave B5 fandom one of my favourite fanfic writers.

Fanons of your own you wish other people would steal more often:

- Quark/Dax. As in, it's canon he loved her, and why should Odo get all the angst and action?

- Londo/G'Kar. Because there can't be enough tentacle porn.

- The Centauri population does not consist only of the nobility. Let's explore the rest of the race as well.