flash'd as they turn'd in air.
Oct. 25th, 2011 09:49 am![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
damkiannaYAY I DIDN'T FORGET TO POST YAY. \o/ I put a reminder in my calendar and everything, ugh, I was so nervous. :P Though the general drift of the story is, um, my usual (male character bites it, ladies everywhere, happy endings all around), it's kind of different stylistically - more serious, and probably more pretentious. D: But I think it turned out okay, and, bonus, I really like the title. (I hate titling things.) idriya is making absolutely BEAUTIFUL art, which I temporarily have all to myself because she's a perfectionist and insists that it's not done yet. But it should be up soon, and I will definitely link to it (less likely) or post it myself (far more likely, because idriya is lazy that way unless it's my birthday).
... **starts planning for![[community profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/community.png)
ladiesbigbang Round 2.5**
Andthelittlebang is having another extension! It's awful that the mods are having RL difficulties, but I can't say I'm not grateful for the extra time to prod my draft, because this story's sort of huge and I'm still not sure the pacing's quite right.
But! I watched the pilot of Once Upon a Time. And I am cautiously optimistic! I am a sucker for fairy tale retellings, I really like Emma, and I'm looking forward to next week - this week was very setup-y, which I get, and which is better than rushing it and ending up with a mess like The Cape, but all the same I am looking forward to more substantive plotful things happening in realtime instead of in flashbacks.
I'll admit that it annoys me for the evil queen to be mayor and an adoptive mother - I mean, evil queen = authority figure = mayor, I get that even if I don't like it, but associating adoptive single mothers with evil is going to make me look at you pretty askance. But I am really, really grateful that they didn't have Emma all sweeping the kid up in her arms at first sight and ~knowing he was her kid before he even said anything and all that, and if they end with her taking up guardianship of him, well, here's hoping they do it with a modicum of care. **crosses fingers** I set the TV up to record this one, so even if I forget when it's on I should be able to keep up pretty easily.
... I really will try to get a chapter of LttE out before Christmas, I swear.
idriya is making absolutely BEAUTIFUL art, which I temporarily have all to myself because she's a perfectionist and insists that it's not done yet. But it should be up soon, and I will definitely link to it (less likely) or post it myself (far more likely, because idriya is lazy that way unless it's my birthday).... **starts planning for
ladiesbigbang Round 2.5**And
thelittlebang is having another extension! It's awful that the mods are having RL difficulties, but I can't say I'm not grateful for the extra time to prod my draft, because this story's sort of huge and I'm still not sure the pacing's quite right.But! I watched the pilot of Once Upon a Time. And I am cautiously optimistic! I am a sucker for fairy tale retellings, I really like Emma, and I'm looking forward to next week - this week was very setup-y, which I get, and which is better than rushing it and ending up with a mess like The Cape, but all the same I am looking forward to more substantive plotful things happening in realtime instead of in flashbacks.
I'll admit that it annoys me for the evil queen to be mayor and an adoptive mother - I mean, evil queen = authority figure = mayor, I get that even if I don't like it, but associating adoptive single mothers with evil is going to make me look at you pretty askance. But I am really, really grateful that they didn't have Emma all sweeping the kid up in her arms at first sight and ~knowing he was her kid before he even said anything and all that, and if they end with her taking up guardianship of him, well, here's hoping they do it with a modicum of care. **crosses fingers** I set the TV up to record this one, so even if I forget when it's on I should be able to keep up pretty easily.
... I really will try to get a chapter of LttE out before Christmas, I swear.
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Date: 2011-10-26 09:22 pm (UTC)how do you always say what I'm thinking???- despite the evil adoptive mom fail, I feel like someone on the writing team must have actually been thinking about this, because they really did do some things right. And yes, while my secret squishy heart-of-hearts would have liked her to jump in, it's kind of big to suddenly take a week to go off to Maine to an incredibly peculiar town because your kid you thought you'd never see again asked you to. So it made sense for her to take a little time deciding.