Reverse Big Bang fic is up!
Argh, I'd forgotten how much I hate not having control over my fic. I keep looking at it and cringing; "Argh, everyone else thanked their artist in the author's notes and I just sent my artist a thank-you e-mail, I need to fix that!" or "Argh, that HTML tag totally worked when I tested my formatting in LJ, stupid Dreamwidth messing things up on me, I need to fix that!" or "Argh, I used the same word twice in two paragraphs, why did I not catch that" or, inevitably, "Argh, typo! Typo! Aaaaaaaah!".
The last one hasn't happened yet this go-round, but I also haven’t been able to bring myself to re-read the fic yet, so it's only a matter of time. My storied are capable of preserving their typos through round after round of betaing and self-edits. They're special like that. And it's not normally a problem, when I can just click "edit" and fix it, but when the story is under someone else's control...!
ETA: Argh, found it. I wrote McKays where it ought to be McKay's. Gak, and sketched where I wanted sketches! *cringes* Ah, ah, ah, and conductors when I wanted conductor's! Good grief, am I allergic to possessive apostrophes or something? Argh, answered instead of answering, felts instead of felt...
ANYHOW. I'll be reposting it here in a week or two with all my usual tags and crossposting and rigmarole, but in the meantime my story is This Versatile Genius, and it's a steampunky Victorian McShep AU. Or possibly a gen AU. I have it tagged as slash but it's all very, well, Victorian, and when I re-read it I'm not always sure I'd call it slashy, despite my attempts to make it clear that McShep was what I was going for. If I wrote it again, I might just take out the one particularly McSheppy paragraph and let it just be gen; in fact, I might even do that when I repost. It would be a very tiny edit, as they go. On the other hand, if I'd written it longer, I feel like 5,000 words more and we would have moved out of the realm of odd feelings and peculiar admirations into actual slash; but as things stand it's up to the reader to interpret the tale.
The last one hasn't happened yet this go-round, but I also haven’t been able to bring myself to re-read the fic yet, so it's only a matter of time. My storied are capable of preserving their typos through round after round of betaing and self-edits. They're special like that. And it's not normally a problem, when I can just click "edit" and fix it, but when the story is under someone else's control...!
ETA: Argh, found it. I wrote McKays where it ought to be McKay's. Gak, and sketched where I wanted sketches! *cringes* Ah, ah, ah, and conductors when I wanted conductor's! Good grief, am I allergic to possessive apostrophes or something? Argh, answered instead of answering, felts instead of felt...
ANYHOW. I'll be reposting it here in a week or two with all my usual tags and crossposting and rigmarole, but in the meantime my story is This Versatile Genius, and it's a steampunky Victorian McShep AU. Or possibly a gen AU. I have it tagged as slash but it's all very, well, Victorian, and when I re-read it I'm not always sure I'd call it slashy, despite my attempts to make it clear that McShep was what I was going for. If I wrote it again, I might just take out the one particularly McSheppy paragraph and let it just be gen; in fact, I might even do that when I repost. It would be a very tiny edit, as they go. On the other hand, if I'd written it longer, I feel like 5,000 words more and we would have moved out of the realm of odd feelings and peculiar admirations into actual slash; but as things stand it's up to the reader to interpret the tale.