State of Sekrit's fanfic life, summer 2013
Now that I have a nice summer to write copious amounts of fanfic, I think I need to look at what I think I'm doing here.
Next moves:
FTM Kyle #2 -- 4k so far-- this will be the next thing I finish and post and I think if I actually work on it I can accomplish that in short order. Original here.
RIAT ch. 8 -- not going to give a word count -- this is what I'm really excited to get back to, since I haven't put up a chapter since October 2011, jesus. I am not sure how long it'll take me to write but this chapter, chapter 8, is the climax to the whole story so I'm really fucking excited about it. The rest of it's here.
70s fic -- 95k so far -- the title of this story is actually "Negative Nancy and the Case of the Highly Controversial Doctoral Thesis." This is a 1970s AU that stemmed from the fucked-up idea that it's an American riff on RIAT, in a way, in that the characters well all born at the same times, but not in England (i.e. 1945-6). Despite the fact that I have almost 100 thousand words of this written, I am not sure how much more I will need to write to finish it. That said, finishing is an amorphous concept in this case, since there is no plot; it's literally just about Stan and Kyle meeting in 1973 and being in a relationship for 40 years. I was inspired by some Nhaingen artwork here.
Enthusiastic to finish:
Vikings -- 13.5k so far -- an Icelandic saga AU! Stan is the worst viking ever. Though technically he's not a viking, he's a wealthy horse farmer involved in an inheritance dispute. This is kind of hilarious and writing it is tons of fun. Unfortunately for readers it's written in Icelandic saga language, which is very stilted and weird. The idea is awesome but I'm not sure anyone wants to read this. Due to the language, I mean.
Stan is a TA -- ? -- based on something effingbirds said about what if Stan was Kyle's hot TA. I was like, yes, what if, and started writing something about it. Unfortunately my computer broke in December and I had to get a new one, and I cannot find this fic anywhere. Now, it's got to be somewhere, because I back up fucking everything, usually several times. That said, I am having a difficult time tracking this down. Maybe it's on a USB or Nhaingen has a copy. I'll keep looking. Maybe it's in my e-mail. ETA: Maybe it's on a flash drive.
RIAT short thing -- 12k so far -- I have been writing this for quite a while in little bits, and it's simply a matter of determining to actually finish it.
FTM Kyle #3 -- I've written like a paragraph of this, or something, but it's somewhat irrelevant until I finish and post FTM #2.
RIAT ch. 9-10 -- healthy chunks of both chapters are completed. But, as with above, somewhat irrelevant until I post chapter 8.
Kenny/Cartman fic -- 2.5k so far -- I'm so excited about this story. Unlike a lot of pairings in this fandom, there's no go-to high school Kenny/Cartman fic that everyone's already written, so I basically want to write that. To be clear, I know people have written this, but it's not something that people commonly write. You know?
Things I want to write/have written some of but likely won't finish:
"St. Rosa and the Swallows, or, Notes on Camp" -- 14.5k so far -- it's extremely sad to me that I probably won't finish this, because it's the first thing I ever started writing for negniahn. The plot is that all the kids have to complete a senior project to graduate high school, and Stan wants to adapt Susan Sontag's essay "Notes on Camp" into a musical. With crossdressing. KYLE IS HORRIFIED. This was supposed to be extremely ambitious and literary and I structured it with all kinds of epigrams and quotes so on and ... actually it's just bad and I can't finish it. It's just bad, it's so fucking bad. Sad because I wanted to write something that was fitting for Nhaingen and I basically blew it by overshooting my wad or whatever.
Love Boat (With Men) -- I never intended to follow through on this, and I think I got the "making fun of cruises and also cruising, and also puns" urge out. I can't say I'll never continue this if I get some kind of feeling for it, but it's not in my plans. I could spoil the ending if anyone's interested, why not.
Butters/Craig fic -- I am dying to write something about Butters and Craig, because for some reason they are my second-favorite pairing. (No one ever really asks me what non-S/K pairings I like, weirdly enough.) But I don't have any kind of plot for them, or any particular story to tell about them. Mostly I just think they're interesting in a complementary fashion, because Butters is very effusive and Craig is pretty low-key about most things. Butters would definitely top. I wish I had an idea about this! I've been thinking about it forever. The only good story I've ever read about them, or that had a Butters/Craig element, is formerdinosaur's Kyle ass-waxing story, which is amazing, but not really about Craig and Butters when you cut through it. I'd love to write something about this, so if anyone's got some weird concept they're looking for someone else to consider exploiting, toss it my way.
