Exaaaaaaaactly. It's like, the responsibility of the thing-- if I'm just idly writing something I can let it go, but if I have promised it to someone else, it is an obligation. AND HA, yeah. I didn't do so hot at nano either this year-- I think it was my lack of a structured plot. I'm sad you didn't do so well! Your idea was awesome.
And n, that was not me. I don't think I've been at all today. Also I like to have backup :(
Mine failed because of the lack of a structured plot, too -- I had some basic plot beats but nothing really in between. I've still got it in my writing folder though, so maybe bits of it will see the light of day on at least LJ someday. I CAN HOPE.
I think there were maybe three XF memers on then and we were all kind of faily. The HTGSC VP was fun, though. Also I just realized I haven't yet voted in the eyeinfbi poll. Whoops.
Also, flotg, what is with the sudden deluge of fic on homeby_five? I'm afraid to read it. I'm picky when it comes to RPF. :(
Yeah I still want to use my idea too! I mentioned it to a friend of mine who is actually good at the plot part of writing, but I'm not allowed to tell her about it until I finish my yuletide >:(
Sry2say if you really want to start a shift with three people you have to reply to yourself a LOT. And yeah, it was fun, but there was too much else going on that night.
Apparently this week has been declared RPF week? I feel like I have to approve a new post every ten seconds, IT'S NUTSO. ALSO EVERYONE IS DOING IT WITH SOCK JOURNALS, which is aggravating me for no real reason. I've only glanced at two of them-- one because Sam said it was lolariously bad (IT REALLY WAS LOLARIOUS, if you're looking for entertainment I'll tell you which one), and the other... idk, but I clicked the back button as soon as I realized whoever wrote it didn't realize her name was not Gilly Anderson. Theoretically there might be a gem in the rough, but.
PLOT IS MY WORST ENEMY. >:( For my xf_santa fic I was briefly tempted to write an AU in which S7-IWTB was all a hallucination as a result of the mushroom in Field Trip, but I think that would require more plot than I'm capable of.
I totally don't get sock journals! Well, I sort of do, because I've pondered locking my DD/GA mix since occasionally I feel dirty leaving it public, but whatever. And AHAHAHA, wow. I've actually read some decent XF RPF, but those sound . . . special.
LOLOLOL, I guess we are very similar about writing, because oh god, PLOT IS THE WORST PART. I agree that that would be awesome but miserable to plot your way through. What are you going to do instead? (Random but! I had a Field Trip plot bunny a couple of months ago in adinfinitum's journal? WHICH IS: what would have happened if they had slept together during their mutual hallucination. It would be so delightfully awkward! But I also don't know if I can imagine them deciding do the horizontal mambo while in the midst of a confusing mushroom trip. I DON'T KNOW. Someday I will try and write it. Maybe.)
HEY AT LEAST YOU DIDN'T WRITE STUFF? I still feel kind of really dirty about it :( Especially since it is pretty much ALL I've written in the last... year and a half.
I have noooo idea what I'm going to do instead, which is why I'm so >:( about it! I'm thinking maybe something circa S7. IDK.
You should totally write that! The awkwardness was why I was thinking about writing the post-Field Trip thing, too. It's like, hey! Your sister turned out to be starlight and then we got together and you were abducted and I found out I was pregnant and then you were dead and then you weren't and then you went on the run and I gave away the baby and we went on the run and theeeen ended up in a ramshackle house in Virginia! EXCEPT NONE OF IT HAPPENED. :D? . . . I like how I immediately wrote that from Scully's perspective. Um. I think I would have fun figuring out who hallucinated what, though -- it would have been a mutual hallucination, but parts of it would have been more inspired by one of them than the other? I can totally imagine Mulder hallucinating that his sister became starlight, and Scully hallucinating that Mulder died, especially since she already did. I have given way too much thought to this. ANYWAY. I cannot seem to stop spamming you tonight, SORRY.
I totally do have an unfinished thing sitting around somewhere. /o\ IDEK.
HEY YOU KIND OF HAVE AN IDEA OF WHAT YOU MIGHT WITH IT THOUGH. Oh my goshhhhhhh, you should try, because that sounds fabulous, and yes, it would be SO AWKWARD. And so much of it does seem hallucinated-- the horrible stupid brain disease would be Scully's invention, Reyes and the mountain man beard were all Mulder. And then! They're stuck back in 1999 and they're still young and pretty and... oh my god, think of the slight tinge of William angst you could do with that. OH MAN, to jump from that level of imagined intimacy to... the end of season 6. It could be fun.
AND IT'S FINE. I wouldn't've made this entry in the first place if I didn't secretly want an excuse to further avoid this.
