Odo/Kira smut! I think I've only stumbled across one drabble about them. If you have any good recs, you should throw 'em my way ;)
We're just at the beginning of S2, and even that seems an improvement over S1. It would be hard to go downhill from some of the stuff in S1, though, ahaha.
also about the fact that some of the stories I have to tell don't have nice, neat endings or satisfying resolutions.
That reminded me about seeing a production of The Color Purple recently and remembering how Alice Walker's novels tend to have these complicated, not-quite-resolved endings as they come into the present (the ones I've read, anyway, like TCP and The Temple of My Familiar start earlier in the 20th century and end in the present/late 20th c.) So, yeah, I think that's really interesting, stories that kind of say "and that's the end - for now."
How that relates to fanfiction, not sure. I think we often go for artificial endings in a way... the happily ever after. And then the canon contradicts it and the next round of endings come along.
You know, I don't think I've read any Walker, but that sort of makes me think of some of Atwood's endings and how more than one of them didn't leave me with a neat and resolved feeling, but more of a hanging, suspended one.
And, yeah, I know that as a writer and reader I do have different expectations and investment in fanfic and probably would have to push myself to step outside those habits I've fallen into.
I went back to pick a sentence to quote about your discussion of writer's block coming from being too self-aware and too aware of what other people are doing with their writing, but it's silly to quote the whole thing. Yes, yes, yes. Exploring why I write and why I write what I do has left me feeling kind of naked when I post a story, although I can't tell how much of that comes through. And my armchair psychoanalysis of other people's work makes me equally uncomfortable sometimes--although again, so much of it may be projection. And yes--do I want to become a "better" writer, technically? Or do I want to...I don't know how to put it...keep pulling up the roots and vines in my head and using them as decoration in my stories? What if people start to notice how grubby they are? Heh, that probably makes no sense, but there it is
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Yes! Yes, exactly. You've really described the feeling in a way that has me nodding on this end. I'm amazed at the level of discomfort I feel when I realize oh, wow, this writer keeps coming back to this topic again and again because of [x event] in their life and I wonder if s/he is even aware of the effect it's having? Although I'm not sure it's a bad kind of discomfort, almost more of a... hmmm. Embarrassment is another word that comes to mind. That I feel embarrassed knowing things about this person who may not even have that awareness his/herself. One of the coolest and strangest parts of writers being so accessible in this fannish environment
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That it is! It's a bit better, now, but man, sometimes I just want to crawl into my bed and tell the world to fuck off and leave me be. *g*
O_O Oh, *wow*. You are going to have a looot of Trekgasms, my friend.
Well, the order I liked them in is: DS9, TNG, and Voyager. Enterprise I'm leaving off the list because I hated it after two episodes, wooooe. But DS9, oh, DS9 is my biggest Trek love. I'm on my second watching of it and already anticipating starting my third. *g*
Yeah, I saw a lot more of Voyager and DS9 on the air than I did TNG; watching TNG with my friend has been introducing me to a lot of episodes I never caught, which has been cool.
Well, I watched most of DS9 on the air, and I'm about to finish it up on DVD, so I count that as two watchings, and then Erica wants to see all of DS9, so I'm going to watch it with her. Hee, I do love me some DS9. ♥
*hugs* It's amazing how much life does fall together as soon as one thing starts moving forward. It sounds like maybe you feel stuck in a low point, and as a very impatient person myself, I sympathize.
Geordi/Data! \o/ And I just watched them as Holmes and Watson, eeee, geekgasm.
*accepts hugs gratefully* Yeah, impatience is exactly it. Sometimes I just *feel* so ready for things to be moving on and they're not, and I get frustrated at my inability to make them. But thankfully nothing stays stagnant forever.
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We're just at the beginning of S2, and even that seems an improvement over S1. It would be hard to go downhill from some of the stuff in S1, though, ahaha.
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That reminded me about seeing a production of The Color Purple recently and remembering how Alice Walker's novels tend to have these complicated, not-quite-resolved endings as they come into the present (the ones I've read, anyway, like TCP and The Temple of My Familiar start earlier in the 20th century and end in the present/late 20th c.) So, yeah, I think that's really interesting, stories that kind of say "and that's the end - for now."
How that relates to fanfiction, not sure. I think we often go for artificial endings in a way... the happily ever after. And then the canon contradicts it and the next round of endings come along.
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And, yeah, I know that as a writer and reader I do have different expectations and investment in fanfic and probably would have to push myself to step outside those habits I've fallen into.
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probably would have to push myself to step outside those habits I've fallen into.
Oh yeah, I feel that way too.
*blinks* I was going to say something intelligent I think but... LIZARD POST!
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O_O Oh, *wow*. You are going to have a looot of Trekgasms, my friend.
Well, the order I liked them in is: DS9, TNG, and Voyager. Enterprise I'm leaving off the list because I hated it after two episodes, wooooe. But DS9, oh, DS9 is my biggest Trek love. I'm on my second watching of it and already anticipating starting my third. *g*
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Well, I watched most of DS9 on the air, and I'm about to finish it up on DVD, so I count that as two watchings, and then Erica wants to see all of DS9, so I'm going to watch it with her. Hee, I do love me some DS9. ♥
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*hugs* It's amazing how much life does fall together as soon as one thing starts moving forward. It sounds like maybe you feel stuck in a low point, and as a very impatient person myself, I sympathize.
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*accepts hugs gratefully* Yeah, impatience is exactly it. Sometimes I just *feel* so ready for things to be moving on and they're not, and I get frustrated at my inability to make them. But thankfully nothing stays stagnant forever.
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