Welcome to the Small Fandom and Rare Pairing/Rarely-Written Character Promote-a-thon!
You know the glow of, "I never knew I needed fic for that, but now I do and there it is and this is awesome!" you get from Yuletide? Or the sweet, sweet triumph of finally finding something for that insanely rare pairing on page fifty-four of the Google results for their names?
This meme aims to amplify that, and, for writers/vidders/artists, take away that sad, lonely feeling you get when you realize there's nowhere to post your creation for a tiny fandom besides your own journal.
Comment here with links to any rare fandoms/characters/pairings you've created stuff for and want to pimp! This is not just for fanfic; vids, art, even, I don't know, embroidery or cake decorating or things like that are welcome. If you made it and it's rare, link to it.
As a general guideline for "rare," I would say something is rare if there are fewer than 50ish works out on the intarwebs, but I don't want to be the police here, so use your best judgment. If it's something you've hunted for to the bitter end of a search engine's results, or you've read everything three times now, go for it. Long or short, old or new, G or NC-17, single fandom or crossover, all are welcome.
Though this meme emphasizes works that haven't been posted all over or received a lot of attention, if you want to promote a Yuletide fic you wrote or something similar, that's perfectly fine.
And if you find that fic or vid or art of your dreams, I also encourage you to give the creator some feedback!
Requests for rare things you'd like to see are welcome too! If you're dying for, say, The Phantom Tollbooth fic and don't know where to find it, comment with "Request: The Phantom Tollbooth" in your subject line.
Please link to this meme! I would love to see as many tiny fandoms and rarepairs/rarely-written characters on here as possible. And come on, you know you're hoping this reaches that one person who wrote fic for that Squonk Opera show you saw years ago.
Kids Inc, Jonathan Creek
Date: 2010-10-18 02:42 am (UTC)Kids Inc
Title: Stacy in Bloom
Author:
Universe: Canon divergence (Season 5)
Genre: Friendship/Romance
Rating: T
Warning: Language, innuendo
Pairing: Ryan/Stacy
Word Length: 60,231 (14 chapters)
URL: http://www.fanfiction.net/s/5873801/1/
Summary: With her sister and best friend halfway around the world, who else is there for Stacy to turn to…but Ryan? When the consequences of their actions become clear, the two must decide if pursuing each other is worth breaking up the band.
Title: break/even
Author:
Universe: Canon divergence (Season 5 + 3 years)
Genre: Angst/Romance
Rating: T
Warning: None
Pairing: Ryan/Stacy
Word Length: 9,928 - COMPLETE
URL: FF.net | DW | AO3
Summary: Once upon a time, she’d fallen in love. Once upon a time, he’d broken her heart. On the eve of her junior prom, they find themselves with a second chance – if only they are willing to risk it.
Title: How Will I Know?
Author:
Universe: Canon divergence (Season 5)
Genre: Drama/Romance
Rating: K+
Warning: None
Pairing: Ryan/Stacy
Word Length: 5,698 (4 chapters) - COMPLETE
URL: http://www.fanfiction.net/s/6381789/1/
Author's Summary: This story takes place in August 2000, and in this AU, the band dissolved after Ryan left, so there wasn't anything after Season 5. Ryan and Stacy meet again at a KI reunion.
Why I'm recommending this piece: *flails* AUGH SOMEONE ELSE IS WRITING KI FIC BESIDES ME, AND FOR THIS PAIRING! :D :D :D LOL, okay, let me calm down a little bit...this is actually a really adorable fic set 15 years after Season 5 (1988), in which three incarnations of Kids Inc reunite at the P*lace. It's lovely not only for the Ryan/Stacy storyline underlying the whole thing, but also for all the canon references, the love for Mickey, and the careers WhyteRoze28 assigned to everyone. They all really fit, you know? I'm a little jealous that I didn't come up with the idea first, LOL. It's awesome to see someone else's take on the characters, as well as the ship, because its feels like I'm flying solo 99% of the time.
