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icepixieWelcome 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.
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Re: The X-Files rare pairings
Date: 2010-10-17 06:50 am (UTC)Re: Crusade
Date: 2010-10-17 05:28 pm (UTC)Communities of interest, Fairy Tales, Cal Leandros, Night World, Forbidden Games, and subject is out
Date: 2010-10-17 09:19 pm (UTC)Fairy Tales
Breath Rupenzel: I'll have to find another tower somewhere / And keep away from the windows.
Nothing is Right (The It's Time to Stop Remix): 12 Dancing Princess: How does life go on now that the dancing is done? (And don't forget to read The Right Sort (of Nothing) which is the fic being remixed.)
The Forbidden Game
In darkness and light: Jenny/Zach, Four years on and things have changed.
Alice in Wonderland
Splatter, Drip, and Pull: Alice/White Queen, painting the white roses red.
Night World
A Twist of Stardust: Iliana/Keller(/Galen, but he's off screen), chair sex.
Cal Leandros
Schara: Cal, with some Cal/Delilah and off screen George; A scar results from the biologic process of wound repair, thus, scarring is a natural part of the healing process. Not all wounds are physical, but they all form scars.
Appreciation, Sincerity, and Meaning: Cal, Niko, Robin; Dinner with friends.
Definitive Proof of Ownership: Niko; He knows it's not Cal.
This is a change from the previous recommendation: Robin; If Robin was smart he'd have left New York months ago.
Dresden Files
Cracks in the Bedrock: Murphy; Sometimes Karrin thinks that she made the wrong choice giving up the sword.
(A)Typical Night In: Thomas/Butters; Thomas and Butters, stuck together at the end of the world.
Push
Five Moments in the Life of Emily Hu: Emily Hu; Five moments in the life of Emily Hu that changed her forever. There is femslash in this one with an OFC.
We have a chance to find the sunshine: Nick, Cassie; Division isn't chasing them, but there are still issues to deal with.
Sapphire and Steel
Turning, Turning, Letting Go: Sapphire, Steel, original character; How do you let go when all you want is to hang on?
Shattered Reflections: Sapphire, Steel, original characters; Can you make somebody stay when they want to leave?
Brimstone
Pray for us sinners: Devil, Zeke, with some Devil/Zeke stuff; Lighting candles. A conversation in a church. How does one achieve forgiveness?
Recs for stuff it just makes me happy to know exist
Date: 2010-10-17 10:10 pm (UTC)A Brave Little Fox: Kit, a brave little fox, decides to face down the spirits that haunt the backyard. A children's tale.
Hour of the Monkey: It was, to Hu's great (dis)pleasure, turning out to be an irregular day after all.
Nightside
Your Song: John; Several years after Nightingale's Lament. "I'll write a song about you, someday." ... "That'd be nice."
Transmetropolitan
Ballad of the Filthy Assistant: Channon Yarrow; I don't know why he even had a typewriter.
Candyland
Conservation of Momentum: When the Ice Cream Sea boiled, Queen Frostine took off across the country to see if the rumors of the Gumdrop Mountains melting had any substance. She then stumbled upon a coup.
St. Trinian's
Having Chosen, So Defined: You are always a St. Trinian’s girl, even after graduation. And you never help bring a St. Trinian’s girl down. Polly races to protect the family she chose.
Four Notorious St. Trinian's Girls (& One Notorious St. Trinian's Teacher) : What is says on the tin
And I'll probably be back to rec more later.
Re: Communities of interest, Fairy Tales, Cal Leandros, Night World, Forbidden Games, and subject is
Date: 2010-10-17 10:11 pm (UTC)And thank you for the community links. I had no idea those existed. Off to drop a link to this at
Re: Recs for stuff it just makes me happy to know exist
Date: 2010-10-17 10:16 pm (UTC)The Deer Hunter, Kitchen Confidential, Dreamcatcher, the Marvin trilogy, Platoon
Date: 2010-10-17 10:26 pm (UTC)The Deer Hunter (film):
"Stories About the War" (http://alreadythere.dreamwidth.org/57123.html) (Michael/Nick)
Kitchen Confidential (TV) [crossover with Sports Night]:
"Through the Glass" (http://alreadythere.dreamwidth.org/46386.html) (Jack Bourdain/Dan Rydell)
Stephen King's Dreamcatcher (book and film):
"Till Human Voices Wake Us" (http://alreadythere.dreamwidth.org/103443.html?#cutid1) (Henry/Jonesy)
William Finn's Marvin trilogy (musical theater):
"The End of All Our Exploring" (http://alreadythere.dreamwidth.org/121176.html) (Marvin/Whizzer)
"Surviving the Night" (http://alreadythere.dreamwidth.org/104826.html?#cutid1) (Marvin/Trina, Marvin/Whizzer)
Platoon (film):
"How It's Done" (http://alreadythere.dreamwidth.org/53785.html) (Chris/Elias)
I would also LOVE to read other fic in any of these fandoms, if it exists. Note that
Arrested Development, Boomtown, Chariots of Fire, Citizen Kane, Dreamcatcher, Marvin trilogy, etc...
