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edenfalling) wrote2016-01-18 02:04 pm
edenfalling) wrote2016-01-18 02:04 pm
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[Fic] "Wear Your Finest Hour" -- Homestuck
Today is Ladypalooza reveal day! I wrote two fics this year: my assignment and a pinch hit. I will talk about each in a separate post.
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Wear Your Finest Hour: Rose and Jade go dress-shopping for prom. Jade/Rose. [1,350 words]
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This is my assignment, written for![[archiveofourown.org profile]](https://p.dreamwidth.org/b164c54b26e4/-/archiveofourown.org/favicon.ico)
casetrippy!
Casetrippy made a number of interesting prompts, most of which I felt unqualified to write for varying reasons. So I went for the cute and slightly ridiculous prom fic instead. :D I was originally going to include a scene from the actual prom, but the (tiny!) character arc wrapped up so neatly at the end of the dress shopping scene that I couldn't figure out how to extend the story without tacking on some kind of action/adventure or mystery plot, which didn't seem like it would quite fit the spirit of the prompt, so I quit while I was ahead.
I had a small struggle wrapping my head around a version of Jade who displays a strong Indian/Southeast Asian cultural identity in her everyday life, since her canon cultural background (insofar as she displays any) comes from Colonel Sassacre and the Condesce via Jake Harley and is kind of generic rich American plus weird sci-fi and survivalist influences (regardless of what racial identity you go with), but I eventually came up with a backstory wherein Grandpa Harley, on his quest to see the world, wound up working as a railroad telegraph operator in British India and falling in love with a local woman who became Jade's grandmother. This is loosely referenced in the paragraph where Jade explains how she found her own prom dress in her grandfather's attic.
The dresses described in the fic are based on one of casetrippy's lovely pictures, which you can see either via that link or embedded at the end of the story. The title is from Steeleye Span's "We Shall Wear Midnight," a song from their Wintersmith album based on Terry Pratchett's work. The song has no thematic relation to the fic; I just liked that particular line in conjunction with Jade's description of the two dresses.
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Wear Your Finest Hour: Rose and Jade go dress-shopping for prom. Jade/Rose. [1,350 words]
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This is my assignment, written for
Casetrippy made a number of interesting prompts, most of which I felt unqualified to write for varying reasons. So I went for the cute and slightly ridiculous prom fic instead. :D I was originally going to include a scene from the actual prom, but the (tiny!) character arc wrapped up so neatly at the end of the dress shopping scene that I couldn't figure out how to extend the story without tacking on some kind of action/adventure or mystery plot, which didn't seem like it would quite fit the spirit of the prompt, so I quit while I was ahead.
I had a small struggle wrapping my head around a version of Jade who displays a strong Indian/Southeast Asian cultural identity in her everyday life, since her canon cultural background (insofar as she displays any) comes from Colonel Sassacre and the Condesce via Jake Harley and is kind of generic rich American plus weird sci-fi and survivalist influences (regardless of what racial identity you go with), but I eventually came up with a backstory wherein Grandpa Harley, on his quest to see the world, wound up working as a railroad telegraph operator in British India and falling in love with a local woman who became Jade's grandmother. This is loosely referenced in the paragraph where Jade explains how she found her own prom dress in her grandfather's attic.
The dresses described in the fic are based on one of casetrippy's lovely pictures, which you can see either via that link or embedded at the end of the story. The title is from Steeleye Span's "We Shall Wear Midnight," a song from their Wintersmith album based on Terry Pratchett's work. The song has no thematic relation to the fic; I just liked that particular line in conjunction with Jade's description of the two dresses.