physiotherapy -- I have written like none of this -- I was super excited about this a year and a half ago, or something. I forget if I've outlined it elsewhere? The basic idea is that Stan and Kyle have lost touch, not for any reason, but because they're in their 30s and are doing their own thing. Stan is a physiotherapist and a serial dater, trying super hard to get married and start a family. Guys can smell desperation on him and adoption agencies are hesitant to give a child to a single man. Then one day Stan gets a new client and it's Kyle, whose wife pushed him down the stairs when her told her he was gay and wanted a divorce. Kyle has some kid he never sees and has to pay child support to his ex living in their McMansion while Kyle has moved back in with his parents and is upset. His ex-wife wants to take the kid and move back to Boston or whatever, and Stan is like "OMG you have to fight her to keep him here." But Kyle actually practices family law and is like "it's really better for my kid if I just let him go and not keep his mother from taking a job with a good salary on the other side of the country where the rest of her family is, thereby making both of them ultimately resent me." Kyle would be really hesitant to get into a relationship with Stan because he just got out of a relationship, but you know they'd get into it anyway. When I talked about this with negniahn she pointed out that this story would be hard to write because the kid and Kyle's ex-wife would have to be characterized really well, the kid in particular, in order to make the reader care about what happens to the kid. My thinking is that it's more about Kyle than the kid, but, this is too far down the list of priorities to bother with, sadly.
maritime AU -- ahoy, mateys. After leaving his fiancee, Wendy, in fictional early 19th-century somewhere, Stan steals away on a ship that is wrecked in a storm. He washes up on a tropical island where Kyle rescues him. Kyle is a sorceress and a member of the island culture's third sex. He wears lots of sexy see-through sarongs. Then it would devolve into weird exploitative witch sex in a bamboo hut and possibly also on the beach. Stan would totally have to dig sand out of Kyle's butt. It'd be awesome. Kyle is probably going to try to use Stan's semen in some fertility potion. Will it work? I dunno, I don't think I can write this out as an actual story, though it's another fun idea.
Kyle is drag queen -- no one's ever written him as a drag queen before, really. There's some on Tumblr here with a lovely pic. But, again, I don't have much of a story to go with this, and I feel like I have to consolidate my efforts on things further up.
Kyle is a mermaid -- he lives in Stan's pool. Also because he is from a different culture he doesn't have, like, human emotions, so he can't be affectionate with Stan and it's very sad, and also this idea is so weird. ETA: I thought there was some on Nhaingen's blog, but I can't find it.
I saw the fucking Superman trailer last night at my second Star Trek Into Darkness viewing and there is something wrong with me:
Superman AU -- there is literally no chance in hell I would write this.
Next moves:
FTM Kyle #2 -- 4k so far-- this will be the next thing I finish and post and I think if I actually work on it I can accomplish that in short order. Original here.
RIAT ch. 8 -- not going to give a word count -- this is what I'm really excited to get back to, since I haven't put up a chapter since October 2011, jesus. I am not sure how long it'll take me to write but this chapter, chapter 8, is the climax to the whole story so I'm really fucking excited about it. The rest of it's here.
70s fic -- 95k so far -- the title of this story is actually "Negative Nancy and the Case of the Highly Controversial Doctoral Thesis." This is a 1970s AU that stemmed from the fucked-up idea that it's an American riff on RIAT, in a way, in that the characters well all born at the same times, but not in England (i.e. 1945-6). Despite the fact that I have almost 100 thousand words of this written, I am not sure how much more I will need to write to finish it. That said, finishing is an amorphous concept in this case, since there is no plot; it's literally just about Stan and Kyle meeting in 1973 and being in a relationship for 40 years. I was inspired by some Nhaingen artwork here.
Enthusiastic to finish:
Vikings -- 13.5k so far -- an Icelandic saga AU! Stan is the worst viking ever. Though technically he's not a viking, he's a wealthy horse farmer involved in an inheritance dispute. This is kind of hilarious and writing it is tons of fun. Unfortunately for readers it's written in Icelandic saga language, which is very stilted and weird. The idea is awesome but I'm not sure anyone wants to read this. Due to the language, I mean.
Stan is a TA -- ? -- based on something effingbirds said about what if Stan was Kyle's hot TA. I was like, yes, what if, and started writing something about it. Unfortunately my computer broke in December and I had to get a new one, and I cannot find this fic anywhere. Now, it's got to be somewhere, because I back up fucking everything, usually several times. That said, I am having a difficult time tracking this down. Maybe it's on a USB or Nhaingen has a copy. I'll keep looking. Maybe it's in my e-mail. ETA: Maybe it's on a flash drive.
RIAT short thing -- 12k so far -- I have been writing this for quite a while in little bits, and it's simply a matter of determining to actually finish it.
FTM Kyle #3 -- I've written like a paragraph of this, or something, but it's somewhat irrelevant until I finish and post FTM #2.
