Shinies!

[ubiquirk]

I'm so happy to have won some awards at still_grrr in August! First, the Firefly story ' Not Even ...' won first place for fiction, then the BtVS story ' She Always Wanted to Be Harriet the Spy' won first place the next week.

Comments

congrats

[saschia]

well deserved praise...

looking forward to reading and watching new candidates from you ;o)

Re: congrats

[ubiquirk]

Thanks! And I seem to be on a Dr. Horrible phase, so I don't know if you saw that ...

Re: congrats

[saschia]

Yeas, I saw and I liked, and your fake Jefferson (or whoever) was good. But for fics, I somehow still prefer non-parody originals. Although with my craziness for horses, Bad Horse is one of my popular character... Even if he let people ride them.

Re: congrats

[ubiquirk]

Hmmm - I've never written a parody, but this one was supposed to be humor layered over a piece that looked at power and ambition vs. friendship. [But maybe it didn't come across.] You know, like a candy coating around medicine.

Re: congrats

[saschia]

No, no, sorry, I meant Dr. Horrible being parody. Although I am not sure it is a parody. I mean it made fun of the superheroes and super-villains and ways they are usually portrayed, and used as crazy thing as musical for it. But do parodies have songs in them, which you would love for the musicality of them? I mean if you don't pay attention to the things they sing about (as you don't have subtitles etc.), but just melody and how the voices grow through each other, I just loved that.

I actually liked the very strange relationship between Fake J. and Bad Horse in your fic. And I loved Bad Horse and it's letters in Dr. Horrible, but I didn't like Dr. Horrible as much as other Whedon projects, because it ended so sadly (for me) and that gets me depressed and I hate getting depressed by fiction. Real life is often quite enough.

Re: congrats

[ubiquirk]

Sorry, I couldn't tell you were referring to Dr. H. instead of the story.

I suppose I consider it a satirical parody, which uses humor to make a satirical point that something in what it's making fun of is wrong (here that superheroes are always great people). So I don't mind that, but realize it might not be to everyone's taste.

It's about as sad as other Whedon things, only it stops right at the sad without having time to end on a different note, so I can see how that's more jarring than Buffy or Angel were. Hopefully there will be more!