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Jonathan Creek
Title: Scratched Surface
Author: lydiabell
Universe: Canon
Genre: Drama/Romance
Rating: T
Warning: None
Pairing: Jonathan/Maddie
Word Length: 1,768 - COMPLETE
URL: http://archiveofourown.org/works/3635
Author's Summary: Maddie has a scare.
Why I'm recommending this piece: A beautiful piece set sometime around the second series that explores the finer points of the relationship developing between the two main characters. It really gives a depth and nuance to both Jonathan and Maddie that's only hinted at in the series itself. Really excellent stuff, for a fandom I've never seen fic written for. A definite must-read for all fans of the show! =)
You can also check my rec list, full of awesome fic and art, and consider yourself pimped at my journal =)
Aliens, Child's Play, Jake 2.0, Jericho, M*A*S*H, RPF, Snow White, SAAB, Speed, Standoff
Date: 2010-10-18 04:22 am (UTC)Aliens. Ripley/Hicks. Rated PG. Acheron
Child's Play. Andy. Rated PG. This Is Not The End
Jake 2.0. Jake/Diane. Rated PG. Three Cubed
Jericho. Bonnie. Rated PG. Almost Like Sound
Jericho. Stanley/Mimi. Rated PG. And The Fires Are Burning
M*A*S*H. Hotlips/Hawkeye. Rated PG. Geography
RPF: Australian Idol. Lisa/Dean. Rated PG. Duet
RPF: NCIS. Michael/Cote. Rated NC17. Running Out Of Air
RPF: Star Wars. Carrie/Harrison. Rated R. A World That Does Not Exist
Snow White: A Tale Of Terror. Will/Lilly. Rated PG. Once Upon A Time
Space: Above And Beyond. Shane/Cooper. Rated PG. Those Gates Of Hell
Speed. Jack/Annie. Rated PG. Walk The Wire
Standoff. Matt/Emily. Rated R. Navia Aut Caput
Re: Aliens, Child's Play, Jake 2.0, Jericho, M*A*S*H, RPF, Snow White, SAAB, Speed, Standoff
Date: 2010-10-26 02:27 am (UTC)Re: Aliens, Child's Play, Jake 2.0, Jericho, M*A*S*H, RPF, Snow White, SAAB, Speed, Standoff
Date: 2010-11-01 08:29 am (UTC)Farscape: 1812/Little Blue
Date: 2010-10-18 06:09 pm (UTC)Sex on the Beach. - Someone's having fun on summer vacation. Sequel of sorts to "The DRD's Strike Back!"
The Morning After - Little Blue wakes up.
There's also a gesture toward DRD romance, and some bits of Chiana/Jool (which I think is still rare? It was in 2003, anyway), in Farskate.
A Few Rare Pairs Recs: Myka/HG, Ivanova/Garibaldi
Date: 2010-10-18 06:22 pm (UTC)The Future an Experiment by
At last count, there were nine Ivanova/Garibaldi fics on the internet that I had not written. WOES. Anyway, here are my favorites:
Dead Souls by
Interesting Positions and the sequel, You Have to Dance With the One You Came With by Lianna Zoe. Closet sex! And then trying to make things work out afterwards. (This...seems to be kind of a thing for this pairing? That says either something about them or about those of us who write them, I'm not sure.)
Re: A Few Rare Pairs Recs: Myka/HG, Ivanova/Garibaldi
Date: 2010-10-19 01:02 am (UTC)Request: Dream Park?
Date: 2010-10-19 02:04 am (UTC)Precis For the un-initiated:
In the final years of the 20th century, the Big Earthquake happened, dropping a large slice of the California coast into the Pacific. Amazingly, this did not cause the collapse of civilization as we know it; indeed, by the 2040s things look pretty good, and at least to a degree, the geeks appear to have inherited the Earth. Now southern California's premier entertainment destination is Dream Park, where players and Game Masters come together to participate in high-tech live-action role-playing adventures...and if they play well enough, they can make serious money on the media rights. But that's not all Cowles Industries, owner of Dream Park, is up to; they're also involved in business and political deals that may just reshape the real world, too.
