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apocalypsosOkay, so. What I wrote for ze Yuletide:
Hyacinths Mean, "You're Still A Wanker, Number Nine" (Imagine Me And You) -- So here's the thing. I got my assignment because one of the requests was Dexter. I was totally prepared to write it, too -- they wanted Deb/Rita femslash, and I was going to try and set it after Dex presumably got arrested for being the Bay Harbor Butcher, so unless they were planning to end the season and the series at the same time, it was definitely going to be AU and God knows a good AU.
The thing was, it wasn't going anywhere. Couldn't get it to come out of my head and onto the computer screen. There was no reason for it not to work, excepting the whole sexuality thing -- they'd both been burned before, and now they get burned by Dexter, and Rita let him around her goddamn kids, and first Deb's boyfriend and now her brother? They're in the same boat, they'd be the only ones who know what they're feeling, and they could come together with that.
Except they couldn't, because my brain wasn't working.
So I flailed for a little bit, and then I just decided I'd try for one of the other requests I'd gotten. One was Smoke Signals, which I've seen before and liked, but if I had to write as Thomas (which was the request), as sweet as he is, I'd probably kill myself. One of the others was Imagine Me And You, and oh, man, SO CUTE. I mean, I don't femslash a lot, but Luce and Rachel? HELLO. I really kind of wish I'd gotten the idea to try that request earlier so that I could have written something longer. (The best was when I let the lesbians at work read it and they both said it was a great story and would make a great novel, too, and I was like, "I would have! I just have no time!" *sadpuppyface* Heh.)
I think my only worry was the Briticisms, but![[livejournal.com profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/external/lj-userinfo.gif)
derryderrydown had me covered. ;)
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Women Are Wicked When They're Unwanted (Dexter) -- Okay, first off, I was going to use that title for my original request. And it worked, and then I read this request and it worked even BETTER. (Except I changed it that little bit because Deb didn't "seem" wicked and it worked better as "they're" instead of "you're".)
So I'm going through the Yuletide Madness site picking out requests I might want to write and saving them in a text file, and I hit onjmtorres's requests, one of which was for an AU where Deb had turned out to be the Ice Truck Killer.
Look, not to knock on my original assignment at ALL, but if I had gotten this assignment originally I would have:
a.) Spent two days just saying, "Oh, my God. OH MY GOD," over and over again. Possibly while flailing.
b.) Written over twenty thousand words EASY.
c.) Gotten it posted in November.
Because seriously, when you think back on it, it's RIGHT THERE. It's kind of ridiculous, but it's a ridiculous I could have totally worked with. You have no fucking idea how tempted I still am to write a MUCH longer version of this prompt, that's novel-length and really fucking dark and leaves Dexter completely fucked up by season's end.
No. No. I don't have time, I don't have time, I'm supposed to be writing novels in 2008 -- ORIGINAL novels.
*glares at prompt*
*whimpers*
*
Big, Blonde, and Beautiful (Hairspray) -- So I finally got a chance to see Hairspray a few weeks ago, and yes, Link and Tracy were very cute (although every time I think of Zac Efron singing to that picture of her I think that they got that infatuated look on his face when he was singing by replacing her picture with a mirror), and yes, Seaweed and Penny were also very cute.
But how hot were Maybelle and Corny? Honestly.
So I'm compiling requests and there's one for Maybelle and Corny. I kinda said, "Oh, thank God, I'm not the only one who thinks that's hot," and saved the request, although I was pretty sure I wasn't going to write it. And then in the last couple of hours I was just playing with ficlets and I said, "The hell with it," and wrote the nice porny image of them that would NOT leave my head.
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Once Upon A Midnight Dreary (Latter Days) -- I completely forgot I'd deleted the movie off my hard drive when I tossed a couple of prompts onto the list of requests I was saving. Heh. (... what? I was watching the sex scene, like, ALL the time.)
But, yeah. Every time I watch all I can think is that, yes, they're hopelessly and totally in love, but they're also SO different. And there's going to be all these moments where they realize, "What are you, nuts? How can you not like Sex And The City?!" And then Aaron says there's just something about the whole show that makes him uncomfortable (and also, he maybe thinks Sarah Jessica Parker is freakish and scary-looking and horsey), and Christian starts nibbling on his neck or something and says, "Is it all the sex that makes you uncomfortable? 'Cause we could work on that, you know?" And then Aaron laughs and Christian sticks his hand down Aaron's pants and ...
...
...
... okay, I'm back.
Wait, hold on a sec.
...
...
... MMMM. Okay, now I'm back.
*
Port In The Storm (Journeyman) -- What? I even said I was going to write a Journeyman fic. That was like the first requests I started looking for when they opened up the stocking stuffers. *beams*
Hyacinths Mean, "You're Still A Wanker, Number Nine" (Imagine Me And You) -- So here's the thing. I got my assignment because one of the requests was Dexter. I was totally prepared to write it, too -- they wanted Deb/Rita femslash, and I was going to try and set it after Dex presumably got arrested for being the Bay Harbor Butcher, so unless they were planning to end the season and the series at the same time, it was definitely going to be AU and God knows a good AU.
