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Sep. 6th, 2020 06:58 amU: Three favorite characters from three different fandoms, and why they’re your favorites.
Doc Holliday on Wynonna Earp. It's ironic, as someone who's drawn to shows with interesting female characters, that I should choose the male lead on a show that's all about the interesting female characters. But Doc appeals to my love for the past, and he does the man out of time so well. Sure, they play on the humor of it, but they don't overdo it. (Ichabod Crane on Sleepy Hollow, I just might be looking at you.) He's so obviously broken and conflicted -- honorable but self-interested, caring more than he can let himself show. Tim Rozon plays him so beautifully. And also he's just beautiful to look at, even with that major 'tache going on.
Peggy Carter on Agent Carter (and various Marvel movies). Peggy may not have superpowers, but she knows her value, and she's right to do so. She's strong, smart, resourceful, and all around the woman for the job. She feels deeply, but she doesn't let it get in the way, and she makes her way despite all the men who keep trying to put her back in what they see as her place. Also her sense of style is impeccable. I might have quite a few 40s influenced dresses and blouses in my work wardrobe, and it might be because stealth Peggy cosplay makes me feel more confident myself. [Also, controversial opinion, I believe Daisy/Daniel in the last season of AoS means Steve did go back in our own timeline in Endgame, not an alternate one. Sure the mysterious husband could be yet a third guy, but I don't think so. I guess this would have been my "hill to metaphorically die on" opinion if I'd thought of it when I did that question.]
Carol Danvers in Captain Marvel and Avengers Endgame. I haven't gone back and read all of her comics throughout history, though I have tried to catch up with the newer ones. But the Captain Marvel movie had me laughing and cheering delightedly throughout. I guess we all find our own superhero, and Carol is mine. (And I'm really hoping she teams up with Kamala Khan/Ms. Marvel somewhere along the cinematic way!)
V: Which character do you relate to most?
Rupert Giles on Buffy -- I'm the academic mentor, knowledgeable but sometimes in over my head.
Peggy Carter is maybe who I'd like to be.
W: A trope which you are virtually certain to hate in any fandom.
In any canon or fic: pregnancy on first sex.
In any canon: The team with one woman. (I'd rather have one woman than no women, and some of my favorite canons do this, but I hate it! You'd think we were like 20% of the population.)
Anywhere: woman bashing. lots of m/m slash exists without putting down or villainizing or handwaving away canon female love interests, but I've read enough that does that I tiptoe in warily.
X: A trope which you are almost certain to love in any fandom
Flawed Happily Ever Afters -- in other words, characters getting together and staying together, but also being human and imperfect and sometimes bumping along uncomfortably but working things out. This could be romance, friendship, or teams. Just like real life, only possibly prettier.
Y: What are your secondhand fandoms (i.e., fandoms you aren’t in personally but are tangentially familiar with because your friends/people on your dash are in them)?
I'm not into anime, and was never in the fandom, but I have seen every episode of Full Metal Alchemist (original and Brotherhood) and even took a train up to the Hudson Valley to see the theatrical movie which came out after the first series ended. Because of my BFF. (Although she's been in a number of other fandoms I have not tangentially shared.)
My spouse is majorly into Babylon 5; it's not my fandom but I know a whole lot about it and can speak fairly knowledgeably on the subject.
Z: Just ramble about something fan-related, go go go!
For me, fanfic is a way of interacting with a text, interpreting or extending or having a dialogue about something I didn't like. I am more likely to write about a show that ended too soon, or that I loved but had some significant flaw that I want to correct/address/discuss.
