A Post of Small, Update-like Comments

[rsadelle]

LifeWork became ridiculously busy the day after MLK day, and looks to be that way for the foreseeable future. I hadn't realized how much I was depending on work downtime to stay caught up on my internet life. In the meantime, I have been reading very compelling books and foolishly staying up late to do so, with the end result that I'm very tired

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[mayqueen517]

I keep telling myself, "Christina, you wrote 18K for BGBB last year...YOU CAN DO 20K WITH TWO FICS. COME ON." (ahahaa, now I've got bang stuck in my head. \o/)

I find my mental image of Sean to be kind of androgynous? Like...almost like Tilda Swinton, in a way. Like, I think girl!Sean would be very angular, not too far removed from maybe girl!Beckett. I definitely don't see girl!Sean being soft and curvy.

And ooohh. I think that Sean would be very versatile when it comes to stuff like that; like there are certain things he likes to be on the receiving end, but there are some things he likes TO DO, you know? I feel like Sean's an exceptionally flexible sub. And that's interesting, because the werewolf personality, the standard, is very different, but one that I can see for Sean, because it does come across as very believable.

And yesssss! People taking care of Sean should be out there more...Empires taking care of Empires should be in the world more. (It is one thing that always strikes me...sure, there are a lot of bands who you can see the absolute love and adoration they have for their other members, but Sean himself has said that he feels the band functions BEST when it's all of them together. A lot of bands aren't like that.)

[rsadelle]

You can totally do it!

It's less the physical than the personality. (Physically, I don't think Sean would be that angular. He's a little soft for that.) I just can't get a handle on Sean as a girl. I think he comes across as very masculine in a really interesting way - like, I don't get a manly man vibe from him, but I'm just having a hard time seeing him as a girl.

Oh, the werewolf thing is this whole other *hands* thing that is complicated by being het, so he's all possessive about girl!Tom, but I'm also trying to make him feminist-minded so he thinks she should have her own life too.

Yessss. Empires taking care of each other is the best thing.

[mayqueen517]

Hm...when I wrote girl!Sean and girl!Tom, I really just wrote it as them, but they happened to be girls. The only thing I can think of that I wrote differently than if it was them as guys was that Sean crowded closer to Tom than I would really have boy!Sean. I think that maybe girl!Sean has less regard for personal space, maybe, but only if you're close to her. And I don't think that there would be TOO many differences between girl or boy Sean, actually.

And ahahaha, oh man, yes. Does Tom ever have to talk to Sean about the issues he sometimes has with being possessive? Is it a thing that the closer they get to the moon, Sean gets MORE possessive?

[rsadelle]

I think that lack of difference is part of what makes it hard! Men and women are treated so differently in our society that surely she has to be different from boy!Sean in some ways, but it's hard to figure out what those ways are.

Ha! Sometimes she tells him to knock it off, but she's actually calmer about the whole thing than he is. She accepts that he's a wolf; he's still working out the tension between the wolf that knows she's his and the human that wants her to have autonomy over her own life.

[mayqueen517]

And too, especially within a scene....no matter how progressive it is, there's going to be a difference in treatment. However, like you said, it is hard to pin down what those ways are.

And man...I really want to read a million words of this, seriously. In what ways does Sean try to give her space but also balance the whole, RAWR POSSESSIVE thing?

[rsadelle]

Someday (hopefully someday soon), I will finish the sex scene and then the story and you can see how it all works out.

[mayqueen517]

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