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The Highway is for Gamblers by The Dala (R)
Hi, I'm Cat and I'll be your Pirates of the Caribbean driver once again this month. I'm pretty varied in what I read in PoTC, but my favorites are Jack/Will/Elizabeth and Sparrington. I'm also a big fan of obscure pairings and poly groupings, and I'm going to start the month off with one of my favorite truly obscure femslash pairings.
Fandom: PIRATES OF THE CARIBBEAN
Pairing: Scarlett/Giselle
Author on LJ:![[livejournal.com profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/external/lj-userinfo.gif)
the_dala
Author Website: N/A
Why this must be read:
Dala takes two extremely minor characters and provides them with a rich and compelling backstory. Scarlett and Giselle are the two whores who slap Jack Sparrow in Tortuga -- that's all we know of them in canon -- but here these two women are brought beautifully to life. There's none of the fantasy of the movie here, these are two lower-class women who've lived hard lives and lost all their illusions, and yet in Dala's hands they are also appealing and captivating heroines. Dala deftly weaves her narrative around and through the movie. Familiar characters come and go, but we see them only as Scarlett and Giselle see them, just as we see Tortuga as it looks to two working women, trying to scrape by. There's darkness in this story, but ultimately it's strangely romantic and amazingly, impossibly real.
The Highway is for Gamblers
Fandom: PIRATES OF THE CARIBBEAN
Pairing: Scarlett/Giselle
Author on LJ:
the_dalaAuthor Website: N/A
Why this must be read:
Dala takes two extremely minor characters and provides them with a rich and compelling backstory. Scarlett and Giselle are the two whores who slap Jack Sparrow in Tortuga -- that's all we know of them in canon -- but here these two women are brought beautifully to life. There's none of the fantasy of the movie here, these are two lower-class women who've lived hard lives and lost all their illusions, and yet in Dala's hands they are also appealing and captivating heroines. Dala deftly weaves her narrative around and through the movie. Familiar characters come and go, but we see them only as Scarlett and Giselle see them, just as we see Tortuga as it looks to two working women, trying to scrape by. There's darkness in this story, but ultimately it's strangely romantic and amazingly, impossibly real.
The Highway is for Gamblers