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Aug. 11th, 2010 11:07 pmSo, a little while ago, ![[community profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/community.png)
asexual_fandom had a prompt-fic meme thing. Which was pretty awesome in general, and had some really neat fic came out of it - there was a Pride and Prejudice fic about Charlotte Lucas, for example, which I think is now canon in my head. Honestly, just reading the prompts made me happy because it was like seeing little snapshots of places where maybe a little piece of me fits into the stories that I love. So I stuck a few prompts up myself, not really thinking that they'd get filled, but just enjoying thinking of those possible stories. One was for Re-Animator (my tiny freaky fandom, let me show you it) because, really, nearly all mad scientists are homoromantic asexuals in my head, and the other was a Nero Wolfe prompt about Saul Panzer.* I posted them and then pretty much forgot about them.
Today, in my inbox, I got asexual Saul Panzer fic. Pretty much, it made my day. I am amazingly thrilled, so I'm sharing it with you.
*I don't actually have much of a reason for reading Saul as being ace, but I do so anyway. Probably, a lot of it is due to the fact that Saul is pretty much my identification figure in the books. Setting aside the fact that I am not badass enough to be anyone in the Nero Wolfe books (because pretty much no one is), I could never be Archie or Wolfe or Lily. But the idealized version of me that I keep in my head - the version of me that is self-sufficient and quietly competent? That version of me could maybe be Saul Panzer. So again, it's about the places where we see pieces of ourselves, isn't it?
Or, more shallowly, it could be because I have an enormous crush on him. (He is adorable and constantly rumpled and he plays the piano. Also, he is a goddamned superhero. We could get married and live quietly together, discussing books and not having sex and he could teach me to play pinochle.) So that's kind of a thing, too.
asexual_fandom had a prompt-fic meme thing. Which was pretty awesome in general, and had some really neat fic came out of it - there was a Pride and Prejudice fic about Charlotte Lucas, for example, which I think is now canon in my head. Honestly, just reading the prompts made me happy because it was like seeing little snapshots of places where maybe a little piece of me fits into the stories that I love. So I stuck a few prompts up myself, not really thinking that they'd get filled, but just enjoying thinking of those possible stories. One was for Re-Animator (my tiny freaky fandom, let me show you it) because, really, nearly all mad scientists are homoromantic asexuals in my head, and the other was a Nero Wolfe prompt about Saul Panzer.* I posted them and then pretty much forgot about them.Today, in my inbox, I got asexual Saul Panzer fic. Pretty much, it made my day. I am amazingly thrilled, so I'm sharing it with you.
*I don't actually have much of a reason for reading Saul as being ace, but I do so anyway. Probably, a lot of it is due to the fact that Saul is pretty much my identification figure in the books. Setting aside the fact that I am not badass enough to be anyone in the Nero Wolfe books (because pretty much no one is), I could never be Archie or Wolfe or Lily. But the idealized version of me that I keep in my head - the version of me that is self-sufficient and quietly competent? That version of me could maybe be Saul Panzer. So again, it's about the places where we see pieces of ourselves, isn't it?
Or, more shallowly, it could be because I have an enormous crush on him. (He is adorable and constantly rumpled and he plays the piano. Also, he is a goddamned superhero. We could get married and live quietly together, discussing books and not having sex and he could teach me to play pinochle.) So that's kind of a thing, too.
