can't we piece it together

[aria]

A conversation with schiarire, re: my Why Due South Is Important To Me post:

Ji: I think everyone should do posts like that about EVERYTHING.
Me: Oh god do not encourage me! I COULD DO MORE.
Me: what should I do another one about!
Ji: hmmm, either Hard Core Logo or Young Wizards!
Ji: or their bastard children the Hard Core Wizards
Me: your addendum made me CACKLE LIKE A FIEND in the quiet house at midnight.
Ji: I encourage cackling!
Ji: The thing to wonder now is what on earth Hard Core Wizards would be.
Ji: Dairine is a Hard Core Wizard and YOU KNOW IT

There was more after that, but none of it actually deserves mentioning because s;lfsdkfd Dairine is a Hard Core Wizard. Also I think I would genuinely like to make posts about Why Hard Core Logo & Young Wizards Are (separately!) Important To Me, although the YW post would be long and involved and have confessions about how I still take the Oath sometimes and then sit around hopefully, and the HCL post could probably just be the words "DYSFUNCTIONAL BOYFRIENDS <333" in size billion font or something.

Apparently there is a meme going around wherein one goes to Translation Party and puts in the first lines of their last few fics until the translator reaches equilibrium or gives up. Since I suspect that if I started it would eat up my afternoon, I just, ah, typed in one sentence from memory to see what it would come up with. Lo:

In Canada, the remains attached to the consulate on the trail of the murderer of my father in Chicago, first, whether, at this point must be considered as no reason to contact me.

Don't contact him about those remains attached to the consulate, okay?! That was only about the ... third permutation down. It dissolved into things like In Canada, my father in Chicago, whether by way of murder, the first is attached to the consulate, at this point, why should not I contact, which, indeed, why should he not contact his father in Chicago? And then it got pretty incoherent. It will apparently never reach equilibrium, but isn't that just the story of Fraser's life.

I am also becoming sliiiightly panicked about the F/K/V AU. I am almost done with Part I out of six; it is roughly 15,000 words right now, which when reasonably multiplied comes out to 90,000, which is a figure very much like the one I came up with earlier. This implies it might actually be an accurate figure, which kind of terrifies me, because it means I have to basically do a NaNo and a half in the next month and change. I know I can do that, but in the days of yore when I wrote Doctor Who seasons in two weeks, I was doing nothing else. Whereas right now I'm returning to college in just over a week. I know that only the draft is due in mid-September, and that I have another month to actually get it done, but it is still mildly nervewracking. On the other hand: I work well under deadline?

Anyway, hey, have a bit from Juliet is Bleeding, because what I have so far I've been prodding nervously through rewrites and I am by now kind of fond of it.

Ray'd seen it before, dozens of people who got hit and hit with tragedy until it stopped knocking them over, until they just took it. He watched Vecchio's face, still and stunned but not shut down, and Ray felt ... He wasn't sure. Ray felt like he was watching a mirror, only the guy sitting across from him, the guy through the silvered glass, he never got the girl at all and his hurt was different. He wasn't trying to fight it; he just sipped his scotch and let it happen, and that made Ray shaky, because Ray, he'd be fighting it all the way, begging or punching or crying it out. It never made a bit of difference. Maybe Vecchio's way was a hell of a lot smarter.

Ray wanted to say: I'm sorry. Ray wanted to say: Fuck that, it wasn't your fault, it was Zuko's. Ray said: "Want me to buy the next round?"

Vecchio's mouth curved up into a faint smile. "You're a pal, Kowalski."

"No I'm not," Ray said. "I'm a neutral zone."

WHY YES I AM KIND OF HAPPY TO BE WRITING POSSIBLY 90,000 WORDS OF RAYS INTERACTING, NOW THAT YOU MENTION IT. \o/

Comments

[feverbeats]

I tried that translation thing with a few lines from my Harry/Dumbledore fic, and it kind of terrified me. It changed almost everything, but one sentence stayed nearly the same, just going from "you must kill me" to "you need to kill me" to "you have to kill me." AAAAAAAH WHY IS THAT SO DISTRESSING TO ME?

Also, holy shit, Aria, that snippet. You know how much I love your RayK and your Fraser, but damn, you really get Vecchio, too.

