December Daily: Untamed

[resonant]

kiezh following up with - "What have you heard about MDZS/The Untamed, and what did you think of what you heard?"

Bad as yesterday's description was, today's is going to be even worse:

There's a woman in this one. I don't know what she does, but apparently she's very badass.

From story descriptions, I gather there's a dynamic not that different from Goodposture Ironedshirt/Disreputable Smirkingman in this one, too, but the canon hasn't been so kind as to differentiate them with glasses and facial hair, and without the cues I'd get from contemporary clothes, I can't look at a photo and tell which one is which.

There's a religion and some sort of monster-hunting. There's either time travel shenanigans or reincarnation shenanigans.

The two lead actors are musicians of some sort in real life. And terrifyingly young.

Also, alas, my brain has this racist conviction that I am entitled to have every fandom be titled only in English, or at the very least in Roman characters, and so I'm having to train my eyes not to just jump over everything that's not in an alphabet I immediately recognize, which wasn't something I was very happy to learn about myself.





Specify a date if you want; otherwise I'll just answer them whenever.

This year, in addition to the usual kinds of questions, I'd also love to get storyish prompts. Storyish meaning you never know what you might get: two sentences of a story, or a description of a story that will never exist, or a love song about how much I like that trope, or a rant about my pet peeve about that trope, or I know nothing about that canon except what I see on social media and here's what I think it might be about, or Ten Reasons Why I Love/Hate/Am Indifferent To that character, canon, or trope, or ...

As always, I'd love to hear about it if you're doing the meme too.




17. ride4ever's birthday prompt - "Storyish prompt: for any due South fic you've written, write a prequel or sequel snippet for the fic or meta about the before-or-after that can be imagined about the fic's story arc."
18. mific - "the genderswap trope where a character's gender is changed. Yes? No? Maybe?"
19. runpunkrun - "fake dating: yes or no"
20. minoanmiss - "One of my favorite tropes is Then Let Me Be Evil. What do you think of it/have you explored it/so on and so forth?"
21. hypertwink - "21. Now that you've come back, is there a fandom that you want to dip your toe into? (Follow up: Are you apprehensive/excited about it?)"
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24. runpunkrun - "John and Rodney in 2020"
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26. ride4ever - "for any dS or C6D pairing that you ship, how that ship is doing in 2020."
27. reginagiraffe - "Hermione/Harry/Ron from Bed and Board in 2020"
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Comments

[sgac]

It is very easy to tell which is which! Goodposture Ironedshirt always wears white/pale blue and a ribbon across his forehead. Disreputable Smirkingman usually wears black and red. With the exception of one time period when they're in school uniform, all the characters come color-coded for your convenience.

[resonant]

For all the gifsets I've seen, I never noticed that -- that's pretty sad.

[out_there]

"There's a woman in this one. I don't know what she does, but apparently she's very badass."

I love that this was enough for me to go, yep, I bet she's talking about Wen Qing. But then realised it could be a couple of the other women on the show, and it's nice to have a canon with more than one awesome female.

[resonant]

In fairness, there are a few great woman among the secondary characters of Due South, but you wouldn't know it from reading most of the stories, including mine.

[out_there]

Huh. That is very true of my own writing, to be honest. But the Untamed does have a big focus on extended characters -- it's rare to have a story, canon or AU, that doesn't have at least some focus on the secondary characters.

[wychwood]

Favourite Due South secondary character?

[trobadora]

but the canon hasn't been so kind as to differentiate them with glasses and facial hair

They come colour-coded instead! It's The One In White/The One In Black. *g*

[resonant]

I can't believe I didn't notice that.