Yay!

[elisi]

I got Serenity! ::dances::

And 110 userpics. :)

Now if only I didn't have to go out in the VERY COLD SNOW in half an hours time... ::shivers::
ETA: Squeeeee! Darcy is picking up Impish Girl! ::loves husband::

ETA2: 2/3 through Harry Potter now (reading is so *slow* when there is so much else to do. ::sigh::). Main thoughts so far:
Harry Potter? Nice boy. Not that bright.

Comments

[sevedra.livejournal.com]

I hadn't planned on writing. I was looking for a fanfic that fulfilled a need-tp-read that I was having. Only, no one had written it! And, yeah HP slash. I just love the two characters so much and have so many thoughts about their actions and reasons and possible pasts, I stopped caring what gender they were. i decided that the gender aspect of the relationship wasn't as important as the bonding possibilities they had. *shrug* there isn't any explicit sex. They kiss in chapter 6, snog and rub a bit in chapter 7 and have a major dry-humping session in chapter 8, then in chapter 9 it all goes to hell. The second "book" is when they are adult. I am thinking about doing a true sex scene in it, but not until like chapter 9, and there are only 10 chapters. It all goes to hell in a handbasket in chapter 10 in the second story. I can't really get myself geared into writing the NC-17 stuff. I am much more concerned with the personalities and the emotional capabilities of the characters.

ACK I did it again! sorry :)

[elisi]

That's pretty much *exactly* how I started out writing - only I was looking for a fic that had Riley turn up in AtS S5 (and wasn't slash because Spike and Riley would never!). But then I couldn't find any and a little plot bunny hopped along... and here I am! *g*

And I am also very much a character-driven person when I write. The only PWP I've ever written is turning into this looooong story! *headdesk*

[sevedra.livejournal.com]

*snicker* I don't think I could type the words necessary to make a PWP happen, but if I could, it would certainly turn into a long drawn out character study!

Part of what I am liking about this writing-a-story business is trying to stay as true to the characters as possible and yet writing a story that really never happened and in JKR's world, never could have. honestly, she doesn't give fans a lot to work with. Half the characters are adults and half are children. You have to make the children grow up in order to use them in relationships well. The adults are almost exclusively male, so you have to bend your mind around same-sex relationships in order to use them. I could write a best-friends-forever fic instead of a romance, but there isn't as much emotional satisfaction. In the story I am doing, they are friends. The attraction grows from that because, really, there aren't any girls in the story. The friendship I have them devolp needs to build into a romantic relaionship so that the angst at the end is extra angsty. I had to just stop looking at the fact that they were both male characters. I have to look it as: you fall in love with a person. If that person is male or female, black or white, rich or poor, old or young makes no difference. You fall in love with the person. Not with their shell, but with their inside self. that is the way I think about it. Not everyone would agree, obviously, but then I am not forcing it on anyone. It is a read if you choose situation.

Of course, I just soap-boxed in your journal. Sorry about that. I truly believe that every single person is entitled to think and feel what they choose. If a person thinks or feels the complete opposite of me, that is fine. I have no problem with other peoples beliefs. :)

[elisi]

*snicker* I don't think I could type the words necessary to make a PWP happen, but if I could, it would certainly turn into a long drawn out character study!
Heh. Welcome to my world... the words are not easy. Oh no they're not. But it was THE most vicious plotbunny, so I went ahead a wrote it. I still can hardly believe that I actually *did* write it, not to mention post it for other people to see... (f-locked and filtered in case you were wondering.)

And then it just began sprouting sequels all over the place and is turning into this very disturbing study of a young girl being led astray...

Oh and I don't mind soap boxes. I have my own views on these things of course, but I'd never force them on anyone. Re. the slash then I mostly just find it icky. Although I have read the odd Spike/Angel fic. ;)