double post

P.M. Marcontell -- I hope I am not part of the reason why you feel like you should keep your mouth shut! I didn't mean to make you feel uncomfortable by joining the discussion, and I am sorry if I did.

Her Wes reads a little off (which may be my Uninvited Guest issue in a nutshell), however a large part of that is the fact that I'm a primarily Wescentric writer, so many, many Wesleys feel off to me. I'm hypercritical about the characters in which I'm most invested. (Wesley, Buffy, and, oddly, Fred, even though I don't write much Fred.)

It's true, the characters we feel most invested in as writers are often the hardest to accept someone else's vision of! I like most of the Wes in TUG (I love the Watchers, and not just because she made one of them a deconstructionist), but not the very end, because it's not something the Wesley I've written myself would want to do. Sometimes, you get a hold of a character in your head, and either other people's view of the character work with it or they don't. Then, there's the converse -- I have been writing a Smallville story for several months now that I have been having trouble with because it has to be told from Clark's point of view, and I found that, among other things, I really had a hard time writing Clark. I *don't* have him in my head the way I have Lex, or Wesley (theme much?), and so it took some doing to understand even my own version of him.

I do think Yahtzee is someone who has malleable characters - she's written a couple of different Buffys, for instance. I wonder if that's part of what PMM's noticing.

(Note that I do not think this is a bad thing, at all - I don't think she's ever written a Buffy that I disbelieved, and she's hard to do right and do right by.)

And the evil Farscape fans (whom I love) have now planted Giles meets Aeryn in my head and it won't go away! There is no sex but I think extensive intellectual warfare might work.

No no no, see, PMM's going to write Crichton/Wesley. Which I realize is kind of an uphill battle, but c'mon, Plei! You'll love it. It'll be fun! Just because it's a crossover with a fandom you're not in...

Mme Lizard? Insent.

Thanks, darling. I'll be full of the slashy Christmas cheer, or something.

I hope I am not part of the reason why you feel like you should keep your mouth shut! I didn't mean to make you feel uncomfortable by joining the discussion, and I am sorry if I did.

Hee. Well, feeling less of a misanthrope, now, and to be honest, it's sort of a pile of: comment somewhere and either a: have it become some larger discussion I hadn't intended or b: see the actual comment elsewhere outside of the original context or c: comment as part of an offhand set of comments and have it turn into more than that.

So, it's no one thing, rather a set of them that have been making me want to curl under my desk and say "never talking again. ever. ever." Plus, you know, holidays.

I do think Yahtzee is someone who has malleable characters - she's written a couple of different Buffys, for instance. I wonder if that's part of what PMM's noticing

It's partly that, and partly that when she has a firm grasp on a character, it's firm enough that a more slippery one stands out all the more. There have been Buffys I've believed completely, and a couple (TUG) where I didn't, at all. YBMV.

No no no, see, PMM's going to write Crichton/Wesley. Which I realize is kind of an uphill battle, but c'mon, Plei! You'll love it. It'll be fun! Just because it's a crossover with a fandom you're not in...

In the event that someone has decided to get me Farscape DVDs, this remains possible. SA, hon, if you're reading this... any progress on the HCL/AtS? You were the last one holding the ball. Pun intended.

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If someone writes me good Willow/Dru I will make them a very nice present.

Updated Hole in the Ground with two new(ish) stories. To be a woman, and Influence. The first is Buffy; second is Of Gods and Monsters.

To be a woman

I liked that. & am I right?:

Tara
Dawn
Buffy
Will
Anya

Ayup. Cool, it came through. Glad it wasn't obscure.