Ficcish bits

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1. The "Tin Man" fic of DOOM is at 23,225. While I'm not desperately in love with the previous 1,000 words, I am glad they're written. It's making way for the road trip! And road trips mean sudden rainstorms and cold spells that demand tent cuddling. Yes, I am very pleased that I've come up with this nifty trick. No, I'm not ashamed that it's been done to death. Because, really? TENT CUDDLING PEOPLE.

2. amazonqueenkate and I spend a good deal of time bemoaning the lack of sexiness people see in Henry Spencer on "Psych" [played by the always delicious Corbin Bernsen]. To rectify this, we've both written porn [see my contribution here.], and now my dear lady's started shawns2daddies for all your Henry Spencer hotness needs.

3. I'm still considering porn requests. Not sure who gets their request filled next, but it's been fun figuring it out. [Because sex is always hot.]

4. I've not watched this week's "Law and Order", but will do so tomorrow. Just in case anyone was going through TWS withdrawl.

Comments

[lasergirl.livejournal.com]

TENT CUDDLING!!!!! I am inordinately excited about that. I love tent cuddling.

(And hey, how's my ice!fic going?? *puppy eyes*)

[perpet-fic.livejournal.com]

And the rationale will be that, a) they've done it before in the truck, and b) they're courting, to an extent, so what's cuddling?

I'm workin' on it! The fact that we're being threatened with 6-20 inches of snow is certainly useful as inspiration.

[lasergirl.livejournal.com]

I am slowly being KILLED TO DEATH by winter so, you know, anything to distract me from it. Even ice!fic. (Anything I can do to help? Send cookies and porn?)

[perpet-fic.livejournal.com]

I'm doing okay. It's just a matter of getting it down on paper [or typed, as it were]. But I've got some time, so I'm gonna try tonight, since I'm still in a bit of a headbutt with the bigger fic.

[lasergirl.livejournal.com]

Ooooh that sets me all a-quiver.

I still have a way to go before I can post the next part of my fic for you to see, which is sort of a pain. I'm messing around with everyone's identities and relationships, it's fun! It's also long and painful. I hope to get to chopping Cain's leg off tonight. The procedure involves some kind of robot liquor that's half jet fuel or something. Bwahaha.

Drunken!Cain should be really exciting.

[perpet-fic.livejournal.com]

Is Drunken!Cain a rambler? I can't decide if he'd actually open up when plied with alcohol, or if he'd just get even quieter.

[lasergirl.livejournal.com]

I actually picture him as a kind of teetotaller. For a couple of reasons... he seems very old-school to me. There's no electricity in the wilds of the O.Z. but he doesn't seem to mind it. I'm thinking that he probably left his family to go to the 'big city' to make some money so they didn't lose the farm, or because someone was ill and he needed to get cash for medicine or something noble like that. The tough guy act is just that - an act, but he's good at it and he can make people believe it.

But I honestly don't think he really drinks that much. Particularly robot hooch, which peels paint and fuels jet engines.

And for my purposes, he's TOTALLY a rambler. I need him to tell more about how everything in the O.Z. changed when DG was smuggled out of it. Because he HATES motorized vehicles and what AzkaD has done to the environment.

Heee. My Cain would totally join Greenpeace.

[perpet-fic.livejournal.com]

Heee. My Cain would totally join Greenpeace.

He wouldn't need to use any violence or protests. He'd just stare down people until they stop doing what he's told them to stop doing. :)

I find this interesting, because my Cain does actually go searching for whiskey at one point, but I picture my Cain more in a noir setting, you know?

"The door creaked open, and in she walked, the curves of her hips like those highways in the mountains. Dangerous and alluring. It'd be worth everything to spin off into a fiery death just to ride those curves once."

And so on and so forth. I think we do agree on Cain being anti-auto. He's a man in need of a horse and occasionally a buggy, if there's more than one.

He and Ambrose are about to cut a path through The O.Z. with two horses and a mule. I find this hysterically funny, partly because Ambrose seems to be all for it.

[lasergirl.livejournal.com]

If he'd been better written in the series I might have a different opinion about Cain's ability to be noir. I think that Neal himself would KICK ASS at a noir something-or-other and I'd love to see it for sure!!

I like meta-ing about this stuff though. Like how I think that all the robot technology was kibbled together by alchemists because they could make it work, whereas in the real world it never would have. And how I think that one of the first acts of the Queen after she's reinstated is to junk all of the gas-powered vehicles and bring back horses. (Because also, I think horses are being eaten somewhere in the O.Z. Yes, even the different-coloured ones!)

I don't think the O.Z. ever goes back to being the pastoral place it used to be before AzkaD, but I think it does manage to get preserved and turned around.

But I also think that Cain and Ambrose are never the same people as they were before. I think that they change far too much to be able to fool themselves into thinking things are alright again. I mean, I am probably not going to have Glitch be successfully re-brained, for one thing. The Ambrose-brain will probably live in the basement, and Glitch can go and visit it occasionally (with Raw's help, of course) and eventually he does get a little more 'normal' but he's never totally himself again.

And Cain gets to be all gruff and clunky and mechanical, too! So that's also lots of coolness because you know he totally hates having his life saved by robots and kids and weirdoes. And also, he hates mechanical things and would much rather have a wooden leg instead (maybe he does, when he's at home?)

See, I just want to write a sequel to my own story, even though my own story is ages away from actually finishing, just so I can play with all the new improved characters!!!