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casa_mcshep! SPN 4.13 (boyyyys)! Getting orangey Rodneylike yarn! Surviving yesterday! Aside from a 6-hour power outage yesterday afternoon, life has treated my kindly the past two days.
I think the best part, though, is just finally, finally being able to get things done beyond the bare minimum required to satisfy people. After a year--really longer, but the past year has been notable for its awfulness--of torpor and feeling lousy and chronically exhausted, having some get-up-and-go is such a relief.
To celebrate, a meme! Stolen from![[livejournal.com profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/external/lj-userinfo.gif)
telesilla: Comment with a story I've written, and I will tell you one thing I knew, learned, or wondered about while writing the story that didn't make it onto the page.
[tags are here! And hey, if you have a question about the art, for that matter, ask it! I like talking about teh arts.]
casa_mcshep! SPN 4.13 (boyyyys)! Getting orangey Rodneylike yarn! Surviving yesterday! Aside from a 6-hour power outage yesterday afternoon, life has treated my kindly the past two days.
I think the best part, though, is just finally, finally being able to get things done beyond the bare minimum required to satisfy people. After a year--really longer, but the past year has been notable for its awfulness--of torpor and feeling lousy and chronically exhausted, having some get-up-and-go is such a relief.
To celebrate, a meme! Stolen from
telesilla: Comment with a story I've written, and I will tell you one thing I knew, learned, or wondered about while writing the story that didn't make it onto the page.[tags are here! And hey, if you have a question about the art, for that matter, ask it! I like talking about teh arts.]
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Randomly, your icon matches my lj colourscheme, which made me bizarrely happy; I think I'm going mad...
I remember loving Rocketship (http://community.livejournal.com/wagoneer/10145.html), and would verrah much like to know what your thoughts on it are now.
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That said, this was the first piece of multi-page narrative art I'd ever done, and I really did like the challenge of not only plotting it and doing a rough sort of storyboard, but being able to play with text so much--I think it's probably where I realized how much I love word art, how I could have a bunch of things going on simultaneously within the same space. It's something you really can't do in regular, non-graphic prose, because it's so linear.
"Rocketship" let me get inside Rodney's head a bit, and try to dissect all those layers, which was incredibly fun--not only being able to write his inner monologue (which I find endlessly entertaining), but working in the little tangents his brain goes off on, not only in text but also using my love of background work to slip in little images here and there. I think my favorite bit is on the third page, with the astronauts being confronted by the giant robot... That says so much about Rodney, to me :D
(And seriously, how awesome is
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Having tried to put one together on numerous occasions, I have more respect than ever for anyone who has managed to do one.
I loved the simplicity of the original art, because it said so much without having to say anything at all.
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When I went back to visit this year, I didn't see them very much at all, just a couple of times. However, the parents' cable and Internet went out on a couple of occasions, which led
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We really didn't have any solid backstory for them... In my head, I guess Rodney is working on his second PhD, but really, John just owns this slightly worn-out collegeville house and needs help with the rent, and clearly takes a shine to Rodney :D And after a certain period of UST and frustrated nights spent jerking off and trying to be quiet about it, they snap, have sex, and then it's aaaaaall downhill from there.
Rodney's relationship with Mrs. Kaplan was also kind of interesting to me... I imagine them eventually becoming odd allies of a sort, because Rodney says exactly what he thinks about the neighbors and Mrs. Kaplan's idiot son-in-law, and Mrs. Kaplan--who would of course never say these things herself--is entertained. Also, eventually she will give Rodney a porcelain cow of his own. It's a butter dish, and Rodney actually uses it to hold butter, when he and John remember to buy some. It sits out on their table, and is incredibly girly, but Rodney refuses to put it up because he's convinced Mrs. Kaplan will know if he did, and then there will be hell to pay.
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Like Rodney :D
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http://www.knitty.com/ISSUEwinter08/PATTheart.php
(sry for not making pretty link)
so I can knit it ANd cuddle and pet it later. :D
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Well, right now they are in Spain, slowly figuring out their way to each other. (Yayyyyy, they will get there!) Rodney, I think, is slowly starting to come to some conclusions, helped along by his chance at seeing the new scientific instruments for sale, and the manuscripts on astronomy written by the best Arabic scholars--which are, he concedes reluctantly, not completely wrong and may even be useful in his own work.
