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valinor spider party ([personal profile] aria) wrote2010-12-08 10:29 am
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in two worlds

Things I am doing instead of writing my Yuletide:

+ writing post-Covenant Nick/Alan
+ writing an odd Highlander/Young Wizards crossover in which Nita is trying to figure out whether she needs to stop the Gathering, and also is having tea with Methos
+ reading more Vorkosigan books
+ talking about absurd Killjoys/RocknRolla fusion fic with [personal profile] feverbeats

Things I am not doing instead of writing my Yuletide:

+ packing

I still love my Yuletide! And I am over word count, so that isn't an issue. I just have this absurd notion that my Yuletide needs plot, and the plot is being rather shy. Ah well. How goes everyone else's Yuletide writing?
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[personal profile] ellen_fremedon 2010-12-08 04:53 pm (UTC)(link)
I have spent 12 hours knitting in the last three days rather than face my Yuletide. I am flailing. Not to mention panicking.
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[personal profile] aria 2010-12-08 04:54 pm (UTC)(link)
December: the month of SHEER PANIC.

I hope you have produced some cool results from all that knitting, anyway. :)
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[personal profile] ellen_fremedon 2010-12-08 05:10 pm (UTC)(link)
Started and finished the intarsia panel of my sweater, so the rest of it should be easy up to the finishing stage.
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[personal profile] labellementeuse 2010-12-08 06:32 pm (UTC)(link)
OH HEY ME TOO, but uh, christmas knitting is important too right? That's what I keep telling myself, anyway.

I haven't even reviewed my source yet. Even though I can do that *while knitting*. eeesh. but my assignment was one line and my writer doesn't have a letter up and it's bugging me.
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[personal profile] aria 2010-12-08 06:36 pm (UTC)(link)
Christmas knitting totally is important too!

And oh man, I'm sorry! That happened to me once, although I did eventually get more specifics after crying at the mods. Hopefully this will happen for you too! And if not, hey, write whatever you are moved to write. <3

(PS, I adore that your name is WORRYINGLY JOLLY BATMAN. Is that recent or have I managed to miss it? And what's the story there?)
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[personal profile] labellementeuse 2010-12-08 07:05 pm (UTC)(link)
Yeah, it didn't really occur to me to write because I don't really want more fandom-specific detail, I just want to know about zir, but uh, maybe I will anyway.

It is recent! It's a quote from a recent issue of Batman & Robin. I don't know if you know this, but Bruce Wayne was dead for awhile and Dick Grayson became Batman and Damian Wayne, Bruce's illegitimate kid by Talia al Ghul who was raised by her and is a serious dick, became Robin. Bruce Wayne is back from the dead and is now, like, *franchising* Batman, which leads to this hilarious (and mid-firefight, of course) conversation between Dick and Damian. They have just busted into a church and Damian complained that they both used a funny line as they entered, which they should try not to do. Being a superhero isn't supposed to be for fun. Dick thinks they can have fun doing it anyway, which Damian thinks is an attitude he didn't have when Bruce was still dead (not really true - Dick definitely wasn't faking being Bruce. Any emotional downtick might just have been, you know, mourning his adoptive father ... but I digress.)

And then Damian asks, "Consider: hasn't the formation of Batman: Incorporated, the return of the original, given everyone license to be their own sort of Batman? In your case, worryingly jolly Batman?"

And I basically thought "worryingly jolly Batman" was the best thing ever BECAUSE IT TRANSPARENTLY IS.
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[personal profile] aria 2010-12-08 07:07 pm (UTC)(link)
...That entire story is so great I don't have WORDS. Dick Grayson: worryingly jolly Batman! Oh be still my heart. :DDD
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[personal profile] ellen_fremedon 2010-12-08 06:36 pm (UTC)(link)
It's not even Christmas knitting! It's a sweater for me; it doesn't have a deadline.
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[personal profile] labellementeuse 2010-12-08 06:54 pm (UTC)(link)
Well, that's important too. :P
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[personal profile] sophia_sol 2010-12-08 07:15 pm (UTC)(link)
What I have been doing instead of Yuletide:
- sleeping
- reading
- cleaning all the things
- working on organizing my Delicious

What I have not been doing instead of Yuletide:
- studying for exams.

Yuletide is, er, mostly going well, by which I mean I'm at twice required wordcount, but it's missing the most crucial sections: the entire middle part where STUFF HAPPENS, and the entire ending where THINGS GET WRAPPED UP. And I dun wanna write those bits.
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[personal profile] aria 2010-12-08 08:10 pm (UTC)(link)
Hah, yes, writing the bits you don't want to write! /o\ I meanwhile am at 3000 words and ... about a fourth of the way through? My inability to write short things, let me show you it.
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[personal profile] starlady 2010-12-08 07:20 pm (UTC)(link)
I'm still in the middle of my source review. I could sit down and pound out 1000 words right now, and it's becoming increasingly likely that that's what I will do on Dec. 16 when I wake up in Jersey with no schoolwork.

What have I been doing instead? All the papers, and all the translations! Augh!
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[personal profile] aria 2010-12-08 08:10 pm (UTC)(link)
Sitting down and pounding out words is the best way to write things! Or at least it is for me most of the time.

