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One of the two fic-fests I await eagerly [Feb. 27th, 2009|07:18 am]
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[info]lgbtfest is running again this year! This is a wonderful issue-focussed fest that last year resulted in two fics I'm rather proud of writing, as well as a busload of material to read :) The general quality's insanely high.

Prompt submission is running until March 3, with prompt claiming from March 5 to 10. Now if only someone would submit the prompts I want... *hopes quietly for a Rose of Versailles one, because [info]fyrie would kill me*
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I have not fallen off the face of the planet [Jan. 24th, 2009|08:13 pm]
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I've just noticed I haven't posted in two weeks. As usual, this means work's eating me alive. And amusingly enough, of my New Year's Resolutions I'm doing the best with exercise, which means less weight already, but also 45 to 60 minutes less in the day. Studying isn't going badly, but writing, thus far, is mostly of the Morning Pages kind, letting out steam and stress.

And I'm watching the news about the newest Elisabeth production with... bemusement. Not only will Sisi be taller than Death (which has happened before), but it looks like it'll be equivalent of Sandor Nagy playing Sisi to Szilveszter Szabo's Death. It'll be - interesting.

But hey, she's cute. And I need to look for this concert while I'm over there: 【ニコニコ動画】I have a dreamコンサート「オスカーワイルド」01
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I hate Hohenzollerns, and a question about book recommendations [Oct. 17th, 2008|09:13 am]
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*glares at a certain Kaiser*

A question to the LGBT and history-inclined portion of my friends-list: Can anyone recommend books about Wilhelm II of Germany? I'm looking in particular for information about his youth and private life, including the LGBT inclinations.
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Habsburgs are amusing [Oct. 13th, 2008|05:06 pm]
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Back from Vienna, alive. I had an immensely enjoyable weekend, including seeing Rebecca again (more on which, hopefully, later) and [info]fyrie killing my feet with all the walking we did ;)

One of the highlights of the trip was the temporary exhibition on Crown Prince Rudolf that's currently on at the Hofmobiliendepot. He was a deeply disturbed individual. One quote: "I have a deep respect for death. I often seek out dying people, to witness their last breath. Each of them dies differently. I watch dying animals as well..."

But what slayed me was a pair of photos of Rudolf clinging - there is no other word - on the arm of Wilhelm II of Prussia. Who, before the unfortunate moustache, apparently was a dead ringer for Jesper Tyden. And of all the Rudolf photos in the exhibit, the one with his arm through Wilhelm's was the only one in which he looked comfortable. On top of Wilhelm's documented predilections, I really do not need this plotbunny.
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I might be going a little crazy [Dec. 18th, 2006|07:06 pm]
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[Current Location |home]
[Mood | crazy]

Yuletide story: done.

Story I owe someone: not the faintest idea what to write, nor even which version of the canon to use.

Yuletide pinch hits (requests that were defaulted on by the original writer appointed): being eyed for fandoms I have the faintest idea about.

I might well end up grabbing a pinch-hit story tomorrow. Somebody stop me.
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Drabble requests, ONCE AGAIN [Apr. 17th, 2006|06:21 pm]
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[Mood | frustrated]

*eyedart* I hate vampires. Really, really, really hate them.

Throw me a fandom, any fandom. And a quote. Doesn't have to be anything to do with the fandom, just a hook. You can include character and pairing if you want.

Fandoms: All the usual, including vampires and Van Helsing and originals and what-have-you. Batman (Begins and DC), Star Wars, OUATIM, CLAMP, Tolkien, Kay, Discworld, anything I've ever written or described.

First 10 will get written before the bell tolls midnight.
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Drabble requests [Apr. 1st, 2006|07:51 pm]
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[Mood | angry]

I'm stuck, stuck, stuck on the Van Helsing things.

Time for a kick start.

Give me a fandom and either a character, a pairing, an item, a title, or all of the above. Get a 100-word drabble in return.

No Van Helsing for obvious reasons, and also no CLAMP. Otherwise anything I'm vaguely familiar with is fair go. This includes Coldfire, Underworld, V for Vendetta (comic) and anything up to and including Night Watch (Russian version).

First 10 will get written today.

EDIT: *sweatdrop* 6 requesters so far, 4 of which want pr0n. Um. People?
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Writing frustration [Mar. 19th, 2006|09:22 pm]
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[Mood | frustrated]
[Music |Tanz der Vampire - Totale Finsternis]

I totally should post something Star Wars related, except for the fact that I didn't realise posting my info in [info]imadra_blue's friending meme would lead to people actually friending me. So. Um. Probably not the right moment to mention the fact I haven't touched Star Wars with a ten foot pole in a long while.

