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petroniaBusy volunteering at the clothing swap all weekend! By which I mean, barely even checked my email. Wrote 1K words on deadline at work on Friday, sent it off at 6PM, and ran to help with setup. Up Saturday morning at 6am after about 4 hours of sleep, was on my feet until 7pm, then cracked a beer and watched a U2 concert from my bedroom window. That lasted until midnight, upon which I crashed into bed, slept mightily, then did it all over again.
(The stage looks like a spider-shaped alien vessel, particularly when you see it poking above the treetops. Weird thing is, I always thought that field was made for parking a spaceship.)
9 – Pairings – For each of the fandoms from day two, what are your three favorite pairings to write?
Three? You've got to be kidding me.
There don't seem to be other questions about pairings in this meme, so I'll make a few general remarks. My attitude toward pairings is highly fandom-dependent. Sometimes I'm frothingly strong-OTP, sometimes I can't decide between conflicting ships, sometimes I ship everyone together even if canon and/or fandom are under the impression there is a conflict, sometimes I don't care at all. It's impossible to predict in advance. In Sherlock, for instance, it turned out that 1) everyone wrote everything, and 2) I read everything about anything, including - de rigueur - all the stories in which Sherlock Holmes was asexual. Which did not necessarily preclude it being pairing fic.
I say I "ship" a pairing if - precise wording alert - I would not be able to write a story in which the basis of the pairing as I understand it were contradicted. It's a characterization issue. Sherlock fic in which either Sherlock or John has a romantic relationship with someone else is fine. Sherlock fic in which either dude is best friends with someone else is not fine. If I ship conflicting pairings, I go with the one my LJ flist makes me write in requests, because I am that lazy.
If I really love a pairing, there's usually a subject and an object - i.e. I identify more with one character, but like the other one better. The funny thing is, if you asked me what sort of person the subject-chara were, in the vast majority of cases I'd say "he's a real dick". Not because s/he is, objectively (eg. in XM:FC, Charles is clearly not a bigger dick than Erik, just... differently endowed........wow did that metaphor just go there), but because the subject-identification is about empathy with motivations and thought processes, and I rarely identify my own motivations as anything but self-serving. XD; This is a difference of degree, though, not kind. One can always change the camera angle; thus it's also not fully mappable onto narrative POV. One has to watch out for Doctor Watson, for instance, because if he were a mutant his superpower would be "taking over the narrative viewpoint". It really doesn't matter whom you identify with more at that stage.
(Should I have mentioned this in the one about characters pushing their way in where they don't belong? It's Watson, though! Narrating is what he does!)
(The stage looks like a spider-shaped alien vessel, particularly when you see it poking above the treetops. Weird thing is, I always thought that field was made for parking a spaceship.)
9 – Pairings – For each of the fandoms from day two, what are your three favorite pairings to write?
Three? You've got to be kidding me.
There don't seem to be other questions about pairings in this meme, so I'll make a few general remarks. My attitude toward pairings is highly fandom-dependent. Sometimes I'm frothingly strong-OTP, sometimes I can't decide between conflicting ships, sometimes I ship everyone together even if canon and/or fandom are under the impression there is a conflict, sometimes I don't care at all. It's impossible to predict in advance. In Sherlock, for instance, it turned out that 1) everyone wrote everything, and 2) I read everything about anything, including - de rigueur - all the stories in which Sherlock Holmes was asexual. Which did not necessarily preclude it being pairing fic.
I say I "ship" a pairing if - precise wording alert - I would not be able to write a story in which the basis of the pairing as I understand it were contradicted. It's a characterization issue. Sherlock fic in which either Sherlock or John has a romantic relationship with someone else is fine. Sherlock fic in which either dude is best friends with someone else is not fine. If I ship conflicting pairings, I go with the one my LJ flist makes me write in requests, because I am that lazy.
If I really love a pairing, there's usually a subject and an object - i.e. I identify more with one character, but like the other one better. The funny thing is, if you asked me what sort of person the subject-chara were, in the vast majority of cases I'd say "he's a real dick". Not because s/he is, objectively (eg. in XM:FC, Charles is clearly not a bigger dick than Erik, just... differently endowed........wow did that metaphor just go there), but because the subject-identification is about empathy with motivations and thought processes, and I rarely identify my own motivations as anything but self-serving. XD; This is a difference of degree, though, not kind. One can always change the camera angle; thus it's also not fully mappable onto narrative POV. One has to watch out for Doctor Watson, for instance, because if he were a mutant his superpower would be "taking over the narrative viewpoint". It really doesn't matter whom you identify with more at that stage.
(Should I have mentioned this in the one about characters pushing their way in where they don't belong? It's Watson, though! Narrating is what he does!)
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Date: 2011-07-11 01:19 pm (UTC)Ahahahahahahaaha!
Have I mentioned yet how much I have loved your responses to this meme? I'm doing it myself and ... am kind of mixed on how much I'm getting out of it--but reading your answers has been positively fascinating.
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Date: 2011-07-11 03:44 pm (UTC)no subject
Date: 2011-07-13 03:07 am (UTC)Best superpower ever.