I should probably start using something like AYRT, for conversation continuity...
You are totally right that Ivy/Kincaid would be a classic McCaffrey pairing. And you know, if you write it, I will gleefully read it! And the creepy Thomas/Harry too!
There's a lot of stuff I cringe at in profic that I happily read in fanfic. For one thing, I think fandom really does it better, when it comes to this messy idtastic stuff - we know we're doing it, unlike a lot of pro authors, who put in skeevy plot/character elements without thinking and then freak out or dismiss it when readers point them out. In places like this kinkmeme, there's all kinds of dubcon and noncon, but we know what we're getting going in, and our beloved authornons are deliberately mashing specific kink-buttons, not treating consent as something that just doesn't matter. Or maybe this is self-justification so I can have my cake and eat it too...?
...And on the topic of imprinting on old Anne McCaffrey books, some of the ways people write Dresden/Marcone in this fandom remind me a bit of the Ship Who Sang. Niall, Helva's obsessive stalker boss, and Helva, the brilliant rule-breaking brainship who doesn't like being controlled, and their messed up True Love that just barely stops short of total mutual destruction.
Or actually, if I'm going to the brainship AU place, it makes more sense for Bob to be the brainship and Harry to be his brawn. *envisions a horny ship who keeps trying to get his brawn to hold orgies onboard so he can watch* And maybe Marcone is the interstellar mob boss the Harry-and-Bob team keeps running into? But there has to be a shellperson romance in there somewhere, or you might as well go with generic space AU. Marcone/Harry/Bob?
Cracktastic Butcher/McCaffrey fusions, why so much fun?
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Re: Pern crossover: Queens High (1/2?)
Date: 2011-02-23 02:39 am (UTC)You are totally right that Ivy/Kincaid would be a classic McCaffrey pairing. And you know, if you write it, I will gleefully read it! And the creepy Thomas/Harry too!
There's a lot of stuff I cringe at in profic that I happily read in fanfic. For one thing, I think fandom really does it better, when it comes to this messy idtastic stuff - we know we're doing it, unlike a lot of pro authors, who put in skeevy plot/character elements without thinking and then freak out or dismiss it when readers point them out. In places like this kinkmeme, there's all kinds of dubcon and noncon, but we know what we're getting going in, and our beloved authornons are deliberately mashing specific kink-buttons, not treating consent as something that just doesn't matter. Or maybe this is self-justification so I can have my cake and eat it too...?
...And on the topic of imprinting on old Anne McCaffrey books, some of the ways people write Dresden/Marcone in this fandom remind me a bit of the Ship Who Sang. Niall, Helva's obsessive stalker boss, and Helva, the brilliant rule-breaking brainship who doesn't like being controlled, and their messed up True Love that just barely stops short of total mutual destruction.
Or actually, if I'm going to the brainship AU place, it makes more sense for Bob to be the brainship and Harry to be his brawn. *envisions a horny ship who keeps trying to get his brawn to hold orgies onboard so he can watch* And maybe Marcone is the interstellar mob boss the Harry-and-Bob team keeps running into? But there has to be a shellperson romance in there somewhere, or you might as well go with generic space AU. Marcone/Harry/Bob?
Cracktastic Butcher/McCaffrey fusions, why so much fun?