Trying the new tech
Jun. 21st, 2005 04:04 pm![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
itsallovernowI'm not supposed to post during the day, so SHHHHH,
don't tell anyone. I'm allowing myself to e-mail post
because it's new tech, and because it's insanely hot
in my office, and my next task is calling a small
legion of people and I'm rejuvinating before I do
that.
Mostly I'm posting because![[livejournal.com profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/external/lj-userinfo.gif)
rubberneck and
I can no longer keep our selves from posting Project
#2. We were mature and restrained for a long time,
but we've since given up the ghost. So, Part 1 of
Pretty in Punk can be found here
in Feldman's LJ.
We'll be posting consecutively. The story is done
(barring a few misguided typos), so it's just a matter
of doling it out:) I'm very excited. It's one of
those stories that I'm proud of, regardless of the
outside response, because the process of writing it
was so fabulous - the push and pull of ideas and
language, the way we both were able to take up themes
and concepts without explicitly vocalizing them, and
then wound up with larger, richer themes. I know the
main trope is one thatcrankygrrl finds
particularly loathsome, but she read it dutifully
anyway as beta because she loves us, so she gets props
and hugs and kisses and wishes for kick-ass
Veronica Mars fic.
I felt very post-modern, very academic and aloof in
the last post on fic writing and it's legitimacy, and
I have to say, just for the record, that I do realize
what a huge role emotional response plays in this
whole arguement.troyswann made a great
point incofax7's LJ (and yes, make a note
of the name, now that I've finally stopped typing
Cofax into my lj users button, she goes and changes
it:) hee. Anyway, the point was that if one is
willing to accept one's own co-opting of the
characters, one can hardly be annoyed with the
original author of the material, or the other fic
writers, for putting their own spin on these same
characters. And I think along with that is the real
emotional resentment that I have when other fic
writers don't take the same things from the characters
or situations that I do, don't even seem to be in the
same ballpark or watching the same show, and I think I
need to be more zen about all that, need to really
look at the big picture, at the whole of the issue,
and use the same arguements I use to justify my work
to justify the purpose, and legitimacy of theirs.
And by legitimate, I mean in the context of these
particular communities. I don't want or need to be
legitamized by the original creators. In fact, I'd
prefer not to even be acknowledged by them, to not
interfere in their existences or scopes, to not really
make them aware of my presence. Because when I get
embarrassed about this hobby, it isn't the thought of
the bad writing, or the myriad forms of sex described,
it's the thought of the actors reading these things
about their characters and being equally mortified:)
And really, as much of a postmodernist as I am, I
really, really don't want to think about the
intersection of my hobby and their real lives:)
don't tell anyone. I'm allowing myself to e-mail post
because it's new tech, and because it's insanely hot
in my office, and my next task is calling a small
legion of people and I'm rejuvinating before I do
that.
Mostly I'm posting because
rubberneck andI can no longer keep our selves from posting Project
#2. We were mature and restrained for a long time,
but we've since given up the ghost. So, Part 1 of
Pretty in Punk can be found here
in Feldman's LJ.
We'll be posting consecutively. The story is done
(barring a few misguided typos), so it's just a matter
of doling it out:) I'm very excited. It's one of
those stories that I'm proud of, regardless of the
outside response, because the process of writing it
was so fabulous - the push and pull of ideas and
language, the way we both were able to take up themes
and concepts without explicitly vocalizing them, and
then wound up with larger, richer themes. I know the
main trope is one that
crankygrrl findsparticularly loathsome, but she read it dutifully
anyway as beta because she loves us, so she gets props
and hugs and kisses and wishes for kick-ass
Veronica Mars fic.
I felt very post-modern, very academic and aloof in
the last post on fic writing and it's legitimacy, and
I have to say, just for the record, that I do realize
what a huge role emotional response plays in this
whole arguement.
troyswann made a greatpoint in
cofax7's LJ (and yes, make a noteof the name, now that I've finally stopped typing
Cofax into my lj users button, she goes and changes
it:) hee. Anyway, the point was that if one is
willing to accept one's own co-opting of the
characters, one can hardly be annoyed with the
original author of the material, or the other fic
writers, for putting their own spin on these same
characters. And I think along with that is the real
emotional resentment that I have when other fic
writers don't take the same things from the characters
or situations that I do, don't even seem to be in the
same ballpark or watching the same show, and I think I
need to be more zen about all that, need to really
look at the big picture, at the whole of the issue,
and use the same arguements I use to justify my work
to justify the purpose, and legitimacy of theirs.
And by legitimate, I mean in the context of these
particular communities. I don't want or need to be
legitamized by the original creators. In fact, I'd
prefer not to even be acknowledged by them, to not
interfere in their existences or scopes, to not really
make them aware of my presence. Because when I get
embarrassed about this hobby, it isn't the thought of
the bad writing, or the myriad forms of sex described,
it's the thought of the actors reading these things
about their characters and being equally mortified:)
And really, as much of a postmodernist as I am, I
really, really don't want to think about the
intersection of my hobby and their real lives:)
