aria | twenty-one WIPs isn't too alarming

This meme would really only be interesting if I did my original WIP folder instead of my fandom one, which only has one or two things in it.

I think I remember you telling me about every single one of these, except possibly the Narnia/YW and the WC one.

Heh. I suppose you could do it with your original WIP folder, though.

The Narnia/YW one is, um, who knows if it'll ever get written, but basically Lucy finds the wizard's manual at Professor Kirke's house, and LWW is her Ordeal.

The White Collar one is extremely nebulous! IDK, I just want to contribute yet another OT3 fic, I guess.

"who knows if it'll ever get written."

:( That makes me terribly sad because it sounds AMAZING. AND EXCITING AND AWESOME. AND YAY BRILLIANT CROSSOVERS! What are the chances you'd be willing to post a tiny snippet of that fic if you've written enough?

I do want to write it! I just have not figured out the logistics, so it's low on the priority list right now. Here is the extent of what I have so far (that is actual fic & not notes):

It was their second day in the country, and Lucy had found a book.

She and her sister and two brothers had been exploring the house all morning. It was a big old house full of curious rooms; both Peter and Edmund had been very impressed with the long gallery that, besides having portraits lining the walls, also had a real suit of armor standing sentry at one end; and Lucy had been intrigued by a little room in possession of nothing but a handsomely carved wardrobe, sitting there by itself. But eventually poking their heads into room after room had lost its novelty, and they couldn't go exploring outside, because it was raining a steady hard summer rain. The boys had gone back to the suit of armor, probably to figure out how to take it apart, and Lucy had followed Susan to a cozy room full of books.

Susan had pulled out a huge and rather intimidating encyclopedia, and was reading it with serious concentration. Lucy meanwhile wandered up and down the shelves, trying to find something more suitable. Most of the books were possessed of long and complicated titles; this didn't surprise Lucy much, since the house belonged to an old man who was a professor of something, and he probably enjoyed long books with complicated, academic-sounding titles. Lucy thought she might appreciate them with another decade of schooling.

Then, among all the large books, Lucy discovered a small one. It was tucked away between two big volumes, but when Lucy hooked a finger over the top of its spine and tugged gently, the book slid right out. It was a small and handsome book, rather beat up, with faded gold lettering on the cover that said, matter-of-factly, A Wizard's Manual. It was exactly the sort of thing Lucy had been hoping to find in a big old house on a rainy day, and it looked interesting enough that it promised to distract her, as exploring hadn't, from the thought of Mum still back in London during the air-raids.

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I knew I wanted this fic! It's just so lovely!
... then again, I want all the fic you ever write that pertains to my fandoms. And then some. So you know, I'll live.

WHAT WHAT FRASER IS SUPERMAN?!?!? WHERE HAS THIS FIC BEEN ALL MY LIFE. Please DO tell me about it if you like!

:DDD Well, basically, Kal-El crash-lands in Canada and is raised by George and Martha Fraser! He first comes to Chicago on the trail of Lex Luthor, who possibly has Victoria's meeting-Fraser backstory. Vecchio is Lois Lane, and Kowalski is Batman. That's pretty much all I know so far! But man it would be fun.

sfjakslfjdal;sfjda DO WANT to this entire comment.

I am still trying to work out the Kowalski-is-Batman bits, though! I still want him to be Ray, so his Batman motivation has to not be "MY PARENTS DIED I AM A SAD ORPHAN" but instead, "Well, law's not working, we'll clean up the city MY WAY." Which is all well and good! BUT HOW DO YOU FUND YOUR GADGETS, RAY? Not on a cop's salary you don't. :|

S-SECRET GENIUS AND JURY-RIGGING?

KOWALSKI AS HOMEMADE BATMAN. I think I kind of dig it.

Okay, I REALLY want to know about the one called "The Mobius Queen" and the Twilight fic.

The Möbius Queen is the fic where Susan is Jadis. Basically, after the train crash that kills all her siblings, Susan figures out that if time moves differently in different worlds, hypothetically she could travel backwards in time and stop her siblings from being killed. Along the way she ends up in Charn, and it goes from there. Incidentally, Aslan is definitely the villain in this one, and I am pretty sure it doesn't have an unhappy ending (even if you can't really win against Aslan).

