Fic Update!/Recs Request (music and mirror 'verse)
Because I have a lame need to keep everyone (most of whom probably don't give a shit) abreast as to where I am on my fics. This, I attribute to my tendency to take for-fucking-ever to write new chapters while people whine/offer to bear my children in order to get more and soon (ok, he just said he'd beg to bear my children if he could rather than begging specifically for a prompt update, but still, an offer for IRL mpreg was made).
Unexpected fit of inspiration on the Bones!epic front, which also has a tentative title, The Life and Times of Leonard Horatio McCoy. I have several important scenes now written/various stages of being so. This includes his birth, first meeting with Jocelyn (whom I have made a damn yankee because I feel like it), and his father's pleas for death. The last of which had me crying profusely and I've only started to flesh David McCoy out properly. I have also determined I need a lot more in the way of extremely sad-feeling songs because Black Light Burn's Iodine Sky isn't enough. Recommendations are welcome (this is my last.fm, if you have a rec but aren't sure if I'd like it)
Despite knowing the ending of the Letters series (thanks to talking it over with hyde_the_body), I'm pretty much stalled. HOW DO I GET EVERYONE WHERE I NEED THEM? This is my problem. I think I have it, but it's a struggle. Which is highly unusual for me since my stories write themselves with only vague direction from me.
Iterations is there but unwilling to be written and Ibex, a Harry Potter fic I've been writing for-fucking-ever is being the biggest goddamn pain EVER (which can be found here, if you're interested. warnings for: gore, graphic violence, massive character death, torture of the physical and psychological kind, politics, pretentious musings on the nature of power and evil, and affably-evil!dark!Harry). It's my best received fic to date* and I should probably get going before I loose my main beta when he goes off on his mission. :P
*my success in the dark!Harry niche is why I'm planning a foray into the mirror 'verse. I've been shying away from reading it, since it seems to feature way too much focus on sex for me, especially of the non/dub con and/or Pike/Jim variety (even though I'm already planning for a bit of Pike/Jim - I guess I just don't like fanon presentation). When I venture into the dark, I don't want sex, I want people, I want exploration of the dark side of human nature. I want twisted love, loyalty, devotion, human viciousness, pain, and friendship, and believable depictions thereof from the canon characters we know and love.
This is not to say that I'll say no to well done sex in the mirror 'verse, just that I don't want it to be squicky or torment or Pike/Jim. I have read and enjoyed some really weird, fucked up pairings in the past, but Pike/Jim just annoys me, no matter which universe. I have no idea why, because I ship the fuck out of Gaila/Pike and Snape/Harry was one of my favorite pairings ever in the HP fandom, but I feel about Pike/Jim like I do Dumbledore/Harry. Maybe it feels too much like incest, even though I don't completely buy the mentor!Pike trope (in the normal 'verse at least).
Recommendations of non-Pim mirror!verse are totally welcome. (edit: I suppose I should say more recs, since I think I found a handful).
I suppose I really need to get down to watching TOS before I do this, though I'm fucking terrible about these things. I have the entire first season of Moral Oral, but I've barely watched any of it, despite the fact that it appeals to the terrible person in me. My procrastination form of choice involves interacting with people, though.
Unexpected fit of inspiration on the Bones!epic front, which also has a tentative title, The Life and Times of Leonard Horatio McCoy. I have several important scenes now written/various stages of being so. This includes his birth, first meeting with Jocelyn (whom I have made a damn yankee because I feel like it), and his father's pleas for death. The last of which had me crying profusely and I've only started to flesh David McCoy out properly. I have also determined I need a lot more in the way of extremely sad-feeling songs because Black Light Burn's Iodine Sky isn't enough. Recommendations are welcome (this is my last.fm, if you have a rec but aren't sure if I'd like it)
Despite knowing the ending of the Letters series (thanks to talking it over with hyde_the_body), I'm pretty much stalled. HOW DO I GET EVERYONE WHERE I NEED THEM? This is my problem. I think I have it, but it's a struggle. Which is highly unusual for me since my stories write themselves with only vague direction from me.
Iterations is there but unwilling to be written and Ibex, a Harry Potter fic I've been writing for-fucking-ever is being the biggest goddamn pain EVER (which can be found here, if you're interested. warnings for: gore, graphic violence, massive character death, torture of the physical and psychological kind, politics, pretentious musings on the nature of power and evil, and affably-evil!dark!Harry). It's my best received fic to date* and I should probably get going before I loose my main beta when he goes off on his mission. :P
*my success in the dark!Harry niche is why I'm planning a foray into the mirror 'verse. I've been shying away from reading it, since it seems to feature way too much focus on sex for me, especially of the non/dub con and/or Pike/Jim variety (even though I'm already planning for a bit of Pike/Jim - I guess I just don't like fanon presentation). When I venture into the dark, I don't want sex, I want people, I want exploration of the dark side of human nature. I want twisted love, loyalty, devotion, human viciousness, pain, and friendship, and believable depictions thereof from the canon characters we know and love.
This is not to say that I'll say no to well done sex in the mirror 'verse, just that I don't want it to be squicky or torment or Pike/Jim. I have read and enjoyed some really weird, fucked up pairings in the past, but Pike/Jim just annoys me, no matter which universe. I have no idea why, because I ship the fuck out of Gaila/Pike and Snape/Harry was one of my favorite pairings ever in the HP fandom, but I feel about Pike/Jim like I do Dumbledore/Harry. Maybe it feels too much like incest, even though I don't completely buy the mentor!Pike trope (in the normal 'verse at least).
Recommendations of non-Pim mirror!verse are totally welcome. (edit: I suppose I should say more recs, since I think I found a handful).
I suppose I really need to get down to watching TOS before I do this, though I'm fucking terrible about these things. I have the entire first season of Moral Oral, but I've barely watched any of it, despite the fact that it appeals to the terrible person in me. My procrastination form of choice involves interacting with people, though.