If anyone has ever lived in Beacon Hill or visited one of the homes there, could you help me out with general layouts of the townhouses/brownstones there, if they were intended to one-family homes, how apartment/multiple-family conversion changed the layout, courtyards (communal? shared by all adjacent buildings and tenants?), basements, trash pick-up, where the washer/dryer are located, etc. All I know is what I've seen from the street. The brick, wrought iron, and the awesomely creepy little semi-sunken alleys to the back of the buildings.
(I'm looking at blueprints online, but so far they're of modern brownstones with 2-car garages at the back).
I'm guessing genderswap is another area where artists don't always feel comfortable with the changes to what they know.
There's so much room for interpretation with genderswap that I think the subjective quality of it varies more widely than with standard gender drawings. After all, the art might be technically supergood, but it's just not how you swapped genders. Some people feminise (petite-madame is pretty good at it), some people reimagine (cafe de labeill), and some people recast (there was a sweeping fem!Dean=Katee Sackhoff for a while, for instance).
Oh, yeah, that is so true. For me, I tend to prefer feminized versions of the characters I know or I recast them; the folks who totally reimagine them lose me. I need a known physical point of reference to work with, even if it's only in my own head and not on paper.
That is so funny about Katee Sackhoff, though, because she's the preferred recast for a fem!Jim Kirk. Hee. Lady gets around.
I've done both re-imagining and feminising, but none of the straight up feminised ones got published.
FUCK. One of my characters' heads is too small. If I were defter with GIMP, I could fix it in there, but I'm not and I need to erase an actual decent likeness BITCH.
But before I start the last likeness, the really difficult one, I will make sure the head is the right size. As few do-overs as possible there.
Whee! Submission is off. It's all in the reversebang authors' hands now. And I even digitally resized the teeny head.
MY HEAD IS LITERALLY EXPLODING!! MY LIFE FORCE CLEARLY TIED TO NATTER!!! SEND HELP!
Is not being able to get down to business writing the last chapter of a long damn fic like high school senioritis? Sooooooo sick of the thing, I just want it over.
Is not being able to get down to business writing the last chapter of a long damn fic like high school senioritis? Sooooooo sick of the thing, I just want it over.
I know that feeling all too well.
What fandom are you writing in, Andi?
The Mentalist. And right now I'm even more sick of my AU Patrick Jane than I am of the one they've got on screen this season. Which is saying something.
