Drive-by Yuletide Rec
Dec. 26th, 2010 12:22 pm![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
lunabee34I managed to get on the internet today and read my Yuletide fic. OMG, my story exceeds my wildest imagination. Not only did I get a Golden Girls fic, I got a Deadwood fic as well!!!
The Giants of the Prairies is set after the show's end, after the girls have split up and Sophia has passed away. The girls have gone on a pilgrimage to the Midwest that eventually takes them to Deadwood.
Here's what I had to say to the author:
You have so wonderfully and seamlessly blended these two fandoms in a way I never thought possible. I am so moved. I am crying because this fic really speaks to what I love best about both Golden Girls and Deadwood--that sense of found family and of community of convenience that becomes community of choice. I love very much the way you explored how lonely and isolating aging can be; I've always suspected that none of the girls would be very happy once Dorothy left, and this fic runs so close to my imagined future for them that it's almost like you peeked inside my head. LOL I love all the character grace notes (Dorothy hating the way texting mangles the English language, Blanche's shrewd looks), but this is probably my favorite line of the whole thing:
Her favorite might be the U.S.S. Enterprise, in Vulcan, Alberta. Blanche makes fun of her, and calls her a Trekkie, but at least the Federation wanted everybody to be a big happy family.
If anybody cares to guess what I wrote, it's in a fandom I've written in before. All correct guesses before the reveal get a drabble. :)
The Giants of the Prairies is set after the show's end, after the girls have split up and Sophia has passed away. The girls have gone on a pilgrimage to the Midwest that eventually takes them to Deadwood.
Here's what I had to say to the author:
You have so wonderfully and seamlessly blended these two fandoms in a way I never thought possible. I am so moved. I am crying because this fic really speaks to what I love best about both Golden Girls and Deadwood--that sense of found family and of community of convenience that becomes community of choice. I love very much the way you explored how lonely and isolating aging can be; I've always suspected that none of the girls would be very happy once Dorothy left, and this fic runs so close to my imagined future for them that it's almost like you peeked inside my head. LOL I love all the character grace notes (Dorothy hating the way texting mangles the English language, Blanche's shrewd looks), but this is probably my favorite line of the whole thing:
Her favorite might be the U.S.S. Enterprise, in Vulcan, Alberta. Blanche makes fun of her, and calls her a Trekkie, but at least the Federation wanted everybody to be a big happy family.
If anybody cares to guess what I wrote, it's in a fandom I've written in before. All correct guesses before the reveal get a drabble. :)