The Twilight fic is just, um, I am not quite sure what it is? It has Bella with agency and Edward/Jacob and possibly Alice/Bella, and IDK, I just want to write Twilight fic that would really piss Stephanie Meyer off.

The Möbius Queen is the fic where Susan is Jadis. Basically, after the train crash that kills all her siblings, Susan figures out that if time moves differently in different worlds, hypothetically she could travel backwards in time and stop her siblings from being killed. Along the way she ends up in Charn, and it goes from there. Incidentally, Aslan is definitely the villain in this one, and I am pretty sure it doesn't have an unhappy ending (even if you can't really win against Aslan).

I would ADORE that. That would be fantastic. Please please please finish it.

The Twilight fic is just, um, I am not quite sure what it is? It has Bella with agency and Edward/Jacob and possibly Alice/Bella, and IDK, I just want to write Twilight fic that would really piss Stephanie Meyer off.

Did you know that I'm one of the maintainers of a comm on LJ called Twispitefic? The stories takes Twilight canon and...oh, they put logical spins on things. They show Bella with backbone, or actually having a comprehensible reason why becoming a vampire is a good option. They give Emily Young (the woman mutilated by werewolf Sam Uley) and Esme Cullen (Carlisle's submissive and forgettable wife) agency and a voice. Edward gets laughed at by Buffy. There are crazy crossovers, take THATs and canon twists that are sometimes genuinely horrifying (Das_mervin's "Kiri, Kiri" definitely falls in that category).

Oh, and Emmett Cullen, Charlie Swan and Leah Clearwater are the mascots, because they are accidentally awesome and deserve a better canon than the one they are stuck in.

http://community.livejournal.com/twispitefic/profile

I suspect that most of the stories would make Meyer absolutely furious. It is NOT a place for Twifans--it's one for people who need to explode in angrily creative ways.

By the way, I'd consider Alice/Bella canon. Check out this bit from one of the Twilight outtakes. Meyer wrote this. I'm not sure she realizes what she wrote, but she did write this:

Alice sat with me on the black leather back seat. Somehow, during the long night, my head had ended up against her granite neck, her cool arms enfolding me, her cheek pressed against the top of my head. The front of her thin cotton shirt was cold, damp with my tears. Now and then, if my breathing grew uneven, she would murmur soothingly; in her fast, high voice, the encouragements sounded like singing. To keep myself calm, I focused on the touch of her cold skin; it felt like a physical connection to Edward.

It is CANON, y'all. (Or at least it was intended to be.)

Edited 2011-02-15 19:24 (UTC)

There are a few technical glitches (mostly having to do with Lewis' internal timeline and backstory things) to work out, and then I have to momentarily shut off my six-year-old voice that insists ASLAN IS GOOD AND WONDERFUL AND REAL because it's a bit difficult to write Aslan as the villain if I'm listening to that voice. But it should get done!

Re: the Twilight fic comm, OH HOW SO AWESOME. :D In the Venn diagram of (people who love Twilight (people who think Twilight is rubbish but are deeply entertained anyway) people who HATE Twilight) I am firmly in the middle, and I want all the transformative fic that fucks with canon. So thank you for linking me to that!

I ... may ship Alice/Bella kind of hard. So I am sparkly-eyed with joy about that passage. Oh Meyer, you know not what you write. (This is particularly apropos because I'm also in the middle of writing Carmilla fic in which at the end she turns Laura and they run away to be lesbian vampires together, precisely because this was what Le Fanu was terrified of and railing against. I am beginning to sense a pattern in my writing. :D)

There are a few technical glitches (mostly having to do with Lewis' internal timeline and backstory things) to work out, and then I have to momentarily shut off my six-year-old voice that insists ASLAN IS GOOD AND WONDERFUL AND REAL because it's a bit difficult to write Aslan as the villain if I'm listening to that voice. But it should get done!

I suppose Aslan could be a Well-Intentioned Extremist. Or a Visionary Villain.

So glad you like the link!

Twilight IS rubbish, in my opinion, but sporking the canon and then writing furious spitefics is remarkably entertaining. Definitely NOT what Meyer had in mind, but entertaining.

I don't ship Bella with anyone--you know me and shipping. But I'm firmly convinced that one reason that Alice loves to take Bella shopping is that she can go in the dressing room with Bella and watch her strip. I'm also convinced that Jasper knows beyond any doubt that his wife wants to do Bella...and finds the idea kinda hot.

