I wrote a fic!
Nov. 16th, 2017 11:56 pmI wrote a fic for a movie that nobody has seen, for a pairing nobody cares about!
Fandom: Final Girl (2015)
Title: Devil and the Duchess
Pairing/Rating: General Audiences; Gen (Pre-Femmeslash)
Summary: After Shane's funeral, Jennifer goes to the diner, only to see a familiar face ...
You can find it on AO3! Much thanks to![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png)
darklightluna for the beta!
The Explanation For Why I Did This When Nobody Has Asked For It:
So a few months ago, I watched Final Girl (2015), which ... I'm not a movie critic or anything, but I'm going to go ahead and say that it is not a good movie. If I were to put into words why it is not a good movie, I would probably describe it as a female empowerment fantasy written by dudes for dudes.
If you weren't aware (and don't care about spoilers), the premise of the movie is that these high school boys have just been straight up serial-killing lots of girls in the woods by bringing them out into the woods for a "date" and then hunting them. Our protagonist (Veronica) is a blonde girl who fits into the boys' victim profile but who is actually a sociopath who has been trained by some guy since the age of 6 to take down these high school boys (or similar guys who are similarly targeting girls? it's never really explained). There are a lot of dramatic scenes of her running through the dark woods in a red dress, and then a lot of violent scenes of them trying to chop off her head with an axe and her chopping off their head with an axe. Or something like that. It's been a while since I saw the movie.
There are a lot of reasons why I feel it is obvious that the movie was written, directed, and filmed by dudes, from the way the plot plays out, to how the main character (Veronica) is shot/framed, to the fact that they tried to include this super weird and uncomfortable romance between her and the man who has literally been training her since she was 6 (because his wife and daughter had been killed at some point by someone, no further details, but in any case he is old enough to be her father and has raised her since she was a child).
Anyways, the ONLY redeeming feature in this entire film is a conversation between our main character (Veronica) and the girlfriend of one of the high school serial killers (Jennifer). In this conversation, Veronica is basically trying get intel on these people she will be killing later on, and Jennifer is just generally expressing concern about her boyfriend (who she doesn't know is a serial killer but who she slowly suspects of being a little too eerie). This is the only conversation between any two women in this film, and of course it doesn't pass the Bechdel test because both girls' love interests are discussed, but there is a moment when Veronica urges Jennifer to leave town and follow her dreams where I looked at the screen and thought to myself, This movie would be so much more interesting if Jennifer were Veronica's love interest.
And then I started shipping them, based on this 30-second conversation. I mean, Jennifer has been dating a serial killer for like 6 years! What harm is it if she dates another serial killer, only this one is more moral and only serial-kills serial killers! They could be Murder Girlfriends! They could road-trip across America, taking out serial killers, serial rapists and misogynist pricks, one after the other! It would be fantastic!
Unfortunately, I don't have the skill to write the absurdist adventures of Team Murder Girlfriends, nor am I good enough to write the Actual Proper Femmeslash I really wanted to, but I wrote this instead! And that is the story of how I came to write the fic that nobody asked for and probably nobody will read ...
Fandom: Final Girl (2015)
Title: Devil and the Duchess
Pairing/Rating: General Audiences; Gen (Pre-Femmeslash)
Summary: After Shane's funeral, Jennifer goes to the diner, only to see a familiar face ...
You can find it on AO3! Much thanks to
darklightluna for the beta!The Explanation For Why I Did This When Nobody Has Asked For It:
So a few months ago, I watched Final Girl (2015), which ... I'm not a movie critic or anything, but I'm going to go ahead and say that it is not a good movie. If I were to put into words why it is not a good movie, I would probably describe it as a female empowerment fantasy written by dudes for dudes.
If you weren't aware (and don't care about spoilers), the premise of the movie is that these high school boys have just been straight up serial-killing lots of girls in the woods by bringing them out into the woods for a "date" and then hunting them. Our protagonist (Veronica) is a blonde girl who fits into the boys' victim profile but who is actually a sociopath who has been trained by some guy since the age of 6 to take down these high school boys (or similar guys who are similarly targeting girls? it's never really explained). There are a lot of dramatic scenes of her running through the dark woods in a red dress, and then a lot of violent scenes of them trying to chop off her head with an axe and her chopping off their head with an axe. Or something like that. It's been a while since I saw the movie.
There are a lot of reasons why I feel it is obvious that the movie was written, directed, and filmed by dudes, from the way the plot plays out, to how the main character (Veronica) is shot/framed, to the fact that they tried to include this super weird and uncomfortable romance between her and the man who has literally been training her since she was 6 (because his wife and daughter had been killed at some point by someone, no further details, but in any case he is old enough to be her father and has raised her since she was a child).
Anyways, the ONLY redeeming feature in this entire film is a conversation between our main character (Veronica) and the girlfriend of one of the high school serial killers (Jennifer). In this conversation, Veronica is basically trying get intel on these people she will be killing later on, and Jennifer is just generally expressing concern about her boyfriend (who she doesn't know is a serial killer but who she slowly suspects of being a little too eerie). This is the only conversation between any two women in this film, and of course it doesn't pass the Bechdel test because both girls' love interests are discussed, but there is a moment when Veronica urges Jennifer to leave town and follow her dreams where I looked at the screen and thought to myself, This movie would be so much more interesting if Jennifer were Veronica's love interest.
And then I started shipping them, based on this 30-second conversation. I mean, Jennifer has been dating a serial killer for like 6 years! What harm is it if she dates another serial killer, only this one is more moral and only serial-kills serial killers! They could be Murder Girlfriends! They could road-trip across America, taking out serial killers, serial rapists and misogynist pricks, one after the other! It would be fantastic!
Unfortunately, I don't have the skill to write the absurdist adventures of Team Murder Girlfriends, nor am I good enough to write the Actual Proper Femmeslash I really wanted to, but I wrote this instead! And that is the story of how I came to write the fic that nobody asked for and probably nobody will read ...
