Update on the Ron Ficathon...
Jan. 18th, 2004 01:42 pm![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
icarusI am soooooo not into this story *drudgery, drudgery* and it is very, very dull.
Very dull. I apologise in advance for inflicting this story on the fandom.
*heavy sigh*
Wow, this sucks. I'm not exaggerating, it's lifeless.
*Icarus does CPR*
*Then kicks fic*
It doesn't even twitch.
I hate het.
Very dull. I apologise in advance for inflicting this story on the fandom.
*heavy sigh*
Wow, this sucks. I'm not exaggerating, it's lifeless.
*Icarus does CPR*
*Then kicks fic*
It doesn't even twitch.
I hate het.
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Date: 2004-01-18 02:17 pm (UTC)*hugs*
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Date: 2004-01-18 02:34 pm (UTC)I prefer the way Gina handled
I've begged
Icarus
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Date: 2004-01-18 02:39 pm (UTC)Well nevermind - I'll write mine and hopefully get something back in return, but am not counting on it. Any R/H shipper who gets my fic is going to combust and die. Its not going to be very good. I'm consoleing myself with latest kink which is draco!corset fic with frottage (new word) and lucius. It shall be written on the morrow.
*hugs and I hope it sorts itself out into something you are going to be mildy okay with*
e.a.
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Date: 2004-01-18 02:29 pm (UTC)no subject
Date: 2004-01-18 02:39 pm (UTC)*le sigh*
Icarus
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Date: 2004-01-18 02:50 pm (UTC)In particular, if this is the plot I think it is, it involves a Quidditch team whose name could not possibly not involve sex in the mind of anyone between fourteen and eighty-four.
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Date: 2004-01-18 02:57 pm (UTC)Oh my. I certainly hope that bunny survives the present crisis.
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Date: 2004-01-18 05:12 pm (UTC)That bunny's been kicking around for a while, so I'll eventually do it. :)
Icarus
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Date: 2004-01-18 02:32 pm (UTC)Why is it going so badly?
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Date: 2004-01-18 02:48 pm (UTC)The plot is very specific, and you can feel that they're a little attached to it. So it's hard not to write they want.
Icarus
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Date: 2004-01-18 03:14 pm (UTC)I went back and read the actual challenge... and, well. I think that "Do what you want with it" are key words here. I think you can basically set this anywhere you want and bend the plot around anyway you want. This is Madhuri we're talking about, the person who wrote Dennis Creevey/Hermione. She's über cool. Also, she originally put this up for "Blame someone else" and she can't have expected that to come out exactly the way she'd thought of it.
Now, a question, is there a methaphorical line drawn somewhere that I've never seen? With slash on one side and het on the other side? I'm such an innocent, this had never ocurred to me. Some people only like slash and others only like het, okay, I got that, but is it unusual to like both?
Miss Pince.
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Date: 2004-01-18 03:49 pm (UTC)Bitextual. (It'll never catch on, but isn't it shiny?)
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Date: 2004-01-18 04:00 pm (UTC)I'm tempted to make an icon :) Would you mind? It's your word after all...
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Date: 2004-01-18 04:01 pm (UTC)no subject
Date: 2004-01-18 04:15 pm (UTC)no subject
Date: 2004-01-18 04:16 pm (UTC)[apologies to Icarus for her spammage. hehe, not the first time either]
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Date: 2004-01-18 08:26 pm (UTC)Icarus
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Date: 2004-01-18 05:08 pm (UTC)I had it outlined and plotted on Friday, it's just a matter of execution at this point. *Icarus lights final cigarette.*
Now, a question, is there a methaphorical line drawn somewhere that I've never seen? With slash on one side and het on the other side? I'm such an innocent, this had never ocurred to me. Some people only like slash and others only like het, okay, I got that, but is it unusual to like both?
*Icarus squints.* Huh? Is this an argument? Because I don't have the energy for an argument at the moment.
I read both, though mostly I read slash. I write only slash, because that's what I like to write. As for sweeping generalisations about other people - hell, I dunno. Is there an invisible line?
I think I assumed the Ficathon was slash because it was being pimped by slasher friends of mine. But it was easy enough to tell... all you had to do was read down the requests. I just assumed I wouldn't get one of those. The story's starting to pick up, but it's definitely not going to be one of those I can post with only a lick of beta-review.
Icarus
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Date: 2004-01-19 09:11 am (UTC)Nope, it's not. Just a curious question, from someone who doesn't understand her friends when they wail about how the slashers did this and the het shippers did that, and so forth. I like/read/write both and sometimes I feel like I'm a total minority. I'm just wondering whether that's true.
Miss Pince.
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Date: 2004-01-19 10:24 am (UTC)The 'slashers' have had to band together to preserve and protect their work, and it's created a tight community that the Het writers haven't needed to form.
Het and Gen writers are welcome, but it's like a non-smoker hanging out with the smokers: you always feel a little on the outside.
Most of the slash writers I know read all of it though, Het, Gen, Slash you name it.
