Fic Roundup
bare: a pop opera
( Bare fics )

Started our own War and Peace drabble tree at bare_fic because the one at mcshep_match  was so shiny. I'm still waiting for other people to play in that sandbox with me so that it won't be a challenge of one.

Meanwhile, I've gotten four drabbles up, two each for War and Peace. (I cheated a little with the second set: the first one, War, had 99 words, so I paid the ( Read more... )

I want Peter to be a magician. And Jason to be his sparkly assistant.

Except that I don't have an act for them yet. It has to be something appropriate to their relationship.

Could anybody please point me to books that detail magic acts please? More of what goes on stage, deconstructing the illusion kind of thing. I would watch Prestige again, but ( Read more... )

I signed up with the smallfandomfest  challenge with a "Matt, my fault" fic. I have until 31 July to write it up.

I suppose I should be glad for the editwank. It got me looking up William Empson's Seven Types of Ambiguity

1. "A detail is effective in several ways at once;
2. "Two or more alternative meanings are fully resolved into one;
3. "Two apparently unconnected meanings are given simultaneously;
4. "Alternative meanings combine to make clear a complicated state of mind ( Read more... )

There is edit wank over at fandomsecrets where one anonymous poster submitted the following secret (No. 149):


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spn_flashback  has a list of prompts for a Back to School Challenge

( I've adapted the list for Peter/Jason and cut it down to 100 for my own guidance. )

I am stuck. I am so stuck it's not funny. I wish there was some help out there to get unstuck.

Maybe I should watch the first episode of Glee first for some happy.

I have been unfair to Peter. Bare is not just about Jason; it's also about Peter's acceptance of who he is and his growth and development as his own person as he moves away from his concept of himself as part of the Peter/Jason paradigm.

It is the tragedy of Bare that the two protagonists do not develop at the same time. Thus, Jason will be on an ( Read more... )

This is me, thinking aloud. Don't go here unless you ate the same mushrooms I did. There will be a clash of interpretations. This is not a defense but a self-examination.

( Not fic but self-reflexive litcrit. )