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[minoanmiss]

Let’s play Writer’s Would You Ever:

Send me an ask that says “Would you ever write…” and continue the sentence.

I’ll respond with yes or no and give an explanation as to why if I want to.

Comments

[sugarandlime]

would you ever write fic for media that you had only encountered via tumblr posts/other social media? (as a joke or otherwise)

[minoanmiss]

I don't think my conscience would let me. I would feel obliged to consume at least a reasonably sized chunk of canon. (This came up more than once when I was into comics. How to feel I'd read "encugh" about a character...)

[princessofgeeks]

Would you ever write Caffrey/Jones?

[minoanmiss]

I don't think so, except maybe as a one-off/sex pollen/one night stand. As a Black man in the US Jones has to fight an inherent societal assumption that he's a criminal, and I think a Black man who deliberately goes into law enforcement probably believes at some level in respectability politics. No matter how much he likes Neal, and no matter how pretty Neal is, and no matter how easily they talk, I don't think Clinton would let himself date a White criminal -- he knows if Neal pulled any shenanigans they would rebound on him (as Neal's FBI agent but suspiciously Black boyfriend) just as hard, or even harder, than they would on Peter-as-Neal's-direct-handler, and Clinton has worked too hard to lose it for even the prettiest man he's ever met.

[lokifan]

That makes a lot of sense to me, yeah. Esp re: respectability politics.

[minoanmiss]

And I didn't even address the power differential issues, which gingicat mentioned as soon as I talked to her about this. (I kind of love power differential issues in fic, not least because RL is so full of them, but I think any honest conception of Clinton Jones would have to address them.)

[julian]

Would you ever write again for fandoms you've abandoned long ago? (I mean, like Tolkien or what have you.)

[minoanmiss]

Oh definitely! When I was in the _Hobbit_ movies fandom I wrote several _LOTR_-related stories, and my current fandom (White Collar) is basically a return to a fandom I dabbled in a bit a decade ago. I can always pick a fandom back up if need be.

[lunabee34]

Would you ever write something with a bleak, no hope ending?

[minoanmiss]

*cackles an Evil Writer cackle*

One of the stories I just finished treated a mercy kill as the happiest possible ending, and my current major project is a story with two endings, one sad and one apocalyptically sad.

[lunabee34]

*high five*

Someone after my own heart. The sadder the better.

[minoanmiss]

*high five* One of my most successful stories is the one where I killed Dick Grayson five times, ahahahah.

[lunabee34]

OMG, me too! I mean, not Dick Grayson, but a lot of my most popular stories are centered around character death.

[pensnest]

Would you write crack? By which I mean, an impossible premise (MPREG, bodyswap, turning into a kitten, that kind of thing) followed through logically (if not necessarily seriously)?

[minoanmiss]

OH YEAH I LOVE CRaCK

ahahahahah I should find you some examples. :D

[swingandswirl]

Would you ever write Numb3rs again? /g/

[minoanmiss]

I think after being sucked back into _White Collar_ I can't say I wouldn't return to most of my past fandoms, but/and I would definitely write NUMB3RS again. As well as loving the characters I loved the setting, which is a kind of present-day science fiction underneath the crime and family dramas. So yes, absolutely. :)