Can we sit in a corner and drink heavily and talk (well, you talk, I'll slur) about how Mary Sues are in fact awesome and misunderstood and all the haters should go in a leftish direction STAT.
YES. only i would like to amend this plan so everybody gets to drink and slur and shout. and we can repeatedly yell about how 1. ARE WE REALLY GOING TO BE ANTI-SELF-ACTUALIZATION THROUGH FICTION, 2. WHAT IS WRONG WITH THROWING A GODDAMN FEMALE OC INTO A FICTIONAL UNIVERSE THAT YOU LOVE, and 3. NO ONE objects when it's a DUDE who has magical abilities to do everything and is right all the time and the whole world wants to have sex with. then we'll be like RIGHT ON BRO and put joan jett on the jukebox and sing along real loud. it will be glorious.
NO. nonono. You cannot DO that, you cannot post all of these wonderful little ficlets for the denizens of the Internet to read and then, just when the hook comes around to ensnare them into the story entirely, stop just short of true adventure. CRUELTY, THY NAME IS RAVE
But seriously, really loved the one about Xabi and Stevie in the Napoleonic Wars, if only for the fact that I just reread Jonathan Strange and am in That Kind of Mood. Also, the idea of those two in snazzy 19th century uniforms gives me all sorts of feeeeeelliiiiings~
And your Inception fic melts my heart. It just. Like butter, all over the place. See, there it goes. :)
MAYBE THAT'S BECAUSE I CAN'T WRITE ADVENTURE, WHAT ABOUT THAT. MAYBE I AM VERY SENSITIVE ABOUT IT. what i do is setup and adjectives, okay, and sometimes i just want to stop before i have to introduce anything resembling a plot.
nfsjkdnjkds omg dude, every time i write a napoleonic/regency au, it's jonathan strange's fault. ughhh I love that book so much. and yes -- also, every time i do that, it's 90% about getting to dress them in those costumes. ughhh you know xabi would be so serious about his neckcloths. he may be a guerilla fighter living in the woods, but by god, he is not a farmer.
what i do is setup and adjectives, okay, and sometimes i just want to stop before i have to introduce anything resembling a plot.
I know it honeybunches. Lack of plot in about 99% of the reason why I write nothing but one-shots nowadays. I get to flex my Herculean-sized Adjective Muscle and write lovingly descriptive passages about like, silk chairs, and then when someone asks for an actual plot I'm like HAHA NOPE.
Xabi is no farmer. He may be a high-ranking military officer with enough kerchiefs to strangle an entire battalion of English soldiers and he could totally trump Wellington in cards, but he is certainly no farmer.
Eeee! I love the S/X Napoleonic AU, and the Master and Commander Mary Sue/Temeraire crossover, sometimes you need to have some LADIES up in this, and this story is fantastic and awesome, and I want to see more of Stephen and Parry bonding and talking together.
nfjsdk they DO need ladies. ughgh honestly that is my go-to doc when i'm stuck on everything else -- i just scamper off and have stephen maturin talk about Mozart or Gender Relations or The Nature of Art or Jack Aubrey: Should We Just Have Sex Already Or What to a lady who is not 1. a crazy cipher with very few discernable human traits or 2. a friendly but passive cipher with very few discernable human traits. and it helps me exorcise my anger at O'Brien's treatment of his women. such a relief, man.
nfjsdk oh you are too kind. believe me, there are more where that came from. for example, the very first entry on the "brainstorming/WiP/incoherent ideas i had while mostly asleep and wrote down on my blackberry right quick" file.
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But seriously, really loved the one about Xabi and Stevie in the Napoleonic Wars, if only for the fact that I just reread Jonathan Strange and am in That Kind of Mood. Also, the idea of those two in snazzy 19th century uniforms gives me all sorts of feeeeeelliiiiings~
And your Inception fic melts my heart. It just. Like butter, all over the place. See, there it goes. :)
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nfsjkdnjkds omg dude, every time i write a napoleonic/regency au, it's jonathan strange's fault. ughhh I love that book so much. and yes -- also, every time i do that, it's 90% about getting to dress them in those costumes. ughhh you know xabi would be so serious about his neckcloths. he may be a guerilla fighter living in the woods, but by god, he is not a farmer.
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I know it honeybunches. Lack of plot in about 99% of the reason why I write nothing but one-shots nowadays. I get to flex my Herculean-sized Adjective Muscle and write lovingly descriptive passages about like, silk chairs, and then when someone asks for an actual plot I'm like HAHA NOPE.
Xabi is no farmer. He may be a high-ranking military officer with enough kerchiefs to strangle an entire battalion of English soldiers and he could totally trump Wellington in cards, but he is certainly no farmer.
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