State of Writing update
Dec. 1st, 2009 07:49 pm![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
thefroggOkay, here we go!
When Sporks Fly is still going. I'm just waiting for![[livejournal.com profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/external/lj-userinfo.gif)
fluffnutter to give it back to me. For once it's not my fault!::hides::
A friend - the same friend who originally dragged me kicking and screaming into Criminal Minds fandom, or actually, more like shoved me off a cliff into it since she's not actually fannish in nature - shoved me off the cliff into FFVII fandom. I haven't played the game - I don't own any gaming consoles (Hell, I don't own a television!) and I argue the very hell out of the very definition of console RPGs - but I've gotten hooked on FFVII Advent Children and been overdosing on fanfic and reading wiki articles and and and...
Edit: Drow pointedly reminded me that she's the one who originally made me watch Final Fantasy VII Advent Children ages ago, but since it didn't really sink in as something I needed to fan, like WHOA I kinda forgot. Sorry, Drow.
::sigh:: Blame him.::points to Tadd::
Current plotbunnies trying to take overthe world my brain:
1. Sephiroth/Zack/Cloud/Aeris sex pollen morning after - The worst sex pollen afterward you can imagine. Sephiroth finally gets dragged down to the church (officially) to meet Aeris. Aeris, being half Cetra, senses something wrong with Sephiroth, the Planet gets paranoid, and Smut Happens. Certain things (like Seph and Zack being SOLDIERs and Cloud, like, not) get...halfway forgotten with some rather horrifying results...and that's just the physical side of things. Ow.
2. Jenova was part Cetra and Cloud figures this out the hard way Fix-it fic. The Bolivian Army Ending happens, only Cloud refuses to let Zack die and the Jenova cells he's been soaking in for the last several years activate unexpectedly, in a fashion predictable only because it's Cloud. Meanwhile, Tseng's trying to keep a promise given to the Bloody Trinity and depending on Reno to earn the trust of two SOLDIERs they are fairly certain aren't sane and want 1) to protect one another and 2) their freedom, not necessarily in that order. Aeris gets dragged in to help Cloud, who's snapped out of his mako-poisoning catatonia only for something else to go seriously wrong, while Zack is lingering in a coma no one can explain, much less get him out of. Zack and Cloud wind up recovering in a blanket fort Zack builds in a super-secret Turk safehouse. I swear this makes sense in my head.
3. The typical story I really don't want to write. The OFC from hell:
"That isn't armor. That's my skin." Moron.
followed shortly thereafter by
"I said I'd take you monster hunting up here. I never said I wasn't one of them."
and
"I'm not cooperating with you. I'm trying to satisfy your curiosity so you'll go the fuck away."
to Sephiroth and Zack and possibly some combination of Angeal/Genesis/Cloud while 'assisting' in an investigation into the death of a SOLDIER 2nd Class. No, she's not impressed by The General or anything to do with ShinRa.
4. I don't have any plotbunnies involving any combinations of Sephiroth/Genesis/Angeal/Zack (YET). But considering what I've been reading lately, I don't expect #4 to stay empty for long.
Non-FFVII plobunnies, other fandoms
Spoilers (from 'verses that have been written in, or uh. spoilers?) are white-on-white; highlight to read.
1. Late-stage TUNE!verse. (SGA)
18 months and one galactic takeover later, the Wraith threat is ended. Everyone who can be rescued has been, although the losses were more than minor; the survivors run a sliding scale between passably human (Lorne), functional but only outwardly human (TUNE!Carter), and, well, frankly? Mentally being pieced back together. Todd commands the Wraith Alliance, with Lorne as his XO; the last few renegade Hives and battle cruisers are being hunted down. Todd's Hive, along with the Daedelus and a bunch of other Wraith ships return to Earth to negotiate a treaty. TUNE!Carter is steadily creeping out the SGC personnel, and Lorne really isn't helping all that much. (The fact that Lorne only has the stick half of the carrot-and-stick method of keeping the queens in line doesn't help. There's a reason why this has the nickname "Let's see how badly I can squick out the SGC.")
2. Transformers 2007 (Not To Cross the Divide)
With Megatron dead, the Cube destroyed, and Barricade and Scorponok nowhere to be found, Starscream finds himself injured, short on power and temporarily without purpose. As it's rather more difficult for an F-22 with obvious outward battle damage to hide in plain sight than one without, he winds up hiding in the back corner of a junkyard while he's repairing the damage. He doesn't stay hidden for long, but the individual who stumbles over him doesn't care what side he was on during the battle in Mission City. Insanity ensues.
