feeling pretty good

[janne_d]

about gacking the Writing Meme from brooklinegirl.

I got myself a lj account at the end of March, since when I have written 16 fics, though 2 of them I never actually got around to posting anywhere (oops).

due South
The Fine Art of Cartography, Double Take, Enlightenment, The First Time, For I Have Sinned, Hot and Bothered, Indulgence, Ray’s Secret, Untouchable, Watch and Learn
Never posted: Alleycat, It Takes Two

Highlander
Morchuis - posted on a message board and I can't be bothered finding a link for it now

Stargate: Atlantis
Forty-Fathom Dreams, Untitled Ronon/Sheppard thing, untitled girlJohn PWP


And here's the meme.


My favorite story of this year: Enlightenment, because Ray woke me up in the middle of the night demanding that I wrote it down.

My best story this year: The Fine Art of Cartography. For once I managed exactly what I had in my head

Story most underappreciated by the universe, in my opinion: Morchuis. It was appreciated, but not quite how I wanted it to be received, if that makes any sense

Most fun story: Enlightenment. Ray makes me laugh.

Most sexy story: girlJohn PWP. Seems I may have a kink...

Story with the single sexiest moment: Ray’s Secret. Specifically:

Because Fraser’s not just holding them now, he’s stroking them, strong fingers moving slowly right over the crotch of Ray’s second-favourite pair of panties and it feels like every blood cell in his body shoots straight into his dick at the sight, turning him on so fast he damn near gets whiplash.

“How do they make you feel?”

Fraser’s voice has gone all soft and velvety and Ray just has to look at him. Fraser doesn’t look horrified, or disgusted, or even like he’s freaking out. He looks focused. Fascinated. And when their eyes meet, Fraser’s are dark and hot and Ray has to swallow hard to keep from whimpering.

“How do they make you feel, Ray?”

“Pretty,” he blurts

"Holy crap, that's wrong, even for you" story: It Takes Two.

Story that shifted my own perceptions of the characters: For I Have Sinned. An angsty Bob Fraser appeared from somewhere.

Hardest story to write: Watch and Learn

Biggest Disappointment: Hot and Bothered. Didn't do what I wanted it to for the majority. I'm only really happy with the porn at the end.

Biggest Surprise: Forty-Fathom Dreams. Because I wasn't planning on writing SGA at all, and if I had, I would have expected something a lot less creepy. *shivers*

Most Unintentionally Telling Story: don't really know - I suck at self-analysis. If anyone wants to volunteer an option, go right ahead!

Comments

[torakowalski.livejournal.com]

Hot and Bothered. Didn't do what I wanted it to for the majority. I'm only really happy with the porn at the end

*cough* Oy, you, that was my birthday present... I thought it was great *g*

I'm curious about the two dS fics you haven't posted... have I read them?

Also, d'you know what would make girlJohn even sexier? Writing more! :P

[janne-d.livejournal.com]

Hot and Bothered just didn't end up being what I had in mind when I started, is all. Didn't mean to insult your present! :-)

Nope you haven't read them, they have never left my computer.

Also, d'you know what would make girlJohn even sexier? Writing more! :P

:-P right back atcha. I've stuck on the fact that I have no idea what a therapist like Heightmeyer would tell someone who just got involuntarily gender-switched. Ooh, cunning plan - I could just have him avoid seeing her until I've worked something out...

[bonspiel.livejournal.com]

If you ever turn up the link to your HL story, I'd love to read it. Most of the ppl still writing HL seem to be doing superlong epics with lots of OCs, which is such a committment readingwise. Of course, there may be an explosion of new stuff once the new movie comes out (please let it not suck).

[janne-d.livejournal.com]

Oddly enough, I just got done posting it above about 2 seconds ago!

It's only a drabble though, don't get too excited. Save that for when I get around to typing in a D/M totally irredeemable PWP I wrote before I even had a computer.

Um, on second thoughts, better not get excited about that either, it probably isn't very good at all...

I've kind of fallen out of the HL fandom - last time I looked at Seventh Dimension it hadn't been updated for months and I gave up on the mailing list I was on about 2 years back, though I check in with some people's web pages occasionally to see if they've updated. When I read stuff now, it is usually something I found ages ago and really liked - today I went and read through some of the Futures Without End stuff and that was great because I'd forgotten about a lot of those stories.

Scuttlebut on the new movie (Peter Wingfield's diary or something) says they are all excited to be doing it again. But apparently they were excited about Endgame too. I'm reserving judgement until I see some footage - and to be honest, it probably won't get a cinema release in the UK anyway, Endgame didn't.

[bonspiel.livejournal.com]

Yay, thanks for posting it. I think I'm still subscribed to HIGHLA-L on one of my email accounts, but I haven't read it in months. I read some of AP's postings from the new movie set, but honestly the plot description sounded like teh sux and I haven't wanted to have too much invested in it. I was an odd HL fan, actually, now that I think about it. I didn't read fanfic much during the show's run, but I did get into some of the discussion/meta; I started reading HL fic a lot more once the show was over. Maybe I have a preference for closed canon?

