Stand on your bed
I've finally leapt and saw Lost in Austen, I really love Brit TV's short TV season.
There were a lot of things I enjoyed about Lost in Austen but I think that's off set by a large feeling of: So. Very. Wrong.
Look, Clark and Lois were my first OTP and in my eyes there should always be Clark and Lois in whatever incarnation but on the way to being Lois and Clark I don't mind if they fall in love with other people as long as the endgame is Lois and Clark together. But the one OTP you do not, under pain of death, separate is Elizabeth Bennet and Fitzwilliam Darcy. Darcy and Elizabeth belong together! There is no middle ground! It's... ELIZABETH and Darcy! You do not mess with that! I like Amanda Price but I love Elizabeth and Darcy more and I felt like in this miniseries they did Elizabeth a great disservice. They barely showed her and when she did she was... not as awesome as I'd hope.
Elizabeth is strong, opinionated and snarky. She isn't flustered and wide eyed.
And... it's just wrong okay? I didn't say I'd be rational about this. This is Pride and Prejudice! No one is allowed to mess with Elizabeth and Darcy.
I want to re-read my Pride and Prejudice book now.
NaNoWrimo is about to start and I'm thinking of participating. I never finished the last two times I participated but maybe this year would be different? I kind of want to write a sort of crime drama or maybe the right term would be case file? I mean, in the fandom sort of sense where the characters and character interaction takes precedence over the 'case of the week'?
I want to write about a character similar to Dani Reese only, this time the lead character is the Dani-like character while the Charlie-like character is the partner. I don't know how I'll work this one. It's just that... its no secret that I'm a little frustrated with how this season is handling Reese's character but I've been thinking about procedurals and writing one for the longest time.
Only, if there's one thing I learned from watching cop shows you always need a twist and I don't know what twist I have to make or how to differentiate my OC from Dani Reese. So, right now I'm looking at my OC as 50% Dani Reese, and part Lindsay Boxer and Ziva David.
She's definitely keeping the prickliness, the damage, the shady past. She's a misfit in the department, not undercover work but something happened to make her fall off the bright and shiny ladder. And instead of Daddy Issues she'll have Mommy Issues. Part-Asian?
The new partner I don't know about yet. Will he remain as 'new partner' or is he an old partner? Is he going to be Charlie-esque? He has to have something to atone for too, I don't know if I'll make him spit shiny new idealist or what. But I want some partner-y moments. Maybe partner guy has an eidetic memory and can't help spit out freaky facts? It's his quirk.
Should I bring in a sort of Old School justice to my detectives moral code? What will the first mystery be? Would it matter?
Weirdly, it isn't Damian Lewis I picture in the role, which I thought he would but he isn't. Instead my mind insists on casting this 'role' to Joe Flanigan because of his role as Brendan Dean, probably due to the eidetic memory thing. But you know that kind of works for me. He'll have a sort of lanky, drawly, boneless thing going on with my Dani Reese alike OC.
Which brings me to what sort of relationship will form between partners? I certainly want to emulate Crews and Reese's partnership -- I know why don't I just call it Life 2.0, hey, it worked for Lois McMaster Bujold! Um, yes, I'm reaching. Anyway, it's just a Wrimo and for my own fun. Sorry, back to topic. Crews and Reese's partnership I like that but I don't know if I want them to be involved romantically. We'll see how it flows. You know since I still gotta write it. Heck, I don't even know where to set it.
So, no definite characters yet, no motivation, no case and no location and November is only just around the corner... yay?
There were a lot of things I enjoyed about Lost in Austen but I think that's off set by a large feeling of: So. Very. Wrong.
Look, Clark and Lois were my first OTP and in my eyes there should always be Clark and Lois in whatever incarnation but on the way to being Lois and Clark I don't mind if they fall in love with other people as long as the endgame is Lois and Clark together. But the one OTP you do not, under pain of death, separate is Elizabeth Bennet and Fitzwilliam Darcy. Darcy and Elizabeth belong together! There is no middle ground! It's... ELIZABETH and Darcy! You do not mess with that! I like Amanda Price but I love Elizabeth and Darcy more and I felt like in this miniseries they did Elizabeth a great disservice. They barely showed her and when she did she was... not as awesome as I'd hope.
Elizabeth is strong, opinionated and snarky. She isn't flustered and wide eyed.
And... it's just wrong okay? I didn't say I'd be rational about this. This is Pride and Prejudice! No one is allowed to mess with Elizabeth and Darcy.
I want to re-read my Pride and Prejudice book now.
NaNoWrimo is about to start and I'm thinking of participating. I never finished the last two times I participated but maybe this year would be different? I kind of want to write a sort of crime drama or maybe the right term would be case file? I mean, in the fandom sort of sense where the characters and character interaction takes precedence over the 'case of the week'?
I want to write about a character similar to Dani Reese only, this time the lead character is the Dani-like character while the Charlie-like character is the partner. I don't know how I'll work this one. It's just that... its no secret that I'm a little frustrated with how this season is handling Reese's character but I've been thinking about procedurals and writing one for the longest time.
Only, if there's one thing I learned from watching cop shows you always need a twist and I don't know what twist I have to make or how to differentiate my OC from Dani Reese. So, right now I'm looking at my OC as 50% Dani Reese, and part Lindsay Boxer and Ziva David.
She's definitely keeping the prickliness, the damage, the shady past. She's a misfit in the department, not undercover work but something happened to make her fall off the bright and shiny ladder. And instead of Daddy Issues she'll have Mommy Issues. Part-Asian?
The new partner I don't know about yet. Will he remain as 'new partner' or is he an old partner? Is he going to be Charlie-esque? He has to have something to atone for too, I don't know if I'll make him spit shiny new idealist or what. But I want some partner-y moments. Maybe partner guy has an eidetic memory and can't help spit out freaky facts? It's his quirk.
Should I bring in a sort of Old School justice to my detectives moral code? What will the first mystery be? Would it matter?
Weirdly, it isn't Damian Lewis I picture in the role, which I thought he would but he isn't. Instead my mind insists on casting this 'role' to Joe Flanigan because of his role as Brendan Dean, probably due to the eidetic memory thing. But you know that kind of works for me. He'll have a sort of lanky, drawly, boneless thing going on with my Dani Reese alike OC.
Which brings me to what sort of relationship will form between partners? I certainly want to emulate Crews and Reese's partnership -- I know why don't I just call it Life 2.0, hey, it worked for Lois McMaster Bujold! Um, yes, I'm reaching. Anyway, it's just a Wrimo and for my own fun. Sorry, back to topic. Crews and Reese's partnership I like that but I don't know if I want them to be involved romantically. We'll see how it flows. You know since I still gotta write it. Heck, I don't even know where to set it.
So, no definite characters yet, no motivation, no case and no location and November is only just around the corner... yay?