Ten-Request Meme

[persephone_kore]

Snagged from labellementeuse

The first 10 people to comment on this post get to request a drabble (or ficlet, if I feel like it) on a subject/character of their choosing from me. In return, they have to post this in their journal (not that I'd enforce it if I could, but that's how it supposedly goes). Post all fandoms you're willing to write(/draw) for.

Fandoms:
X-Men (and satellites) (may include X-Project)
Harry Potter
Young Wizards
Neopets
Abhorsen (warning: I don't have the books with me)
Star Wars (warning: limited knowledge of EU and obscure movie details)
Enchanted Forest Chronicles
Winnie the Pooh
Vor (...maybe?)
write-ins may be considered, especially since I suspect I'm forgetting something

Special Rules: If I'm not able or willing to do your request in good faith due to cluelessness, differences in interpretation, or sheer defeat (such as discovering I can't do a decent Miles-voice; I have no idea), I will ask if you want something else or reinterpret wildly. Though I suppose I could probably do a hundred words of almost anything; whether they'd be any good or just embarrass us both is another question.

Edit: First ten people to comment requesting a ficlet! There are considerably more comments than requests, as I've filled the first few in the comments and some people have responded further. I'm currently at 6 requests, 6 completed. (Maybe I should give them their own posts?)

Comments

[persephone-kore.livejournal.com]

Mm. I'm actually a relatively uncritical reader most of the time, for some reason. More so when I'm first getting into something, perhaps... although even during my first EU binge back in high school, I was kind of iffy on some things.

*wince* Ah, yes, the forbidden/unrealized love. Not that Watson was the only one doing that. I suppose it's pretty common in literature generally, and her non-SW stuff is romance (how this got her a Star Wars gig I have no idea), but... sigh. I got really fed up at one point when I'd run into some otherwise good Star Wars fics with irritating levels of Forbidden Jedi Romance and then hit a similar story involving the Catholic Church in a comic strip. Of all things.

You know, it makes sense for Anakin; he was raised for several years with (probably) the idea that marriage and family were desirable things even if he might or might not get the chance at them. But there seems to be this assumption among a lot of people that similar grand passions and rebellions ought to be common throughout the Jedi, that hormones and the desire for a "normal romance" would be so strong that being raised with the assumption you wouldn't enter into romantic commitments shouldn't make any real difference to what you want. I thought that was something Stewart handled well, really; he had hormones and crushes as things that were assumed to happen, but not taken as reason for Grand Drama. (Well, perhaps by the people involved, especially when young, but that's kind of standard. *pats Whie*)

I'm pretty sure Chankar was her official master -- it's spelled out that Scout was thirteen that day and expecting to be sent away, and Yoda told her Chankar had asked for her as Padawan. And then three months later Chankar was dead, and Scout's been driving herself, not entirely healthily, for either a year or two years and a half.

[polgarawolf.livejournal.com]

I have a hard time sometimes trying to find a balance for just reading things to enjoy them. Too many years training for critical analysis, as an English major, is to blame for that. It's what makes me so picky about some things in the EU while, on the other hand, I tend to be more forgiving about (and to even enjoy) some things that I think other readers often don't like, because they just want to be entertained and not have to worry about things like politics or philosophy. *Shrugs* I figure the gain from the one usually balance out what I lose to the other, buet sometimes I wish I could just flick a switch somewhere and read without the background voice nitpicking over lack of character development or consistency in characterization from book to book, etc. *Sighs*

Jude Watson wrote actual romance novels before SW? I . . . did not know that. And that actually explains a lot, now that I think about it . . . *Is tempted to sigh, because it certainly explains where the fascination with the whole tragic unrequited love trope came from*

*Snickers* Yeah, I think if I came across the same blasted story from a SW fic in a comic about the Catholic Church, I'd be just a wee bit upset, too!

For Anakin, it makes sense. Anyone else but Anakin, someone who might've been raised outside the Temple longer, like Anakin, or for some reason ended up living among a nonJedi population for a while (because of being stranded during a mission, amnesia, whatever), somebody who's survived Order 66 and is trying to blend in and keep on surviving, or someone like Whie and Scout, who're thrown together at fairly young ages under really awful circumstances, though, and I reserve the right to cry foul over what's probably an inappropriate plot device.

I'm probably remembering the book wrong - I read it concurrently with two other SW books while I was working the nightshift doing data entry at Bank of America, and those were 11-hour shifts, so it's entirely possible.