Okay, so -
I haven't seen BSG yet. Acquiring the episodes takes a while for someone who routinely requires the bandwidth for things other than *cough*illegaltorrents*cough*, so to solace myself, I've been reading everything I can find about the premiere episodes.
The kaleidoscope of responses is staggering. Revulsion, sympathy, hilarity, tears - I've not read five similar opinions of anything. And in a way, I'm glad. I won't be able to colour my own viewing too much with what I've read, with the possible exception of the fat!Lee and the return of the towel, alas, and the cuteness of supposed Starbuck-spawn, and possibly the provocatively-named pornstache, such things as fandom can't help but influence your reading of.
However, I'm going to *try* and download everything this season, and do reviews again. I may be a couple weeks behind the show by the time I get them done, but I think I need the discipline. Other than the writing phase I went through a month ago, I haven't so much as looked at fic lately, and have only been to LJ in the last week for the purpose of easing back into active fandom.
It's not because I am out-of-love with BSG, or that I am troubled with the stories - I actually wrote some rather warm Contraventions this morning, right before I remembered I had to mow the lawns! - that I'm working on, or even that the lad is keeping me busy, because hey, there's limits to that kind of thing! I'm not really sure what it is. Yeah, there's the self-doubt (don't worry, I will not whine about it anymore, thx h8ters) and the job-hunting and a damn sight more painkillers this month than last, but it's not those, either.
And I have missed you, dear flist. Avoidance is my first instinct when I am confused about things, which is why I haven't been here. And looking back at my post history for the last few months, it's obviously been going on longer than I thought. I don't know where I'm at with BSG fic in general, with the four main characters in particular, and with the show as a whole. I'm up in the air - pretty much the way I should have been at the beginning of hiatus, not at the end of it.
To be honest, I think I need to vary a bit more. One fandom is becoming less inspiring the more I delve into it. Only problem is, I want to write things I can't really see an audience for.
So: do any of the following interest you?
1. Lets get the dirty-bad-wrong out of the way first: Erotic fiction of a supernatural, varyingly kinky bent. Tentatively titled "Djinn", it explores the idea of a woman who finds the means to experience her fantasies in a way that seems real and isn't. Probably a lot of 'be careful what you wish for' in it. I have to say, I have the occasional yen for good story-porn and rarely find it: I get tired of descriptions of a woman's 32DD bustline and her emerald eyes and poorly grammaticised passions. So I've been trying my hand at filling the gap ... though 'good' may be overstating my efforts as I actually haven't written real porn before, my fic-smut being a lesser beast indeed.
2. Something built in Jacqueline Carey's Kushiel universe, though not utilizing her characters in any central role. Yes, more sex. No, no anguisettes. Possibly a male central figure, apprenticed in the Night Court, and his struggles to adhere to - and surpass - the canons of his house. The houses of the Court of Night-Blooming Flowers kind of fascinate me, and I want to explore the ones of which we see tantalisingly little. And while I apparently have the hide to ape an excellent writer and borrow her creations, I am not attempting to complete her world but flesh out my own impressions of it.
3. Kingdom of Heaven fic. Yeah, yeah, I know, movie was meh. At least, if you haven't seen the real cut, the director's cut, the movie was meh. I advise you rent a copy if you haven't seen the real story. This movie had a hell of a cast, and a great great pool of subjects to draw from, and if I thought anyone would read it, I'd try my hand. And if there's sex, it'll be accidental. That's not the part of this mythos that interests me.
Anyway, before I begin - if I begin - any of these, I am finishing E&A and Contra. And if the new season of BSG inspires me or allows me to get a grip of what the fuck happened to my pilots, there'll probably be new projects in that direction, too. But other than that, I think I'm wiping my WIP-list clean. If there was anything you wanted me to write before, say so now, before I move along.
The kaleidoscope of responses is staggering. Revulsion, sympathy, hilarity, tears - I've not read five similar opinions of anything. And in a way, I'm glad. I won't be able to colour my own viewing too much with what I've read, with the possible exception of the fat!Lee and the return of the towel, alas, and the cuteness of supposed Starbuck-spawn, and possibly the provocatively-named pornstache, such things as fandom can't help but influence your reading of.
However, I'm going to *try* and download everything this season, and do reviews again. I may be a couple weeks behind the show by the time I get them done, but I think I need the discipline. Other than the writing phase I went through a month ago, I haven't so much as looked at fic lately, and have only been to LJ in the last week for the purpose of easing back into active fandom.
It's not because I am out-of-love with BSG, or that I am troubled with the stories - I actually wrote some rather warm Contraventions this morning, right before I remembered I had to mow the lawns! - that I'm working on, or even that the lad is keeping me busy, because hey, there's limits to that kind of thing! I'm not really sure what it is. Yeah, there's the self-doubt (don't worry, I will not whine about it anymore, thx h8ters) and the job-hunting and a damn sight more painkillers this month than last, but it's not those, either.
And I have missed you, dear flist. Avoidance is my first instinct when I am confused about things, which is why I haven't been here. And looking back at my post history for the last few months, it's obviously been going on longer than I thought. I don't know where I'm at with BSG fic in general, with the four main characters in particular, and with the show as a whole. I'm up in the air - pretty much the way I should have been at the beginning of hiatus, not at the end of it.
To be honest, I think I need to vary a bit more. One fandom is becoming less inspiring the more I delve into it. Only problem is, I want to write things I can't really see an audience for.
So: do any of the following interest you?
1. Lets get the dirty-bad-wrong out of the way first: Erotic fiction of a supernatural, varyingly kinky bent. Tentatively titled "Djinn", it explores the idea of a woman who finds the means to experience her fantasies in a way that seems real and isn't. Probably a lot of 'be careful what you wish for' in it. I have to say, I have the occasional yen for good story-porn and rarely find it: I get tired of descriptions of a woman's 32DD bustline and her emerald eyes and poorly grammaticised passions. So I've been trying my hand at filling the gap ... though 'good' may be overstating my efforts as I actually haven't written real porn before, my fic-smut being a lesser beast indeed.
2. Something built in Jacqueline Carey's Kushiel universe, though not utilizing her characters in any central role. Yes, more sex. No, no anguisettes. Possibly a male central figure, apprenticed in the Night Court, and his struggles to adhere to - and surpass - the canons of his house. The houses of the Court of Night-Blooming Flowers kind of fascinate me, and I want to explore the ones of which we see tantalisingly little. And while I apparently have the hide to ape an excellent writer and borrow her creations, I am not attempting to complete her world but flesh out my own impressions of it.
3. Kingdom of Heaven fic. Yeah, yeah, I know, movie was meh. At least, if you haven't seen the real cut, the director's cut, the movie was meh. I advise you rent a copy if you haven't seen the real story. This movie had a hell of a cast, and a great great pool of subjects to draw from, and if I thought anyone would read it, I'd try my hand. And if there's sex, it'll be accidental. That's not the part of this mythos that interests me.
Anyway, before I begin - if I begin - any of these, I am finishing E&A and Contra. And if the new season of BSG inspires me or allows me to get a grip of what the fuck happened to my pilots, there'll probably be new projects in that direction, too. But other than that, I think I'm wiping my WIP-list clean. If there was anything you wanted me to write before, say so now, before I move along.