The thing was, it wasn't going anywhere. Couldn't get it to come out of my head and onto the computer screen. There was no reason for it not to work, excepting the whole sexuality thing -- they'd both been burned before, and now they get burned by Dexter, and Rita let him around her goddamn kids, and first Deb's boyfriend and now her brother? They're in the same boat, they'd be the only ones who know what they're feeling, and they could come together with that.
Except they couldn't, because my brain wasn't working.
So I flailed for a little bit, and then I just decided I'd try for one of the other requests I'd gotten. One was Smoke Signals, which I've seen before and liked, but if I had to write as Thomas (which was the request), as sweet as he is, I'd probably kill myself. One of the others was Imagine Me And You, and oh, man, SO CUTE. I mean, I don't femslash a lot, but Luce and Rachel? HELLO. I really kind of wish I'd gotten the idea to try that request earlier so that I could have written something longer. (The best was when I let the lesbians at work read it and they both said it was a great story and would make a great novel, too, and I was like, "I would have! I just have no time!" *sadpuppyface* Heh.)
I think my only worry was the Briticisms, but
derryderrydown had me covered. ;)*
Women Are Wicked When They're Unwanted (Dexter) -- Okay, first off, I was going to use that title for my original request. And it worked, and then I read this request and it worked even BETTER. (Except I changed it that little bit because Deb didn't "seem" wicked and it worked better as "they're" instead of "you're".)
So I'm going through the Yuletide Madness site picking out requests I might want to write and saving them in a text file, and I hit on
jmtorres's requests, one of which was for an AU where Deb had turned out to be the Ice Truck Killer.Look, not to knock on my original assignment at ALL, but if I had gotten this assignment originally I would have:
a.) Spent two days just saying, "Oh, my God. OH MY GOD," over and over again. Possibly while flailing.
b.) Written over twenty thousand words EASY.
c.) Gotten it posted in November.
Because seriously, when you think back on it, it's RIGHT THERE. It's kind of ridiculous, but it's a ridiculous I could have totally worked with. You have no fucking idea how tempted I still am to write a MUCH longer version of this prompt, that's novel-length and really fucking dark and leaves Dexter completely fucked up by season's end.
No. No. I don't have time, I don't have time, I'm supposed to be writing novels in 2008 -- ORIGINAL novels.
*glares at prompt*
*whimpers*
*
Big, Blonde, and Beautiful (Hairspray) -- So I finally got a chance to see Hairspray a few weeks ago, and yes, Link and Tracy were very cute (although every time I think of Zac Efron singing to that picture of her I think that they got that infatuated look on his face when he was singing by replacing her picture with a mirror), and yes, Seaweed and Penny were also very cute.
But how hot were Maybelle and Corny? Honestly.
So I'm compiling requests and there's one for Maybelle and Corny. I kinda said, "Oh, thank God, I'm not the only one who thinks that's hot," and saved the request, although I was pretty sure I wasn't going to write it. And then in the last couple of hours I was just playing with ficlets and I said, "The hell with it," and wrote the nice porny image of them that would NOT leave my head.
*
Once Upon A Midnight Dreary (Latter Days) -- I completely forgot I'd deleted the movie off my hard drive when I tossed a couple of prompts onto the list of requests I was saving. Heh. (... what? I was watching the sex scene, like, ALL the time.)
But, yeah. Every time I watch all I can think is that, yes, they're hopelessly and totally in love, but they're also SO different. And there's going to be all these moments where they realize, "What are you, nuts? How can you not like Sex And The City?!" And then Aaron says there's just something about the whole show that makes him uncomfortable (and also, he maybe thinks Sarah Jessica Parker is freakish and scary-looking and horsey), and Christian starts nibbling on his neck or something and says, "Is it all the sex that makes you uncomfortable? 'Cause we could work on that, you know?" And then Aaron laughs and Christian sticks his hand down Aaron's pants and ...
...
...
... okay, I'm back.
Wait, hold on a sec.
...
...
... MMMM. Okay, now I'm back.
*
Port In The Storm (Journeyman) -- What? I even said I was going to write a Journeyman fic. That was like the first requests I started looking for when they opened up the stocking stuffers. *beams*
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Date: 2008-01-01 10:34 pm (UTC)Yeah, that's all I have!
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Date: 2008-01-01 10:44 pm (UTC)no subject
Date: 2008-01-01 10:48 pm (UTC)Yes, I have done that myself! Very happy place indeed!
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Date: 2008-01-01 10:56 pm (UTC)Thank you!
I do not need the 20,000 word version at all, but you know. If you want to. *G*
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Date: 2008-01-01 10:58 pm (UTC)You're welcome. :)
homigod you have no idea what that prompt did to me. it made me spastic. i was so gleeful.
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Date: 2008-01-02 05:10 am (UTC)I am so happy to know who wrote that story so, so brilliantly! Because, yeah, Deb has been the ITK in my head since Juls sat on me and made me start watching the show. I knew it wasn't likely but omg, it made *so much sense* especially every time we saw flashbacks!
And I am so glad that you liked the idea enough to write such a fantastic story cos, omg, I squeed so hard over it when I saw it in the archive.
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Date: 2008-01-02 12:49 am (UTC)Also, since your comment on Purls Before Pie (PD) alas stuck in the pipe, I wanted to thank you. Because everyone who noticed the Supernatural cross made the metallicar purr.
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Date: 2008-01-02 02:19 am (UTC)no subject
Date: 2008-01-02 06:31 am (UTC)