Fuck. Reversebang second due date is next Monday. I was going to work on more Big Bang art. Yet again a talented artist has offered to do some post work to help me out. But I fucking well have to finish this stupid piece and get it submitted for Reversebang first. Ugh.

In non-art news, my magnum opus might have found a home. I mean, the big bad in my story was Jamaican, and I just bumped into Worldwide SPN for which it seems to qualify. Posting dates aren't as late as I thought. They start in January. Still, ends in March. That's forever from now. This is taking a long time, but that long? I dunno.

My sister, initially unhelpful, has emailed me about 30 pages on Obeah.

Oooh. I want to read that AND your fic.

That wasn't you that messed up, Windsparrow, that was me posting in the wrong thread and starting the ball rolling.

I'm pretty sure I tried to post the link to my own stuff in the other thread long before you nattered about your fic-writing troubles. I think we egged each other on. Terrible trouble-makers we are. Good thing the rest of the board are so forgiving.

I'ma invoke the FPC. Ignore me while I rant, but I gotta whine a little.

I don't like the art that I see in the LJ of the person who picked my fic for the Star Trek Big Bang. I pretty much hate it, but beggars can't be choosers and I didn't get picked until the third round. FFS, I feel like shit.

Aw, Sail, I'm sorry. That happened to me with the BB I actually backed out of. Not because of the art, but it certainly didn't hurt that I didn't have to have it with my story.

I know it's bound to happen to someone, I just wish it hadn't been me. Ah, well. It is what it is. I guess I need to work on my story descriptions, since our names weren't attached to them, it's not like the artists said, "ew, don't like her". So, I'm thinking my description just wasn't catchy enough. That, and it's a ST/BtVS fusion and I think a lot of them just didn't know what to do with it!

As an artist in any fandom, I'd be reluctant to pick a crossover or fusion, so it might not even be that it's not a good summary--just that the BTVS is an unknown quantity, and they might just be more comfortable in a pure ST space.

I'm thinking of accessibility when I finish up my second Reverse Bang prompt. It's not filled with common characters nor is it a configuration that's ever been on the show. I know that cuts my chances down right there.

What ita said, Sail. You cut your potential artists, I think, when you do a crossover, simply because anyone who chooses you has to know both.

We know you're a great writer! Even though I wish you were writing SPN instead.

::plays tiny violin::

Hee. ::listens very carefully to tiny violin, sways to the music, grabs Amy and dips her low::

just that the BTVS is an unknown quantity, and they might just be more comfortable in a pure ST space.

As much as I enjoy SPN as a show, it's just never captured me for fic. I've always wondered why we choose the ones we do. If someone had told me 10 years ago I'd be writing Star Trek fic I would have laughed loud and long at them and told them if I wrote anything, it would be Jossverse stuff. The fact I've waited this long to even cross the streams with Buffy is kind of craxy. And I've crossed ST and Firefly, also; yet never wrote pure Firefly, as much as I love it. And I can't really explain why.

So, yeah, my FPC whine is very much tempered with knowing I did it to myself.

Reverse bangs are a lot of fun, and I can see artists running into the same problem. Some of the really specific, out there art pieces in the Trek reverse bang didn't get picked up until the last minute for the same reason: crossover characters that you really have to know to figure out how to work them all in together. It's a pretty big risk on the part of the artist and that takes balls. Of course, sometimes people collude. If I could have gotten my claim in quicker, I would have gotten one of my friend Jo's pieces of artwork and I knew exactly what she had based one of the pictures on and we'd talked about the story that could be developed from it. Still, she got amazing stories for her art, so I couldn't feel bad and the art I ended up with was exactly what I needed to help me develop a sequel to my first ST/Firefly fusion.