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Wednesday, July 13th, 2016
12:00 pm	Stickytop post... ( Badly in need of editing ) All comments to this post are by default screened. ( Never give in ) (Comment on this)
Thursday, November 20th, 2008
8:54 am	The Gambler – Part Two This is the second part of the third story (first part) that began with The Games (six parts) and continued with The Network (one part), and The Players (seven parts) The story may be regarded as fanfic set in poisontaster's Keptverse. It is being written as part of wrimowrimo. I also updated the cast list here. ( we were both too tired to sleep ) Current Mood: moody (Comment on this)
Sunday, November 16th, 2008
6:57 am	The Players: Giles This is part seven (the last part) of the second section of the story (part one, part two, part three, part four, part five. part six) that began with The Games (six parts) and continued with The Network (one part). The story may be regarded as fanfic set in poisontaster's Keptverse. It is being written as part of wrimowrimo. I also updated the cast list here. ( Yes, it's terribly simple. The good guys are always stalwart and true, the bad guys are easily distinguished by their pointy horns or black hats, and we always defeat them and save the day. No one ever dies, and everybody lives happily ever after. ) The first section of the next part, The Gambler begins as soon as I have part 2 written. Current Mood: awake (Comment on this)
Thursday, November 13th, 2008
9:50 pm	The Players: George This is part six of the second section (seven parts) of the story (part one, part two, part three, part four, part five) that began with The Games (six parts) and continued with The Network (one part). The story may be regarded as fanfic set in poisontaster's Keptverse. It is being written as part of wrimowrimo. ( But we live in a world without much honour, where politicians hang onto office like dirty glue, so I don't suppose you will – blame is for others. ) Current Mood: sleepy (Comment on this)
Wednesday, November 12th, 2008
9:58 am	The Players: Benton This is part five of the second section (seven parts) of the story (part one, part two, part three, part four) that began with The Games (six parts) and continued with The Network (one part). The story may be regarded as fanfic set in poisontaster's Keptverse. It is being written as part of wrimowrimo. ( Well, actually he gave me two pieces of advice but I've forgotten the other one but the important one is, never chase a man over a cliff. ) Comment if reading here at JF, so I know to update links which at the moment are all IJ cause it's easier. (Comment on this)
Sunday, November 9th, 2008
1:07 pm	The Players: Adam This is part four of the second section (seven parts) of the story (part one, part two, part three) that began with The Games (six parts) and continued with The Network (one part). The story may be regarded as fanfic set in poisontaster's Keptverse. It is being written as part of wrimowrimo. ( I am doing something. I'm staying alive. That's all that matters in the end. ) As noted: if anyone's reading this here, let me know to give me motivation to fix the links, which otherwise all go to IJ. (Comment on this)
Saturday, November 8th, 2008
8:42 am	The Players: Dana This is part three of the second section (seven parts) of the story (part one, part two) that began with The Games (six parts) and continued with The Network (one part). The story may be regarded as fanfic set in poisontaster's Keptverse. It is being written as part of wrimowrimo. ( I'm done chasing monsters in the dark. ) Current Mood: awake (Comment on this)
Thursday, November 6th, 2008
10:00 am	The Players: Ray This is part two of the second section of the story (part one) that began with The Games (six parts) and continued with The Network (one part). The story may be regarded as fanfic set in poisontaster's Keptverse. It is being written as part of wrimowrimo. ( Eskimos don't have a lot to do in the winter, huh? ) I don't think anyone's reading this here (if you are, comment to let me know and I'll fix the links) so this is backup only. (Comment on this)
Monday, November 3rd, 2008
11:59 pm	The Players: Willow This is part one of the second section of the story that began with The Games (six parts) and continued with The Network (one part). The story may be regarded as fanfic set in poisontaster's Keptverse. It is being written as part of wrimowrimo. ( I don't like any of that stuff, except the fighting evil part. ) ( note ) Current Mood: Determined (Comment on this)
Sunday, November 2nd, 2008
