patterns and phases

[whynot]

So, people have been talking about that one story they keep on telling over and over again. Me, I'm jumping on the bandwagon late. Fashionably so? You decide. It's time for the Light Wanktastic.

Regarding plot revisits, I go in phases. In 7th grade, after I just read Sophie's World by Jostein Gaarder, the characters in my stories were always realising they were characters in a story. (I was writing origfic then, not fanfiction.) I watched The Matrix at around then too, and that didn't help me out of my phase any. It became an easy way out for me, the way dream sequences and character deaths are easy endings. So, yeah, I got over it. I'm still intensely fascinated by good metafic, though.

Within the past couple of months, the theme is 'life is not a drama and real people are just trying to get by the best they can.' It's just what was on my mind at the time, influenced by weird RL bullshit, you know how it goes. I think you can see reflections of this in my Dogma fic, my Fight Club fic (linked up to the Post Comment page all nice-like, special for mark356), and also in that unpublished Captain Planet fic that I sent to nitroxa and offyourknees to beta but gee whiz I haven't heard from them in a while.

YO. HWHAIR MAH CAPTAIN PLANET FIC HUUUUUUH.

In my recent fiction, it's not plot that drives me. When I write fics, I'm often driven by relationships. Relationships, not ships, because I'm talking about how characters interact one another, not about whether they're MFEO. Characters that do the right thing for the wrong reasons, let us say. They usually don't end up getting married. They're--in varying degrees--manipulative, selfish, desperate, reluctant. X2's Kurt/Ororo is the exception, because they're so sweet. But yeah, I'm thinking that maybe about 1/3 of my stuff can be posted to lovethineenemy.

Right now I've got one Murder By Numbers fic in the works. It feels like the first slashfic I've done in a long time, which is kind of weird and kind of nice. I don't feel that Option E or Chalk Lines were slash per se. They were about boys being fucked up and had slashy overtones but y'know.

I'm not ficcing as much these days because I can't relate to my fandoms, or I'm too tired to. If you want a fic about Bobby wandering around the expansive institute grounds staring listlessly at the sky as he holds a University of Oregon viewbook in one hand and a Macalester College application in the other, I'll see what I can do. But for the most part... y'know.

:-\

Bobby's too classy for the University of Oregon anyway.

Maybe tonight I'll rent Murder By Numbers and see if I can finish my fic. I like movie fandoms a lot. I like fics in movie fandoms with nice-looking guys in them. You all should write one or something.

Comments

[mumblemutter.livejournal.com]

murder by numbers is the slashiest movie ever. well, maybe with the exception of fight club, but minus the whole desperately wanting to fuck yourself bit.

cm

[twoskeletons.livejournal.com]

No kidding. That scene in Justin's bedroom when Richard's giving him that CD? That merits multiple "guh!"'s, it does. omg.

[mumblemutter.livejournal.com]

eee! teenaged psychos in love! What could be better?

i actually really dug the whole sandra bullock and the two boys thing too - the boys are fascinating by themselves, yeah, but sandra is just as messed up and totally unable to deal with her own pain and it's all just. guh. Yes.

6 inches forward, 5 inches back

[twoskeletons.livejournal.com]

Totally. I love Sandra Bullock in this one. Anyone going to hit me over the head if I say that is one of the most believable, realistic female characters I've seen ever? Yeah, I know the tough female cop role is so done, but damn. Dude, you know what I'm talking about. Go Sandra.

the boys are fascinating by themselves
They are. They should make out. They'd be twice as interesting then.
Michael Pitt did get some gay lovin' in another movie. Or, he would have, if HBO Asia weren't such pussies. Ya, they were showing Hedwig and the Angry Inch last night. Good fun.

[odditycollector.livejournal.com]

Wow. I had somehow missed your fight club fic until now and... I have no words. Just fucking awesome, because I'm not left in the right mood for fangirl squeeing.

It felt like the book, even though it's movie fic and I don't know if you've read the book or not. Maybe the movie felt like the book too.

(And I think it's pretty telling if he's fucking her and in his head he's masturbating, although it didn't occur to me while reading.)

Also, you scare me, with your Captain Planet kink. I think I may have mentioned this before.

<-- it's a crusade, for the planet

[twoskeletons.livejournal.com]

Haha, I'm glad you read it. It was one of those fics where I felt all "I muuuuuuuuuuuuust finish this, ooooooooooh! *headwallheadwallheadwall*", so, y'know, I appreciate you taking the time to read and comment. Thank ye. :)

Yeah, I thought the movie and book were definitely similar to each other in tone. I did read the book once a long time ago. It was a PDF file I found on the net through a link on an Audiogalaxy messageboard. Am proud to say I've bought a copy of my very own. The PDF file had missing bits, besides.

It felt like the book
:D Hehe, I was so trying to be Chuck. I can't imagine Fight Club fic being written like Dickens or Austen, so Chuck it was.

...your Captain Planet kink...
Hah! Kink nothing. My CP fic is way tamer than yours, actually.

[surichan.livejournal.com]

But yeah, I'm thinking that maybe about 1/3 of my stuff can be posted to lovethineenemy

I'm thinking you've got some posting to do, then. ::stretches hands out greedily:: Gimme! - er...us!!