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Speranza

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Name: speranza, User:Speranza
Alias(es): cesperanza, Cesca, Ces, Francesca
Type: fanwriter, vidder, moderator
Fandoms: C6D, due South, M*A*S*H, QAF UK, Stargate Atlantis, The Dead Zone, The Sentinel, The West Wing
Communities: sga_flashfic, sga_noticeboard
Other:
URL: Speranza's Fiction,
Cesperanza on blip.tv,
Cesperanza at BamVideoVault
Speranza on AO3
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A prolific writer in multiple fandoms, Speranza has spent the last few years primarily writing fic and making vids in the Stargate Atlantis fandom. She wrote in due South fandom beginning in 2001 and migrated to SGA in 2005, with a number of other ex-Sentinel dS writers.

She mods the SGA flashfiction LiveJournal community [1], and the SGA noticeboard LJ community [2].

She currently serves as the archivist of the Due South Archive [3], and is also the moderator of the dS mailing lists DSX and DIEF. She was a moderator of LJ communities DSReporter and DSNoticeboard, modded the dS flashfiction community from its inception until 2007, and founded the community dS flashback.

In addition to her community-infrastructure work in her current and past fandoms, she has also run several multifandom writing challenges, most notably the Canadian Shack Challenge, the Inappropriate Elf Challenge, and the Tax Shelters Challenge.

Francesca / Speranza / Cesca / Cesperanza

Speranza first gained fannish fame in The Sentinel fandom under the name Francesca. When she first entered Due South, she wrote under a new name, Speranza, and made no reference to her Sentinel stories.

zvi says, though she can't provide links to said confrontation and was never in the fandom herself: "Although confronted with the similarity of her work as Francesca to her work as Speranza, she did not initially admit to being the same person."

Speranza's livejournal user name is Cesperanza, and she also goes by the nicknames "Ces" and "Cesca".

All these aliases account for the otherwise perplexing file structure of her website, Fanfiction by Speranza.

Writing style

mamaffy in ds_profiles says about Ces's due South writing:

"She is just a wonderful storyteller. She can take an unusual idea (like Fraser, the criminal mastermind) and develops a detailed and convincing scenario that is true to canon, yet stretches it into something new. Her stories often have a complex overall plot with enough detail to make it unforeseeable. It's like watching the show sometimes, or reading a very good book with beloved characters. She involves crimes, action scenes, backstories, the bullpen, quirky events, and full-fledged OCs. Slash is plentiful and special but not always front and center. Every story has something different to it, and it's worth to read them all." [1]

Influential Works

due South Notable Works

  • Beyond Embarrassment (Fraser/Kowalski, ~11,000 words). Wonderful spin on the magical realism in Due South. It's angsty, emotional, and very exciting to read.
  • Kowalski Is Bleeding (Vecchio, Fraser/Kowalski, ~40,000 words). Vecchio rushes to be on Fraser's side when Kowalski goes missing. It's very angsty, has beautiful Fraser-Vecchio friendship, and great Vecchio POV. There is also a DVD commentary for this story that explains some of the decisions behind this fic; for example, the slightly unusual format.
  • Ping (Fraser/Kowalski, ~6,900 words). One of her shorter stories, it's hilarious and much fun to read. Fraser pings on another man and Kowalski is not amused.
  • Scrabble (Fraser/Kowalski, ~29,000 words). An unusual format. The story is told with parallel Fraser- and Kowalski-POVs, presented in a table next to each other. It's just a trip to read, to see how their thinking differs. There are links for two different browser versions to choose from.

References

  1. ↑ mamaffy, due South Author Profile: Speranza posted on 30 April 2010 (Accessed 9 May 2010)
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