Hey, I live in New York City and I used to work five blocks from Times Square -- I freak out when I'm confronted with movie premieres and the like, I duck into stores to avoid photographers when I'm in SoHo or Chelsea. I'm not throwing stones. I write RPF because I'm so aware of how little I actually know about the characters, and it's fascinating, on a writerly level, to see how I transform collective ideas -- fanon, or gossip-column stuff, especially the stuff that keeps showing up -- into my own work; what I transform, what I don't.
Which you really needed to know.
Anyway. It's an incrdibly hard prompt, yeah -- why do people play 'stump-the-fic-writer' on ficathons/challenges/exchanges? -- and I honestly don't remember writing it, and since I don't save drafts, I can't say how it developed. It's one of the more interesting stories I've ever written, actually, in terms of -- well, in that it's RPF, and there's tons of references throughout to fanon tropes and 'canon', and I'm not sure how well it could be read by someone not in the fandom or at least partially aware of it, but at the same time, I feel like it's a completely stand-alone story and has nothing to do with the fandom, because it doesn't use the usual characterizations or premises (premii?).
Your SGA prompt scares the willies out of me. I can't imagine that one (I mean, I couldn't imagine 'The Road' until I actually wrote it, either, so....), but I'm not sure how well even the way I handled it with Orlando and Viggo would work. It -- I don't know. I mean, it could, because I was (oh, god, this sounds so pretentious of me, it's not my fault, my entire family is made of academics, in much the same way Joe Flanigan is made of sexy fuzzy blankets and puppies) discussing the nature of friendship and relationship, the boundaries between, the way every relationship is different and responds to the needs of the people involved, the way that we tend to think ofa sexual relationship as neccesarily more than a platonic one. So John and Rodney could be thrown in, but the resolution would almost certainly be different. (Also, thank you for correcting the prompt -- I just c-and-p'd it, because I felt you needed the full horror of it, but the lack of capitalization makes my eyes bleed.)
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Which you really needed to know.
Anyway. It's an incrdibly hard prompt, yeah -- why do people play 'stump-the-fic-writer' on ficathons/challenges/exchanges? -- and I honestly don't remember writing it, and since I don't save drafts, I can't say how it developed. It's one of the more interesting stories I've ever written, actually, in terms of -- well, in that it's RPF, and there's tons of references throughout to fanon tropes and 'canon', and I'm not sure how well it could be read by someone not in the fandom or at least partially aware of it, but at the same time, I feel like it's a completely stand-alone story and has nothing to do with the fandom, because it doesn't use the usual characterizations or premises (premii?).
Your SGA prompt scares the willies out of me. I can't imagine that one (I mean, I couldn't imagine 'The Road' until I actually wrote it, either, so....), but I'm not sure how well even the way I handled it with Orlando and Viggo would work. It -- I don't know. I mean, it could, because I was (oh, god, this sounds so pretentious of me, it's not my fault, my entire family is made of academics, in much the same way Joe Flanigan is made of sexy fuzzy blankets and puppies) discussing the nature of friendship and relationship, the boundaries between, the way every relationship is different and responds to the needs of the people involved, the way that we tend to think ofa sexual relationship as neccesarily more than a platonic one. So John and Rodney could be thrown in, but the resolution would almost certainly be different. (Also, thank you for correcting the prompt -- I just c-and-p'd it, because I felt you needed the full horror of it, but the lack of capitalization makes my eyes bleed.)
Now you've got to share your prompt, you know.