3. Ba'al!verse (SG1)
Ba'al Shayim Vir (pronounced: Bäl shěm vûr (3 syllables, friendly); Bä-äl shī ĭm vîr (5 syllables, formal)) gets exiled from his home reality by the native Ori for his own safety and winds up requesting political asylum in the SGC (well, okay, he sort of manages to stumble down the ramp and passes out from shock and a variety of other rather...serious medical causes, but that's beside the point). After proving to Hammond and (more importantly) O'Neill that he's not the Ba'al they know and love to hate, he proceeds to unintentionally turn the SGC on its ear, not the least because Shayim Vir - his Goa'uld symbiote - is a queen and the Tok'ra...well. mentioning that name tends to give him/them panic attacks, which usually end with BSV either A) barricading himself in the nearest empty room or B) going to ground somewhere in the SGC and just plain hiding. SGC personnel keep stumbling over his hiding places in storage rooms, in back corners and on top of shelves. Hammond rather bemusedly keeps track of BSV's boltholes on a set of Cheyenne Mountain blueprints. Because hey, BSV may not be from their reality, and his political knowledge may be all but useless, but he's over four thousand years old and is arguably too cooperative when it comes to earning his keep. The fact that with a few minor cosmetic changes, he can double for their Ba'al is just icing on the cake. Although that tends to really creep people out, which is why it doesn't happen unless it's necessary.
4. That Even Death May Cross (Babylon 5)
I really really don't mean to bash Ivanova. I really don't. She's an awesome character. And I don't think it's...bashing, per se, but...This is like writing Sheppard in Where We Live. I keep reading what I wrote and thinking back to the series and going, "Is that really her?" and hearing my brain go, "That's really her." Damnit. I thought she was above that. But she really really...isn't. And it comes back to bite her so hard...(At least she recognizes it and apologizes for it in the end. Which is...more than I can say for Sheppard.) I think this story is going to be known as "When Side Characters Take Over". Or something. Considering that it's about Marcus and Neroon, and Lennier and even Vir get some significant screen time (later on)...
5. When Sporks Fly (NCIS)
There's a scene in the elevator, and another in Vance's office, and um. Much angst and not much fun for the team.
6. Continuation of Just Another Surge Protector (Sky High)
Lots and lots of worldbuilding. Cabin fever. Will's mom hitting Warren over the head with a Nerf two by four. Answers to the mysteries surrounding Warren's parents and why Baron Battle turned, and the wierdness that is the Peacemaker's crimefighting career. Just...not a whole lot of, you know, plot.
7. Apocalypse Now: You're Doing it Wrong (SPN)
Castiel...gets outranked. Oh dear, he gets outranked. Fortunately, the...being? who outranks him isn't exactly comfortable with what they're doing, so he/she/it's willing to stand aside and let Castiel's pet General (that would be Dean, folks) run the show. Because God is out there, somewhere, and God's children need help. And canon is getting it so damn wrong it's not even funny. But I digress.
And...there's a massive-crossover sidestory involving Gibbs/DiNozzo and a Castiel/Evan Lorne/Colby Granger trio. Somewhere in there.
8. Where We Live (SGA)
Man, I so want to get to the point where Keller throws Sheppard out of the infirmary. I really really do. Because she is the CMO of Atlantis and she has the rank and authority to do it, damnit, and he's keeping her from doing her job. But that's not for another couple of chapters.
9. Of Innocence & Empathy (Criminal Minds)
I...might be writing a little bit of drabble-ish smut (a la Intimate Knowledge) soon-ish.::blinks in shock::
I think that's about all I'm working on at the moment. Or thinking about working on at the moment.
At least for the next five minutes or so, anyways!
When Sporks Fly is still going. I'm just waiting for
fluffnutter to give it back to me. For once it's not my fault!::hides::A friend - the same friend who originally dragged me kicking and screaming into Criminal Minds fandom, or actually, more like shoved me off a cliff into it since she's not actually fannish in nature - shoved me off the cliff into FFVII fandom. I haven't played the game - I don't own any gaming consoles (Hell, I don't own a television!) and I argue the very hell out of the very definition of console RPGs - but I've gotten hooked on FFVII Advent Children and been overdosing on fanfic and reading wiki articles and and and...