Anyway, spent today trying to fic and failing. Current working-on-them-right-now list, just to motivate me tomorrow at work, because apparently I'm unable to write at home; at this rate I'll be able to write something I want to write around... hm, July?

- 3 Tanz der Vampire stories (trials of a vampire father, very twisted Dracula/Krolock and Herbertfic). All for [info]fyrie *expletive deleted*

- Vlad and Gabriel by the fire, for [info]ariss_tenoh, with sincere apologies for the delay

- Coldfire: Family Ties, possible vignettes, for Gerald Tarrant. Peskiest muse ever

- next set of Dooku drabbles for the [info]1character prompts, and the Dooku-and-Obi-Wan fic, for [info]imadra_blue

- miscellaneous Dooku and non-Dooku fic for the SW people on the f-list because I'm feeling guilty

Oh, and on top of everything else I may be able to combine my obligations towards [info]fyrie, the Coldfire people and the Star Wars people in one fic. But I've a feeling it might get me a wee bit flamed =^.^=

In other news, GIP. *purrs*

EDIT: *headdesk* Completely forgot. [info]fyrie did it again. The next installment of her Buffy/Tanz crossover killed me even deader. Even if you don't know anything about Buffy or Tanz, if you have the slightest fondness for dominant vampires, for Lucifer's sake read this story.
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Happy Fat Thursday, y'all [Feb. 23rd, 2006|07:49 pm]
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When you're on a diet, Fat Thursday sucks. So I coped by switching my allotted two 200-300 calorie meals to two rose-jam filling donuts and eating a faworek instead of the protein bar :>

I really don't understand how people can eat donuts that don't have rose-jam filling and candied orange peel on top, you know.

In other news, work killed me dead and Gerald Tarrant administered the coup de grace by deciding he doesn't feel like plodding through his conversation with Narilka again, but instead wants the first-time story I promised I'd write for him. Got a 1000 words of it done today, and they haven't even laid eyes on each other yet. Anyone want to take a very pushy muse off my hands?
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Meta-self-writing [Feb. 18th, 2006|10:41 am]
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[Mood | amused]

Eva Green is the new Bond girl. I'm quite amused, since I used an uglified (longer nose, narrower lips and eyes etc) version of her for the heroine of my NaNo. This reminds me - I should update that with the next bits. And plot the bits after that, after which there will be the grand finale that's mostly plotted, and finally Kirill and Rachel can go dancing.

Off to get myself in a Star Wars mood for a couple of requests. In the meantime, a meme from [info]daegaer:

Why did you give your fic that name? Are any of the titles I've used obscure? Ask, and all will be revealed, if I can remember what I meant by them!
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Some Buffy questions [Feb. 15th, 2006|09:59 pm]
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[Mood | confused]

My Joss Whedon experience is spotty at best. I've watched most of Buffy Season 1, about two-thirds of Buffy seasons 2 and 3, Angel 1-3 and then three quarters of 5. The problem being, I now want to write a Buffy crossover that, for plot purposes, has to be set after Angel discovers the Shanshu thing. This puts it between Season 4 and Season 5 of Buffy. Hence, characterisation problems.

  • Willow's with Tara at that point and somewhat aware of her power, but at what stage of her transformation? Still geeky, Wicca girl, Terrible As The Dawn, somewhere in between?

  • What was Giles' status throughout season 4? Any changes in his character since season 3 that I should be aware of? And what was he doing for a living - I believe he only opened up the Magic Box in season 5?

  • And finally, I know what Spike was like at the time, but where was he living between Season 4 and Season 5? I saw mentions of a crypt, I suppose with Harmony tagging along?

I know there are Buffy fans on my f-list. I'm sadly deprived through lack of time and money to buy full seasons :( Help me out?
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No-one does romantic comedy like the British [Feb. 5th, 2006|09:18 pm]
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The best part of Pride and Prejudice was the giggling around the cinema each time a male did something stupid. A very decent job of an adaptation, with some superior acting, though not exactly Oscar material on Keira's part.

In other news, I would like to take the opportunity to wish a very happy birthday to [info]ithilwen. Have a good one and may Himring's walls never fall!

