Living With Danger is amazing. Totally amazing. And man, that series you talk about sounds very related to LwD, as regards the BFFs and OC wives and ADVENTURES. I would have read the hell out of it, is what I'm saying. (Bill and Egypt and curses! I totally went for that stuff too)
Oh, HGSS fandom was INSANE in its own special way. And I am happy to tell you all about it AT GREAT LENGTH. There was a lot of "Hermione is too intelligent and mature to be saddled with a sports-obsessed nincompoop like Ron" and "Snape is just misunderstood and needs someone to love him" and "people being smart together is super awesome". I can still totally get behind the last point, and the first two have a certain element of truth to them, at least.
A big thing in HGSS was a group called When I Kissed The Teacher, or WIKTT, and it would run challenges. And there was this one challenge that just sort of took on a life of its own for AGES AND AGES afterwards, called the Marriage Law Challenge (MLC). It was basically the Aliens Made Them Do It of HGSS fandom, only where "it" is "get married" and "aliens" are "the Ministry". I adored MLC fics unreasonably much: two people thrown together in adversity who must learn to respect one another! And then watch that respect blossom into love!
But alas much of the rest of HGSS fandom looked down their noses at MLC fics.
There was an unfortunately large percentage of writers in HGSS who went a bit too far in the "misunderstood Snape" direction, completely erasing his canonical nasty side (or underplaying it excessively) in order to make shipping him with a good girl like Hermione more palatable.
There was also an unfortunately large percentage of writers who wrote Ron and Harry as boors and idiots, in order to show more clearly why Hermione needed to seek out more mature and intelligent company.
But HGSS fic at its best was a celebration of intelligence and competence, was an exploration of subtle and nuanced morality, was about looking beneath the surface unattractiveness to find the quality of person beneath, was about two people who have been outsiders for so much of their life finding someone who would be able to appreciate them for who they were. <3
And in retrospect one of the things I love the most about it was that it allowed for a strong-willed, intelligent, not-conventionally-attractive female character to take the starring role unapologetically. Nascent feminism ftw!
I will forgive you for having never read A Beautiful Lifetime Event, terrible sin though that is. *grin* If you don't care for SGA then, well, it wouldn't be up your alley. And the pairing type it embodies isn't the pairing type you seem to go for most strongly anyways.
(Such joy is NOT UNREASONABLE. Your season projects are a source of joy and wonder in the universe!)
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Oh, HGSS fandom was INSANE in its own special way. And I am happy to tell you all about it AT GREAT LENGTH. There was a lot of "Hermione is too intelligent and mature to be saddled with a sports-obsessed nincompoop like Ron" and "Snape is just misunderstood and needs someone to love him" and "people being smart together is super awesome". I can still totally get behind the last point, and the first two have a certain element of truth to them, at least.
A big thing in HGSS was a group called When I Kissed The Teacher, or WIKTT, and it would run challenges. And there was this one challenge that just sort of took on a life of its own for AGES AND AGES afterwards, called the Marriage Law Challenge (MLC). It was basically the Aliens Made Them Do It of HGSS fandom, only where "it" is "get married" and "aliens" are "the Ministry". I adored MLC fics unreasonably much: two people thrown together in adversity who must learn to respect one another! And then watch that respect blossom into love!
But alas much of the rest of HGSS fandom looked down their noses at MLC fics.
There was an unfortunately large percentage of writers in HGSS who went a bit too far in the "misunderstood Snape" direction, completely erasing his canonical nasty side (or underplaying it excessively) in order to make shipping him with a good girl like Hermione more palatable.
There was also an unfortunately large percentage of writers who wrote Ron and Harry as boors and idiots, in order to show more clearly why Hermione needed to seek out more mature and intelligent company.
But HGSS fic at its best was a celebration of intelligence and competence, was an exploration of subtle and nuanced morality, was about looking beneath the surface unattractiveness to find the quality of person beneath, was about two people who have been outsiders for so much of their life finding someone who would be able to appreciate them for who they were. <3
And in retrospect one of the things I love the most about it was that it allowed for a strong-willed, intelligent, not-conventionally-attractive female character to take the starring role unapologetically. Nascent feminism ftw!
I will forgive you for having never read A Beautiful Lifetime Event, terrible sin though that is. *grin* If you don't care for SGA then, well, it wouldn't be up your alley. And the pairing type it embodies isn't the pairing type you seem to go for most strongly anyways.
(Such joy is NOT UNREASONABLE. Your season projects are a source of joy and wonder in the universe!)