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And now, for a rambly multi-fannish post. (I'm bored. My fic is broken. What do you expect?)
Of late I've been watching Angel, and I have no idea how many of the people on my flist watch that, but it is immensely fun and kind of horrifically tragic sometimes, as one might expect from Joss Whedon. I'm somewhere in the middle of season 3, and was getting all kinds of utterly adorable hints of Wes/Fred, which I was really kind of thrilled about. I mean, yes, it is het, but it is possibly the most adorable thing since baby baboons. Like, it is adorable enough to kill. And of course they couldn't have their audience all dying at once, so they curtailed the whole thing by making Wesley go all Jack the Ripper on Fred.
I'm really not sure what I'm sadder about with that: Fred is threatening to displace Ianto Jones as Unluckiest Supporting Character of the Millenium, it is true, and that's very upsetting, but Wes is so completely appalled. He cried! And he shut himself up in a dark room and didn't come out and Fred seems to be fine, because she's probably getting used to this sort of thing, but Wes totally is not. And of course Angel and Darla have to be drama queens and steal all the attention away from that angst, grumble grumble grumble. (I kid. I was actually really looking forward to that storyline resolving, but that was before the thing with Wes and Fred.)
Also, since when did Wes go from being the kind of pathetic, dependent nerd to being a kickass demon-slayer with whom I would totally like to hook up? I am somewhat disturbed by this development.
In other news, I've been trying to write sequels to some of my stuff, and I've been having some trouble with it. In particular I've been having issues with new sequels to Vigilante-verse and Criminal Justice. The problem with these is, I've put in enough hints at Things in previous installments that I could definitely slash the boys in a sequel, and I've been prodding at the idea of wandering that way. Criminal Justice, actually, isn't that much of a problem: it can and probably should, soon as Ray quits being bashful (as sweet as that is, it's bloody annoying when you've got a plotline to deal with). It's just a matter of seeing that first-time awkwardness through.
But Vigilante -- I really don't know. I mean, in my notes for Visiting Hours, I claimed "dubious and futile pre-slash", which is exactly what it is. There's something there, but it's so screwed up beyond any semblance of our usual F/K that it probably won't appeal to most people. More important is the "futile" bit. Where would I go with that? What kind of future could they possibly hope for? Do I have any right, as a writer, to put my characters in a relationship that has a tenuous future at best? Would anybody bother to read it?
And in the end the answer always is, well, of course I have the right to do it. Fangirls have the right to write all kinds of things, many far less reasonable than what I'm pondering. But I'm just not being able to convince Vigilante-verse Ray and Fraser to cooperate. They're asking me all these perfectly reasonable questions -- why would I take that risk? You just have a vested interest in writing cute things! -- and I can't justify anything. It's kind of infuriating, and I'm starting to think that I might be just this side of crazy for carrying on long rows with imaginary characters in my head that I didn't even create. *G*
Anyway. Thoughts, anyone?
Of late I've been watching Angel, and I have no idea how many of the people on my flist watch that, but it is immensely fun and kind of horrifically tragic sometimes, as one might expect from Joss Whedon. I'm somewhere in the middle of season 3, and was getting all kinds of utterly adorable hints of Wes/Fred, which I was really kind of thrilled about. I mean, yes, it is het, but it is possibly the most adorable thing since baby baboons. Like, it is adorable enough to kill. And of course they couldn't have their audience all dying at once, so they curtailed the whole thing by making Wesley go all Jack the Ripper on Fred.
I'm really not sure what I'm sadder about with that: Fred is threatening to displace Ianto Jones as Unluckiest Supporting Character of the Millenium, it is true, and that's very upsetting, but Wes is so completely appalled. He cried! And he shut himself up in a dark room and didn't come out and Fred seems to be fine, because she's probably getting used to this sort of thing, but Wes totally is not. And of course Angel and Darla have to be drama queens and steal all the attention away from that angst, grumble grumble grumble. (I kid. I was actually really looking forward to that storyline resolving, but that was before the thing with Wes and Fred.)
Also, since when did Wes go from being the kind of pathetic, dependent nerd to being a kickass demon-slayer with whom I would totally like to hook up? I am somewhat disturbed by this development.
In other news, I've been trying to write sequels to some of my stuff, and I've been having some trouble with it. In particular I've been having issues with new sequels to Vigilante-verse and Criminal Justice. The problem with these is, I've put in enough hints at Things in previous installments that I could definitely slash the boys in a sequel, and I've been prodding at the idea of wandering that way. Criminal Justice, actually, isn't that much of a problem: it can and probably should, soon as Ray quits being bashful (as sweet as that is, it's bloody annoying when you've got a plotline to deal with). It's just a matter of seeing that first-time awkwardness through.
But Vigilante -- I really don't know. I mean, in my notes for Visiting Hours, I claimed "dubious and futile pre-slash", which is exactly what it is. There's something there, but it's so screwed up beyond any semblance of our usual F/K that it probably won't appeal to most people. More important is the "futile" bit. Where would I go with that? What kind of future could they possibly hope for? Do I have any right, as a writer, to put my characters in a relationship that has a tenuous future at best? Would anybody bother to read it?
And in the end the answer always is, well, of course I have the right to do it. Fangirls have the right to write all kinds of things, many far less reasonable than what I'm pondering. But I'm just not being able to convince Vigilante-verse Ray and Fraser to cooperate. They're asking me all these perfectly reasonable questions -- why would I take that risk? You just have a vested interest in writing cute things! -- and I can't justify anything. It's kind of infuriating, and I'm starting to think that I might be just this side of crazy for carrying on long rows with imaginary characters in my head that I didn't even create. *G*
Anyway. Thoughts, anyone?