sotp
VERONICA MARS
Is on a kind of probation. Like I always say, I love her and I feel like I still have things to do with her, but I'm not doing most of them, and if I can't pull my shit together and do better by her this summer, I don't have much business keeping her hanging around because I have been saying all this for well over a year. Like, I keep saying I'll give her this item and I don't, and if I'm going to buckle down and work on this story, I don't know if I'll do the item next month either, but I should. I think it'll have to be a private post, though I'd take a few people on it if they wanted. I need to pull together, break out the DVDs and send out emails about doing that in a couple weeks. Right now it's not that I don't love her or can't play her - once I start writing the tags, they come out pretty fast and easy - I just don't feel the same impetus to put her out there and meet new people and I need to shake her up somehow.
UPCOMING: Item?
EDEN MCCAIN
Still needs to know more people, but I'm not worried about her. She's one of those it's super easy to keep around without needing to do much other than continue to take teenagers under her wing. Right now she's mostly just worried about Claire and whether or not she's doing a good job of taking care of her, which is always such an interesting thing to deal with in her because, of course, she loves Claire, so it's the natural thing to do, but protecting her was also kind of, you know, the one purpose she had in life before the island up until the end there, so there's a kind of an intersection there and it's intensely important to her, since Claire and her father are pretty much the only family Eden ever really had before the island. She also kind of loves Jason and the conversation they had about their deaths in the wake of Gideon's disappearance was really wonderful to play out, since it's not something she touches on much but which is kind of always there anyway. Losing Gideon hit her really hard, but thankfully, at this point, hasn't made her more difficult to play except in terms of having one less constant for threads. She's starting to lose some of that sense of being at peace with her situation, at least on the surface, and get back a bit of an edge, which I'm enjoying.
UPCOMING: More threads with everyone please. I don't know about EPing her next month, we'll see, but I wanna play her.
MEREDITH GREY
Still working on Homeplot, although we are getting near the end. I love everything about this, I roll around in it, ahh. It's got everything and it's been so much fun to write and shaken up a lot, in that Meredith gets a chance to sort of, sort of, get over her issues with regards to Sean's wife and she's finding she wants a lot of things she didn't necessarily think she wanted, and then to bring her back from that to a place where she doesn't really have that at all is… awful, actually, but great. She and Sean are engaged, and if your pup knows her, they probably know that, but things are in a bad state for them and she isn't talking about any of it much, because, as usual, when there's a crisis, she focuses on being the one who doesn't fall apart. She wants the wedding, but that's getting put off, and she's starting to want children, which really freaks her out and she can't think about because she's just trying to keep everything together. Sloan and George have disappeared, both of which hit hard for different reasons (George, of course, because he was one of her best friends, and Sloan, while she liked him, mostly because she feels like no one from her Seattle ever stays for long, so every disappearance makes her feel she's running out of time herself), but as with everything else, while she's moping some, she's largely in denial mode.
UPCOMING: Someday she'll EP again. I await the day, etc. etc. Continuing to deal with fallout from homeplot.
BRITTA PERRY
I always hesitate to say anything concrete about where she comes from, which makes Britta interesting, since a character's past is usually what I operate from, and right now I'm making a lot of unspoken assumptions. That said, ugh, I fucking love her. I feel I'm failing a little in terms of how ridiculous she can be and I'd like to get her out and about doing something, but for the most part, I'm content with where she is and we came up with a lot of things I can do with her earlier this month. I really hope you guys are still up for some of this stuff and please please please keep throwing people at her. She has her usual issues with Jeff, she's fighting with Annie which makes me stupid happy because it's so absurd and them, I was really happy canon supported me in having her continue dancing as well as on some other things, and I didn't need canon to tell me manpain is her kryptonite because even if I didn't already know this, I'd be discovering it as she develops a stupid crush on Dean. I'd want to beat her because that isn't happening, except doing stupid things is Britta's bread and butter, so there we go.
UPCOMING: Throwing her at people and making her do stupid things until something clicks? Hopefully an EP, but I don't know what yet.
