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Trying my hand at a seriously long-form thing for the first time (though there's only a prologue and one finished chapter, so far, and the rest will take... *a while*, knowing me). The outline for this thing is longer than some of my finished fics! And it's full of BIG THEMES. And it has something approaching plot, maybe? Also, a very weird - possibly unacceptably weird - dramatic structure dictated by the ups and downs (and less clearly spatially describable changes) of a very complicated relationship. This is fanfic, so why not?
What's there for now kinda works on its own, I think.
Fandom is the Laundry books again, which has actually grown a bit since I last talked about it here, but is still tiny. There's maybe four active writers now, counting me. All of whom are doing very much Their Own Thing - including me, because this fic is nothing if not idiosyncratic.
I've been very excited about this project for a couple of years now, and am still very excited to continue it (although I'll have to read the next book first, which just came out. And also, finish the next chapter of the vampire vicar fic that's about three quarters done.)
This story is basically about having someone who knew the canon main character *before* he was a magical secret agent go, "what the fuck are you doing" at him a lot. :D The character I've chosen for that role is the barely canonical (mentioned in passing, once) brother of the main character.
Also, there was a failed/defeated invasion from another universe, very recently, followed almost immediately by a coup (in which the magical secret service was involved, though of course not publicly), and the gen pop - protag's brother included - now knows about magic!
These two have a *lot* they need to talk about! But one of them doesn't know the half of it... and the other one literally cannot talk about most of it. And yes, my brand in this fandom is having the main character have all the most uncomfortable conversations.
Link: The Resistance Is Useless, by Hmpf MacSlow
What's there for now kinda works on its own, I think.
Fandom is the Laundry books again, which has actually grown a bit since I last talked about it here, but is still tiny. There's maybe four active writers now, counting me. All of whom are doing very much Their Own Thing - including me, because this fic is nothing if not idiosyncratic.
I've been very excited about this project for a couple of years now, and am still very excited to continue it (although I'll have to read the next book first, which just came out. And also, finish the next chapter of the vampire vicar fic that's about three quarters done.)
This story is basically about having someone who knew the canon main character *before* he was a magical secret agent go, "what the fuck are you doing" at him a lot. :D The character I've chosen for that role is the barely canonical (mentioned in passing, once) brother of the main character.
Also, there was a failed/defeated invasion from another universe, very recently, followed almost immediately by a coup (in which the magical secret service was involved, though of course not publicly), and the gen pop - protag's brother included - now knows about magic!
These two have a *lot* they need to talk about! But one of them doesn't know the half of it... and the other one literally cannot talk about most of it. And yes, my brand in this fandom is having the main character have all the most uncomfortable conversations.
Link: The Resistance Is Useless, by Hmpf MacSlow
