The normal periodic 'State of the Universe' rambling
I'm sure you've noticed by now - that is, if you actually hit this journal directly, and not just hop over from bau_fic or bau_inbox - that every so often my muse trips me up and I start babbling about whatever meta or timeline issue or knot of stories is refusing to sort itself out in my brain.
I suppose I should make it official. So, this is the first 'official' State of OI&E post.
On with the rambling.
Oh - for reference, this is how I differentiate Episode Titles from OI&E story titles. Hope that helps - I know it gets confusing.
Also - YASP stands for Yet Another Sub-Plot. Just in case I use that term.
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Haley. Haley is um. I don't know.
I've had a lot of comments from readers on both sides - people love the way I write her, and people think I write her out of character. Some people probably think I do both, but we won't go into that.
Mind you, this isn't a complaint - I love knowing people love the way I write someone, even if it doesn't exactly gel with the characterization on the show. On the other hand, if you think I write someone out of character, please tell me. I'll do my best to address it and come up with an explanation (i.e. Empathic Adaptations). Character's important to me. I'm just rambling here, and this is one of the issues my brain won't let go of. Mostly it's just that we're in the middle of S3 and I won't watch reruns. That's what the DVDs are for.
Ahem.
I keep having to whap myself over the head with the fact that Season 3 never happens in OI&E. Yes, I have some passive-aggressive shit (which Haley admitted to in A Limit to Generosity) to deal with a la Machismo and Psychodrama and Ashes and Dust and maybe a few other places, but still.
I keep having to remind myself that I'm not writing her as a source of tension for Hotch. The way the show does. I think I've managed to write her the way I wanted to - in demonstration of why Hotch married her in the first place, and managed to *stay* together/married since *college*. The times between the bits of human jealousy and 'just once I'd like to know I don't have to compete with the people I know damn well are dying out there, but if I didn't you wouldn't be the person I married and I'm just having a hard time here but there aren't an extra three minutes in the show for me to *say* that...'.
Yes, I have plans on how to reconcile the bits of petty bitchines I actually have to deal with in S1 and S2. Namely, Protecting Normalcy, and a few pieces I haven't added to the timeline post yet because I just finished updating the World of... post yesterday and having two huge background posts to update every time I want to add stuff is a complete pain in the ass.
Aside from the IC/OOCism of Haley...I think I'm actually kind of figuring out the whole Haley-Hotch-Gideon thing and how the whole thing works. Why it's necessary for Hotch as a character, and why it works even for Haley, who by all rights should be filing for divorce on grounds of adultery. Shouldn't I know this by now?
I just wanted to say that. There will be more stories.
~~~
Emily is taking over my brain. I think that's enough said on the subject.
Ok, I lied. It's not.
I have...too many YASPs when it comes to her. The trauma, JJ, that little discussion in Revelations between Emily and JJ that is so going to come back and bite her on the ass. Hotch trying to get her to see that no matter what she thinks about how she got there, she fits with the team. And that she can talk about things. Like Elle. And JJ and trauma and those things that--well, that would be telling.
~~~
Speaking of brains being taken over, someone keep me from writing the "Morgan and Reid babysit Jack and wind up in the middle of a kidnapping attempt" story.
Please.
(Haley, you can shut up now. Really. Hotch got the point.)
(::cough:: Sorry. They talk to me. You know how it is. I hope.)
(No, this is not me going insane.)
~~~
I actually have the urge to write a story where Morgan kid--er. Takes Jack to the zoo.
Why does that man turn my muse into mush?
~~~
Is anyone else as...disturbed as I am about the fact that I'm writing stories in the same timeline at varying points within a two-plus year span? Anyone?
Let's not mention the prequel I have planned for a decade beforehand.
Let's not.
Really.
(However, if you notice anything out of whack about the timeline, like references to things that haven't happened yet, please let me know so I can fix them.)
~~~
This bit is a little problematic for me. It's been floating around trying to get out for a while.
This is not me fishing for compliments, although there's really no way for me to say it without it sounding like I am. This is me being really really damned confused.
Why do people read OI&E when they don't like Morgan/Reid and think Haley's a bitch (24/7)?
I realize I've been writing more of an ensemble now, but you really can't ignore the M/R-ness, or Haley...well...not turning Hotch into an emotional pretzel.
I do warn about the M/R. Not sure I *can* warn about Haley, but since she's shown up in more than one chapter...well.