Dream Park is the story of the South Seas Treasure Game, involving real-life murder, corporate espionage, and what might be the largest treasure ever included in a role-playing epic, real or fictional. [Those of you who've read the book may snicker now.] The Barsoom Project is the story of the second Fimbulwinter Game, where some Gamers are playing for their health, some are playing for their sanity, and some are playing for the opportunity to terraform Mars. And The California Voodoo Game is the story of what happens when really experienced Gamers start thinking outside the box (and the Game map), with varying degrees of good and evil intent.
This being a Niven series, both the tech and the gaming logistics are worked out in impressively logical depth. This being a Barnes series, the action/adventure quotient is impressively high. And this being a series about game-geeks, there's a cheerfully wicked sense of the absurd in play at all the right moments. (Dream Park was written before LARP campaigns were really popular...and got the idea right enough that readers created a real International Fantasy Gaming Society spun off from the books.)
Fic Recs!
Date: 2010-10-20 02:21 am (UTC)Dead Zone
Rather than post all of the links separately, I'm sending those interested parties here (http://community.livejournal.com/deadzonefic/2980.html), to a very handy Dead Zone Fiction Master List I ran across several years ago. I've probably read at least 70% of the stories listed there, and I've never been disappointed. Some of my personal favorites are Dirigo, The Big Picture, and A Vision in Scarlet
Two more favorites that aren't listed there as far as I can tell are:
* What It Seems (http://www.trickster.org/speranza/cesper/Seems.html), an AU in which *Sarah* is the one who went into the coma and left Johnny behind to be comforted by Walt
* Like Minds (http://www.neon-hummingbird.com/storyteller/fiction/angel_likeminds.html), an Angel/Dead Zone crossover where Cordelia runs into Johnny at a hotel bar. This one is probably my favorite Dead Zone story of all time, and it ranks in the Top Five for favorite fan fiction of all time... it is just that good.
Forever Knight
My Evil Twin is a Vampire! (http://www.fkfanfic.com/fanfic/m/myev1943.txt) And yes, it is pretty much just as much fun as it sounds, even if the original seems to have disappeared into catacombs of the World Wide Web and the above link goes to a kind of annoyingly formatted text copy. Still totally worth it, though.
Pretender
Chasing Cars (http://yuletidetreasure.org/archive/23/chasingcars.html)
Fedayee (http://elliottsilver.tripod.com/jarod45.htm)
Long Way Home (http://www.neon-hummingbird.com/storyteller/fiction/pretender_longway.html)
Little Girl Lost (http://www.neon-hummingbird.com/storyteller/fiction/lgl/)
The Secret Garden - Frances Hodgson Burnett
A Garden in the Punjab (http://archiveofourown.org/collections/yuletide2009/works/34858)
Silently Beloved (http://www.fanfiction.net/s/3297685/1/Silently_Beloved%22)
Looking Onto Spring (http://yuletidetreasure.org/archive/28/lookingon.html)
Big Fandoms, Small Characters
Doctor Who/NCIS - Rebuilding a Life (http://settiai.livejournal.com/1114407.html). Okay, so neither of those particular fandoms are anywhere *near* small, but I figure I can sneak this rec in there as it is centered around a not so common character - Fitz, from the Doctor Who book verse, who gets dumped in DC while the Doctor goes off to fight the Time War.
Stargate Atlantis - Death and the Astrophysicist (http://www.fanfiction.net/s/3218958/1/). GRODIN FIC! ::hugs it and loves it:: Also, it is part of a series of one shots that can be all read together (all you miss are a few in jokes), though Grodin only features in this one. A few of them do focus on other minor characters, though.
These are just a few of my favorites. If you want more recs from any of the above or some of the bigger fandoms, you are more than welcome to here (http://www.livejournal.com/tools/memories.bml?keyword=fan+fic+recs&user=rensong&sortby=des) and choose from the other 300 or so. I am a big of a fic whore. ;)
Self Plugging!
