Saturday Randomness: Fanonical Pairings

[browngirl]

I'm writing an unexpectedly difficult story, and one of the reasons it's difficult is that the pairing is fanonical; the characters don't interact in canon. I'm writing it because it's hot because I like fanonical pairings, for many of the same reasons I like introducing people in real life.

Long ago, I was a member of bdotp, a community devoted to pairings of any/all characters played by two actors who'd achieved stunning chemistry in one particular canon, and I was very charmed by how compatible so many of their characters could be made to be. In my current fannish obsession, with such a big cast, there are many offscreen interactions that can be surmised even though they don't happen onscreen, and I really like that about it.

What about you?

*gets back to writing*

Comments

[fairhearing.livejournal.com]

If fandom were politics, I would be an extremely right-wing conservative. In the stuff I love the most, I don't ship at all, just writing canon pairings when the story calls for it, and even in lesser-loved universes my "fanonical" pairings extend only to extremely boring and un-radical ships like Sirius/Remus or Chekov/Sulu.

Worse, when I settle on an OTP I can never again write either person with anyone else, nor can I truly enjoy reading about them with anyone else, even if I find other pairings hot/interesting (e.g. Sulu/Kirk) because of the crushing guilt afterwards. It sucks, but I have long ago accepted that this is who I am. :( I blame the Catholic upbringing, as usual.

[rubynye.livejournal.com]

*giggles* I think I am as different as it is possible to be, as you can doubtless tell. :)

Ah, the Catholic upbringing. At least you get lots of references.