all you need is love.
I try not to talk about me and graymary's bizarre epic outside of its usual filters except in small glimpses, but we finished a big chunk of the first part last night at last. This is a story that's undergone, as of today, four separate restarts, each one different, containing new characters or characters moved around strategically. And no, it really, actually is about the current, active talent of SM Entertainment (and others who might develop some importance randomly, Rain and MBLAQ >:() and their various adventures as one of three things: 1) highly trained spies, 2) "Magically inclined" people or creatures, or 3) complete normals who don't understand why everyone is shouting so much :(((.
I refer to Fifth House as "bizarre" or "funny" or whatever because it is again ostensibly a story about Kpop stars. And why would anyone want to write prolongedly about that, because wtf real people, or wtf what's the appeal, or any number of things, and I have this problem where I have to diminish my interests or my passions before someone else comes along and does it for me! For me (and Em too, really) it's sort of that neither of us can do a fandom without sinking ourselves up to the eyeballs in something overarching, prolonged, and entirely original. (Well, mostly original, anyway.) The people we're writing about are "real", yeah, but it's sort of like Abraham Lincoln, Vampire Hunter (by the same guy who did Pride and Prejudice and Zombies!.) He's a real historical guy! The book will probably talk about things that actually happened in his life! but there's a whole lot of other stuff going on in there that's the author's doing*, and that's the part that's the focus.
And for us this is kind of "the novel" that we're writing, in that we're not doing the usual fanfic thing and assuming the audience knows who all these people are, and how they know each other or where they came from and what their favorite vegetables are (EAT SHIT JESSICA IT'S CARROT) or even anything about South Korea and its culture or it's entertainment business. We're writing from a place of introducing these people, our people, to the reader for the first time, and that's more exciting to me than, "Once upon a time Kim Heechul was being himself (lol you know what that's like) and making out with Hankyung lol because hanchul amirite" types of stories.
I love epics, I love creating them, I love world building. We know exactly where this story is beginning (late summer 2007, the thirteen members of Super Junior prepare to meet their new fourteenth member) and where it's ending up (202?ish, a young American governmental agent must solve a simple murder that's not simple at all) and even where it started before that, and where it goes after that. This is, basically, how I enjoy myself in fandom. Between us we have a thousand injokes relating to the story and the fandom at the same time, a thousand reasons why it's significant that two people are near each other on some show. The whole thing is concrete but flexible -- we can make do with pretty much anything that happens unexpectedly, because we designed it that way.
I'm really looking forward to sharing the tiny beginnings of this with those of you on the filter. :)
*I pray every day that Fifth House Donghae is not anything like true life Donghae, because if so, humanity is doooooomed.
I refer to Fifth House as "bizarre" or "funny" or whatever because it is again ostensibly a story about Kpop stars. And why would anyone want to write prolongedly about that, because wtf real people, or wtf what's the appeal, or any number of things, and I have this problem where I have to diminish my interests or my passions before someone else comes along and does it for me! For me (and Em too, really) it's sort of that neither of us can do a fandom without sinking ourselves up to the eyeballs in something overarching, prolonged, and entirely original. (Well, mostly original, anyway.) The people we're writing about are "real", yeah, but it's sort of like Abraham Lincoln, Vampire Hunter (by the same guy who did Pride and Prejudice and Zombies!.) He's a real historical guy! The book will probably talk about things that actually happened in his life! but there's a whole lot of other stuff going on in there that's the author's doing*, and that's the part that's the focus.
And for us this is kind of "the novel" that we're writing, in that we're not doing the usual fanfic thing and assuming the audience knows who all these people are, and how they know each other or where they came from and what their favorite vegetables are (EAT SHIT JESSICA IT'S CARROT) or even anything about South Korea and its culture or it's entertainment business. We're writing from a place of introducing these people, our people, to the reader for the first time, and that's more exciting to me than, "Once upon a time Kim Heechul was being himself (lol you know what that's like) and making out with Hankyung lol because hanchul amirite" types of stories.
I love epics, I love creating them, I love world building. We know exactly where this story is beginning (late summer 2007, the thirteen members of Super Junior prepare to meet their new fourteenth member) and where it's ending up (202?ish, a young American governmental agent must solve a simple murder that's not simple at all) and even where it started before that, and where it goes after that. This is, basically, how I enjoy myself in fandom. Between us we have a thousand injokes relating to the story and the fandom at the same time, a thousand reasons why it's significant that two people are near each other on some show. The whole thing is concrete but flexible -- we can make do with pretty much anything that happens unexpectedly, because we designed it that way.
I'm really looking forward to sharing the tiny beginnings of this with those of you on the filter. :)
*I pray every day that Fifth House Donghae is not anything like true life Donghae, because if so, humanity is doooooomed.