Serendepity fails me
Originally, this post had the secondary title "can't cunt" but then I thought this was not something that needed to be bolded on people's reading pages, and in any case I don't think it's grammatically correct.
I feel like writing femslash. And I don't have any stories to write.
In part, this is fortunate, becaue I don't have time to write femslash. My stressful RL aside, I'm working on a Birthdayverse story that's longer than any other so far and still has a couple of scenes to go before it's over. After that, I have a remix/redux thingy to write before mid-March, and if I'm really lucky, Tammy will bring me the beta on the Wes/Doyle story so I can try to get that one into shape.
But never mind that part, because I want to. *sigh*
Trouble is, the pairings I can see are hardly ever any I could see myself writing. Every potential couple in the Buffyverse contains at least one char I don't like very much (Buffy/Faith, Fred/Willow, Drusilla/Darla) not to mention that they've all been done by better writers than me. The one pairing there that I could really do is, as I've said before, Anne/Alonna in the Birthdayverse, and I already have have Wes/Gunn and Doyle loving Angel, and I don't care how gay the Birthdayverse is by default, I have limits to my suspension of disbelief.
I could see Paris/Rory in Gilmore Girls, but that would require actually seeing a whole lot more of Gilmore Girls, and while there are parts I like very much in Gilmore Girls (Paris, Lane, Lane's mom, Sookie, Emily and sometimes Luke) there are other parts that bore me to tears (nearly everything else).
George/Delores in DLM would be interesting, but my mind can't quite cope with the thought of writing Delores in bed with anything at all.
Angel/Rayanne in My So-Called Life... Oh, yes. It's got the like, the hotness, and the fandom love. It does not, however, have anything even resembling a plot bunny.
axa suggests that I write Graham/Megan of But I'm a Cheerleader fame, but I can't quite see the point in writing slash for a film that's a lesbian love story. What could I possibly have to say that isn't already there? It'd be almost as bad as writing slash for the book version of Fried Green Tomatoes.
For some reason, femslash nearly always comes with obstacles for me. Even considering the stories I've actually written.
Not the Chicago story. That one worked just like I wanted it to - but then, Chicago was a fabulously sexy story where everyone who mattered was a woman. (Who was it that first said not to watch a movie where there isn't at least one scene with two women talking about something else than men?)
But all the others. The Press Gang story was kind of sexy, but very coy. One really cannot write Lynda and ignore Spike for very long. That's not OTP-ness, it's simple canon. The thought of Lynda opening herself up enough to let anyone else into her life when she can't even let in someone she has admitted she loves... no. And Sam is too flighty for anything long-term anyway. A one-off can be written, if only just, but anything beyond that is hopeless.
Most Beloved Sister - madness, incest-by-proxy and a desperate wish to find one's dead sister in any girl at all isn't what I'd call a hot story.
And everything else is not even real slash. Fearless has Freddy, but paired with an OC who's not even in the story. Male or female, there isn't a single person on SeaQuest I'd like paired up with Freddy.
My Gift From God brings coy to a whole new level with its declaration that it is a "maidenly" love story. Which it is. Because as much as I think Ruth and Martha love each other, they're both nuns, and Martha at least is one for all the right reasons. They're not going to have sex with anyone, ever, and the fact that if they did, they'd have it with each other is a moot point.
And then there's the little hint of Cher/Dionne in Like, Power. It's barely even enough to mention.
It seems if I am to write my desire I have only two options: writing characters I don't even care about, or shoehorning my favourites into relationships. Both options suck.
*sigh*
I feel like writing femslash. And I don't have any stories to write.
In part, this is fortunate, becaue I don't have time to write femslash. My stressful RL aside, I'm working on a Birthdayverse story that's longer than any other so far and still has a couple of scenes to go before it's over. After that, I have a remix/redux thingy to write before mid-March, and if I'm really lucky, Tammy will bring me the beta on the Wes/Doyle story so I can try to get that one into shape.
But never mind that part, because I want to. *sigh*
Trouble is, the pairings I can see are hardly ever any I could see myself writing. Every potential couple in the Buffyverse contains at least one char I don't like very much (Buffy/Faith, Fred/Willow, Drusilla/Darla) not to mention that they've all been done by better writers than me. The one pairing there that I could really do is, as I've said before, Anne/Alonna in the Birthdayverse, and I already have have Wes/Gunn and Doyle loving Angel, and I don't care how gay the Birthdayverse is by default, I have limits to my suspension of disbelief.
I could see Paris/Rory in Gilmore Girls, but that would require actually seeing a whole lot more of Gilmore Girls, and while there are parts I like very much in Gilmore Girls (Paris, Lane, Lane's mom, Sookie, Emily and sometimes Luke) there are other parts that bore me to tears (nearly everything else).
George/Delores in DLM would be interesting, but my mind can't quite cope with the thought of writing Delores in bed with anything at all.
Angel/Rayanne in My So-Called Life... Oh, yes. It's got the like, the hotness, and the fandom love. It does not, however, have anything even resembling a plot bunny.
axa suggests that I write Graham/Megan of But I'm a Cheerleader fame, but I can't quite see the point in writing slash for a film that's a lesbian love story. What could I possibly have to say that isn't already there? It'd be almost as bad as writing slash for the book version of Fried Green Tomatoes.
For some reason, femslash nearly always comes with obstacles for me. Even considering the stories I've actually written.
Not the Chicago story. That one worked just like I wanted it to - but then, Chicago was a fabulously sexy story where everyone who mattered was a woman. (Who was it that first said not to watch a movie where there isn't at least one scene with two women talking about something else than men?)
But all the others. The Press Gang story was kind of sexy, but very coy. One really cannot write Lynda and ignore Spike for very long. That's not OTP-ness, it's simple canon. The thought of Lynda opening herself up enough to let anyone else into her life when she can't even let in someone she has admitted she loves... no. And Sam is too flighty for anything long-term anyway. A one-off can be written, if only just, but anything beyond that is hopeless.
Most Beloved Sister - madness, incest-by-proxy and a desperate wish to find one's dead sister in any girl at all isn't what I'd call a hot story.
And everything else is not even real slash. Fearless has Freddy, but paired with an OC who's not even in the story. Male or female, there isn't a single person on SeaQuest I'd like paired up with Freddy.
My Gift From God brings coy to a whole new level with its declaration that it is a "maidenly" love story. Which it is. Because as much as I think Ruth and Martha love each other, they're both nuns, and Martha at least is one for all the right reasons. They're not going to have sex with anyone, ever, and the fact that if they did, they'd have it with each other is a moot point.
And then there's the little hint of Cher/Dionne in Like, Power. It's barely even enough to mention.
It seems if I am to write my desire I have only two options: writing characters I don't even care about, or shoehorning my favourites into relationships. Both options suck.
*sigh*