Date: 2010-10-17 10:53 pm (UTC)Arrested Development (TV):
"Devoutly To Be Wish'd" (http://alreadythere.dreamwidth.org/116262.html) (Michael/GOB. ish.)
Chariots of Fire (film):
"Things Henry Knows" (http://alreadythere.dreamwidth.org/36025.html) (Stallard)
Dreamcatcher (book and film):
"Last Words" (http://alreadythere.dreamwidth.org/55290.html) (Jonesy and Beaver)
William Finn's Marvin trilogy (musical theater):
"A Person Too" (http://alreadythere.dreamwidth.org/108706.html?#cutid2) (Miss Goldberg/High School Sweetheart) [no, I don't know either]
Michael Collins (film):
"He, Too, Has Been Changed in His Turn" (http://alreadythere.dreamwidth.org/112461.html) (Mick/Harry)
Monk (TV):
"Stranger in a Strange Land" (http://alreadythere.dreamwidth.org/55612.html) (Monk/Trudy)
Pat Barker's Regeneration trilogy / WWI poets RPF (books / RPF):
"The Crack That Might Flood Your Brain with Light" (http://alreadythere.dreamwidth.org/108494.html) (Owen and Sassoon)
Rose Red (TV miniseries):
"One Need Not Be a House" (http://alreadythere.dreamwidth.org/106453.html?#cutid1) (Ellen/Sukeena)
And the prompted drabbles and ficlets in this post (http://alreadythere.dreamwidth.org/tag/drabbles:+film:+misc) include Chariots of Fire (Aubrey), Citizen Kane (Jed/Charlie), Boomtown (McNorris), and Tom Stoppard's The Real Thing (Annie/Henry).
Request: Birdsong
Date: 2010-10-17 10:57 pm (UTC)Re: Recs for stuff it just makes me happy to know exist
Date: 2010-10-17 11:15 pm (UTC)Google Themes fic was what introduced me to Google Themes. Yay.
Re: Communities of interest, Fairy Tales, Cal Leandros, Night World, Forbidden Games, and subject is
Date: 2010-10-17 11:17 pm (UTC)Request: James Alan Gardner's "Explorer Corps" books
Date: 2010-10-17 11:52 pm (UTC)Fic: Ninja Scroll
Date: 2010-10-17 11:55 pm (UTC)Belladonna (http://bob5fic.livejournal.com/31999.html#cutid1) - R - The demon child became a feudal tool. (She had stopped being a girl a long time ago.) Kagero/Jubei. Mature themes. One-shot.
what we knew when it was over (http://bob5fic.livejournal.com/38837.html?#cutid1) - R - Their time together is short and their destination a bitter end but always the journey... Jubei/Kagero. Written for
Re: Request: James Alan Gardner's "Explorer Corps" books
Date: 2010-10-17 11:56 pm (UTC)(I should read more of those books! I read Radiant thinking it was the first, and apparently it was the newest. Whoops.)
Re: Request: James Alan Gardner's "Explorer Corps" books
Date: 2010-10-18 12:00 am (UTC)And yes, you should! They are love. Probably the best one to read next would be "Expendable" (which is really the first) and then "Ascending" (which takes off with a minor character from "Expendable" and carries on her story).
Re: Request: James Alan Gardner's "Explorer Corps" books
Date: 2010-10-18 12:17 am (UTC)And heh, great minds think alike re: Youn Suu/Festina. They were awesome as coworkers; they'd be fabulous as a pairing.
Thank you for the advice on which to read next!
Spartacus: Blood and Sand (only 45 fics on FF.net)
Date: 2010-10-18 02:21 am (UTC)Round up of all SBS fics as of Sept. 21th (http://community.livejournal.com/bloodandsandfic/tag/ficroundup)
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.
+++
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
Gossip Girl
Date: 2010-10-18 05:02 pm (UTC)Will also pimp this out over there. :D
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. ;)