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BRING BACK TERMINATOR: THE SARAH CONNOR CHRONICLES
Out on the Wire by LithiumDoll | Terminator: The Sarah Connor Chronicles | gen, ensemble | teen & up | 60,800 words
I know some people are like "bring back Firefly!" and "bring back Arrested Development!" but the Sarah Connor Chronicles is my Arrested Firefly, man. This fic feels like the season 3 that could've been. It does with T:SCC what I think Apocrypha (aka BEST SPN FIC EVER) did with Supernatural in that it ties up all these loose ends so nicely, and in such a satisfying way.
Buoyancy by ethrosdemon | Teen Wolf | Danny/Stiles | R | 14,548 words
Who isn't drinking the Teen Wolf kool-aid these days. The pairing wouldn't even occur to me but I'd pretty much follow ethrosdemon's fic into hell and beyond, so, gave it a shot. WORTH IT. There's an awareness and refreshing sociability to the Danny voice that is just DELIGHTFUL, I mean this Danny is a GREAT PERSON and he's so chill and has such candor and I want to hang with him always? There's a part 1/4 into the fic that is simultaneously tragic and hilarious, and I LOL'd as my heart broke, and I have great admiration for any writer who can balance that kind of mood whiplash. Thoroughly absorbing.
In other news, I wrote another 8x02 episode coda, prompted by Pri. It's 400ish words of gen. Warning for shmoop. (Shmangst?)
Shifting gears to fairy tales, because Fables (spoilers through issue 94-ish). I am enjoying this series, but I have
When reading something like Fables or watching something like Once Upon a Time, I kind of can't help but wonder, "Where are the non-European fairy tales?" In Fables, you have the Arabian fable world, sure, but they're weird orientalist conceptions of ~Arabia. It's Euro POV all up in here. Is there, like, an Arabian POV fable world? Is it like in American Gods where you have the Mr. Wednesday Odin and the Icelandic Odin? In Fables, what if there are two Sinbads - one from the Euro POV Arabian homelands (as canon displays) and one in the Arabian POV Arabian homelands? Also, I really need pop culture to move beyond conceptualizing djinns as merely shirtless ponytailed wish-granters because that's not really what they are. idk, maybe there are as many homeland universes as there are cultural POVs, problematic as it would be to delineate what 'cultural POV' entails. People often have their own versions of the one fairy tale anyway. Look at Cinderella, or should we say the European version of Yeh-Shen?
Maybe, just fucking maybe, in the Indian POV Indian homelands, the leader of the revolution against the adversary is NOT SOMEONE NAMED MOUNTBATTEN, for fuck's sake.
I know some people are like "bring back Firefly!" and "bring back Arrested Development!" but the Sarah Connor Chronicles is my Arrested Firefly, man. This fic feels like the season 3 that could've been. It does with T:SCC what I think Apocrypha (aka BEST SPN FIC EVER) did with Supernatural in that it ties up all these loose ends so nicely, and in such a satisfying way.
Buoyancy by ethrosdemon | Teen Wolf | Danny/Stiles | R | 14,548 words
Who isn't drinking the Teen Wolf kool-aid these days. The pairing wouldn't even occur to me but I'd pretty much follow ethrosdemon's fic into hell and beyond, so, gave it a shot. WORTH IT. There's an awareness and refreshing sociability to the Danny voice that is just DELIGHTFUL, I mean this Danny is a GREAT PERSON and he's so chill and has such candor and I want to hang with him always? There's a part 1/4 into the fic that is simultaneously tragic and hilarious, and I LOL'd as my heart broke, and I have great admiration for any writer who can balance that kind of mood whiplash. Thoroughly absorbing.
In other news, I wrote another 8x02 episode coda, prompted by Pri. It's 400ish words of gen. Warning for shmoop. (Shmangst?)
Shifting gears to fairy tales, because Fables (spoilers through issue 94-ish). I am enjoying this series, but I have
When reading something like Fables or watching something like Once Upon a Time, I kind of can't help but wonder, "Where are the non-European fairy tales?" In Fables, you have the Arabian fable world, sure, but they're weird orientalist conceptions of ~Arabia. It's Euro POV all up in here. Is there, like, an Arabian POV fable world? Is it like in American Gods where you have the Mr. Wednesday Odin and the Icelandic Odin? In Fables, what if there are two Sinbads - one from the Euro POV Arabian homelands (as canon displays) and one in the Arabian POV Arabian homelands? Also, I really need pop culture to move beyond conceptualizing djinns as merely shirtless ponytailed wish-granters because that's not really what they are. idk, maybe there are as many homeland universes as there are cultural POVs, problematic as it would be to delineate what 'cultural POV' entails. People often have their own versions of the one fairy tale anyway. Look at Cinderella, or should we say the European version of Yeh-Shen?
Maybe, just fucking maybe, in the Indian POV Indian homelands, the leader of the revolution against the adversary is NOT SOMEONE NAMED MOUNTBATTEN, for fuck's sake.