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

[mrsfrankenstien.livejournal.com]

I had an argument with a friend of mine about this, she was insisting that crossovers or characters who hadn't met in canon were necessarily crack pairings.

This icon's keywords are "(un)dead het otp," and they've never had any canon interaction at all. Or at least, not while they were both alive.

[rubynye.livejournal.com]

Yeah, I'm with you and not her. Crack is a different axis entirely from canonicity.

Also, your icon makes me nostalgic. To wit:

http://rubynye.livejournal.com/141747.html