Vids, fic and sundry.
Last night I finished and posted the Damaged People installments Tranquility Base, Where The Frown On My Face and Copernius, thereby closing out the first arc of Damaged People. I'm not sure how long exactly that arc took me to write (I think I started it in mid-to-late 2007?) or how much writing is represented by it (I believe it's up above 100k words?), but that sure is a milestone. Of some sort.
I have to admit, Tranquility is a fic that I hate about as much as anything I've ever written. It's pretty much entirely cogs and filler - some particularly unsubtle foreshadowing, a continuity doorstop to indicate that Yes Look Time Has Passed, and the quick shuffling off of a couple of characters. I wanted to leave the events occurring on the Strahl deliberately vague so that people could have fun filling in the time with their own fanfic contributions, which might or might not ever happen, as Damaged People is not the sort of fic that seems to generate that much involvement even in general. This may be a consequence of writing a fic which requires your audience to share all of your fandom interests in order to get all the characters and jokes, hah.
But eh. It amuses me, at least.
Copernicus, on the other hand, was a joy to write. I actually had it finished quite a while ago, but couldn't post it until now because of its chronology. But, I mean, come on. It has Jack Harkness and Sam Tyler bouncing around on the moon. It has Aleph of Global Frequency being her usual shameless self. It lets me add Google to the list of fandoms! It lets me get my idealistic geek on about the majesty of outer space. Which is not like the majesty of colors. Not really.
Coming up next: basically the entirety of Torchwood's Series 1 rewritten with Sam in. Should be fun! I'm having an FFVII-style Weapon come out in the Cardiff Bay. I'm having Jack's awkward feud with the fairies, who he refuses to call faeries because he finds it embarrassing and slightly ridiculous to be punked by faeries so often. I have a fic called Combat Kills Suzie In The Countryside. I have an unfortunate incident with a Katamari ball. I'm rewriting the entire process of Ianto coming to Torchwood into a three-Xanatos pileup.
I am looking forward to the second arc.
Also, I finally got around to uploading a couple of vids I've had lying around my computer for, er, months or years. Without further ado:
Stargate SG-1: 'Window of Opportunity' to the tune of 'Every Day Is Exactly The Same'
Password: geomagnetic
Torchwood: Suzie Costello in 'Maneater', to 'People Got A Lotta Nerve' by Neko Case.
Password: concretecave
There you go. Enjoy.
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I have to admit, Tranquility is a fic that I hate about as much as anything I've ever written. It's pretty much entirely cogs and filler - some particularly unsubtle foreshadowing, a continuity doorstop to indicate that Yes Look Time Has Passed, and the quick shuffling off of a couple of characters. I wanted to leave the events occurring on the Strahl deliberately vague so that people could have fun filling in the time with their own fanfic contributions, which might or might not ever happen, as Damaged People is not the sort of fic that seems to generate that much involvement even in general. This may be a consequence of writing a fic which requires your audience to share all of your fandom interests in order to get all the characters and jokes, hah.
But eh. It amuses me, at least.
Copernicus, on the other hand, was a joy to write. I actually had it finished quite a while ago, but couldn't post it until now because of its chronology. But, I mean, come on. It has Jack Harkness and Sam Tyler bouncing around on the moon. It has Aleph of Global Frequency being her usual shameless self. It lets me add Google to the list of fandoms! It lets me get my idealistic geek on about the majesty of outer space. Which is not like the majesty of colors. Not really.
Coming up next: basically the entirety of Torchwood's Series 1 rewritten with Sam in. Should be fun! I'm having an FFVII-style Weapon come out in the Cardiff Bay. I'm having Jack's awkward feud with the fairies, who he refuses to call faeries because he finds it embarrassing and slightly ridiculous to be punked by faeries so often. I have a fic called Combat Kills Suzie In The Countryside. I have an unfortunate incident with a Katamari ball. I'm rewriting the entire process of Ianto coming to Torchwood into a three-Xanatos pileup.
I am looking forward to the second arc.
Also, I finally got around to uploading a couple of vids I've had lying around my computer for, er, months or years. Without further ado:
Stargate SG-1: 'Window of Opportunity' to the tune of 'Every Day Is Exactly The Same'
Password: geomagnetic
Torchwood: Suzie Costello in 'Maneater', to 'People Got A Lotta Nerve' by Neko Case.
Password: concretecave
There you go. Enjoy.
{{Feel free to comment here, but the cool version of this post was posted to Dreamwidth. You can join the party over there.}}