Date: 2010-10-20 02:47 am (UTC)Pretender - Crystal Tears (http://featheredquill.livejournal.com/537.html#cutid1). The first fic I ever wrote, so it is a bit rough around the edges. However, re-reading it almost ten years later, it is pretty much one of only two of my Earlier Works that don't make me cringe. I'll take it. Also, there is a slightly more up to date version here (http://www.fanfiction.net/s/4901010/1/CrystalTears).
Farscape - Memorial Day (http://featheredquill.livejournal.com/9636.html#cutid1). Big Fandom/Small Character story - a bit of Jack POV.
Stargate Atlantis - The Most Fantastic Story Of All (http://community.livejournal.com/atlantisfic/398502.html). Big Fandom/Rare Pairing story, John Shepperd/Atlantis (no mechanical porn, I promise). I think it might qualify, at least; I never actually checked to see how popular the pair was, but I think it is safe to assume it isn't super common. ;) I could be wrong, though, and if so, I apologize.
Due South - Five Things That Diefenbaker Shouldn't Have Eaten (http://rensong.livejournal.com/1139157.html). Diefenbaker POV - again, not sure if it really is all that uncommon since I never specifically went looking, BUT I have read an unhealthy amount of Due South fic, and so far I've only ran across two or three that have any huge focus on Dief, and none of them were from his POV. So, I figure it's worth a shot.
And I think that pretty much covers all the Small Fandom/Rare Character stories that have resulted from my own muses. Enjoy!
I, Claudius
Date: 2010-10-20 04:58 pm (UTC)Is there any more "I, Claudius" fic (of any kind - I like slash, but I'm also a gen fan) out there? The mini-series is one of my favorite bits of TV ever.
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Date: 2010-10-24 04:11 pm (UTC)Mahoney/Henry. G. ficlet Mutation (http://profshallowness.livejournal.com/322759.html)
The Palace (2008)
Eleanor. G. Gen ficlet. Mourning becomes her (http://profshallowness.livejournal.com/278729.html#cutid3)
Abigail, Ian. Abigail/Richard G. Ficlet.
The Warning (http://profshallowness.livejournal.com/277429.html#cutid1)
British UK anti-smoking ad
There's a link to the ad in the link to the fic. Brits may remember it from about two years ago. Becki Taylor. PG. Gen ficlet. Scared (http://profshallowness.livejournal.com/300736.html)
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Date: 2010-10-24 04:23 pm (UTC)Guardian (http://community.livejournal.com/inthewildwood/1673.html) (Silus/Lilly, OC, PG)
Sevenwaters Trilogy:
'Til Kingdom Come (http://community.livejournal.com/inthewildwood/1147.html) (Johnny/Gareth, PG)
Rome:
The Body and the Blood (http://community.livejournal.com/inthewildwood/1281.html) (Vorena, R)
The Tudors:
Temptations (http://archiveofourown.org/works/82841) (Kitty Howard/Joan Bulmer, R)
Requests: Anyone who can rec me some Twin Peaks Audrey/Cooper fic will have my eternal gratitude. I've gone through the old and new Yuletide archives and
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Date: 2010-10-24 05:56 pm (UTC)Rare Pair: Venkman/Stantz, all by me, since I've never seen anyone else write this pairing:
Missing Enough To Feel All Right (http://omorka-fics.livejournal.com/38290.html) - R, Ray gets knocked for a loop on a bust, and the others have to bring him back around.
Ah, My Foes, And Oh, My Friends (http://omorka-fics.livejournal.com/26026.html) - NC-17 vampire!crack!fic, written for a Halloween kink challenge. Also includes Egon/Janine, decidedly not a rare pairing, but what are you gonna do?
Long Long Time (http://omorka-fics.livejournal.com/11628.html) - hard R, basically How Ray Met Peter, from their college years to after the second movie.
Rare Pair: Venkman/Zeddemore
Club Limbo (http://gila.faking-sanity.net/realghost/clublimbo.html), by James and Wolfling. NC-17; Peter and Winston get stuck in an alternate dimension together.
