DPP: Favorite Fanfic Catalyst
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ninjamonkey73, and I'm driving the DPP bus this week. Sit back and enjoy the ride...
Today being "hump" day, the topic for discussion is: what is your favorite reason that Kara and Lee hook up in a story?
The funny thing to me about K/L (and their slow motion trainwreck of inevitableness) is that a lot of the time in fanfic, there isn't a specific catalyst. They have a few drinks and find a wall somewhere. But that can't always be the case, so tell us - what is your favorite reason they stop fighting the attraction?
As a writer, I'm always looking for an angle, a reason for their behavior to change. In my old fandom, I've snowed characters down on a planet overnight with one room left to stay in. I've had one knock down the other, jogging blindly through their ship (trying to stop thinking about him), and land on him. But sometimes, sure, one just confronts the other.
In other fandoms, ships crash. People get stranded. Doors inadvertantly slam shut and lock from the outside. Strangers misunderstand the relationship and say something and after the initial protests, conversations start. Somebody has to have written a good hurt/comfort fic for our pilots, or one where they are trapped somewhere (provide links to the fic(s) if possible). Or supply your own ideas and maybe someone will write it!
ninjamonkey73, and I'm driving the DPP bus this week. Sit back and enjoy the ride...Today being "hump" day, the topic for discussion is: what is your favorite reason that Kara and Lee hook up in a story?
The funny thing to me about K/L (and their slow motion trainwreck of inevitableness) is that a lot of the time in fanfic, there isn't a specific catalyst. They have a few drinks and find a wall somewhere. But that can't always be the case, so tell us - what is your favorite reason they stop fighting the attraction?
As a writer, I'm always looking for an angle, a reason for their behavior to change. In my old fandom, I've snowed characters down on a planet overnight with one room left to stay in. I've had one knock down the other, jogging blindly through their ship (trying to stop thinking about him), and land on him. But sometimes, sure, one just confronts the other.
In other fandoms, ships crash. People get stranded. Doors inadvertantly slam shut and lock from the outside. Strangers misunderstand the relationship and say something and after the initial protests, conversations start. Somebody has to have written a good hurt/comfort fic for our pilots, or one where they are trapped somewhere (provide links to the fic(s) if possible). Or supply your own ideas and maybe someone will write it!
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Date: 2010-06-16 01:22 pm (UTC)What I really enjoy is just when they get together/admit their feelings after a seemingly trivial incident. 'The straw that broke the camels back' but in a good way.
I also really like AU fics where it turns out they're really been together all along, they were just being sneaky. I've read some good ones but I can't think of any right now.
On a not really very related note I just read this fic: http://www.fanfiction.net/s/4889450/1/Where_Soul_Meets_Body
I very much enjoyed it.
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Date: 2010-06-16 02:16 pm (UTC)no subject
Date: 2010-06-17 04:43 am (UTC)I LOVE this, especially secret wedding fics, maybe because it seems so unlike them. I've loved one in particular, but I can't seem to find it among my gazillion Kara/Lee bookmarks. Perhaps the fangirl army can come to the rescue: Bill finds out about the marriage because of the information on their paperwork during a medical emergency, but I can't remember much else.
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Date: 2010-08-30 03:14 am (UTC)