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lls_mutantGrumpy-inducing day. Not for any big reason. Just because any day that involves scrubbing the kitchen floor as the main activity isn't going to be one of the best days of my life, y'know? Plus, I realized I want to/need to delete half the scene I wrote this morning for my remix, and the township is being a bunch of idiots in what roads they're closing. They closed one road for some sort of construction, which is fair enough. And there's a very easy detour. But now they're closing THAT road because they're afraid of accidents. It's not that horrendous of a road, and there is such a thing as over-legislating. Sheesh.
10. What are some really weird situations your characters have been in? Everything from serious canon scenes to meme questions counts!
Hmm. Let's see….
-Remus and Sirius explained oral sex to Hermione and Ginny, demonstrating on bananas. I believe there is a coda someplace where Remus explains deep throating to Molly, but I don't remember where.
-Tom Zarek and Felix Gaeta get stoned together.
-I have a fondness for bodice ripper novels- or at least, for guys reading them. All of the marauders read the same one (Sunsets and Thunder Skies), and Sirius and Remus get into a fairly entertaining discussion about the feminist aspects of it. Hoshi reads a bodice ripper in A Lot to Live Up To, and tells Dee to go away because he's at a "good part." I don't know why I think guys reading bodice rippers is so funny, but I really do.
-Cally and Racetrack watch Gaeta and Skulls in the Raptor
-One of my favorite HP fics has Sirius and Remus taking a young Tonks to the Nutcracker Ballet. It sounds like a crack prompt (especially when you find out that Narcissa Malfoy is the prima ballerina), but I heart that fic.
-Gaeta "pretends" he has a relationship with Jake. For such a crack prompt, Jake/Felix really yielded another fic I love.
-Cedric Diggory/Teddy Lupin time travel fic. This wasn't my idea (I wrote a remix of a fic by![[livejournal.com profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/external/lj-userinfo.gif)
midnitemaraud_r and the original fic was AWESOME), but it was definitely a weird situation.
-Tom Zarek babysitting Hera Agathon
-Sirius Black wanting to be a priest, which evolved from Sirius Black as an altar boy.
-Hoshi slept with Fisk. I'm sorry, but that was just scary. Worse than Gaeta/Cavil.
-The one original one I've got: Aman desperately wants a light saber. His logic is damn it, if they have to be forced into a crazy, futuristic world where they've been enslaved for years and then fought for their freedom and now they live on a space station, the least that Allah can do is give him a damn light saber to compensate.
-The crew of the Swinetrek boards the Galactica. You just don't get much weirder than that.
11. Who is your favorite character to write? Least favorite?
Well, I'm still world building/outlining for Adamaey Rising, so for fandoms:
Harry Potter: my favorite character to write was easily Sirius Black. I loved writing him- the mix of mischief and seriousness. I also really had a blast writing Caradoc Dearborn, and killing him off hurt. My least favorite characters to write there are Dumbledore and Snape. I just do not have the Snape fascination that everyone else has.
BSG: My favorite character to write his Starbuck. Hahahaha. Gaeta and Hoshi. The funny thing about them is with Gaeta, I have pretty strict confines to stay with, because we know him pretty well in canon. Hoshi, I can do almost anything I want. It's interesting that I like writing both of them. And frankly, whenever Narcho decides to show up in a story, he's a blast to write. Especially when he decides to capitalize on the nudist tendencies I've given him. And Ellen. There needs to be fic- probably from me, given that I'm really thinking my Narcho- with the two of them interacting.
Writing Cally and Dee were fun, too, but in a very different way. What makes Cally and Dee harder is that there were ways I really identified with them, there were also subjects I find more difficult to write. The thing about Dee and Cally (as opposed to Gaeta and Hoshi) is that when I write them, Dee and Cally are in marriages that are falling apart, which isn't really fun to write, and Gaeta is usually past Baltar and into Hoshi, which is more fun. But I really, really enjoyed writing the girls' group at Joe's.
Least favorites: Adama, Laura, and Kara, and Gaius in certain situations. The problem with Adama… you know it. I hated season 4.5 Adama and he's not my Adama. But more than that, the problem I have with writing these four is that we really got a lot of their story on screen. I just feel like I don't have much to add, unless I'm going AU. (Ask me again how I feel about writing Laura after my big bang, because she'll be a major player in that.) Caprica Six can be hard for me to write on a deep level, but I love writing her with Gaius. I don't write much Helo and Athena- I'm not sure why. It might be the same reason as the others. But even the assholes like Gage and Vireem, whom I despise, I can often have a certain black-hearted glee in writing. Because when you need a blackhat villain, they serve nicely. I mean, really. Who else on Galactica would threaten to eat Miss Piggy? (This is after Cavil's off, btw.)
12. In what story did you feel you did the best job of worldbuilding? Any side-notes on it you'd like to share?
Now THIS is where I have the most trouble, and this is what I really suffer from in fanfic. My betas can tell you that where they generally have the most notes are where the scenery matters (which is why I need work on my action sequences).
