Teen Wolf art: Lydia Martin

[pentapus]

So I started watching Teen Wolf. This picture is Lydia Martin. She screams a lot and is my favorite. She has lots of personality, is super smart, and is very self-interested (as opposed to a protagonist who's limited plotwise to Doing the Right Thing, i.e. Scott and Allison), and gets to do eerie creepy things that freak her out. She is oodles of fun to watch.

Please give me recs! Tell me where the hangouts and challenges are! Though I've heard this is a one pairing fandom - Y/N? Maybe I can bribe people for Lydia fic? Ooh, how about team fic?! There's got to be that, right?

I hear fandom has a lot of Derek. My favorite part of Derek Hale is his total failure at life and leadership. (He hopes all his pack babies' problems can be solved by TRYING HARDER or CARING MORE - and he's wrong and there are consequences. I ♥ consequences.) I am making a wild assumption that fic!Derek will be... competent and/or smooth, even, and that will make me sad. So sad. :(

Also, I WANT LYDIA. And yes, Lydia/Stiles. Or Lydia/anyone. And teamfic. And world building. Tell me -- is there hope?!

Comments

[pentapus]

Nrgggggh I love that one so much. So much that I asked Ileliberte if I'd ruined myself for all other TW fic by reading that one first. XD

And I don't mind it not being exclusively Stiles/Lydia, though thank you for considering my interests! :) I just don't have the background of the built up culture of Derek/Stiles so I don't have know the fanon that Derek and Stiles have a natural attraction (an assumption which is familiar to me from John/Rodney in Stargate - a pairing I did read and write). "An Algorithm for Mistakes" made Derek's attraction to Stiles very much a subtle and believable discovery of Lydia's; it wasn't elevated to the level of destiny. By which I mean, the story allowed Lydia to have an equal claim to Stiles. Sometimes slash fic only allows the het pairing if it's one sided or clearly shown to be less passionate than the OTP. And when you get territorial OTPness on top of the fandom culture of naturally-attracted-to-each-other, it feels very weird to an outsider! Like - wait, why can't Lydia and Stiles be together? This story gave them great chemistry. Derek? Really? Where did that come from?

...that was way more thinky than you needed, but I guess that's what I've been thinking about since getting a small looksee about TW fandom. And of course, I'm really strongly influenced by John/Rodney and SGA fandom. XD

[califmole]

I wandered into TW fandom by accident, when one of my favorite authors started writing it, and yes the Derek and Stiles are destined soulmates does seem to be the default setting, much like John/Rodney in SGA. But good news is that it's a very active fandom, so there are a variety of great stories out there.