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Day 3
In your own space, share a favorite piece of original canon (a TV episode, a song, a favorite interview, a book, a scene from a movie, etc) and explain why you love it so much. Leave a comment in this post saying you did it. Include a link to your post if you feel comfortable doing so.
For the past two years or so, my major piece of original canon has been The Blake & Avery series by Miranda J. Carter.
It a series of three mystery novels set first in India and then in London, featuring:
- Jeremiah Blake, a thirtysomething lower class transportee, world weary linguistic savant, and student of human nature; and
- William Avery, a mid-twenties, (secretly impoverished) member of the gentry, secret fan of Dickens, and officer in the East India company with deadly aim and an inferiority complex.
They have diametrically opposed backgrounds! They have age and experience gaps! They have clashing worldviews! They have an inexplicable bond with one another despite the previous factors! And they have three novels' worth of adventures together!
This fandom is small but dedicated, and should be so much bigger than it is. The novels are a bit heavy on exposition but engaging nonetheless, and home to so much ripe-for-reading-between-the-lines content it's a ficcer's and shipper's dream.
これで以上です。