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trips down memory lane
For some reason last night, I randomly opened a bunch of old files containing bits and pieces of Marya stuff. One of them is Buffy-verse-related and 25000 words long. There's even vague plot involved, not to mention, at one point, a huge cast of characters. I always was into overkill.
Re-reading, though, I learned a few things.
1. Man, I loved the torturey emotional angst. I also loved making people admit they loved and/or cared about each other.
2. I hated Riley. If I were ever releasing this into the wild, I'd have to go and fix some of it, since Riley is badly ooc. I was hanging around with Lynxie at the time, and she hated him, so I expect that's part of it.
3. My women were all bitchy. And mean. I miss being able to write that. And they killed people and didn't care. Also, even back then, I was sarcastic about boys and men and constantly letting the women be as awesome as they needed to be.
4. Speaking of 1, though, I think Marya's Angst is half the reason I hate Kara's.
5. I kept bringing people back from the dead.
In other news, there still isn't enough interest in a Kara Thrace drabble thing. I was kind of expecting it, given the size of BSG. After all, BSG isn't like the SGs where one person could be killed and there are a hundred roaches in the walls--
That analogy didn't work out so well.
But it is true. In bsg fandom, one person = one person. There's not so much of the silent and vast majority.
Also, there's a poor showing from people not on my flist. Is this a political thing? The Kara/Lee shippers don't want to be involved with me? Of course, then I have to remind myself that they don't do things like the porn battle, either. So maybe they just don't actually like Kara all that much.
Re-reading, though, I learned a few things.
1. Man, I loved the torturey emotional angst. I also loved making people admit they loved and/or cared about each other.
2. I hated Riley. If I were ever releasing this into the wild, I'd have to go and fix some of it, since Riley is badly ooc. I was hanging around with Lynxie at the time, and she hated him, so I expect that's part of it.
3. My women were all bitchy. And mean. I miss being able to write that. And they killed people and didn't care. Also, even back then, I was sarcastic about boys and men and constantly letting the women be as awesome as they needed to be.
4. Speaking of 1, though, I think Marya's Angst is half the reason I hate Kara's.
5. I kept bringing people back from the dead.
In other news, there still isn't enough interest in a Kara Thrace drabble thing. I was kind of expecting it, given the size of BSG. After all, BSG isn't like the SGs where one person could be killed and there are a hundred roaches in the walls--
That analogy didn't work out so well.
But it is true. In bsg fandom, one person = one person. There's not so much of the silent and vast majority.
Also, there's a poor showing from people not on my flist. Is this a political thing? The Kara/Lee shippers don't want to be involved with me? Of course, then I have to remind myself that they don't do things like the porn battle, either. So maybe they just don't actually like Kara all that much.
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2. Am I, like, the only person ever who liked Riley? Not that it stopped me from killing him off in fic. I was pretty vicious to my favorite Jossverse characters.
3. I was thinking you were going to be critical of writing that, but I'm glad you're not. I like bitchy and mean female characters. I'm unrepentant, though.
4. Kara's angst honestly just bores me. I prefer her being non-angsty and awesome.
5. I see no bad in this.
As to the Kara drabble thing: If I wrote BSG fic at all? I'd consider participating. Sorry. :(
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I am a little critical about writing unrepentant killers--and there's a scene where Marya's pissed and just casually beats the crap out of this guy. It's a little wacky, seeing it now as opposed to then. Most of the people I write these days, I'm all fanwanky about why they're mean or evil or whatever. Man. I kinda miss the days when I could just have them mean and evil for no reason (or, in Marya's case, because she needs to save the world, so that killing spree was totally justified...)
Dude, I know you'd be all over this if you did. That wasn't aimed at my flist, that was aimed at the people who aren't on it, who ARE reading things like Starbuck Daily or the BSG chatter comm or the two Kara comms.
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Amazing, isn't it.
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Dun dun dun. Scary thought.
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But yeah, it's a bit strange when I realize BSG is really not as big a writing fandom as I tend to think it is or should be. weird.
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*bookends icons*
eta: argh. I'm sorry. I'm going to take my cranky self off to the couch and stare at Goren and Eames for a while.
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I can believe that some of the K/L shippers are just that petty. On the other hand, most of them seem to think she can't go two minutes without thinking about Lee or she's out of character, so...
Though, it might make you feel better that my friend Jo is having a devil of a time gettting together a Kara/Lee ficathon. So maybe it just IS the time of year.
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Okay, so I've been thinking. I STILL think if the poll and the ficathon were someplace public like SD then it would get more of a response, just because some people may not have seen it, whatever. There's that extra step of going to your LJ that may prove fatal for some. ;) But along the "political" lines - what if it were co-sponsored? I was thinking of one person I know who's a Kara/Lee shipper but a HUGE Kara fan, and she did a similar Kara Thrace appreciation week at her journal, and she's friends with some of the big-name Kara/Lee fans. So if SHE does it too, then they'll get involved. Idea? I could ask her, anyway, if you're still interested.
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And yeah, that makes me a bitch, but I'm sick of this crap. I am not going to be nice to them if they're going to be jerks.
The funny thing is? The promptathon would have been anything goes, including ANY and all ships.
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I was having communication issues, which is why I shouldn't post at 4am. I just meant that people are incredibly lazy, not that they wouldn't post because it was YOUR journal, specifically, 'cause you're not a shipper. That would just be idiotic. (...) No, really! Heh. Anyone that pea-brained wouldn't write anything decent anyway. But I can understand why you wouldn't want to do it anymore. I'm still up for it if you change your mind! Maybe during the next year-long hiatus between the two halves of season four - oh, excuse me, seasons four and five, as Skiffy is now calling them. *stabs*
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Mostly, I was discouraged because, dude, ten seconds is all it takes to fill out a poll. Ten seconds! And they couldn't even do that.
Also, I think the Helo ShAgathon had more writers than this. Like, we had 13 authors/artists offer to do work from prompts. 14 people wrote for the ShAgathon. Given that comment ficlets do NOT equal 1000 words, I'm... disappointed.
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