And John has told him one or two things about himself :>
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OH BOYS. :>
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Although it reminds Rodney of one time when he'd gone to a mad scientist conference, and Zelenka was bragging to everyone that he had "created the two-backed creature" over the weekend. At first Rodney had been horrified, because he does not want to know that sort of thing about Zelenka, thank you, but as it turned out, Zelenka really had created a two-backed creature by fusing a poodle together with an upside-down snake :|
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I think what was challenging (and fun) about writing "No Parachute" was writing it with that edge of sadness for AU!John and Rodney, but still having the snark and bickering of canon!John and Rodney come through. "No Parachute" was, I think, one of the really early SGA fics I wrote, back when I was first starting to think about the characters in a serious way, and that story helped me a lot in terms of figuring out how John and Rodney work.
Of course, two years down the road they are still bizarre :D
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I would like to know more about the pandas. *nods* (But if that's not good enough, you can always tell me about the art piece Pockets (http://aesc.livejournal.com/325548.html) instead.)
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As for pandas, I always imagine them just lazing about happily :D Their lives are pretty quiet, except for the time a tourist decides he wants to give Rodney a hug, and Rodney bellows and hollers and carries on, because really, how stupid is it to climb into a wild animal's cage and if this is the best humanity has to offer, clearly it's time for another species to take over the planet.
"Pockets" was
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HEARTS YOU and your get-up-and-go-ness!
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*hugs you!*
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How did i not know that you're a knitter? ;)
And are you on ravelry? (SHOW ME THE KNITTING! or something. ;)
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Ha, there is not that much to show! I knit very slowly, and am still pretty much a rank beginner :D :D I have this cowl, which I absolutely adore (http://aesc.livejournal.com/352161.html#cutid1) and this scarf (http://i99.photobucket.com/albums/l307/aesc36/scarfy.png), which I wear a lot. I think my next project will be a pair of fingerless gloves, because my hands get cold when I'm sitting at my desk at home, but I have no idea if I'm ready to tackle cables yet.
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dont let anything in knitting intimidate you. the worst thing that can happen is that you mess up and have to rip back. but even then you will have learnt something, so its all good.
get a cable needle with a big bend in the middle of it, rather than a straight one, so that it wont slide off when you let go of it for a few seconds. but apart from that, you are good to go. :)
*pom poms*
ps. join ravelry! :D
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"Hard Time Killing Floor" came into my head basically because I'd been listening obsessively to the blues song of the same name for the past couple of days, and somehow fused itself with those great 5.11 caps of shirtless John :D The story in my head is pretty vague, but pretty much involves John in prison, being punished for some transgression. (The tattoo on his shoulder is a brand of some sort, a marker of his guilt.) And he's in pain, but figuring out how to get back to Atlantis--and, of course, to Rodney! I'm not sure how he manages it, but he does. The art didn't really come together around a story, exactly, just the feeling of the song in my head, if that makes any sense whatsoever--kind of dark and heavy and ominous.
As for "Uncounted," I think it's the shortest story I've ever written :D I guess it's really the conclusion to a story, that Rodney's faced with a choice between two important things: John and his mathematical ability. He chooses John, although really, there's no choice involved, for him. Rodney's words are, I guess, his explanation to John, when John comes to him demanding to know what that was back there.
The piece took a while to conceptualize--I think it went through three versions before I settled on this one--but it was a lot of fun to do, just in terms of thinking up ways to represent Rodney's mind and identity sort of coming apart--the numbers losing coherence, the puzzle pieces, the tangled threads.
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how about Phi? or Restoration Hardware?
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As for Restoration Hardware, well, I don't know how much I can talk about it because I'm writing the next bit :D That particular bit will contain the reason for Jeannie's repeated callings, and the next couple of steps in the weirdness that is John and Rodney's relationship :D
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1) that is LOVELY yarn. Yay! What exciting plans do you have for it?? (Or is the only thought to simply stare and occasionally cuddle with it? If so, understood.)
And, 2) if you still feel like memeing: A Face Nobody Knows.
Anyways, yay x millions for get-up-and-go! I hope it stays with you. :D
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2) Boy did I learn a lot about tone with AFNK :D Definitely the hardest part of the story wasn't the plot--that was actually fairly easy to figure out--but trying to get it to feel like noir and have that atmosphere. I ended up reading quite a bit of Raymond Chandler and Hammett's Maltese Falcon (and the fic itself is kind of a fusion of that novel and Chandler's The Long Goodbye, with some pulp science fiction thrown in). Little-known fact: the description of the diner in the opening scene is a representation of Edward Hopper's Night Hawks; I love that painting, and Hopper's urban works always have a noirish feeling to me, with those heavy shadows, even when the colors are bright.
Also, Rodney's office is, I think just a couple blocks down from where Philip Marlowe's office will end up being :D
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::fingers itch to knit it::
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