Re: Ships that pass in the night

Date: 2018-08-10 01:51 pm (UTC)
From: (Anonymous)
Oh no, I feel like I misled you there, I'm sorry! The Cordelia/Alys stuff in the series after Barrayar is mostly in the background, since the books focus on their kids' generation for a good long while. It's there, but the majority of their on-page interaction really is in Barrayar.

I started these books expecting super scifi space opera soapiness, but have found myself totally absorbed by the politics and world-building

These books are so good for that! They cycle through so many different genres that there's always some books any given person is going to love more than the rest, but the worldbuilding and universe are so interesting throughout (at least IMO!) and there's always room to explore the politics, the different cultures, etc. It's so fun! The fandom's pretty good at exploring those things, too, in my limited experience, but I sure wish they'd do it more with f/f in particular. (I should warn you: there's VERY LITTLE femslash in this fandom.)

Also, yeah, again: porn. I want so much femslash porn from this non-femslash-writing, non-porn-writing fandom. :'(

I haven't looked at the Drou/Kareen fic that's out there much myself yet (though I think I'm going to change that today!) so I can't tell you if there's any loyalty kink fic, but like you I am SURE HOPING SO. And god, yes, hurt/comfort re: Serg would be so, so good, and now I desperately want a canon divergence AU where Gregor gets to grow up with Kareen and Drou as his parents (with bonus recovery plotline after Serg and after the Pretendership).

I know from a Doylist perspective the stuff about Cordelia reading Kareen better than Drou could was just because LMB seems to love having Cordelia be preternaturally good at other people's emotions and psychology and stuff so that she can explicate those emotions/that psychology for the reader, but I'm also loving thinking about that as a result of Drou being in way too deep, emotionally, to have her head on straight about Kareen's potential motivations when it looked like she was, as you said, "selling out." I've never really thought in depth before about the potential that Drou is, like, desperately in love with Kareen throughout the whole of Barrayar and that as a motivation for some of her behaviours, but it makes a lot of sense now that I am thinking about it!!
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