I'm conflicted on the whole issue. First off, I love Nate/Eliot and the first Leverage fic I wrote is that pairing. I wrote Alec/Eliot and I like it too--that's not unusual for me, hell I like Rodney/Ronon, so... When I made the Leverage page at fanlore I put in something about the number of fics at geteven_getfic in each pairing, they were about equal at that time, and they're about 60/40 now. There are now pairing comms starting up, which makes judging things hard.
I think race is an issue, I think it always is, but it's not the whole story. Canon pushes the Alec/Parker and that's cool too, so pairing Eliot and Nate is a nice fit. There's things to be said with a Nate/Eliot story you can't say with an Alec/Eliot, and vice versa of course. I also like the idea of writing for a guy Nate's age.
I will honestly say I hesitated a bit over writing Hardison. I'm not American, race issues in Canada are dramatically different, and canon provides nothing for his past beyond a couple of comments. I did a lot more backstory imagining and research than I ever do for what was essentially a PWP.
I think it's not always racism, but fear of Doing It Wrong at play. One thing I took away from the whole Race Fail '09 thing, was that trying and failing, going back and "failing better", beats the hell out of a fandom whitewash, and is just good advice anyway.
That'll learn you to get me started on a topic like this.
Anyway, shoot me the story--my email is facetofcathy@gmail.com. Or if you have google docs, you can share it that way--whatever works. I'm happy to do a typo/grammar check and I'll tell you what I think of the story, but I'm not one to tell someone what or how to write.
Oh, and if you want to post at Geteven_getfic, they have moderated membership, so you have to plan for time for the join request to go through.
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Date: 2009-03-03 03:20 pm (UTC)I think race is an issue, I think it always is, but it's not the whole story. Canon pushes the Alec/Parker and that's cool too, so pairing Eliot and Nate is a nice fit. There's things to be said with a Nate/Eliot story you can't say with an Alec/Eliot, and vice versa of course. I also like the idea of writing for a guy Nate's age.
I will honestly say I hesitated a bit over writing Hardison. I'm not American, race issues in Canada are dramatically different, and canon provides nothing for his past beyond a couple of comments. I did a lot more backstory imagining and research than I ever do for what was essentially a PWP.
I think it's not always racism, but fear of Doing It Wrong at play. One thing I took away from the whole Race Fail '09 thing, was that trying and failing, going back and "failing better", beats the hell out of a fandom whitewash, and is just good advice anyway.
That'll learn you to get me started on a topic like this.
Anyway, shoot me the story--my email is facetofcathy@gmail.com. Or if you have google docs, you can share it that way--whatever works. I'm happy to do a typo/grammar check and I'll tell you what I think of the story, but I'm not one to tell someone what or how to write.
Oh, and if you want to post at Geteven_getfic, they have moderated membership, so you have to plan for time for the join request to go through.