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I just posted The Adventures of Lucy Skywalker to the au_bigbang comm. And AO3, obviously. It's six o'clock in the morning and I have yet to feel the need to sleep, but it's done!
You know, for now. Since it's the first story in a series I imagine will go on a bit.I've already thought of an AU omg what is my brain. And there is art and I'm done I'm done I'm done I'm done omg I can't even work myself up to worrying about the reception because done done done.
Okay, maybe the lack of sleep is messing with me. I've already had to take an inhaler because refusing to sleep generates a creepy asthma cough that bothered my stepfather. But it doesn't matter! Because -- I don't know if I've been too subtle about this -- but I'm done!
Oh, right, links. The story is here. I will link to the au_bigbang entry with the art as soon as it pops up, ha.
Otherwise, no coherent thoughts, except that it was nice not to worry about being too American or not American enough, dialect-wise. I worried about voices, but not nationality! 'Cause this is a galaxy far far away, but it kind of obviously sprang from the mind of an American, so for once I don't have to be self-conscious about my completely inconsistent vacillations between different regional spellings. See, I'm American, but this is my hometown; things got a little muddled for us, maybe because a third of my classmates were Canadian.
(I miss Canada. We used to go over the border all the time. I do not, however, miss very much else about Blaine. Oh wait, the Pacific Ocean. That was nice too. But not anything more local than that. It's not much of a town. It was kind of worth it to grow up there to be taken for Canadian in other parts of the country, though. But all the signs said 'harbour' and 'flavour' and a good many of them said 'centre' but not all, so we mostly just ended up confused.
And I picked up so much of my language from books anyway, which were mostly not American books, that my idea of Proper Spelling and Usage became this hodgepodge of Blaine's Americanadian and random British words that I didn't realize were British words until I was in my teens. Turns out people look at you strangely when you talk about fortnights!)
Anyway, when I'm writing for a fandom that can't maintain its own internal consistency but seems to be basically Americanish but eh, whatever, I don't have to worry about my own meandering American-ish-but-eh-whatever. Yay!
You know, for now. Since it's the first story in a series I imagine will go on a bit.
Okay, maybe the lack of sleep is messing with me. I've already had to take an inhaler because refusing to sleep generates a creepy asthma cough that bothered my stepfather. But it doesn't matter! Because -- I don't know if I've been too subtle about this -- but I'm done!
Oh, right, links. The story is here. I will link to the au_bigbang entry with the art as soon as it pops up, ha.
Otherwise, no coherent thoughts, except that it was nice not to worry about being too American or not American enough, dialect-wise. I worried about voices, but not nationality! 'Cause this is a galaxy far far away, but it kind of obviously sprang from the mind of an American, so for once I don't have to be self-conscious about my completely inconsistent vacillations between different regional spellings. See, I'm American, but this is my hometown; things got a little muddled for us, maybe because a third of my classmates were Canadian.
(I miss Canada. We used to go over the border all the time. I do not, however, miss very much else about Blaine. Oh wait, the Pacific Ocean. That was nice too. But not anything more local than that. It's not much of a town. It was kind of worth it to grow up there to be taken for Canadian in other parts of the country, though. But all the signs said 'harbour' and 'flavour' and a good many of them said 'centre' but not all, so we mostly just ended up confused.
And I picked up so much of my language from books anyway, which were mostly not American books, that my idea of Proper Spelling and Usage became this hodgepodge of Blaine's Americanadian and random British words that I didn't realize were British words until I was in my teens. Turns out people look at you strangely when you talk about fortnights!)
Anyway, when I'm writing for a fandom that can't maintain its own internal consistency but seems to be basically Americanish but eh, whatever, I don't have to worry about my own meandering American-ish-but-eh-whatever. Yay!