Notebook Transcriptions: the Backstory of Notebook #1
Righto! This is the first installment of OMG I ROTE THAT??? aka transcriptions from my green notebooks.
The first notebook was started shortly after I arrived in Scotland for study abroad in September (?) of 2006. That semester was the Magical Time-DMC had just come out, and I was energized by the development of Norrington. Scruffington validated my characterization of Frillington as a passionate man acting within the regulations of society, made the character more expressive and thus accessible, and created a reasonable situation in which Jack and Norrington could interact outside societal restraints. In other words, I could slash them now. Over the summer I had engaged in a lot of discussion on sparrington and started on some fic. My productive phase continued and expanded in that semester because 1) I wasn't being distracted by RL friends or roommates and 2) schoolwork was far, FAR less time consuming. crackrabbits was started during this period.
A lot of the material in notebook #1, The Scotland Semester is PotC. A fair amount of that is drafts of fic that were eventually posted. Outside of that, we have:
1) Big Honking PotC Backstory, Compleat With OCs. I do a BHB,CwOC's for just about every fandom I'm in, and they are almost never written. The Backstory evolves, changes, acquires multiples AUs, etc. etc. I eventually released this Backstory to the public (omgomg) in the form of a personal canon meme and in an IM conversation with Cupcake which sketched out the (horribly twisty and delightfully self-dependent) plot. I will probably post that separately, since otherwise most of the snippets and such will requires waaay too much explanation. For now I will post this bit that has nothing to do with my Big Honking Backstory, but is representative of the IM conversations between Cupcake and myself:
Kaylie: btw, how emo was Mr Darcy [in Pride and Prejudice]? like, SERIOUSLY dude. Write a song about it.
Cupcake: I won't write a song about darcy!
Cupcake: I will write a song about the boring toad and the wet fish.
Kaylie: He should write a song.
Kaylie: A song about how sad he is.
Kaylie: It could be a duet with Immortal William Turner
Cupcake: Mwahaha. And they'd try to outdo each other. "But my sorrow's for eternal life, dude!"
Cupcake: Nah, cut that. Turner doesn't say "dude"
Kaylie: "Oh yeah? Well... I'm bad at parties!"
Cupcake: "Bad at parties? Ever been to a tea party with a walking talking squid?"
Cupcake: ... and Davy Jones."
Cupcake: ( I think Cuttlefish would be the cutest nickname for Cutler!)
Kaylie: (OMG IT WOULD)
Kaylie: "No, but I have been to a tea party with my Aunt!"
Cupcake: Huh, wah-? I'm still swooning over the Cuttlefish. I can so imagine Jack saying it... probably because he did.
Kaylie: And Beckett would either order him executed, or give a tiny little smile and agree to wear the dress
Cupcake: Or he agrees to wear it at the execution.
Kaylie: well, that's sort of a lose-lose situation, isn't it?
Kaylie: unless he's hiding an anti-death ray beneath the skirts and performs a miraculous rescue
Cupcake: I've never heard of anti-death rays before. Somehow they just produce death rays in sci-fi movies.
Cupcake: But POTC isn't a sci-fi movie, so you may be right.
The very next section is what lead directly into me telling her all the details of my Big Honking Backstory:
Cupcake: In the POTC world, bringing people back to life seems easier than killing them, anyway.
Cupcake: Example - killing Jack took one entire movie. Bringing him back took like what, 30 minutes?
Kaylie: Unless they're a random marine
Cupcake: Yes, of course. And wigged people don't come back to life, either.
Kaylie: are wigs like big hats? because Barbossa had a big hat and he came back
Cupcake: No, if wig were like hats, they'd be called hats.
Kaylie: :(
Cupcake: Let's hope Norri lost his wig.
Kaylie: I have hope.
Cupcake: And Cuttlefish lost his head.
Kaylie: no he didn't, he was just contorted funny. He was going for a swim.
Cupcake: I... see.
Kaylie: an explosive swim
Kaylie: amid debris
Cupcake: Never heard that adjective combined with that nominative.
Kaylie: Beckett is quite the revolutionary
Cupcake: explosive swim... you're very optimistic on this.
Kaylie: actually, I know how he comes back, but it's complicated
Cupcake: Do tell!
Kaylie: it's not really him, but his 16 year old self. As a tangible ghost.
Kaylie: from a parallel universe
Cupcake: I wonder what 16-year-old Beckett was like, PU or not.
Kaylie: he was a bit horny. And in this case, covered in blood and dirt
Cupcake: Probably spotty and emo, like all teens.
Kaylie: no, he had very nice skin. he was lucky.
Cupcake: *shakes fist at his nice skin*
Kaylie: Do you want to hear the whole story? it's pretty neat, actually
Cupcake: YESH!