8:08 pm	The Network I linked to this story by darkrose, My Sight Grows Stronger (IJ link), in the introductory notes to The Games. Partly because this really impressed me, and partly because I felt it was a good introductory stand-alone piece to read about how the Keptverse works. This story is my effort to do something similiar, and was inspired by a discussion that I had with darkrose here (IJ link). In summary: the Keptverse is set in an America in which debt slavery exists. In the real Keptverse (which is mostly on livejournal), the stories are all RPF. What I am writing here is fanfic on the Keptverse: fictional characters living in the universe of poisontaster's creation. ( The Network ) ( Author notes ) Current Mood: okay (Comment on this)
Saturday, November 1st, 2008
12:00 pm	The Games - Part Six This story is fanfic written in poisontaster's Keptverse. Further explanation and links here, as well as Part One, Part Two, Part Three, Part Four and Part Five. There is the beginnings of a cast photo list here. ( Pay attention! Get down on your knees! ) This concludes the first section of this story. The second section, "The Players", should begin tomorrow or Monday: Part one is finished, I'll post it as soon as I've finished part two. Current Mood: restless (Comment on this)
Sunday, October 26th, 2008
1:50 pm	The Games - Part Five This story is fanfic written in poisontaster's Keptverse. Further explanation and links here, as well as Part One, Part Two, Part Three, and Part Four. There is the beginnings of a cast photo list here. This is part 5 of a six-episode Arc 1: the closing episode of Arc 1 will be posted whenever I get the first episode of Arc 2, "The Players", written. *plotz* I think there's going to be four Arcs, and Arc 2 is going to be about the same length as Arc 1, but I don't have a clear picture yet of how many episodes it's going to take to get me through the plot of Arcs 3 and 4. Also I have disturbing thoughts about doing Nanowrimo this year. ( where the hell is he going ) Current Mood: groggy (Comment on this)
Saturday, October 25th, 2008
2:24 pm	Fortunately, I like writing Via metafandom: A Fandom of ONE is not fun. Nor is feeling like a fandom of ONE because everyone else in that fandom clearly does not view it anyway compatible with your views. The fan who wrote that was born (from her livejournal) about the time I started to write - and the state she calls "Fandom Ennui" I think of as just normal state. It's really neat to be writing fanfic in a fandom where there's lots of activity, and especially if it happens that what I want to write falls into mainstream activity in that fandom. But, from liking to write Spock/McCoy and Bodie/Cowley to writing RPF in the Keptverse... I just have a habit of not doing that. (The only time I was ever at Escapade, I wandered down the Trek stalls in the dealers' room asking each one "Got any Spock/McCoy"? and they looked at me like I was from a mirror universe.) It isn't as much fun being a fandom of one. It is sometimes not fun at all being a fan banned from livejournal when no one wants to be fannish off livejournal. (Whine, whine, complain, complain, makes cup of tea, drinks tea, is good. British fans do have tea as a resource.) But I wouldn't do it if I didn't like it. I like what I'm doing with "The Games": it has plot, it has plan, it has characters who are going to have a lot of fun with each other (for given values of "fun", of course) and best of all, it has me writing instead of procrastinating or reading blogs about the US election. I like writing. It is an intrinsically solitary activity. Sometimes fandom makes it feel less solitary. But mostly, it is an activity that makes me solitary even in a crowd of people I actually like, because when a story is going on well in the back of my head I'm (a) wanting to be somewhere with a keyboard and my characters (b) hearing my characters in the back of my head (c) wanting to tell other people what they're saying, and knowing perfectly well that this is a bad idea. The only other fan who started writing a story that was about fictional characters got discouraged by poisontaster declaring that you can't play in her sandbox (ie, not post to her community - of course she's not ruling that fans can't take the shared universe and play with it) if it's not RPS. Which is her privilege: it's her community. But getting discouraged by that would mean (for me) that I was writing a story more because I wanted the feedback from the community than because I wanted to write the story. And a story that's worth writing at all is worth writing for itself. I wrote a 130 000 word novel about Hawkeye and Mulcahy and I think about a dozen people in total read it - but it was worth writing, no matter how few people ever want to read it. (I'm sort of putting out feelers to see if anyone wants to set up an AU WWK community off LJ, by the way, if anyone who has an IJ account is interested.) Current Mood: thoughtful (2 Comments |Comment on this)
