Iz ded from stress
::iz ded::
Why isn't it Friday night? Huh? Huh? If there were any justice in this world, it would be Friday night, because this week has been about three weeks long.
I'm about two hours away from a Suddenly Sprockets! deadline (yes, midnight) and I'm at the point of being half-blind, so whatever errors remain will just have to remain for the moment. Like, oh, the bits that aren't loaded because the other woman who was supposed to do them, didn't. This is, I suspect, partly my fault for not getting in touch with her. Argl. But it's been a week, okay?
No school for Yael, plus Yael acting like a monster about 75% of the time, does not equal a happy Mara. Adding a funeral does not exactly improve things. And my MIL is depressed and even my FIL was acting rather sentimental after the funeral. Argl.
Today I actually smacked Yael on the butt rather harder than I intended, because she was deliberately flinging herself onto Barak, knowing that it was making me angry. ::sigh:: And I didn't get nearly as much work done as I needed to. And I'm short on sleep. So after I meander here a bit, I'm going to sleep.
To take a moment and reflect on more pleasant things, I've been very very very slowly reading a very long Vorkosiganverse fic and it's made me think about pairings, mainly non-canon ones. In this case, it's a slash pairing, but I've had the same reaction to het pairings now and then.
Basically, the writing is fabulous. Everyone is so amazingly in-character that I keep forgetting it's not the latest book by LMB. Seriously, I found myself thinking, "Wow, how's LMB going to handle this in the...never mind." So there I am, reading along, when BOOM, comes the Miles/Gregor. And suddenly I find myself squirming, because some of the dialogue is still perfectly in-character and some just boggles my mind.
And although I can often be convinced of pairings I've never considered, and good writing can often make me go along for the ride, in this case I just can't see it. No matter how hard I try, no matter how hard the (excellent) writers try, I just cannot see Miles/Gregor. I don't hate the pairing--there aren't many pairings I feel that strongly about--it just doesn't work for me at all.
And the pairing is a fairly major part of the book fic, but the rest is so good that I can't stop reading!
I've been trying to figure out why this is a pairing that simply doesn't work, even in the hand of excellent writers. Part of it is that Miles is a character who strikes me as truly straight. I could see Ivan being bi, I could see Gregor being bi, I could see Bel Thorne being omnisexual, but Miles not so much. Maybe his reaction to Bel has something to do with it?
::shakes head:: I dunno. But it doesn't work for me. It's still a good story, though! (There's lots of Cetagandans and intrigue and whatnot.)
Now, bed. Tomorrow I need to finish my Multiverse fic. (I've got a draft I could post, and then write the rest of the fic later, if necessary. But it'd be nice to write it all now and get it out of the way.)
Why isn't it Friday night? Huh? Huh? If there were any justice in this world, it would be Friday night, because this week has been about three weeks long.
I'm about two hours away from a Suddenly Sprockets! deadline (yes, midnight) and I'm at the point of being half-blind, so whatever errors remain will just have to remain for the moment. Like, oh, the bits that aren't loaded because the other woman who was supposed to do them, didn't. This is, I suspect, partly my fault for not getting in touch with her. Argl. But it's been a week, okay?
No school for Yael, plus Yael acting like a monster about 75% of the time, does not equal a happy Mara. Adding a funeral does not exactly improve things. And my MIL is depressed and even my FIL was acting rather sentimental after the funeral. Argl.
Today I actually smacked Yael on the butt rather harder than I intended, because she was deliberately flinging herself onto Barak, knowing that it was making me angry. ::sigh:: And I didn't get nearly as much work done as I needed to. And I'm short on sleep. So after I meander here a bit, I'm going to sleep.
To take a moment and reflect on more pleasant things, I've been very very very slowly reading a very long Vorkosiganverse fic and it's made me think about pairings, mainly non-canon ones. In this case, it's a slash pairing, but I've had the same reaction to het pairings now and then.
Basically, the writing is fabulous. Everyone is so amazingly in-character that I keep forgetting it's not the latest book by LMB. Seriously, I found myself thinking, "Wow, how's LMB going to handle this in the...never mind." So there I am, reading along, when BOOM, comes the Miles/Gregor. And suddenly I find myself squirming, because some of the dialogue is still perfectly in-character and some just boggles my mind.
And although I can often be convinced of pairings I've never considered, and good writing can often make me go along for the ride, in this case I just can't see it. No matter how hard I try, no matter how hard the (excellent) writers try, I just cannot see Miles/Gregor. I don't hate the pairing--there aren't many pairings I feel that strongly about--it just doesn't work for me at all.
And the pairing is a fairly major part of the book fic, but the rest is so good that I can't stop reading!
I've been trying to figure out why this is a pairing that simply doesn't work, even in the hand of excellent writers. Part of it is that Miles is a character who strikes me as truly straight. I could see Ivan being bi, I could see Gregor being bi, I could see Bel Thorne being omnisexual, but Miles not so much. Maybe his reaction to Bel has something to do with it?
::shakes head:: I dunno. But it doesn't work for me. It's still a good story, though! (There's lots of Cetagandans and intrigue and whatnot.)
Now, bed. Tomorrow I need to finish my Multiverse fic. (I've got a draft I could post, and then write the rest of the fic later, if necessary. But it'd be nice to write it all now and get it out of the way.)