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jmtorres ([personal profile] jmtorres) wrote2011-03-30 01:25 am

my current fannish brain

On the vidding front, I seem to be making a Tron vid. It will apparently contain feminist metaphors (if I manage coherency, which is a toss-up at this point) and possibly surprise femslash. Okay, probably not. Hey, if you see it, I'm taking credit.

On the fanfiction front, I currently have two main stories vying for attention.

The first is a Vorkosigan story which I'm currently calling Ivan Vorpatril: Drama Queen, Or, The Hilarious Rom-Com of Padma and Alys. Ivan's previously unknown dramatic streak comes out when his mother sends him to deliver to Ekaterin a welcome-to-the-family gift and he tells her how his father courted his mother, and various other tidbits designed to make Ekaterin feel less as if High Vor society will eat her whole for the scandals she apparently found herself in the middle of. I thought that was a complete, if dual-track, story all its own, but then Ivan whipped out an invitation for Ekaterin to attend the Reading of Faults. He tells me this is a Time of Isolation tradition that has almost entirely died out in which a friend of the groom will slander him most vilely--to scare his bride off, or legitimately warn her what she's getting into, or possibly just troll everyone for the lulz, depending on what fairy tales you heard as a child. Ivan admits that this is not really practiced anymore and in any case may not be relevant when SHE asked HIM to marry her, but he's been collecting this list since he was sixteen years old and he WILL NOT BE DENIED THIS OPPORTUNITY. Alys and Cordelia invited themselves along as "chaperons"--Alys is reminiscing about how Aral read Padma's faults, which was apparently in the trolling for lulz category, and Cordelia complains that no one told her Aral's faults. Alys replies that with everything she'd been through by the time they met her, they decided that if Aral had faults she hadn't seen already, they didn't know to know. Anyway, it feels like there should be a third story on the theme of "Ivan butts in to commentate Ekaterin and Miles's engagement, and also Padma and Alys were adorable thirty-five years ago, FYI," just to round things out, but I don't know what it is yet.

The other story rattling around my head is fic for the Supernatural episode "The French Mistake," which is the only episode I've seen all season, so I don't feel qualified to write the fic. I'm thinking that after semester's over if this is still something I care about I'll ask someone whose opinion I trust if I will be able to laugh at season 6, and if yes will mainline for Beltane and then write it. It would be um, meta-y and rpf-y and feature twitter and tin hats and script pages and *cough* a very special recasting.

And now, to bed with me! *flop*
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[personal profile] philomytha 2011-03-30 08:58 am (UTC)(link)
That Vorkosigan fic sounds utterly brilliant! The mental image of Aral reading Padma's faults makes me grin and grin.
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[personal profile] verstehen 2011-03-30 12:26 pm (UTC)(link)
Ivan roasting Miles in front of their nearest and dearest is a terribly precious image, only possibly made more precious by the utter fail Miles would inevitably make of doing it back to Ivan.

This is mostly to say... I hope to see that fic some day. ;)
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[personal profile] grey_bard 2011-03-30 01:57 pm (UTC)(link)
I really do love the idea of Ivan going "But I have a list! And I am going to use it!" and everyone headdesking amusedly.
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[personal profile] grey_bard 2011-03-30 10:02 pm (UTC)(link)
Her son? Do it for the lulz? NEVER!
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[personal profile] lannamichaels 2011-03-31 01:49 am (UTC)(link)
*snickers* Now I have visions of Nikki growing up to be a famous holovid director, who keeps having to defend his fantastical space adventures with "but that's how it really happened! I have the ImpSec reports to prove it!"
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[personal profile] jamoche 2011-03-31 08:25 am (UTC)(link)
It's like Wormhole Extreme in the Stargate 'verse - implausible deniability.
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[personal profile] lannamichaels 2011-03-31 11:11 am (UTC)(link)
You could shove a White Collar crossover into this. Mozzie Vorkosigan presents: the crazy adventures of my clone Miles!
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[personal profile] lannamichaels 2011-03-31 11:09 am (UTC)(link)
Right, but Miles should have copies and he might let them accidentally slip. And then ImpSec would be in the place of having to call Count Vorkosigan a liar. ;)
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[personal profile] carmarthen 2011-03-30 11:44 pm (UTC)(link)
I want that Vorkosigan story so much. It sounds amazing!
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[personal profile] carmarthen 2011-03-31 01:00 am (UTC)(link)
That is an extremely important thing to outline!
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[personal profile] lannamichaels 2011-03-31 01:46 am (UTC)(link)
I would love to read that Vorpatril Family Shenanigans fic. :D *offers chocolate*