Another weekend gone...

[lightofdaye]

But the question is where. Where has this weekend gone? I'm sure I meant to do some writing. Kinkmeme writing at the very least if not the stuff for harryhetbigbang whose first deadline edges ever nearer.

Instead nada.It's not like i've done nothing. I went around the town centre looking for birthday gifts for a friend. I couldn't find anything new or original gift. So... choccys from the supermarket it is. (nice expensive-ish choccys mind you) And for myself i got a new book, Post Captain By Patrick O'Brien. and I watched a couple of episodes of DS9

And today I did my weekly food shopping and watched Gran Torino on dvd. So I know where the weekend went. I just don't know how no writing got done.



hp_darkfest sign-ups are weird. Apparently there are only mod picked image and quote prompts. Which is sad because I had a couple of prompts I might liked to have donated. I guess I could write them myself but I'm not really a dark writer and i'm not sure I want another fest anyway.

But it looks like i won't have to worry about asoiafkinkmeme distracting me anymore. They're running a two day round this weekend and then shutting down for a couple of months. Still I seem to be totally out-of-sync with the people prompting at the moment anyway.


eta a random question: How do people and the show for that matter pronounce the name Margaery, as in Tyrell. In my head I'd always assumed a hard 'G' like Marr-Gory. But recently i realised its probably just a fantsyish spelling of the name Marjorie.

Comments

[luna-plath.livejournal.com]

How is your total length looking for the bigbang? I think I'm finally at 4k, but there's so much left and I'm worried that I'm moving too slow. Bleh.

Did you like Gran Torino? I watched it for the first time a couple days ago. My parents saw it ages ago and really liked it, but my dad is a big Clint Eastwood fan anyway.

I was not expecting the change in prompts for hp_darkfest but I signed up anyway, mostly because I already have something started that the prompts could go with, even if the pairing is weird and no one will probably want to read it. Most of the suggestions weren't actually that helpful for fic writing. I like when people prompt a character and a scenario, but all the text prompts were quotes. I'm still going to do it, but I'm not sold on the setup.

Have you noticed that a lot of the formerly familiar posters at the kinkmeme have just....disappeared? I don't understand it. A lot of the people that used to post prompts I would look forward to have just lost interest, I guess. I'm kind of glad they're taking a break though, because I don't have time to write fills and it will just distract me when I should be writing about Harry and Pansy.

[lightofdaye]

My total length for the big bang is holding steady at the 800 words i showed you before :( It's been great bouncing ideas off you with e-mail but i haven;t really managed to sit down and increase my word count.

I'm not sure about Gran Torino. it was interesting and well acted and shot and everything but it was so slow. I'd forgotten just how understated Clint plays things. So its cool but I think I was in the mood for something a bit more brainless and fast paced.

Yeah. i'm sad about darkfest. I've never been into prompts based on quotes from literature that's not in that fandom. So nothing but that makes me sad. Two ideas I had would be Harry/Narcisa, where she using the life debt he owes her to ride him back to power and a next-gen one with JamesII/Roxy. She's attracted to him cos he's like her dad. But James is not a genial prankster type of trouble maker but a real nasty piece of work taking advantage of her.

I've noticed all the people who prompted in Dacey/Robb seem to have vanished. But thats possibly because Honey_wheeler and lit_chick have got that whole big Bear Island AU arc going on on A3O. Which is sad because their postings were why i started prompting Dacey/Robb. Cause in your case it could just be that people who posted the same kind of things as you were tired of never getting them filled. :P Very grateful for that Dany/Jon you did. :-D There don't seem to be many of them on the meme/

[luna-plath.livejournal.com]

I know what you mean about just not writing much. Sometimes I have to bribe myself with scenes I know are going to be fun so I can get through the ones I'm less crazy about, like saving the best parts of your dinner for last lol. That seems to help when I'm working on something long and just not feeling it.

I had a similar reaction to Gran Torino. While I was watching it I ended up checking the time more than once, wondering when the pace was going to pick up. Have you ever seen Harry Brown? It's similar thematically to GT but it's much more in-your-face-action-plot-etc, with Michael Caine as an older vigilante living in a neighborhood that's gone to seed.

I like your Harry/Narcissa idea. I've looked for stories with that pairing all over the place but I can never find any. Maybe someone at darkfest will surprise me and write something like that, although last year I was amazed at the amount of Harry/Draco that got written. I was like, really, must this pairing invade every corner of fandom? Is there no escape?

