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Reading ficnet and the different character wikis (coughMilleniumoncough) just make my fingers itch to write something BETTER.
It's been awhile, hasn't it? I mean, I had that random sequel to "Patchouli" that I stuck up out of lack of anything better to do with it, but that doesn't really count. The thought that went into "Patchouli" and the deliberation over every word just isn't there in "Analyze." It's all right, I suppose, but not great; the original is better as usual.
I'm slipping out of lack of practice. Everything I write gets darker with age--darker, more cerebral and psychologic, sexier and a whole lot more fun. That particular line of fic ("Patchouli" and "Analyze") is somewhat different because with these two characters, every single word is measured, weighed and counterweighed. It's going to take those two aeons to do anything other than interact as normal, with maybe the faint hint of innuendo if one of them's had a little too much (well, Giovanni is trying really hard to get beyond innuendo, but Sabrina is dead determined to hear nothing but the literal, so he's banging his head into a brick wall there.) Still, it got a mention for a romance fic, at least, so somebody saw what I was doing there even if they got the ending wrong (sorry guys, they hadn't had that much to drink.)
Every time I open up the fic folder on the computer I end up staring at "Cain." Ahh, "Cain," the prose-poetic semi-epic taking extreme liberties with the Bible, the Talmud, mythology, and everything in between, and throwing a ton of taboos to the wind. It's a LOT of fun. It's half done. I should finish it. I know where it's going, and the characters for once want to go there with me. (They really want to go there, which is unusual, for these two; they rarely want to do anything I ask. Trust an angel and a self-professed rebel with a cause to not want to do anything to help.) Why am I not finishing it? Probably because I know where it's going and I can flame myself just as well as someone else can, and that one is going to get nailed.
I've also got the entire "I Dream" series planned out but barely ventured into, which is fine, because if I'd get flamed for "Cain" I'd be burned at the stake for the latter half of "I Dream" (never mind that it's scientifically accurate in the given world and half canon anyway, mutter mutter.) That's fine by me, because I'd much rather skip over the necessary bits into the good bits anyway.
Karin wants me to write something about her and one of these days I just might do it. I have an old plotline about her Clan written up somewhere. If I'm going in the direction this writing's taking me--darker, more cerebral and psychologic, sexier and a whole lot more fun--it's got Karin's name all over it.
The names that aren't so easily conjured up by that are Lance and Lorelei's, but they're the ones I seem to be gravitating to. My first 'ship I suppose. I should be proud that I still wave that little banner, and at least I'm writing them much better than I used to.
I read the coupling page on the Digimon Wikipedia and had to laugh. Maybe 20 names. Even just between Birdboy and me, we could come up with 50 in one mock-war. And no mention of Ryo/Milleniumon, which I'm assuming from what I've read and what Ajora's translated and written that that's about as canon as the games are going to get. If I had the knowledge, I'd write that page myself, but I don't, (Ajora, want to do the honors there?) so I'm contemplating instead (just out of sheer perverse pleasure at annoying people) creating pages for the couplings that I tend to favor. The maybe two people that knew me when I was active in the fic community that still read this LJ know that that tends to go on the side of what people like to call "crack pairings." Honestly, just because it's crossbreeding doesn't mean it's cracked-out. (Pokemon started me on that particular thing early...) Takeru, with his tendency towards depression as well as moral superiority, needs someone who will discourage both and instead encourage responsibility, get his focus away from himself and more towards living up to other expectations instead of making people live up to his. That would be Angewomon. Hikari would coddle him too much. She's only practice for someone far more intimidating--high risk high reward, you could say, even though that's not my preferred pairing for Angewomon. (See: "Cain." See: Renn just loves watching fire and ice interact.) I think the only pairing in that fandom that I support at all actively that is even remotely mainstream would be Kensuke because the two of them are actually suited. That's another one that isn't up on that so-called coupling wiki. Hmph. If you're going to create a page, at least do it with some style.
I'm trying to remember the last Digimon thing I wrote and posted. I can't. Closest thing would be "Cain" or the various splitverses thereof.
I think I'm happy with that, for the same reason I'm happy not writing in general.
Still, every time I read ficnet or anything tangentially ficcy, my fingers start itching.
