Yuletide musings

[rachelmanija]

I know I'm not the only one thinking about this already!

I have two interesting thoughts for Yuletide requests next year.

One, if Anne McCaffrey is still eligible, would be to fix the horrible misogynist fate of Mirrim, who was one of my very favorite characters in the early books. I was thrilled when she impressed a fighting dragon. But lo! She then turned into a horrible bitch whom everyone hated, and the nicest thing even her best friend Menolly could say about her was that she might be nicer once she got raped laid.

My possible Yuletide request: Write dragonrider Mirrim the way McCaffrey should have written her.

Dragonsong (The Harper Hall Triology)

Two, George R. R. Martin's "Thousand Worlds" series: his '70s space opera stories, all far-flung planets and romantic sense of wonder and doom. Original characters would be fine, since his mostly die.

Dreamsongs: Volume I

ETA: Three thoughts.

Three, Red Cliff. Zhuge Liang/Zhou Yu. Slashy slash slash!

View Red Cliff on Amazon: BATTLE OF RED CLIFF PART 1 & PART 2 ENGLISH SUBTITLES - 2 DVDS

What are your preliminary desires?

Comments

[chomiji]

What happened with Mirrim reminds me of what fanfic writers do to characters they don't like and want to get away from the character with whom they are in lust. Except that it was the same author ... .

[rachelmanija.livejournal.com]

Maybe she wanted to hook Menolly up with Sebell (a pairing that leaves me utterly cold) and was worried that Mirrim/Menolly might spontaneously combust the universe with coolness...

Okay, maybe that's just me.

[chomiji]

I find poor Menolly sadly asexual, despite how much I loved her as a POV character in my teens. But I'll agree that Sebell is even worse.

Meanwhile, someone needs to write me Black Lagoon fic. Or P.C. Hodgell fic. Or something. (I was so pleased with my Legal Drug stocking stuffers last year!)

[magicnoire.livejournal.com]

Dude! I'm trying to write Black Lagoon fic for Kink Bingo & Cliche Bingo. (Gawd, don't laugh at my attempts too much...)

[chomiji]

I won't laugh at yours if you don't laugh at mine! > cough! <

XD

[thistleingrey.livejournal.com]

Gods, yes, Sebell was the "safe" guy. Poor Sebell. Even the other two guys in the quartet in Dragonsinger, with far less to say or do, had more personality. Even if I can't remember their names.

(As opposed to the "nice" guy, who is Robinton, ultimately.)

[mikeda.livejournal.com]

Of course, when you have Master Robinton playing matchmaker, the match does tend to get made...

[branna.livejournal.com]

Mirrim/Menolly never occurred to me, but I agree that the Menolly/Sebell pairing has never really worked for me.

Menolly/Robinton, on the other hand----I never believed that it could work if it had gone anywhere, as the potential for disaster and imbalance was immense, but I did believe the emotional resonance.

[rachelmanija.livejournal.com]

It was very emotionally powerful, but I liked it never going anywhere.