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kiki_engI have this thing where I'm trying to write more fic and it seems to be going well.
I think I've finished the fic that I wrote in February as of this morning, which is pretty exciting. It's bandom, which- I've known that I was going to end up writing in that fandom for a while, but it's not a story I was expecting to write. It's femslash about Annie and Tennessee of The Like, which is only a little unexpected. The part where its kinky identity porn with roleplaying and is kind of porny has me blinking a lot. So I've got about 630 words that I need to reread with less confused blinking happening and then see if I can find a beta.
I also have a little under 800 words from March of a Bomb Girls AU that I need to find an ending for.
...and I want to write a fic forsuch_heights' female character trope fest. I just need to sort out what I am doing. I've got it narrowed down to two different prompts; I just need to sort things out. One of them is not realising they're dating, which I got really excited about and then backed away from warily, because it's sometimes a trope that I have issues with for the same reasons that shipping manifesto posts sometimes throw me.
It sometimes feels like there's this collective list of behaviours out there entitled Dating/Romance: This Is It and... I run into issues with that. It's not really a list that works for me. I run into it a lot with RPF shipping manifestos, where I'll be looking at photos and their commentary, (or reading fic wherein the ship doesn't realise they're dating) and then kind of just staring at it thinking things like, what, you don't have friends you've got that kind of personal space with, where your comfort zone isn't what it is for the rest of the world? or you've never licked or been licked by a friend? or what, you've never split food in a restaurant? etc.
I think I want to say that shipping manifestos and not realising they're dating fic sometimes feel prescriptive?
I think I've finished the fic that I wrote in February as of this morning, which is pretty exciting. It's bandom, which- I've known that I was going to end up writing in that fandom for a while, but it's not a story I was expecting to write. It's femslash about Annie and Tennessee of The Like, which is only a little unexpected. The part where its kinky identity porn with roleplaying and is kind of porny has me blinking a lot. So I've got about 630 words that I need to reread with less confused blinking happening and then see if I can find a beta.
I also have a little under 800 words from March of a Bomb Girls AU that I need to find an ending for.
...and I want to write a fic for
such_heights' female character trope fest. I just need to sort out what I am doing. I've got it narrowed down to two different prompts; I just need to sort things out. One of them is not realising they're dating, which I got really excited about and then backed away from warily, because it's sometimes a trope that I have issues with for the same reasons that shipping manifesto posts sometimes throw me. It sometimes feels like there's this collective list of behaviours out there entitled Dating/Romance: This Is It and... I run into issues with that. It's not really a list that works for me. I run into it a lot with RPF shipping manifestos, where I'll be looking at photos and their commentary, (or reading fic wherein the ship doesn't realise they're dating) and then kind of just staring at it thinking things like, what, you don't have friends you've got that kind of personal space with, where your comfort zone isn't what it is for the rest of the world? or you've never licked or been licked by a friend? or what, you've never split food in a restaurant? etc.
I think I want to say that shipping manifestos and not realising they're dating fic sometimes feel prescriptive?
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Date: 2012-05-10 03:50 pm (UTC)Well sure, maybe when there's that implied conclusion that because these two people have done X, Y, and Z together they are dating. But, IDK, I don't think that's ever the part that makes me applaud and giggle and have feelings about this trope? Usually it is the part where the characters come to the realization that, hey we did X, Y, and Z and it was totally fun and casual but somewhere between Y and Z it started feeling different/there was a charge/it was intimate in a not 'just'-friends kind of way.
So, simply the fact that you're aware that X + Y + Z =/= dating should set you on the right path?
Um, also, I know nothing about The Like, but let me know if you want me to beta.
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Date: 2012-05-11 12:40 am (UTC)I think I've read a couple things recently where that's been more pronounced than not and my feelings about that have been making it hard for me to figure out how to write the trope, despite the fact that it's a trope I like.
Thanks for talking a little about what you like about the trope. I think I may have figured out how to write this. :)
Thanks a lot for the offer! I will probably take you up on that, actually.