5 memes from all over
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dhampyresaWhat can I say. I like memes. (And my brain is a weird place, especially lately.)
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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.
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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.
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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!)
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!)
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Date: 2015-10-18 03:38 pm (UTC)Meme 1: Fic n°29 is Punica Fides. To this day, it remains one of my favourite things I've ever written. I like the shifting circumstances of their various first meetings and it's off-set at the end by a last meeting instead. I like the idea of Hannibal + Scipio vs aliens! I like the way the gender presentation of Hanna and Caesia shifts in the second chapter and how they remain the same anyway. I like how they do remain the same throughout. (I like that the dates are Ab Urbe Condita and the title, because I am a giant nerd.) My favourites are the third one (Cannae, 537 Ab Urbe Condita), especially with the His blade on Hannibal’s throat, he says, “you’re not going to call the guards.” It’s not a question. / “You’re not going to kill me.” This isn’t a question, either. exchange, and the second to last one (Trasimene, 536 Ab Urbe Condita) because I like the implied relationship between Hanna and Maharbal, the And I care, Publius Cornelius Scipio, because I can only hope that when next we meet, you will remember that I did not let the brightest mind in Rome die." / "You would let me live, knowing what you know, knowing what I know?" exchange and the simplicity of Hanna walks away. This time, Caesia does not follow her. as an ending line (okay, so it's probably my favourite). I just like this fic a lot.
Meme 2: That's from Embers, which is a Norse myth fic and in particular fic for Sundown:Whispers of Ragnarok (not that the whole album was out at the time). It draws a lot from Hearthfire.
I always imagine Loki as being in motion. He's never still. Here, he's gesturing wildly, under the impact of indignation. He's using the futhark alphabet to number his objections to what the ghost just said. The group has a Futhark song, so it's a bit of a callback to that.
It's not the first time (but it may be the last) that Odin has asked Loki to keep his tongue. (One of the songs, iirc it's "Ice and Fire" has a line about how "a wise man knows when to keep his tongue", so that why that specific phrasing.)
Loki's never been good with following orders and he's always resented that Odin gave them -- not that Odin noticed. It's one of those tiny wedges that got between Loki and Odin in time.
Odin pretty much never called Loki his friend even when they weren't enemies, so of course Loki's shocked that he'd do it now.
"No force can extinguish this evil but you!" is lifted directly from the song and Odin's next line is very close to another line from it.
Okay, so I am stupidly proud of the hot/ghost pun, so sue me.
It's one 100% intentional that Odin's thought of all he's yet to lose leads directly into him pulling Loki closer.
And again, with Loki's words not matching his actions -- it's something I've tried to keep throughout that fic that neither of them are lying, exactly, but that doesn't mean they're saying the truth, either. Tricksters to the very end, those two.
I like the idea that Oin and Loki's fatal flaw is essentially the same, that they both think too much (of themselves and in general), and it just manifests in different ways. That's why Odin says "Our problem", because they're in this mess because he thought wrong this time, but more generally they're in the Raganrok mess because he thought wrong too (and then it's that thinking is their fatal flaw).
There's several references to Loki's smile in this fic and I think "crooked and scarred" is my favourite. You know how earlier there's the line "[Loki]'s smile is cruel. Odin did that"? This is a callback to it. Loki's scarred smile -- Odin did that, too.
Meme 3: The fanmix will be coming soon to a omputer near you.
Meme 4: I started to want to tell this story when I realised that the völva's and Cassandra's are both self-fulfilling, in completely opposite ways: the völva because she's believed and Cassandra because she's not.
There was going to be a scene about golden apples, but I realised that the way I'd written it made too many parallels between the Hesperides and Ladon and Eve and the serpent and I didn't want Biblical imagery in this fic (plus, it left poor Idunn all alone in the cold). Mostly I just really relly wanted to parallel the fall of Ilion and the fall of Asgard and there was no space for that scene in this fic.
The first thing I knew about this fic, as soon as I decided to write it, was that the first and last lines needed to parallel each other and reflect Cassandra's transformation into the völva. Hence, "In the end, they don't believe Cassandra" as the first line and "In the beginning, they believe her".
Meme 5: Nameless is a fic I wrote in an afternoon, right after seeing some people talk about how the names on wrist trope would be so very confusing with Romans -- and then of course I had to go and worldbuild the shit out of it (seriously, I thought about biology and cultural implications beyond the fall of Rome) -- because I wrote it in an afternoon, it doesn't really have a soundtrack. You're welcome to pick another fic, if you want.
On the other hand, Mika's recent song Staring At The Sun would have been a good fit for it, I think.
(You're welcome.)
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Date: 2015-10-19 11:15 pm (UTC)A lot of your Embers DVD commentary is very feels-inducing. A couple things I'm curious about, though...
Loki's never been good with following orders and he's always resented that Odin gave them -- not that Odin noticed.
Why didn't your Odin ever notice?
Odin pretty much never called Loki his friend even when they weren't enemies, so of course Loki's shocked that he'd do it now.
Is this another idea borrowed from Sassafrass? Or something you came up with? If you don't mind, I'm curious about this idea.
and then of course I had to go and worldbuild the shit out of it (seriously, I thought about biology and cultural implications beyond the fall of Rome)
I have just one word to say in answer to this: AWESOME.
And, funny thing...
because I wrote it in an afternoon, it doesn't really have a soundtrack.
That is exactly what happened to me with this meme, LOL. I ended up choosing a reasonably fitting song and suggesting it, too. Great minds not only think alike but coincidentally face the same problems? XD