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I've been thinking about it. And this is my writerly style shooting itself in the foot, as it were - I can't produce something snappy and humourous.

But you did for the drabbles, didn't you?

Yes, but that's different. Firstly because the drabbles are one fic, and secondly because a drabble is just long enough for one joke. It's a good form that way. Any longer and I'm into character-based situational humour, which sends me novel-length far more readily than dramatic plot (sometimes when I look at tLoN I think I wrote those first six chapters just to set up the "Akira loves to feed people." "...That's what I'm afraid of." lines). Blame the fact that my sense of humour comes from Twain and Wodehouse and Douglas Adams, not to mention Terry Pratchett.

So write something dramatic.

Are you kidding? As in GetBackers plus dress-up NOT equaling stoopid antics?

Do they have to dress up?

It's either that or fight zombies. You've seen how I write zombies, haven't you? No, decidedly it'll be dress-up. I've got the theme anyway. History Of Western Art, which would normally be wanky, but ficwank isn't wank if the canon does it too.

And thus Evangelion fanfiction is explained?

You're catching on.

So what's the problem?

Plot. Plot is the problem. I'm no good with thin veneers of justification, I have to lay it on thick.

You're kind of screwed for time.

Tell me something I don't know. It's not the writing that's the bottleneck, it's the incubation period.

Any other options then?

There's always fanart. Tania did that pic of Ginji in a French maid outfit and Akabane lifting his skirt with the handle of a feather duster.

Did I absolutely need to know that?

I like to keep you informed.

So what's the conclusion?

Work. Work is the conclusion - goddammit.