my love affair with everywhere was innocent; why do you care

Jun 18, 2012 22:09

I can't be the only person who really loves filling prompts but just cannot ever think of any to leave for other people. Like, the only "prompts" I can think of are either the equivalent of a bingo card square or an incredibly detailed plot with no wiggle-room at all. And I don't feel that either of those things are particularly helpful to drop ( Read more... )

fanfic, writing, eleanor is a terrible person

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soteriophobe June 19 2012, 10:17:04 UTC
Omg, I have the opposite problem to you. I have about 473845643756743865843657846 prompts, but I can only human fill so many at a time (especially since every time I go to write a "one shot" lately, it ends up as like...10K words or something D:). I love prompt memes because I can give away the hundreds of ideas I get that I can't use myself. :D ( ... )

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frith_in_thorns June 19 2012, 12:20:06 UTC
:D I also love your prompts! Please keep posting them!! I'm trying not to start new fics at the moment because argh wcpairings and whitecollarbb (they have to be long! I tend to max out at a couple of thousand words atm, so argh), but I have not forgotten that I promised you fics. I will get around to them eventually! once I stop making a million icons of Lin Bei Fong's face

Types of hurt are indeed plots! (And I loved your concussion fic!) But possibly not when the concept was a specific type of relationship dynamic :P :P Although it's wandering off into h/c now anyway, because I have no control over my stories or something.

Hah, I have a page in my scriver file which is my favourite pieces of text that I transcribed from asw comics, and I use them as prompts sometimes. There was a fest like that a while ago, called "a softer meme", but it was general. A WC one would be awesome!

P.S. I have just seen the fic you posted and it looks WONDERFUL but I have to go out in a few minutes :( I shall read it later, with tea.

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*pretends you didn't leave this comment like….3 days ago, ahem* soteriophobe June 21 2012, 15:12:12 UTC
Awww, TY! :D But dude, don't be sorry about no fics - any fics from you are good magic! I am excited to see your BB etc, eeee!

(also, ha, every time I see "BB" I think "Breaking Bad", which I am also pretty obsessed with - and I get confused, then excited about a WC/Breaking Bad Crossover, and then I'm like "….Ohhhhh, no, BB is that thing I have to write that huge fic for. …..ohgod." XD)

Apparently someone on collarcorner is filling two of my prompts in the one story, though, which makes me very excited. :D

And, djskdjks. I may have to create that ficfest once a couple of the big deadlines are past and WC fandom can breathe again. I could call it "a collared world"? XD

And, awwww, thank you! God, it is epic and depressing, so don't hurry. Or…like, feel pressure to read it at all. *cough*

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Re: *pretends you didn't leave this comment like….3 days ago, ahem* soteriophobe June 21 2012, 15:14:20 UTC
Oh, and….um, my last boyfriend was kind of like a walking concussion? In that he made my head hurt really badly and I threw up a lot when he was around, and he may have caused me permanent brain damage? XD

….Okay, I do get your point. Maybe concussion is a limited-scope plot, relationship-wise.

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frith_in_thorns June 26 2012, 14:48:18 UTC
I'm sorry for not replying before to any of your comments in various places, I've had such a bad week :S But I am now trying to work my way through all the things on the internet I should have been doing. "Will eventually get it done" should be my life motto, or something.

I've heard good things about Breaking Bad, but I never really felt that much inclination to watch it, I'm not all that sure why. Although my TV preference seems to be for either not-too-dark procedurals, and sci-fi. So, there's that.

I also didn't realise you were writing for the big bang. I'm now excited about that! What sort of thing are you writing? Does it have Neal being hurt?I am amused at you calling your ex a concussion. (I mean, that sounds like it was totally shit to experience, but the comparison is amusing.) I'm not quite sure what mine would be, possibly the sort of depressive episode that makes you think you're not quite a real person. (I am still pretty bitter about being dumped by email right before my Finals, lol ( ... )

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soteriophobe June 26 2012, 17:11:53 UTC
Not at all! I never expect…people to reply to me? Haha, especially since I go on a lot. Don't even begin to worry about it. <3

You know, I heard about Breaking Bad when it premiered - and didn't watch it until this year? I had the same reluctance to watch. And then I was like "OH FINE" after a friend told me it was amazing, and put the pilot on - and….ended up watching the entire first season in one night. And then the second season in one day. Etc. It's ADDICTIVE, much like the meth it centres around, haha. That said, I like my stories darkdarkdark, and BrBa (hee! BromineBarium - even the abbreviation is all chemistryish) is as dark as it gets - though, it has a lot of black humour in it, too. If you're intrigued, I recommend you watch this video (it has some spoilers, but they're mashed up and without context mean nothing) - it's what convinced me to watch the show, and apparently the entire cast of the show loved said fanvid so much they put it on their Twitters and stuff. If you have a science background you'll probably get more ( ... )

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frith_in_thorns June 26 2012, 18:29:15 UTC
Passive-aggressive...kittens. I HAVE NO WORDS. He sounds like a real winner :| At least mine was just... massively focused on her own stuff, to the extent that she didn't even tell me why she was suddenly breaking up with me. (The email was literally, I've decided being in a relationship with you is bad for me, but I hope this won't affect our friendship.) I don't think she at all gets why I can't bear to speak to her since ( ... )

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