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International Geek-Out Report (and a note on catching up)

Feb 10, 2007 21:18

First, the note: I haven't gotten any further with my LJ catch-up plans because it was the last week-and-a-half of term and I was busy doing university stuff (except for the three days beccatoria was visiting me, when I was busy geeking out). Will get around to the catching up next week, I think.

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Now for the International Geek-Out Report.

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geeking out, writing, etc., beccatoria, life on mars, magic alex, zen-ness

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amonitrate February 10 2007, 21:44:41 UTC

ooo. I would love to. (YAY!)I have to finish up a piece for dejla first. What's your timeline like? I could get to it towards the end of the month, I think, if you're ready by then.

I think it could be ready by then, yes. hmpf February 10 2007, 21:51:30 UTC

It's super-short, so it shouldn't be much work. 1358 words at the moment, and not likely to grow any longer, as I'm just shifting parts of sentences around etc.

Re: I think it could be ready by then, yes. amonitrate February 10 2007, 21:56:31 UTC

awesome. I'm looking forward to it. Let me know when you're ready, and what kind of input you're looking for!

Re: I think it could be ready by then, yes. hmpf February 13 2007, 22:02:37 UTC

Heh. I just noticed that after the last couple of changes I made, the fic is still/again exactly 1358 words long. How weird is that?! (Now that I wrote that down, I seem to remember something like that happening to me once before... Seems like my fics have a predetermined length that can't be changed even if the fic itself is changed! *g*)

Just sent it to you, btw. But there's no hurry if you're not ready yet - I just figured that since I'm really quite certain that I've done everything I could, on my side, I might just as well send it off to you guys now so you can tell me what *you* think might still need work. (I'm actually suffering from delusions of grandeur at the moment, feeling that nothing really needs changing anymore. *g*)

dune_drd February 10 2007, 21:48:34 UTC

My mouth is watering just by reading about that 68 wifes thing... post it soon?

I will try! hmpf February 10 2007, 22:38:58 UTC

As usual with a MacSlow, I can't really promise anything, though. ;-)

ommadon February 10 2007, 22:26:10 UTC

Surely the programme itself is canon-defining, the problem is the stuff the fans have devised themselves?

New canon hmpf February 10 2007, 22:37:19 UTC

"New canon" means the canon that will be established by series two, i.e. new stuff that might throw a monkey wrench into all our theories and our fics and so on. I don't define our creativity as a 'problem'. I don't really define new canon as a 'problem', either - it just made me uneasy to think about for a while because I have become quite used to, not to mention quite emotionally invested in some of my ideas and speculations about how the show is going to continue/end, and if the show takes a radically different route I may be disappointed, depending on how well I think the route they choose works. There are quite a few ways the show could end that I can imagine being disappointed by, but, as I said, I am now quite zen about it ( ... )

anonymous February 12 2007, 12:39:50 UTC

Hey! I have an LJ tag all to myself!

ALL HAIL GENE HUNT & WILLIAM ADAMA'S ACADEMY FOR AGING ORPHANS! (Starbuck, stop hitting your brother, you know how impressionable little Chris can be!)

And he is so the God of Children, and no one will take that away from him! (Believe me, you don't know everything about the Star Wars Extended Universe, because NO ONE does. But you now know the important bits, as dictated by me.)

Don't worry about slow feedback - I actually only got to read your email on Saturday because I was having bizarre net-connection problems, but I've resolved the issue now. I was busy on Sunday, but I do mean to reply to your email, specifically to knock some sense into you. ;)

I do love 68 wives; unashamedly so! Though you need to be happy with it for yourself too, so take all the time you need. I'm sorry I don't think that the Maya fic is your best work. I don't dislike it, I've just seen you pull off incredible emotion porn *cough*Normal*cough*, and don't like to see you sell yourself short. Then ( ... )

beccatoria February 12 2007, 12:40:34 UTC

Um...that was me. Not logged in apparently. D'OH!

Short note (really tired, hence the shortness) hmpf February 13 2007, 01:13:03 UTC

(There's a meta essay or two waiting to be written in here, but I'm too frelling tired for anything like that today, after my first day on the new job ( ... )

Re: Short note (really tired, hence the shortness) beccatoria February 13 2007, 08:30:32 UTC

I somewhat object to the classification of 'Normal' as emotion porn, btw, or perhaps rather to the comparison of the Maya fic with 'Normal'. They're very different animals. 'Normal' was the expression and culmination of everything I loved most about Farscape and John Crichton.

Then I'm sorry. By comparing them I wasn't intending to lower Normal's place or elevate what the Maya fic "should" be. I completely understand the difference between emotional porn and emotional oscar-winning drama which has sex-scenes in it (tastefully and in full service to the story!) But perhaps that's the point - both tell a rough story, both involve sex - finding the point at which emotional porn becomes something as awesome as "Normal" is tricky. I do feel that Normal has more in common with the Maya fic in terms of its evolution (angst!popcorn being, perhaps, it's long-distant ancestor) than, say, your HP AU Epic. Which is, perhaps, why it comes to mind when trying to think of what the Maya fic could evolve into ( ... )

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