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[itsallovernow]

I've got a low grade headache that could be allergies, and is probably mostly sleeping in the restaurant glue of sweat and glitter that is the inevitable result of dancing my ass off on a Tuesday night when everyone in the Valley decides to have a party in Morrocoland.

Fair warning - one should not go to sleep with glitter on. No amount of next day washing will be sufficient to getting it off.

Due to the whole broke and semi-desperate thing wherein I cut my own hair, and that didn't work out too badly during the initial run, I am now suffering the pangs of what happens when one's own handiwork grows out. My bangs, they are an adventure playground. (I always say this, and then realize that not everyone I know was with me on that trip to Rome when we stumbled into this crazy garden near the Villa Farnese that featured a sign requesting that no one move the banches and that the park was not an adventure playground). My bangs look like a five year old had at 'em and I'm seriously contemplating selling my X-Files S4 DVD set and my Aliens boxset to finance a haircut and scalp massage from my beloved stylist. I am willing to endure his mockery of both my self-service and the fascinating color my hair has currently turned.

For those wondering, when one has red hair and one puts an almost black temporary color on it, temporary is definitely a misnomer.

I'm also in the pre-holiday daze enough that I can't commit to anything writing wise, even stuff I've outlined and am excited about, nor can I commit to anything new fannishly, so I'm currently ficcing other people's fic in my head to answer the fannish call that zings around my nerves from time to time. I know sophia_helix had a post not too long ago about the things we'll write in our heads that we know we'll never put on paper for anyone to see, and I absolutely do this, and never more so than with beloved stories that feel absolutely true to the characters. I occasionally do this with my own fic, but I also frequently do this with Cofax's "Bellum Interuptum", Max's "In the Company of Ghosts", and currently Fi's "Reflections in a Stolen 'I'". I used to do the same thing with X-Files fic, but don't really do this with any other fandoms (maybe a little bit in SG-1, but mostly I'm just writing fic for stories that I'm still writing:)

So, I know I can't be the only one to do this. Tell me your favorite stories to fic in your head, and where you take the story. I don't mean changing, I just mean dawdling along in that universe. Unless, of course, I am the only one to do this:)

Comments

[wearemany.livejournal.com]

i do this ALL THE TIME, both with my own ideas and other people's fics and stories (or, like, mere existence). J and i have a long 1970 popslash AU that is more like an oral history than anything else-- it's a series of stories we tell each other while stuck in the car waiting to get places. we both know all the highlights but it's become clear i'll never actually commit it to a page. but still sometimes we'll say to each other some phrase from it -- usually "justin bluesky!" that means nothing to anyone else.

[thassalia.livejournal.com]

I love that idea, love the image of the two of you and this oral history of story that's totally legitimate as story because it's serving it's own purpose but is also a verbal and creative shorthand for the two of you that you can share, but also hold onto in your own head:)

[kernezelda]

*gives you a magic muscle massage and glitter-remover duster*

I have never cut my own hair, but in my teens I did manage to shave off half of one eyebrow, giving my mother fits.
;)

So, er, what is the fascinating color of your hair now?

I've written extensively in Rainer's Switchback series - and by extensively, I mean over a MB of material between she and I and Kaz, which shall never likely see the light of day. I've dabbled a bit in Jacqueline Lichtenberg/Jean Lorrah's ST Kraith series, and in Kixxa's fics a few times.

Sometimes a fic just grabs you and demands your attention, like OfficerSun524's The Future or Something Like It. That story propelled my entrance into FS fic-writing, and CK kindly offered to be my beta. Poor woman, I don't think she anticipated the length of my first fic. *g*

[thassalia.livejournal.com]

My hair is sort of a ragged burgandy - like cheap wine you buy at Wal-mart in a big jug (assuming Wal-Mart sells wine). Target sells wine, but I guess that's not a universal.

And oooh, I forgot about Rainer's Switchback stories. Hee (but I'm guessing my ficcy mental meanderings in that 'verse are different than yours:)

And hee - you really are the perfect example of this phenomena!

I tend to play out scenes - chance meetings from Bellum Interruptum, or spinning out further details in the other fics:)

[kernezelda]

Different meanderings, you think? ;)

BI is a well-written story, but I just can't take a universe in which John and Aeryn can be together, yet aren't. Held apart by force, yeah, I can go with that, but the relationship failing, the two of them giving up? Not something I can handle.

Blue Eyes had them separate, and it was painful, but there was Anix and her growing relationship with John to offset the lack of John and Aeryn being able to be together. I had vague ficcy thoughts for BE, but mainly dealing with Scorpius, John and Anix aboard Scorpius' ship.

