Consuela, really enjoyed it.

Not that anybody listens or anything. /bitter

Awww, Vonnie, I totally listen. However I hardly ever write ship-fic, so it's not much of an issue for me.

Consuela, really enjoyed it.

Thanks, Gar! I got a nice comment from someone about the way women are usually erased from history, and had to stop myself from responding that that wasn't what I intended... (Really, I just wanted to figure out why Aslan would send the two kids at all, given that he could have just sent Puddleglum and the end result would have been exactly the same.)

I hardly ever write ship-fic

It was the epic tale of the love between an elegant ocean liner and the scrappy tug that lived for every return of the liner to her home harbor--until that cold night, when they said there were ice bergs in the shipping lanes . . .

Sometimes it feels like sickness. The whole plot just popped into my head.

Why portmanteaux when you can Stark spangled Banner (I hate the pairing, but the name is golden)?

HA. Almost as good as Pepperony.

Stark spangled Banner

I want to see this. Anyone got recs? I tested the waters of AO3 and found too much Darcy/anyone to even deal with. Yes, I am lazy.

too much Darcy/anyone to even deal with

I re-watched Thor recently, and was driven to wonder just where the hell the Darcy I see in fic came from.

In terms of pairings falling into the too much to deal with category for me, I find myself scrolling past what feels like scads of Tony/Loki. Uh, no thanks.

I find myself scrolling past what feels like scads of Tony/Loki. Uh, no thanks.

For me, it's all the Clint/Coulson. I mean, I like them both very well and I have no particular objection to it, but it's not my thing either and it seems to be everywhere. If you don't ship Clint/Coulson or Tony/Steve, that's like 70% of fic off the table, it seems like, but I suspect that's an overestimation. At least the fandom has reasonable amount of diversity so that you can pick and choose.

I think Darcy/anyone is like what some Teen Wolf people were talking about Stiles/Derek. It's not the canon. It's the archetype to which fandom is drawn to. Darcy is non super-powered, snarky, pop-culture savvy and spunky, attractive but in a curvy real-person way and not in tall willowy Gwenyth Paltrow way, thus makes for a good fangirl stand-in. From there, you basically ship her with anyone that particular fangirl finds attractive.

I've read scads of Darcy fic because I mostly read het, and basically it's Natasha or Darcy if you want ladies in your pairing fic. Some Pepper. Very little Jane. But she's extremely prone to Mary-Sue-ism the way Consuela described it a while back, so I end up hitting the back button a lot. Bah.

Yeah, I rarely bother clicking if I see Darcy listed as one of the characters - odds are even if it's a gen story it'll be about a hipster graduate assistant somehow becoming the muse/mentor for an entire group of adults that apparently wandered clueless through their empty shells of lives for decades (or centuries!) before meeting her.

I think Darcy/anyone is like what some Teen Wolf people were talking about Stiles/Derek. It's not the canon. It's the archetype to which fandom is drawn to. Darcy is non super-powered, snarky, pop-culture savvy and spunky, attractive but in a curvy real-person way and not in tall willowy Gwenyth Paltrow way, thus makes for a good fangirl stand-in. From there, you basically ship her with anyone that particular fangirl finds attractive.

I can see that.

What would the archetype be? I mean, Stiles/Derek has been established as Nerd/Clam. Darcy's kind of LBD, but there has to be another word for her. Hmm.