I've done a good job expanding the world at times. I really like what I did with New Caprica, which shows up in a lot of my stories. I liked the creation of how Pern dealt with the mentally ill, which I might have done after watching Amadeus. And I liked Caradoc Deaborn's lab. But on the whole, this is my weakest area, and something I REALLY need to work on.
Lots of people signing up for![[livejournal.com profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/external/lj-community.gif)
bsg_bigbang. I'm excited :) Some of the summaries sound awesome, too. I love big bangs, because I adore me my plot, and big bangs have to be plotty.
No running today. Today's big adventure is trying a new recipe from this month's Cooking Light- a bacon and mushroom risotto. I have uncured applewood smoked bacon to use in it, and it uses three different kinds of mushrooms. We'll have a salad with it, and chocolate-peanut butter puddings for dessert. Mmmm.
Been watching The Pacific (wow, I really am procrastinating). I think it's brilliantly done, but I have to admit, I'm not liking it as much as I liked Band of Brothers. There are some aspects that make me really excited, like the fact that we're seeing the hospitals set up in the Pacific. My grandmother was a nurse in WWII in New Guinea. (She outranked both my grandfathers. She was AWESOME.) I think there are two things that make me like BoB better:
1.) BoB focused on the development of this very tight company. It lived up to its title, and that's one of the things I love most about it. The Pacific is more isolated- there isn't a core group of friends like that.
2.) BoB often focused on how war can bring out the best in these guys, and how some of them rose above terrible moments to do some heroic things. The Pacific is focusing more on the horrors of war and the terrible things people can do in such situations. I think both are incredibly important messages, but the first is definitely more fun to watch.
That said, I still think it's awesome.
Okay. stop procrastinating, and remix!
10. What are some really weird situations your characters have been in? Everything from serious canon scenes to meme questions counts!
Hmm. Let's see….
-Remus and Sirius explained oral sex to Hermione and Ginny, demonstrating on bananas. I believe there is a coda someplace where Remus explains deep throating to Molly, but I don't remember where.
-Tom Zarek and Felix Gaeta get stoned together.
-I have a fondness for bodice ripper novels- or at least, for guys reading them. All of the marauders read the same one (Sunsets and Thunder Skies), and Sirius and Remus get into a fairly entertaining discussion about the feminist aspects of it. Hoshi reads a bodice ripper in A Lot to Live Up To, and tells Dee to go away because he's at a "good part." I don't know why I think guys reading bodice rippers is so funny, but I really do.
-Cally and Racetrack watch Gaeta and Skulls in the Raptor
-One of my favorite HP fics has Sirius and Remus taking a young Tonks to the Nutcracker Ballet. It sounds like a crack prompt (especially when you find out that Narcissa Malfoy is the prima ballerina), but I heart that fic.
-Gaeta "pretends" he has a relationship with Jake. For such a crack prompt, Jake/Felix really yielded another fic I love.
-Cedric Diggory/Teddy Lupin time travel fic. This wasn't my idea (I wrote a remix of a fic by
midnitemaraud_r and the original fic was AWESOME), but it was definitely a weird situation. -Tom Zarek babysitting Hera Agathon
-Sirius Black wanting to be a priest, which evolved from Sirius Black as an altar boy.
-Hoshi slept with Fisk. I'm sorry, but that was just scary. Worse than Gaeta/Cavil.
-The one original one I've got: Aman desperately wants a light saber. His logic is damn it, if they have to be forced into a crazy, futuristic world where they've been enslaved for years and then fought for their freedom and now they live on a space station, the least that Allah can do is give him a damn light saber to compensate.
-The crew of the Swinetrek boards the Galactica. You just don't get much weirder than that.
11. Who is your favorite character to write? Least favorite?
Well, I'm still world building/outlining for Adamaey Rising, so for fandoms:
Harry Potter: my favorite character to write was easily Sirius Black. I loved writing him- the mix of mischief and seriousness. I also really had a blast writing Caradoc Dearborn, and killing him off hurt. My least favorite characters to write there are Dumbledore and Snape. I just do not have the Snape fascination that everyone else has.
BSG: My favorite character to write his Starbuck. Hahahaha. Gaeta and Hoshi. The funny thing about them is with Gaeta, I have pretty strict confines to stay with, because we know him pretty well in canon. Hoshi, I can do almost anything I want. It's interesting that I like writing both of them. And frankly, whenever Narcho decides to show up in a story, he's a blast to write. Especially when he decides to capitalize on the nudist tendencies I've given him. And Ellen. There needs to be fic- probably from me, given that I'm really thinking my Narcho- with the two of them interacting.
Writing Cally and Dee were fun, too, but in a very different way. What makes Cally and Dee harder is that there were ways I really identified with them, there were also subjects I find more difficult to write. The thing about Dee and Cally (as opposed to Gaeta and Hoshi) is that when I write them, Dee and Cally are in marriages that are falling apart, which isn't really fun to write, and Gaeta is usually past Baltar and into Hoshi, which is more fun. But I really, really enjoyed writing the girls' group at Joe's.
