meme!

[disarm_d]

I have shit to do, but I'm just this unstoppable homework avoiding monster these days. Perhaps you would like to help me procrastinate.

I think it would be fun to talk about stories, but the usual memes are like, "What happens next?" "Tell me about Character A?" What isn't so much talking about stories as it is writing more of a story. But you

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[rsadelle]

I find your meme really interesting! I love talking about writing. What's intimidating about it is that I keep worrying that my questions might hit people's sensitive spots, and I don't want to hurt anyone.

I have two questions about And Then They Came On Brendon's Face, The End. The first is why that title? I have to admit I avoided reading it for a while because the title made it sound like a more flippant story. (I now use it as an example of how titles don't really matter that much

[disarm_d]

Well, I'd been saying, "And then they came on Brendon's face, the end," for a long time in my journal, so mostly it was like a, "Hey, here's the story that went along with that," thing. It was a flippant story: not only was it a cowrite, but 99% of it was publicly written as comment fic. I think a fair number of people read it in comments, and it was the "and then they came on Brendon's face" story.

I'm not totally sure how to answer the last part of your question. Yes, obviously we were thinking about that when we wrote the story, as it was the premise for the porn. Was I worried that I was revealing something of myself in writing that story? Not especially, again because of the public evolution of the whole people coming on Brendon's face thing. I assumed that most people read my posts were I was all, "I'm normally offput by facials, but for some reason I think it'd be hot with Brendon, what is up with that?" And then all of the picspams of Brendon and his mic and his tongue... *G*. I guess that story is kind of

[rsadelle]

Oh, I didn't mean it was necessarily revealing about you, but it explores what it's like to reveal/not reveal things as Brendon goes through that.

I'm totally fascinated by your take on that story. To me, it's not about them coming on Brendon's face at all - like, you could replace that with them doing something entirely different and it would still be the same story.

I really wish I knew what context I came across that quote, because it's nearly ungoogleable, and the actual source is an essay where it's mostly a non sequitor. I notice things about people all the time based on their writing, and there's an awesome discussion about pro-fic authors whose ids are showing.

[disarm_d]

(I saw your post where you said that you worried about asking people uncomfortable questions, and I just wanted to say that you don't have to worry if there was something else you wanted to ask.)

[rsadelle]

(My question about your title was one of the questions I was worried might be uncomfortable. I don't have anything else to ask at the moment.)