Just a little disappointment from my perspective.
The Fact That In This Fandom, Sci Fi Is Lacking
Remember in my last rant how I had that random, life shattering conclusion that I'd spent six years in this fandom? Yea, I'm still reeling too.
However, spending so long in this place has given me a unique perspective. Well, unique to anyone who has grown up here.
I've always loved Sci Fi. Aliens, technology, the works. I love it. However, this fandom is incredibly lacking in any and all things Sci Fi. It's terrible. I mean seriously, what's wrong with this place? You'd think that there'd be WAY more than there are.
I don't mean just run of the mill ones either, I mean good ones. Ask me and off the top of my head I can probably rattle off three good full length completed fics in which Edward is a struggling single father who meets Bella and then they do whatever the hell they do afterwards, or vice versa. Edward usually has a little girl, Bella almost always has a boy. My fav is A Rough Start. There's another awesome one where she's a nanny...
However, it's ten times harder to do that with Sci Fi. One of my favorite writers on this site is cupcakeriot, who consistently comes up with good Sci Fi, one of the only on this site that do. She does it in a tasteful way too.
One of my favorite Sci Fi's is Written in the Stars. It features a decently regal Bella trying to cope with the fact that her depression was cured in a snap and she was essentially kidnapped to become the wife of alien Edward.
Then there are the bad ones that I don't even bother trying to remember the names of because that would be wasting valuable brain storage.
Written in the Stars features tasteful, if very subtle tones of Stockholm Syndrome. Really I like the way it turned out, and I fully realize from the way the story was set up, it was ultimately better for Bella that she was kidnapped, as bad as that sounds.
However, I have read others that follow the same premise of kidnapping girls to be alien wives written in ways that frankly piss me off. While in Stars, Edward sincerely tries to win her heart, in these he instead uses a good mix of his attractiveness, subtle insults and intimidation, and the constant reminder that he's the one in control of their relationship to brainwash her.
Huh, kinda like Twilight.
The point is, it's possible for this fandom to come up with good Sci Fi that can titilate my senses. So do it.
Now.
I'm waiting.
So I feel as if I'm unintentionally recommending a lot of fics, but oh well. I'm not about to even attempt to talk about a fandom without referencing any of the fics in the fandom.
So there's this chick in here called Follow My Owls, and she's writing this fic that offers her commentary on Twilight. Usually I hate commentary (Any one who had to deal with the Potterheads while they were going through their My Immortal phase would agree) but I love this one. I wish to forsake the male I am currently interested in and marry her. She shall be my wife, and we shall sit together and bash Twilight.
So I was thinking of writing a series of my hatred of common portrayals in the Fandom of all of the main characters. What do you think? So if be doing an I depth of Bella and Edward, Alice, Emmett, Carlisle, Jacob, etc. leave your thoughts in a review, and I'll get started.
