We've got to stop meeting like this
Time for another semi-pointless update, yay!
In a few months, my mother will be moving out of the house she has been renting for almost nine years. Our brother, the youngest child, will be graduating high school this year, too, so I guess we're all kind of scattering, which is a bit sad... All four of us siblings are ridiculously close, and it will be weird not living together anymore, now that I've been back here long enough to get used to it. :(
Plans to move to San Francisco with my two best friends have sort-of fallen through; things are up in the air, at any rate, and now I'm not sure if I'll be moving to SF, New York (wth?), or maybe I'll just do something crazy and move to Japan to teach English (now that I have ESL teaching experience), or to Michigan for school and just get my effing Masters already. : / But I don't know that I'm quite ready to give up on a life of goof-offedness just yet! (<-- LIE. I'd go to grad school right now if it was an instant thing. What I'm not ready for is the whole annoying, protracted process of taking the GRE and applying to grad school, ugh.) WHAT AM I DOING WITH MY LIFE, GUYS?? lol
I have, amazingly, been getting progress on the Saiyuki vampire AU, most likely because I'm supposed to be working on my Sherlock Holmes Big Bang (more on this in a moment). Once this story is finally finished, though, it's looking likely that it will be the last Saiyuki thing Xpyne and I will do (because I'm making her draw me art for it, yesss). Which is a shame, as at one point there was still so much more I wanted to contribute to the fandom, but if the new Star Trek movie was the beginning of the end for me, I think the new Sherlock Holmes movie was the killing blow. :T
And while the Sherlock Holmes story I've started on is showing acceptable progress (go Soli, go!), I don't know that I'm cut out to be a 'serious business' writer in this fandom. Most of the 'good' Sherlock Holmes fic out there is, well, not necessarily depressing (though some of it indeed is), but more...somber, maybe? And I've come to realize that I would definitely classify my stuff as more "comedic" (as evidenced by the fact that of my unfinished first scene of almost 5,000 words, at least half of these are poetically-worded insults between Holmes and Watson, or one of them having fun at the other's expense, lol). Which I don't think is a bad thing, by any means, but definitely more a movie characterization than one based on the books. Which I like, because book!Watson is kind of a doormat when he's not understandably being a passive-aggressive bitch, but I don't know that I could feel like I'm writing anything "meaningful" in the fandom if it's not dealing with Serious Issues, like Drug Addiction, or Adultery, or Woe, Society Will Never Condone Our Homosexual Love... I dunno, perhaps I'll find a way to make it work, anyway, and Somehow Meaningful Tomfoolery will become my niche? ',:D
We shall see, we shall see... I like to believe that things will always turn out for the best.
In a few months, my mother will be moving out of the house she has been renting for almost nine years. Our brother, the youngest child, will be graduating high school this year, too, so I guess we're all kind of scattering, which is a bit sad... All four of us siblings are ridiculously close, and it will be weird not living together anymore, now that I've been back here long enough to get used to it. :(
Plans to move to San Francisco with my two best friends have sort-of fallen through; things are up in the air, at any rate, and now I'm not sure if I'll be moving to SF, New York (wth?), or maybe I'll just do something crazy and move to Japan to teach English (now that I have ESL teaching experience), or to Michigan for school and just get my effing Masters already. : / But I don't know that I'm quite ready to give up on a life of goof-offedness just yet! (<-- LIE. I'd go to grad school right now if it was an instant thing. What I'm not ready for is the whole annoying, protracted process of taking the GRE and applying to grad school, ugh.) WHAT AM I DOING WITH MY LIFE, GUYS?? lol
I have, amazingly, been getting progress on the Saiyuki vampire AU, most likely because I'm supposed to be working on my Sherlock Holmes Big Bang (more on this in a moment). Once this story is finally finished, though, it's looking likely that it will be the last Saiyuki thing Xpyne and I will do (because I'm making her draw me art for it, yesss). Which is a shame, as at one point there was still so much more I wanted to contribute to the fandom, but if the new Star Trek movie was the beginning of the end for me, I think the new Sherlock Holmes movie was the killing blow. :T
And while the Sherlock Holmes story I've started on is showing acceptable progress (go Soli, go!), I don't know that I'm cut out to be a 'serious business' writer in this fandom. Most of the 'good' Sherlock Holmes fic out there is, well, not necessarily depressing (though some of it indeed is), but more...somber, maybe? And I've come to realize that I would definitely classify my stuff as more "comedic" (as evidenced by the fact that of my unfinished first scene of almost 5,000 words, at least half of these are poetically-worded insults between Holmes and Watson, or one of them having fun at the other's expense, lol). Which I don't think is a bad thing, by any means, but definitely more a movie characterization than one based on the books. Which I like, because book!Watson is kind of a doormat when he's not understandably being a passive-aggressive bitch, but I don't know that I could feel like I'm writing anything "meaningful" in the fandom if it's not dealing with Serious Issues, like Drug Addiction, or Adultery, or Woe, Society Will Never Condone Our Homosexual Love... I dunno, perhaps I'll find a way to make it work, anyway, and Somehow Meaningful Tomfoolery will become my niche? ',:D
We shall see, we shall see... I like to believe that things will always turn out for the best.