Endgame never got a theatrical release in the UK? Wow. It got like a 2 week release here and no one went, but at least that meant we could see the better ending (imo) rather than the changed one for the DVD release.

[janne-d.livejournal.com]

There was a different ending on the theatrical release? Oooh, did Faith die? Please, please tell me Faith died! I hadn't heard there was a different ending, I wonder why they changed it, instead of just putting them both on the DVD.

I never got to see the series properly, it was all fairly random order and very bitty - I think I mentioned the merry-go-round of the episodes on TV here before, so I probably wasn't the typical fan either. In fact, the first D/M fics I read, I didn't even know who Methos was! I never really read much discussion/meta, I was pretty much all about the slash (which I hadn't known existed before) - once I'd worked out who the hell this Methos character was anyway!

The closed canon thing is interesting. It does mean that all the information is there and that there is no possibility of getting Jossed (I don't know the equivalent HL term for that). I hadn't really thought of it before, but dS is obviously closed too, in fact unlike HL it was closed before I got into the fandom at all. I supposed it is a testament to the strength of people's liking for dS that the fandom is still so very active, while the HL fandom seems to be decaying - well, from my perspective which is biased. Maybe the new film will pick it up again.

[bonspiel.livejournal.com]

Yes, Faith died! The bitch. *g* It had the same scene with the dinner with the evil crew and the blood flying everywhere, and then it was implied that everyone died, rather than Faith being spared. The revised version made no freakin' sense to me when I saw it, even ignoring the Faith-hate factor.

D/M was my first personal interaction with slash in a fandom I cared about - in whatever ep of the series there is where they're working on Anne's house and Duncan paints Methos's nose, I remember the great flowering of discussion and fic that happened after that, it was epic. It was certainly the first time I agreed that there was unquestionable UST b/w guys on a show.

I think everyone's calling it Jossing everywhere now, it's become such a well-known term. :) I haven't done a lot of writing in any fandom, but for me the nice thing about a closed canon is that you know mostly that you're going to be pleased with the work in total. I tend to be a completist so if I start watching something and like it, I tend to keep watching it unless it really starts to bite, and I hate it when that happens (hi, Alias!). Of course the nice thing about an open canon is that you can look forward to new stuff every week or whenever.

I was thrilled to see that there was an active dS community still, and it was the main reason why I finally got LJ-fied - I recall being vaguely horrified by the drama of the Ray Wars on mailing lists and never got into dS fandom before because of it. (That and that whole graduating and trying to get a job thing. *g*)

[janne-d.livejournal.com]

Yay, Faith died! That makes me happy - why on earth they thought that having her survive could possibly equate in any way to a satisfying ending is beyond me. She was a total bitch, and yeah, she didn't get the best start at immortality (and I have a whole other issue with Duncan being that dumb) but they never showed us enough of her character, other than when she was evil, for me to care. And we're supposed to believe that someone who was apparently quite happy hanging about with completely-dishonourable-psycho Kell for god knows how long is suddenly going to see the light of redemption and become nice again as soon as he's dead? Pull the other one, it's got bells on. I did read a fic where they interpreted Faith pretty much how I saw her - (The Final Tally (http://www.seventh-dimension.org/stories/Bywater/FinalTally.txt) by Bywater, if you're interested) ie. a total fucked-up bitch that Duncan should stay well away from.


the nice thing about a closed canon is that you know mostly that you're going to be pleased with the work in total

Yeah, that is nice! And it is so rotten when something you like starts going off the rails - I started off watching Angel but it kind of lost me in the 2nd series and I just couldn't work up any interest in the 3rd at all and I was so disappointed because I wanted to really enjoy it.

[bonspiel.livejournal.com]

Pull the other one, it's got bells on.
Exactly. Faith did get screwed over, but it's hard to feel sympathy for her when she was so wishy-washy and amoral herself. Honestly, I could never get past the whole thing that the writers ignored HL canon, which was that Duncan never got married, just to have the weird Kate/Faith storyline which didn't require a marriage to work anyway. (Plus, she was the chick who slept with Hugh Grant in Bridget Jones. Heh.) At least if Kell killed her, her character's arc makes sense, whereas the revised ending, where she's all "I am superbitter and everything about living forever sucks, yet I don't want to die either"...

Thanks for the fic link too; interesting premise, I like the Faith there (there was always something weird Faith/Kell-wise, imo).

Ah, poor Angel. It had interesting moments, but it never hung together very well for me. It's always hard to make a spinoff show as engaging as the original, especially as writers and actors shift around. Have you seen Firefly/Serenity?

[janne-d.livejournal.com]

Plus, she was the chick who slept with Hugh Grant in Bridget Jones OMG, so she was! I never clicked until you said that. Yeuch.

I absolutely adore Firefly/Serenity - I saw Serenity first and it blew me away and then I just had to buy Firefly because I wanted to know more about all of these people. I actually just finished rewatching Objects in Space about 5 minutes ago! I can't wait for Serenity to come out on DVD either. (The Firefly theme song sucks big rocks though - what was he thinking?)