In which I recycle an old post: shipping from beyond the grave!

[lesbiassparrow]

A while back I wrote this while inspired by massive internet meltdown over JK Rowling's choice of 'ships in Harry Potter 6: The One Where She Disappointed Fans Who Ship Harry and Hermione. And inspired by misscam's reports on CSI fandom and the shipper implosion there, I decided to revive it.  Because somehow that made sense in my head.

Without further ado

I announce a new shamelessly recycled fan campaign. Why should we stop with demanding the ship of our choice in books written by living authors? That's for those who want to take the easy route. I'm not going to be defeated by death!

So I plan on hiring a medium (well, maybe it will just be me and a ouija board) to contact deceased authors and demand they write the 'ships that I want.

The campaign will include (but is not limited to) contacting the following authors who didn't do what I wanted totally screwed up their destined lovers. I will demand they end their novels with the following people riding off into the sunset of passion and shagging (not necessarily in that order):

1. Jane Austen: Fanny Price and Henry Crawford in Mansfield Park
2. Louisa May Alcott: Jo and Laurie in Little Women
3. Samuel Richardson: Clarissa Harlowe and Lovelace in Clarissa 
4. Tess and that guy in Tess of the D'Ubervilles. Way to screw that one up, Thomas Hardy.

I will take other suggestions, including Mr. Darcy and Mr. Bingley in Pride and Prejudice (You know they were totally doing the love that dare not speak its name until that cow Elizabeth came along and ruined things) or any other pairing that people feel like mentioning.

*Weeps* Won't anyone think of the classic fictional lovers?*

Feel free to promote my totally insane brilliant idea! It's all about the fans, baby.

*This also applies to cancelled TV series.  Disappointed Spike and Buffy didn't get together and have babies in the end?  We can summon up the spirits of the past and get the writers to change history.

Comments

[lesbiassparrow.livejournal.com]

Oh! Ivanhoe and Rebecca.

That bastard! He actually admitted Rebecca was the better partner for Ivanhoe, and that he loved her. He said that they would never get together because, well, Middle Ages, not so fond of the marriages between Christian and Jew and life isn't fair, but I know it was because he hated me. Even though I wasn't born yet.

[jonquil.livejournal.com]

But if she could convert to join a freaking CONVENT, surely she could convert and marry?

[lesbiassparrow.livejournal.com]

Wasn't it some sort of Jewish convent? Or as she put it 'a group of holy Jewish women living together.' Er, I may have read that book a lot at some point. Not that I have a knight fetish or anything.

[menin-aeide.livejournal.com]

Even the Victorians thought marrying Ivanhoe off to Rowena was a mistake. Thackeray wrote a comic sequel, Rebecca and Rowena (http://www.hicom.net/~oedipus/books/randr.html), in which he

calls into question the ending of Sir Walter Scott's Ivanhoe, exploring the miserable marriage of Sir Wilfrid to the 'icy, faultless, prim' Rowena. In an irreverent and theatrical plot, in which the dead come back to life, marriage is exposed as really quite dull, and imperialism is mocked mercilessly, Thackeray ridiculously reunites Ivanhoe with his first love, Rebecca, claiming they were wrongly separated in the earlier novel.

Which might well count as 19th-c. fanfic, I suppose.

[lesbiassparrow.livejournal.com]

hee! I've heard about this but never read it. Thanks for the link.

[dangermousie.livejournal.com]

I read it and its cracktastic. Almost as good as Fielding's Shamela.