Betting on the Fandom Dark Horse
Looking over the_wireless, I noticed that Gaeta made a very respectable showing this week: nine fics, and those are just the ones that were posted to a comm somewhere. That means he beat everybody but Roslin for fic presence. Pretty impressive.
I was also kind of shocked to see how much I’d written lately. Six fics? Well, actually seven, since I didn’t cross-post the Romo and Lance ficlet. I didn’t even realize I’d been that productive lately. Huh.
Question: cross-posting. Is it generally okay to cross-post to a lot of different comms? I really only post to gaeta_squee and just started at bsg2003fics Obviously I don’t write anything that would be of interest to the Adama/Roslin or Kara/Lee comms, but are there any other places I could/should be cross-posting?
I think perhaps my spate of productivity may have something to do with my desire to wrap up some of my bigger projects.
Mathematics is finally, finally finished, and I’m very happy about that. I don’t know if I would’ve written it if I’d known how long it was going to be going in; I had envisioned something around 15,000 words, and it ended up being a little over 40,000. My only big project that’s still not finished is “Companion Pieces”; I’ve got the second half of Helo’s and the second half of Gaeta’s done, but I obviously can’t post those yet without either of the first halves. ;) I’ve also got one last fic for my challenge/request meme to write (though there’s still one last spot open, if anybody out there has a request), but I did finally get prophetkristy's Dee and Gaeta as ghosts fic done. That was a hard prompt! And I sort of ended up fudging on some of the details in the prompt, like whether or not Dee and Gaeta can touch anything, but I like how it turned out.
I think I’m going to meta a little bit on “Ghost Ship.” Writing the Hybrid babble was an interesting little exercise that might be worth a bit of reflection. I think I’m going to do the “DVD Commentary” meme to meta on it, though, because that will work better with describing the Hybrid bits in particular. For now, though, I’ll leave you with a list of the various references/allusions made in “Ghost Ship.” Some of them have interesting stories about why they’re included; some just sounded cool and right. I was a little surprised myself how many there were when I wrote them all down:
- Emily Dickinson, “Because I Could Not Stop for Death”
- Willa Cather, One of Ours
- Fiona Apple, “Criminal”
- pinball machines
- Nirvana, “Smells Like Teen Spirit"
- Psalm 104
- The Killers, “When You Were Young”
- Simon and Garfunkel, “The Sound of Silence”
- William Blake, “The Voice of the Ancient Bard”
- T.S. Eliot, “The Hollow Men”
- Sharon Olds, “Sex Without Love”
- Elizabeth Bishop, “One Art”
- W.B. Yeats, “When You Are Old”
- William Shakespeare, Hamlet
- Walt Whitman, “Continuities” (though it sounds very similar to Madeleine L’Engle, A Ring of Endless Light, and I was actually thinking of Madeleine L’Engle, A Wind in the Door)
- Ecclesiastes
- William Shakespeare, “Sonnet 14”
- Henry Beston, The Outermost House
- Alfred Lord Tennyson, “Ulysses”
- Bladerunner
- Led Zeppelin, “Achilles Last Stand”
- David Weddle and Bradley Thompson, “Sometimes A Great Notion,” Battlestar Galactica
- T.S. Eliot, “The Hollow Men” (again)
- Oscar Hammerstein II, “So Long, Farewell” (from The Sound of Music)
- Bladerunner (again)