Happy New Year, kids!
So I played cards for eight or so hours last night. From 7-4, with a few breaks in between. Man. Best time ever, only one of the people with whom I was playing said he and his friends played cards for three days straight in his college days. I AM SO JEALOUS. I wish I knew people who would do that with me.
And now, I get to reveal my yuletide fic. Whoo. what we can never say. Iliad. Achilles/Patroclus. My summary is something like "A study of a linear progression in seasons." I don't hate it, at least. I may even sort of like it, although I do have a few problems with it.
Now I get to go >EEEE about this fic. And all I have to say is - ANOTHER ACHILLES/PATROCLUS FIC. Don't get me wrong. I absolutely LOVE this pairing. It's my otp of otps, my first otp, the first slash pairing that absolutely captivated my attention. I first began shipping them when I read in a novel about the Trojan war that Patroclus was rumored to be Achilles's lover. And I just went !!!! and then uncovered all this information about them and just fell in love with them completely.
The problem, though? It's so fucking hard to write fic of this pairing. We know what happens to them in canon. There's so little room for improvisation, truthfully, and like no possibility for plot-driven fic. There's only so much emotion one can examine without writing the same fic over and over again in a slightly different way (and oh my god, I think I'm already guilty of that), and I hate writing pwps, so I'm really glad I somehow figured out this idea. But honestly? I don't even know if I can offer to write them for this year. I want to, I truly do, because they are so dear to my heart, but I have no clue what sort of fic I can write that won't be boring and unoriginal. After writing three fics of them + several drabbles in one year, I feel like I'm just all burned out.
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To you people who sent me stuff (namely pokemel, satanicgoddess, meninaiscrazy, immortality, berne, sintari, decken, yhibiki, tinted_glass, taraamber, pengiesama, blackjackrocket, hydaspes, and trancekuja), thank you so much!
pokemel, I misplaced your card along with satanicgoddess's letter, and I hold very low hopes of finding them again. T_T Thank you so much for sending it, though, and I will be so gleeful if I find it again twenty years from now. <3
hydaspes, omg, thank you so much for the package. It made me smile a lot. The stickers! How did you know I'm a sticker collector? And omg, the nice scented thing. *_* I was smelling it forever.
To those of you who still haven't gotten a letter from me, I'm working on it. I'm just sort of being run over by top_cagnotte right now. But they will arrive! On cute stationary, no less, with writing in shiny gel ink!
And for those of you who are still lacking holiday ficlets, never fear. For I have ideas for all of your stuff...just need to find time between sleeping, writing fic/letters, reading, and eating.
Also, plz to be posting more fic, compagnie, for uchihafest like now.
And now, I get to reveal my yuletide fic. Whoo. what we can never say. Iliad. Achilles/Patroclus. My summary is something like "A study of a linear progression in seasons." I don't hate it, at least. I may even sort of like it, although I do have a few problems with it.
Now I get to go >EEEE about this fic. And all I have to say is - ANOTHER ACHILLES/PATROCLUS FIC. Don't get me wrong. I absolutely LOVE this pairing. It's my otp of otps, my first otp, the first slash pairing that absolutely captivated my attention. I first began shipping them when I read in a novel about the Trojan war that Patroclus was rumored to be Achilles's lover. And I just went !!!! and then uncovered all this information about them and just fell in love with them completely.
The problem, though? It's so fucking hard to write fic of this pairing. We know what happens to them in canon. There's so little room for improvisation, truthfully, and like no possibility for plot-driven fic. There's only so much emotion one can examine without writing the same fic over and over again in a slightly different way (and oh my god, I think I'm already guilty of that), and I hate writing pwps, so I'm really glad I somehow figured out this idea. But honestly? I don't even know if I can offer to write them for this year. I want to, I truly do, because they are so dear to my heart, but I have no clue what sort of fic I can write that won't be boring and unoriginal. After writing three fics of them + several drabbles in one year, I feel like I'm just all burned out.
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To you people who sent me stuff (namely pokemel, satanicgoddess, meninaiscrazy, immortality, berne, sintari, decken, yhibiki, tinted_glass, taraamber, pengiesama, blackjackrocket, hydaspes, and trancekuja), thank you so much!
pokemel, I misplaced your card along with satanicgoddess's letter, and I hold very low hopes of finding them again. T_T Thank you so much for sending it, though, and I will be so gleeful if I find it again twenty years from now. <3
hydaspes, omg, thank you so much for the package. It made me smile a lot. The stickers! How did you know I'm a sticker collector? And omg, the nice scented thing. *_* I was smelling it forever.
To those of you who still haven't gotten a letter from me, I'm working on it. I'm just sort of being run over by top_cagnotte right now. But they will arrive! On cute stationary, no less, with writing in shiny gel ink!
And for those of you who are still lacking holiday ficlets, never fear. For I have ideas for all of your stuff...just need to find time between sleeping, writing fic/letters, reading, and eating.
Also, plz to be posting more fic, compagnie, for uchihafest like now.