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matrixrefugee ([personal profile] matrixrefugee) wrote2011-01-18 01:33 pm

A fanfic challenge from a very odd source

From my mom, no less...

Last night, during a discussion about, of all things, sexual harrassment laws in the workplace, my mom challenged me to write a sequel to "Black Swan", in which Thomas, the dance master, winds up getting what's coming to him for messing with his proteges. I said I'd consider it, but I had enough on my plate writing-wise right now, especially since there's another Lonely Prompt Challenge Weekend coming up on [livejournal.com profile] comment_fic this weekend, plus I just intro'ed Catherine Morland on [livejournal.com profile] carpe_ho_ras and it's shaped up into one of the biggest intros I've had since I intro'ed Ryuk.

But then this morning, as I was looking out the window at the fresh coat of snow that's falling, the idea came back to me, and the plot spread itself in front of me:

"Black Swan Continues: The Snow Queen". In which Nina is recovering from her horrible mental ordeal, a mysterious albino Japanese surgeon ("Hmmm... I wonder who that could be.") is treating the brain tumors that caused her madness, and Thomas is trying to launch a radical new production of "The Snow Queen". Mom wanted it to be more of a legal thriller, but I explained to her that the adult fairy tale gone horribly wrong in all the right ways is the way to go. Even if it means it includes slash (Muraki/Thomas and it's rather unsettling), which she isn't big on. I'm now researching the Snow Queen, looking to see if it's been done as a ballet and by whom, and if I can find the score on CD. I may fall back on the soundtrack from "Black Swan", which I utterly love anyway: too bad said score has been disqualified from the Academy Awards on the grounds of it being a heavy adaptation of Tschaikovsky's score for "Swan Lake".

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