Links: the shameless self-promotion thread

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Given fandom's conflicted attitude towards self-promotion, I imagine many of us are a little too self-conscious to post links to our own women-centric work here. This is the post for you to do so without shame. It's getting near the end of the party, and it would be a pity if other people didn't get to read your stories/watch your vids/contemplate your thinkiness about women characters because of a few piddling social norms, wouldn't it? Just post a link or three in the comments, maybe tell us a little about what you did and why. No one will judge you.



Doctor Who (Martha Jones)

Southwood Plantation Road (right-click and save)
Summary: Dr. Who: a romantic comedy where nothing stays buried.

...Because Ten is not so much a bad boyfriend as an insane boyfriend, and Martha is living in a screwball comedy with zombies.



Whew. That wasn't so hard. Who wants to go next?

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Writing as edonohana

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The Story of Marli-Hrair and the Black Rabbit of Inle (http://www.yuletidetreasure.org/archive/21/thestory.html).

Richard Adams' Watership Down. What lies on the dark side of the moon? Ask the Black Rabbit. He knows.

Adams did realize later, in Tales From Watership Down, that Hyzenthlay would make an excellent chief rabbit, so my tale of a different female chief rabbit was not written to break feminist ground in that sense, but to explore different types of heroism: a mother protecting her children, a commander in chief protecting her soldiers; courage, self-sacrifice, and getting up every morning and putting one foot in front of the other.

City of Angels (http://www.yuletidetreasure.org/archive/51/cityof.html).

Francesca Lia Block's "Weetzie Bat" books. The car-- a very small car, with the sunroof down and a custom paint job in the brilliant pinks and soft grays of a Los Angeles sunset-- seemed designed for someone to lean against it, looking cool. Witch Baby stuck out her hand, leaned against it, and looked cool.

I don't think you have to know the fandom to read the story. The prompt was "make this New Yorker miss California," and that's mostly what the story was written to do. But I also wanted to write about how friendship can be just as intense as romance. I see this as a platonic love story, about the way that your best friend or the city you live in can make your heart turn over.

The Queen Knew She'd Seen His Face Some Place Before. (http://edonohana.livejournal.com/18319.html)

Yikes, I guess this is technically songfic! It's a retelling of the Suzanne Vega song "The Queen and the Soldier," transposed into ancient India. A woman of power has many skills.

I was trying to write something that was simultaneously creepy and erotic. Sex and death, power plays, and melting ice.