Some ramblings...
Saturday I walked into JC Penney with my mom. My eye was drawn by the mannequin wearing pink jeans. Not only were these pink jeans, they had zippers down the tightly tapered ankles, and were paired with a over large white shirt and equally large gray vest.
"It's 1985 all over again!" I exclaimed.
She laughed and dismissed it, until we came upon a black jacket with piping that matched Michael Jackson's from the height of his career in the 80s, and then she believed.
Man, I didn't like the fashion in the 1980s the first time around. And the teens gleefully wearing the leggings and oversize tops don't know how we suffered 25 years ago...
We ended up leaving the mall with my only fashion purchase being a pair of sunglasses. It reminded me of when I was a kid, shopping with my mom only to declare all the clothes "ugly." I didn't see a single thing that looked remotely appealing. I'm talking stuff that looks like crap even on the size -3 model wearing it.
Wake me when the 90s come back?
I wanted to ramble on a bit about
I had wanted to write about Jeff and Katie for a while. However, I was worried it was going to be an epic story about how Georgia earned its freedom from the Confed, and how Jeff and Katie found each other during the revolution. I didn't want to write that epic, because there were other aspects of their relationship I wanted to explore. But I couldn't think of a way to frame the story that worked.
And then I read "Butterfly Tattoo" which is about many things, but is ultimately about grief and finding a way to live again after the death of someone you love. I realized the story I wanted to tell about Jeff was one of grief.
The first scene that came to me was Jeff sitting in a therapist's office, having to defend his grief, his despair at being unable to do his job. The rest followed.
It some ways this was really difficult to write. I had to pull on those feelings of sorrow to try to make Jeff seem believable.
I'm glad it's written and out there. I came to really like Katie, too. I didn't expect to. I hope those of you who read the story did too. (And yes, I'm debating an AU where she didn't die, but bigbang and Jensen's last mission first...)
"It's 1985 all over again!" I exclaimed.
She laughed and dismissed it, until we came upon a black jacket with piping that matched Michael Jackson's from the height of his career in the 80s, and then she believed.
Man, I didn't like the fashion in the 1980s the first time around. And the teens gleefully wearing the leggings and oversize tops don't know how we suffered 25 years ago...
We ended up leaving the mall with my only fashion purchase being a pair of sunglasses. It reminded me of when I was a kid, shopping with my mom only to declare all the clothes "ugly." I didn't see a single thing that looked remotely appealing. I'm talking stuff that looks like crap even on the size -3 model wearing it.
Wake me when the 90s come back?
I wanted to ramble on a bit about
I had wanted to write about Jeff and Katie for a while. However, I was worried it was going to be an epic story about how Georgia earned its freedom from the Confed, and how Jeff and Katie found each other during the revolution. I didn't want to write that epic, because there were other aspects of their relationship I wanted to explore. But I couldn't think of a way to frame the story that worked.
And then I read "Butterfly Tattoo" which is about many things, but is ultimately about grief and finding a way to live again after the death of someone you love. I realized the story I wanted to tell about Jeff was one of grief.
The first scene that came to me was Jeff sitting in a therapist's office, having to defend his grief, his despair at being unable to do his job. The rest followed.
It some ways this was really difficult to write. I had to pull on those feelings of sorrow to try to make Jeff seem believable.
I'm glad it's written and out there. I came to really like Katie, too. I didn't expect to. I hope those of you who read the story did too. (And yes, I'm debating an AU where she didn't die, but bigbang and Jensen's last mission first...)