Thursday, October 23rd, 2008
7:00 pm	The Games - Part Four This story is fanfic written in poisontaster's Keptverse. Further explanation and links here, as well as Part One, Part Two, and Part Three. There is the beginnings of a cast photo list here. By the way, poisontaster has now definitely communicated that if it's not RPS, it's not really part of the Keptverse, so, well. I suggested to the author of the other FPS story (who tried to post a link on the Keptverse community on Livejournal) that she and I could start an AU Keptverse community for FPS which are fanficcing on the Keptverse (kind of meta on meta) but haven't heard back. Will let you know. Let me know if you're interested, if I am speaking to anyone: it's kind of pointless starting a community for a fandom of one. ( All right, I want to start right there. ) Current Mood: moody (Comment on this)
Monday, October 20th, 2008
12:29 pm	The Games: Part Three This story is fanfic written in poisontaster's Keptverse. Further explanation and links here, as well as Part One and Part Two. There is the beginnings of a cast photo list here. ( think me up some coffee ) Current Mood: Frivolous (Comment on this)
10:23 am	The Games: the cast list Okay, who are all these people? Or at least, what do they look like? Cast in order of appearance: ( Richard Kimble ) ( Sam Gerard ) ( Willow Rosenberg ) ( Benton Fraser ) ( Ray Vecchio ) I've never collected photos of characters/actors, so most of these are pretty crummy - just what I found on googlesearch. I'll add the others as we come to them... Current Mood: Zany (Comment on this)
Sunday, October 19th, 2008
1:06 pm	The Games: Part Two This story is fanfic written in poisontaster's Keptverse. Further explanation and links here, as well as Part One. There is the beginnings of a cast photo list here. ( a hard-target search ) (Comment on this)
Saturday, October 18th, 2008
1:23 pm	The Games: Part One This is sort of a story in the Keptverse. The Keptverse was invented by poisontaster, named for her story A Kept boy, though I found out about it via the incomparable darkrose, who started writing her own Keptverse fanfic, in particular A Question of Compromise, which is an episodic (and the individual episodes are quite worth reading for themselves - I especially recommend My Sight Grows Stronger, which is: This is the text of the standard talk that Dylan Neal, Joe's former owner, gives to pro-abolition groups. I originally wrote it for myself, as a way to get down the backstory between Dylan and Joe, but it also shows a little about the world, and about one of the possible ways that a slave can be trained. As far as I know, the only other fanfic in the Keptverse on IJ is telesilla's Lock and Key. The main reason why this is only sort of a story in the Keptverse is that everyone else writing in the Keptverse seems to be writing RPS, which makes me neurotic, even though I accept that given that these RPS are taking place in an alternate universe, it's not as if even the RP themselves could possibly take this seriously. (The other reason is that my motto is Does Not Play Well With Others, so I'll feel free to modify any aspect of the Keptverse as I go along, tra la la...) This story may be regarded as fanfic written in the Keptverse, if you like. There is the beginnings of a cast photo list here. ( Go get him ) Current Mood: Brash (Comment on this)
Wednesday, July 23rd, 2008
11:53 am	M*A*S*H: Walker among the dead ( Walker Among The Dead, 5290 words ) Current Mood: Blessed (Comment on this)
Tuesday, January 29th, 2008
7:50 am	On writing PoC (when I am not one) When I got my 2005 Yuletide assignment, it made me very happy: it was to write a Fletcher/Jeremy story following Finity's End. (Rise and Go, here.) I had an instant idea for how it would start, and wrote that down: I re-read the book, and wrote the rest of the story, remarkably painlessly for Yuletide. There is a point in the story where Jeremy, who has finally got what he wants, is lying back in bed and looking at Fletcher and thinking about how good-looking he is: and there I paused, to re-check the book and see if Cherryh had provided any other details about Fletcher other than "good-looking", which we do get. She didn't, much. So I was free to make up those few telling details - I wasn't about to do an inch-by-inch description, but I wanted to describe what Jeremy might see - and compare to himself - when for the first time since he's met Fletcher, he's free just to stare. I began by writing: He'd seen Fletcher naked, they shared a cabin, but this wasn't Fletcher like he was when they were stumbling in or out of the shower, past each other, when you had to be polite