Rare Trio: Stantz/Spengler/Melnitz - me again; while none of the individual pairings are that rare, the threesome is.
Complex Numbers (http://omorka-fics.livejournal.com/19165.html) - NC-17; Egon goes on a supernaturally prompted journey of self-discovery with the support of the two people who love him the most.
Sneakers
An exceptionally tiny fandom for an exceptionally good movie - and it's a near-sausagefest, so there's plenty of slash potential.
Message In The Pipeline (http://omorka-fics.livejournal.com/44897.html) - PG, gen, Mother's been kidnapped and the rest of the team has to find him.
Buckaroo Banzai
Tricky Footing (http://omorka-fics.livejournal.com/46613.html) - PG, gen, the Hong Kong Cavaliers have to track Buckaroo down from a mysterious phone call.
And now for some requests: I'm looking for Back To The Future and Real Genius fic that wasn't written for Yuletide. Can anyone hook me up?
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Date: 2010-10-24 08:12 pm (UTC)Remember WENN
She Can Play it in G (Strings) Too (http://archiveofourown.org/works/32409) Gen Scott and Maple set as a missing moment right before 2x03 "Some Good News, Some Bad News."
Nemo in Slumberland
Stay Up Late (You Don't Need to Dream No More) (http://archiveofourown.org/works/36919) Gen, takes place after the movie
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Date: 2010-10-25 04:59 pm (UTC)Title: A Book by its Cover. (http://prochytes.livejournal.com/6928.html)
Author: Prochytes.
Fandom: Demons.
Rating: PG-13.
Characters: Mina Harker (with mentions of Galvin, Luke, and Ruby).
Summary: The (half-)life of Mina Harker, through successive editions of the most important book in it.
Word Count: 1168.
Title: I Spit into the Face of Time. (http://prochytes.livejournal.com/12595.html)
Author: Prochytes.
Fandom: Waiting for God.
Rating: PG-13.
Characters/Pairing: Diana Trent/Tom Ballard.
Summary: Every new generation knows it invented sex.
Word Count: 100 (drabble).
Title: Arkham Tennis. (http://prochytes.livejournal.com/13874.html)
Author: Prochytes.
Fandom: H. P. Lovecraft.
Rating: PG-13.
Characters/Pairing: None.
Summary: The Mythos, as seen through the prism of John Betjeman.
Word Count: 89.
Title: Four Ghosts Stood on the Sea-Wet Rock. (http://prochytes.livejournal.com/7411.html)
Author: Prochytes.
Fandom: Lost/Alias/Doctor Who/Fringe.
Rating: PG.
Characters/Pairing: Jacob (Lost); Milo Rambaldi (Alias); The Seventh Doctor (Doctor Who); The Observer (Fringe).
Summary: Not everybody plays by Jacob’s Rules.
Word Count: 300 (three drabbles).
Title: Side Quest. (http://prochytes.livejournal.com/7846.html)
Author: Prochytes.
Fandom: Torchwood/Kröd Mändoon and the Flaming Sword of Fire
Rating: PG-13. Smut; innuendo; some violence and swearing.
Characters/Pairing: Jack/Everyone.
Summary: Dongalor’s latest plan bids fair to crush all with its evil. The Golden One and his boon companions must put their faith in a mysterious stranger. But does the one they call “Captain Jack Harkness” have reasons of his own for lending aid?
Word Count: 5794.
Title: Towards an Archaeology of Cucumbers. (http://prochytes.livejournal.com/8131.html)
Author: Prochytes.
Fandom: BtVS/Strontium Dog.
Rating: PG-13.
Characters/Pairing: Anya (Aud)/Wulf; Wulf/Johnny (if you squint).
Summary: The untold story of Wulf Sternhammer and his One That Got Away.
Word Count: 1474.
Title: Five Pre-Raphaelite Muses Who Did Not Quite Pan Out. (http://prochytes.livejournal.com/8848.html)
Author: Prochytes.
Fandom: Desperate Romantics/AtS/Torchwood/ Primeval/ Doctor Who/ Merlin (BBC).
