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discussion post 05

Jul 01, 2010 23:18

It's that time again, friends. Sorry for the day's delay again; I should mention that due to my fluctuating schedule (two jobs makes for random hours) sometimes discussions will go up on Thursdays, not Wednesdays, but it should basically always be one of those two days ( Read more... )

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atomicskull July 2 2010, 12:12:57 UTC

Heterosexual life partners and ho yay SO MUCH. I swear to god that everything I ever write is about the Totally Rad and Truly Epic Bromance of one Leonard H. McCoy and James Tiberius Kirk, Esquires.

Unless it is about the most excellent bromance of JTK and Gaila (Badass MD), but that's still totes a bromance, even if there are some boobs involved.

ninety6tears July 2 2010, 20:44:55 UTC

YAY.
And yeah, bromance between a guy and a girl is totally something I've aimed for in the past :)

alexajohnson July 2 2010, 12:34:24 UTC

In regards to gen!fic, I love putting two characters together who don't really get along and either create a scenario where they have to learn to get along to survive or just writing about how they might become friends. There are too many options for fics of this nature in Trek!verse. (Though I'm not complaining!) For the next bigbang, I will probably use the first option with a Kirk and Uhura friendship fic, as I'm currently using the second for Jim and Bones. :)

In romance, I love the buildup to the relationship most. I think I've maybe only written a couple fics where the characters were already together at the start of the story.

But on the whole, I'm actually a pretty formulaic writer (something I've been trying to rectify)--once I fall for a particular device, I will virtually obsess over it and use it until I get sick of it. Which sometimes doesn't happen...

murf1307 July 2 2010, 13:54:32 UTC

Well, everything I write has some form of Ho Yay, because this is Star Trek and you need some slightly awkward and inexplicable-except-as-romantic-tension bits in Star Trek.

I'm also a huge K/S shipper; a lot of my stories serve as vehicles to bring them together in sone form or another - or, in the case of "Desperado" (my one NC-17), fill in one of those canon holes that the TOS people were so fond of being sneaky, ambiguous bastards about in the canon. Their story, and the endless different possibilities (especially in reboot) for them are what help keep me writing in this fandom.

Tarsus IV seems to pop up in my non-oneshots. It has a part in my BB, as well as in my on-hiatus WIP A Lot Like Loving You. There are lots of ways to bring back the demons for that, and, while I find myself whumping Jim a lot about women in the TOS fics I write, reboot!Jim doesn't have Edith or Miramanee or Rayna or Carol and we don't even know about Ruth ( ... )

rainbowstrlght July 4 2010, 08:11:28 UTC

OMG, Tarsus? Is classic. So ripe with potential, yet not really telling a damn thing at all (at least not in canon). That, Gene Roddenberry! ♥

The mind-meld thing seems mandatory in K/S fic. I wonder if it's like that over the heterosexual waters, or if it's just our sex scenes that go cosmic.

murf1307 July 4 2010, 15:09:20 UTC

All we get for Tarsus in canon is: "There was a famine, and it sucked. Kodos went all 'Eugenics is the shit' and started offing people, and it sucked. Kirk and Riley and some other people saw Kodos offing people, which sucked, but they survived, and that was the only part that didn't suck."

You know, I'm sort of tempted to check about hetero mind meld sex. I mean, it's pretty much standard here in Slash Country...

rainbowstrlght July 5 2010, 03:22:15 UTC

OMG, TARSUS = THE BAD SUCK.

They always bring in Eugenics when stuff gets REALLY BAD. Khan? Eugenics. Kodos? Eugenics. The telekinetic people who made Kirk kiss Uhura, and Spock almost dance on his face? Eugenics. Geez.

I'm not willing to sit through Sphura fic to find out about the mind-meld sex - YOU'RE ON YOUR OWN. ;)

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kirihana527 July 2 2010, 15:22:28 UTC

Let's see... things that are definitely happening in my story... God, I love TV Tropes.

Apocalypse How: A combination of Class 3 a & b, but a good portion of humanity escapes and moves to Mars.

Heterosexual Life Partners and Ho Yay: I'm pretty sure a lot of us are using these. In my story they actually apply to different pairs.

Zombie Apocalypse (sort of) and Our Zombies Are Different: Okay, the zombies aren't really that different, and the apocalypse technically already happened. But the crew are dealing with zombies of the standard Type F & P combination.

Zombie Infectee plus Shoot the Dog: Second is an unfortunate result of the first. And it happens more than once.

General Trek things include Redshirts dying, TOS references, chess, and phasers.

General me things include lots of dialogue, irreverence, somebody dying, and angst.

atomicskull July 2 2010, 16:41:19 UTC

Dude, our stories are like cousins! I don't have zombies, but oh man is there some Apocolypse How going on. And mummies and skeletons instead of zombies. That sort of counts, right?

kirihana527 July 6 2010, 13:05:41 UTC

I like Apocalypses. IDEK. And mummies and skeletons totally count.

mardia July 2 2010, 16:22:15 UTC

My general way of constructing a story is to write from beginning to end, but very often I'll find myself writing what I call "snippets" of future scenes and using them as signposts for where I want the story to go. Then I get to the end of the story, only to find that half those snippets that I wrote and loved--will no longer fit in the story I've created.

In general, I will say that a trope I love (and use all the time) is pining/UST turned requited. It's become an in-joke between me and my friends whether the latest story I'm writing has a pining Kirk or not.

And seeing that this is my first real action/adventure story, it's a kick to look at the tropes there and see which ones I'm already planning to use in the narrative.