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janecarnall's LiveJournal:
| Saturday, November 1st, 2008 | |
| 12:00 pm | The Games - Part Six This story is fanfic written in ![[info]](http://www.journalfen.net/img/userinfo.gif){kind=small} 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 |
| 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 |
| 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 |
| 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 |
| 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 |
| 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 |
| 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 ) |
| 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 |
| Wednesday, July 23rd, 2008 | |
| 11:53 am | |
| 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 goodAnd 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. |
| Tuesday, January 15th, 2008 | |
| 8:15 am | OTW: why I'm not supporting it (Not quite randomly. I've been seeing entries on my flist all week.) The Organisation for Transformative Works currently has (according to their website) five projects planned for sometime this year: 1. They're going to do an open-source software package for archiving fanfiction and social networking. 2. Once the software has been created for it, they're going to host a noncommercial and nonprofit fanfiction archive. 3. They plan to provide legal assistance to protect and defend fanworks from commercial exploitation and legal challenge. 4. They're going to publish a peer-reviewed academic journal called Transformative Works and Cultures. 5. They're going to produce a wiki about fandom aimed at the general public. All discussion about these projects has been restricted to Livejournal (plus a few chat sessions recently). I've not been following it, therefore. 1. This is undoubtedly an interesting and a useful project. I have no idea how many experienced open source developers are working on it right now, but I haven't seen any links about it on or to sourceforge.net, Open Solutions Alliance, or, well, anywhere with respect to open source coding/development. This doesn't necessarily mean it isn't a known open source project - just that when I searched for it, I couldn't find any reference to it anywhere but on OTW-related news items, and no link to any information about its development. 2. A good fanfic archive is a great resource. OTOH: announcing you're going to have an archive and then not producing one is not the best of ideas. 3. This is a grandiose claim which is flatly unbelievable as it stands. How do they plan to defend a songvid using clips from Phantom Menace to Colbie Caillat singing "Bubbly"? (I just made that up. As far as I know, it doesn't exist.) Do they intend to restrict their legal defense to fanfic? In which countries? Will this include defense of fanfic written in book fandoms where the author or the author's estate actively opposes fanfic? What about RPF? Fanart isn't actually illegal unless the subjects it depicts are illegal. Are they actually thinking about defending written fanfic about TV or films? 4. That's nice. 5. There's no reason to delay doing this, except that there are multiple other fannish wikis and one would have to think hard to figure out why there should be a new one. Current Mood: thoughtful |
| Tuesday, January 1st, 2008 | |
| 11:59 pm | Yuletide: "Written by Candlelight" and other recommendations Well, I am delighted to be able to admit that my yuletide story was Written by Candlelight. (Yes, it was - well, I had candles lit in the sitting-room as I was writing it, anyway.) Once again I drew a book fandom: Dodie Smith's I Capture the Castle. (There is another fandom nested inside this story, which you may notice: it was one of PW's other requests, and it happened to be one I was familiar with, which was pure joy.) It was more difficult than I'd thought to capture Cassandra Mortmain's style of writing: it's very simple and understated. I did it more on textual structure than anything else - Cassandra has the habit of beginning each new section of her journal saying where she is, and her journal also includes details about how she feels while she's writing down what happened in the past - she's always recording events in the past, never in the present: sometimes in the immediate past, but quite often in the fairly distant past. I chose these stories to rec before the database went live: most of them were picked by the Random Story Fairy, bless her. ( Books ) ( TV ) ( Commercials ) ( Comic book ) There are more recs, but this will do for the moment. Enjoy. |
| Saturday, December 22nd, 2007 | |
| 6:53 pm | Hello. Er. Things that have occurred to me over the last several days, which I shall tell you as a list: 1. I really like The Belly of the Bow which is the second book in the K. M. Parker trilogy that begins with The Colors in the Steel. And I'd been putting off reading it for ages because someone told me it was a disappointment. Maybe I'll ask for this for one of my yuletide fandoms next year. 2. I have finished and uploaded my yuletide story! (Well, obviously I have, otherwise I would be a miserable failure and would have to crawl off somewhere and commit seppuku. Which I am probably spelling wrong, and it would be bad to commit something I cannot spell.) 3. I have been given a perfectly lovely idea for a story by someone, which I am merrily writing in a happy and feckless kind of way, because 4. I really ought to be working on one or other of the next Mirror M*A*S*H chapters. Can someone pass me the angst? 