I really want to do a Twilight AU for AU_bigbang. The thing is, do I go with the Twilight/SPN crossover about Bella's mother being badass and the Cullens using Bella as bait, or the Twilight/SPN/Dresden Files crossover with snarky ghosts, nerdy werewolves, two women POCs kicking ass, and Harry Dresden being creeped out by the Angel Castiel?

(This is particularly apropos because I'm also in the middle of writing Carmilla fic in which at the end she turns Laura and they run away to be lesbian vampires together, precisely because this was what Le Fanu was terrified of and railing against.

I wonder if LeFanu realized what he was writing...because they TOTALLY come across as a couple. It's very obvious that Carmilla is interested in Laura and that Laura is responding without quite knowing why. If he was really scared of female sexuality, that makes the story even BETTER.

Did you know that I'm one of the maintainers of a comm on LJ called Twispitefic?

Oh my God, this looks so amazing. I've only read the first Twilight book, but I would actually try to finish the rest if it meant participating in text transformation like this. *_____*

It all started quite by accident, really. See, Das_mervin has a sporking comm called Das_sporking, and she started doing the Twilight books. Chapter by chapter. In the sporking of the first book she did a fair number of spitefics, and I tossed in a few commentfics toward the end.

But then came the sporking of New Moon.

A book where 84% of the content is about Bella not getting over being dumped, using Jacob, treating her father like dirt, and spouting anti-human speeches.

And spitefics, both in the sporkings themselves and in the comments, BLOSSOMED.

Fifty-four thousand words of them.

Basically, the members of Das_sporking wrote a novel's worth of spitefics. So Mervin started a new comm, because keeping track of all the spitefics in the comments was almost impossible, and she wanted them to be read.

It's the most fun I've had in fandom for AGES.

...THE EXISTENCE OF THAT COMM. It makes me so happy! Clearly I need to go and read ALL THE FIC on it.

Look On My Works, Ye Mighty, And Despair

"Works" refers to your WIP:s here, right? *giggles*

Hmm. Please tell me about "The Windhover"! Is it about Victoria?

*dies* Thanks, now I want to change my WIP tag to that.

The Windhover is indeed about Victoria! Basically, she turns up again sometime after MotB; she thought Fraser had died when Vecchio shot him, but she happens to read a news article about the MotB case, notices that Detective Vecchio looks nothing like he's supposed to, and comes back to Chicago to ask/blackmail Fraser into running away with her.

To be honest it'd probably be written by now, except that I can't figure out how to save Fraser from Victoria. /o\ And I really don't want to kill her, which seems like the only obvious solution. So I am waiting patiently for something to come to me.

Ooh, interesting! Is it in Victoria's POV or someone else's?

I have an idea for a story about Victoria, too, but it hasn't quite solidified yet. Basically, it's a post-Victoria's Secret story where she gets a life of her own and gets over Fraser (although it takes some time). Hmm, I think she doesn't do any more bank robbery stuff and instead becomes an only-halfway-criminal computer hacker and gets together with another female hacker.

...you may have just solved one of the fic's major problems, actually! At the moment it's Fraser's POV, but this has several disadvantages: [a] Victoria and Ray have a few really important scenes together, but it doesn't work too well as Ray's story, and [b] it is like pulling teeth to get Fraser to be articulate about his emotions, especially the ones that are as complicated as his feelings for Victoria. If it is Victoria's POV it is at least potentially much easier! So omg thank you. :D

I am so in favor of Victoria getting over Fraser, becoming a hacker, and having a romance with another female hacker, I can't even express my sheer delight at this. \o/

Glad I could help! *beams*

And I'm glad you are in favor of my idea! It will hopefully be written some time, but probably not soon.

And now you've got me wondering about how a Smallville/Young Wizards crossover would work. :D

I would like to ask about the Care and Feeding of Your Atomic Bomb, just because I love the title.

*dies* Uh. Well, the only answer I have is OBVIOUSLY CHLOE WOULD BE A WIZARD. But beyond that, I got nothin'.

The Care and Feeding of Your Atomic Bomb is the Martha/Rose fic I mention occasionally! Martha falls through the Rift into the AU where Rose lives, and together they fight crime and become BFFs and shag. Mostly I haven't written it because I have no idea what to do with human!Doctor. It's not his fault I'm annoyed with Ten for how he treated Rose and Martha.

