the things you think about when editing

[aesc]

I spent my day having cramps and reworking part of a paper, and toward the end when I had gotten tired of writing WTF DOES THIS MEAN??? in the margins, I thought it would be sort of amusing to try to write a fic in a fandom whose canon I know almost absolutely nothing about--just, say, what I could pick up on my flist or through a handful of fics--just to see if I could pull it off.

I also thought about when I was nine years old and had surgery, and going under the general anaesthetic and concluding that this undefinable, blank space of nothing (bounded as it was by two very clear memories: the nurse placing the gas mask over my mouth and waking up and seeing blood on my pillow) must be what death is like.

These two thoughts were not related, although I am intrigued by both of them.

Also, pentapus made this terribly adorable Castiel icon (and some Captain America and Merlin, if you're into those sorts of things) here. LOOK AT HIM!


Iiiiii should probably stop for the night.

Comments

[aesc.livejournal.com]

Heee, I did not intend to be taken seriously :D

But go for it, I say!

[friendshipper.livejournal.com]

I knew you weren't serious, but the idea totally cracks me up. It reminds me of strangefandom, only probably with 100% more crack.

I just can't figure out if it's so bizarre that no one would want to play ...

[aesc.livejournal.com]

It might work if you offered some guidelines? Like, say, you can read a couple of fics, or the squee on your flist, or look at picspam, but no direct and/or sustained contact with the canon: that means no watching the movie or episodes, no reading the book, no visiting official sites, and so on.

For someone taking this not seriously at all, I am thinking about this too much :D

[friendshipper.livejournal.com]

Or maybe it would be okay to have seen a couple of episodes of the show; I think a lot of us have some random, minimal exposure to shows in that way, but haven't actually sat down and watched enough of it to get into it.

I'm also *awfully* tempted to use Wikipedia's random article generator for prompts. I just got done collecting and sorting a list of prompts for SGA Genficathon, and I don't feel like doing that again soon. But making people click on the Wiki random link and then write a fic ... maybe that would be too cruel, though. :D

[aesc.livejournal.com]

Ha ha yes, perhaps! Maybe just something very informal... like "Pick a fandom with canon you've only had minimal exposure to (i.e. you haven't seen the whole series, read more than a couple chapters of the book, seen the trailer for the movie) and write a fic about it." Maybe with list of prompts, either generated by you or submitted by others. But I'm not a huge fan of very stringent challenges ;)

[friendshipper.livejournal.com]

Yeah, I like them more informal myself.

I was also thinking that a comment-ficathon might be less intimidating than having to write a whole story with an actual, you know, plot and everything, and that's where the Wiki random link generator comes in, to give people a non-binding starting point for their story.

[aesc.livejournal.com]

Yes, I'm not sure how much a person could be expected to get out of limited knowledge of canon. Probably whatever the character limit is on a comment, though, I bet :D