OLIVE PENDERGHAST
Preciiiiiious. Ugh, you guys, can't stop, won't stop. I love pretty much everything I'm doing with her, every last thread. She has some really great friendships, she keeps herself entertained, I have a list of EP ideas as long as my arm, and it's really weird to think I've only had her three months. EVERYONE is welcome to tag her, please, whether they'd be friendly or antagonistic. She's found out about Claire's ability, which threw her for a bit of a loop, but at the end of the day, all she really cares about there is Claire herself, who has quickly become one of her best friends. She saw #dinosaurs, which made her happy, and she went to Harvard for homeplot weekend, where she got a chance to see (Eduardo's idea of) what Eduardo's life was actually like before the island, which would have made her ten times as protective of him even if it hadn't wound up leading to her blurting out All the Feelings, so now she also has a boyfriend, which presents a lot of interesting possibilities for me, considering canon. Like, not that everything revolves around boys for her, no matter how much she likes Eduardo, and one of my favorite things about Olive is that, while she has an interesting love interest thing going on, she has so much going on outside of that, and sometimes with pups, I've really only had the one and that isn't always enough to sustain a character, so - anyway, anyway, point is, because, you know, she's never dated anyone, never, until now, done anything but kiss, and canon is so fixated on her virginity or presumed lack thereof, it's an interesting thing to play with on the island, too. Not that she's having sex, they haven't even been together a month and it's going to be a while before they get to that point, not least because Eduardo is set on waiting for her to turn eighteen, but there are other things they can do before then and I'm sort of wanting her to, as she tends to do, push the limits a bit and then see what happens if she confides in friends? Not in detail, I mean, of course, she firmly believes that's no one's business, but given the way things go in canon, I sort of want her to deal with a little disapproval? I feel I sound like a weirdo now, but. It's one thing easily carried over from the source, basically.
Oh man, I'm finding I really love threading absolutely everything with her, though, because she's pretty blunt as a narrative voice, so there are times I'll skim over things with other pups or they just don't see things that way, but Olive is just an ordinary, if highly observant, teenage girl, so it makes sense for her to pick up on and focus on a lot of things I might otherwise gloss over, whether that's just appreciating things I sort of take for granted on the island with other pups or thinking less than complimentary things about people, not because she's mean but because people do, and she's just so honest and enthusiastic and it makes everything and everyone else that much more fun because playing her is just so refreshing, just because she's so fresh-eyed and unjaded, no matter how sarcastic she may be. Anyway, threads with everyone, gimme. EVERYONE.
UPCOMING: An EP this weekend and an item next month, plus next month she'll have her puppy in her EP. (She very happily agreed to take one of Jane Lipton's puppies, although she's pretty insistent on waiting a bit to take her just to make sure the dog's properly weaned and all before she does so, but it will be adorable and the name has been picked out for weeks and everything.)
THE FUTURE
Once I've got myself a bit more disciplined and I know I have the time to do her justice, I'd like to bring Mini McGuinness from Skins. This probably won't be before P4 or, more likely, P5, is pending another rewatch, and, I have to admit, I have some concerns about bringing her, just because I feel like everyone else sees her differently from how I do and it makes me nervous - not that I'm wrong but that I'm going to bring her and wind up caught in a never-ending stream of jokes about her sexuality that make me deeply uncomfortable. I'm torn because I'd really love to write her and she has a lot of potential, but I need to weigh whether or not I'm going to take things too personally for it to be worthwhile. I just find these things painful enough to see as it is without willingly subjecting myself to them, but at the same time, I really want to use fiction to tackle that, so I don't know yet what to do.
Before that, much more low-maintenance but complex enough to be very interesting, will be Cameron Winklevoss from The Social Network. I don't know, you guys, I love him so much, and it's really rare a male character clicks for me like this, but I really want to play him and he's just so easy to write (and as Sorkin characters go, there's much less pressure than there was with Donna). Again, though, I probably won't bring him earlier than June because I need to make a great deal of progress before I can allow myself to add anyone new to the roster, and you guys have to keep me on the straight and narrow because remember when I said that about Olive and look what happened.
