Because all the cool kids are doing it

[osprey_archer]

A meme! A new and exciting way to procrastinate on my reading! Please, please ask me questions and thereby aid in my procrastinatory endeavors!

1. Your current OTP.
2. A pairing you initially didn't consider but someone changed your mind.
3. A pairing you have never liked and probably never will.
4. A pairing you wish you liked but just can't.
5. Have you added anything stupid/cracky/hilarious to your fandom, if so, what.
6. What's the longest you've ever been in a fandom?
7. Do you remember your first OTP, if so who was in it?
8. Do you prefer characters from real action series or anime series?
9. Has the internet caused you to stop liking any fandoms, if so, which and why?
10. Name a fandom you didn't care/think about until you saw it all over twitter/tumblr/your social network sites.
11. How do you feel about the other people in your current fandom?
12. Your favorite fanartist/author gives you one request, what do you ask for?
13. Your favorite fanart or fanartist.
14. Your favorite fanfiction or fanauthor.
15. Choose a song at random, which OTP does it remind you of?
16. Invent a random AU for any fandom (we always need more ideas).
17. A ship you've abandoned and why.
18. A pairing you ship that you don't think anyone else ships.
19. Show us an example of your personal headcanon.
20. Do you remember what your first fanwork was?
21. Self-rec: What's your favorite fanwork you've created?
22. Are you one of those fans who can't watch anything without shipping?
23. Five favorite characters from five different fandoms.
24. Three OTPs from three different fandoms.
25. A fandom you're in but have no ships from.

And now I am off to read more about masculinity in the early 20th century. Oh rapture, oh bliss...

Comments

[carmarthen.livejournal.com]

Hahaha, I'm sure they are!

(Roger is born after Roald, but before Jonathan. But the way the Tortallan succession is established, it's irrelevant: he can't realistically be the son of Roald's younger brother, and therefore must be the son of his elder brother. I had thought of the bastardy explanation, except Roger WAS Roald's heir before Jon was born, so IDEK. The real explanation is probably that Pierce meant Roger to be the son of Roald's younger brother, but has math problems. So I'm still struggling with how he got cut out of the succession, too.)

Meanwhile, Gregorie just thinks Prince Jonathan was so romantic. *_*

IDEK. There are reasons I haven't managed to write this story.

[osprey-archer.livejournal.com]

Ack, I always forget that Roger is Jonathan's cousin and not his uncle. Obviously cousins can have huge age gaps, but it always seemed that Roger acted like an uncle toward Jonathan. Oh well...

Well, have you seen that portrait of Prince Jonathan hanging in the portrait gallery? The beautiful blue eyes! The wavy black hair! The way that his grip on his sword casually pulls his shirt (doublet? tunic?) tight against his manly, muscular chest!

What's a little oppressing the Hill Country when measured against such attractivenesS? We all know the Hill Country folk are just a bunch of bandits, anyway.

[carmarthen.livejournal.com]

Yeah, Roger definitely acts more uncle-y (there's 15 years between them). It's all a bit baffling.

Ha, pretty much! Although of course part of the point of the story would be that the Rogerians are wrong, too...I think I haven't written it yet because I can't figure out for the life of me how to structure it.

[osprey-archer.livejournal.com]

I think step one would be to say that Phillippa de Gregorie is totally incompetent at reading family trees, and just make Roger Jon's uncle and/or bastard brother, because otherwise I don't know how to make the family tree work.

Like, everyone calls Roger Jon's "cousin," but that's just a polite fiction to cover the fact that his existence is kind of politically embarrassing.

[carmarthen.livejournal.com]

That doesn't solve the problem of how Roger's in the succession in the first place, though.

I can make the family tree work fine, just not the succession, unless a) the law changed between Jasson's time and Jonathan's or b) there's some anti-regency clause where if the crown prince is unavailable or too young when the king dies, the next successor gets crowned (if Roger was a kid or in Carthak, say). Which seems peculiar, but it's a fantasy world, so why not?

I dunno, I have to think about it more. There will likely be several different takes on it in the story, because unreliability of history and all that.