Least favorites: Adama, Laura, and Kara, and Gaius in certain situations. The problem with Adama… you know it. I hated season 4.5 Adama and he's not my Adama. But more than that, the problem I have with writing these four is that we really got a lot of their story on screen. I just feel like I don't have much to add, unless I'm going AU. (Ask me again how I feel about writing Laura after my big bang, because she'll be a major player in that.) Caprica Six can be hard for me to write on a deep level, but I love writing her with Gaius. I don't write much Helo and Athena- I'm not sure why. It might be the same reason as the others. But even the assholes like Gage and Vireem, whom I despise, I can often have a certain black-hearted glee in writing. Because when you need a blackhat villain, they serve nicely. I mean, really. Who else on Galactica would threaten to eat Miss Piggy? (This is after Cavil's off, btw.)
12. In what story did you feel you did the best job of worldbuilding? Any side-notes on it you'd like to share?
Now THIS is where I have the most trouble, and this is what I really suffer from in fanfic. My betas can tell you that where they generally have the most notes are where the scenery matters (which is why I need work on my action sequences).
I've done a good job expanding the world at times. I really like what I did with New Caprica, which shows up in a lot of my stories. I liked the creation of how Pern dealt with the mentally ill, which I might have done after watching Amadeus. And I liked Caradoc Deaborn's lab. But on the whole, this is my weakest area, and something I REALLY need to work on.
Lots of people signing up for
bsg_bigbang. I'm excited :) Some of the summaries sound awesome, too. I love big bangs, because I adore me my plot, and big bangs have to be plotty. No running today. Today's big adventure is trying a new recipe from this month's Cooking Light- a bacon and mushroom risotto. I have uncured applewood smoked bacon to use in it, and it uses three different kinds of mushrooms. We'll have a salad with it, and chocolate-peanut butter puddings for dessert. Mmmm.
Been watching The Pacific (wow, I really am procrastinating). I think it's brilliantly done, but I have to admit, I'm not liking it as much as I liked Band of Brothers. There are some aspects that make me really excited, like the fact that we're seeing the hospitals set up in the Pacific. My grandmother was a nurse in WWII in New Guinea. (She outranked both my grandfathers. She was AWESOME.) I think there are two things that make me like BoB better:
1.) BoB focused on the development of this very tight company. It lived up to its title, and that's one of the things I love most about it. The Pacific is more isolated- there isn't a core group of friends like that.
2.) BoB often focused on how war can bring out the best in these guys, and how some of them rose above terrible moments to do some heroic things. The Pacific is focusing more on the horrors of war and the terrible things people can do in such situations. I think both are incredibly important messages, but the first is definitely more fun to watch.
That said, I still think it's awesome.
Okay. stop procrastinating, and remix!
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Date: 2010-04-13 12:13 am (UTC)*giggles* Only you, Lissa. ;-)
I, also, find guys reading bodice rippers to be fantastically amusing. And since both my dad and two of my brothers have read books that were one step away from being bodice rippers, I don't find it at all unrealistic either.
It's interesting, I find Gaeta hard to write because I identify with him in the wrong kind of way. Not wrong as in I identify with his flaws, but in that I don't identify with him in a way that makes me interested in him. I enjoy other people's fics, but I feel no need to write my own.
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Date: 2010-04-13 12:31 am (UTC)Yeah, I totally get this. I think everyone's got those characters that just don't speak to them. Helo's like that for me. I like Helo. I identify with aspects of Helo. But I just don't remotely have the compulsion to write him, although I'll happily read him. I think I've actually written Helo... three times? It might be three fics he's got a major role in- and one was a prompt. Given how many fics I've written, that's not very much.
So, yeah. I can definitely see that!
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Date: 2010-04-13 04:18 am (UTC)10. I don't have a lot of these for fanfic since I like things as close to canon as possible but one that stands out in my head is are some of the more out there AU's by Lyssie. Its funny but some of my canon is weirder than the fics so much of Roswell certainly qualifies but one that really stands out was the I dream of Jeanie episode that was hysterical. Of course there are also the Animorphs who had too many to name but the standout was the conversation about instant oatmeal.
11. Mine actually is Starbuck cuz she is something of a challenge. Also Emily from Jericho cuz its fun to let her be awesome even though show never did. I don't really have a favourite in the Firefly bunch yet but I am really likeing Mal so far.
I think my least favourite is Heather from Jericho cuz she annoys me, and cuz she thinks the exact opposite from me. I don't really have anyone else I don't like writing though yet. I struggle with Lee and to do him fairly but I don't really
not enjoy it.
12 I am really hoping that the BSG/Firefly fic turns out the best since its something I spent a lot of time on. I think action is one of my weak points which I am really proud of the most recent chapter for Life in the Black (and I can't wait to post as soon as I get it back from my beta) cuz it has what for me is a very good action sequence.
I am not sure about signing up for the bigbang I don't really have any ideas and I'm not sure I'm up for that much of a challenge.