Also, a resolution: I want to finish the PotO/Tanz crossover in time for Valentine's Day. Love is a major theme of it (especially since Krolock seems determined to guilt-trip me to hell), and I just want to sit down and write it.
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Elegance on the beach: winter edition [Dec. 28th, 2005|10:43 pm]
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[Mood | sleepy]

Creative-wise, I'm building up momentum to get past another pivotal action scene in Flowers (NaNo), polishing up the Christmas origific, and hopelessly stuck on Ara's Lorenzo thingie. To unblock everything, I'm planning a meta essay tomorrow, but shhh.

In the meantime, not-so-wildlife on the Sopot beach:

Big bad white feather things )
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November just around the corner [Oct. 9th, 2005|09:02 am]
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[Mood | crazy]

It's been over a year now, since my writing-melody has stuck like a broken record. Okay, there have been some patches of cloudless skies (What Remains, Quintile, Memory(FeelIt)Now), but they have something in common: they're series of drabbles. I plot longer things, start to write them, but I do not finish them. I need to fix this stutter. I need a writing-catharsis, a typewritten epiphany, a free-flow marathon to make me forget about closed structures and filigree repetitions.

And look, it'll be November in no time at all.

I did it once, in 2003, ending up with 50,000 words that formed two-thirds of a rather good novel that still needs an ending and a place in the top 20 forum posters. In 2004 I started, then broke down as my ilness returned with a vengeance. Now it's 2005, and I don't want a plot, sense, rhyme nor reason. There will be castles and aristocrats, heather and magic and blood.

Since I don't plan for it to be publishable in print, I might even post it online.

Once more unto the breech.

NaNo or bust.

PS: My NaNo theme song for this year: INXS - Elegantly Wasted
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Open letters [Aug. 30th, 2005|11:34 am]
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[Mood | frustrated]

Dear Luke Skywalker, get out of my brain. I’m trying to write about the torrid affairs of your father, mother, mentor and assorted hangers-on, which will probably result in your not being born at all. Now is not the time to hang around and try to engage me in discussions on philosophy.

Dear Bruce&Ducard, please reappear. I have pr0n to finish, and the fact you’ve been ensconced in the attic for the past two weeks is getting in the way. Also, the neighbours are starting to complain about the noises.

Dear Sands, shut up. If I want running commentary from the personification of my id, I’ll ask for it. Also, you’re not getting fic at the moment, so live with it.

Dear Obi-Wan, I’m sorry. I really didn’t mean to break your brain the way I did. It’s not my fault if people keep making me think up bad things to happen to you – it doesn’t mean they will happen. At least, not all of them. Even though you look utterly adorable and ravishable with your brain broken like that, a fact Darth Jinn was all too quick to point out to me.

Dear all: just cooperate. Is that really so much to ask for?

(Also: am stuck on who will lose a hand in the Darth Jinn fic. It will not be Anakin, Obi-Wan’s not the hand-losing type, Jinn and Dooku both maintain you only lose limbs when you lose your cool, therefore excepting them from the proceedings, and the OCs are bit players. Um. Padme?)
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Star Wars: Clone Wars, season 1 [Aug. 18th, 2005|11:28 pm]
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I've just gotten my hands on the first season of Clone Wars. Cartoon Network showed it dubbed here, and I just can't watch stuff I know in original dubbed, so I hadn't seen it before. This is less a review than a series of loose remarks and inspirations.

Overall: lovely characterization and design, great Star Wars fun. The two jarring things were some replaced voices and the fact that at times they overdid it at the bad-assedness of certain characters (Mace Windu, I'm looking at you). Still, mreeeow.

specifics and spoilers )

Now to fight certain servers and make them give me some Season 2.
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Writing Meta and pimpage [Aug. 10th, 2005|06:52 pm]
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[Mood | irritated]

First of all, two points of interest. One: [info]guede_mazaka wrote a bijou Sin City/Constantine crossover. Go and bother her to write some more. Two: [info]temve, quite apart from being a very good writer, makes customized Qui-Gon figures that had me in stitches. Go and marvel.

But it’s not all fun and games in Beth’s head today...


The curse of Mary Sue

Any fanfiction reader worth their salt knows the basic way to tell Mary Sues from legitimate original characters (OCs). They’re perfect and have the same – or better – powers as the main characters. They are or become best friends, relatives or romantic interests of the main characters. The story revolves around them.

The case in point: Will to Act (working title), also known as the Darth Qui-Gon fic. And the fact it now has a cast of three original characters, all of them Sith and (ex)apprentices to either Qui-Gon or Dooku, and all of them at some moments driving the story forward. One’s even female – if she weren’t African-Corellian, a manipulative bitch and asexual, I’d have no hopes of escaping the Mary Sue bashers.