Is on a kind of probation. Like I always say, I love her and I feel like I still have things to do with her, but I'm not doing most of them, and if I can't pull my shit together and do better by her this summer, I don't have much business keeping her hanging around because I have been saying all this for well over a year. Like, I keep saying I'll give her this item and I don't, and if I'm going to buckle down and work on this story, I don't know if I'll do the item next month either, but I should. I think it'll have to be a private post, though I'd take a few people on it if they wanted. I need to pull together, break out the DVDs and send out emails about doing that in a couple weeks. Right now it's not that I don't love her or can't play her - once I start writing the tags, they come out pretty fast and easy - I just don't feel the same impetus to put her out there and meet new people and I need to shake her up somehow.
UPCOMING: Item?
EDEN MCCAIN
Still needs to know more people, but I'm not worried about her. She's one of those it's super easy to keep around without needing to do much other than continue to take teenagers under her wing. Right now she's mostly just worried about Claire and whether or not she's doing a good job of taking care of her, which is always such an interesting thing to deal with in her because, of course, she loves Claire, so it's the natural thing to do, but protecting her was also kind of, you know, the one purpose she had in life before the island up until the end there, so there's a kind of an intersection there and it's intensely important to her, since Claire and her father are pretty much the only family Eden ever really had before the island. She also kind of loves Jason and the conversation they had about their deaths in the wake of Gideon's disappearance was really wonderful to play out, since it's not something she touches on much but which is kind of always there anyway. Losing Gideon hit her really hard, but thankfully, at this point, hasn't made her more difficult to play except in terms of having one less constant for threads. She's starting to lose some of that sense of being at peace with her situation, at least on the surface, and get back a bit of an edge, which I'm enjoying.
UPCOMING: More threads with everyone please. I don't know about EPing her next month, we'll see, but I wanna play her.
MEREDITH GREY
Still working on Homeplot, although we are getting near the end. I love everything about this, I roll around in it, ahh. It's got everything and it's been so much fun to write and shaken up a lot, in that Meredith gets a chance to sort of, sort of, get over her issues with regards to Sean's wife and she's finding she wants a lot of things she didn't necessarily think she wanted, and then to bring her back from that to a place where she doesn't really have that at all is… awful, actually, but great. She and Sean are engaged, and if your pup knows her, they probably know that, but things are in a bad state for them and she isn't talking about any of it much, because, as usual, when there's a crisis, she focuses on being the one who doesn't fall apart. She wants the wedding, but that's getting put off, and she's starting to want children, which really freaks her out and she can't think about because she's just trying to keep everything together. Sloan and George have disappeared, both of which hit hard for different reasons (George, of course, because he was one of her best friends, and Sloan, while she liked him, mostly because she feels like no one from her Seattle ever stays for long, so every disappearance makes her feel she's running out of time herself), but as with everything else, while she's moping some, she's largely in denial mode.
UPCOMING: Someday she'll EP again. I await the day, etc. etc. Continuing to deal with fallout from homeplot.
BRITTA PERRY
I always hesitate to say anything concrete about where she comes from, which makes Britta interesting, since a character's past is usually what I operate from, and right now I'm making a lot of unspoken assumptions. That said, ugh, I fucking love her. I feel I'm failing a little in terms of how ridiculous she can be and I'd like to get her out and about doing something, but for the most part, I'm content with where she is and we came up with a lot of things I can do with her earlier this month. I really hope you guys are still up for some of this stuff and please please please keep throwing people at her. She has her usual issues with Jeff, she's fighting with Annie which makes me stupid happy because it's so absurd and them, I was really happy canon supported me in having her continue dancing as well as on some other things, and I didn't need canon to tell me manpain is her kryptonite because even if I didn't already know this, I'd be discovering it as she develops a stupid crush on Dean. I'd want to beat her because that isn't happening, except doing stupid things is Britta's bread and butter, so there we go.
UPCOMING: Throwing her at people and making her do stupid things until something clicks? Hopefully an EP, but I don't know what yet.
