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[apocalypsos]

-- My spn_j2_bigbang story is all edited and tucked away until posting day. So, yay, one less thing to worry about! \o/

-- I've spent most of today working on Heroine Addiction. I've gotten five chapters out of twenty-five edited so far. The good thing is that out of the nine days I've given myself to finish this thing and get it done, four of them are days off. The good thing is that only three or four chapters really need major work, so what I'm hoping for is to get six or seven more chapters edited tonight and tomorrow so I'm close to halfway done.

-- My only problem is that I'm kind of itching to outline The Grand Prize Winner and start hacking away at the excess. I have a hard copy of it printed out and it's HUGE. I have to throw away thirty thousand words, and it shows.

-- I still haven't gotten a chance to work on either my vampirebigbang or my werewolfbigbang stories. Right now, Heroine Addiction has top priority, and I sort of want to wait for both shows to end first so I have a better idea of what to work with.

-- I have this short list of finale fic ideas I'm hoping to write sometime. I wonder what it says about me that of the finale fic ideas I've had, a large chunk of them are Lisa-centric. Possibly that when the boys decide they're going to chuck it all and pretend to be normal, I love that they hook up with women I feel could kick some ass if they turned to hunting. And hey, unlike Jess, Lisa knows who Dean is. (Well, maybe not everything, but ... you know, the hunting and all.)

Plus ... I don't know, I'm finding out I'm not a big fan of the angle where Dean turns into a depressed alcoholic and Lisa cries in the laundry room over a basket of freshly-washed underwear and then Sam shows up all broken and woobie-faced asking for Dean-hugs and knocks Lisa out of the story with his big pointy possessed elbows. Maybe it'll work for me if it happens in canon, but it's turning me off in fic.

Comments

[brihana25.livejournal.com]

Congrats on the Big Bang fic. I just finished off my rewrites tonight and sent it off to the betas, so I'm having a bit of a celebration of my own. :)

[apocalypsos.livejournal.com]

Isn't it the best feeling? I haven't finished one since the first year it was held and I almost didn't finish this year. I literally wrote the whole damn thing in the last ten days. I was so happy to get feedback from my beta, because I hadn't let anybody else read it and I was, "Oh, God, what if it sucks?!" :)

[clex_monkie89.livejournal.com]

See, I like the part where Dean turns into a depressed alcoholic, because the Winchesters are horribly fucked up on their best days. But it really works best if Lisa is STRONG and not ten kinds of sad over it.

I can actually see her randomly taking Dean in, all things considered (she knows he's a good guy and he saved Ben's life, which she's clearly never gonna forget), but I can't see her having been pining over him for the last two years, and especially not to the extent that she cries for his mysterious pain.

[apocalypsos.livejournal.com]

I think my whole thing is less Dean the depressed alcoholic thing -- because, really, he does do the depressed alcoholic thing during times of stress -- as much as the thing where Lisa wanders around all depressed and/or angry before being elbowed out of the story for Sam's Big Brotherly Love.

Don't get me wrong ... I love the Big Brotherly Love. But Lisa's been shown to be sharp, patient, and comforting. I've just gotten the impression that helping Dean comes before fucking Dean for her (because you're right, he did save Ben and that takes priority), AND that Dean's not going to throw away the life Sam specifically ordered him to go live before he died to save the world.

[sabra-n.livejournal.com]

his big pointy possessed elbows

That's quite possibly the best turn of phrase ever. I'm imagining something along the lines of Tail from Eureka's Castle - his elbows moving independently of his will and knocking stuff over and poking people in the eye. Hee.

[apocalypsos.livejournal.com]

Well, if anybody would have ENORMOUS pointy elbows, it'd be Sam Winchester. ;)