Rating: PG-13.
Characters/Pairing: Dante Gabriel Rossetti, Fred Walters (Desperate Romantics); Darla, Angelus (Angel); The Tarot Girl (Torchwood); Sarah Page, Abby Maitland (Primeval); Donna Noble (Doctor Who); Morgana (Merlin).
Summary: Lizzie Siddal was not the whole story. Some of the other chapters were life-threatening.
Word Count: 1623.
Title: Making the Grade. (http://prochytes.livejournal.com/9743.html)
Author: Prochytes.
Fandom: Being Human/Demons.
Rating: PG.
Characters: Annie, George, Mitchell (Being Human); Mina (Demons).
Summary: Boys can be so competitive when it comes to measurements.
Word Count: 100 (drabble).
Title: Face Value. (http://prochytes.livejournal.com/10747.html)
Author: Prochytes.
Fandom: Absolutely Fabulous/Doctor Who/Torchwood.
Rating: PG-13. (Implied) sex, drugs, bondage, and Patsy’s mouth.
Characters: Edina Monsoon, Saffron Monsoon, Patsy Stone, Mother (Ab Fab); multiple Whoniverse cameos.
Summary: When Eddy’s world fails to make sense it isn’t always because of the substance abuse.
Word Count: 1700.
Title: V Aversions. (http://prochytes.livejournal.com/12417.html)
Author: Prochytes.
Fandom: V (2009)/Torchwood/Warehouse 13/Nextwave/Lost/Heroes
Rating: PG-13. Crack; mind-screw; swearing.
Characters/Pairing: Anna (V); Gwen Cooper, Ianto Jones (Torchwood); Artie Nielsen, Peter Lattimer (Warehouse 13); The Captain, Monica Rambeau (Nextwave); Juliet Burke (Lost); Ando Masahashi, Hiro Nakamura, Matt Parkman (Heroes).
Summary: Five ways the V invasion did not happen.
Word Count: 500 (five drabbles).
Airwolf
Date: 2010-10-27 03:40 am (UTC)And two different short stand-alone one-shots written for porn battles located on AO3 that can be found here: http://archiveofourown.org/tags/Airwolf/works
And if anyone finds any OTHER Michael/Caitlin fic (or writes any!), please let me know!
Harvey (1950) fics and a shameless comm plug!
Date: 2010-11-21 09:11 pm (UTC)Anyways, here are some Doctor Sanderson/Miss Kelly fics!
A Wonderful Kind of Magic (http://arguingvitality.livejournal.com/74097.html) (G-431 words)
Summary: Harvey has had an influence on them all.
Dance (http://arguingvitality.livejournal.com/71364.html) (G-100 words)
Summary: Doctor Sanderson reminisces.
The Desk (http://arguingvitality.livejournal.com/82550.html) (NC-17-1,366 words)
Summary: Kelly and Sanderson find precious time together during their working day.
Gliding (http://arguingvitality.livejournal.com/75171.html) (G-217 words)
Summary: He sees her clearly now.
It's Been a Long Time Since We Danced Together (http://arguingvitality.livejournal.com/72007.html) (G- 1,107 words)
Summary: Sanderson and Kelly find themselves alone in the sanatorium at the end of the day.
The Time and Place (http://arguingvitality.livejournal.com/72743.html) (G- 304)
Summary: Dinner at Mr Dowd's brings about a proposal and insights from Harvey.
White Coat (http://arguingvitality.livejournal.com/76700.html) (NC-17- 740 words)
Summary: Miss Kelly dreams of the power struggle between them.
A/N: Written for Kink_Bingo on Dreamwidth. One kink, multiple fics. Also includes an illustrative screenshot.
Would You Rather? (http://arguingvitality.livejournal.com/74914.html) (G- 582 words)
Summary: Doctor Sanderson worries he may have lost her to another man.
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Also, shameless plug! I have a challenge community,
Request: Being Erica/House
Date: 2011-03-13 07:19 pm (UTC)rare fandoms!!
Date: 2011-09-26 05:21 pm (UTC)