Meme tiems!

[askerian]

Stolen from oceanica: Name any story I've written, and any character in it, canon or OC. I'll tell you three things about that character which I didn't put in the story.

NO CRACK DRABBLES ALLOWED. >:/

Also today I'm writing GW things. I decided to scrape one Wufei POV scene I wrote and rewrite it as a Heero POV thing, but my lazy heart aches at the sight of so many words being deleted and that makes my progress rather slow. XD;

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[tephra]

*squee!*

Pervy!Sakura is an awesome thought.

*ponders a character for the meme...*

Sakura from Crossed Wires?

[askerian]

HMMMM.

-She finds Sasuke fascinating and sexy and mysterious and utterly molestable, but Naruto was her friend first and if Sasuke hurts him, then it will be WAR.
-She would pout a bit if Sasuke turned out to be gay, but if he and Naruto make each other happy, she'll be glad for them. (but she still won't go out with those guys Ino keeps shoving at her. She'd rather stay single than date someone she already knows she won't keep. >:/)
-She knows there's something weird about Naruto -- she's going to be a surgeon, thank you, she's not blind or stupid -- but she doesn't want to know more if it doesn't come from Naruto's own lips. It doesn't matter anyway. He's still her idiot friend whatever else he happens to be.


(I should write instead of answering the meme, damn it. DX Bad Asuka, bad.)

[tephra]

I'm in a writing slump... well a deeper pit than normal... myself. Joss Whedon's new project has waaaaaay too many similarities to one of the major underpinnings of my last NaNo (that I love and have been working on fleshing out and getting into shape to continue on).

Taking out that part would fundamentally change the story, it completely guts some of the technology that is necessary to make my main character who she is and since the plot revolves around her.... And if that weren't enough the ramifications of the technology are pretty obvious when you think about them so that makes the culture of my novel too close to what he seems to be going with in Dollhouse.

I've been jossed and I wasn't even writing fanfic for any of his stuff. :P It's ticking me off a bit because I like my story.

At this point I'm just trying to walk away and not think about it too much. (And not doing that well at it obviously.) The hype for shows often ends up not matching the actual show that closely and maybe he'll go off in a direction different enough from mine that I can work on my novel without the constant "no one will read this because they think I'm ripping off Joss" thoughts.

[askerian]

... ouch. Yeah, I can see how that would suck all the fun out of it. And it was never done before? (i have no clue what it's about.)

I hope when it comes out you can see that it's really not a similar feel after all. *petpet*

[tephra]

I'm sure it's been done at least in part, Piers Anthony skirted the edges in some parts of his Blue Adept series come to think of it. There's very little in science fiction that is really new anymore, we need a new breakthrough technology to spring off of these days.

It's more the sucktastic timing and that it's Joss Whedon. Whedon's like a golden geek god right now so anything he does gets plastered all over and very visible. If it were a midlist SF novel the odds of someone reading both and connecting them would be much lower.

It doesn't help that we're both calling our bodies with implanted personalities "dolls" either.

I'm really, really hoping he goes in a different direction. The dolls themselves aren't the focus of my novel but as I mentioned, the technology, and the culture around it, are fundamental components.

I guess I should put the last bits in my wiki for it and then dig up the wiki for my 2006 NaNo and see if I can get that one moving again. That one needs so much work it's practically like starting over so I've been ignoring it. :P

Or, you know, I could try this fanfic thing. :) I'm not all that comfortable trying to get in the heads of someone else's characters but I could try it might be the only way to get some TemAnko that I can stand.

[askerian]

... XD; A friend and I roleplayed something with fighting AI cyborgs called dolls at least six years ago, maybe more. It's not very original at all. But you're right, the way he's uber-well known, you can't do anything he's done without some guys going OMG COPIED IT. ~___~

(like nowadays it's impossible to have a redhead called Ginny. OMG HARRY POTTER. Umm no, I hadn't even read HP back then, I named her after my friend Virginie. XDD;;; Like Ginny isn't the most cliche name ever for a spunky redhead teenager.)

... TemAnko? o___o Do tell me more. How do you see them interacting?

[tephra]

I think there's a moratorium on wizards named Harry now too, between Potter and Dresden.

TemAnko. :) I wrote a drabble for them ages ago, but in cutting down the 400 words (and counting) to just 100 it ended up being more generic "any two female ninja" so I really should just go and write the original idea. I haven't really thought of their interaction outside the scenario I set up for that. It was a PWP, as much as I can do WP, involving stress relief in the form of semi-anonymous sex in a club for elite ninja. The sort of place that doesn't exist, but seems to do well enough with its non-existent clientele.

For me the two of them have tension. They both have that bit of ball-busting attitude that women in male dominated professions tend to develop, so when you put them together there's a subtle power play feel. Add some outside stress and something goes flying, be it sparks or kunai.

So it's the fight for dominance done more subtle (for some value of subtle) with attractively squishy women. :D