And thus began the Epic IM Storytelling of My Most Compleat and Complicated Backstory of Every PotC Character Evar and Then Some For a Most Good Measure. (Hereafter I shall call it the Hoynitsi Universe for short.) Are you guys interested in hearing the whole thing? What I told Cupcake in the IM convo is only about 20% of the whole story, but via snippets and transcriptions the whole thing should come out. It will be loooooong. And complicated. Anyone game?
2) This notebook also contains other PotC fics which are hideously long and were not written or completed. Those include Guard Dog AU, the sequel to Haunting in Thirteen Parts, and Cat!Jack, as well as still yet more Sekrit Hoynitsi Universe. (Sekrit meaning it's an undercover agent posing as a stand-alone. "Don't mind me! I'm not part of a hideously overwrought mythology, oh no! I'm just fluff! REALLY." Guard Dog AU is an AU of the Hoynitsi Universe, incidentally.)
3) There is a very large amount of Once Upon a Time in Mexico fic which was plotted out but never written or completed. Yes, my pretties, I will type this up. ^_^
4) A Not Quite As Compleat and Hideously Overwrought original novel/movie plot centered on a male couple: Dan and Adrian. Also includes Dan's ex-boyfriend Sauchiehall, Dan's sister and her boyfriend, Gregg. There is a wedding and antique furniture and fetish porn and business trips to New York and other soap opera-y things. I don't think I was as assiduous in writing out the plot for this, but there are snippets and I don't think the plot was very intricate anyway. Notes: This started as a movie script, with the blatant wishful thinking that Dan would be played by Jack Davenport, Adrian by Marton Csokas, and Sauchiehall by Johnny Depp. Greg(g) got his own stand-alone backstory early the next semester: Greg Unfurling. (NB: all orig!fic is flocked.)
That's where I'm cutting it for now. We're not quite at the end of Notebook #1, but we are at the end of the Scotland Semester. What follows is the Biology/Poetry Semester, then the Overnight Stocker HP Summer Wherein I Was Always Tired, and then Fall Semester with Crackfic!MCR, and Spring in Doctor Who. Orig!fic continues and mutates throughout. The Stocker Summer should be fun, because that hearkens back to my Big Honking Harry Potter Backstory, Compleat With OCs, aka The Shaula Universe that Stephanie and Lauren are Mad At Me For Not Writing and Possibly Caity Too aka Quick Let Me Write My Version of the Seventh Book Before It Comes Out Oops Never Mind. That one actually has a linear plot, guys. Fun.
Don't think I haven't noticed the irony of not having actually transcribed anything yet.
The first notebook was started shortly after I arrived in Scotland for study abroad in September (?) of 2006. That semester was the Magical Time-DMC had just come out, and I was energized by the development of Norrington. Scruffington validated my characterization of Frillington as a passionate man acting within the regulations of society, made the character more expressive and thus accessible, and created a reasonable situation in which Jack and Norrington could interact outside societal restraints. In other words, I could slash them now. Over the summer I had engaged in a lot of discussion on sparrington and started on some fic. My productive phase continued and expanded in that semester because 1) I wasn't being distracted by RL friends or roommates and 2) schoolwork was far, FAR less time consuming. crackrabbits was started during this period.
A lot of the material in notebook #1, The Scotland Semester is PotC. A fair amount of that is drafts of fic that were eventually posted. Outside of that, we have:
1) Big Honking PotC Backstory, Compleat With OCs. I do a BHB,CwOC's for just about every fandom I'm in, and they are almost never written. The Backstory evolves, changes, acquires multiples AUs, etc. etc. I eventually released this Backstory to the public (omgomg) in the form of a personal canon meme and in an IM conversation with Cupcake which sketched out the (horribly twisty and delightfully self-dependent) plot. I will probably post that separately, since otherwise most of the snippets and such will requires waaay too much explanation. For now I will post this bit that has nothing to do with my Big Honking Backstory, but is representative of the IM conversations between Cupcake and myself:
Kaylie: btw, how emo was Mr Darcy [in Pride and Prejudice]? like, SERIOUSLY dude. Write a song about it.
Cupcake: I won't write a song about darcy!
Cupcake: I will write a song about the boring toad and the wet fish.
Kaylie: He should write a song.
Kaylie: A song about how sad he is.
Kaylie: It could be a duet with Immortal William Turner
Cupcake: Mwahaha. And they'd try to outdo each other. "But my sorrow's for eternal life, dude!"
Cupcake: Nah, cut that. Turner doesn't say "dude"
Kaylie: "Oh yeah? Well... I'm bad at parties!"
Cupcake: "Bad at parties? Ever been to a tea party with a walking talking squid?"
Cupcake: ... and Davy Jones."
Cupcake: ( I think Cuttlefish would be the cutest nickname for Cutler!)
Kaylie: (OMG IT WOULD)
Kaylie: "No, but I have been to a tea party with my Aunt!"
