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So I was talking to my_daroga the other day and we each thought of something there needs to be fic for. Mine was silly but when I couldn't get to sleep last night in PMS-induced insomnia, I decided there were all sorts of things that should have fic, and don't, and if there is you need to point me to it, and then I need to whine about how there's not enough of it.

Fandoms, canons, and subjects there should be fanfiction for:


MICELLANEOUS

-Mrs. Frisby And The Rats Of NIMH. This was my_daroga's idea and I agree whole-heartedly. Actually, I'm a little wary of rat!sex fic, but there should be gen. There should be way more gen of kids' books, like:

-The Little Princess. This is my favorite book ever from childhood, and no one ever fics it. The thing is, I can't fic it, because I have no idea for new things to happen. It is actually very Perfect In Every Way. But I still want more! *stamps foot*! My idea for what there needs to be fic of was:

-Fate. Actually, when you think about it, RPS is Fate!fic. But there needs to be people manipulating Fate and making her do things, in a literal sense, but also metaphorically. Actually, RPS as Fate!fic makes me think of Fate as matchmaker, which makes me think of:

-Enchantress from the Beauty and the Beast fairytale. Actually, I have a series of BatB short stories that fit together in a loose fashion, which I plan on publishing one day (*coughs*) and the Enchantress is a big character. Ask me, she's the most fucked up character in that story. Who does she think she is, anyway? But back to the concept of Fate, there needs to be more:

GREEK MYTHOLOGY FIC.

-Hades/Persephone. I've read a couple, but there needs to be more. spuffyduds did a great Hades/Persephone poem. I wish I could compel everyone cool I've ever met to read Mother Love, by Rita Dove. I tend not to appreciate poetry so much, but that collection restored my faith in it; it's about the Hades/Demeter/Persephone triangle. It's like reading some of the very best fanfiction ever, which is so much funner than reading a lot of original fiction. Speaking of Hades/Persephone, though, there should be:

-Hades/Orpheus. Persephone/Orpheus. Hades/Eurydice. Persephone/Eurydice. H/O/P, H/E/P, E/O/P, E/O/H. H/O/P/E. Look at what that spells. Jesus, best fic ever. Oh, and and:

-Hades/Zues. I know they're brothers, but those Greek gods were all incestuous anyway, and you know you like that element of it. Plus, Light/Dark, with Hades so jealous Zeus got the sky. It would be sososo good! Plus you could throw in /Poseidon just for kicks. Or Persephone. God, I love Persephone. As long as we're on this kick:

-Greek Mythology/other religions cross-over. My first friend in fandom ever (Jane Austen friends!) created this 'verse in which Ma'at (Egyptian god of justice) was strong of course, because she has to make all these judgments, but secretly so wibbly inside because she hated having to choose, and doubted her decisions, and felt the weight of the world against her feather (the feather your soul gets weighed against when Anubis sees if you can go to the Underworld). So she sought out the help of Hades, who was sarcastic, ironic, and cruel to the extent that he could give you exactly the kind of talking down you need when you get emo and self-involved. In other words her Hades was Snape.

MA'AT: I've totally gained the weight of the world. Anubis says it goes straight to my thighs.
HADES: (coldly) I see no difference.

That!Hades would have all the dialogue, devil-may-care, wit of Oscar Wilde's like, Lord Goring, but all the Secret Inner Emo-ness of the Phantom of the Opera. Although there's this whole Monty Python spoof in my head where he goes around saying, "Bring out your dead!" and Persephone is saying, "I'm not dead yet! Really, I feel better already!" and someone is beating a cat. Speaking of Oscar Wilde, there should be:

DEAD AUTHORS (AND SOME PHILOSOPHERS) RPS AND RPF:

-Oscar Wilde crack RPS, by crack I mean with no reference to the fact that he was married to Jennifer Ehle and had that affair with Jude Law, and later changed his name to Gordon, Gordon and panted after David Boreanaz in Bones. Maybe I don't want RPS after all because from what I can tell from that movie (Wilde), his RL was kind of sad. But there should be more, like, Lord Goring/Robert Chiltern slash, and Jack/Algy, and stuff. Oh, and Gwendolyn/Cecily. Everyone is so gay in Wilde. It should be easy. Get to work. But speaking of dead author RPS, there should be:

-Thoreau/Emerson, which is really my first slash pairing ever, only I didn't slash them. And my first RPS even though I didn't actually ever write any down. But I invented entire stories around them in my head, how Emerson disappointed Thoreau, because he was so much more of a theorist than an activist, and how Emerson lamented Thoreau, because there was an innocence and idealism in the latter doomed to be destroyed. Of course, Emerson was the idealist between the two, but note he's not the one who went off to Walden Pond either, you know? Not that when it gets down to it Thoreau was that active. He only got arrested for like one night. DUDE. Thoreau!prison!fic. There was "The Night Thoreau Spent In Jail" which is an excellent play that I enjoyed much better than Walden. But anyway, more dead author RPS:

-Socrates/Plato. Because you know Plato was so not platonic with him! I once said, "You really can't tell where Socrates ends and Plato begins," and a friend said, "When they were alive that might've been literal" . . . and it still cracks me up. And another dead author:

-Alexander Pope. Because I dunno, the stories in my head about him are so much less clever and so much more tragic than anything he ever wrote. Irony, I guess. Making something so Romantic out of such an Augustan. Which reminds me how there should be:

-Jane Austen/Charlotte Bronte time-travel. Because Bronte hated Austen, and Austen would've laughed in Charlotte's face. And I love them both and want to smoosh them. It would be like the Hades/Ma'at story I described, where Jane teaches Charlotte not to take herself so seriously, and the latter learns to laugh, but in doing so falls headlong in love, as passionately and violently as you totally would think Charlotte would do it, and of course Charlotte is all melodramatic and tragic about it, as if she never learned anything from Jane at all. Poor, poor confused, gooey-wibbly-so-melty-inside Charlotte. I have such heretofore unknown affection for characters who are confused and shamed and shaken by falling desperately in love with someone they never thought they would. It's like Harry/Draco in a way. Not just Draco and Harry falling for each other but me falling for them, because I never thought I would. OMG the parallels in us all. *brain bursts* But right, more dead authors RPS:

-Shelley/Keats, especially Shelley chasing after Keats and Keats all, but I don't feel that way about you! Fanny! Fanny, save me!, and Shelley wanting to have threesomes with him and Mary, and Mary all like, the fuck, Percy?, and there could be lines from Adonais in it. And if you wanted to do gen there could be:

-that famous meeting of the Shelleys and Byron at Lake Geneva, you know, where Mary started writing Frankenstein. Though that doesn't have to be gen, either. I mean, Byron is there. Which reminds me, I totally ship:

-Byron/his sister. Even though it's wrong. Because it's wrong. And one of these fics should at least include:

-Leigh Hunt. Oh, and for the het crowd:

-Mary Wollstonecraft/William Godwin. Oh, and out of nowhere: John Stuart Mill/Harriet Taylor. And speaking all historical here, there should be:

HISTORICAL FICTION/FACT CROSSOVERS WITH BUFFYVERSE

I believe frimfram did one with Sherlock Holmes? I haven't read that, but I really want to, and there should be more like that. 'Cause speaking of Romantic poets:

-Coleridge/Buffyverse cross-overs. Because Christabel could be about Darla. Geraldine is probably actually in fact Darla's real name, because we all know she had Daddy!issues. And that also explains why Coleridge is so afraid of women. And since Angel said he met him, there should be:

-Angel/Baudelaire. Why isn't there? Not that I know enough about Baudelaire to actually really appreciate it, but there could be Darla/Poe or something, that whole crowd. And speaking of those Frenchies:

-Phantom of the Opera/Fanged Four. I mean, just because you can. Speaking of Mother Love, by Rita Dove, which we no longer are any more, that's professional fanfic, and there should be more of that, because it keeps alive things like:

THE LEGEND OF KING ARTHUR

There's pretty much new "fic" for this in the print or in film every five years, but there's so much more yet to be discovered. On ff.n there's about 1,500 fics for that newest King Arthur with Clive Owen, which isn't very much for total fics about the legend. Mists of Avalon still wins imo (okay, in my seventh grade opinion, which is when I last read it) for being the best King Arthur fic. Fic is the wrong term, because there's no definitive canon, but you have to admit King Arthur stuff reads like fic. That's how Guy Gaveril Kay got those parts of the Finovar Tapestry trilogy thing to feels so heavy, even though he way over-used the "stars in her eyes" phrase. Oh, Guinevere. But I mean, there obviously needs to be more:

-Arthur/Lancelot, Arthur/Guenivere, Guenivere/Lancelot, G/A/L. I wish someone would do a version where Lancelot is in love with Arthur, and Arthur is straight, and in love with Guenivere, and Lancelot sleeps with Guenivere just to piss him off. Oh, and Arthur/Lancelot/(Guenivere). And then there should be one that's those three but also Buffy/Angel/Spike, just for me. That's not even talking about the whole:

-Mordred. OMG, Mordred. I only just last night realized how unfairly he's been treated. He's totally the Connor of the 'verse. And now Mordred totally looks like VK in my book which means people should fic him even more. OMG, what if Mordred just wants his Daddy to love him, and Arthur does love him, so so much, but Mordred has been raised on too many lies and--and--! OMG, so sad. Especially the way Arthur murdered all those children to kill Mordred when he was a baby, but that could be part of Arthur's Eternal Shame, or maybe he didn't do it and Mordred was raised to believe that, to believe that he was unwanted and oh! Though the Mordred/Arthur angle is even sicker when you consider Morgana's Arthur's sister, but there should be:

-Morgana. Morgana fic, and Morgana with anyone, but Morgana/Arthur makes me sad. I liked how in Mists of Avalon Arthur actually loved Morgaine best but couldn't be with her, and never would. That was tragic. Tragic! Except for the whole Morgaine loving Lancelet thing 'cause I didn't like the Lancelet so much. I thought she should hook up with the new Merlin, Kevin, (even if his name was Kevin and people named Kevin are never cool), because he loved her. Until that whole Nimue thing. But anyway, there could also be:

-Gawain/Galahad.

-Galahad/Mordred. OMG, Christ/anti-Christ boy love. That is the saddest of the sad, and Galahad would be so golden, and Mordred would just hate him, and love him, and it would be so Harry/Draco in a way. ZOMG. And:

-Guinevere/either Galahad or Mordred. OR BOTH. Because of their fathers. OMG. Why is not one writing this? *sheds tears*

And before you say it, yes. Yes, I do have a lot of time on my hands.