[aria]

BECAUSE IT IS DISTRESSING! Oh man, no, seriously, that's ... pretty distressing. Way to be insistent, translator.

\\\o///! Um, I am slowly discovering that I may think I don't understand Vecchio, but Kowalski does, which makes him really writable. I keep on being tempted to write Vecchio-POV things just to see if I can, though?

[feverbeats]

AND YOU BASICALLY ARE KOWALSKI, SO THAT WORKS. :D Also, I would love to see a Vecchio-POV thing from you at some point, dude.

[aria]

I -- think that is true but it is a little worrying! Like, it really depends on how I am like Kowalski. (I mean, deep down in my soul I really want to identify with Fraser more, but I suspect that Kowalski does too, so ...) I mean, I know Kowalski has a very easy voice, but that is not quite the same thing?

Sadly(?) when I try to think of Vecchio-POV things my brain just starts composing OT3 porn. /o\

[feverbeats]

Duh, you are both spazzes. ♥

THAT IS NOT SAD. THAT IS GREAT.

[aria]

Yeah, but only one of us can dance. :(

WELL OKAY I GUESS I WILL WRITE SOME OF THAT AT MIDNIGHT, SHALL I? :D

[feverbeats]

You must learn! All alone. With one of those little foot-pattern things.

:DDDDDD ILU AND YOUR LATE-NIGHT PORN SKILLS, MAN.

[aria]

Does the foot-pattern thing come with a complementary Diefenbaker?

HAHA EXCEPT Y'KNOW THE F/K/V WITH THE DATING THAT I WROTE FOR THE FLASHFIC COMM? Uh that one was written at totally reasonable hours. With my grandmother in the next room. IDEK. /o\

[feverbeats]

You bet it does! :D

LOLOLOL ILU! I find that almost all writing comes more easily to me at absurd hours of the night, or at least that was the case until recently. I myself am gearing up to write four more kink bingo stories and I hope I haven't lost my porning abilities. D:

[aria]

:DDD!

I am ... trying really hard to feel bad about porning with my grandmother in the same house, but I -- I can't. Also oh god maybe I stole your porning abilities? I say this only because this morning I was all "...damn, why didn't I also sign up for kink bingo?" (Answer: I used to have this idea that I didn't want to write completely unjustified gratuitous sex. Until ... Fraser talked me into it. OH IRONY.) Anyway I hope you still have them! <3

[schiarire]

I take it all back, Dairine would be a drummer!

[aria]

THIS MAKES ME HAPPY IN MY SOUL.

Also now I want to say "Dairine and Pipe should bond!" but ... I do not know if you have ever seen HCL?

[schiarire]

I have, ages ago! Because of Milliways.

[aria]

O yes, I have heard very vague reports of the Adventures of Milliways Billy & Joe. Do you remember what you thought of HCL?

[schiarire]

I liked it! I had been warned it was not a comedy (whatever the DVD jacket says) so I came through OK. It was the first time I'd seen CKR in anything and I almost died from hormones. Icons never conveyed it!

[aria]

I think telling someone "hilarious comedy!" is probably the worst possible thing to do to someone before having them watch HCL. Bad US DVD jacket. :( And hah yes CKR. Billy is particularly magical; I also find Ray attractive but he does not kill me with hormones and I mostly want to ruffle his nutty hair.

[schiarire]

"Just like Spinal Tap!" NO IT ISN'T

I didn't get any fic-desire from it, though I think most people who have seen it do.

[aria]

NOT AT ALL :(((

I got meta-desire from it, actually! So I went and found a lot of intelligent discussions and was confused about what a lot of people thought of Billy and it was great. And then I wrote a Slings & Arrows crossover, the end.

Also mumble I mostly love HCL for the epic screwed-up friendship so unless I am in the mood for depressing fic I am much more likely to go find some RPF that fills basically the same desire mumble.

[schiarire]

Depressing friendship! I like!

[china_shop]

"No I'm not," Ray said. "I'm a neutral zone."

I am flaily with want! *waaaaaant*

Any time you need a cheerleader, just ask, okay? *g*

[aria]

:DDD!

I am pretty sure I am not doing the "oh goddd I cannot do this!" thing right now, but it is a bit daunting. /o\ This comment alone was pretty helpful cheerleading, though. <333