Writing update

[petronia]

One Week One Band is done! Ha. HAHAHA. Look, my top rate for non-fiction is higher than my top rate for fiction but I still impressed myself by not flaming out horribly, okay. I'm not actually sure how many words I wrote in the past week - slightly under 10,000 would be my guess.

The Charlotte Gainsbourg Posts(tm), in order:

1. Introduction
2. [Photo] Charlotte Gainsbourg by Jean-Baptiste Mondino, 1994
3. Charlotte Forever, "Lemon Incest," and lolita pop: part 1 | part 2 | part 3
4. [Image] Henri "Le Douanier" Rousseau - The Dream (1910)
5. [Quote] The Cement Garden (1993) - as sampled by Madonna’s 2001 single “What It Feels Like For A Girl”
6. Etienne Daho with Charlotte Gainsbourg - "If" (2004)
7. Air ft. Jarvis Cocker and Charlotte Gainsbourg - "The Duellist" (2007)
8. [Chat] Excerpted questions from an interview with Evene.fr (2006)
9. Who is Charlotte Gainsbourg, anyway?
10. "5:55" (2006)
11. English rockers and French girls
12. 5:55 and "Everything I Cannot See" (2006)
13. "Love etc." (1996)
14. [Quote] Sean O’Hagan, “Charlotte Gainsbourg: ‘I had no idea how scared I was of dying’”, The Observer (2010)
15. IRM pt.1: "Vanities" (2009)
16. IRM pt.2: "Le chat du cafe des artistes" (2009) and Jean-Pierre Ferland
17. "The Operation (Superpitcher Remix)" (2010)
18. Stage Whisper and "Paradisco" (2011)
19. "The Songs That We Sing" (live 2011) and conclusion

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If I had to do it again I'd start in on 5:55 sooner, without attempting to stick to a chronology. Like, the flow would've been a lot better if it were the Madonna quote and Interview blurb, then "5:55," then the Evene interview, then "The Duellist," then the massive essay, then "If". But it's not too bad considering I was posting in real time and couldn't go back and reorder or rewrite. XD; I covered everything I'd wanted to say, anyway, in an order whereby each post mostly built on the last's ideas, which was my best case scenario when I started.

In other news, Christmas card shortfics are starting to trickle back:

The Motion of Bodies in Public Spaces by Petronia for arboretum
Fandom: Captain America/The Avengers (nebulous post-movie continuity)
Characters: Steve Rogers + the usual
Warnings: No Archive Warnings Apply
Rating: Gen for now
Wordcount: 854 words and counting

It's really just the beginning of the fic proper (the second part is about 75% written), but I wanted to post it because it was Christmassy. XD; IDEK where this came from? It's not really an "Avengers movie" story, I think, more a "fixated on the underlying SF premise" story. Though I totally expected anyone else to write the Steve Rogers + "I'll Be Home For Christmas" idea, and was really puzzled when it didn't happen.

Oh, large fandoms. This trifle had 100 hits in less than 24 hours. That's a lot for me, though small potatoes compared to the traffic One Week One Band was getting.

Comments

[pere-chan.livejournal.com]

You may have single-handedly gotten me into the Charlotte Gainsbourg fandom, for reasons so shallow I am embarrassed to confess them. Also your card arrived! :D Thank you!!!

[petronia.livejournal.com]

You're welcome! :D

Haaaaaa, I wish I could draw art because I sorta desperately want a picture of Charlotte and Jarvis as duellists in frock coats and bottle-green trou. XD Speaking of which, have you seen the fall/winter 2012 Prada men's collection that featured Adrian Brody, Gary Oldman etc. on the runway? It is pretty amazing.

[pere-chan.livejournal.com]

I just dashed off to watch it XD That was fun, thank you! Omg Garrett Hedlund, you giant troll. I have kind of fangirled Miuccia since she did those two outfits in Appleseed. And Adrien Brody is even more appealing than usual with his epic puppy face and cranberry coat. Cranberry on men = a kink I never knew I had. Maybe Inception fandom can handle art; I've really been indulging my menswear fetish via that channel lately.

Speaking of art I have a bottle-green velvet blazer I was going to cosplay Edmond Dantes with and now I kind of want to draw your vision *.*