5 memes from all over

[dhampyresa]

What can I say. I like memes. (And my brain is a weird place, especially lately.)

1.

I currently have 39 works archived at the AO3. Pick a number from 1 (the most recent) to 39 (the first thing I posted there), and I'll tell you three things I currently like about it.


2.

Pick any passage of 500 words or less from any fanfic I’ve written, and stick that selection in the comments. I will then give you the equivalent of a DVD commentary on that snippet: what I was thinking when I wrote it, why I wrote it in the first place, what’s going on in the character’s heads, why I chose certain words, what this moment means in the context of the rest of the fic, lots of awful puns, and anything else that you’d expect to find on a DVD commentary track.

My fic is here on archiveofourown and here on dreamwidth. Most of it overlaps, but not everything.


3.

Give me a topic or fandom and get a fanmix for it.


4.

Give me the title of a story I've never written and feedback telling me what you liked best about it, and I will tell you any or all of the following:
the first sentence, the last sentence, the thing that made me want to write it, my soundtrack/theme song for writing, the biggest problem I had while writing it, why it almost never got posted, the scene that hit the cutting room floor but that I wish I'd been able to salvage, and/or something else that I want readers to know.

Or you might just get the story. Who knows?


5.

Pick any of the fics from my fic from archiveofourown and I'll tell you my soundtrack for it.


(Bonus: ♥♥♥ U R AWESOME: A LOVE MEME ♥♥♥ // my thread. Page topping on page 6!)

Comments

[dhampyresa.livejournal.com]

Meme 4:

The thing that made me want to write this fic was almsot my biggest problem and why it almost didn't get posted. see, I wanted to write a fic in which Cass and Steph hung out with Tim in 'limbo' from the nu52 (because nu!Tim is nothing like preboot!Tim) but then Damian died, so he had to come and hung out with them too, which was very depressing. It took me forever to realise I could just set it in preboot, because my insteinct is always to try and be compliant to the most current canon. As you can guess, this is not great for writing comics fic!

I was originally going to give Jason a bigger role, but then I realised that it's not really a slumber party until someone falls asleep halfway through.

In my head, this fic is kind of sequel/epilogue to "Team Phoenix", the Jason + Steph team-up fic I've been working on for ages, but it's neither explicit nor necessary. Which is good, because that fic isn't posted yet.


Meme 2:

Glencoe, Illinois is a real place. I wasn't able to find any information on whether or not it actually get mirages, but as far as I can tell it should be able to.

I specifically mentionned her fingernails in that line to hopefully get the reader to go "...wait" at the "long nails" later on. She has sword calluses, because have you seen that sword she waves around? And the cup is "bone china" because that lets me drop "bone" in there to be all ominous.

One of the things I like doing when I write is giving a sense that the world exists beyond the story. The note's a part of that -- once upon a time, Magik saved this random US town from eldritch creatures, so now the place is kind of a safehouse for her.

Magik's power is teleportation so she has zero fucks to give that someone tracked her down. She has her exit ready, always. Continuity-wise, this is set after AvX, so she's on the most wanted list because of what she did while under the influence of the Phoenix Force.

I liked using "going to Hell in a handbasket" in a much less metaphorical way than it's usually meant. (In general, I love using figurative/metaphorical expressions literally.)

She's referring to events from AvX and, like Layla says, not entirely truthfully. She's 100% serious about "ou do not want me on your side", though. Illyana doesn't really trust herself, especially lately. And here we have the "long nails", contrasting the "ragged nails" from before, which leads directly to Layla's thought in the next paragraph. I'm fond of "remnants of hellfire and divine wrath" as a descriptive phrase; I feel it captures post-AvX Illyana pretty well. Plus it sounds good.

Illyana has direct control over her physical form, iirc, and here her control is slipping a bit. Layla adds the "without turning to claws" because she's thinking about Rahne.

[ladymercury-10.livejournal.com]

I was originally going to give Jason a bigger role, but then I realised that it's not really a slumber party until someone falls asleep halfway through.
This is hilarious and also very true.

Glencoe is actually not that far from where I live! I mean, it's not close, but you can drive there.

once upon a time, Magik saved this random US town from eldritch creatures, so now the place is kind of a safehouse for her.
Is that a thing that happened in X-Men and I missed it? Or is it a thing that happened in the backstory for your fic?

“When last I used my power, I tore the world apart and brought Hell to Earth. You do not want me on your side.” Illyana’s hands are shaking slightly around her cup, long nails clicking against the porcelain. She is not lying but she is not telling the whole truth, either. There are dark shadows haunting her eyes, remnants of hellfire and divine wrath.
This whole paragraph is really nice--it flows really well and the details are great.

[dhampyresa.livejournal.com]

Oh no, it's backstory for the fic (as far as I know). I needed a reason to have Illyana be somewhere where they wouldn't turn her over immediately, so personal gratitude from the town it was.

Thanks a lot!