The problem is that they’re all needed. Will to Act is a large-scale retelling of AOTC and follows its dual narrative structure, so Qui-Gon has to take care of Obi-Wan’s quest. Dooku’s too busy on Geonosis to go chasing after Anakin and Padmé. And if there’s no-one to interfere there, that plotline will take its AOTC shape, which will be boring. Then there’s a large plothole in the end that needs a Sith Infiltrator to plug it up. This means at least two OCs are needed, plus a third for Obi-Wan’s emotional reasons.

Beyond that, each of the OCs serves as a foil for a canon character. Ador is a counterpoint for Anakin and Padmé, the one who puts strange and dangerous thoughts in their heads. Damay lets Qui-Gon and later also Padmé shine: he asks them questions and gives them opportunities to articulate their own thoughts. Est... okay, Est is a pain in the arse, but a cute one. And he’s got a total of three scenes so far, in one of which he gets Dooku to open up, which alone is worth keeping him.

My question: is this too much? I’m not afraid of original characters, but out of an eight-strong main cast three are OCs. I’m wondering if it’s worth it to get creatively invested in something people will dismiss as weak origific or Sith Mary Sues.

(Even though the Qui-Gon|Obi-Wan|Anakin dynamic I’ve got set up is absolutely delicious. With lots of manly touching, natch. Am thinking of pawning Padmé off on Ador and pushing these three into bed together.)
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Drabble here, drabble there... [Aug. 4th, 2005|10:21 pm]
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[Mood | sleepy]

Just a reminder, because some people friended me in recent days: you can still request a drabble. I want to build up a nice sheaf of requests so that I don't get stuck creatively at work :)

And in the same vein, the next round of The Pairing List That Ate Fandom is up; funnily enough, the last one went up a day after I took drabble requests a few months ago. What looks interesting in this batch:
Read more... )

In the meantime, today I wrote a bit from [info]selenak's old request. Richard Mayhew's a surprisingly nice POV to write from.
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Drabble requests! [Aug. 2nd, 2005|10:59 pm]
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[Mood | anxious]

I had a much better and fun idea for this, but I forgot Buffy was on today. Inca Mummy Girl won over PSP.

So let's keep it simple. Think of a:

- a fandom I'm familiar with
- a character
- a pairing
- a motif, object, theme, colour

Comment to this post with any or all of the above, and I'll do my best to write a drabble about it. No deadlines, because I'll be doing those between "real" fics, but hey. Feed me.
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Rache der Fledermaus [Jul. 30th, 2005|02:52 pm]
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[Mood | thoughtful]

I just saw Batman Begins again, in IMAX no less. Mmm, Liam with crystal-clear surround sound <3

random notes mostly for fic purposes )

EDIT:
and more notes )
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Beautiful Ghosts [Jul. 24th, 2005|08:49 pm]
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[Mood | elated]

I finally got through Eliot Pattison's latest novel; I bought it three weeks ago, but with work and movies and HBP, I didn't have the time to sit quietly for five hours and read it in one take as it deserves to be read. It's as beautiful as Skull Mantra, Water Touching Stone and Bone Mountain. It's just - so quiet, so precise, so touching. Tragic and lovely and uplifting. "Chinese ex-cop camp survivor solves crimes in Tibet" doesn't even begin to describe it.

And if you never read any of the novels, no fear. A batwinged Tibetan bunny is gnawing at my fingers, waiting only until I persuade Xiao Shan that yes, he has to go up that snowy mountain, because the strange foreigners can help him find a killer. At least I don't have to worry about him commenting on the ninja gear, because he'll chalk it up to more Tibetan weirdness.

And that story will probably have the dubious honor of being the first Shan Tao Yun fanfic ever written. Um, at least he's not part of the slash pairing?

I think I'd better go and barricade the door against Tibetan vengeance gods :S
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Drive-by fic rec: Taxes [Jul. 24th, 2005|09:57 am]
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[Mood | happy]

I don't think I've pimped the Tax-verse in over a year, so now's as good an opportunity as any. POTC reincarnation in the modern world, with the pirates being IRS agents. And the newest installment has a delightful Sands in it:

"Kicked out of the house at gunpoint so he can have sex. That's number twenty-seven on the list of ways to tell Cousin Sheldon's in town."

