the snowdens of yesteryear
Mar. 23rd, 2014 08:56 pm![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
shifty_gardenerSarah and I are sitting around our kitchen table with headaches, me, because I finally realized around 3AM last night that my insomnia was being caused by the anti-inflammatories I've been taking for my knee (better late than never, right?), and she, because it was her friend's birthday last night. I tried to use my insomnia for good, aka to slowly add more to the Femmeslash Forever that ![[livejournal.com profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/external/lj-userinfo.gif)
calmingcupoftea is going to have to beta at some point in the nebulous future, but I've been reading Catch-22 and after the first paragraph-length sentence I decided it was folly (by the same logic, Unagi, I didn't even attempt to beta more of your thing).
Catch-22, is so, so great, and I have no idea why I'm surprised. Actually, yes, I do: it's because I almost never read non-genre literature, and generally try to avoid depressing things. I've found it very difficult recently to care about all of the fluff fantasy/sci-fi/mystery/ya lit I usually read, though, so it looks like I'm going to try out literature and non-fiction for a little while. Between all of the SGA fic, of course.
Speaking of Stargate, SG-1 mysteriously went from zero to sixty around episode 1x18. Every episode was pretty terrible, in the way where I was watching Sam and Daniel's beautifully platonic relationship with deep fondness and lolling at the attempts of the costume department and then before I knew what was happening, everything was creepy and well-executed and intense.
Of course, by 2x07 it relapsed into a different kind of terrible, where each episode now feels like it has the plot of an entire C movie crammed into 45 minutes. That said, last episode Daniel gossiped with Sam about how that cute lieutenant totally has a crush on her and that's enough to make me forgive a lot of things. Now if only they wouldn't do things like switch the actress for Teal'c's wife (because one POC is indistinguishable from another, totally) and give him sexist dialogue when he's back on his home planet.
Ballroom dance class is still very fun, but the other day the TA sat down at a piano and calmly started playing variations on the Kingdom Hearts Traverse Town theme he'd learned by ear and didn't particularly care about discussing the game itself and I abruptly realized that 1. I was surrounded by talented musicians (the people that wandered up to the piano also didn't want to discuss Square Enix, but wanted a turn to play) and remembered that 2. I don't know how to communicate with people that aren't geeky or nerdy. This was slightly less jarring than the previous week, where someone said something heteronormative to me and I realized that I was probably surrounded by straight people. Luckily there isn't a whole lot of milling around in crowds in this class, so my social awkwardness is only occasionally apparent.
calmingcupoftea is going to have to beta at some point in the nebulous future, but I've been reading Catch-22 and after the first paragraph-length sentence I decided it was folly (by the same logic, Unagi, I didn't even attempt to beta more of your thing).Catch-22, is so, so great, and I have no idea why I'm surprised. Actually, yes, I do: it's because I almost never read non-genre literature, and generally try to avoid depressing things. I've found it very difficult recently to care about all of the fluff fantasy/sci-fi/mystery/ya lit I usually read, though, so it looks like I'm going to try out literature and non-fiction for a little while. Between all of the SGA fic, of course.
Speaking of Stargate, SG-1 mysteriously went from zero to sixty around episode 1x18. Every episode was pretty terrible, in the way where I was watching Sam and Daniel's beautifully platonic relationship with deep fondness and lolling at the attempts of the costume department and then before I knew what was happening, everything was creepy and well-executed and intense.
Of course, by 2x07 it relapsed into a different kind of terrible, where each episode now feels like it has the plot of an entire C movie crammed into 45 minutes. That said, last episode Daniel gossiped with Sam about how that cute lieutenant totally has a crush on her and that's enough to make me forgive a lot of things. Now if only they wouldn't do things like switch the actress for Teal'c's wife (because one POC is indistinguishable from another, totally) and give him sexist dialogue when he's back on his home planet.
Ballroom dance class is still very fun, but the other day the TA sat down at a piano and calmly started playing variations on the Kingdom Hearts Traverse Town theme he'd learned by ear and didn't particularly care about discussing the game itself and I abruptly realized that 1. I was surrounded by talented musicians (the people that wandered up to the piano also didn't want to discuss Square Enix, but wanted a turn to play) and remembered that 2. I don't know how to communicate with people that aren't geeky or nerdy. This was slightly less jarring than the previous week, where someone said something heteronormative to me and I realized that I was probably surrounded by straight people. Luckily there isn't a whole lot of milling around in crowds in this class, so my social awkwardness is only occasionally apparent.
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Date: 2014-03-25 04:30 am (UTC)Part 1
You have redirected me to my old and embarrassing lj
Part 2
I look forward to beta-ing your fic!
Part 3
I also had a MASSIVE headache last night. So massive that I went to bed early and was awoken at midnight by said headache and had to take ibuprofen in order to fall back asleep. I am so sorry that your headaches have not gotten better and that I keep texting you about beta-ing my fic. I shall be a better friend!
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Date: 2014-03-25 05:25 am (UTC)2 :DD it's called femmeslash forever...because it might take forever. there are two of them! and one is much more finishable than the other.
3 Dude, you are not bothering me at ALL with the beta inquiries - they aren't very frequent and also I don't view betaing as a hassle or even work, really, so. yes.
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Date: 2014-03-26 03:38 am (UTC)What are the ship(s)? What are the fandoms? WHAT IS GILES' WRITING LIKE TO READ RAW?
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Date: 2014-03-31 02:41 am (UTC)I feel like my writing is really bland and overly sparse, with too many comedic timingish lines: an unfortunate product of reading douglas adams at a young age plus weirdly taking all of the stuff about speech rhetoric we learned in high school to heart. There is a reason I only used to write fannish limericks and sonnets. >.>
Most of my stuff is posted raw because getting things edited/having other people read things is scary.
Rachel was like, YOU'RE DOING FEMMESLASH FEBRUARY, RIIIIGHT? So I was like, fine, I will write something short that I know about/is generally on my mind right now, so the first one is for Stargate: SG-1 and is a random episodefic aaaand the second one was inspired by the deleted scenes of SGA, where they said they were going to have a lesbian character be with one of the main cast. The second one is going to take foreeeeever, because I'm basically going to rewrite the fifth season so that the minor lesbian character doesn't die ~10 episodes after she's introduced like she does in canon.
Writing is hard :(/:)
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Date: 2014-04-01 04:09 am (UTC)I was so embarrassed by my writing. I was so embarrassed that Scully had to READ it. I was so ashamed of that piece. It took me two days before I opened her notes without instantly closing them in fear.
I knew that Scully was trying to support me. She wanted me to succeed and make that fic the best fic it could be. She gave some great notes and said some nice things that bolstered my confidence (you also do this a lot by telling me you like things!). I had to realize that she didn't judge me for my writing. She didn't think I was stupid (one of my personal concerns) because my writing wasn't A++. She would still be my friend.
I'm sure you don't feel this way about your writing but maybe seeing someone else lay out their fears/insecurities helps? Know that I am always here to support you and I want to encourage you to write the best you can and we will always be great pals regardless! <333
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Date: 2014-04-01 08:04 pm (UTC)I think the thing with having Scully edit 1. she was a lit major 2. she's been writing constantly since like grade 7, and 3. book-style writing and fic-style writing, for no apparent reason, are veeeeery different, which leads to her knowing exactly everything that will make a fic amazing. So if she's completely honest in an edit she makes, all of it at once is a huge flood of information (and that's what makes her a bnf). us mortals can only aspire.
Tyyyyy <333333 I have trouble writing things linearly so I have no idea when or if anything I'm in the middle of right now will ever be finished. just so you know.