Feeling punty, ergo meme

[ultranos]

(yes, I know I still owe people from the "5 Things" meme. I'm...working on them. Yeah.)

Snagged from rodlox:

Give me the title of a story I've never written, and feedback telling me what you liked best about it, and I will tell you any of: the first sentence, the last sentence, the thing that made me want to write it, the biggest problem I had while writing it, why it almost never got posted, the scene that hit the cutting room floor but that I wish I'd been able to salvage, or something else that I want readers to know.

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[holdouttrout.livejournal.com]

Title: Blue Dress Revenge

My favorite part was when the boys realized just how badly Sam had pwned them all. I've always wanted to see how Sam got back at them for forcing her to wear the blue dress, and this was perfect!

[ultranos-fic.livejournal.com]

The hardest part was trying to figure out where Sam got all those kilts. Then I figured it was funnier if it was left ambiguous. Daniel's was hard to decide on, since "Mr. Anthropologist" would probably be okay with a kilt, in Sam's mind. Thank god for the internet and finding the existence of kilts in pink.

[holdouttrout.livejournal.com]

Hee. Thank you!

[rodlox.livejournal.com]

I'd be curious to know what sort of passages/lines got cut out of The Brains of Ronon Dex.

[ultranos-fic.livejournal.com]

That one was strange, since it started out wanting to be a quiet, understated kind of thing about missing home, and eventually swerved into an entirely different direction.

Here's the original opening:

"The old tales of Sateda, lost Sateda, told of the great moon goddess, who watched her children under the pale gleam of her face, as they slept and dreamt. And whispered things into her children's ears, intangible things that became solid under the waking hands.

He never put much stock into those, he thought, desperate to forget the nights he sat at the edge of his bed as a child and listened intently to his grandmother's words. That childhood belief died with Sateda, because what use are dreams when you live a nightmare?

Sometimes, he resents Atlantis a little. Lost Atlantis. Drowned Atlantis. Who rose up from the sea and breathes and sings while bright, shining Sateda is nothing more than ash and dream-whispers."

[aurora-novarum.livejournal.com]

"Upside Down" caught my attention for how you were able to make me visualize this completely backwards world. I'm sure your scientific brain was screaming at breaking laws of physics in this AU. How did you squelch it? My favorite part was the surprise reveal of Replicarter as the villain. I really should've known it from the start.

[ultranos-fic.livejournal.com]

Actually, I ended up staring at a lot of MC Escher drawings. :) Some of those are really internally consistent, but just make no sense if you don't turn off part of your brain. Once I had it turned off, I could just keep it off for awhile. Also, I started channeling a lot of the feeling I get while watching the anime Gurran Lagann and just started thinking "this is awesome!". That part drowned out the science brain. :)

And yeah, at this point, RepliCarter showing up should be expected. Although it was really fun to see if I could keep it a surprise. She's about the one villain I can think of who can make such a completely backwards world that's still internally consistent and make it so that those stuck inside don't realize that they're being played for quite some time. I didn't get to show it as much as I'd have liked, since it was Daniel's PoV, but Sam got really, really pissed off. :P

[aurora-novarum.livejournal.com]

You know, now I want to READ this fic.

[ultranos-fic.livejournal.com]

Uh oh! Man, that'd be a tough one. But it could really be awesome.

[holdouttrout.livejournal.com]

I want this fic, too. WRITE IT. WRITE IT. /subtle subliminal message.

[ultranos-fic.livejournal.com]

Oooh boy. :)

[holdouttrout.livejournal.com]

You know you love me. :-)

[ultranos-fic.livejournal.com]

Aren't I supposedly writing other fic that you want to read?

[holdouttrout.livejournal.com]

Yes, but you can write both. And juggle school and homework and labs and research...right?

[ultranos-fic.livejournal.com]

Oh yes. Just as soon as I figure out how to smash more hours into a day. Or develop a TARDIS.

[shanghairain.livejournal.com]

I know you've been busy with term, so you haven't made much progress on Dulce Et Decorum Est, but I have to say I really liked the Shinji/Akihiro/Mitsuru team dynamic in Old!SEES and your characterization of baby!Mitsuru.

Will there be a Tartarus scene, though, where the three of them see the Tartarus lobby for the first time?

Also, Patrolman Dojima was a nice touch.

</ bad person >

[ultranos-fic.livejournal.com]

Yeah, the Dulce'verse is very much a Work in Progress. But baby!Mitsuru...you just gotta wonder what those first times were like. She's got shoes that are too big for her, but she's so stubborn even then that she's going to try to fill them. And Shinji and Akihiko try so hard to be bigger and stronger than they really are.

The hardest part was writing that scene where Mitsuru summons Penthesilea for the first time. When you see her in the game, she's so comfortable with it, but this first time, she has to put the Evoker up to her head and pull the trigger, not actually knowing if it's going to work. I mean, it should be, but that instinctual "oh my god, this is a gun pointed at my head and I'm going to pull the trigger" isn't easy to get rid of.

As to the Tartarus lobby...we'll see. :)