OLIVE PENDERGHAST
Preciiiiiious. Ugh, you guys, can't stop, won't stop. I love pretty much everything I'm doing with her, every last thread. She has some really great friendships, she keeps herself entertained, I have a list of EP ideas as long as my arm, and it's really weird to think I've only had her three months. EVERYONE is welcome to tag her, please, whether they'd be friendly or antagonistic. She's found out about Claire's ability, which threw her for a bit of a loop, but at the end of the day, all she really cares about there is Claire herself, who has quickly become one of her best friends. She saw #dinosaurs, which made her happy, and she went to Harvard for homeplot weekend, where she got a chance to see (Eduardo's idea of) what Eduardo's life was actually like before the island, which would have made her ten times as protective of him even if it hadn't wound up leading to her blurting out All the Feelings, so now she also has a boyfriend, which presents a lot of interesting possibilities for me, considering canon. Like, not that everything revolves around boys for her, no matter how much she likes Eduardo, and one of my favorite things about Olive is that, while she has an interesting love interest thing going on, she has so much going on outside of that, and sometimes with pups, I've really only had the one and that isn't always enough to sustain a character, so - anyway, anyway, point is, because, you know, she's never dated anyone, never, until now, done anything but kiss, and canon is so fixated on her virginity or presumed lack thereof, it's an interesting thing to play with on the island, too. Not that she's having sex, they haven't even been together a month and it's going to be a while before they get to that point, not least because Eduardo is set on waiting for her to turn eighteen, but there are other things they can do before then and I'm sort of wanting her to, as she tends to do, push the limits a bit and then see what happens if she confides in friends? Not in detail, I mean, of course, she firmly believes that's no one's business, but given the way things go in canon, I sort of want her to deal with a little disapproval? I feel I sound like a weirdo now, but. It's one thing easily carried over from the source, basically.
Oh man, I'm finding I really love threading absolutely everything with her, though, because she's pretty blunt as a narrative voice, so there are times I'll skim over things with other pups or they just don't see things that way, but Olive is just an ordinary, if highly observant, teenage girl, so it makes sense for her to pick up on and focus on a lot of things I might otherwise gloss over, whether that's just appreciating things I sort of take for granted on the island with other pups or thinking less than complimentary things about people, not because she's mean but because people do, and she's just so honest and enthusiastic and it makes everything and everyone else that much more fun because playing her is just so refreshing, just because she's so fresh-eyed and unjaded, no matter how sarcastic she may be. Anyway, threads with everyone, gimme. EVERYONE.
UPCOMING: An EP this weekend and an item next month, plus next month she'll have her puppy in her EP. (She very happily agreed to take one of Jane Lipton's puppies, although she's pretty insistent on waiting a bit to take her just to make sure the dog's properly weaned and all before she does so, but it will be adorable and the name has been picked out for weeks and everything.)
THE FUTURE
Once I've got myself a bit more disciplined and I know I have the time to do her justice, I'd like to bring Mini McGuinness from Skins. This probably won't be before P4 or, more likely, P5, is pending another rewatch, and, I have to admit, I have some concerns about bringing her, just because I feel like everyone else sees her differently from how I do and it makes me nervous - not that I'm wrong but that I'm going to bring her and wind up caught in a never-ending stream of jokes about her sexuality that make me deeply uncomfortable. I'm torn because I'd really love to write her and she has a lot of potential, but I need to weigh whether or not I'm going to take things too personally for it to be worthwhile. I just find these things painful enough to see as it is without willingly subjecting myself to them, but at the same time, I really want to use fiction to tackle that, so I don't know yet what to do.
Before that, much more low-maintenance but complex enough to be very interesting, will be Cameron Winklevoss from The Social Network. I don't know, you guys, I love him so much, and it's really rare a male character clicks for me like this, but I really want to play him and he's just so easy to write (and as Sorkin characters go, there's much less pressure than there was with Donna). Again, though, I probably won't bring him earlier than June because I need to make a great deal of progress before I can allow myself to add anyone new to the roster, and you guys have to keep me on the straight and narrow because remember when I said that about Olive and look what happened.