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thefroggWell...I took this fic down. Ok, actually, I just locked it, but really?
Same diff.
It's got growing pains. Lots of them. Between my penchant for writing epic fanfic without actually having a clear direction beforehand, my lack of knowledge of canon for background purposes, and disappearances of (in genre) betas?
I need to draw lines.
IMHO, Playing Cupid works, mainly because there's really...nothing in it to say "Yes, this is comicverse" or "Yes, this is toonverse." Movieverse just doesn't work for it. At least, not yet. It may, sometime down the road, if movies get made where Dick becomes Nightwing, moves to Bludhaven and has Dr. Fleidermaus' apartment next door for his nocturnal activities.
Dichotomy came from Batman Forever. Ignored pretty much the rest of the movies, and BB hadn't been released yet. It was actually inspired by Sunset Dreams and Misty Eyed Adventures, by Rimau.
Terminal Blushing? Let's not go there. Really. Not.
Six Degrees of Inner Turbulence has facets pretty much taken from every continuity. Except maybe movieverse, which is kind of weird, since that's how I got *into* Batman/DCU to start with. I really need to A) actually get a decent background education in a continuity I can shove the story in. And B) weed out all the things that aren't in that continuity.
I wound up writing, and then tweaking the storyline/au to fit what I wrote. Or the reverse, sometimes. Or got changed after my beta-at-the-time tied my brain in knots. And I really really really damn well need a timeline for it.
Don't get me wrong, I like what I've written so far. I like what I have planned for the story. I don't really have an OTP (for any fandom), so that's not a problem. And for those few of you who've read my other fics, which aren't here, you know I love angst and happy endings.
My motto's pretty much "You can have your happily ever after, but you have to damn well earn it first."
There's lots of angst, both in what's written, posted or not, and yet to be written. And a happy ending. Actually, happy endings mostly all the way around. I'm still trying to figure out how, or if, to patch up certain broken relationships.
Just a few of the problems with Turbulence.
I don't know what I'm going to do with it. Really. I have some nebulous ideas of adding a scene or two to the beginning to flesh it out more, but...
It's more or less on life support. I'm still trying to decide if it's worth the effort to save.
I'm rambling. And you know what? I don't care.
I'd like to get back to the Dichotomy (supposed to be) series. DoSoul was pretty much explicitly referenced in DoHeart, and actually rereading DoHeart reminded me of DoMind, and then there was DoDreams...I actually started writing Dichotomy of Soul, but it never came out right. Not even the first half dozen paragraphs.
I have this huge huge problem with being able to see things in my head, and not be able to translate them into words. I can see Dick Grayson curled up on a Gotham rooftop, wearing the Robin suit and mask and completely incapable of reaching Robin. I can watch Alfred's very painstaking efforts to discreetly alert Bruce to what's going on with Dick, or rather that something *is* going on with Dick, but I can't put it into words. It's not a "show don't tell" issue. It's a "huge emotionally charged drama thing that just doesn't play right on paper" issue. Or computer screen. Whatever.
My biggest issue with Dichotomy of Heart was Batman being out of character in asking GL to cover Gotham. There's so *much* backstory in the epic the scene came from, in the scenes that make up the rest of the Dichotomy (supposed to be) series, to explain why he does that. Why Bruce feels he has to go to some kind of extreme to convince Dick that he isn't hallucinating, that Robin *isn't* playing mental games with Dick...I can only hope there's enough in the actual story - short, I know, but still - to get that across. Yes, Bruce understands Dick's fractured personality. He understands that Dick *is* Robin, just as much as Bruce *is* Batman, and yet their civilian personalities are different enough from their caped-and-cowled to...
Le sigh.
Apparently I don't need a beta or Turbulence logistics to tie my brain in knots. I've managed to do that quite well on my own, thanks.
Same diff.
It's got growing pains. Lots of them. Between my penchant for writing epic fanfic without actually having a clear direction beforehand, my lack of knowledge of canon for background purposes, and disappearances of (in genre) betas?
I need to draw lines.
IMHO, Playing Cupid works, mainly because there's really...nothing in it to say "Yes, this is comicverse" or "Yes, this is toonverse." Movieverse just doesn't work for it. At least, not yet. It may, sometime down the road, if movies get made where Dick becomes Nightwing, moves to Bludhaven and has Dr. Fleidermaus' apartment next door for his nocturnal activities.
Dichotomy came from Batman Forever. Ignored pretty much the rest of the movies, and BB hadn't been released yet. It was actually inspired by Sunset Dreams and Misty Eyed Adventures, by Rimau.
Terminal Blushing? Let's not go there. Really. Not.
Six Degrees of Inner Turbulence has facets pretty much taken from every continuity. Except maybe movieverse, which is kind of weird, since that's how I got *into* Batman/DCU to start with. I really need to A) actually get a decent background education in a continuity I can shove the story in. And B) weed out all the things that aren't in that continuity.
I wound up writing, and then tweaking the storyline/au to fit what I wrote. Or the reverse, sometimes. Or got changed after my beta-at-the-time tied my brain in knots. And I really really really damn well need a timeline for it.
Don't get me wrong, I like what I've written so far. I like what I have planned for the story. I don't really have an OTP (for any fandom), so that's not a problem. And for those few of you who've read my other fics, which aren't here, you know I love angst and happy endings.
My motto's pretty much "You can have your happily ever after, but you have to damn well earn it first."
There's lots of angst, both in what's written, posted or not, and yet to be written. And a happy ending. Actually, happy endings mostly all the way around. I'm still trying to figure out how, or if, to patch up certain broken relationships.
Just a few of the problems with Turbulence.
I don't know what I'm going to do with it. Really. I have some nebulous ideas of adding a scene or two to the beginning to flesh it out more, but...
It's more or less on life support. I'm still trying to decide if it's worth the effort to save.
I'm rambling. And you know what? I don't care.
I'd like to get back to the Dichotomy (supposed to be) series. DoSoul was pretty much explicitly referenced in DoHeart, and actually rereading DoHeart reminded me of DoMind, and then there was DoDreams...I actually started writing Dichotomy of Soul, but it never came out right. Not even the first half dozen paragraphs.
I have this huge huge problem with being able to see things in my head, and not be able to translate them into words. I can see Dick Grayson curled up on a Gotham rooftop, wearing the Robin suit and mask and completely incapable of reaching Robin. I can watch Alfred's very painstaking efforts to discreetly alert Bruce to what's going on with Dick, or rather that something *is* going on with Dick, but I can't put it into words. It's not a "show don't tell" issue. It's a "huge emotionally charged drama thing that just doesn't play right on paper" issue. Or computer screen. Whatever.
My biggest issue with Dichotomy of Heart was Batman being out of character in asking GL to cover Gotham. There's so *much* backstory in the epic the scene came from, in the scenes that make up the rest of the Dichotomy (supposed to be) series, to explain why he does that. Why Bruce feels he has to go to some kind of extreme to convince Dick that he isn't hallucinating, that Robin *isn't* playing mental games with Dick...I can only hope there's enough in the actual story - short, I know, but still - to get that across. Yes, Bruce understands Dick's fractured personality. He understands that Dick *is* Robin, just as much as Bruce *is* Batman, and yet their civilian personalities are different enough from their caped-and-cowled to...
Le sigh.
Apparently I don't need a beta or Turbulence logistics to tie my brain in knots. I've managed to do that quite well on my own, thanks.
