Looking for rare fandom friends!

[sweetsorcery]

Name: sweetsorcery
Age group: 30+ and that's all you need to know :)
Country: NZ
Subscription/Access Policy: Over 18 only

Main Fandoms:
Fantastic Beasts
Lord of the Rings
Hornblower
Famous Five
The Singer Not the Song

Other Fandoms: Star Trek: TOS/TNG/DS9/VOY, Sherlock Holmes (book and Granada TV), Dracula (book and 'Count Dracula' - 1977 BBC TV), Historical RPF, Mag7

Fannish Interests: Slash, Pining, Romantic Fluff, Incest, Dom/sub, Kink, rare pairs; I'm big on consent!

OTPs and Ships: Credence Barebone/Percival Graves, Boromir/Faramir, Hornblower/Pellew, Julian/Dick, Father Keogh/Anacleto, Holmes/Watson, Van Helsing/Mina Harker (yes, there's a het exception), Shelley/Keats

Favourite Movies: Many, but for slash writing purposes... Lord of the Rings, The Singer Not the Song, Fantastic Beasts, Lawrence of Arabia, Count Dracula, the odd classic movie
TV Shows: Famous Five, Hornblower, Sherlock Holmes, Star Trek (see above), Lupin, The Terror
Books: Famous Five, The Singer Not the Song, Lord of the Rings, Sherlock Holmes
Music: Nordic Folk, Baroque, Swing, Jazz, Tango, Electro Swing, World Fusion, Doo Wop, most music from the invention of instruments to the 1990s :)
Games: Um...
Comics/Anime/Misc: I love Ghibli movies!

Other Info: I've written a lot of HP in the past, but there'll be no more of that. Currently a little in limbo on the Fantastic Beasts front. I've written in all manner of fandoms for various fests. I really want to immerse myself more in my rare fandoms again, and maybe add some, but it's lonely there, so here I am. :)

Comments

[sonofgodzilla]

I don't think I'm the kind of person you are looking for, being a weird cat lady who spends too much time alternating between posting fic and fretting about her cat, but gosh please rec me book-centric Mina/Van Helsing fic if any spring to mind; I'd never considered this as a pairing before but now the dynamic of such seems fascinating and I find distracted now from work as I ask myself what this might be like - like when you see something glittering out of the corner of your eye but you can't work out what it is, lol.

[sweetsorcery]

Cats are excellent though! :)
Oh my goodness, I wish I could rec you something. I've requested Mina/Val Helsing several times for Yuletide, and I got really close once during another fest with someone telling me they'd write me something, but nothing's ever materialised. *cries*
I guess we'll both have to keep checking AO3 and hope for the best... or just write our own? :)

[sonofgodzilla]

oh no! this absence absolutely, absolutely must be addressed! I will take up your cause with this too as the prospect for such a relationship seems fascinating!

[sweetsorcery]

Yay! And after he says things like this to her, one wonders how it's passed everyone by:

“There are darknesses in life and there are lights, and you are one of the lights, the light of all lights.”

[sonofgodzilla]

I give Stoker such a hard time for being a hack, but this is such a beautiful line. I feel like it's there in adaptations in places - I mean, I know Bram Stoker's Dracula is just horny across the board, but I distinctly remember Mina coming onto Van Helsing when under the influence - so there must be someone somewhere who has properly put pen to paper and brought this to life.

Ah! Now you've put this idea in my head, I'm quietly fixated with it!

[sweetsorcery]

I've been trying to put this into people's heads for years. Success at last! lol
You'd really think there would have to be fanfic for this. It's definitely there in Bram Stoker's Dracula but, as you say, horny across the board. I love the BBC adaption from the 1970s, Count Dracula. Not only does it have my favourite Mina and my favourite Van Helsing ever in it, but there's a sense of gentle, mutual admiration there that's really the reason I'm all over this idea. Btw, someone kindly put it up on YT, if you're interested. ;)
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=96OIILetaho

[sonofgodzilla]

Oh, I remember this gem! I haven't seen this in ages - since, well, since I used to sneak downstairs to watch horror movies on TV after my parents had gone to bed, hahah. Thank you so much for this welcome reminder!

I have a little project for an indie press about different incarnations of Dracula that I'm going to begin at some point after I clear my schedule, and I'm thinking I should try and sneak some of this Mina/Van Helsing business into it now if only because it's such a charming idea. Ugh! Enough of my endless work schedule though, we should embark on some sort of Mina/Van Helsing awareness campaign, lol.

[sweetsorcery]

You're very welcome. I'm very pleased you know that adaption! It sure is a gem. I saw it once, eons ago, and always remembered it so fondly. I was beside myself when I found it again. It's a really good one to campaign for Mina/Van Helsing awareness with, too. :D

[sonofgodzilla]

Youtube is a little treasure trove for secrets like this! Definitely this one is a winner. (>_>)

[sweetsorcery]

It really is. Oh, you might like to know, I just in time nominated this pairing for hurtcomfortex, which someone kindly told me about. ;)

[sonofgodzilla]

OH! OH! I'm keeping an eye on this! I think this comm might be the only fic community I haven't yet enrolled in. (<_<)

(sidenote: thank you for going back and forth with me about this! I'd had a horrible week but talking about this has really brightened my days!)

