The Small Fandom and Rare Pairing/Rarely-Written Character Promote-a-thon!

[icepixie]

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.

Here's How This Is Gonna Work
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
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.

Promotion!
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.

Comments

Self Plugging!

[rensong.livejournal.com]

I am not a very prolific writer, so this list is pretty short. Still, I figure in small fandoms/rare characters, every little bit counts.

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

[lone-gunfreak.livejournal.com]

This is both a rec and a request. vermin_disciple's wonderful gen fic in this fandom can be found on AO3 here (http://archiveofourown.org/users/Vermin_Disciple/works?selected_tags[]=115864), and if you're a fan of the books or the mini-series, you should definitely check them out. Wonderfully in character and well-written.

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.

[profshallowness.livejournal.com]

Mr Magorium's Wonder Emporium
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)

[evewithanapple.livejournal.com]

Perfect Creature:

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 _twinpeaksfic, but it's surprisingly hard to find.

[omorka.livejournal.com]

Ghostbusters/Real Ghostbusters

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?

[hungrytiger11.livejournal.com]

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

[prochytes.livejournal.com]

This is a splendid idea! Here is my rare fandoms collection. Note that there are several crossovers with more populous fandoms, but in each case at least one of the constituent elements is comparatively obscure.

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).

Re: Aliens, Child's Play, Jake 2.0, Jericho, M*A*S*H, RPF, Snow White, SAAB, Speed, Standoff

[havemy-heart.livejournal.com]

Loved the Will/Lilly piece. It is gorgeous and a perfect coda to the film :)

Airwolf

[debirlfan.livejournal.com]

I am, I fear, the only person on earth who's actually written Airwolf Michael/Caitlin fic. I have the "Journeyverse" series on fanfiction net located here: http://www.fanfiction.net/u/4224/

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!

Re: Aliens, Child's Play, Jake 2.0, Jericho, M*A*S*H, RPF, Snow White, SAAB, Speed, Standoff

[anr]

Hey, thanks. I'm glad you enjoyed it so! :)

Harvey (1950) fics and a shameless comm plug!

[arguingvitality.livejournal.com]

I love the idea of this meme by the way! :D I can't find anyone else in the internet who writes fic for this film, but I'm ever hopeful!

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, rarepair100, which is for rare pairings/characters etc. If anyone is inteested then have a look!

Request: Being Erica/House

[magsyb.livejournal.com]

There is sooo few Being Erica fic out there to begin with, I would even love to see Being Erica crossover fic with Doctor Who, but it is such a little known series that not much fic is out there.

rare fandoms!!

[girlinventor.livejournal.com]

Yay! I finally have somewhere to post my fics of really obsurely made pairings. I have a fanfiction.net account under the name tornemotions. If you go there, I made a songfic on Shane from the 1953 movie, also based on the book by Jack Schaefer. Once I type up my other fics, I'll put up links here.