::goes back to being confused::
~~~
I think that's it for now. Maybe I'll turn this into a weekly thing.
Probably it'll just be whenever I need to get stuff off my chest.
I suppose I should make it official. So, this is the first 'official' State of OI&E post.
On with the rambling.
Oh - for reference, this is how I differentiate Episode Titles from OI&E story titles. Hope that helps - I know it gets confusing.
Also - YASP stands for Yet Another Sub-Plot. Just in case I use that term.
~~~
Haley. Haley is um. I don't know.
I've had a lot of comments from readers on both sides - people love the way I write her, and people think I write her out of character. Some people probably think I do both, but we won't go into that.
Mind you, this isn't a complaint - I love knowing people love the way I write someone, even if it doesn't exactly gel with the characterization on the show. On the other hand, if you think I write someone out of character, please tell me. I'll do my best to address it and come up with an explanation (i.e. Empathic Adaptations). Character's important to me. I'm just rambling here, and this is one of the issues my brain won't let go of. Mostly it's just that we're in the middle of S3 and I won't watch reruns. That's what the DVDs are for.
Ahem.
I keep having to whap myself over the head with the fact that Season 3 never happens in OI&E. Yes, I have some passive-aggressive shit (which Haley admitted to in A Limit to Generosity) to deal with a la Machismo and Psychodrama and Ashes and Dust and maybe a few other places, but still.
I keep having to remind myself that I'm not writing her as a source of tension for Hotch. The way the show does. I think I've managed to write her the way I wanted to - in demonstration of why Hotch married her in the first place, and managed to *stay* together/married since *college*. The times between the bits of human jealousy and 'just once I'd like to know I don't have to compete with the people I know damn well are dying out there, but if I didn't you wouldn't be the person I married and I'm just having a hard time here but there aren't an extra three minutes in the show for me to *say* that...'.
Yes, I have plans on how to reconcile the bits of petty bitchines I actually have to deal with in S1 and S2. Namely, Protecting Normalcy, and a few pieces I haven't added to the timeline post yet because I just finished updating the World of... post yesterday and having two huge background posts to update every time I want to add stuff is a complete pain in the ass.
Aside from the IC/OOCism of Haley...I think I'm actually kind of figuring out the whole Haley-Hotch-Gideon thing and how the whole thing works. Why it's necessary for Hotch as a character, and why it works even for Haley, who by all rights should be filing for divorce on grounds of adultery. Shouldn't I know this by now?
I just wanted to say that. There will be more stories.
~~~
Emily is taking over my brain. I think that's enough said on the subject.
Ok, I lied. It's not.
I have...too many YASPs when it comes to her. The trauma, JJ, that little discussion in Revelations between Emily and JJ that is so going to come back and bite her on the ass. Hotch trying to get her to see that no matter what she thinks about how she got there, she fits with the team. And that she can talk about things. Like Elle. And JJ and trauma and those things that--well, that would be telling.
~~~
Speaking of brains being taken over, someone keep me from writing the "Morgan and Reid babysit Jack and wind up in the middle of a kidnapping attempt" story.
Please.
(Haley, you can shut up now. Really. Hotch got the point.)
(::cough:: Sorry. They talk to me. You know how it is. I hope.)
(No, this is not me going insane.)
~~~
I actually have the urge to write a story where Morgan kid--er. Takes Jack to the zoo.
Why does that man turn my muse into mush?
~~~
Is anyone else as...disturbed as I am about the fact that I'm writing stories in the same timeline at varying points within a two-plus year span? Anyone?
Let's not mention the prequel I have planned for a decade beforehand.
Let's not.
Really.
(However, if you notice anything out of whack about the timeline, like references to things that haven't happened yet, please let me know so I can fix them.)
~~~
This bit is a little problematic for me. It's been floating around trying to get out for a while.
This is not me fishing for compliments, although there's really no way for me to say it without it sounding like I am. This is me being really really damned confused.
Why do people read OI&E when they don't like Morgan/Reid and think Haley's a bitch (24/7)?
I realize I've been writing more of an ensemble now, but you really can't ignore the M/R-ness, or Haley...well...not turning Hotch into an emotional pretzel.
I do warn about the M/R. Not sure I *can* warn about Haley, but since she's shown up in more than one chapter...well.
::goes back to being confused::
~~~
I think that's it for now. Maybe I'll turn this into a weekly thing.
Probably it'll just be whenever I need to get stuff off my chest.