[sweetsorcery]

I'm so glad it was recced to me and I could rec it to you in turn. :)
Hurt/comfort is definitely one of my favourite tropes, because I'm a softie.

I've been having a horrible time lately too, and last week in particular has been very stressful, so this works out well for both of us. Talking about fanfic, even in the abstract, is always cheering. :)

[sonofgodzilla]

Absolutely a softie here too, haha.

Agreed so much! It's just so nice to have something that can act as a method of escapism, and double as a method of addressing that which concerns you!

[sweetsorcery]

Yup! I've always been of the opinion that fanfic is the very best kind of escapism and therapy. And, as a bonus, that goes for the writer and the reader. :)

[sonofgodzilla]

Agreed absolutely! One thousand per cent!

[sweetsorcery]

I've been thinking... there is another het pairing I like, and you might even know of that one too, since you're familiar with 1970s British TV. :) I'm planning to start a re-watch of Upstairs, Downstairs next weekend, and I think I've been mentally shipping Richard Bellamy/Hazel Forrest since I saw it for the first time. I've requested this pairing a few times in fic exchanges too; never had any luck, but there's at least one fic on AO3.
Now that I think about it, the dynamic bears similarities to Mina/Van Helsing. Hmm. lol

[sonofgodzilla]

Gosh, it had been a very long time since I thought of Upstairs, Downstairs! I remember it seeing it when I was younger, but as with things like the American drama, The Waltons, I was simply aware of it and didn't fully understand the weight of the kind of stories the show was trying to tell. I think I'd have to look more into this to truly comment!

It's somewhat unpopular nowadays, but I have always been very fond of girls school fiction, and general stories for girls like the Chalet School books, so, ah, i kind of have a fondness for romantic relationships involving younger girls and older male mentor figures even though it's 2021 this is problematic, it depicts an imbalance of power &c. &c. and I absolutely acknowledge that, but it doesn't stop me from wanting to read it in fiction.

[sweetsorcery]

I'm such a history buff, and always have been, so Upstairs, Downstairs has been a favourite since I first saw it. The beauty of seeing something like that when you're quite young is that with every consecutive viewing, you "get it" a little more. :)
I know what you mean about the mentor/protegé dynamic. It's a favourite of mine too. Luckily, I don't pay much attention to what's considered problematic. (Or I'd have to give up on a lot of my favourite pairings. lol) I never write non-con, so things like an imbalance of power and such are something I only ever use as, well, a kink basically, never an excuse to be creepy. :)

[sonofgodzilla]

Oh, I am with you completely, that sort of stuff seeps in completely! Seeing stuff like this when young really muddies the water, gives you this strange notalgia by proxy for a time you never lived in.

I've never been a fan of non-con either so we're on the same ground here... ah, although I think I just weird stuff, if I am entirely about an evaluation of what I do.

[mr_picard]

Oooh, you like Star Trek TNG and slash? That's two huge things we have in common! (And I'm 30+ as well.) If you want we can be friends?

[sweetsorcery]

I stumbled into Star Trek fandom when I by chance saw First Contact, and it not only got me hooked on (most of) Star Trek, but on writing! A Barclay/Hawk story was my first ever effort. I can't tell you how peeved I was to discover neither was a regular character in the series. :D
So I should admit, that's all the TNG I've written, except for a VOY crossover with Barclay that I'm not sure is actually online atm, but I'd be happy to be friends. :)

[mr_picard]

Oh that's fine, I'm used to TNG having only a tiny slash fandom compared to some of the other series! I'm always happy to make friends who just like the genre of slash! Will add you ASAP!

[sweetsorcery]

Aww. I certainly do love the genre of slash. :)
Btw, if you love hurt/comfort, one of my friends just recced me a fandom exchange. Nominations close... today, I think it might be by now? hurtcomfortex

[mr_picard]

I do like hurt/comfort, it's one of my favorite things to write. But, unfortunately, I can't write just like that. I have to be in the mood, and that one sometimes doesn't happen for YEARS. My creativity is extremely elusive.

[sweetsorcery]

Oh no. The muses can be awfully fickle, it's true. :(

[mr_picard]

They sure can... but I've retired from fic writing for now anyway so it's not that bad that the muse is absent. But maybe I'll return one day, and then I'll have to wait for her all over again. ;)

[greghousesgf]

I like a lot of the same things you do, especially book and Jeremy Brett!Holmes, OK if I add you?

[sweetsorcery]

Oh, lovely. Absolutely, please do. :)
Jeremy Brett was the best!