RIAT ch. 9-10 -- healthy chunks of both chapters are completed. But, as with above, somewhat irrelevant until I post chapter 8.
Kenny/Cartman fic -- 2.5k so far -- I'm so excited about this story. Unlike a lot of pairings in this fandom, there's no go-to high school Kenny/Cartman fic that everyone's already written, so I basically want to write that. To be clear, I know people have written this, but it's not something that people commonly write. You know?
Things I want to write/have written some of but likely won't finish:
"St. Rosa and the Swallows, or, Notes on Camp" -- 14.5k so far -- it's extremely sad to me that I probably won't finish this, because it's the first thing I ever started writing for negniahn. The plot is that all the kids have to complete a senior project to graduate high school, and Stan wants to adapt Susan Sontag's essay "Notes on Camp" into a musical. With crossdressing. KYLE IS HORRIFIED. This was supposed to be extremely ambitious and literary and I structured it with all kinds of epigrams and quotes so on and ... actually it's just bad and I can't finish it. It's just bad, it's so fucking bad. Sad because I wanted to write something that was fitting for Nhaingen and I basically blew it by overshooting my wad or whatever.
Love Boat (With Men) -- I never intended to follow through on this, and I think I got the "making fun of cruises and also cruising, and also puns" urge out. I can't say I'll never continue this if I get some kind of feeling for it, but it's not in my plans. I could spoil the ending if anyone's interested, why not.
Butters/Craig fic -- I am dying to write something about Butters and Craig, because for some reason they are my second-favorite pairing. (No one ever really asks me what non-S/K pairings I like, weirdly enough.) But I don't have any kind of plot for them, or any particular story to tell about them. Mostly I just think they're interesting in a complementary fashion, because Butters is very effusive and Craig is pretty low-key about most things. Butters would definitely top. I wish I had an idea about this! I've been thinking about it forever. The only good story I've ever read about them, or that had a Butters/Craig element, is formerdinosaur's Kyle ass-waxing story, which is amazing, but not really about Craig and Butters when you cut through it. I'd love to write something about this, so if anyone's got some weird concept they're looking for someone else to consider exploiting, toss it my way.
physiotherapy -- I have written like none of this -- I was super excited about this a year and a half ago, or something. I forget if I've outlined it elsewhere? The basic idea is that Stan and Kyle have lost touch, not for any reason, but because they're in their 30s and are doing their own thing. Stan is a physiotherapist and a serial dater, trying super hard to get married and start a family. Guys can smell desperation on him and adoption agencies are hesitant to give a child to a single man. Then one day Stan gets a new client and it's Kyle, whose wife pushed him down the stairs when her told her he was gay and wanted a divorce. Kyle has some kid he never sees and has to pay child support to his ex living in their McMansion while Kyle has moved back in with his parents and is upset. His ex-wife wants to take the kid and move back to Boston or whatever, and Stan is like "OMG you have to fight her to keep him here." But Kyle actually practices family law and is like "it's really better for my kid if I just let him go and not keep his mother from taking a job with a good salary on the other side of the country where the rest of her family is, thereby making both of them ultimately resent me." Kyle would be really hesitant to get into a relationship with Stan because he just got out of a relationship, but you know they'd get into it anyway. When I talked about this with negniahn she pointed out that this story would be hard to write because the kid and Kyle's ex-wife would have to be characterized really well, the kid in particular, in order to make the reader care about what happens to the kid. My thinking is that it's more about Kyle than the kid, but, this is too far down the list of priorities to bother with, sadly.
maritime AU -- ahoy, mateys. After leaving his fiancee, Wendy, in fictional early 19th-century somewhere, Stan steals away on a ship that is wrecked in a storm. He washes up on a tropical island where Kyle rescues him. Kyle is a sorceress and a member of the island culture's third sex. He wears lots of sexy see-through sarongs. Then it would devolve into weird exploitative witch sex in a bamboo hut and possibly also on the beach. Stan would totally have to dig sand out of Kyle's butt. It'd be awesome. Kyle is probably going to try to use Stan's semen in some fertility potion. Will it work? I dunno, I don't think I can write this out as an actual story, though it's another fun idea.
Kyle is drag queen -- no one's ever written him as a drag queen before, really. There's some on Tumblr here with a lovely pic. But, again, I don't have much of a story to go with this, and I feel like I have to consolidate my efforts on things further up.
Kyle is a mermaid -- he lives in Stan's pool. Also because he is from a different culture he doesn't have, like, human emotions, so he can't be affectionate with Stan and it's very sad, and also this idea is so weird. ETA: I thought there was some on Nhaingen's blog, but I can't find it.
I saw the fucking Superman trailer last night at my second Star Trek Into Darkness viewing and there is something wrong with me:
Superman AU -- there is literally no chance in hell I would write this.