Have you ever had ficcy thoughts about anything of mine?

[veritykindle.livejournal.com]

*hugs you and sends you lots of love*

Is it bad of me that I suddenly really want to see your bangs? I bet they actually look very cute! Plus, I have nothing but respect for people who are brave enough to cut their hair. If I ever tried anything like that, I would probably cut off my own ear, or something like that...

As for ficcing other people's fics, I do this all the time, too, although strangely enough, I usually only do this with WIPs. This is a big reason for why I don't mind reading WIPs nearly as much as other people seem to. I can almost never fic finished stories, but give me a nice, juicy WIP that has sucked me into its plot, and I can fic it for *hours*, or even days, taking it in all sorts of different directions.

They don't even necessarily have to be great fics, as long as they have something in them that draws me in and that I can use as a jumping point. There is this one SPN WIP that I've been doing this with for *months*, and I have yet to get tired of it -- not because it's a perfect fic, but because it has things in it that I want to build on.

Of course, the problem with doing that is that if the WIP is left too long and then continued, I might end up being disappointed with the results, since I'd built up so much expectation into the fic. But still, it's a lot of fun to do while I can! :)

[thassalia.livejournal.com]

Hugs Katya who has been in hiding!!

Hee:) I totally see the risk in mentally ficcing a WIP that's been going for awhile because there's no way it can live up to your ficcy possibilities:)

[cofax7]

I would love to see you play in the Bellum Interruptum universe. That'd be awesome.

I do that some with Ghosts, as well, because it's so awesome there, and I'm pretty sure Max is never going to go back and finish it. Also Sal's Dirt of Sowing and Reaping, and Katie's "In the Wrong Story" universes -- It seems to be specific to AU-type universes, otherwise I'd just hang out in canon. If that makes any sense.

But I've never gotten so far as to thinking of stories, really, just thinking about them. Resting my brain there.

[thassalia.livejournal.com]

I would love to see you play in the Bellum Interruptum universe. That'd be awesome. That's like giving butane and a zippo to a teenage boy! I'm not sure there's enough power in the 'verse for me to resist that offer:)

And yeah, "Ghosts" is so massively epic and it seems unlikely to ever be continued and there's so much humonguous glorious possibility there.

And yeah, it's the AU 'verses, absolutely because they're so compelling when well done.

[minnow1212.livejournal.com]

Fic-thoughts for fic, yes! I've spent some mental time playing in LTLJ's Retrograde universe--mostly hooking up Sheppard and Mitchell, and then she went and did it, so my wish was fulfilled in the best possible way.

[thassalia.livejournal.com]

Hee - I am terribly slash resistant and yet I am so terribly entranced by Sheppard/Mitchell. Maybe because they're so pretty together, or because it seems so... I don't know. Much of my slash disinterest is that I like seeing women in story, and it tends to negate their presence (not always, not as rule, just in my head) and I like the guyness of male characters yada, yada, but something about Sheppard/Mitchell pushes my buttons because the stuff I've read has been fantastic and they're still very much guys (particularly Mitchell). And I can see them happily hooking up and still hooking up with other people and there's still that sexy buddy bonding that isn't diminished by more "female" romantic responses and yet they could still be naked together:)

Hee. Which is to say I thoroughly approve of your mental ficcing:)

And dude, isn't it the best when someone talented goes on to write your mental fic without you even asking for it:)

[minnow1212.livejournal.com]

Sexy buddy bonding! Yes! Plus they're both pilots and stuff.

There should be more of them.

[thassalia.livejournal.com]

There should so be more of them, whether sex is involved or not. They're just far too adorable together (certainly in fic, although they were awfully pretty just standing next to each other as well:)

[pellucid.livejournal.com]

You know, I think the 'verse I've ficced most in my head is your "Blue Eyes." I don't remember where my mind went with it, but right after I read it the first time, I couldn't get it out of my head for weeks. And both of Cofax's big apocafics--the X-Files one and the SG-1 one--invaded my brain similarly.

I think I more often tend to play with bad fics, though; more the "if I had written this, I would have done x" kind of thing with fics that have good premises and faulty execution. My fairly brief foray into Stargate: Atlantis felt like one long string of this sort of thing. None of these responses--to good or bad fic--ever get written down, though.

[thassalia.livejournal.com]

I'd love to know any of the thoughts or scenarios you've ever mentally ficced for Blue Eyes:) It tends to be the fic that I fic in my head the most often, but I'm not entirely sure it counts:)