5. I need to join communities on journalfen. Get together with people. Talk loudly about our favourite characters. Recommend me some? 6. I was vaguely following OTW in a vaguely interested kind of way, and then discovered it was a livejournal project for livejournal fans only, and anyone not on livejournal is excluded. It's the first time I've decided I want nothing to do with a fannish archive even before it goes live... I suppose Yuletide excludes people from the community in exactly the same way, but I was already involved with yuletide before I left livejournal, and I'd miss it. 7. And, um, not that I'm going to tell you the project, but I made use of fanfiction.net! I uploaded a storylet under another pseud for a fandom none of you are into, for reasons we won't go into here, and jesuswept that archive sucks, Still, it's good to have used it once, I suppose. As a fannish experience. 8. Am very looking forward to finding out what my giftee thinks of her yuletide story (not too awful, I hope) and what my story is like. Whee. --- Update: Wow, the journalfen interface sucks in exactly the same way: you cannot code formatting for style, you have to use the toolbar. Okay, changed my mind (again) I'm not moving to journalfen, at least not long term. :-( Gah. Looks like insanejournal is the only alternative left. |
| Monday, December 10th, 2007 | |
| 2:12 pm | Greatestjournal is sunk but I am here Why does no one ever believe Cassandra, even when she's me? Welcome! I'm not totally backed up from GJ (if I'd believed myself, I would have been!) but I'm over here and would welcome friends and other insane yet interested persons. Current Mood: *Snarl* |
| Saturday, December 1st, 2007 | |
| 1:31 am | Deleting? Or moving, at least... Two members of Greatestjournal's support team have just advised me to delete my journal, which inclines me to consider it: either it's their default response to criticism ("You don't like it, leave!") or they know damn well that GJ is going down the tubes and it's time to jump ship before you end up clinging to a plank with 50 million little white mice, surrounded by vengeful dolphins. Either way, it may be a good idea to move my katra somewhere else. I have a spare journal on Journalfen, which is not quite up-to-date but nearly so, but I haven't been attempting to develop it. I already have that other journal hosted on Insanejournal, and think I would rather not have both on the same website. Anywhere else that my flist can recommend? (Not, obviously, back to livejournal, though in fact LJ Abuse have yet to notice that I have switched all of my icons with awful obscene images of babies breastfeeding, OH NOES, so all my old entries are still live... The new Adult Content Warning System is easily the stupidest damn thing I heard of.) Will give plenty of notice, etc, but I'd like to decide where I'm moving to before I post a "what is your journal" link on the Yuletide website. |
| Thursday, November 29th, 2007 | |
| 11:16 pm | Question about News I asked: The last five posts on the News community have had comments disabled - there hasn't been a post where comments were enabled since 13th October. theemptychild responded: Comments are often disabled in the News Community because it is primarily used for announcements. As a result, feedback is not required. I replied: Issues announced in the News community have been regularly discussed in the Issues community, to no avail. Regular requests for communication on issues have been ignored. What is the point of the "public discussion of issues" on a community which is ignored by everyone with the ability to post in the News community? cdenise responded: Dear User, So, ![[info]](http://www.journalfen.net/img/community.gif){kind=small} issues community: what is the point of addressing my request that the support team communicate with us, to a community which two members of the support team have just made clear to me that they never read?--- I attempted to post this to the issues community, but it was rejected, and cdenise put this up instead. (Comments enabled, for the time being.) I've asked: why, if the support team now claims they read this post outlining better communication principles, have they completely ignored it?--- On the other hand, at least it's not as bad as this situation on livejournal. |
| Wednesday, November 21st, 2007 | |
| 11:14 am | Mirror M*A*S*H: Through the Mirror, Part Sixteen This is by way of being a sequel to MirrorM*A*S*H. Part one, Part two, Part three, Part four, Part five, Part six, part seven, part eight, part nine, part ten, part eleven, part twelve, part thirteen, part fourteen and part fifteen are here. ( Part Sixteen ) tbc |
| Monday, October 29th, 2007 | |
| 8:19 pm | Mirror M*A*S*H: Through the Mirror, Part Fifteen This is by way of being a sequel to MirrorM*A*S*H. Please note this is Part Fifteen, which comes after Part Fourteen. Part one, Part two, Part three, Part four, Part five, Part six, part seven, part eight, part nine, part ten, part eleven, part twelve, part thirteen, and part fourteen are here. ( Part Fifteen ) tbc |
| Sunday, October 21st, 2007 | |
| 11:10 pm | Harry Potter: Never Trust Enchanted Quills, Especially Not Those Sparkly Ones The procrastination meme: ( for miriammoules: Never Trust Enchanted Quills, Especially Not Those Sparkly Ones ) |
| Friday, October 19th, 2007 | |
| 3:34 pm | 25th-December-festival-ish-excitedness-itis ( Dear Unknown Friend ) |