Comments | evil_whimsey: Fic: Trope Bingo 4, xxxHolic Rou

evil_whimsey

Fic: Trope Bingo 4, xxxHolic Rou

Jun 25, 2012 19:21

This story made me insane. I thought when I was done, it would be amusing to describe how the thing came about. But at the moment, it doesn't seem amusing at all. I just want it gone from my head ( Read more... )

himawari, doumeki, xxxholic, fic, trope bingo

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ophelietta December 6 2012, 05:50:51 UTC

So, yes, HOLY HELL, this hit me much more than a ton of bricks.

When I saw that you wrote Himawari and Doumeki, I was like, "Yes! Hot damn! This deserves a chair dance!", and then I did one, and then I read it, and while reading it - skewered, that was the word I used in my comment on AO3, skewered. There are some stories that hit you at the right moment at the right time. Not even hit you, but enter you so keenly, a pure needle of light.

My life has been pretty rough lately and so I've been working hard to make my thinking more positive, but sometimes, you just really need to stare into the fucking abyss, because it is there. Flood it with light and gaze into it unflinching, because how else will you know what is there, what shape the monsters take? (There is a good story about this called "The Way of Cross and Sword and Dragon" by George R. R. Martin, about truth and lies.) I have more abstracty thoughts about this, but I feel like I should convert them to imagery and story. Let me think and write for a bit ( ... )

evil_whimsey December 6 2012, 19:45:28 UTC

It is possibly an inappropriate response, when someone tells you that you have skewered them, to come back with "I have decided I actually love you to pieces." But where writing is concerned, I'm intent on always being as sincere as humanly possible. And considering I've been in a post-meltdown stage, creatively and personally, for several months, I'm inclined to grab onto any rope I'm thrown ( ... )

evil_whimsey December 6 2012, 20:55:18 UTC

The Blanket one and The Chosen One tropes weren't too challenging. Tentacles (aka "The Pearl Diver") is my favorite, I think, in terms of the warpage I was aiming for. By the time I hit Accidental Stimulation, a bystander could probably have smelled the gears in my brain starting to burn. I started with brainstorming all over Google, to see what randomness regarding "stimulation" it might throw at me. I fetched up against the concept of Absolute Threshold, which is a perfectly delicious idea, with tons of acreage for growing metaphors. Particularly attractive was the bit on the absolute threshold of vision, and I tried for ages to figure out how to work the idea of 90 photons into something (absolute threshold for human vision was measured at 90 photons, with only half of those actually hitting the retina, and 20% of those reaching the fovea). But apparently that puzzle piece didn't belong in any jigsaw puzzle I had to hand, so it's gone up for adoption to anyone who'd like to tinker with it ( ... )