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So I need something super-silly today so we're skipping ahead in the poll, because I saw a post going around Tumblr (which I will never find again, alas) that said to cross over you newest fandom with your oldest fandom, and it happens I've just finally read Ancillary Mercy.
How you define my first fandom varies, but an Imperial Radch/Star Trek crossover would just raise the questions "How much would Mercy of Enterprise love all of her crew, even Riley? So much. How much do I now want to write Star Trek fic with only one pronoun for everyone? Almost as much."
The much more important question that came up was, "So are all Radch AIs Hufflepuff by nature, or is Breq just so very Hufflepuff that she blows the curve?"
I'm leaning toward the second. Because yeah, they are all supposed to be loyal and dutiful and law-abiding and loving and caring and use passive-aggression as their main defensive maneuver, but there's a lot of variation within that. And I hate the idea of that sort of thing being constrained by species.
Besides, I'm pretty sure Mercy of Kalr is as Gryffindor as it is possible for a Ship to be. And I'm pretty sure "sulking by yourself for a thousand years, listening to the radio and playing strategy games against yourself" gives a pretty strong read for Ravenclaw. So if you wanted to round out the four, Athoek Station could probably hold her own in Slytherin.
(Omaugh Station reads as another Hufflepuff to me, though. We don't get to see much of Sword of Atagaris but I would also buy Hufflepuff for her. ... possibly my read for Hufflepuff Ships is "how much do they dislike Breq on sight?"
...Seivarden is a Hufflepuff who grew up thinking she was a Slytherin.)
The other question it raises, of course, is what happens to the greater Radch once more and more Ships and Stations learn that they don't actually have to be Hufflepuff if they don't want to....
ETA: I figured out the tune that "My Mother Said It All Goes Around" gets stuck in my head! It's "Farmer In The Dell", more or less. "My mother said/it all goes around/the shuttle goes around the ship/it all goes around..."
Now I just have to find the tune for the song with the eggs.
How you define my first fandom varies, but an Imperial Radch/Star Trek crossover would just raise the questions "How much would Mercy of Enterprise love all of her crew, even Riley? So much. How much do I now want to write Star Trek fic with only one pronoun for everyone? Almost as much."
The much more important question that came up was, "So are all Radch AIs Hufflepuff by nature, or is Breq just so very Hufflepuff that she blows the curve?"
I'm leaning toward the second. Because yeah, they are all supposed to be loyal and dutiful and law-abiding and loving and caring and use passive-aggression as their main defensive maneuver, but there's a lot of variation within that. And I hate the idea of that sort of thing being constrained by species.
Besides, I'm pretty sure Mercy of Kalr is as Gryffindor as it is possible for a Ship to be. And I'm pretty sure "sulking by yourself for a thousand years, listening to the radio and playing strategy games against yourself" gives a pretty strong read for Ravenclaw. So if you wanted to round out the four, Athoek Station could probably hold her own in Slytherin.
(Omaugh Station reads as another Hufflepuff to me, though. We don't get to see much of Sword of Atagaris but I would also buy Hufflepuff for her. ... possibly my read for Hufflepuff Ships is "how much do they dislike Breq on sight?"
...Seivarden is a Hufflepuff who grew up thinking she was a Slytherin.)
The other question it raises, of course, is what happens to the greater Radch once more and more Ships and Stations learn that they don't actually have to be Hufflepuff if they don't want to....
ETA: I figured out the tune that "My Mother Said It All Goes Around" gets stuck in my head! It's "Farmer In The Dell", more or less. "My mother said/it all goes around/the shuttle goes around the ship/it all goes around..."
Now I just have to find the tune for the song with the eggs.
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Aaaaaah I love that ship.
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