incoherent ramblings of a depraved mind

Wednesday, August 9, 2006 4:10 PM

Well, I have been done with training for almost a week now, but still have not posted any stories. I have some sort of mental block, and I am trying to push my way through it. There's a decent amount of stuff going on in my personal life right now, not to mention a second job that keeps me away on the weekends.

I will try to get chapter 4 of From Bad To Worse posted today or tomorrow. As I have stated before, I plan for it to be 10 chapters, and my goal is to get them done by the time of DragonCon, though that may be an impossible goal at this point. I have kinda stalled out on Sailing Beyond the Sunset. I know where the story is going, and I know how I want to get there, but the words and the little details just aren't coming to me. Anyone have a muse I can borrow for a bit?

In other news, I am really really really looking forward to DragonCon. I get paid this week from the fed job, which will pay bills and provide groceries and gas, and I am working 5 shifts at the restaurant, so that cash will go towards my hotel room and food/booze/smokes for the weekend. I can't wait to meet the 3 BDHs and the countless members of this site who will be there. I am looking forward to all of the hugs and late night drinking and backrubs and whatever else so much that it makes the next 22 days seem like an eternity stretching out in front of me.

This next part is not intended to hurt anyone's feelings, or to negatively criticize anyone's work in particular, or anything else that could be construed as negative or hateful, they are just my personal opinions. I just have a few pet peeves that I want to get out regarding fanfics.

~Using the word sex to describe parts of the female anatomy (ie: he parted the slick folds of her sex) completely turns me off to a scene, possibly the entire fic. There are plenty of synonyms for it.
~Children in fanfic are a touchy subject. To give them a voice, the timeline has to be advanced far beyond the BDM, and even then, writing kids' voices is still tricky. Personally, I prefer our BDHs not to have gotten to a point where they have the possibility of having kids
EDIT: ALL CHILDREN HAVE BLUE EYES WHEN THEY ARE BORN.
~I don't think Simon and Kaylee fuck nearly as much as some writers portray them to. Maybe it's just that I have never experienced, either in my personal relationships or in those of my friends, have I seen a couple go from silent yearning to sex 3-5 times a day. Maybe I'm just sheltered though.
~In my opinion, River was not a Reader until she went to the academy. In Objects in Space, the discussion they have is plainly about that subject, how they changed how she reacts to things, and Mal asking Simon right off if it was possible. I have also seen a story or two wherein River has powers akin to Phoenix (from Marvel comics) and I am sure that does not jive with Joss' view of the 'verse 500 years from now.


None of this means that I am going to change my reading habits. I like the writers that I read, and if they are guilty of the above then it is not as much of a big deal. For new writers I try, it could determine whether I continue reading their works at all. I really just wanted to be honest and get some things off of my mind. I hope I still have a few friends left after all of this.

~Jimi

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