Cupcake: Huh, wah-? I'm still swooning over the Cuttlefish. I can so imagine Jack saying it... probably because he did.
Kaylie: And Beckett would either order him executed, or give a tiny little smile and agree to wear the dress
Cupcake: Or he agrees to wear it at the execution.
Kaylie: well, that's sort of a lose-lose situation, isn't it?
Kaylie: unless he's hiding an anti-death ray beneath the skirts and performs a miraculous rescue
Cupcake: I've never heard of anti-death rays before. Somehow they just produce death rays in sci-fi movies.
Cupcake: But POTC isn't a sci-fi movie, so you may be right.
The very next section is what lead directly into me telling her all the details of my Big Honking Backstory:
Cupcake: In the POTC world, bringing people back to life seems easier than killing them, anyway.
Cupcake: Example - killing Jack took one entire movie. Bringing him back took like what, 30 minutes?
Kaylie: Unless they're a random marine
Cupcake: Yes, of course. And wigged people don't come back to life, either.
Kaylie: are wigs like big hats? because Barbossa had a big hat and he came back
Cupcake: No, if wig were like hats, they'd be called hats.
Kaylie: :(
Cupcake: Let's hope Norri lost his wig.
Kaylie: I have hope.
Cupcake: And Cuttlefish lost his head.
Kaylie: no he didn't, he was just contorted funny. He was going for a swim.
Cupcake: I... see.
Kaylie: an explosive swim
Kaylie: amid debris
Cupcake: Never heard that adjective combined with that nominative.
Kaylie: Beckett is quite the revolutionary
Cupcake: explosive swim... you're very optimistic on this.
Kaylie: actually, I know how he comes back, but it's complicated
Cupcake: Do tell!
Kaylie: it's not really him, but his 16 year old self. As a tangible ghost.
Kaylie: from a parallel universe
Cupcake: I wonder what 16-year-old Beckett was like, PU or not.
Kaylie: he was a bit horny. And in this case, covered in blood and dirt
Cupcake: Probably spotty and emo, like all teens.
Kaylie: no, he had very nice skin. he was lucky.
Cupcake: *shakes fist at his nice skin*
Kaylie: Do you want to hear the whole story? it's pretty neat, actually
Cupcake: YESH!
And thus began the Epic IM Storytelling of My Most Compleat and Complicated Backstory of Every PotC Character Evar and Then Some For a Most Good Measure. (Hereafter I shall call it the Hoynitsi Universe for short.) Are you guys interested in hearing the whole thing? What I told Cupcake in the IM convo is only about 20% of the whole story, but via snippets and transcriptions the whole thing should come out. It will be loooooong. And complicated. Anyone game?
2) This notebook also contains other PotC fics which are hideously long and were not written or completed. Those include Guard Dog AU, the sequel to Haunting in Thirteen Parts, and Cat!Jack, as well as still yet more Sekrit Hoynitsi Universe. (Sekrit meaning it's an undercover agent posing as a stand-alone. "Don't mind me! I'm not part of a hideously overwrought mythology, oh no! I'm just fluff! REALLY." Guard Dog AU is an AU of the Hoynitsi Universe, incidentally.)
3) There is a very large amount of Once Upon a Time in Mexico fic which was plotted out but never written or completed. Yes, my pretties, I will type this up. ^_^
4) A Not Quite As Compleat and Hideously Overwrought original novel/movie plot centered on a male couple: Dan and Adrian. Also includes Dan's ex-boyfriend Sauchiehall, Dan's sister and her boyfriend, Gregg. There is a wedding and antique furniture and fetish porn and business trips to New York and other soap opera-y things. I don't think I was as assiduous in writing out the plot for this, but there are snippets and I don't think the plot was very intricate anyway. Notes: This started as a movie script, with the blatant wishful thinking that Dan would be played by Jack Davenport, Adrian by Marton Csokas, and Sauchiehall by Johnny Depp. Greg(g) got his own stand-alone backstory early the next semester: Greg Unfurling. (NB: all orig!fic is flocked.)
That's where I'm cutting it for now. We're not quite at the end of Notebook #1, but we are at the end of the Scotland Semester. What follows is the Biology/Poetry Semester, then the Overnight Stocker HP Summer Wherein I Was Always Tired, and then Fall Semester with Crackfic!MCR, and Spring in Doctor Who. Orig!fic continues and mutates throughout. The Stocker Summer should be fun, because that hearkens back to my Big Honking Harry Potter Backstory, Compleat With OCs, aka The Shaula Universe that Stephanie and Lauren are Mad At Me For Not Writing and Possibly Caity Too aka Quick Let Me Write My Version of the Seventh Book Before It Comes Out Oops Never Mind. That one actually has a linear plot, guys. Fun.
Don't think I haven't noticed the irony of not having actually transcribed anything yet.