Who knows? Maybe I'll let that little ficlet "Missing" go where it wants to go for a night...
It's been awhile, hasn't it? I mean, I had that random sequel to "Patchouli" that I stuck up out of lack of anything better to do with it, but that doesn't really count. The thought that went into "Patchouli" and the deliberation over every word just isn't there in "Analyze." It's all right, I suppose, but not great; the original is better as usual.
I'm slipping out of lack of practice. Everything I write gets darker with age--darker, more cerebral and psychologic, sexier and a whole lot more fun. That particular line of fic ("Patchouli" and "Analyze") is somewhat different because with these two characters, every single word is measured, weighed and counterweighed. It's going to take those two aeons to do anything other than interact as normal, with maybe the faint hint of innuendo if one of them's had a little too much (well, Giovanni is trying really hard to get beyond innuendo, but Sabrina is dead determined to hear nothing but the literal, so he's banging his head into a brick wall there.) Still, it got a mention for a romance fic, at least, so somebody saw what I was doing there even if they got the ending wrong (sorry guys, they hadn't had that much to drink.)
Every time I open up the fic folder on the computer I end up staring at "Cain." Ahh, "Cain," the prose-poetic semi-epic taking extreme liberties with the Bible, the Talmud, mythology, and everything in between, and throwing a ton of taboos to the wind. It's a LOT of fun. It's half done. I should finish it. I know where it's going, and the characters for once want to go there with me. (They really want to go there, which is unusual, for these two; they rarely want to do anything I ask. Trust an angel and a self-professed rebel with a cause to not want to do anything to help.) Why am I not finishing it? Probably because I know where it's going and I can flame myself just as well as someone else can, and that one is going to get nailed.
I've also got the entire "I Dream" series planned out but barely ventured into, which is fine, because if I'd get flamed for "Cain" I'd be burned at the stake for the latter half of "I Dream" (never mind that it's scientifically accurate in the given world and half canon anyway, mutter mutter.) That's fine by me, because I'd much rather skip over the necessary bits into the good bits anyway.
Karin wants me to write something about her and one of these days I just might do it. I have an old plotline about her Clan written up somewhere. If I'm going in the direction this writing's taking me--darker, more cerebral and psychologic, sexier and a whole lot more fun--it's got Karin's name all over it.
The names that aren't so easily conjured up by that are Lance and Lorelei's, but they're the ones I seem to be gravitating to. My first 'ship I suppose. I should be proud that I still wave that little banner, and at least I'm writing them much better than I used to.
I read the coupling page on the Digimon Wikipedia and had to laugh. Maybe 20 names. Even just between Birdboy and me, we could come up with 50 in one mock-war. And no mention of Ryo/Milleniumon, which I'm assuming from what I've read and what Ajora's translated and written that that's about as canon as the games are going to get. If I had the knowledge, I'd write that page myself, but I don't, (Ajora, want to do the honors there?) so I'm contemplating instead (just out of sheer perverse pleasure at annoying people) creating pages for the couplings that I tend to favor. The maybe two people that knew me when I was active in the fic community that still read this LJ know that that tends to go on the side of what people like to call "crack pairings." Honestly, just because it's crossbreeding doesn't mean it's cracked-out. (Pokemon started me on that particular thing early...) Takeru, with his tendency towards depression as well as moral superiority, needs someone who will discourage both and instead encourage responsibility, get his focus away from himself and more towards living up to other expectations instead of making people live up to his. That would be Angewomon. Hikari would coddle him too much. She's only practice for someone far more intimidating--high risk high reward, you could say, even though that's not my preferred pairing for Angewomon. (See: "Cain." See: Renn just loves watching fire and ice interact.) I think the only pairing in that fandom that I support at all actively that is even remotely mainstream would be Kensuke because the two of them are actually suited. That's another one that isn't up on that so-called coupling wiki. Hmph. If you're going to create a page, at least do it with some style.
I'm trying to remember the last Digimon thing I wrote and posted. I can't. Closest thing would be "Cain" or the various splitverses thereof.
I think I'm happy with that, for the same reason I'm happy not writing in general.
Still, every time I read ficnet or anything tangentially ficcy, my fingers start itching.
Who knows? Maybe I'll let that little ficlet "Missing" go where it wants to go for a night...