Writing meme answer #22

[dbskyler]

Continuing to answer the writing meme questions one at a time.

john_amend_all asked me #22 from the writing meme:

22. A secondary (or underrated) character you want to see more of in fic?

Why yes, yes there is. Gita! I want all the Gita Chandra fic, all the time. I have asked for her twice for Yuletide, and received her four times, and I've received her for Fandom Stocking, I've written her myself, and MORE, MORE, I WANT MORE. I don't know exactly what it is about her, but I love her to death, and she hardly ever appears in fic. Let's face it, Sarah Jane Adventures is a small fandom, and Gita is a minor character in that small fandom. But if you go to Teaspoon and filter on Gita Chandra, you will see 16 fics tagged with her, and of those 16:

3 were written by me
2 were written for me
1 was prompted by me
1 was betaed by me

So, either that's a very sad testament to a character-fandom-of-one, or I'm doing my part. :)

As for other characters, well, I never object to more Sarah Jane fic, and she sadly isn't written as often as she used to be. I also really like reading fic with the TARDIS as a character, and would love to see more of that.

Comments

[thisbluespirit]

You're doing your part, let's put it that way. And, aw, poor Gita, she could definitely use a bit more love then. :-)

(When I got into S&S, there were only 3 works actually tagged for Silver on AO3, although there were a few more scattered about LJ and ff.net. There are now 92 on AO3! Probably about 30-40 by me, a whole bunch written for me... but I think just some people who weren't just David McCallum fans found their way in and that helped a lot. I occasionally look this and can't decide whether I feel proud or just really really guilty for being such a nuisance for so long.)

In short, keep grumbling and prompting! :loL: The world will thank you one day.

[dbskyler.livejournal.com]

I nominated Gita for Yuletide again, and just got notified that she is in the tag set, muah-ha-ha-ha! Although I don't know if I'll request her again, having just gotten her last year. I'll have to think about it.

(What I really want is for other people to request her so there is more fic. It would also be nice to get up to 92 Gita fics on AO3, but that's unlikely to happen unless I get started on more writing.)

[thisbluespirit]

Well, you never know. :-)