GODDAMMIT, I might actually have to write it now! Maybe not for xf_santa, since I don't know if I could finish that kind of fic in a week, but I want to at least try. I've actually got, um, three sentences? And it would be so easy to explain the hallucinations as latent fears brought to light -- like, Scully being uncertain of where she stands with Mulder re: Fowley and whatnot, and that could translate into her hallucinating Mulder was hiding the brain disease. Aaaand jeez, I feel like William would have an impact even if he were a hallucination? Losing him probably wouldn't hurt any less because he was a hallucination -- it could even hurt more BECAUSE he was a hallucination. And, like you said, to jump from the S8-9/IWTB level of intimacy to the end of season 6. It could be interesting.
WOW I AM SUCH AN OVERTHINKER. I'm totally going to have to try to write this now. Aaah.
OH YAY! And yes yes yes, hallucinations as latent fears! A lot of the Mulder leaving/being abducted/always being gone could be explained by his fear of not ever being enough for Scully. And yes, the thing about William is that if he's gone after that hallucination, it's not just that he's gone, it's that he can no longer ever exist? TALK ABOUT ANGST.
BUT I REALLY AM GLAD, BECAUSE I SENSE IT IS GOING TO BE AWESOME.
I AM COMMENT JACKING BUT I SAW THIS AND MAYBE PEED MY PANTS A LITTLE. ALTHOUGH NOT REALLY BECAUSE THAT WOULD BE GROSS.
what would have happened if they had slept together during their mutual hallucination. It would be so delightfully awkward! JUST ... OMG. I MUST READ THIS FIC?! EVEN THOUGH IT DOESN'T EXIST YET? I might actually die if you decided to write this. It may be the best idea I ever heard. And I will stop being annoying now.
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Date: 2008-12-19 03:15 am (UTC)And n, that was not me. I don't think I've been at all today. Also I like to have backup :(
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Date: 2008-12-19 03:26 am (UTC)I think there were maybe three XF memers on then and we were all kind of faily. The HTGSC VP was fun, though. Also I just realized I haven't yet voted in the
Also, flotg, what is with the sudden deluge of fic on
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Date: 2008-12-19 03:37 am (UTC)Sry2say if you really want to start a shift with three people you have to reply to yourself a LOT. And yeah, it was fun, but there was too much else going on that night.
Apparently this week has been declared RPF week? I feel like I have to approve a new post every ten seconds, IT'S NUTSO. ALSO EVERYONE IS DOING IT WITH SOCK JOURNALS, which is aggravating me for no real reason. I've only glanced at two of them-- one because Sam said it was lolariously bad (IT REALLY WAS LOLARIOUS, if you're looking for entertainment I'll tell you which one), and the other... idk, but I clicked the back button as soon as I realized whoever wrote it didn't realize her name was not Gilly Anderson. Theoretically there might be a gem in the rough, but.
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Date: 2008-12-19 04:10 am (UTC)I totally don't get sock journals! Well, I sort of do, because I've pondered locking my DD/GA mix since occasionally I feel dirty leaving it public, but whatever. And AHAHAHA, wow. I've actually read some decent XF RPF, but those sound . . . special.
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Date: 2008-12-19 04:16 am (UTC)HEY AT LEAST YOU DIDN'T WRITE STUFF? I still feel kind of really dirty about it :( Especially since it is pretty much ALL I've written in the last... year and a half.
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Date: 2008-12-19 04:35 am (UTC)You should totally write that! The awkwardness was why I was thinking about writing the post-Field Trip thing, too. It's like, hey! Your sister turned out to be starlight and then we got together and you were abducted and I found out I was pregnant and then you were dead and then you weren't and then you went on the run and I gave away the baby and we went on the run and theeeen ended up in a ramshackle house in Virginia! EXCEPT NONE OF IT HAPPENED. :D? . . . I like how I immediately wrote that from Scully's perspective. Um. I think I would have fun figuring out who hallucinated what, though -- it would have been a mutual hallucination, but parts of it would have been more inspired by one of them than the other? I can totally imagine Mulder hallucinating that his sister became starlight, and Scully hallucinating that Mulder died, especially since she already did. I have given way too much thought to this. ANYWAY. I cannot seem to stop spamming you tonight, SORRY.
I totally do have an unfinished thing sitting around somewhere. /o\ IDEK.
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Date: 2008-12-19 04:44 am (UTC)AND IT'S FINE. I wouldn't've made this entry in the first place if I didn't secretly want an excuse to further avoid this.
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Date: 2008-12-19 05:01 am (UTC)WOW I AM SUCH AN OVERTHINKER. I'm totally going to have to try to write this now. Aaah.
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Date: 2008-12-19 05:08 am (UTC)BUT I REALLY AM GLAD, BECAUSE I SENSE IT IS GOING TO BE AWESOME.
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Date: 2008-12-19 01:02 pm (UTC)what would have happened if they had slept together during their mutual hallucination. It would be so delightfully awkward!
JUST ... OMG. I MUST READ THIS FIC?! EVEN THOUGH IT DOESN'T EXIST YET? I might actually die if you decided to write this. It may be the best idea I ever heard. And I will stop being annoying now.
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Date: 2008-12-19 07:49 pm (UTC)By the way, Emma, I sent you an invite to a thing a couple of days ago, and you are going to want to accept.