Edit: Drow pointedly reminded me that she's the one who originally made me watch Final Fantasy VII Advent Children ages ago, but since it didn't really sink in as something I needed to fan, like WHOA I kinda forgot. Sorry, Drow.
::sigh:: Blame him.::points to Tadd::
Current plotbunnies trying to take over
1. Sephiroth/Zack/Cloud/Aeris sex pollen morning after - The worst sex pollen afterward you can imagine. Sephiroth finally gets dragged down to the church (officially) to meet Aeris. Aeris, being half Cetra, senses something wrong with Sephiroth, the Planet gets paranoid, and Smut Happens. Certain things (like Seph and Zack being SOLDIERs and Cloud, like, not) get...halfway forgotten with some rather horrifying results...and that's just the physical side of things. Ow.
2. Jenova was part Cetra and Cloud figures this out the hard way Fix-it fic. The Bolivian Army Ending happens, only Cloud refuses to let Zack die and the Jenova cells he's been soaking in for the last several years activate unexpectedly, in a fashion predictable only because it's Cloud. Meanwhile, Tseng's trying to keep a promise given to the Bloody Trinity and depending on Reno to earn the trust of two SOLDIERs they are fairly certain aren't sane and want 1) to protect one another and 2) their freedom, not necessarily in that order. Aeris gets dragged in to help Cloud, who's snapped out of his mako-poisoning catatonia only for something else to go seriously wrong, while Zack is lingering in a coma no one can explain, much less get him out of. Zack and Cloud wind up recovering in a blanket fort Zack builds in a super-secret Turk safehouse. I swear this makes sense in my head.
3. The typical story I really don't want to write. The OFC from hell:
"That isn't armor. That's my skin." Moron.
followed shortly thereafter by
"I said I'd take you monster hunting up here. I never said I wasn't one of them."
and
"I'm not cooperating with you. I'm trying to satisfy your curiosity so you'll go the fuck away."
to Sephiroth and Zack and possibly some combination of Angeal/Genesis/Cloud while 'assisting' in an investigation into the death of a SOLDIER 2nd Class. No, she's not impressed by The General or anything to do with ShinRa.
4. I don't have any plotbunnies involving any combinations of Sephiroth/Genesis/Angeal/Zack (YET). But considering what I've been reading lately, I don't expect #4 to stay empty for long.
Non-FFVII plobunnies, other fandoms
Spoilers (from 'verses that have been written in, or uh. spoilers?) are white-on-white; highlight to read.
1. Late-stage TUNE!verse. (SGA)
18 months and one galactic takeover later, the Wraith threat is ended. Everyone who can be rescued has been, although the losses were more than minor; the survivors run a sliding scale between passably human (Lorne), functional but only outwardly human (TUNE!Carter), and, well, frankly? Mentally being pieced back together. Todd commands the Wraith Alliance, with Lorne as his XO; the last few renegade Hives and battle cruisers are being hunted down. Todd's Hive, along with the Daedelus and a bunch of other Wraith ships return to Earth to negotiate a treaty. TUNE!Carter is steadily creeping out the SGC personnel, and Lorne really isn't helping all that much. (The fact that Lorne only has the stick half of the carrot-and-stick method of keeping the queens in line doesn't help. There's a reason why this has the nickname "Let's see how badly I can squick out the SGC.")
2. Transformers 2007 (Not To Cross the Divide)
With Megatron dead, the Cube destroyed, and Barricade and Scorponok nowhere to be found, Starscream finds himself injured, short on power and temporarily without purpose. As it's rather more difficult for an F-22 with obvious outward battle damage to hide in plain sight than one without, he winds up hiding in the back corner of a junkyard while he's repairing the damage. He doesn't stay hidden for long, but the individual who stumbles over him doesn't care what side he was on during the battle in Mission City. Insanity ensues.
