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bedlamsbardI keep reading really good Stargate genderfuck, like Joan Sheppard and Cammie Mitchell and Dani Jackson and Jane Sheppard, which is probably what resulted in Ani Skywalker, but for some reason has me thinking of CSI:NY genderfuck. Like girl!Mac. Who'd still go by Mac, but would be -- scarier, maybe. And Stella holds girls nights out. Girl!Mac -- not as good an impression as my two favorite characters.
Such as, of course, Dani Messer and Donna Flack. Well, not Dani Messer and Donna Flack together, but you know what I mean. Donna Flack -- hella scary, because she snaps her gum and bats her eyes and flips her hair and flashes her gun and her badge and her cleavage all at once and keeps tackling people who think it'll be easy to run from a chick. And, you know, she's tall and kind of lanky, so she tends to loom over people.
And Dani Messer! Who's snarky but who tends to shrink into the background -- and she bites her nails. *nods firmly* And tends to get underestimated. And who was Sonny Sassone's girlfriend, back in the day, and Louie was dangerously overprotective of her and Dani had a rebellious phase in which Sonny was the culmination. And when she sees Sonny again (do Danny and Sonny meet in "Run Silent, Run Deep"), she shocks everyone by socking him in the jaw. (Also, if Bardverse Danny was Dani: two words: Mafia princess. Can you imagine?)
And then I started thinking about what it'd be like if my original characters had their genders flipped. Cam'd still be Cameron, of course, and if he'd been a she she still would have been in the Army and probably not on the Rokasa mission at all. Hell, it's Cam, she's stubborn enough to have been the first woman in Special Forces. Ethan Drew would be named Ethel, and anyone who calls her that would be getting their asses kicked, but she'd a hardass, ya know? And probably even more aggressive in pursuit of Cam. And a male Shelton McAuliffe would be Rodney McKay, which everyone saw coming. And Beau would, oh lord, be Jo Lupo from Eureka, and in the Army, and she wouldn't be active Special Forces the way Cam (Cammie?) would bludgeon her way in, but she'd be Special Forces support, where she got bumped after the incident in Iraq on her third tour, where she went MIA for a while and things randomly started blowing up that nobody thought needed blowing up until the troops went looking. And then she showed back up and nobody was sure what the hell to do with her, so they sent her back stateside and she's stationed at Fort Bragg with the Special Forces boys.
Such as, of course, Dani Messer and Donna Flack. Well, not Dani Messer and Donna Flack together, but you know what I mean. Donna Flack -- hella scary, because she snaps her gum and bats her eyes and flips her hair and flashes her gun and her badge and her cleavage all at once and keeps tackling people who think it'll be easy to run from a chick. And, you know, she's tall and kind of lanky, so she tends to loom over people.
And Dani Messer! Who's snarky but who tends to shrink into the background -- and she bites her nails. *nods firmly* And tends to get underestimated. And who was Sonny Sassone's girlfriend, back in the day, and Louie was dangerously overprotective of her and Dani had a rebellious phase in which Sonny was the culmination. And when she sees Sonny again (do Danny and Sonny meet in "Run Silent, Run Deep"), she shocks everyone by socking him in the jaw. (Also, if Bardverse Danny was Dani: two words: Mafia princess. Can you imagine?)
And then I started thinking about what it'd be like if my original characters had their genders flipped. Cam'd still be Cameron, of course, and if he'd been a she she still would have been in the Army and probably not on the Rokasa mission at all. Hell, it's Cam, she's stubborn enough to have been the first woman in Special Forces. Ethan Drew would be named Ethel, and anyone who calls her that would be getting their asses kicked, but she'd a hardass, ya know? And probably even more aggressive in pursuit of Cam. And a male Shelton McAuliffe would be Rodney McKay, which everyone saw coming. And Beau would, oh lord, be Jo Lupo from Eureka, and in the Army, and she wouldn't be active Special Forces the way Cam (Cammie?) would bludgeon her way in, but she'd be Special Forces support, where she got bumped after the incident in Iraq on her third tour, where she went MIA for a while and things randomly started blowing up that nobody thought needed blowing up until the troops went looking. And then she showed back up and nobody was sure what the hell to do with her, so they sent her back stateside and she's stationed at Fort Bragg with the Special Forces boys.