October Fic
Oct. 22nd, 2021 02:13 am![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
x_losI'm enjoying writing a more horror-inflected fic this week (12.5k into the SVSSS Coraline fusion, and a scene and a half from the end of the draft), and mentioned as much to Katy today. She was kind of surprised I felt comfortable with the genre, because she didn't realise I'd written much of it. That made me think a little about how I kind of have and haven't--which is reminiscent of my highly ambivalent relationship with horror overall.
I guess I'd say I've written very little proper horror, and a ton of horror-adjascent shit: but only if you want to frame it that way. Fandom's 'darkfic' categories et al don't overlap perfectly with those definitions. I've seldom if ever set out to write horror, but it permeates and gives energy to a ton of pieces.
The original short story about ritual canibalism eneded up being published in a horror anthology, but I really don't think it's horror at all. The published, serial-scrubbed D/U vampire fic isn't scary, but very technically counts as horror for genre reasons. In D/U terms, "Bunkmates", the incubus fic (also scrubbed and published) and the Narnia fusion where Uriah wishes everyone in the world dead but he and David both are and aren't.
The Thomas Hardy flavoured Wangxian where LWJ's house is fucked is Shirley Jackson inflected. The case in the gender swap Wangxian is trad horror. The descriptions in "Started from the Bottom" of the necromancy wild hunt might count.
There was a Doctor/Master Who fic I didn't finish, about bad medical ethics and cloning your ex as many times as it takes to make him like you again, that's very straight-up horror if read according to that lens rather than a 'darkfic' model. "Sunshine" took the premise of "Eternal Sunshine" and read it as horror. For Molly, some of the kink meme fics count.
There's a LOT of xenokink 'eldritch horror' shit (tentacles, goosnake, B7 computer sentience, Q fusion) up in here, though I don't personally feel like that's operating as horror per se.
I think the takeaway is that while I personally have a generative but strained relationship with horror, maybe so does fandom overall?
I guess I'd say I've written very little proper horror, and a ton of horror-adjascent shit: but only if you want to frame it that way. Fandom's 'darkfic' categories et al don't overlap perfectly with those definitions. I've seldom if ever set out to write horror, but it permeates and gives energy to a ton of pieces.
The original short story about ritual canibalism eneded up being published in a horror anthology, but I really don't think it's horror at all. The published, serial-scrubbed D/U vampire fic isn't scary, but very technically counts as horror for genre reasons. In D/U terms, "Bunkmates", the incubus fic (also scrubbed and published) and the Narnia fusion where Uriah wishes everyone in the world dead but he and David both are and aren't.
The Thomas Hardy flavoured Wangxian where LWJ's house is fucked is Shirley Jackson inflected. The case in the gender swap Wangxian is trad horror. The descriptions in "Started from the Bottom" of the necromancy wild hunt might count.
There was a Doctor/Master Who fic I didn't finish, about bad medical ethics and cloning your ex as many times as it takes to make him like you again, that's very straight-up horror if read according to that lens rather than a 'darkfic' model. "Sunshine" took the premise of "Eternal Sunshine" and read it as horror. For Molly, some of the kink meme fics count.
There's a LOT of xenokink 'eldritch horror' shit (tentacles, goosnake, B7 computer sentience, Q fusion) up in here, though I don't personally feel like that's operating as horror per se.
I think the takeaway is that while I personally have a generative but strained relationship with horror, maybe so does fandom overall?
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Date: 2021-10-23 03:36 pm (UTC)