3. Ba'al!verse (SG1)
Ba'al Shayim Vir (pronounced: Bäl shěm vûr (3 syllables, friendly); Bä-äl shī ĭm vîr (5 syllables, formal)) gets exiled from his home reality by the native Ori for his own safety and winds up requesting political asylum in the SGC (well, okay, he sort of manages to stumble down the ramp and passes out from shock and a variety of other rather...serious medical causes, but that's beside the point). After proving to Hammond and (more importantly) O'Neill that he's not the Ba'al they know and love to hate, he proceeds to unintentionally turn the SGC on its ear, not the least because Shayim Vir - his Goa'uld symbiote - is a queen and the Tok'ra...well. mentioning that name tends to give him/them panic attacks, which usually end with BSV either A) barricading himself in the nearest empty room or B) going to ground somewhere in the SGC and just plain hiding. SGC personnel keep stumbling over his hiding places in storage rooms, in back corners and on top of shelves. Hammond rather bemusedly keeps track of BSV's boltholes on a set of Cheyenne Mountain blueprints. Because hey, BSV may not be from their reality, and his political knowledge may be all but useless, but he's over four thousand years old and is arguably too cooperative when it comes to earning his keep. The fact that with a few minor cosmetic changes, he can double for their Ba'al is just icing on the cake. Although that tends to really creep people out, which is why it doesn't happen unless it's necessary.
4. That Even Death May Cross (Babylon 5)
I really really don't mean to bash Ivanova. I really don't. She's an awesome character. And I don't think it's...bashing, per se, but...This is like writing Sheppard in Where We Live. I keep reading what I wrote and thinking back to the series and going, "Is that really her?" and hearing my brain go, "That's really her." Damnit. I thought she was above that. But she really really...isn't. And it comes back to bite her so hard...(At least she recognizes it and apologizes for it in the end. Which is...more than I can say for Sheppard.) I think this story is going to be known as "When Side Characters Take Over". Or something. Considering that it's about Marcus and Neroon, and Lennier and even Vir get some significant screen time (later on)...
5. When Sporks Fly (NCIS)
There's a scene in the elevator, and another in Vance's office, and um. Much angst and not much fun for the team.
6. Continuation of Just Another Surge Protector (Sky High)
Lots and lots of worldbuilding. Cabin fever. Will's mom hitting Warren over the head with a Nerf two by four. Answers to the mysteries surrounding Warren's parents and why Baron Battle turned, and the wierdness that is the Peacemaker's crimefighting career. Just...not a whole lot of, you know, plot.
7. Apocalypse Now: You're Doing it Wrong (SPN)
Castiel...gets outranked. Oh dear, he gets outranked. Fortunately, the...being? who outranks him isn't exactly comfortable with what they're doing, so he/she/it's willing to stand aside and let Castiel's pet General (that would be Dean, folks) run the show. Because God is out there, somewhere, and God's children need help. And canon is getting it so damn wrong it's not even funny. But I digress.
And...there's a massive-crossover sidestory involving Gibbs/DiNozzo and a Castiel/Evan Lorne/Colby Granger trio. Somewhere in there.
8. Where We Live (SGA)
Man, I so want to get to the point where Keller throws Sheppard out of the infirmary. I really really do. Because she is the CMO of Atlantis and she has the rank and authority to do it, damnit, and he's keeping her from doing her job. But that's not for another couple of chapters.
9. Of Innocence & Empathy (Criminal Minds)
I...might be writing a little bit of drabble-ish smut (a la Intimate Knowledge) soon-ish.::blinks in shock::
I think that's about all I'm working on at the moment. Or thinking about working on at the moment.
At least for the next five minutes or so, anyways!
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Date: 2009-12-02 01:51 am (UTC)The good news for you all (bad news for me) is that the revision is due in a week.
:)
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Date: 2009-12-02 01:52 am (UTC)That doesn't excuse you from being nagged.
::flees::
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Date: 2009-12-12 08:10 pm (UTC)Well??? Pretty please? ♥
BTW, before you get any ideas, I hid all the sporks before I posted... >:)
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Date: 2009-12-12 08:29 pm (UTC)Tadd's kind of been taken over by FFVII (Instincts of the Lost and Found, and at least one other fic in progress)...
And fluffnutter finally wrote the scene she was supposed to, only it ended somewhere...that completely did not work with what I had in mind for my next bit. So I'm sitting here going..."What am I supposed to do now?"
Not that I'm blaming fluffnutter, cause, like, the new scene she wrote is so cute it's nauseating...
::hides::
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Date: 2009-12-16 05:46 am (UTC)I _want_ to be nauseated... ::bats eyelashes::
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