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May. 1st, 2022 08:02 pm![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
llywelaOnce upon a time in 2014-16 there was a show called The Musketeers and it was swashbuckling good fun, and I loved it. After the show ended, its cast moved on to various other projects, one of which saw actor Santiago Cabrera (Aramis) cast in Star Trek: Picard as a starship captain. Many Musketeer fans followed him to this project, and 'Aramis in Space / Musketeers in Space' became an in-joke in the fandom. And it was talked about so much that I found myself wondering what Musketeers in Space might actually look like.
I wondered so much that I eventually sat down and wrote it! It took over a year to put together - a translation of the first episode of The Musketeers into a space-in-the-far-future setting. I set myself the challenge of trying to follow that original plot from beat to beat as faithfully as possible, and it was tremendous fun to write, figuring out how to translate the plot into its new setting and working out how to resolve all the challenges and conundrums this inevitably threw up. Because the setting is completely original, I approached the writing almost as if it were original fic, pushing myself to delve more deeply into the worldbuilding and descriptions than I might otherwise, so it ended up being a fantastic writing exercise.
The completed fic is here, if anyone happens to be interested in taking a look - ten chapters plus an epilogue, 49,000 words in total:
Friends and Enemies
I wondered so much that I eventually sat down and wrote it! It took over a year to put together - a translation of the first episode of The Musketeers into a space-in-the-far-future setting. I set myself the challenge of trying to follow that original plot from beat to beat as faithfully as possible, and it was tremendous fun to write, figuring out how to translate the plot into its new setting and working out how to resolve all the challenges and conundrums this inevitably threw up. Because the setting is completely original, I approached the writing almost as if it were original fic, pushing myself to delve more deeply into the worldbuilding and descriptions than I might otherwise, so it ended up being a fantastic writing exercise.
The completed fic is here, if anyone happens to be interested in taking a look - ten chapters plus an epilogue, 49,000 words in total:
Friends and Enemies
