Baby, Baby, Where Did the 513 Pain Go?

[xie_xie_xie]

I wrote Plans and Decisions to make the pain go away - and for a number of reasons I ended up sticking 100 percent with canon, including every painful, OOC, plot-devicey moment of season 5. Forcing myself to do that actually brought me one of my greatest moments of authorial joy, answering the question, "Why wasn't Justin at Babylon the night it re

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[paddies]

I'll test that theory...in a year or ten. ;-)

Still, I'm very grateful for "Plans", which I consider AU, even if it's totally canon...*iz weird*

[xie_xie_xie]

You really think of Plans as AU? I worked so hard to keep with canon.... is it the characterization of Melanie? Or something to do with the B/J plot?

I won't mind if it's the first, but I hope it's not the second!

[paddies]

You really think of Plans as AU? I worked so hard to keep with canon....

Awwww...Xie! It has nothing to do with you or your characterization!

To me everything post S3 is AU, because to me the canon!series ends with 314.

That said, I do think that your characters are actually "in canon" in a way that most of S4-S5 characters couldn't even dream to be.
As I said several times already, your characterization is absolutely perfect to me, because you write the Brian and Justin (and Melanie and Ted, and Lindsay, etc...) that I truly, madly, deeply love.

Are those characters "in canon" with S5? I don't know...honestly, I don't think so, but I'm truly grateful for that, because S5 characters (except Ted) weren't in any shape or form the same characters we saw in the previous seasons.

{little tangent: that doesn't mean I don't want those characters to change, grow up or evolve. End S3!Brian was very different from early!S1 Brian...but it was still *Brian*, you know what I mean? /end tangent

[paddies]

P.S. I shouldn't reply when I'm too tired to think...

That I won't mind if it's the first, but I hope it's not the second! quote wasn't supposed to be there, but on top of the whole rambly thing.

*wishes she could edit comments*

[anonymous]

This is why I read fanfic! Even if it is for a different show, but with an equally painful ending that needs your touch ;)

kt

[xie_xie_xie]

Yeah, that one will be both harder and easier to fix. Harder because, well... Xena is dead. Easier because, in the Xenaverse that's not usually a permanent condition.

[anonymous]

Easier because, in the Xenaverse that's not usually a permanent condition.

One of my absolute fave things about Xenaverse ;) Though frankly, I have read enough revivals past FIN to know that it will still be hard to do well. But I have full confidence in ya ...

;)

(yeah, yeah, I know I said I need to work ... this is creative inspiration ... yah, that's it!)

[intensefemme]

I'm sure you are correct, and Plans and Decisions sure help to ease the pain.
But it seems that everytime I read a new post 513 fic it comes in and goes out. Like I'm left wanting more, like I never get satisfied, I never get enough, and then it's back to canon and 513, and despondency.

But then again, I think I am just feeling particularly foul today.

SUN. Sorry.
R

[xie_xie_xie]

Yeah, it's because I WROTE IT. Things like EDR and BYBR helped me and then wore off, the way you describe. But this really got in there.

It's not just because I wrote a happy ending post-513, though. It's because I made myself get into canon in order to write it.

So, the takeaway message is: Go write something.

[intensefemme]

OK- sweet pep talk!

Maybe...I'll give it some thought.

{{HUGS}}

[happier_bunny]

I'm glad you've found some peace with it all. I hope that doesn't mean you'll stop writing.

I mean, you have yet to write a spanking story. ;)

[xie_xie_xie]

I can't stop writing.

I might have a spanking scene but not in Decisions - it just came to me today. This is the first time I thought maybe I dared write one, considering tricia and vamph and plum, which as I'm sure you can imagine is kind of intimidating.

Why do we all like Justin getting spanked so much, is it his cute little bouncy bottom or something to do with his personality, or the B/J dynamic? I might make a coffeeclub post about this.

[happier_bunny]

The spanking is hot and I realized after reading the original porny fic I've been pimping that it's not just Justin getting spanked that's hot. ;)

I think it's a trust thing...if you can trust someone that much, that can be fucking hot, imo. You should do a post at coffeeclub.

[tonyans1975]

Your stories, as well as Vamphile's, have helped make my 513 pain begin to dull. I still don't like to watch the last few scenes but I could see your stories play out with the characters as I see them.

So I owe you a big thank you!!

t