I love the Bear Island AU. honey_wheeler accidentally spoiled me at one point, so now I'm all kinds of excited about future chapters. One thing I just don't get that some people seem to love is Jaime/Sansa. That pairing baffles me, but I am honestly not much of a Jaime fan so perhaps I'm biased. Robb/Dacey though--that's so likely/easy for me to believe when you look at canon. And I am constantly sad about how there are no Dany/Jon fics ever. Anywhere. : (

[lightofdaye]

The Harry/Narcissa idea actually came out of discussions with hollywoodlawn about why she paired them up at the start of her folie eh duex Harry/hermione fic.

There are pairings that'd quite like to try and write that keep popping on kinmeme like myrcella/robb or arriane/rob but the actual prompt with them never seems to be quite right. Too fussy about these things I guess.

Jaime/Sansa mystifies me as well. Still It's more plausible than Sandor/Sansa.

Yeah, I really get where Robb/Dacey comes from. It's just the fics for them always get so angsty. I mean it works, but I guess I'd like some straight up porn some of the time as well.

[luna-plath.livejournal.com]

Harry/Narcissa is interesting because Harry kind of owes her for saving him in the forest, so there's a basis for some kind of interaction right there. And she doesn't seem to be as plainly bad/good as Bellatrix and Andremeda, so I'd love to learn more about Narcissa's character.

I'm actually really curious about what would have happened if, say, Robb and Myrcella had been betrothed instead of Sansa and Joffery. I think a lot of things would have happened very differently, and I wish more authors explored that.

As for Robb/Dacey, agreed. Sometimes I just don't feel like reading a piece that's going to rip my heart out. With them you have to deal with affairs, arranged marriages, or the red wedding. How depressing.

Truthfully I can't imagine Sansa with anyone. I mean, Jon/Sansa is fun to write about but I don't expect that to become a real thing, and Jaime and Sandor seem like even weirder picks. I kind of hope that Harry Hardying doesn't turn out to be as much of a womanizer as Petyr made him sound like.

[lightofdaye]

Good point about Narcissa. But my thinking was also that saving people's lives in HP as we see with harry and wormtail it produces a literal magic bond between them. OR at least that was my reading on Dumbledore's words. It also seemed possible to me that Wormtail didn't intentionally let harry go when he invoked that bond. Which makes his death (all the more tragic for him at least) but that may not be the correct reading of that sequence as intended.

All we see from Narcissa is some low-level pureblood bigotry in a shop and everything else she does is just motivated by looking out for Draco. So I'm guessing she's not a true believer in voldemort's doctrine. Though she was presumably brought up with pureblood=best attitude she's not compelled to actually act on it.



As to Myrcella; Gosh yes. I mean the implications just from Robb not being able to get into the Frey marriage alliance for a start. He either has to find another way across. Or just man up and try to take Tywin in battle.



I did a brief fic for it. But that was just Robb deciding not to chop her head off. Because y'know, he's not a dick. It's another pairing where most of the prompts just put so much of a scenario in, it never works. I like the plot implications. I'd also just like them to bang each other.

I tried to prompt an angst take on the Dacey pairing. The general response was 'but what would be the point?' I may have to fill my own prompts for them though sooner or later.

As for Sansa. I'd like her to end up being happy with Tyrion. And i think now petyr's explained his plan. It's probably

[luna-plath.livejournal.com]

I think you're right about the bond thing, and in the instance between Harry and Wormtail. It seemed like his hand was pretty much out of his control. I remember that scene as being especially creepy.

I'm sure Narcissa is a fairly prejudiced person, it just doesn't seem like she has any aggressive attitudes about it. After everything that's happened to her family I'm not surprised at the disillusioned attitude the Malfoys seem to have. In the end they were very Slytherin in just wanting to look after themselves and not actually caring that much about the ideology.

There are some good Robb/Myrcella stories out there, but not enough. I will have to go look for your fic. Sometimes I really do want an angsty story with some porn thrown in--like that Arya/Benjen fic I wrote. I'm not above filling my own prompts, since no one else seems to write about Jon/Arya like ever.

I'd much rather see Sansa with Tyrion than any of the other options that have been thrown around.

[lightofdaye]

Robb/Myrcella Fic is here I should do a masterlist some time since I have comment fic that's not on my own journal.

I'd write Jon/Arya if only I though I could do it well. Definately see where you're coming from though with it.

[lightofdaye]

I do know where you're coming from Willow, my interesting in writing comes and goes some times. I feel like I shouldn't have started on goings either. I write best on shorter things.

And fest deadlines make you feel like you have to write to get it down rather than because you want to.

I can't take the name marjorie, seriously. Blame Fry & Laurie