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Big Bang fic done and in! That certainly took longer than it should have given that I really didn't end up making very many changes. Final word count: 24,795. HAHA WOW. I know that other people can manage, like, novels, but for me that is MASSIVE.
Because I can apparently only focus on one fannish thing at a time, now it is time to finish my fic for grazieprego. Then I am not signing up for any more ficathons because I think I have finally learned that I can only focus on one thing at a time. Next up is probably the fic Meg and I have been cowriting, though I also have this building urge to write the Gabe Saporta epic of my heart so that then I have closure and can move on. It would be canon-ish except that the Cobra is real and actually happened and Gabe has a irl MISSION given to him by a higher being. He possibly also has super powers after being bit by the Cobra? That is unclear. My original idea was a fucked-up Watchmen type superhero-fusion, but now I'm not totally sure. That wouldn't matter so much, though. Basically, the premise is that following the dissolution of Midtown, Gabe went into the desert and a giant cobra from the future came to him and gave him a mission and a calling and told him there is no salvation. The fic would be about living with that, living in the moment because you think that's all you have and failing to live with that when it's not enough. It would be about disillusionment and cynicism and GRACE IN DARKNESS. It would also be SO, SO obnoxiously meta. There would be drug use and infidelity and ugliness and by the time I finished writing it, I would probably be spending most of my time huddled in a corner whimpering. Beautiful times! I remember what it was like to not be LOL overinvested in real people. Sometimes I think that was better.
Things I have not done today include: ANY of my reading for school this week. So that's fantastic.
inlovewithnight and I went and saw Rent last night. 'Night wrote about it here, and I pretty much agree with everything she had to say. It was the tour with Anthony Rapp and Adam Pascal as Mark and Roger, which was so much fun to see. ♥___♥ They're old for the roles now, of course, and Adam's voice has changed a lot, but they're ADAM PASCAL AND ANTHONY RAPP, so you don't really care. Of course, halfway through their first duet all I could think was "I wonder if there's RPS anywhere?" Thanks, fandom! You have trained me well.
Now I am basically just going to agree with what 'Night said, but really I thought the best parts were Mimi and Angel. The actors playing them were FANTASTIC. I am crazily attached to Maureen as a character and I didn't love the actress at first, but I warmed to her. Her singing voice never quite worked for me, but I ended up really liking her portrayal; her attitude was perfect and the Maureen/Joanne dynamic was hot (but then, it always is).
I forget how much that play hits some of my buttons. Probably the two most bullet-proof narrative buttons I have are Anne Rice's fault because I imprinted on Lestat at an early age as follows:
1) Characters who do stupid, impulsive things because they can and because it might be fun. I like this with playfulness more than angst, and I don't like any real meanness or maliciousness. Think, well, Maureen. Think Dr. Who era (pre-TW) Jack Harkness. Think *early* Starbuck. Think BtVS s2 Spike (okay, he was evil, so there was maliciousness, but you know what I mean). Think Lestat. Things I learned from the new Star Trek: I am a Kirk girl.
2) For want of a better phrase, grace in darkness. This is tied to the first one too, but when things are going to be bad or end badly and characters know it and still embrace the moment because the moment is worth it. Also, hard decisions, freely made, in hard situations. (i.e. If nothing we do matters, then all that matters is what we do. This button is the reason that AtS may always be the show of my heart and also the reason that I have issues with NFA.)
Rent hits the grace in darkness button HARD. ("No Day But Today" Oh, man, yes).
This also likely explains my Gabe Saporta *thing* almost completely. If he were fictional he would pretty much be my OTC.
Because I can apparently only focus on one fannish thing at a time, now it is time to finish my fic for grazieprego. Then I am not signing up for any more ficathons because I think I have finally learned that I can only focus on one thing at a time. Next up is probably the fic Meg and I have been cowriting, though I also have this building urge to write the Gabe Saporta epic of my heart so that then I have closure and can move on. It would be canon-ish except that the Cobra is real and actually happened and Gabe has a irl MISSION given to him by a higher being. He possibly also has super powers after being bit by the Cobra? That is unclear. My original idea was a fucked-up Watchmen type superhero-fusion, but now I'm not totally sure. That wouldn't matter so much, though. Basically, the premise is that following the dissolution of Midtown, Gabe went into the desert and a giant cobra from the future came to him and gave him a mission and a calling and told him there is no salvation. The fic would be about living with that, living in the moment because you think that's all you have and failing to live with that when it's not enough. It would be about disillusionment and cynicism and GRACE IN DARKNESS. It would also be SO, SO obnoxiously meta. There would be drug use and infidelity and ugliness and by the time I finished writing it, I would probably be spending most of my time huddled in a corner whimpering. Beautiful times! I remember what it was like to not be LOL overinvested in real people. Sometimes I think that was better.
Things I have not done today include: ANY of my reading for school this week. So that's fantastic.
inlovewithnight and I went and saw Rent last night. 'Night wrote about it here, and I pretty much agree with everything she had to say. It was the tour with Anthony Rapp and Adam Pascal as Mark and Roger, which was so much fun to see. ♥___♥ They're old for the roles now, of course, and Adam's voice has changed a lot, but they're ADAM PASCAL AND ANTHONY RAPP, so you don't really care. Of course, halfway through their first duet all I could think was "I wonder if there's RPS anywhere?" Thanks, fandom! You have trained me well.
Now I am basically just going to agree with what 'Night said, but really I thought the best parts were Mimi and Angel. The actors playing them were FANTASTIC. I am crazily attached to Maureen as a character and I didn't love the actress at first, but I warmed to her. Her singing voice never quite worked for me, but I ended up really liking her portrayal; her attitude was perfect and the Maureen/Joanne dynamic was hot (but then, it always is).
I forget how much that play hits some of my buttons. Probably the two most bullet-proof narrative buttons I have are Anne Rice's fault because I imprinted on Lestat at an early age as follows:
1) Characters who do stupid, impulsive things because they can and because it might be fun. I like this with playfulness more than angst, and I don't like any real meanness or maliciousness. Think, well, Maureen. Think Dr. Who era (pre-TW) Jack Harkness. Think *early* Starbuck. Think BtVS s2 Spike (okay, he was evil, so there was maliciousness, but you know what I mean). Think Lestat. Things I learned from the new Star Trek: I am a Kirk girl.
2) For want of a better phrase, grace in darkness. This is tied to the first one too, but when things are going to be bad or end badly and characters know it and still embrace the moment because the moment is worth it. Also, hard decisions, freely made, in hard situations. (i.e. If nothing we do matters, then all that matters is what we do. This button is the reason that AtS may always be the show of my heart and also the reason that I have issues with NFA.)
Rent hits the grace in darkness button HARD. ("No Day But Today" Oh, man, yes).
This also likely explains my Gabe Saporta *thing* almost completely. If he were fictional he would pretty much be my OTC.