Snowflake Challenge Day 6

[flamingsword]

Day 6

In your own space, create a list of at least three fannish things you'd love to receive, something you've wanted but were afraid to ask for - a fannish wish-list of sorts.

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I want a Darcy story where Tony Stark adopts her because they both suffer from the after-effects of benign neglect. I want a story of maybe Tony teaching her that there's nothing wrong with being charmingly outrageous, but that she doesn't have to use that to deflect attention from the fact that she has feelings. I want to see two people who don't feel safe with feelings talk about why that is, about expecting the people who love you to ignore you unless you are entertaining. I want a story about Tony being a grown up, and Darcy being vulnerable about stuff that actually matters to her and not just performing vulnerability with stuff that's not that big a deal to her to appease someone because she thinks that's what they want. And I dont want to write it myself. Any of those things would be really lovely, if someone wants to write them.

I want more stories about women and nonbinary people, even if I do have to write them myself. I want more stories where non-men and non-white characters take center stage and get time to shine, have character development and get important narrative arcs. And I will darn well learn to write them because changing fandom's cultural tendency to focus on white dudes starts at home.

Comments

[saekhwa]

Oh! Have you checked out the St. Trinian's fics by language_escapes?

Focuses entirely on the female characters and gives them AMAZING plot through the Chosen and Defined series.

[flamingsword]

I have zero knowledge of St. Trinians. Is it a TV show, book series, comic? How much knowledge of it do I need to read the fic?

[saekhwa]

Of gosh of course. So it's a movie. It's considered a reboot of an older film, but the fic series focuses on the reboot and its sequel (which practically had a new cast, except for 2-4 characters).

And I kinda feel like you could read the Wikipedia entry and be fine. Mostly I say this because language_escapes focuses on fleshing out background/minor characters so it can almost read like original fic.

[laraflame]

*lara drops by*
Wow, that's awesome! I love those movies so much but I had no idea there are fices. (Of course there are always fices, silly me!)
Thanks for the rec.

[saekhwa]

You're welcome! And same! These movies were so fun to watch. I wonder if I can find them again and do a re-watch.

But yyyyyy. It was a lovely small fandom back in the day with 171 total fanworks on AO3. But this is my absolute fave series. ^_^ Hope you enjoy it, too!