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Name: Auntie Krizu
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As white, yellow, and other colours all disappear in black, in the same way all beings enter Kali.
--Mahanirvana Tantra
Vila: "Where are all the good guys?"
Blake: "You could be looking at them."
Avon: "What a very depressing thought."
--Blake's 7
"I may be small, but allow me to remind you that only serves to put me at castration level."
--Rygel XVI, Farscape
"One must be for ever drunken: that is the sole question of importance. If you would not feel the horrible burden of Time that bruises your shoulders and bends you to the earth, you must be drunken without cease. But how? With wine, with poetry, with virtue, with what you please. But be drunken. And if sometimes, on the steps of a palace, on the green grass by a moat, or in the dull loneliness of your chamber, you should waken up, your intoxication already lessened or gone, ask of the wind, of the wave, of the star, of the bird, of the timepiece; ask of all that flees, all that sighs, all that revolves, all that sings, all that speaks, ask of these the hour; and wind and wave and star and bird and timepiece will answer you: 'It is the hour to be drunken! Lest you be the martyred slaves of Time, intoxicate yourselves, be drunken without cease! With wine, with poetry, with virtue, or with what you will.'"
--Charles Baudelaire
"Why is a mouse when it spins?"
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We finally finished chapter 12 of the Persiafic last night. It was a long and insanely plotty and research-intensive chapter, too. And a long one at that: I just checked the finalised version and it's 13 265 words long. Bloody hell. I think we used almost every single one of our OCs in it, too, from minor guards to major antagonists to horses and cheetahs and even the OCs had tragedies of their own. But at least now, most of the main subplot is out of the way and we can focus on just pure, intense character/slash stuff for the last two chapters. Also it was the first chapter in which I did some of the actual writing to help ![[info]](http://l-stat.livejournal.com/img/userinfo.gif?v=92.2) versaphile polish it up, and I'm glad that seems to have helped the process quite a bit, even if my prose isn't anywhere near as full and as colourful and as cinematic as hers. I write very condensed prose poetry-type stuff and am much better with emotions rather than action or plot; she is great at plotty longfic. But combining the two seems to have worked wonderfully and we have oodles of pretty fic and beautiful, dramatic scenes aplenty :3 And now I wish I had some alcohol to get me through the BAFTAs tonight. Why isn't there a live feed from the red carpet? ETA: ah, RT has a liveblog.Tags: doctor who, persiaverse, teh simm, timecock, versaphile
And the mood has swung to:  accomplished
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Just before I go to sleep, OMG MATT SMITH IS GOING TO BE CARRYING THE OLYMPIC TORCH THROUGH CARDIFF OMG OMG OMGHOW FUCKING AMAZING IS THAT Ten years ago, nobody thought Doctor Who would ever come back. And now he's back and as important as ever, a living legend. And such an important part of British cultural history that the actor playing him gets to do this. This is making me wibbly and goosebumpy with utter, utter Whovian joy. ♥ The seriously squee-harshing thing, though, is all those entitled whiny girls who wanted it to be Dave (don't even glance at the replies to that tweet if you value your sanity), but fuck off, this isn't 2006. Y'all know I love Dave to tiny tiny bits, but it's just so disrespectful towards Team Cardiff and Matt in 2012 and the show being something that always renews itself and its actors and everything (and yeah, yeah, we all know who to blame for the newbies not getting that). Matt Smith is fucking amazing and Team Moff is fucking amazing. Deal with it. And enjoy this amazing historical moment in Whodom. I guess it's even bigger to those of us who were fans before the show came back and who had to sit through the wilderness years and hope and hope. It's just symbolic of the resurrection of a fantastic, fantastic character and concept that you once thought were dead but who is now alive and well and bringing joy into the world. In short, this warms the cockles of my oldskool heart. Don't hate, celebrate. ♥ Tags: doctor who, eleven, matt smith
And the mood has swung to:  excited