I am thankful for the Mary Sue stigma because in the one fandom where I wrote a significant number of original characters -- Alias Smith & Jones -- I worked really really hard to make sure my characters, and especially the love interests, were flawed and interesting and definitely not too perfect, and nothing could fall into place too easily. And that taught me to be a writer who could create my own characters, and even though I currently only have one book out from a teeny-tiny press, I believe in myself so much more because of the way readers reacted to my original characters in that fandom. On the other hand, what I hate is folks who aren't really from fandom culture more generally, found that one fandom, and drop the term "Mary Sue" not understanding it's a knife through my heart. ;-)
Doc Holliday on Wynonna Earp. It's ironic, as someone who's drawn to shows with interesting female characters, that I should choose the male lead on a show that's all about the interesting female characters. But Doc appeals to my love for the past, and he does the man out of time so well. Sure, they play on the humor of it, but they don't overdo it. (Ichabod Crane on Sleepy Hollow, I just might be looking at you.) He's so obviously broken and conflicted -- honorable but self-interested, caring more than he can let himself show. Tim Rozon plays him so beautifully. And also he's just beautiful to look at, even with that major 'tache going on.
Peggy Carter on Agent Carter (and various Marvel movies). Peggy may not have superpowers, but she knows her value, and she's right to do so. She's strong, smart, resourceful, and all around the woman for the job. She feels deeply, but she doesn't let it get in the way, and she makes her way despite all the men who keep trying to put her back in what they see as her place. Also her sense of style is impeccable. I might have quite a few 40s influenced dresses and blouses in my work wardrobe, and it might be because stealth Peggy cosplay makes me feel more confident myself. [Also, controversial opinion, I believe Daisy/Daniel in the last season of AoS means Steve did go back in our own timeline in Endgame, not an alternate one. Sure the mysterious husband could be yet a third guy, but I don't think so. I guess this would have been my "hill to metaphorically die on" opinion if I'd thought of it when I did that question.]
Carol Danvers in Captain Marvel and Avengers Endgame. I haven't gone back and read all of her comics throughout history, though I have tried to catch up with the newer ones. But the Captain Marvel movie had me laughing and cheering delightedly throughout. I guess we all find our own superhero, and Carol is mine. (And I'm really hoping she teams up with Kamala Khan/Ms. Marvel somewhere along the cinematic way!)
V: Which character do you relate to most?
Rupert Giles on Buffy -- I'm the academic mentor, knowledgeable but sometimes in over my head.
Peggy Carter is maybe who I'd like to be.
W: A trope which you are virtually certain to hate in any fandom.
In any canon or fic: pregnancy on first sex.
In any canon: The team with one woman. (I'd rather have one woman than no women, and some of my favorite canons do this, but I hate it! You'd think we were like 20% of the population.)
Anywhere: woman bashing. lots of m/m slash exists without putting down or villainizing or handwaving away canon female love interests, but I've read enough that does that I tiptoe in warily.
X: A trope which you are almost certain to love in any fandom
Flawed Happily Ever Afters -- in other words, characters getting together and staying together, but also being human and imperfect and sometimes bumping along uncomfortably but working things out. This could be romance, friendship, or teams. Just like real life, only possibly prettier.
Y: What are your secondhand fandoms (i.e., fandoms you aren’t in personally but are tangentially familiar with because your friends/people on your dash are in them)?
I'm not into anime, and was never in the fandom, but I have seen every episode of Full Metal Alchemist (original and Brotherhood) and even took a train up to the Hudson Valley to see the theatrical movie which came out after the first series ended. Because of my BFF. (Although she's been in a number of other fandoms I have not tangentially shared.)
My spouse is majorly into Babylon 5; it's not my fandom but I know a whole lot about it and can speak fairly knowledgeably on the subject.
Z: Just ramble about something fan-related, go go go!
For me, fanfic is a way of interacting with a text, interpreting or extending or having a dialogue about something I didn't like. I am more likely to write about a show that ended too soon, or that I loved but had some significant flaw that I want to correct/address/discuss.
I am thankful for the Mary Sue stigma because in the one fandom where I wrote a significant number of original characters -- Alias Smith & Jones -- I worked really really hard to make sure my characters, and especially the love interests, were flawed and interesting and definitely not too perfect, and nothing could fall into place too easily. And that taught me to be a writer who could create my own characters, and even though I currently only have one book out from a teeny-tiny press, I believe in myself so much more because of the way readers reacted to my original characters in that fandom. On the other hand, what I hate is folks who aren't really from fandom culture more generally, found that one fandom, and drop the term "Mary Sue" not understanding it's a knife through my heart. ;-)
