1. Well, it's a surprisingly diverse genre! I have to admit I didn't read Captive Prince yet. I want to! I will! Just, slow-moving wips are a complicated thing for me, and also I am a procrastinator.
I do like trauma and whump and healing, but I also like stories of rebellion and social change, or at least personal equality-against-all-odds, and it's very rare to find stories that satisfy my urges. Thus, I've read a lot of slavefics but loved but a few.
I have recs for you though! For your leisure. :D
One is a slow-moving wip, because I'm a hypocrite, and also because it's really intricately written: http://archiveofourown.org/works/652009?view_full_work=true it's a Rurouni Kenshin AU - you don't have to know the canon to understand! (Though knowing the canon makes it 12% more delicious.) There's a lot of emphasis on kindness and self-control and responsibility. It's also het, which is a rare and precious gem in the world of slavefic.
The second has space pirates and plants and triple power dynamic inversions: http://archiveofourown.org/works/750438/chapters/1400746 it's a Devil Wears Prada AU (no canon knowledge required at all - I've never seen the film) and it's also THE ONLY FEMSLASH SLAVEFIC, to my knowledge. And it's glorious, if less focused on kindness than I'd have liked.
The third is a sweet and odd bandom story: http://archiveofourown.org/works/785923 and I love the worldbuidling. There is, indeed, not much trauma, and more of a focus on mythology and tenderness and so much slow healing and gentle interaction. It's kinda like old-school fantasy stories, or like a really detailed fairy story.
2. I WANT BOTH. I just don't want unrequited pining and love triangles; like, realllllllly don't want them. But, yes, Abbie's sister IS completely and utterly fascinating. Have you seen the trailer for ep 2? She appears in it! So, we won't have to wait too much.
3. Aaaaah that sounds like a nightmare. I do this so often, like - "tell me if you feel a tingle" "I FEEL IT" "... we haven't started the therapy yet". Still, glad the test is relatively simple and painless!
4. Oooooh Rose-voice. My difficulty with writing Rose-voice (which is the only Hambly-verse POV I've written so far, discounting one drabble in Ben's POV) was that she kept sounding so dry, and distant, whereas in canon she's really passionate, just, in a constrained way. So, good luck! I do think Hannibal thinks of himself as Hannibal! I mean, I imagined the obligatory "call me Alexander" ship fic with him and Ben, and was like, nooooooooooo. (I mean, I love secret names and only-my-most-trusted-friends-can-call-me-that names, but I don't think that can fit here.)
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Date: 2013-09-21 10:03 pm (UTC)I do like trauma and whump and healing, but I also like stories of rebellion and social change, or at least personal equality-against-all-odds, and it's very rare to find stories that satisfy my urges. Thus, I've read a lot of slavefics but loved but a few.
I have recs for you though! For your leisure. :D
One is a slow-moving wip, because I'm a hypocrite, and also because it's really intricately written: http://archiveofourown.org/works/652009?view_full_work=true
it's a Rurouni Kenshin AU - you don't have to know the canon to understand! (Though knowing the canon makes it 12% more delicious.) There's a lot of emphasis on kindness and self-control and responsibility. It's also het, which is a rare and precious gem in the world of slavefic.
The second has space pirates and plants and triple power dynamic inversions:
http://archiveofourown.org/works/750438/chapters/1400746
it's a Devil Wears Prada AU (no canon knowledge required at all - I've never seen the film) and it's also THE ONLY FEMSLASH SLAVEFIC, to my knowledge. And it's glorious, if less focused on kindness than I'd have liked.
The third is a sweet and odd bandom story:
http://archiveofourown.org/works/785923
and I love the worldbuidling. There is, indeed, not much trauma, and more of a focus on mythology and tenderness and so much slow healing and gentle interaction. It's kinda like old-school fantasy stories, or like a really detailed fairy story.
2. I WANT BOTH. I just don't want unrequited pining and love triangles; like, realllllllly don't want them. But, yes, Abbie's sister IS completely and utterly fascinating. Have you seen the trailer for ep 2? She appears in it! So, we won't have to wait too much.
3. Aaaaah that sounds like a nightmare. I do this so often, like - "tell me if you feel a tingle" "I FEEL IT" "... we haven't started the therapy yet". Still, glad the test is relatively simple and painless!
4. Oooooh Rose-voice. My difficulty with writing Rose-voice (which is the only Hambly-verse POV I've written so far, discounting one drabble in Ben's POV) was that she kept sounding so dry, and distant, whereas in canon she's really passionate, just, in a constrained way. So, good luck! I do think Hannibal thinks of himself as Hannibal! I mean, I imagined the obligatory "call me Alexander" ship fic with him and Ben, and was like, nooooooooooo. (I mean, I love secret names and only-my-most-trusted-friends-can-call-me-that names, but I don't think that can fit here.)