I'm too zoned to come up with five concrete things.
1. Normally I would complain that no one has commented on my Days of Atonement post, but I can't right now, because in talking to my very smart friend (who may or may not want to remain anonymous? IDK), I was discussing the kinds of responses I expected and I realized that I expected (A) people who were mad at me, so that I could apologize and (B) people who thought I was mad at them, but I wasn't. It did not even OCCUR TO ME that there might be (C), people who legitimately wronged me. So now I am thinking about that, or more specifically, about why I had not been thinking about that to begin with.
I mean, I'd still like comments ( LJ | DW), because I would like to deal with shit before Yom Kippur. But I'm also just, you know. Thinking. And stuff.
2. I think I'm going to need some Avengers betas who could get back to me by noonish on Tuesday. I realize this means I have to finish WRITING the fic- I'm guessing it's going to hit 5000 words based on my outline and I'm around 1500 right now- but it's High Holy Days fic, and I'd like it up before Yom Kippur starts, since I'll be doing my yearly communications blackout then. Bonus points who can tell me if anything is blatantly sacrilegious. I mean, beyond the part where it's Natasha fic about the high holy days, so it's really violent and has the consent issues that I think show up in basically any story even remotely dealing with Natasha.
I'm hoping the story should write pretty quickly at this point, though, because I sorted out the plot, and then sorted out all of the potential implications of the plot and whether I was okay with them, because apparently the main thing my grad degree has gotten me is an inability to just let subtext be subtext, I have to decide what the underlying symbolism of every textual decision I make might say about me as a ~person.
Um, let me know if you're interested. If that previous paragraph didn't scare you off.
3. HILARITY OF THE WEEK: Now that I'm writing again, I'm toying with the idea of putting some of my older stories up on AO3, once I decide which, if any, stories aren't terrible. To that end, I've been reading some of my old stories, and I realized how consistently certain throughlines run through everything I write. "Subtle" is not really on the list of Things I Am.
Also, I always say my one true character marker is "baby genius," which it probably is, but I feel "strongly dislikes cuddling" and "incredibly competent but lacking a coherent self-image" are right up there on the list. BAD AT FEELINGS, BAD AT IDENTITY, GOOD AT SPECIFIC SET OF TASKS. It's like my calling card.
Cross-posted at http://fox1013.dreamwidth.org/100851.html. Comment wherever you feel more comfortable.
I mean, I'd still like comments ( LJ | DW), because I would like to deal with shit before Yom Kippur. But I'm also just, you know. Thinking. And stuff.
2. I think I'm going to need some Avengers betas who could get back to me by noonish on Tuesday. I realize this means I have to finish WRITING the fic- I'm guessing it's going to hit 5000 words based on my outline and I'm around 1500 right now- but it's High Holy Days fic, and I'd like it up before Yom Kippur starts, since I'll be doing my yearly communications blackout then. Bonus points who can tell me if anything is blatantly sacrilegious. I mean, beyond the part where it's Natasha fic about the high holy days, so it's really violent and has the consent issues that I think show up in basically any story even remotely dealing with Natasha.
I'm hoping the story should write pretty quickly at this point, though, because I sorted out the plot, and then sorted out all of the potential implications of the plot and whether I was okay with them, because apparently the main thing my grad degree has gotten me is an inability to just let subtext be subtext, I have to decide what the underlying symbolism of every textual decision I make might say about me as a ~person.
Um, let me know if you're interested. If that previous paragraph didn't scare you off.
3. HILARITY OF THE WEEK: Now that I'm writing again, I'm toying with the idea of putting some of my older stories up on AO3, once I decide which, if any, stories aren't terrible. To that end, I've been reading some of my old stories, and I realized how consistently certain throughlines run through everything I write. "Subtle" is not really on the list of Things I Am.
Also, I always say my one true character marker is "baby genius," which it probably is, but I feel "strongly dislikes cuddling" and "incredibly competent but lacking a coherent self-image" are right up there on the list. BAD AT FEELINGS, BAD AT IDENTITY, GOOD AT SPECIFIC SET OF TASKS. It's like my calling card.
Cross-posted at http://fox1013.dreamwidth.org/100851.html. Comment wherever you feel more comfortable.