Fandom Questions Meme (22-24)
I have had two appointments in three days and now I am overtired, but in the meantime, have a post I made earlier. (I don't know why it is that I've been ill for seven years and I still do obviously overtiring things and sit around being obviously overtired and then just wonder why the world and everything and everyone in it is so rubbish and useless and take ages to realise that maybe, just maybe, the main problem is that I am an overtired person, who is also slow on the uptake. Probably because of being overtired. /o\)
(But an overtired person with a post I made earlier, just as if I was on Blue Peter.)
22. Is there anything you regret writing?
I don't think so. There are some things I've removed long ago, and have no desire to put back, and some things still up I think are embarrassing, but it's fanfic, it was for fun, and if other people like it, it can stay.
23. Name a fic you’ve written that you’re especially fond of & explain why you like it.
Well, I am fond of a few of them. Of things I have written over the last year, I am probably most fond of Always a Wolf, because in so many ways it is everything I love most about Press Gang and Lynda, since it's a five times fairy-tale AU fic but the only difficulty in it was making the fantastical scenarios AU, because PG is one of the quirkiest and most meta of technically mundane canons. So it just reminds me every time I see it there how much I love Press Gang and Lynda and running jokes that come back and stab you through the heart.
Overall, though, I am not sure, but for today I think I'll say Salt of the Earth, my first fic for
who_guestfest, which is the backstory for Martha Tyler, from the DW serial Image of the Fendahl. Mrs Tyler lives on a time rift and fights weird things that come out of it, and unlike Torchwood, does it without murder, retcons, and shagging everything in sight making a fuss.
It may at least be actually more accessible for its obscure subject, because all anyone knows is that Mrs Tyler is a charwoman who is a witch with second sight (probably from living on a time rift all her life), and she helps out the Doctor when he has to kill Death Itself with rock salt. (There'll come a time when she's too old for it, mind.) The rest is open to anyone to play with. Also, it's all a mix of 'magic' and the mundane, and Image of the Fendahl is not as polished as Robots of Death by any means, but I think what's trying to come out in it is just as interesting, with a lot about life and being human. I even still like the beginning: Martha Tyler had always seen things other people hadn’t. Time slivers had danced around her crib, and from the very start, she’d shivered at the abyss at the edge of the woods that her mother happily walked right through.
It's always a surprise to remember that writing it came hard at the time. Anyway, I was pleased with it, and I still like it, and it's probably very me-ish, so there we are.
I also am extremely fond of some of my Edward/Julia AUs, particularly the ones I wrote to cheer me up. They, er, worked for the target audience? ;-p
24. What fic do you desperately need to rewrite or edit?
ALL OF THEM. (Well, most of them. Some exchange pieces are probably fairly tightly done.) I suppose my 1980s UNIT series, while we're talking of stories I still have a fondness for, because I've never transferred them over from Teaspoon because I want to go over them first, and they're too long! I would, if I could (but I can't) like to rewrite them so that the overall arc is more consistent. (I was rather embarrassed at getting so carried away with them at the time that I tried to finish everything off in Stardust, and then still wrote three or four more - and it would have been so much better if I'd just accepted that and not essentially had two showdowns in one series. It pains me so much.) And probably I should find a way to make Jigsaw properly standalone, but that's not going to happen, either.
I suppose one day I should either just post them anyway, or bite the bullet and at least do the minor tweaks, because I am still fond of Tilly and Nat and the rest of them, and the Torchwood* vs UNIT things, even if there are things I would do differently if I wrote them now.
Mind, I think I still need to finish tidying up the S7 UNIT series for AO3 as well, anyway, and that would be more to the point as they actually feature 100% canonical characters.
* It's not that I hate Torchwood, exactly, it's just that their epic and priceless canonical rubbishness as an organisation is hard to resist taking shots at in fic, so I don't.
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(But an overtired person with a post I made earlier, just as if I was on Blue Peter.)
22. Is there anything you regret writing?
I don't think so. There are some things I've removed long ago, and have no desire to put back, and some things still up I think are embarrassing, but it's fanfic, it was for fun, and if other people like it, it can stay.
23. Name a fic you’ve written that you’re especially fond of & explain why you like it.
Well, I am fond of a few of them. Of things I have written over the last year, I am probably most fond of Always a Wolf, because in so many ways it is everything I love most about Press Gang and Lynda, since it's a five times fairy-tale AU fic but the only difficulty in it was making the fantastical scenarios AU, because PG is one of the quirkiest and most meta of technically mundane canons. So it just reminds me every time I see it there how much I love Press Gang and Lynda and running jokes that come back and stab you through the heart.
Overall, though, I am not sure, but for today I think I'll say Salt of the Earth, my first fic for
who_guestfest, which is the backstory for Martha Tyler, from the DW serial Image of the Fendahl. Mrs Tyler lives on a time rift and fights weird things that come out of it, and unlike Torchwood, does it without murder, retcons, and shagging everything in sight making a fuss.
It may at least be actually more accessible for its obscure subject, because all anyone knows is that Mrs Tyler is a charwoman who is a witch with second sight (probably from living on a time rift all her life), and she helps out the Doctor when he has to kill Death Itself with rock salt. (There'll come a time when she's too old for it, mind.) The rest is open to anyone to play with. Also, it's all a mix of 'magic' and the mundane, and Image of the Fendahl is not as polished as Robots of Death by any means, but I think what's trying to come out in it is just as interesting, with a lot about life and being human. I even still like the beginning: Martha Tyler had always seen things other people hadn’t. Time slivers had danced around her crib, and from the very start, she’d shivered at the abyss at the edge of the woods that her mother happily walked right through.
It's always a surprise to remember that writing it came hard at the time. Anyway, I was pleased with it, and I still like it, and it's probably very me-ish, so there we are.
I also am extremely fond of some of my Edward/Julia AUs, particularly the ones I wrote to cheer me up. They, er, worked for the target audience? ;-p
24. What fic do you desperately need to rewrite or edit?
ALL OF THEM. (Well, most of them. Some exchange pieces are probably fairly tightly done.) I suppose my 1980s UNIT series, while we're talking of stories I still have a fondness for, because I've never transferred them over from Teaspoon because I want to go over them first, and they're too long! I would, if I could (but I can't) like to rewrite them so that the overall arc is more consistent. (I was rather embarrassed at getting so carried away with them at the time that I tried to finish everything off in Stardust, and then still wrote three or four more - and it would have been so much better if I'd just accepted that and not essentially had two showdowns in one series. It pains me so much.) And probably I should find a way to make Jigsaw properly standalone, but that's not going to happen, either.
I suppose one day I should either just post them anyway, or bite the bullet and at least do the minor tweaks, because I am still fond of Tilly and Nat and the rest of them, and the Torchwood* vs UNIT things, even if there are things I would do differently if I wrote them now.
Mind, I think I still need to finish tidying up the S7 UNIT series for AO3 as well, anyway, and that would be more to the point as they actually feature 100% canonical characters.
* It's not that I hate Torchwood, exactly, it's just that their epic and priceless canonical rubbishness as an organisation is hard to resist taking shots at in fic, so I don't.
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