Comments | fish_echo: I have a cliche-bingo card *dances*

fish_echo

I have a cliche-bingo card dances

Jun 23, 2009 01:09

I have a cliche bingo card *yay* This makes me kind of insanely excited. But now I'm also feeling little bits of insecurity (what if I'm not good enough? What if...blahblahblah.) I've decided I'm not going to justify those thoughts with writing down. (There's a difference between 'honest assessment of skills or lack thereof' and 'poor ego'. The ( Read more... )

cliche bingo, cliche bingo rambling

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propinquitine June 24 2009, 01:07:22 UTC

Oooh, sleeping arrangements! I might pick that as my wild card -- I'm thinking that means fic along the lines of "well, looks like we have to share a bed . . . AND ALSO OUR TRUE LOVE", kind of a hybrid between AMTDI (where the aliens only make them sleep together, but not sleep together) and good ol' huddling-for-warmth fic. But maybe it means something entirely different! That's been my favorite thing about Cliche Bingo so far (all, what, two days of it?), actually taking the time to sit down and think about these cliches.

fish_echo June 24 2009, 02:15:25 UTC

Here, I edited what you wrote: "well, looks like we have to share a bed . . . AND ALSO OUR TRUE LOVE *bwahahahahaaa ( ... )

propinquitine June 24 2009, 02:48:13 UTC

I'm a fairly tactile person and am fairly flexible as far as my 'bubble space' goes if I am good friends with someone.

Whereas John "Awkward Touching Is Awkward" Sheppard knows that lying parallel to another human being is tantamount to a marriage proposal. ;-) I think what I like so much about the sleeping arrangements cliche is that it gives you plausible deniability for including quiet/intimate moments, like you said, and with the bonus of getting to use unconscious/subconscious behavior to reveal deeper feelings (e.g., John sleep!cuddles Rodney, because his unconscious mind knows they're meant-to-be). Of course, that's way more "literary trope" than "something that actually happens" -- the last time I shared a bed with someone, it was a friend of mine who was staying overnight with me, and when her toe touched my leg in the middle of the night, I sat bolt upright from a dead sleep because I thought it was a bug -- this was not an unconscious commentary on our friendship! . . . But I might be developing a sleeping-arrangements ( ... )

fish_echo June 24 2009, 03:33:06 UTC

Whereas John "Awkward Touching Is Awkward" Sheppard knows that lying parallel to another human being is tantamount to a marriage proposal ( ... )

winkingstar June 25 2009, 21:25:37 UTC

Oh, I love traditions, too. I have an epic(ish) fic (still mostly just tangled up in my brain) that is about various Athosian rituals. It's so much fun to think about!

All these clichés do provide good food for thought (or for plot bunnies...).

Would you like an html table version of your card for future linkage? I just converted [ mine] and would be happy to make up the code for yours, if you want. :)

fish_echo June 25 2009, 22:53:31 UTC

I have an epic(ish) fic (still mostly just tangled up in my brain) that is about various Athosian rituals.

Oooh, fun! I see that I shall have to wait 'til it becomes untangled :)

It's so much fun to think about!Yeah, but oddly, I'm finding it really hard to come up with something to write about for this one. I thought it would be one of the easier ones, but it's being more intractable than even the genderswap one (which I figure I can always just go for comedy on). *sighs* I think it is because traditions are so very important to me that I'm having trouble breaking the concept up into something that isn't v.v.v. long (I think there is probably a story somewhere in my subconscious that deals with this topic but that I don't yet know is there). And for this topic I keep going to the SGA boys and so much has already been written on them with respect to this. There's the big obvious things (from military remembrance rituals to team movie night), but the little things are also important (and I think often overlooked), but I'm coming up ( ... )

winkingstar June 26 2009, 00:42:39 UTC

Thinking out loud is cool! I am having similar problems, in that a lot of my ideas are rather long-winded and therefore not likely to get done in a timely fashion.

I already did the code-y bits for mine, so 'tis but a few moments. And table codes are always good practice for me since I am forever mixing up my [tr]s and [td]s.

fish_echo June 26 2009, 01:07:26 UTC

since I am forever mixing up my [tr]s and [td]s.
Heavens to Betsy! *gasp* *horrors*

I am having similar problems, in that a lot of my ideas are rather long-winded and therefore not likely to get done in a timely fashion.
And this is why we are thankful for the notepad/computer file where we jot down ideas.

And current absurd idea: I was at work reading [horribly boring tome of better-written-than-expected-but-honestly-why-do-I-care] and I thought to myself, 'Self, do you know what would be awesome?' And I said back, 'Yes? An Aero bar?' And then I contradicted myself with, 'No! Well, yes, but irrelevant. I was thinking of Hermione (HP) & Dean (Supernatural) for the "pretending to be married" prompt' And then I proceeded to look at my brain in oddness. And then it chimed in with 'And and and! Let's make Sam (D's younger brother) somehow kidified and then it all makes sense' I feel rather like my muse is doing some vigourous handwaving whilst someone else is trying to make off with the silverware or something. I have a feeling if I ( ... )