Fandom Snowflake Challenge, Day 9

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Continuing the meme/challenge begun and tracked here.

Fandom Snowflake Challenge, Day 9

In your own space, promote at least one canon that you adore (old, new, forever fandom). Leave a comment here saying you did it. Include a link to your post if you feel comfortable doing so.

Well, okay.

Foremost, obviously, would be Buffy the Vampire Slayer (including Angel: the Series, since they share the same universe). Something about that just got to me, as my last twenty years of fanfic readily attest.

I’ve already indicated that the Marvel Comics Universe got an early hold on me, and never completely let go (though the hold has attenuated mightily over the last several decades). By this I mean the consolidated comic universe, rather than what the movie MCU has done to depict it … but, I’ll go ahead and say that the movie MCU has done a decent job, and I’ve enjoyed that version without (so far, yet) ever writing anything in it.

It’s in my LJ several times over the last few years that Smallville did a lot of stuff right, and easily could have grabbed me the way Buffy did if Buffy hadn’t already done it first. Despite that, I never really could enjoy Smallville fanfic, because 90-95% of what I saw was Clark/Lex slash (with the occasional diversion into Lionel/Lex slash). The tiny remnant seemed to be mostly focused on deep-feeling relationship stuff (including Chloe/Lana slash), no treatment whatever of the massive narrative possibilities in that world setting. Shame, that.

In the years since I became aware that, however much I enjoyed various fandoms, nothing inspired me to fanfic the way Buffy had, I saw the first possibility of possibility sparked when I watched the movie version of the League of Extraordinary Gentlemen. Nothing ever came of that, possibly because it was a movie rather than a series (and there were no sequels), but it nonetheless made me aware of the possibility. It would have been interesting. Shame it never happened.

Finally — and this one will be odd and extremely obscure — is a 1990 TV movie called “the Bakery”. IMDB described it as a “failed series pilot about three time periods in the history of a Southern California police station located ‘temporarily’ in a converted bakery.” I can’t even find a description that goes beyond that, but the story kept varying among the three time periods. In the first, the Sixties, a young white cop was teamed with a more experienced black cop; in the second, the Nineties, the same black cop was a detective and now partnered with the white cop’s daughter (the white cop having been added to the Wall of Valor [i.e., deceased] in the interim), and David Dukes played the precinct captain. In the third, sometime in the 21st century, the female detective had become the precinct captain, and her former captain was now her precinct first sergeant (and private lover). A lot of the interest came from wondering how things got from “that there” to “this here”, and I’ve always wished the pilot had caught and I’d been able to see more stories there. So, yeah, this isn’t really a fandom; more a fandom I’m sorry never managed to exist.

That’s what I’ve got, for anyone who might find any interest there.