Balthier And Fran May Also Be A Factor.

[rionaleonhart]

Last year, I held a Multi-Fandom Family Fic Fest in November, proving that I have no sense of timing because, y'know, everyone was busy with NaNoWriMo. It did still garner some great responses, but I'm wondering whether perhaps a follow-up ficmeme would be more successful if I hosted it this month, perhaps in the next couple of days, rather than when most of fandom is struggling to write a novel. It could be a warm-up exercise for NaNoers!

However, I'm also wondering whether this year I should go for a more general non-romantic relationship meme theme. The definition of 'family' in the rules was already fairly flexible, and a non-romantic relationship ficmeme would mean people wouldn't have to worry about whether a particular dynamic might be family-ish enough to qualify. I worried at first that it might be too broad a subject, but it wouldn't just be a genfic-in-general meme; there would still be a focus on (non-romantic, non-sexual) relationships.

I don't know. What do you think? (Whether I go for the specific family or the more general romanceless meme idea, I intend to be less longwinded in explaining the rules and actually keep an organised list of fics written this time.)


[Poll #1786524]


I won't say that I'm considering broadening the theme entirely because Dr Doofenshmirtz and Perry the Platypus can't really be considered family by any stretch of the imagination, but, well...

Comments

[amy-wolf.livejournal.com]

Be warned, there might be a million Dexter-themed stories about Dexter and Deborah, because I am currently in a phase of "Dexter loves his sister a lot, and Deb loves her brother a lot, and everyone in the world needs to hear about it in great detail, and also there needs to be a scene where protective Deb has to rescue Dexter with a gun, and probably some horribly awkward hugging."

[thewaterbandit.livejournal.com]

A romanceless meme! A plethora of romanceless fic! I am 100% behind this you have no idea.

(Also I have started watching Phineas and Ferb and now I think entirely too much about Doctor Doofenshmirtz and I am blaming you. CURSE YOU RIONALEONHEART THE... LJ USER)

[jlh.livejournal.com]

Look I'm a big damn shipper, so it's not like this is my personal quest or whatever, but I do love writing about friendships, too. I said either because while I like the expansiveness of "non-romantic relationship" I don't like that it defines itself by an absence of something else.

I dunno, "Friends & Family" is a pretty common phrase in the US anyway, so I guess I could go back to the poll and recommend that! Because that feels like it covers it, though I suppose you'd have to have an asterisk to include work relationships that aren't friendships? But so few of them are that we ever want to write fic about anyway so I talked myself out of that...

See my thought process, in progress! Ain't you lucky!

[darkest-alchemy.livejournal.com]

I confuse the hell out of, well, almost everyone with how I ship Holmes/Watson (or Holmes/about half of the canon characters) because I think Holmes is asexual and aromantic but he's still in a relationship with Watson that is way more than friendship (which can include sex, if Holmes is bored enough; it's just he doesn't really get the whole sexual attraction thing). That probably doesn't really count as 'non-romantic relationship' though here, does it?

[bubbles-san.livejournal.com]

I cheated on the ficlet by using a sentence from my failed Hagrid/McGonagall one-sentence, but it was an ambiguous sort of sentence that could go either way so I don't think it matters.

Anyway! I like the idea of a non-romantic fic-meme. Perhaps a platonic ship meme sort of name might have worked? Platonic isn't quite the right word, but it does describe a non-sexual relationship.

[yumiboo.livejournal.com]

I think they both sound like wonderful ideas because they both have the scope to include different kinds of relationships that people have with each other (I mean, just because people aren't related by blood, it doesn't mean that they don't feel like they're a family, and, as noted previously, there are more than one type of relationship) - so, all in all, I'm game.

And the little thing I wrote that was about 225 characters (but I read as 225 words and thus failed and had to do a shoddy editting job)? Yeah, it was from a game series called Persona Four, and I just felt that it sort of illustrated my point slightly. It's not wonderful, I'm sorry, I can't write well under pressure :