forty+ fandoms (brainstorming)

[wisdomeagle]

See also kindkit's post here.

kindkit and I are planning a forty-plus-smutathon, and right now we're brainstorming popular fandoms with at least a handful of major characters over age-forty.

So. What fandoms have characters who are canonically 40 or older you'd like or love to write pr0n about? (Note that characters who are older than forty but canonically don't age or have younger bodies -- Spike, Moaning Myrtle, the Tenth Doctor, Methos, Leo Wyatt -- are ineligable.)

Yes, some of these options are clearly "fandoms" only in my brain.

[Poll #1044785]

If you're going to discuss that last question in the comments, please generously mark large spoilers for the last two seasons as I'm trying to avoid them.

Comments

[squirrelyjones.livejournal.com]

I have never written fanfic before but for some reason I think this might be fun. ^__^

[glimmergirl.livejournal.com]

Oh! Before your poll, I nearly forgot the deep and utter joy that the thought of pr0n involving Martha Kent of Smallville gives me. :D!

[mari4212.livejournal.com]

Okay, a challenge like this is one in which I wish that I could write smut.

Darn it. You really don't want me writing smut though. I'll just sit on the sidelines and cheer people on/write non-explicit shippyness.

[mayatawi.livejournal.com]

I'm guessing on Sam being over 40; I'd assume she would be at least 30 in the pilot, given her schooling and training, but I could be wrong about that.

Daniel said he was about 4 in 1969, which would make him 42 today, give or take.

I'm horrible at guessing ages, but I'd believe both of them to be in their 40s, visually.

[kindkit.livejournal.com]

I took the poll so that I could see the results without having to click through every time.

And now I'm off to promote the poll in my journal.

[hermionesviolin.livejournal.com]

You can null submit, fyi -- just click the Submit Poll button, and the results will show up every time you go back to that poll as if you had actually filled it out.

[dirty-diana.livejournal.com]

Huh at everyone thinking Daniel, Vala, and Sam are all older than Cam - there's no reason for him to be the youngest, being presumably as many years into the service as Sam. Plus I think Ben's the oldest actor, 44. The Atlantis crew, while not grey-haired, would all be in that range too, IMO.

[dirty-diana.livejournal.com]

Ignore me, it just hit me that there is canon on Cam's age which I won't elaborate on. But, 38. :)

[carla-scribbles.livejournal.com]

Also, Nip/Tuck! Cannot believe I didn't think of that earlier.

[missambs.livejournal.com]

OOOOH. Intriguing!

[thelastgoodname.livejournal.com]

As Time Goes By and Keeping Up Appearances! They both need fic desperately. I would be so thrilled if someone wanted to write in either of those, and I might potentially be able to write them, but I doubt I could capture any character but Lionel. I could do an awesome Lionel. And I have added Waiting for God, which I think is better than either of them (mostly because I adore Diana).

As for SG-1, I don't think of any of the characters (with the exception of Teal'c, who is somehow 100 or something, and Jack, who is clearly middle age when the series starts) as "older than 40" because when we meet them, they are so young. With them, even as they age in canon, I kind of feel like when you age characters in a story even though they aren't really that old in canon.

[wisdomeagle]

If you wanted to write fic about Lionel -- Lionel having sex, Lionel masturbating, Lionel doing dishes -- there would be no complaints from this corner of the room.

I kind of feel that way about SG-1 too. Like even though they're technically over 40, they don't really count.

[alixtii.livejournal.com]

Spike and Myrtle break my brain since, at the end/current status of their canons, they are characters older than forty played by actors older than forty (using movieverse for HP, obviously), but there's a reasonable sense in which they have "younger" bodies (i.e. their bodies are presented as such within the text).

Mmm. Shirley Henderson.

[hermionesviolin.livejournal.com]

Moaning Myrtle is played by a grownup in the movies? I'm confused. I mean, I can't recall if the books ever say if she looks like a student or not, but it was very much my impression that she did (and also that ghosts in the HP-verse don't age in appearance).

Okay, I wikipedia-ed, and she does still look like a student, at least in that one photo, so that's comforting to me (though sucky for her if that's how she presents naturally, says me who hates looking significantly younger than her age). And was apparently 35-37 for the filming of CoS -- oh, but she's also in GoF, which came out 3 years later, putting her right on the cusp (since 40 is still not "older than forty").

[alixtii.livejournal.com]

S.H. is the oldest actor in the HP movies to play a student. I have to say I was a little confused as to what age she was intended to present as in her Doctor Who ep, too, but it is of little matter because no matter what she is awesome.

She's not in OotP? :-( *is slightly less interested in seeing the movie, eventually--but still interested, because, Maggie Smith! Helena Bonham Carter! So many others!*

[hermionesviolin.livejournal.com]

OotP's the first movie I've actually been tempted to watch since I swore off them after the first one (I didn't like it as an adaptation, and also thought it failed as a stand-alone movie), though I'm tempted because everyone says Luna's awesome in it, and I love her. I actually tend to forget that Moaning Myrtle was in GoF, though I liked her character well enough in CoS.

[ct]

I can't remember it exactly, but there's a line in "1969" that suggests that Daniel was probably born in 1965.

[wisdomeagle]

Something like "I was four and a half!" You're right, that does suggest that he's forty by the time canon closes.