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[sevendeadlyfun]

So, the remix is done and posted. Except for maybe a bit of post-beta fiddling I did which was only the inserting a few words to make a sentence flow better and I should know better but I don't and UGH! I can't handle this kind of pressure, okay? Also I can't wait for next year. This one didn't give me enough good angsting time (despite what anxiety_junkie will tell you, I hardly angsted AT ALL. Three emails is barely any angst in my book. So there.)

I'm back to grinding away at all my regular fic. I have the next chapter of Ashes open and I'm scribbling away. And by scribbling away, I mean, of course, that I occasionally will type out a sentence fragment or two, both of which I will rewrite two days from now and then erase in a week after having left the thing up on my desktop that long hoping something will come to me. So probably another month for that, unless I get struck by lightening naked James Marsters inspiration.

The Monster is recovering sort of nicely from his tonsillectomy. Still croaky and sore, but no major issues so far. His mother is not recovering so nicely. I am stuck at home inside while he recovers and IT IS KILLING ME, YA'LL. My perspective is so skewed by less than a week as a shut-in I was seriously contemplating buying a pair of snakeskin platforms. With 5 inch heels. SEND HELP (and some hot River/Doctor/Amy porn).

I'm anxiously awaiting the arrival of my latest few comics issues so I can see what everyone finds so objectionable. It's nice to see some stirrings on the comics side of the fandom (even if they are mostly negative). Now where's all the comics fic hanging out? I can't ever find any, apart from some very tentative Buffy/Satsu. I feel like I'm the only writer doing comics fic (which I know is patently untrue but it sounds appropriately dramatic).

Update me, flisties? Everyone ready for....ya know, that big upcoming thing? SIGH. It's the solitude. It's unhinging me.

Comments

[sevendeadlyfun.livejournal.com]

Oh, I enjoy a good comics mock as well as the next fan. I mean, this is the Buffyverse we're talking about. Mockery is where it's at.

But I enjoy the comics too. I despise them, but in an enjoyable way. After all, I'm a Buffy fan. I'm used to being crazy. And honestly, I think there's the potential for a talented fandom like ours to produce some stellar fic using the comics as a jumping off point.

I don't, though, disagree that the comics aren't what I though they'd be. I sort of expected a bit more.

[flake-sake.livejournal.com]

One of the most brilliant mockfics I read lately is this one
(it spoilers for #34 though)

http://beer-good-foamy.livejournal.com/133230.html?view=2559342#t2559342

And honestly, I think there's the potential for a talented fandom like ours to produce some stellar fic using the comics as a jumping off point.

I think part of the problem might be that the comics have been meandering about for so long, only now finally starting to get to the point (and it's a bit questionable if that point was worth the wait). I've seen some pretty good fic tha incorporates the basic S8 setup, or stuff like the decoy slayers in great ways, but by now it all is AU.

[sevendeadlyfun.livejournal.com]

I'll hold out until after I've read up that far. We're in Italy now and my comics take a circuitous route to get here, so I'm not as far along as everyone else.

And I agree that the comics have really meandered. The problem is that we're so used to the show and it's pacing. I really think it would have been better if they'd done them as the graphic novels. After all, one arc is an episode. So they really should have released them as "episodes", rather than as individual scenes. A month is a pretty long commercial break.

And the fear of being Jossed is definitely something that's held me back. I came to fandom after Fool for Love and I have to say that reading Spike origin stories written before that is almost painful. Reading the comics makes me very conscious of how easy it is for your writing to become extreme AU without that necessarily being your intent. So that is really limiting and I can understand how that might be holding some other writers back as well.

[flake-sake.livejournal.com]

I'm reading online and getting them in the paperpacks, since it isn't much better in Austria, they take ages to get here.

I agree, it would have been better to bring them out as "whole" episodes. This way within the long pauses they do tend to get analyzed to death. + there are several behinds the scenes people who give really off putting interviews.

And yep FFL is good example for an episode that jossed a lot of folks. Here it's kind of the other way round though, it's the canon that makes me cringe, but it's still to early to tell if they'll manage to make it work somehow or not.