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Case ([personal profile] case) wrote in [community profile] fandomsecrets2011-07-02 02:50 pm

[ SECRET POST #1642 ]

⌈ Secret Post #1642 ⌋


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[identity profile] ang-the-adverse.livejournal.com 2011-07-02 07:27 pm (UTC)(link)
Watch Young Americans!

It's old and tiny, but it has The L Word's Shane as a girl who joins a boys academy to get attention from her mother (who doesn't notice). It's one of those works that makes you ache because it isn't around and there isn't a fandom. (Or at least, it is for me.)

And I like gender-bending stories too. I'm free-er about it though, if anyone asks and won't believe I just like them I say I think androgyny is beautiful.

(Anonymous) 2011-07-02 07:53 pm (UTC)(link)
OMG I can't believe someone besides me remembers Young Americans! I came here to recomend it, I love Jake and that entire storyline to pieces.
(do you happen to know if there's any fanfic for it?)

[identity profile] ang-the-adverse.livejournal.com 2011-07-02 10:42 pm (UTC)(link)
Yes, Young Americans! The Jake/Ham storyline made that show. Scout/Bella/Will are lovely, but they wouldn't have made me want a fandom.

I'm in the midst of writing something now. I have one short piece that I wrote for advent on this journal. There's an LJ comm called [livejournal.com profile] whosaiditsover. And there's some nice stuff on fanfiction.net.

You can reach some stuff by using the wayback machine ("required reading" was the name of an archive) but most of the good stuff there has been transferred to FF.net, I'd recommend ness2 and Depudor, but there are others.

[identity profile] saathi1013.livejournal.com 2011-07-03 03:37 am (UTC)(link)
OH MY GOD other people remember this show! I watched it JUST for the gender-bending, it blew my teenaged mind.

[identity profile] ang-the-adverse.livejournal.com 2011-07-03 12:50 pm (UTC)(link)
Yay, another fan!

I think I did too, I recall finding it on the Sweet Polly Oliver TV Tropes page.

(Anonymous) 2011-07-03 11:43 am (UTC)(link)
Wow, thanks a lot!
I had a great morning browsing fics and stuff xD.
Too bad most of the fics are, understandably, with Jake as a female. Somehow my head!canon became that he's a trans guy, just not fully aware of it yet (seriously - he went through all that trouble to live as a guy just to see if his mom would notice? I always saw it as an excuse and rationalization he kept telling himself), so hearing the fic refer to him as "she" takes me out.

(Anonymous) 2011-07-03 12:47 pm (UTC)(link)
No problem!

I find Jake written really weird too. It's not 100% my head canon that Jake's a transguy, but there are definitely too many fics with a desperate-to-be-girly Jake. And I find female pronouns really strange, I prefer fics to be from a POV, then we can use male pronouns. There aren't any omnipresent narrator fics that use male pronouns, so IDK how I feel about that.

But, of interest, the fic I'm writing atm doesn't use any pronouns for Jake, so I'm really excited about that.

Re: ^^Whoops

[identity profile] tomwood1906.livejournal.com 2011-07-03 01:21 pm (UTC)(link)
Yeah, even beside the whole trans thing, hearing female pronouns feels really strange for some reason. I've found some fics that don't use female pronouns, like this one (http://www.fanfiction.net/s/970074/1/Needy) by ness2, and I quite liked it.

I'm looking forward to your fic xD. Do you mind me friending you so I don't miss it?

(it's the anon above (duh :p). I actually only discovered I'm might actually enjoy reading fanfic after all about two weeks ago, so I haven't set up a LJ for those purposes yet :D)

[identity profile] ang-the-adverse.livejournal.com 2011-07-03 01:36 pm (UTC)(link)
The ness2 one was nice ><

Thank you, you can definitely go ahead and friend. :D

(Anonymous) 2011-07-03 01:40 pm (UTC)(link)
Cool :D. I'm looking forward to it.

[identity profile] honestys-easy.livejournal.com 2011-07-03 06:19 pm (UTC)(link)
YOUNG AMERICANS OMG I LOVE YOU

I didn't care a whit for the main plot of that show but I still love it a decade later for the HamiltonXJake/Jaclyn storyline. It also made me fall in love with Kate Moennig, Ian Somerhalder, and Charlie Hunnam, whose careers I still follow to this day.

[identity profile] ang-the-adverse.livejournal.com 2011-07-03 09:34 pm (UTC)(link)
Woot! Yet another fan!

Ditto, that's the storyline that held my attention. It's not that Bella/Scout/Will were bad characters, but Ian and Kate had such amazing chemistry and Jake is such an interesting character!