Ah, right, that fic! I kinda had been thinking from the title that it was going to be a Doctor/Master fic, because who else would be an atomic bomb, but this is also excellent! And yeah, WHO KNOWS what to do with human!Doctor in that situation. I don't even know.

I mean, I don't know what would happen with the human!Doctor in ANY version of the universe, because frankly I think he'd go mad being stuck always and always in just one place!

To be honest, right now my only solution is to have it be the companion fic to Such Deliberate Disguises, in which Simm!Master escapes the Time War, but escapes into slightly the wrong universe. And then he and human!Doctor go on adventures.

Lolol I am genuinely trying to write out a DUDE who gets in the way of my FEMSLASH. My work here is done.

I think this is an excellent solution!

Lolol I am genuinely trying to write out a DUDE who gets in the way of my FEMSLASH

That is a THING OF BEAUTY.

See, the thing that the human Doctor needs to do is BE THE DOCTOR EMOTIONALLY but have the memories of both the Doctor and Donna. Which would be very confusing--he'd have memories of being the wrong sex and the wrong species, and he'd know beyond question that he LOOKED like the one that Rose fell for but that he wasn't the same guy that Rose fell for. And since Donna got all messed up being a physical blend of human and Time Lord, the human Doctor should be all messed up as well. And having to find some way just to survive...on a planet that doesn't have the right kind of technology. And if he ever did manage to stabilize his body, he'd have to deal with the fact that he was effectively imprisoned on Earth (which the Third Doctor had to deal with for his entire existence as the Third Doctor, and it nearly drove him insane). He'd want his TARDIS. And space. And the Time Vortex. And freedom.

Eventually he would have to figure out if the man that he remembered the Doctor being was the person that he himself wanted--or needed--to be. (And that maybe being part Donna was actually awesome.)

Edited 2011-02-16 08:20 (UTC)

Do I correctly read one of those as a Highlander/Young Wizards cross? Because that sounds...complicated.

The logistics of a Smallville/YW cross would also be complicated, albeit in a different way; I'd think it would almost have to veer sharply AU from wherever in SV continuity one introduced the convergence.

Me, I've been noodling in my head (though not on my hard drive) about how to engineer a cross between Young Wizards and Castle....

Yep! It's basically about how the New York wizards think the Gathering might be happening, and they're a bit concerned, but since there are no Immortal wizards, they don't know whether they should interfere or not. So Nita starts researching Immortals, and makes friends with the wizards' Immortal contact, who happens to be Adam Pierson. Then PLOT. And origin myths and complicated things about Methos &c &c.

I am with you on the Smallville/YW cross. My only thoughts on that subject are "Chloe would be an awesome wizard."

I have not actually seen any Castle! But I am all in favor of more YW crossovers. :D

Reading these descriptions makes me want ALL THE FIC. ALL OF IT. YOU HAVE MY SUPPORT, IS MY SUBTLE SUBTEXT. Tell me more tell me more ~~(like does he have a car?)~~ about Queer Edmund! Which I definitely just typoed into Queen Edmund, way to go, self.

*dies dies dies* Okay, so the queer Edmund doc is less an actual fic than it is a collection of bits of fic? What it actually wants to be is a MONSTER FIC IN THREE PARTS.

Part one: young King Edmund has massive gay panic because he has a crush on one of his courtiers/advisers, Peridan (who is an actualfax character! he turns up in Horse and His Boy and hangs out with Edmund :D). Eventually Edmund goes and talks to Aslan about it, because all I really want in life is for Aslan to tell everyone that it's okay to be a big queer. And then Edmund is with Peridan and everything is joyous!

Part two: Edmund is back being a young teenager in 1940s England. This really sucks, but he still deals with it better than his siblings do. Oh and he has some crush at school that he can't do a thing about.

Part three: briefly Prince Caspian, but mostly Dawn Treader, the retelling as an Edmund/Caspian story edition!

IT IS KIND OF ABSURD, IS WHAT I'M TRYING TO SAY.

