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rionaleonhart) wrote2023-05-21 06:12 pm
rionaleonhart) wrote2023-05-21 06:12 pm
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I Have My Mother's Dreams.
My mum read and enjoyed Across the Ocean, my Sense8-inspired Jack/Kate Lost fic!
I'm very excited about this. My writing's important to me, so it's something I want to share with my mother, but I don't often have the chance; most of the things I write aren't really understandable if you don't know the canon they're based on. But I thought Across the Ocean was divorced enough from canon to potentially work for someone who hadn't seen Lost.
When I sent my mum the fic link, I also sent her a handful of pictures of Jack and Kate together, so she'd know what the characters in question looked like. I'll be honest: it felt pretty weird to be sending my own mother a shippy picspam.
Anyway, she said she really liked the fic! Apparently she also looked up and watched Jack and Kate's first kiss in canon afterwards, which sort of delights me. (She also hunted down a breakdown of the show on Reddit by Googling 'Lost explained for dummies'.)
My mum pointed out an error in the fic; at one point I'd forgotten that Kate was wearing handcuffs. When I went 'oh, I should add a bit where she gets out of the handcuffs,' she went 'no, I think they should have sex and he should really like that she's wearing the handcuffs.'
She also wanted a scene where Kate goes 'we should get these handcuffs off' and Jack goes 'hmmm, maybe not yet.' I think my mother ships these characters more than I do.
I'm very excited about this. My writing's important to me, so it's something I want to share with my mother, but I don't often have the chance; most of the things I write aren't really understandable if you don't know the canon they're based on. But I thought Across the Ocean was divorced enough from canon to potentially work for someone who hadn't seen Lost.
When I sent my mum the fic link, I also sent her a handful of pictures of Jack and Kate together, so she'd know what the characters in question looked like. I'll be honest: it felt pretty weird to be sending my own mother a shippy picspam.
Anyway, she said she really liked the fic! Apparently she also looked up and watched Jack and Kate's first kiss in canon afterwards, which sort of delights me. (She also hunted down a breakdown of the show on Reddit by Googling 'Lost explained for dummies'.)
My mum pointed out an error in the fic; at one point I'd forgotten that Kate was wearing handcuffs. When I went 'oh, I should add a bit where she gets out of the handcuffs,' she went 'no, I think they should have sex and he should really like that she's wearing the handcuffs.'
She also wanted a scene where Kate goes 'we should get these handcuffs off' and Jack goes 'hmmm, maybe not yet.' I think my mother ships these characters more than I do.
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My mum's never been in fandom, but I've always been open with her about my fanfiction writing and she was interested enough by the concept to write her MA dissertation on it when I was a teenager. This resulted in a slightly disconcerting moment when I walked in on her reading Draco/Ron mpreg for research.
I asked her recently what she would have written fanfiction about if she'd been into it when she was growing up. 'The Avengers,' she said, without hesitation, meaning the 1960s show. 'And the Monkees. And Adam Adamant, and definitely The Prisoner.'
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('Why would you send your mum one of your fics? Why would you risk her finding the other ones?' my housemate asked me. 'My mum already knows I'm a freak,' I replied.)
I don't think any of my family members actively read this blog, but they know where to find it. My brother gave me True Detective for Christmas and told me that, to make sure I hadn't seen it before, he'd checked my post tags to see whether I'd previously talked about it.
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