International Geek-Out Report (and a note on catching up)
First, the note: I haven't gotten any further with my LJ catch-up plans because it was the last week-and-a-half of term and I was busy doing university stuff (except for the three days beccatoria was visiting me, when I was busy geeking out). Will get around to the catching up next week, I think.
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Now for the International Geek-Out Report.
beccatoria arrived on ( Read more... )
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Now for the International Geek-Out Report.
beccatoria arrived on ( Read more... )
ALL HAIL GENE HUNT & WILLIAM ADAMA'S ACADEMY FOR AGING ORPHANS! (Starbuck, stop hitting your brother, you know how impressionable little Chris can be!)
And he is so the God of Children, and no one will take that away from him! (Believe me, you don't know everything about the Star Wars Extended Universe, because NO ONE does. But you now know the important bits, as dictated by me.)
Don't worry about slow feedback - I actually only got to read your email on Saturday because I was having bizarre net-connection problems, but I've resolved the issue now. I was busy on Sunday, but I do mean to reply to your email, specifically to knock some sense into you. ;)
I do love 68 wives; unashamedly so! Though you need to be happy with it for yourself too, so take all the time you need. I'm sorry I don't think that the Maya fic is your best work. I don't dislike it, I've just seen you pull off incredible emotion porn *cough*Normal*cough*, and don't like to see you sell yourself short. Then ( ... )
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Then I'm sorry. By comparing them I wasn't intending to lower Normal's place or elevate what the Maya fic "should" be. I completely understand the difference between emotional porn and emotional oscar-winning drama which has sex-scenes in it (tastefully and in full service to the story!) But perhaps that's the point - both tell a rough story, both involve sex - finding the point at which emotional porn becomes something as awesome as "Normal" is tricky. I do feel that Normal has more in common with the Maya fic in terms of its evolution (angst!popcorn being, perhaps, it's long-distant ancestor) than, say, your HP AU Epic. Which is, perhaps, why it comes to mind when trying to think of what the Maya fic could evolve into ( ... )
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Ah, Misunderstanding Alarm! Sorry - I am actually aware that the HP AU has nothing to do with this. I was trying, somehow, to explain why I thought that "Normal" was perhaps a better comparison to the Maya fic than some others that you'd written without me thinking they were actually the same in terms of desired effect, emotional importance or effort involved. Like I said, the best way is perhaps to say that fics like 'Normal' evolve from the baseline of fics like the Maya fic. I could see the Maya fic evolving into something like that (though that would be difficult given the lack of source material about her), but I can't see it evolving into a great, plotty epic. And perhaps that's what I'm pining for (evolution towards "Normal" not towards plotty epic), even though there's nothing wrong with you keeping it at the base level and not "upgrading" it. If I'm making sense. Argh, it's hard when I can't stand in ( ... )
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Heh. Maybe you should have Kev and Adrian film you while you try to express it in the medium of dance?
>Indeed, and I could legitimately be accused of writing it.
Yes, but writing something is almost like a bodily function, sometimes - something just needs to get out, (pardon the horrible imagery here). My point is that to write something you don't need to love it particularly.
Now, printing out eight full ringbinders of the stuff - *that* takes serious love. Or at least a serious kink.
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Quite possibly. I'm the one who has eight ringbinders of the stuff printed out, after all. *g*
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Oh, bwahahahahaaa! I *do* love the idea of their Great Unlikely Patchwork Family of Love!
>But you now know the important bits, as dictated by me.
Which is as good as knowing everything, since your word is like unto the word of God to me.
>I was busy on Sunday, but I do mean to reply to your email, specifically to knock some sense into you. ;)
No need, I'm quite sensible. I have a fairly good idea of who I am and what I can do.
>I have not written any more of the crossover mainly because a Neverwhere vid to The Raven (as in that cool Highlander vid) ate my brain.
I'm conflicted. Do I chide you for not writing, or do I cheer you on for vidding a show I like to a song I like? Ah, decisions...
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Hey, even dead kids need parents. Plus this can be pre-death. She can be Kara's growth-stunted irritating twin. Or maybe the eight year old that's really mad the six year old keeps out-doing her.
I'm going to skip over all the praise because it makes me shy, because I'm genuinely uncomfortable believing I'm better than people even if I am (and there are lots of people I think I'm better than - there's that irritating meglomania/fear of arrogance rearing its head again!)
>The fact that you are very talented indeed does not guarantee anything, of course. It does not even guarantee you'll manage to write a single decent book in your lifetime. (This was the blunt part, in case you hadn't noticed.) That blunt part doesn't upset me. Or rather, the notion does upset me but you saying it doesn't, because it's something I'm hugely and acutely aware of. It's the main reason I feel unworthy of the praise sometimes given me (by you, but also by others like ( ... )
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