Oh! You meant for me to send you an actual card or letter, how delightlfully old-fashioned *I'm laughing at myself here right now, btw*
Also I'm working on ideas for a Doctor Who 'verse where The Doctor becomes female.
I haven't seen any of the "New Who" but I watched the old school version in college (up to #7, he and Ace were one of my favorite pairings) and I used to imagine the Doctor as a woman! I didn't write fanfiction back then because it never occured to me but I sketched out a costume for her and worked out adventures, and she had a particular dialect and manner of carrying herself. So - yes, yes, the Doctor as a woman, I'm all for it!
I haven't seen GG or DS9 (or SPN, or TVD or so many other shows people here in LJ watch - Buffy is really my only fandom. Maybe I need to spread myself out a bit *lol*)
I should also start writing gay male couples really.
This is interesting to me because I said the same thing about my own writing. As a lesbian I've only written one "lesbian love scene" in Moulin Rouge fandom and it was snuggling, not sex and the characters weren't lesbians. Which is exactly the sort of thing I'll go on about in tv shows and movies - "I want to see genuinely lesbian characters!" (Part of the reason I will never ship Tara with a male character from any fandom and don't read those stories is exactly that reason - Tara is a lesbian, full-stop; and one of the very few in US tv or movies still.)
But I don't think that there really isn't any "should". We can't predict or control who we fall in love with (IRL or in fiction), who appeals or speaks to us the most; quite a lot of people who write about m/m or f/f pairings are straight, and vice-versa. If we write what we think we "should" then we'll be unhappy with it and not enjoy the process; and that shows up in the work. Anyway, there are plenty of other authors out there writing about gay male couples; and I'd say truly LESBIAN couples are underrepresented.
So continue to write who and what you love, always!
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Re: from Ray (Kerkevik) in Scotland
Date: 2013-12-17 04:51 pm (UTC)Also I'm working on ideas for a Doctor Who 'verse where The Doctor becomes female.
I haven't seen any of the "New Who" but I watched the old school version in college (up to #7, he and Ace were one of my favorite pairings) and I used to imagine the Doctor as a woman! I didn't write fanfiction back then because it never occured to me but I sketched out a costume for her and worked out adventures, and she had a particular dialect and manner of carrying herself.
So - yes, yes, the Doctor as a woman, I'm all for it!
I haven't seen GG or DS9 (or SPN, or TVD or so many other shows people here in LJ watch - Buffy is really my only fandom. Maybe I need to spread myself out a bit *lol*)
I should also start writing gay male couples really.
This is interesting to me because I said the same thing about my own writing. As a lesbian I've only written one "lesbian love scene" in Moulin Rouge fandom and it was snuggling, not sex and the characters weren't lesbians. Which is exactly the sort of thing I'll go on about in tv shows and movies - "I want to see genuinely lesbian characters!" (Part of the reason I will never ship Tara with a male character from any fandom and don't read those stories is exactly that reason - Tara is a lesbian, full-stop; and one of the very few in US tv or movies still.)
But I don't think that there really isn't any "should". We can't predict or control who we fall in love with (IRL or in fiction), who appeals or speaks to us the most; quite a lot of people who write about m/m or f/f pairings are straight, and vice-versa. If we write what we think we "should" then we'll be unhappy with it and not enjoy the process; and that shows up in the work. Anyway, there are plenty of other authors out there writing about gay male couples; and I'd say truly LESBIAN couples are underrepresented.
So continue to write who and what you love, always!