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I doubt anyone still needs to be informed at this point but issue no.7 of Shousetsu Bang*Bang is up. Comment and give the writers love. Yes, I wrote the cover story. Yes, same pseud as ever. Yes, I was recently bored out of my mind installing Windows upgrades, why ever do you ask.
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blind_go, and half of it was written afterward, under great duress. The major reason Erin helped me upload was so I could spend the day wrapping it up. It... I apologize for it being hard to understand. *dies* I get decidedly schematic when I'm in a hurry to finish but this is the first time I've LEFT OUT THE PLOT, it's something of a nadir.
If you have to explain you've screwed up somewhere but here goes: Terminals are sort of techno-anarchists, or ideological hackers, or bionet terrorists, depending on definitions and the individual at hand. SK (Esskei) or Shaughnessy-Kirilov is of course a cyberbrain OS maker. I'd be lying if I said I planned to make it sound like Microsoft Security Updates gone haywire, it just came out that way. Sasha is a second son with a sinecure, to all appearances at least. In truth he's one of the irregular geniuses behind the bionetwork codec, insofar as an organization like SK is in need of irregular geniuses. If he doesn't remember there's nothing there for Terminals to target, and that's that. Hal worked for a few years as his personal assistant and secretary. I didn't plan on giving it that bizarre Mirage-ish vibe either, once again it just came out that way. MY BRAIN WORKS THE WAY MY BRAIN WORKS OK.
Most of what happens in the "room" is representational. The red ribbon is a kind of firewall, and so forth.
Mostly I wanted to write a "huis clos" story, where the characters are stuck together in a room and can't leave. There's not much to prove they're back in reality at the end, actually. *g* Also (this makes no sense but) I sort of think of this story as an AU, Hal and Sasha being from something/somewhere else.
I'll have to flesh out some of those one-liner paragraphs when I come back but I don't actually think the current artifact is too awful, pacing wise and such. Whomever it was Neil Gaiman quoted as saying writers generally write at the same baseline level regardless of how inspired or crappy they feel that day is very wise. In any case I've been churning out a lot of bad SF lately, enough that SGA fic comforts because the SF in that series is even worse than what I come up with. :D
I should dash out a Yuushi Diaries entry or two just to say that I've broken the 10,000-word mark for September.Next stop NaNoWriMo
P.S. You may want to dl the music in this post as I'll be taking it down Saturday night before I leave. ^^
More to come: fic recs, youtube vids, photos, real life, anime and yet more fic!
I doubt anyone still needs to be informed at this point but issue no.7 of Shousetsu Bang*Bang is up. Comment and give the writers love. Yes, I wrote the cover story. Yes, same pseud as ever. Yes, I was recently bored out of my mind installing Windows upgrades, why ever do you ask.
Half of the story was written before
blind_go, and half of it was written afterward, under great duress. The major reason Erin helped me upload was so I could spend the day wrapping it up. It... I apologize for it being hard to understand. *dies* I get decidedly schematic when I'm in a hurry to finish but this is the first time I've LEFT OUT THE PLOT, it's something of a nadir.If you have to explain you've screwed up somewhere but here goes: Terminals are sort of techno-anarchists, or ideological hackers, or bionet terrorists, depending on definitions and the individual at hand. SK (Esskei) or Shaughnessy-Kirilov is of course a cyberbrain OS maker. I'd be lying if I said I planned to make it sound like Microsoft Security Updates gone haywire, it just came out that way. Sasha is a second son with a sinecure, to all appearances at least. In truth he's one of the irregular geniuses behind the bionetwork codec, insofar as an organization like SK is in need of irregular geniuses. If he doesn't remember there's nothing there for Terminals to target, and that's that. Hal worked for a few years as his personal assistant and secretary. I didn't plan on giving it that bizarre Mirage-ish vibe either, once again it just came out that way. MY BRAIN WORKS THE WAY MY BRAIN WORKS OK.
Most of what happens in the "room" is representational. The red ribbon is a kind of firewall, and so forth.
Mostly I wanted to write a "huis clos" story, where the characters are stuck together in a room and can't leave. There's not much to prove they're back in reality at the end, actually. *g* Also (this makes no sense but) I sort of think of this story as an AU, Hal and Sasha being from something/somewhere else.
I'll have to flesh out some of those one-liner paragraphs when I come back but I don't actually think the current artifact is too awful, pacing wise and such. Whomever it was Neil Gaiman quoted as saying writers generally write at the same baseline level regardless of how inspired or crappy they feel that day is very wise. In any case I've been churning out a lot of bad SF lately, enough that SGA fic comforts because the SF in that series is even worse than what I come up with. :D
I should dash out a Yuushi Diaries entry or two just to say that I've broken the 10,000-word mark for September.
P.S. You may want to dl the music in this post as I'll be taking it down Saturday night before I leave. ^^
More to come: fic recs, youtube vids, photos, real life, anime and yet more fic!
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Date: 2006-09-29 07:27 pm (UTC)This I didn't get: Did Sasha hide the key in Hal, or was it inside him and sticking his hand in his partner's chest was how he manifested it?
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Date: 2006-09-30 04:32 am (UTC)And yeah, it took me a while what with the images and the links and all. XD
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Date: 2006-09-30 09:27 am (UTC)It wasn't all gibberish. I mean, I got that Terminals are radical hackers and Essekei is a major software manufacturer and Sasha is the boss's son and the room they're in is not really a room, but some VR thing. But the beginning was fine.
Where it goes slightly obscure is around the part where Sasha reaches for the doorknob and nearly passes out. Actually one of the main things I noticed about this story was how abrupt the shift was, I can point to the exact line where it happens. After that there are so many power shifts, character relevations, setting relevations, spaced so closely together, with so much elided dialogue, that's it's not immediately obvious what's going on.
(So Sasha realizes he's not in a real room, then Hal sort of apologizes for having to ravish him except he isn't really sorry, then we learn about their mirage-like relationship (so far so good), then Sasha reveals that he does know about the key, then Hal agrees to let him win, then there's weird symbolic stuff I'm not sure about. I think. Has Hal's consciousness been suspended, allowing Sasha to take control of the scenario and escape? Or when he opened the door with the key from Hal's chest, was the room he entered symbolic of a section of the bionet he has absolute control over? And can he control Hal through the key, or just control Hal's access to the bionet?
Also, why the heck did sex have to be involved, anyway?!)
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Date: 2006-09-30 08:15 pm (UTC)I don't think the door was opened by the key (which I think is an exploit that would allow Esskei and other unscrupulous folks access to people's brain bioware), but that Hal opened the door for Sasha in *exchange* for the key. And the room at the end is the real world (maybe). And Sasha left Hal hooked up to the machines so he would be able to send the key to the rest of his Terminal group (assuming he is a Terminal and that he started to work for Sasha to spy on Esskei) and so that Sasha would have time to escape.
... Or I could just be talking out of my ass.