... how tf is the 1995 Pride and Prejudice a yuletide fandom? P&P fic is its own damn industry, and the characterization from the Firth/Ehle film is imo quite dominant.
*cough* You know my feelings on this, but as someone who's been ranting for 10+ years about how P&P fanon is overwhelmingly drawn straight from the mini-series, I'm just ... what?
I mean. Down to little things like Caroline's orange dress, Elizabeth's ~curvaceous~ figure by contrast to a willowy Jane—??????—the unnamed Fitzwilliam earl being Lord Matlock, Mr Collins' ... everything, the existence of Darcy's dog (there are fics written just about that dog!), along with scenes/dialogue incorporated right in—particularly that goddamned pond—just everything.
People don't tag it because, for large swaths of the fandom, the mini-series is indistinguishable, or at least indistinguished, from P&P. It's an unmarked default. I've very rarely encountered fic that presents itself as mini-series fic, but the vast majority that I've read is quite unambiguously so.
I AM SO CONFUSE. I mean, I like the 95 miniseries a lot more than you do, and am pretty content to have piles and piles of fic that use it for a baseline - but it doesn't feel at all like having a rare fandom. 1995!verse Lizzie/Darcy is like, idk, Steve/Tony in 2012. Movieverse Harry/Draco in 2003. It's a juggernaut. Even the background characters have piles of fic. That the Vorkosigan Saga squeaked in under the limit for (likely) one last year of yuletide is one thing; P&P is quite another.
I'll admit, I have a pretty visceral distaste for any adaptation or expanded universe or delivery from on high getting codified into fandom orthodoxy, even when I do like it for itself. But that aside, it's just ... most P&P fic isn't even using the 1995 as part of a wider grab bag, it is straight up fic of the 1995 with occasional borrowings from Austen. I mean, 1995!Mr Hurst fic! Vampire slayer crossovers! Everything!
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Date: 2016-09-25 05:23 am (UTC)*cough* You know my feelings on this, but as someone who's been ranting for 10+ years about how P&P fanon is overwhelmingly drawn straight from the mini-series, I'm just ... what?
I mean. Down to little things like Caroline's orange dress, Elizabeth's ~curvaceous~ figure by contrast to a willowy Jane—??????—the unnamed Fitzwilliam earl being Lord Matlock, Mr Collins' ... everything, the existence of Darcy's dog (there are fics written just about that dog!), along with scenes/dialogue incorporated right in—particularly that goddamned pond—just everything.
People don't tag it because, for large swaths of the fandom, the mini-series is indistinguishable, or at least indistinguished, from P&P. It's an unmarked default. I've very rarely encountered fic that presents itself as mini-series fic, but the vast majority that I've read is quite unambiguously so.
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Date: 2016-09-25 07:34 am (UTC)no subject
Date: 2016-10-01 05:18 am (UTC)I'll admit, I have a pretty visceral distaste for any adaptation or expanded universe or delivery from on high getting codified into fandom orthodoxy, even when I do like it for itself. But that aside, it's just ... most P&P fic isn't even using the 1995 as part of a wider grab bag, it is straight up fic of the 1995 with occasional borrowings from Austen. I mean, 1995!Mr Hurst fic! Vampire slayer crossovers! Everything!
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Date: 2016-09-25 08:34 pm (UTC)