Fanlistings and writing
TGFI. It's almost 2am and I should techincally be asleep but I don't work Thursday or Friday so it's sort of like my weekend. Very nice. Anyway, I guess I should do more personal updates on my other LJ but this does have some fandom related news too. :)
I'm getting quite obsessed with fanlistings. They're just so much fun to design and maintain. I get upset when one I want is taken (I guess it's not enough for me to just join it, I want to own it) but then again, I know I couldn't maintain some well enough (they're just too big and I haven't figured out .php scripts). Needless to say, I was browsing thefanlisting.org today and realised no one had TV Relationships: Sam & Al from Quantum Leap yet, so I applied for it. Hopefully it isn't in-progress like the other one I recently applied for. I don't think it is though, since if it were I think it'd be listed, just dimmed, and it's not.
Anyway, I'd love to run the Sam and Al fanlisting. I really don't quite understand why the relationship rules are so strict though -- for instance, I really don't want to run the Ginny and Percy sibling or family fanlisting. It want it to be entirely about potential romantic interest for them (I guess I should have gotten the fanfiction relationship instead?). But I've been to the Ron/Ginny Fanlisting and it's completely anti-incest so it's very frusterating. I think there should be two, or three or whatever. That you can get all aspects of a fanlisting but that if you just want to make it sibling then you should get that listing and let someone else have the incest version or whatever.
Anyway, I'd be perfectly happy running Sam and Al as slash or gen/best friends. I think there is very valid reasoning for both -- in fact, I think, without the friendship first there is no slash potential, etc.
I spent too much time talking to layla1188 today, instead of writing. It was a very good conversation though and we discussed fiction, Beatles, sex vs. relationships and she even helped me plot some for EoD -- mostly highway systems in Nevada, 1965 as I am utterly clueless.
Hopefully I will still meet my Friday deadline since I don't work tomorrow or Friday -- but on Friday I leave for Camberley to visit my family for my birthday (on Sunday). So although I don't work I doubt I'll get much time to write there (something odd about trying to write Beatles fiction when your parents are near). I don't know how those of you still living at home do it.
I think my biggest stump for writing now is whether or not to make one/the Beatles a concious killer or not. I'll have to decide but it's not a fun thought.
I'm so pleased with all the noise and postings being made over at beatlesslash It's so productive and busy. :)
I'm getting quite obsessed with fanlistings. They're just so much fun to design and maintain. I get upset when one I want is taken (I guess it's not enough for me to just join it, I want to own it) but then again, I know I couldn't maintain some well enough (they're just too big and I haven't figured out .php scripts). Needless to say, I was browsing thefanlisting.org today and realised no one had TV Relationships: Sam & Al from Quantum Leap yet, so I applied for it. Hopefully it isn't in-progress like the other one I recently applied for. I don't think it is though, since if it were I think it'd be listed, just dimmed, and it's not.
Anyway, I'd love to run the Sam and Al fanlisting. I really don't quite understand why the relationship rules are so strict though -- for instance, I really don't want to run the Ginny and Percy sibling or family fanlisting. It want it to be entirely about potential romantic interest for them (I guess I should have gotten the fanfiction relationship instead?). But I've been to the Ron/Ginny Fanlisting and it's completely anti-incest so it's very frusterating. I think there should be two, or three or whatever. That you can get all aspects of a fanlisting but that if you just want to make it sibling then you should get that listing and let someone else have the incest version or whatever.
Anyway, I'd be perfectly happy running Sam and Al as slash or gen/best friends. I think there is very valid reasoning for both -- in fact, I think, without the friendship first there is no slash potential, etc.
I spent too much time talking to layla1188 today, instead of writing. It was a very good conversation though and we discussed fiction, Beatles, sex vs. relationships and she even helped me plot some for EoD -- mostly highway systems in Nevada, 1965 as I am utterly clueless.
Hopefully I will still meet my Friday deadline since I don't work tomorrow or Friday -- but on Friday I leave for Camberley to visit my family for my birthday (on Sunday). So although I don't work I doubt I'll get much time to write there (something odd about trying to write Beatles fiction when your parents are near). I don't know how those of you still living at home do it.
I think my biggest stump for writing now is whether or not to make one/the Beatles a concious killer or not. I'll have to decide but it's not a fun thought.
I'm so pleased with all the noise and postings being made over at beatlesslash It's so productive and busy. :)