Today the angsty icon means celebration:
May. 2nd, 2010 10:47 pm![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
hmpf"Back to the Future" (aka "the nuclear war fic") is considerably better, and considerably (i.e.: half a page) longer now than it was yesterday. YAY!
Also, Sam really has no reason to look this angsty anymore: I just released him from mental hospital, after all... ;-)
Also, I watched half an ep of LoM today, for (nearly) the first time in two years or so, and it didn't hurt! As a side-effect, I've again fallen madly in love with the back of Sam's head/neck...
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I also took a look at that one, unpublishable fic that only![[livejournal.com profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/external/lj-userinfo.gif)
space_oddity_75 knows. Hadn't looked at it in a long while... Was pleasantly surprised to find it rather better than I remembered. I found quite a few really nice sentences, observations etc. in it. However, it is also still (and, of necessity, always will be) annoyingly unpublishable. It has a Gene who mostly just doesn't work - that could be fixed, with the right beta, and a bit of practice; alas, it also has a Sam who only - mostly - works if you live inside my mind - and that can't be fixed, because it's sort of the foundation of the entire story.
It's also, annoyingly, probably the longest story I've ever written. I say 'annoyingly', because it annoys me that one of the only longer pieces I've ever written will never actually be shared with an audience larger than one (or perhaps two, or three. I'm not sure, but I may have shared parts of it withjazzymegster once. And I think space_oddity_75 may have shared it with someone once, but maybe I'm getting my unfinished fics mixed up.)
There's a faint chance that I may be able to fashion it into something of an impossible, virtual epilogue to the as-yet-unwritten Huge Scary 2.08 Survival Fic I've been talking about for years. But, as that fic is a huge and scary and thus probably doomed project, that seems like a long shot.
:-(
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Anyway, yay for Back to the Future! I'm really excited about this! Five pages down, and maybe two more to go, I think... Possibly even less.
Also, Sam really has no reason to look this angsty anymore: I just released him from mental hospital, after all... ;-)
Also, I watched half an ep of LoM today, for (nearly) the first time in two years or so, and it didn't hurt! As a side-effect, I've again fallen madly in love with the back of Sam's head/neck...
**
I also took a look at that one, unpublishable fic that only
space_oddity_75 knows. Hadn't looked at it in a long while... Was pleasantly surprised to find it rather better than I remembered. I found quite a few really nice sentences, observations etc. in it. However, it is also still (and, of necessity, always will be) annoyingly unpublishable. It has a Gene who mostly just doesn't work - that could be fixed, with the right beta, and a bit of practice; alas, it also has a Sam who only - mostly - works if you live inside my mind - and that can't be fixed, because it's sort of the foundation of the entire story. It's also, annoyingly, probably the longest story I've ever written. I say 'annoyingly', because it annoys me that one of the only longer pieces I've ever written will never actually be shared with an audience larger than one (or perhaps two, or three. I'm not sure, but I may have shared parts of it with
jazzymegster once. And I think space_oddity_75 may have shared it with someone once, but maybe I'm getting my unfinished fics mixed up.)There's a faint chance that I may be able to fashion it into something of an impossible, virtual epilogue to the as-yet-unwritten Huge Scary 2.08 Survival Fic I've been talking about for years. But, as that fic is a huge and scary and thus probably doomed project, that seems like a long shot.
:-(
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Anyway, yay for Back to the Future! I'm really excited about this! Five pages down, and maybe two more to go, I think... Possibly even less.
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Date: 2010-05-03 06:35 am (UTC)Ya know...
Date: 2010-05-03 08:33 pm (UTC)no subject
Date: 2010-05-03 07:41 am (UTC)As for the unpublishable fic, I'm sure it'll soon get publishable if you work on it a bit more. I know getting Gene's voice right is difficult (been there, done that), but nothing is impossible.
How's life these days? Still busybusybusy? I want to chat with you so badly, but it looks like I'll have to wait until mid-May to get beck to my normal life. In fact, I'm going to Köln for a trade fair tomorrow and will be away until Friday, then I'm going to Barcelona next week. Why can't life be less complicated?
*hugs*
Life; unpublishableness
Date: 2010-05-03 08:35 pm (UTC)The problem with the unpublishable fic isn't Gene, really - Gene can be fixed. The problem is inappropriately-happy!Sam. I think he'd be OOC to any reader who hasn't read the as-yet-nonexistent 2.08 survival/"fixing Sam's broken psyche" fic. :-(
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Date: 2010-05-03 07:43 pm (UTC)(I think I did see a bit of it the last time we talked in MSN, but still can't remember seeing any of it before that).
