obligatory post-yuletide post
Jan. 3rd, 2011 12:21 pm![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
ambientlightboth of my urasawa requests this year were fulfilled, eheh. my main gift was 21st Century Girls, a fic set in the 20th Century Boys universe and starring an original - female! - cast. i'm still boggling at the thought that went into this fic: all the details!
a kind person also wrote me a Yuletide treat: There will be an answer, a Pluto fic focusing on North #2. i've discovered that i really like fic that deals with the cognitive processes of robots - there's another Pluto fic that does that, too - and North #2's story was really compelling in canon, so yay.
---
i think i've said before that i feel as though my contribution to![[livejournal.com profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/external/lj-community.gif)
yuletide gets worse every year, and i kind of felt that this year, too. i matched on Mushishi; my recipient requested something about mushi and humans living together, which i immediately parsed as casefic. i... have zero interest in writing casefic, unfortunately. (i don't have a great deal of interest in reading it either, to be honest; few casefics have really held my attention, though one of them is the other Mushishi fic this year.)
one of my recipient's other requests, however, was for Sarai-ya Goyou, a series i've been meaning to watch for ages. so i watched it, enjoyed it, and figured that i could work with it. i worked a little on the Mushishi fic, too, but focused on finishing the Sarai-ya Goyou one before writing most of the Mushishi one.
(a digression: before i went on holiday, my recipient had a 'dear yuletide writer' placeholder post up. after i returned, my recipient's lj and dreamwidth accounts had been deleted, and they haven't acknowledged their fics, either. i hope they're okay, wherever they are. >_.)
in the end, i wasn't satisfied with either one. the problem, of course, is that i went with the usual stringing-vignettes-together approach in each one - which would usually be fine, except in this case i never felt that they coalesced entirely. if anything, i'm a little happier with the Sarai-ya Goyou one, though it does frustrate me that i couldn't write more than one post-series scene; i wanted to add another, but the manga goes beyond the anime and i didn't want to end up contradicting it (as i haven't read that far yet). the Mushishi fic continues to feel unbalanced and bitty, to me; i feel a few hundred more words might have helped. there was a scene with Adashino that i started to write, before deciding that the fic was already too fragmentary.
assignments went out Nov 22; i had to finish the fic(s) by Dec 6, since i was going on holiday. term only ended on Dec 3. i don't know if i would have been able to do a better job with more time; perhaps not.
---
next year i am tempted to request Van Gogh fic if the Artists RPF category still exists. also, i really really want fic with philosophers in. epistolary fic, most probably, but maybe also something about Leibniz's massive intellectual crush on/one-sided rivalry with Locke.
a kind person also wrote me a Yuletide treat: There will be an answer, a Pluto fic focusing on North #2. i've discovered that i really like fic that deals with the cognitive processes of robots - there's another Pluto fic that does that, too - and North #2's story was really compelling in canon, so yay.
---
i think i've said before that i feel as though my contribution to
yuletide gets worse every year, and i kind of felt that this year, too. i matched on Mushishi; my recipient requested something about mushi and humans living together, which i immediately parsed as casefic. i... have zero interest in writing casefic, unfortunately. (i don't have a great deal of interest in reading it either, to be honest; few casefics have really held my attention, though one of them is the other Mushishi fic this year.)one of my recipient's other requests, however, was for Sarai-ya Goyou, a series i've been meaning to watch for ages. so i watched it, enjoyed it, and figured that i could work with it. i worked a little on the Mushishi fic, too, but focused on finishing the Sarai-ya Goyou one before writing most of the Mushishi one.
(a digression: before i went on holiday, my recipient had a 'dear yuletide writer' placeholder post up. after i returned, my recipient's lj and dreamwidth accounts had been deleted, and they haven't acknowledged their fics, either. i hope they're okay, wherever they are. >_.)
in the end, i wasn't satisfied with either one. the problem, of course, is that i went with the usual stringing-vignettes-together approach in each one - which would usually be fine, except in this case i never felt that they coalesced entirely. if anything, i'm a little happier with the Sarai-ya Goyou one, though it does frustrate me that i couldn't write more than one post-series scene; i wanted to add another, but the manga goes beyond the anime and i didn't want to end up contradicting it (as i haven't read that far yet). the Mushishi fic continues to feel unbalanced and bitty, to me; i feel a few hundred more words might have helped. there was a scene with Adashino that i started to write, before deciding that the fic was already too fragmentary.
assignments went out Nov 22; i had to finish the fic(s) by Dec 6, since i was going on holiday. term only ended on Dec 3. i don't know if i would have been able to do a better job with more time; perhaps not.
---
next year i am tempted to request Van Gogh fic if the Artists RPF category still exists. also, i really really want fic with philosophers in. epistolary fic, most probably, but maybe also something about Leibniz's massive intellectual crush on/one-sided rivalry with Locke.