Jack/Will, Elizabeth/Norrington, Sands/El. [info]the_mad_fangirl - run, don't walk.


In other news, I can't believe I've yet to find any Batman Begins Ducard/Bruce slash. If this continues I might just have to write some, because damn did I see chemistry.
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Le sigh [Jul. 23rd, 2005|08:46 am]
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[Mood | cynical]

Egypt now :( Quite apart from the tragedy (and it's ironic that it gets less billing than London, despite the similar scale), I'm also thinking about more mundane things. Like the fact that last year, the female parental unit finally stopped making "but they blow people up!" noises whenever I mentioned going to see the pyramids. I'm sorely tempted to use my internship money and take advantage of the fact it's going to be cheaper this winter. Not letting the bastards grind us down, and all that.

Current events in general are making me want to write bleak stories that no-one will read.

Now, to movies. Between the V for Vendetta trailer, which looks hopeful, the fact they moved the Polish Mr & Mrs Smith premiere up to August 5th, and the fact that I'm going to the pre-screening of Batman Begins today (boo-yah!) they cheer me up a bit ^^

Oooh. I can combine the two and read V for Vendetta on the tube today. And then write V-fic, possibly set in a future where the bad nuclear things only happened to Britain, so that the rest of the world history could proceed without many alterations. Right.
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Minutiae [Jun. 2nd, 2005|07:23 am]
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[Mood | amused]

First of all,

Happy birthday [info]pinkdormouse!

Second, Star Wars fanfiction is eating way too much of my life. I don't even like Dooku. Now, someone get him out of my head?

Third, that X-wank at [info]togakushishrine? Just one question about it: who died and made whoever the fandom police? Not to mention declaring X is serious and "has always been like that, and listen to me because I've got all old fans friended". And you've never heard of X-Therapy? Hell, I should point the parties involved to my X fanfiction page. Between Chibification, The Case of the Missing Shinken and Club Regina, it should make certain parties' heads implode >:D

PS. I know, tagged on the music meme from [info]sukeban, but I'm still thinking about what to post :P My music tastes lately range from plebeian to showtunes.
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Meme [Mar. 9th, 2005|08:01 am]
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From [info]reynardine:

If you happen to be working on some creative writing project, fanfiction or what have you, post exactly one sentence from each of your current work(s) in progress in your journal. It should probably be your favourite or most intriguing sentence so far, but what you choose is entirely your discretion. Mention the title (and genre) if you like, but don't mention anything else -- this is merely to whet the general appetite for your forthcoming work(s).

Folk tales would have it that the soul took three days to leave, and then the dead could come back as a vampire, a shadow of its human self.
- Quintile (Five of Pentacles), Van Helsing set of drabbles

She was the one who woke when nightmares took them, the one who lit the candles and told them the Phantom could not possibly be there.
- Au Clair de Lune, Phantom of the Opera post-movie tragedy of manners

What kind of person sculpted the face of his unwilling love and dressed it for a wedding?
- unnamed (possibly Madness of Senses), Phantom of the Opera action comedy

So sad and wild, with strange pride and recklessness, someone singing in the cold and revelling in the tragedy.
- When I Leave It Will Be Darker, Phantom of the Opera/Van Helsing crossover vignette

By the way, When I Leave... and the first chapter of Madness of Senses are written out in longhand in my notebook. If I don't post them by tomorrow morning, feel free to kick me to type faster.

Current [info]deadmentalking muses are [info]byzantinequeen, [info]jagiello and [info]poet_rambo. I think it gives me a wide range of possibilities, between the reformed sinner made empress, the not-so-barbarian warlord and the snooty and perverted artiste <3
I won't be taking any more simply because there's no-one else who'd be both interesting to others and easy to play for me. Michael Hutchence tempted me for a moment, but he was something of a neurotic with destructive taste in women, so it'd just be an excuse to post pretty pictures of him ;)
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dead Beth day [Feb. 4th, 2005|06:00 pm]
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Is it me, or is today especially sleepy? I feel like I'm walking through a dream-mist, with weights at my wrists and ankles. My thoughts swirl lazily, never touching the edges of my mind. I can't even read.