At least the things you have been doing instead are legit school things. :)
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[personal profile] fahye 2010-12-08 11:16 pm (UTC)(link)
I am trying to convince myself that the fact I have only written 958 words means I might actually end up with a SHORT FIC for once, and not that I will end up weeping and ingesting coffee like a fiend in the last five days.
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[personal profile] aria 2010-12-09 12:50 am (UTC)(link)
Ahahaha. You and me both, honey. <3
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[personal profile] songofsongs 2010-12-09 12:47 am (UTC)(link)
+ writing post-Covenant Nick/Alan

HolyshitwaitWHAT? REALLY? OMGOMGOMGOMGYESPLZTIMESABILLION.
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[personal profile] aria 2010-12-09 12:49 am (UTC)(link)
OH MY GOD OKAY I JUST READ THESE BOOKS AND I AM SO STUPIDLY IN LOVE. I THINK WE SHOULD BOND OVER THIS.

And yes! Nick/Alan is so my new OTP it is kind of unreal. So now I am writing them! Let me tell you, writing Nick's POV is ridiculously fun and also ridiculously hard. Sociopaths and the liars who love them! :DDD
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[personal profile] songofsongs 2010-12-09 01:02 am (UTC)(link)
AAAAAAAAAAAH! I am so excited you read these!

Nick/Alan makes me have so many feelings. They are adorable and tragic and care about each other so much and are together against the big bad world even when they don't understand what the hell the other is on about. I like that they're not in any way solid- they obviously deeply love each other, but they also have some Serious Issues, with little to no resolution in sight. And they're both so very imperfect.

Yes, I am a sadist when it comes to fictional relationships. WHATEVER.

The only problem is that this ship does not involve my favorite. I am deeply in love with Jamie, every scene he's in makes me squee, and every scene that has Nick and Jamie makes me laugh so hard I feel like dying. I want them to make out so badly it is near physical pain. The thing about Jamie is that he was adorable and clever and relatable and nice enough (and, y'know, visibly queer, which I'm not going to lie gives character +100 love points to me) so I really enjoyed him in the first book, but was mostly All About the Nick/Alan, and then his wizardly powers came along and he started being all flirty with Baddy McBad Magician, and suddenly I LOVED HIM. I DON'T EVEN KNOW. I CANNOT CHOOSE.
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[personal profile] aria 2010-12-09 01:13 am (UTC)(link)
Yesssss. FEELINGS. I mean, I have been hashing out all my epic Nick/Alan feelings to Scott for the past two days, so I have many, many thoughts on them now, but you've basically covered it! It's just -- god, that scene where Mae tells Nick that Alan's going to betray him, and Nick freaks out and calls up a storm and then goes downstairs to confront Alan about it? Their conversation was possibly one of the most gorgeous things I've ever read in my life; and oh god, the bit where Nick says, "Betray me. Turn me over to the magicians, take the magic, do whatever you think you need to do, I don't care. But don't leave." I CLUTCHED MY FACE SO HARD. Oh, and Alan loves Nick best of everything in two worlds, and sometimes Nick wants to be human for him. *heartclutch*

Anyway, um, yes, OTP, quite a lot.

I also hear you on the Jamie front, though! Jamie is WONDERFUL. <333 And it's funny, because ... my shipping is sort of the opposite of your shipping! For the whole first book, I was immensely charmed by Jamie and adored all his scenes with Nick, and I shipped them really hard! Meanwhile, I was making a conscious effort to not ship Nick/Alan, because -- look, there's a reason I never watched Supernatural. (Okay, there are several reasons. But still.) I try not to ship siblings! It is one of my arbitrary fic lines. So imagine my relief when it turned out their relationship was much more ridiculously complicated than that!

So now I sort of want awful Jamie/Gerald instead? I KNOW I KNOW. /o\

(Oh, and also, if we're talking about all my ships: Mae/Sin, y/y/mfy?)
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[personal profile] innocentsmith 2010-12-09 05:29 am (UTC)(link)
Thing I have been doing instead of my Yuletide: squeaking with delight at seeing Ms. Rees Brennan has just put up the first half of a story set during Covenant! A story about Nick and Jamie becoming friends, which is delightful, and also Jamie has MANY FEELINGS, which makes me want to cuddle him and feed him soup.

It's wonderful. Yay for authors who fic their own series!
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[personal profile] aria 2010-12-09 08:43 pm (UTC)(link)
Oooh, DELIGHT. I already have a mental note-to-self to read all the Lexicon-universe extras she's put up, but I am extra happy that that one exists. :DDD
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[personal profile] innocentsmith 2010-12-10 03:07 am (UTC)(link)
Oh, you totally should, ASAP. In some ways I almost like them better than the books, except that they wouldn't quite work without the context of the books. They also really illuminate certain characters - I wasn't really interested in Gerald at all until I read his story; at the same time, there's this other story about demonic possession, which is TERRIFYING, and which has basically ensured that, however interesting or sympathetic the magicians (other than Jamie, of course) may seem to be at times, I will never be getting over them giving people to demons. *shudder*

The one about Olivia and Marie and Daniel is lovely. And "Nick's First Word" is one of my favorite things ever.
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