I am so onboard for the Epic Adventures of Queer Edmund (Queer Edventures for short? I am punchy today), you don't even KNOW. Also any of your Narnia fic, really. The only Narnia idea currently living in my brain focuses on the horror of returning to childhood from adulthood and also there is--Peter/Susan? My childhood weeps at this idea, so I haven't even committed it to writing.

Queer Edventures for short?

Excuse me while I SCREAM WITH LAUGHTER. <3

I am curious to know more about the Narnia idea in your brain! My childhood is a little horrified, but then, my childhood was a little horrified when the LWW film came out and everyone started shipping Peter/Edmund. It's cool, I've been in fandom long enough that I am not judging your Peter/Susan ideas.

Days later, I respond!

Basically, I figure Narnia would have a more lax attitude about incest, and hey, who wants an outsider to come in when you already have two kings and two queens? (Which isn't to say that they couldn't have had dozens of lovers. Anyway.) Then the Pevensies return to our world, and Susan's repression of inappropriate brotherly love turns into repression of all that is Narnia. I would need to write an EPIC to do justice to all the complications, so this will probably never leave Idea Land.

Waaaaaaant. Soooooo much.

(BTW, I'm still in the process of reading your V-Day fics and will coment at the end, but I'm *heartbroken* you didn't write me Sanctuary. I'll just have to continue to bug you about. Also to tell you to watch second season. Because it keeps getting more and more awesome. Including canon kinky!Tesla. HOW CAN YOU RESIST?!)

I am so ridiculously sorry I did not get to yours! But I realized that I hadn't watched it in a while and didn't have any of the voices. :/ Rain check on that fic! Also OMG TELL ME ABOUT CANON KINKY!TESLA, THIS IS RELEVANT TO ALL OF MY INTERESTS.

*head tilts* What's "Such Deliberate Disguises" about?

Crazy!Ten and Time War fics. I am so there.

Also, the Fraser is Superman thing sounds really cool. Although I think Fraser is much more interesting than most canonical DCU stuff I have read. Like, I think Fraser knows that his take on honor and justice is a big fairytale. It's a fairytale he pretty consciously chooses, because if his example makes one person believes in it with him, just a little bit, the world is a better place. And that if he doesn't keep choosing to tell that story, he could be ten times worse than Victoria.

I guess you could see Superman that way? You'd think he'd be very aware of how slippery reality and morality is, given the double life thing. Yet, I rarely get the sense he's that self aware though. He's pretty much invulnerable. What the hell does his example have to do with anything?

In turn, I suppose you could make the same argument about the Doctor being so above and beyond humanity. The difference may be that the Doctor fights with his brain and his heart(s). I dunno. At any rate, I'm sure your take on Superman would be interesting.

That is the one in which the Master escapes the Time War, but escapes into the wrong universe, and picks up human!Doctor. And then ADVENTURES. So far it's a story in which they have about the same level of functionality, and neither of them are being actively evil, but they're not very stable, either. But it is still a story of love and adventure! Er.

Oooh, I really like your Thoughts On Fraser & Superman! I'm pretty sure that Fraser with Superman's literal powers would still very consciously choose honor and justice, and make sure to still reach out to people and not be above things. Actually, I think he acts like normal Fraser does; the only real difference is that he can catch criminals a little faster and he doesn't have to worry about bullets.

Actually, it occurs to me that I don't know whether Fraser even has a double identity. On the one hand, I love picturing him being hugely awkward and wearing glasses and &c. On the other, I think he might be too honest to lead a double life? And since George and Martha Fraser are dead at this point, he doesn't really have anyone he urgently needs to protect. THOUGHTS TO PONDER.

On the other, I think he might be too honest to lead a double life? And since George and Martha Fraser are dead at this point, he doesn't really have anyone he urgently needs to protect. THOUGHTS TO PONDER.

I think that he thinks it is very wrong to lie and he HATES doing it, but he worries about human friends and lovers who are not invulnerable being hurt if the bad guys learn who is close to him and he could not live with himself if anything happened to either Ray. So he pretends to be all Kenton Clark Fraser, Mountie and he has a billion or so rules about The Right Way to Act When Being Human. And most people think that Fraser is a very very socially awkward person (which he is), but they don't realize that he is socially awkward because he is always trying to behave in the way that humans say that they want humans to act: courteous, fair, honest, noble. (I think that it's a prevailing theory among his friends that he was raised by wolves.)

twenty-one WIPs isn't too alarming

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