and not look (and not comment on the smell, because just past Jump a body smelt like old laundry). (I was pleased by the "a body smelled like old laundry" touch: it's a classic Cherryh phrase, and I was trying to mimic her style). But I really had to think of something to say about Fletcher's body. Fletcher had dark body hair -- on his chest, down to his belly, around his groin. While in calendar years Jeremy and Fletcher are almost the same age, in chronological time lapsed, Fletcher is older. (It did unnerve me a bit, but I decided just not to think about exactly how old Jeremy is. It's a consensual relationship, people, acceptable in their own culture's terms. And Fletcher isn't that much older than him - a few years at most.) But, old enough for Fletcher to have significant amounts of body hair, and Jeremy not. It was as black as the hair on his head, and looked good And I swear, it was right then that the thought came into my head against the clear brown of his skin and the blue of his eyes. I went back and looked up passages in Finity's End where Fletcher and Jeremy are physically described, and, yeah: at no point does Cherryh mention definitely the colour of their skin. I could assume what I liked, and I liked this. Suddenly I could picture both of them, and having got it definitely into my head what they did look like (and in my head, Fletcher is stunning) I mined a name from the pack of adolescents who harass Fletcher when he first comes aboard, which gave me another touch of Cherryhism. He looked a bit like Jeremy, as Family goes: they both had black hair, and Jeremy's skin was a shade darker, and Jeremy's eyes were brown instead of blue, but they had the same eyebrows -- Sue, of all people, had pointed that out once -- they looked more alike than Jeremy and Vince, and Linda didn't look like any of them. But Fletcher was just good to look at, Jeremy thought, and it felt good to be able to lie back and stare without any worries about being impolite. I wondered, when I posted it, if anyone would notice I wondered, when I posted it, if anyone would notice (or, if anyone noticed, anyone would care - it's only a few words of description). Thinking back, the only other fandom I've ever written in where there was a regular character who was a PoC, was Blake's 7: Dayna Mellanby is a very young and very slightly psychotic weapons expert who likes blowing things up and plotting murder. I wrote Cruelty Has A Human Heart, a Dayna/Soolin saffic, back in the early 1990s, and of course she appears in This Neurotic Little Worry, an ensemble story about the third-season crew. Mostly I wanted to write Avon/Vila, and I did: just as when I wrote Star Trek, though of course Uhura shows up, she's mostly background; she appears as one of the senior officers, but nothing gets in the way between Spock and McCoy. I write mostly in M*A*S*H these days, and there are only three or four regular characters in the series who aren't white, and only one is part of the main ensemble: Max Klinger. Nurse Kellye is named and has characterisation, but she's tertiary ensemble rather than secondary, as is Ginger Bayliss, who is the only black officer who stays: and famously, Spearchucker Jones was disappeared in the first few weeks of the show when he was discovered to be an anachronism. I have written drabbles about all of them for the Mash 100th community (see First Impressions and Superheroes for examples), but my long stories are about Hawkeye and Mulcahy, mostly. In a way writing about people of colour in the 1950s is easier than writing about people of colour today, because there is so much research material available (and a lot fewer fans who were around then and who can point out gleefully you got it wrong): in fact, M*A*S*H itself, for a TV show, confronts racism in the military in various interesting ways - though less interesting than it might be since none of the major characters are allowed to be racist, not even in the casual unthinking way I'd think would be fairly likely. (Aside from Winchester, but to be fair, Winchester is deeply prejudiced against any American significantly poorer than him or whose family has been in the US for the wrong length of time. Colour isn't the issue so much as wealth or "breeding".) Writing about people who have experiences I haven't had is always difficult, always enriching. And always risky when you know that people are going to be reading the stories who have had those experiences. And sometimes I get it wrong. But there seems to be, in some people's minds, a barrier that says "I can't write about that because I'm not the right colour to do it" - and really; kick that crap out. It's Radio KFCKD, if it's not white privilege masquerading as humility. (Comment on this)