in two worlds

[aria]

Things I am doing instead of writing my Yuletide:

+ writing post-Covenant Nick/Alan
+ writing an odd Highlander/Young Wizards crossover in which Nita is trying to figure out whether she needs to stop the Gathering, and also is having tea with Methos
+ reading more Vorkosigan books
+ talking about absurd Killjoys/RocknRolla fusion fic with feverbeats

Things I am not doing instead of writing my Yuletide:

+ packing

I still love my Yuletide! And I am over word count, so that isn't an issue. I just have this absurd notion that my Yuletide needs plot, and the plot is being rather shy. Ah well. How goes everyone else's Yuletide writing?

Comments

[songofsongs]

+ writing post-Covenant Nick/Alan

HolyshitwaitWHAT? REALLY? OMGOMGOMGOMGYESPLZTIMESABILLION.

[aria]

OH MY GOD OKAY I JUST READ THESE BOOKS AND I AM SO STUPIDLY IN LOVE. I THINK WE SHOULD BOND OVER THIS.

And yes! Nick/Alan is so my new OTP it is kind of unreal. So now I am writing them! Let me tell you, writing Nick's POV is ridiculously fun and also ridiculously hard. Sociopaths and the liars who love them! :DDD

[songofsongs]

AAAAAAAAAAAH! I am so excited you read these!

Nick/Alan makes me have so many feelings. They are adorable and tragic and care about each other so much and are together against the big bad world even when they don't understand what the hell the other is on about. I like that they're not in any way solid- they obviously deeply love each other, but they also have some Serious Issues, with little to no resolution in sight. And they're both so very imperfect.

Yes, I am a sadist when it comes to fictional relationships. WHATEVER.

The only problem is that this ship does not involve my favorite. I am deeply in love with Jamie, every scene he's in makes me squee, and every scene that has Nick and Jamie makes me laugh so hard I feel like dying. I want them to make out so badly it is near physical pain. The thing about Jamie is that he was adorable and clever and relatable and nice enough (and, y'know, visibly queer, which I'm not going to lie gives character +100 love points to me) so I really enjoyed him in the first book, but was mostly All About the Nick/Alan, and then his wizardly powers came along and he started being all flirty with Baddy McBad Magician, and suddenly I LOVED HIM. I DON'T EVEN KNOW. I CANNOT CHOOSE.

[aria]

Yesssss. FEELINGS. I mean, I have been hashing out all my epic Nick/Alan feelings to Scott for the past two days, so I have many, many thoughts on them now, but you've basically covered it! It's just -- god, that scene where Mae tells Nick that Alan's going to betray him, and Nick freaks out and calls up a storm and then goes downstairs to confront Alan about it? Their conversation was possibly one of the most gorgeous things I've ever read in my life; and oh god, the bit where Nick says, "Betray me. Turn me over to the magicians, take the magic, do whatever you think you need to do, I don't care. But don't leave." I CLUTCHED MY FACE SO HARD. Oh, and Alan loves Nick best of everything in two worlds, and sometimes Nick wants to be human for him. *heartclutch*

Anyway, um, yes, OTP, quite a lot.

I also hear you on the Jamie front, though! Jamie is WONDERFUL. <333 And it's funny, because ... my shipping is sort of the opposite of your shipping! For the whole first book, I was immensely charmed by Jamie and adored all his scenes with Nick, and I shipped them really hard! Meanwhile, I was making a conscious effort to not ship Nick/Alan, because -- look, there's a reason I never watched Supernatural. (Okay, there are several reasons. But still.) I try not to ship siblings! It is one of my arbitrary fic lines. So imagine my relief when it turned out their relationship was much more ridiculously complicated than that!

So now I sort of want awful Jamie/Gerald instead? I KNOW I KNOW. /o\

(Oh, and also, if we're talking about all my ships: Mae/Sin, y/y/mfy?)