In the past forty-eight hours I've seen Boondock Saints twice. It's a figurative, almost legend-like movie that manages to also be terribly funny (much, much Willem Dafoe love) and features a cast of very evocative characters. Story ideas flicker through my mind, from a crossover with OUATIM (Connor: "Whoa, those guys are fucking psychos." Sands: "Look who's talking.") to a character study of Connor and Murphy crossreferenced to Neil Gaiman's Remiel and Duma, guardians of heaven become guardians of hell. I might order the US dvd, since the Polish one doesn't have any extra features :/

My Great Phantom Mix playlist has over four hours of mp3s now - full Original London Cast, full movie OST and assorted versions of Phantom of the Opera. It helps a lot with the writing, which is going well and less Anne Rice-y. I was recently ambushed by another Phantom plotbunny, which is shaping up to be an action comedy with serial killers and Johnny Depp (NOT as Sands). Add in polyamory and it sounds like something that [info]guede_mazaka would probably write much better. My subconscious will clearly do anything to give Phantom a happy ending ~_~

Off to the vet's now, so the rambling ends. Oh, and happy birthday to [info]ithilwen :)
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Creative woes [Jan. 30th, 2005|04:53 pm]
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[Mood | irritated]

Life continues to kick me. But I have other problems, too.

Opening line of current oeuvre:

"Paris was grey. The stones glistened in the rain like the bones of old gods, and chimney-smoke soiled the last survivors of the snowfields that had briefly bleached the city's face only weeks before. Water dripping from the edge of a roof to a balcony below rang out a funeral march."

I need to find a hammer and knock my new muse on the head ~_~ Erik, I know you're down and out and everything, but could you please try not to make me write like Anne bloody Rice?

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New version:

"Paris was grey. The stones glistened in the rain like frosted glass, and chimney-smoke soiled the last survivors of the snowfields that had briefly bleached the city only weeks before. Water dripping from the edge of a roof to a balcony below rang out a solo in three-eight time. Her companion was prone to translating everything into opera."

That's better. A bit.
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writing frustration [Dec. 1st, 2004|08:38 pm]
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A snippet of something I wrote today:

He leaned towards her. "He killed his sister. Family blood, Lyta."

And then she remembered. Remembered the scars on his face.

"They should have kept your lips sewn shut, Lie-smith."

Her hands felt heavy. The claws of brass dug into the surface of the table as she flexed her fingers.


It would help if I knew where both Lyta and Loki are now in DC continuity >.< I'm hunting for a TPB of Mike Carey's "Furies", but so far I only found the hardback for over 30 euro, and last I heard Loki had something nasty happen to him in "Lucifer" a few years ago.

I'm in a Vertigo mood lately. And possibly a crossover one. There are also tarot cards shuffling somewhere in the back of my mind. Weirdness approaching, possibly.

And still, bells ringing.
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Creativity: feeding and byproducts thereof [Nov. 2nd, 2004|06:24 pm]
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[Mood | creative]

First of all, in the immortal words of Garfield, FEED ME. There are people on my friendslist who read and write Van Helsing fiction of the Dracula/Gabriel genre. Please, some recs? I'm starving here!

In other news, I don't think I mentioned it here except in a custom-locked post. I'm doing Nano this year, too.

Why, what, when )

And an excerpt from Dragon Town )

*looks at friendslist* I keep feeling I forgot something. Oh, right. If you're a US citizen, go do me a favour and kick Bush out of the White House. Or there'll be no living with [info]uberbitsch :P
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Opening requests [Sep. 20th, 2004|11:33 pm]
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[Mood | chipper]

Yes, you heard me. I'm doing request drabbles.

No particular occasion except needing to get over my stress-induced burnout.

Fandoms available:
Anime/Manga - X, Get Backers, Death Note, Gundam Wing, Hellsing, Kenshin, Kamikaze Kaitou Jeanne, Vampire Princess Miyu (first 3 volumes of manga only), Yami no Matsuei (anime only), Slayers (TV only)
Western deadtree products - LOTR and Silmarillion, Harry Potter, anything Batman-related, Sandman, Hellblazer, X-men and related, Fionavar Tapestry, Discworld, any Neil Gaiman book, any William Gibson book, Zelazny's Amber Chronicles, Artemis Fowl
Live action - OUATIM, POTC, Angel, Equilibrium, most Bond movies, Matrix, Moulin Rouge, Underworld, Shrek, Troy, Smallville season 1, Star Wars, Star Trek: Deep Space 9

There should be something in this for everyone. Rules?

Maximum two requests per person. Give me a fandom, a character and optionally a focus - an object, an emotion, a location. You know - "Colonel Mustard, in the library, with a lead pipe". No pairings.

No deadline either: I'll work my way through them. And they'll be the length I manage to drag them out to ;)

Now, somebody give me something to write? *bats eyelashes*
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