Scraps Post!
I've been pretty stuck lately with writing, and I think my solution is finally just to scrap the 3 things I've been attempting to work on and admit that they're not interesting or developed enough, premise-wise, for me to continue. I just need to start fresh with something, maybe the sequel to mpreg fic that me and Sekrit talked about at Disney
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>> maybe the sequel to mpreg fic that me and Sekrit talked about at Disney World
My only reaction to which is, !!!!! Because I'm honestly not sure any more enthusiasm on my part would communicate anything new on the subject. But, yeah!
As for these scraps, well, I'm sad to see them go. In terms of lab rats, you know what's interesting? I kept thinking about it as a story in Craig terms, so it was interesting to see that though Craig is looming over what you've written, indeed the catalyst for the whole plot, he's not actually in the story up to this point. The group banter in this is really well done, with Cartman making fun of Kenny for only being able to afford a lame game, and the set-up of the arcade as a kind of collective gathering space where everyone would have seen this freak-eyes Craig thing go down feels very real. The boys in this are reading very much their age, which is something I love in general and about your writing in particular. I guess this scrap has forced me to think about it, but you always do a very good job tempering the characters' voices and decision-making processes to reflect whatever age they're at in the fic. Here, for example, Kyle defends himself against the people who show up at his house to take him away by asserting that he'd never hurt Ike and that he doesn't have weird powers. Yet he seems ultimately deferential to their authority, even if he is upset and slowly realizes something's horribly wrong by the time he's trapped in that car on the way to the airport. I'm trying to think about the way you wrote Kyle in your mpreg fic, where the situation is different and he is ultimately deferential to authority, but he asserts himself much more and even his small interactions with whoever's medically in charge feel like Kyle is throwing the weight of his personality around to make it clear that he's in control of himself, even as in a lot of ways he's really not. So although this unfortunately won't be finished, I think it's an interesting part of your oeuvre, in the sense that it deals with a lot of themes you've handled before while carefully shifting the characters' perspectives based upon this new situation. Of course, I love Stan and Kyle's blossoming relationship, and the scene in the car was creepy, heartbreaking, and super effective at creating a horrible mood of foreboding. I'm regretful that I won't get to read about depressed Kyle at the facility struggling to fly, or whatever was going to happen, but thanks for letting us read this anyway.
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