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Ok, so what do you do when you start out writing a fic, and it turns into a two-parter, and the second part is infinitely better than the first? I wrote about two encounters between the same pair of guys (yes, yes, Dave/John) and swapped POVs between the encounters. They are fairly similar and sort of mirror each other, but the first was more wobbly because it started out as a quick PWP. And then the second one just suddenly turned deep and had character exploration and deeper stuff and hotter sex and everything. What pains me is that logically, I should just post the second part as a standalone and chuck the first part entirely because the second part is way more satisfying as a story, emotionally, while the first part is a bit wobbly as a whole and if the reader took that part in first, it'd reflect poorly on the entire fic because the beginning is what sets the tone of a fic. The second part even has a better hook at the start. I've kind of tried to polish the first part, but there is very little there that isn't done better in the second part, so it really looks like I should jettison it. It wouldn't hurt the continuity all that much, but I always hate scrapping stuff I've spent ages writing. And I can't really post the first part afterwards as a prequel of sorts, because of the above reasons--the quality isn't that great and it might be a bit too samey. Aaah! Dilemma! What do I do? I just want to post the sort of fic I am totally satisfied with, but I'd hate to ditch the other stuff because it's not like it's terrible *badfic* or anything. It's not Any Two Guys stuff and it's all right, but it just needs a bit more oomph. I have probably made it sound worse than it is, and will post it anyway at some point, but I still wonder if there's a way to salvage the entire thing without sacrificing quality. Thank god I'm not a film director; I could never decide which scenes to cut out and leave for the DVD extras. Tags: dave and john are not fucking, dave/john, rpf, rps, timecock, writing
And the mood has swung to:  frustrated
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Still baffled by people who want epic villains to be redeemed in canon. Baffled. That'll just mean the end of the conflict and thus, the end of the drama. And in general, whenever a character manages to resolve their issues, that means there's nothing much left to have a story of, and no tension. I really, really don't get it when people want that in canon. It's even stranger than the UST-killing "I want my UST couple to shag in canon" drive. I actually just read a really great fanficcer, someone who can write fantastic epic longfics, go on and on about this whole redemption business. Some writers have even stated they can't like a villain character unless they write a fic where they stop being evil, because morally, these writers can't get past the villain being what s/he is. Now, I can see that happening in an AU fanfic where you want to fix stuff, but I wouldn't want that to be canon. Imagine if the Joker got some therapy and stopped being flaily and nuts. Imagine if Claudius just went "oops, my bad, sorry about killing your dad" and Hamlet went on some Prozac and was like "that's ok, uncle, let's bury the axe and be buddies." Imagine if the Master became a great humanitarian, Davros developed a kindness mutation and the Cybermen installed an empathy driver. Sure, all the best villains are interesting, somewhat relatable and tragic in a Byronic hero sense and sometimes you wish things hadn't been so shit for them so they wouldn't have gone nuts in the first place. They wouldn't be interesting characters and fandom darlings otherwise if you didn't feel something like that for them. But when you take out the antagonism, you take out the drama. I suppose some of that depends on how real a story feels. I absolutely watch my beloved fictional tragic villains through a Romantic story filter and do not associate them with RL monsters. IRL, I know some bad upbringing and some mental deficits must've contributed to some people becoming Neo-Nazis, but I don't fucking care, I want those people locked up. But it seems like for some people, that distancing, romanticising filter doesn't exist at all even when fiction is concerned. It's like the opposite of those women who write love letters to serial killers in prison, I guess, those people who can never take the romanticising goggles off. (Or, come to think of it, considering how both the villain-redemption writing and the killer-fancying are manifestations of the "I must cure this person with love" phenomenon, maybe they aren't all that different). And IDK, whenever a supposed hero gets too arrogant and selfish, it sets off my bullying triggers so hard it drives *me* into a very angry moralistic mode where I can't like a character at all if they act like a twat who thinks they're the best thing ever. If you ask me to side with a character who goes on about how brilliant he is, I won't. When a villain is a villain, you usually get provided with reasons and some backstory and you're not *meant* to adore what he does. I have way more sympathy for a tragic villain or a tragic/Byronic hero than an arrogant hero. But, yeah. Fanfic is fanfic and it's not like it's completely wrong to want to give a villain a cuddle or a calming bumfuck, but canon? Fuck no. Especially if he just stays placid and doesn't bounce right back, muahhahhahing his way to some new evil plan. Please let me keep the drama, ok? Tags: meta, villains
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