so, I did it
Mar. 1st, 2011 06:50 pm![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
anghraineI signed up for au_bb.
Twice.
Yes: I'm going to be writing two completely different stories, in the same fandom, dealing with the same characters, at the same time. The last time I did this, it was The Rich Are Always Respectable and Season of Courtship -- which, as some of you can attest, are very, very, very different.
On the plus side, I finished two long fics (75,000 and 40,000 words, respectively) in good time, they remain some of my most popular fics except-for-SC-as-always, and even now I think they're basically decent. On the downside, I kept writing Courtship's Darcy into TRAAR, which was ... just wrong. Hilariously wrong, but still, I don't know how many chapters of TRAAR I scrapped because TRAAR's Darcy was suddenly happy and oblivious.
Just to clarify, Courtship!Darcy is engaged to Elizabeth, intensely happy about it despite a few sexual hang-ups, and mostly just trying to keep his snobbish relatives from burning her in effigy. TRAAR!Darcy is a pathologically helpful widower and single parent stuck in a Regency melodrama where people keep having fatal accidents. I got my reputation for merciless slaughter and general evil from that fic alone.
(I recently noticed that TRAAR's AO3 series number is 666. brb, laughing forever.)
So, yes. Doing it again and hoping it turns out as well.
First (warning for you-know-what-site!), there's Revenge of the Jedi, a post-ESB AU where the storyline largely follows the original plans for ROTJ: Leia gets caught up with the remnants of the Alderaani, Vader has already shifted from Dragon With An Agenda to Starscream and is well on his way to the Atoner, Luke -- who isn't Leia's brother -- is trying to master his Jedi powers and figure out what the hell is really going on, and Han is ... um, frozen.
The other is The Adventures of Lucy Skywalker, which is fairly self-explanatory: Luke is a girl. Lucas actually considered making him one (no, really), and LOL GENDERSWAP is pretty much all the motivation I need. ... Well, okay, painfully sexist, male-dominated canons help, too.
Incidentally, I will also be taking my final Spanish course (203), the psychology of men/masculinity, and literary criticism, and looking for work study, and doing another asexuality presentation and officially double-majoring. I am that stupid. Or good. Or something.
Twice.
Yes: I'm going to be writing two completely different stories, in the same fandom, dealing with the same characters, at the same time. The last time I did this, it was The Rich Are Always Respectable and Season of Courtship -- which, as some of you can attest, are very, very, very different.
On the plus side, I finished two long fics (75,000 and 40,000 words, respectively) in good time, they remain some of my most popular fics except-for-SC-as-always, and even now I think they're basically decent. On the downside, I kept writing Courtship's Darcy into TRAAR, which was ... just wrong. Hilariously wrong, but still, I don't know how many chapters of TRAAR I scrapped because TRAAR's Darcy was suddenly happy and oblivious.
Just to clarify, Courtship!Darcy is engaged to Elizabeth, intensely happy about it despite a few sexual hang-ups, and mostly just trying to keep his snobbish relatives from burning her in effigy. TRAAR!Darcy is a pathologically helpful widower and single parent stuck in a Regency melodrama where people keep having fatal accidents. I got my reputation for merciless slaughter and general evil from that fic alone.
(I recently noticed that TRAAR's AO3 series number is 666. brb, laughing forever.)
So, yes. Doing it again and hoping it turns out as well.
First (warning for you-know-what-site!), there's Revenge of the Jedi, a post-ESB AU where the storyline largely follows the original plans for ROTJ: Leia gets caught up with the remnants of the Alderaani, Vader has already shifted from Dragon With An Agenda to Starscream and is well on his way to the Atoner, Luke -- who isn't Leia's brother -- is trying to master his Jedi powers and figure out what the hell is really going on, and Han is ... um, frozen.
The other is The Adventures of Lucy Skywalker, which is fairly self-explanatory: Luke is a girl. Lucas actually considered making him one (no, really), and LOL GENDERSWAP is pretty much all the motivation I need. ... Well, okay, painfully sexist, male-dominated canons help, too.
Incidentally, I will also be taking my final Spanish course (203), the psychology of men/masculinity, and literary criticism, and looking for work study, and doing another asexuality presentation and officially double-majoring. I am that stupid. Or good. Or something.
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on 2011-03-02 06:26 am (UTC)no subject
on 2011-03-02 06:39 am (UTC)I was just thinking that it was endlessly tragic that there was no Austen for this year. Ha, I win! Edward Bennet would be cool, and M&M would be awesome. The plot might be kind of hard, though. Would the narration be in-game with occasional asides (à la Darths and Droids) or more focused on the players?
*glee*
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on 2011-03-02 07:51 am (UTC)no subject
on 2011-03-02 03:59 pm (UTC)no subject
on 2011-03-02 09:46 am (UTC)meanwhile, i'm going to go with 'good' with a side of 'or something'.
hey, maybe i'll finish last years au_bb in time for this year's!
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on 2011-03-02 04:15 pm (UTC)Best description ever! I still don't know if the epilogue made it better or worse. Ah, I remember those halcyon days when people would comment to inform me that they'd been weeping buckets over their keyboards, and demanding to know where I was keeping Elizabeth and when she'd get together with Darcy, which was obviously the whole point and the things of which happy endings are made. And I'd assure them that, in that case, TRAAR definitely had a happy ending.
It was hilarious.
LOL, thanks. I hope it'll be good!
Oh, is that the one that was an excuse for Scully to deflower Mulder? Heh.