this is my weapon, this is my gun

[bunn7cula]

 On the creative front, I have a few things kicking around:

1. THE GPSC ZINE! I'm trying to get more organized about this, because, well...someone will have to. There are three of us mods working to put this together, and collectively there are many interesting ideas being discussed and considered, but it all needs to be corralled. Not sure if there will be an overarching theme to the thing yet but I'm particularly interested in the idea of being an homage to the rich history of our zine forbearers while simultaneously taking a more modern approach to things like subject and format. And since GPSC is especially good at them, There Will Be Memes. Oh, yes. But not penises--a non-unanimous consensus decision which I'm both sad and relieved about because while I do enjoy an expertly-rendered, macro-photorealistic Throbbing Tower, they are also a bit of a source of second-hand embarrassment because evidently there is still some shred of Victorian repression left in me, probably from 8 years of Catholic school. I dunno. I really work to overcome this by being limitlessly awful on the server, though. 

2. So yeah, I have wips laying around crying to be finished off because I'm a selfish lover like that, but I have a new idea I've gotten excited enough about to start outlining. Which never happens--I've always been a pantser. This has served me okay in the past, but I have to admit that I am a little terrified of writing B7 because of the strong history of both high quality and critique in the fanficdom. I don't know if fics are getting the same level of scrutiny now that they have in the past, because I think fandom has maybe changed...but I'm not really qualified to come to that conclusion because I'm only a year into this, and trying to familiarize yourself with a 40 year old fandom takes some time. Anyway, I've been outlining a thing because I don't want it to suck. It's PWB Blake/Travis, which has of course been done before, but what hasn't. (If anyone has any fic suggestions in this vein, please send them my way! I've read a few but definitely not all of them.) There are many like it, but this one is mine and all that. 

3. I was totally going to have a third thing, but in the time it's taken to write this I've gotten three actual real phone calls that were not spam, and now I forget what it was going to be about. Maybe all the crappy half-finished vids I'm in the middle of, too. Or the intentions to filk. Or none of that. awkward silence, so picks up phone Oh, look--they are gender bending the cast through filters in the server right now...and Gan makes a pretty lady!

Comments

[executrix]

I always operated on the assumption that Blake simply thought that Travis was a random hot guy and they hit it off, but a higher-risk option would be that *Blake* was the one honey-trapping Travis for actionable intelligence.

They all made pretty ladies and handsome gents--I think it's because filters can make anybody look smoothed out of "imperfections."

[bunn7cula]

Oh.

OH.

What if they were honey trapping each other???

Well now, this does open up some interesting dark avenues to explore.

[executrix]

Sort of like the Veneerings in Little Dorrit--they got married because each one (incorrectly) thought the other one was rich.

[thisbluespirit]

The Veneerings are in Our Mutual Friend! (A thing I know, because had they been in any other Dickens book that wasn't Bleak House I probably wouldn't remember them. XD)

[executrix]

Ooops! Sorry! So I guess it was the legal concept of Our Mutual Mistake.

I thought you were going to say "any other Dickens book that wasn't David Copperfield (because of Gareth Thomas in the TV version) or Dombey and Son (because of Paul Darrow ditto!)

[thisbluespirit]

I haven't watched any of those! My old telly stalking is still mainly David Collings when it comes to people who appeared in B7, so I have watched the BBC 1981 Tale of Two Cities, but nothing else from ye olden days of the BBC & ITV, Dickens-wise.

No, No Manette

[executrix]

Hmmm. Perhaps if Clone!Blake had been a dissolute libertine pre-TWB there would be opportunities for some Tale of Two Cities hijinks when Regular!Blake got arrested.

Re: No, No Manette

[thisbluespirit]

LOl, that's a point!

[bunn7cula]

Collings Stalking is a noble sport indeed.

[bunn7cula]

I still need to watch both of these. I've seen clips from each but they both deserve a full watch-through. Thanks for the reminder!

B7 Masterpiece Theatre

[executrix]

And for Shakespeare lovers, there's the "B7 Measure for Measure" in the BBC series, with Servalan and Verron in small roles.

Re: B7 Masterpiece Theatre

[bunn7cula]

Oh boy, and look, Admiral Piett from our very own Star Wars Galactic Empire as Duke Vincentio!

[thisbluespirit]

1. Maybe I'm just even more Victorian, but sometimes less is more anyway, and things can be even better without penises. :lol:

2. Good luck!!

[bunn7cula]

Thanks! And I do agree about less is more. I think my favorite Lovett piece is this one (reclined Blake, Avon kissing him), which is nude but not crude. It's rather achingly beautiful, I think.

[thisbluespirit]

It really is!

[liadt]

AO3 comments on my B7 fic have been alright so I wouldn't worry about being flamed.

You don't need penises to have a good time;D

[executrix]

TIL: You WILL get flamed if you use "gotten" American-style in a B7 fic, especially in dialogue!

[unsentimentalf]

I used to do britpicking for Sherlock fics; I really enjoyed it because all sorts of weird and obscure US/UK grammatical differences would turn up and I could explain the subtle differences in sentence construction at great length to the poor authors who had only really wanted to know what British people called a garbage can. Anyway I am always here for more of that joy of transatlantic pedantry.

[bunn7cula]

Good to know! :D

[erimia]

PWB Blake/Travis is something that I never can get tired of. And I like Executrix's idea of Blake as a honey trap, oh yeah.

I wouldn't be worried too much over the fandom criticism - from what I've seen, harsher criticism is not fashionable in the modern fandom in general, and reserved mostly for older zine fics in B7 fandom in particular. Which is probably for the best, because, as much as I love reading fic reviews, it's just too easy too easy to kill author's enthusiasm with negativity.

[executrix]

I think writing fanfic is like River in Firefly feeling things after her amygdala was stripped: "She can't NOT." Once the idea gets hold of you, then either you have to write it or find someone else to, a la Flying Dutchman.