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]

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.