Do not make me break out my 'they filmed a feature-length movie on my high school campus my freshman year and there are about 300 young women who hold a deep and lasting grudge against Emile Hirsch' stories. No, really. Don't.
You're totally right, of course -- my recipent even said in her comment something about how 'it's not what I was expecting' but she was really gracious about it; I just feel like I kind of got left to figure out what she wanted without much help. Which, hello, I am a writer, I am NOT PSYCHIC.
AHEM.
I'm actually starting to think about that SGA story now. And it -- it could work. In Pirates, I actually have more trouble, because I have such trouble with pure Jack/Will (I adore Elizabeth and refuse to write her out without a very good explanation), and it just doesn't work for my reading of Will Turner -- don't get me strated on this, I can go on for hours about my fandom. I don't know SG1 at all, so can't speak to that (except that if something like this explains some part of canon? Awesome), but the Aubrey/Maturin story...yeah. That's basically the books, minus frustration because they're Jack and Stephen and they love each other and sexual attraction isn't even part of the equation.
I would be really curious to see that comparison, too, actually. Let me think:
Ocean's 11:
"Danny and Rusty really like each other, are pretty much in love, but Rusty's not attracted to Danny at all. It frustrates both of them. And it gets solved in the end, somehow."
...who in their right mind is not attracted to Danny Ocean, pease?
Classical myth:
"Achilles and Patroculus really like each other, are pretty much in love, but Achilles is not attracted to Patroculus at all. It frustrates both of them. And it gets solved in the end, somehow."
Um. No comment.
The Dark is Rising
"Will and Bran really like each other, are pretty much in love, but Will is not attracted to Bran at all. It frustrates both of them. And it gets solved in the end, somehow."
That? Could work.
I'd also be terribly interested in what...commonalities? trends? you've picked up on in requests, because I never know what to ask for. I know what I can write, and I know what I won't write, but I feel horrible asking for a specific plot, and yet I've seen people say 'I don't know she waaaaants' to many times.
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You're totally right, of course -- my recipent even said in her comment something about how 'it's not what I was expecting' but she was really gracious about it; I just feel like I kind of got left to figure out what she wanted without much help. Which, hello, I am a writer, I am NOT PSYCHIC.
AHEM.
I'm actually starting to think about that SGA story now. And it -- it could work. In Pirates, I actually have more trouble, because I have such trouble with pure Jack/Will (I adore Elizabeth and refuse to write her out without a very good explanation), and it just doesn't work for my reading of Will Turner -- don't get me strated on this, I can go on for hours about my fandom. I don't know SG1 at all, so can't speak to that (except that if something like this explains some part of canon? Awesome), but the Aubrey/Maturin story...yeah. That's basically the books, minus frustration because they're Jack and Stephen and they love each other and sexual attraction isn't even part of the equation.
I would be really curious to see that comparison, too, actually. Let me think:
Ocean's 11:
"Danny and Rusty really like each other, are pretty much in love, but Rusty's not attracted to Danny at all. It frustrates both of them. And it gets solved in the end, somehow."
...who in their right mind is not attracted to Danny Ocean, pease?
Classical myth:
"Achilles and Patroculus really like each other, are pretty much in love, but Achilles is not attracted to Patroculus at all. It frustrates both of them. And it gets solved in the end, somehow."
Um. No comment.
The Dark is Rising
"Will and Bran really like each other, are pretty much in love, but Will is not attracted to Bran at all. It frustrates both of them. And it gets solved in the end, somehow."
That? Could work.
I'd also be terribly interested in what...commonalities? trends? you've picked up on in requests, because I never know what to ask for. I know what I can write, and I know what I won't write, but I feel horrible asking for a specific plot, and yet I've seen people say 'I don't know she waaaaants' to many times.