Also I find this funny since on my flist, my most recent post is below yours, and I'm talking about a different Back To The Future :D
Hehe, yeah, rewatching = hard work! ;-)
Date: 2010-05-03 08:40 pm (UTC)Of course it is! ;)
Date: 2010-05-03 09:09 pm (UTC)Fair enough, just thought I'd put the offer out there if you still wanted it. (I totally understand that about things not being in a readable state - I'm like that with a couple of original fics at the moment which you'd need to know the inside of my brain to understand right now).
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Date: 2010-06-25 08:33 pm (UTC)You like Sam!nape? Wow <3 I've picked up a bit of a nape kink myself, thanks to being involved in tea ceremony and having developing a new appreciation with the beauty of the line that runs from the back of the head to the shoulderblades. In Japanese culture, though, AFAIK it's thought only to be attractive (erotic) on women. Unfair! Unfair!
I'm enthralled by the descriptions of your nuclearfic, and would like to know if you'd object to my friending you (one-way is fine, no obligation to reciprocate) just so that I can be sure not to miss your ongoing notes about the writing process? Because I enjoy fic commentary almost as much as I enjoy fic itself.
Sure, friend away.
Date: 2010-06-25 08:49 pm (UTC)I really hope I'll be able to finish this story before 2011. It's going pretty well right now, but I have chronic writer's block combined with a nasty condition called "Real Life", so I can't promise anything. *sigh*
What I can promise is that I'm not giving up on it. This has been an ongoing project since 2007...
Also?
Date: 2010-06-25 08:50 pm (UTC)And yeah, big neck/nape thing here. One of the sexiest parts of the body, to me. On men and women alike, provided they're built a certain way (beefy necks are blergh).
Re: Also?
Date: 2010-06-25 09:51 pm (UTC)When I was rewatching this ep and saw Simm assume the position, I squeed like a fangirl, opened up Photoshop, and made the icon on the spot. It's the lethal trifecta of that long, slender neck of Simm's, the play of shadow and light against it, and the strangely erotic glint of the St Christopher's medal below the throat.
Huh. Excuse me while I go fan myself...
Re: Also?
Date: 2010-06-25 09:56 pm (UTC)(Yes, just the description is enough...)
Re: Also?
Date: 2010-06-25 10:00 pm (UTC)(That's what I love about Methos, on Highlander: the Series. He tends to wear sweaters with very... neck-fetish-friendly collars.)
Okay, not in this icon, so much.
Date: 2010-06-25 10:01 pm (UTC)Re: Also?
Date: 2010-06-25 10:06 pm (UTC)The original screencap is here:
http://i65.photobucket.com/albums/h233/chamekke/Stuff%20to%20share/lom104_0143.jpg
Unfortunately I can't find my working file, but it would have looked something like this:
http://i65.photobucket.com/albums/h233/chamekke/Stuff%20to%20share/lom104_0143_psd.jpg
Re: Also?
Date: 2010-06-25 10:09 pm (UTC)Not unable to write fic, though, fortunately.
Date: 2010-06-25 10:11 pm (UTC)Approaching six and a half pages now, btw.
Date: 2010-06-25 10:16 pm (UTC)Sorry I keep using the same icon, btw. I only have six icons, and the only other LoM icon among them is my "I hate 2.08" icon, which isn't appropriate here.
Actually, just for variety's sake, I think I'm going to use it here anyway, though.
Re: Approaching six and a half pages now, btw.
Date: 2010-06-25 10:38 pm (UTC)Yes, I am that shallow.Here, take this icon and think of this as radiation-poisoned Sam if you like. Made it with the 1973flashfic zombies challenge in mind, but never used it for that (my "zombie" ended up being Gene). I still can't look at this picture without thinking of Sam groaning, "Braiiiins," though.
Re: Approaching six and a half pages now, btw.
Date: 2010-06-25 10:48 pm (UTC)Come to think of it, I recently resurrected my ancient zombie!Sam fic, too. That one was the first LoM fic I started, back in, err, 2005? 2006? It's been kind of stalled since then, but I recently re-read the first two pages - all that I have, so far - and found them quite nice. So I may tackle that again, once I'm done with the nuclear fic. Though I should probably focus on the Sandman crossover first, then, because I have more of an idea where that's going, and also, I really *love* what I have of that so far.
Your icon doesn't work for my radiation-poisoned Sam so well, though: too much hair! (And too young, too. Sam's almost fifty when the war happens.)
(I'm giving a grossly incorrect impression of my nuclear fic here, really. Sam spends all of three paragraphs or so hairless. I'm not really dwelling on it much.)
Re: Also?
Date: 2010-06-25 10:18 pm (UTC)Re: Also?
Date: 2010-06-25 10:48 pm (UTC)freeze dried acai berry powder
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