Retrospective femslash and OotP

Going back through the tangle of my harddrive, I found myself re-reading my first-ever piece of femslash. I remember writing this very clearly. I was a sophomore in high school, and one night at the beginning of final exam week I stumbled upon a femslash archive. I'd never seen any before, never even hear of it, although whether or not this was something to do with me or a bigger fandom thing I don't know. But it hit me like a blow to the gut. It was so sexy, so wonderful, so completely what I wanted. And I got completely carried away by Ginny/Cho.

This was years before OotP, and there was a great sense of freedom in writing these two. You could almost make them up from scratch. And there was enough of a connection to get them together, but also enough distance between them to enable creativity. And ginny was so much fun to play with, back then.

I think that this is why so many fen were so upset by Sue!Ginny in OotP. Before that she had so much potential. The business with Tom in her first year was so filled with possibility! She could be the Gothic herione, slightly mad, a child whose innocence had been taken and twisted when she was so painfully young.

And Cho, too. We didn't know anything about her, but she was a slightly older girl who didn't seem to have been touched by tragedy until the big one. She was the ordinary girl who all of a sudden had to deal with something as horrible as having her boyfriend murdered. She was our first Ravenclaw character, which I mentally focused on to a high degree.

( Here's a snippet of the fic: )

I'm not sure how much I like it. In some places the writing is very juvenile. It was qite some time ago. But I do know that I miss these characters. I miss my Gothic, twisty Ginny and my intelligent, observant, shell-shocked Cho. And I'm irrationally angry with OotP and with JK for taking that away from me, especially as I feel that what she gave us in replacement wasn't nearly good enough. Her Ginny and Cho are dull, silly, irritating, and prosaic. In so many ways I wish that we were back in the Three Year Summer. I liked this world better then.

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...I bitch about OotP a lot, don't I?

I need to get over it. I really do. Maybe I'll run back to hobbits for a while.

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Okay, I really do seem to have gone back to the hobbits. Wow. You watch RotK once and ka-bam, there you are. tootsiemuppet, I'm sure that this is all your fault.

Current Tolkienic fic for working on:

* Sweet is the Sound: Sam/Rosie PWP early morning marital rain sexness which is, unbelievably enough, actually happy

* Hands, Frodo/Sam Minas Tirith angstness PWP-which-is-nevertheless-only-rated-R, odd stream-of-conscious-ness and Torech Ungol metaphors and hopefully not too much tangling of male pronouns

* Fly Away: strange-ass Moulin Rouge/LotR crossover relying mainly on word parallels between Eówyn and Satine, who end up having odd metaphysical lesbian sex somewhere in the middle

* The Currently Untitled Floral Fic: Eówyn/Faramir fic told in six ficlets, each focusing on a flower, which I love to itty bits as a concept but can never quite seem to get to work properly

* The As-Yet-Unwritten Frodo/Galadriel fic: what? It's not that odd of a pairing! Valinor fic, het, my first-ever cross-species, romance-while-both-are-thinking-of-somebody-else. Yeah. Now I just need to start the bloody thing.

* Wilwarin: Silmfic, Beren/Finrod reflective elvish musings that I've not finished yet even though I started it three years ago

* The Apocryphal Galadriel/Luthien Fic of Sapphic Elven Doom

Lots of sex, hobbits, and crossover-ness. Hopefully I'll manage to get some of them finished during this productive streak. It's been far too long since I really got down to the fic. And I absolutely have to finish the Blackcest corsetfic, because there's a challenge for corsetfic and I will kill myself it I don't contribute anything.

And I just realized: I have never written pre-quest. Ever. How odd.

Oh, and I'm amused by hyphenated phrase-nouns.

Addendum: I went searching for old Pony Pals today and friended a bunch of you. Just so that you know it's me. Missed you guys!

Fic (Frodo/Sam)

As promised, there is hobbitfic. Minas Tirith angstsexfic, to be precise.

Title: Hands
Pairing: F/S
Rating: hard R
( Once there were long, slender fingers and smooth, pale palms. )