Dream of the sun
Dream of the sun aka the story about Jacob and Claire (dream of the sun sounds a little too pretentious, still) is a project that started when a friend gave the prompt umbrella.
Some odd dreams+a really, really long-standing joke+an incredible weakness for (writing and reading) really sappy scenes=birth of J/C. That's all you really need to know for how it started. It probably is the largest amount of actual product I have to show for what is a basically a giant joke that's been going on for years now, and is the longest original piece of work I've written thus far.
The premise started about an unreliable narrator, and two side characters who don't actually know what's going on in the larger world. But that lofty and high idea got hijacked by my weakness for sap and shipperness. So it's turned into something else, more kind of like a private sandbox for my brain for the most part. It doesn't really have an overarching theme or plot that fits into a neat sentence, just because it has sort of sprawled out into a giant mess.
To give you a better idea, they are my OTP ajkfoefok;s SO MUCH LOVE AND HILARITY.
I could talk about my love for them forever.
I do try to avoid making it a story just about them, and about them having sex and how much they like each other, even if it seems that way an awful lot of the time (s-sorry, I'm easily distracted by fluff). Even if it seems that way a lot of the time, the story actually just, idk. You could say it's more of an examination of love, maybe? Love that leads to tragedy and pain and love that keeps people together and love as a viscous beast that leads to violence.
And the human condition and angst and what is right, what is wrong, about redemption and morality and death. I like posing moral questions with them. Basically, life. I like to it's just that- a story about life, about the bad, the good, and etc. through the eyes of two people.
Like I said, sandbox for the brain. With two people. Who just happen to be an OTP and are horribly amusing to me.
Maybe one day, I'll write a proper intro, but my problem with those is that the point of reading is to understand the characters, which intros tend to ruin a little. There are reams of background info and backstory involved in this that I could spend a very long time talking about, so augh.
Some odd dreams+a really, really long-standing joke+an incredible weakness for (writing and reading) really sappy scenes=birth of J/C. That's all you really need to know for how it started. It probably is the largest amount of actual product I have to show for what is a basically a giant joke that's been going on for years now, and is the longest original piece of work I've written thus far.
The premise started about an unreliable narrator, and two side characters who don't actually know what's going on in the larger world. But that lofty and high idea got hijacked by my weakness for sap and shipperness. So it's turned into something else, more kind of like a private sandbox for my brain for the most part. It doesn't really have an overarching theme or plot that fits into a neat sentence, just because it has sort of sprawled out into a giant mess.
To give you a better idea, they are my OTP ajkfoefok;s SO MUCH LOVE AND HILARITY.
I could talk about my love for them forever.
I do try to avoid making it a story just about them, and about them having sex and how much they like each other, even if it seems that way an awful lot of the time (s-sorry, I'm easily distracted by fluff). Even if it seems that way a lot of the time, the story actually just, idk. You could say it's more of an examination of love, maybe? Love that leads to tragedy and pain and love that keeps people together and love as a viscous beast that leads to violence.
And the human condition and angst and what is right, what is wrong, about redemption and morality and death. I like posing moral questions with them. Basically, life. I like to it's just that- a story about life, about the bad, the good, and etc. through the eyes of two people.
Like I said, sandbox for the brain. With two people. Who just happen to be an OTP and are horribly amusing to me.
Maybe one day, I'll write a proper intro, but my problem with those is that the point of reading is to understand the characters, which intros tend to ruin a little. There are reams of background info and backstory involved in this that I could spend a very long time talking about, so augh.