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

[dragonlady7.livejournal.com]

I feel like less of a freak, now, because when people whose writing I love get into fandoms I know nothing about, I tend to read the fics anyway. Once I got into it enough that I bought the book and read it, and then I was disappointed because certain things that my favorite ficcer had set up as part of her framework weren't in the original book. And I liked her version better!

If I were sure I could muster the focus, I'd write you a McShep because my knowledge of the original series is based entirely on your fanfics. ;)

[aesc.livejournal.com]

And I liked her version better!

It's true that sometimes the canon does pale next to fannish transformation :D

If I were sure I could muster the focus, I'd write you a McShep because my knowledge of the original series is based entirely on your fanfics.

That would totally be awesome to see, if you ever mustered the focus :D And I'm 100% sure I would like it!