The only complaint I have about Het really, is that it lends itself to Mary Sues. You find many, many more Mary Sues in Het than you do in Slash. I assume this is because there are so many teenage girls writing fanfiction and they identify with a particular female character. So I read Het with Much Trepidation. I generally only read Het stories that have been recommended for fear of what I might find.
Icarus
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Date: 2004-01-19 01:27 pm (UTC)Miss Pince.
P.S. I'm sorry if I sounded like I was trying to start an argument at first. English is my fourth language and sometimes it doesn't come out quite the way I want it to... and I end up saying something totally different from what I mean.
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Date: 2004-01-20 06:55 pm (UTC)Anyhow, I've almost finished the Ron Ficathon piece (19 pages in and I just have to write the final scene), and now I'm trying to track down a ruthless beta. Most of my stuff in the past has come out fairly finished in the first draft, but this one is very rough and I know it.
But I managed to stick very closely to Mags request: it is Quidditch and plot-centric. It is about corruption in Quidditch. The only real pairing is Ron/Hermione, and while their relationship is central to the story, this is not one of my porn stories. It may be a little darker, more angsty and more romantic than she planned, because what got my interest was the moral dilemmas the situation suggested.
Icarus
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Date: 2004-01-20 08:11 pm (UTC)Anyway, if you need the sort of beta who goes; "Uh... don't think he'd do that..." or someone who's well versed in R/Hr, I can do that. I'm good at spelling as well but grammar and punctuation kick my arse. As for wording, I can usually tell if there's something wrong with it, but not what it is... I'm not sure if I'm a ruthless beta, though. Not unless I'm expressively told to be nasty. Just thought I'd offer :)
Miss Pince.
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Date: 2004-01-21 08:16 am (UTC)Characterisation's probably not the issue, though I'm sure I describe Ron and Hermione's relationship differently than anything else out there, as I've never even read Ron/Hermione.
I'm going to withhold judgement on the story and wait for what they have to say.
Icarus
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Date: 2004-01-18 02:34 pm (UTC)no subject
Date: 2004-01-18 02:45 pm (UTC)kicks pebble... it's hard not to get these melodramatic thoughts, 'have I lost it? Will I ever be able to write again?'
*beats breast*
*ow*
Icarus
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Date: 2004-01-18 02:43 pm (UTC)Take this plot and twist the hell out of it.
Go on.
Have fun.
Even if it doesn't fit the spirit of the challenge, it will still be better than posting something that makes you cringe.
^_^
*more hugs*
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Date: 2004-01-20 06:58 pm (UTC)Icarus
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Date: 2004-01-20 07:10 pm (UTC)^_^
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Date: 2004-01-21 08:02 am (UTC)Icarus
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Date: 2004-01-21 08:05 am (UTC)no subject
Date: 2004-01-21 08:28 am (UTC)Icarus
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Date: 2004-01-18 03:46 pm (UTC)no subject
Date: 2004-01-20 07:00 pm (UTC)Plus I found some moral dilemmas that I enjoyed, and tossed in a lot of gratuitous and distractin magic.
Icarus
*hugs*
Date: 2004-01-18 11:33 pm (UTC)Re: *hugs*
Date: 2004-01-20 07:03 pm (UTC)I'm banking on the 'someone is into this so maybe they'll like it' factor. And it's almost done. There are parts of it I really like, but I really need a good beta and a scalpel. I like some of the magic in it, and the Percy cameo (it's not
Icarus
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Date: 2004-01-19 01:57 am (UTC)*amused*
*Icarus stomping on fic and screaming*
*fic REBELLIOUSLY dies*
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Date: 2004-01-20 07:05 pm (UTC)AUGH! NONONONO! You'll jinx it!
*Icarus starts typing madly, determined to save fic no matter what.*
That's exactly what I did yesterday, too, as soon as I read this.
:D
Icarus
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Date: 2004-01-21 09:03 am (UTC)*buries fic in fandom recesses where it plays around in the utter DARKNESS*
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Date: 2004-01-21 09:26 am (UTC)I finished! 23 pages, too.
Nah-na. *dance of victory.* I think it's better than I thought it would be.
Icarus
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Date: 2004-01-21 09:35 am (UTC)*blinded!*
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Date: 2004-01-24 10:54 am (UTC)I know you said you're done with it by now, but I just thought I'd also throw in that Madhuri is an awesome person, and she'll adore it whatever you did with it. She likes it all, yo. Slash, het, femslash. It's all very cool. :)
Hey, sorry that so many people assumed it's all be slash. :/ I've got loads of friends that do both, and some that just do one or the other. I myself enjoy both, though I find it easier to write slash. Very odd. Heh. But.. yeah, sorry..
Re: Ron Ficathon
Date: 2004-02-08 08:58 pm (UTC)That was really heartening. Thank you! I hope people like it, even though it's radically different than anything I've ever written.
It's done, beta'd and everything.
Now all I have to do is wait. I thought I could post it earlier and that but then I re-read the rules... oh well. *Icarus taps foot impatiently for the 29th.*
Icarus