Writing done. Writing to discuss.

[kat_lair]

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Hah! I am DONE with the long MA assignment (except for ref checks and appendices but pfft) and because almost all the note-taking has been completed for the two shorter ones I'm pretty much at least 70% with all the MA assignments. Unless they come back with major revisions from tutors... *crosses fingers*

To celebrate and help my brain relax, I thought I'd do the Grill the Writer Meme again, just in case someone has questions.

Ask a question about my writing and I'll try to answer it:

1) What I was thinking at the time I wrote a story/series or a question about my writing as a whole. It can be absolutely anything including about my WIPs. (I don't post WIPs, but I guess you can ask about them in general re fandoms or pairings or quotes, idk)

2) Pick a character/pairing I've written and I will explain the top five some ideas, concepts, etc. I try to keep in mind while writing that character/pairing.

3) Quote a few lines from something I've written and I'll comment on them.

4) At AO3 I have posted xx works. Pick a number from 1 (the most recent) to xx (the first story I posted there) and I'll tell you three things I currently like about the story. IDK why this is so complicated a question and also, as much as I love AO3, the casual assumption that everyone posts fics there is annoying. Well. I do post most of my fics there. But not all, e.g. none of the unmarked_place stuff is there because of reasons. Anyway, rather than play with numbers, why not just randomly select a story and then I can tell you some things about it. Probably not 3 and probably not why I like it. But things.

Oh yeah, you can find my fics via LJ Masterlist or via AO3.

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Comments

[citrusjava.livejournal.com]

1) Cake - or if it's too short, Full Tang?

2) John, Sam, Dean?

Take or discard any of this, as you wish.

[kat-lair.livejournal.com]

1) Cake - Man, it's been some years! I just wanted to write something fun for a flister's birthday and at the time I was, and still am, a massive Ash fan so that's why he snuck in.

Full Tang - Dark fic is like bdsm and switching for me: I happily do a lot of things to others (write) that I wouldn't want done to me (read) unless I really, really trust the author (play partner). Well, the metaphor ends there though because I don't actually write that much dark fic at all :D However, when I do I really enjoy it. This fic started as a quite simple idea and was only going to a short ficlet but then grew into something a bit longer because I wanted to kind of explore that dynamic more. There's particularly that ambivalence of consent there that interests me; you could say that Dean consents, even initiates, what's going on here but then again, how much choice does he really has? Or, how much choice does he believe he has? Is he essentially lying to Sam here by indicating consent when it isn't clear if it's freely given... Idk, it's all just shades of grey and messy and that's what appealed to me. Also, from a shallow pov, Sam with a knife and Dean with the marks. Mmmm. :D

2) Sam & Dean (I haven't written John a lot so I'll skip him) - that's such a complicated, painful, unhealthy, essential, bone-deep relationship and I think that's the main concept for me; that everything is complicated and layered, even the good bits, even the love.

[citrusjava.livejournal.com]

Dark fic is like bdsm and switching for me: I happily do a lot of things to others (write) that I wouldn't want done to me (read/i>

Interesting!


the metaphor ends there though


:-)


There's particularly that ambivalence of consent there that interests me

Yesyes! That was interesting!
And from a more shallow pov, Dean waiting for permission, and his realization that that might be his reason(self awareness is hot). Dean's bared throat. Sam's control of the knife in the slippery sweat. "it feels nothing so much like release, bright and pure like no Winchester has ever been".All that want and not want flying around.



Sam and Dean -
< 3

[kat-lair.livejournal.com]

I'm super excited that my fic has sparked so many thoughts and feelings, you are lovely with your comments <3

[verdande-mi.livejournal.com]

I'll join your celebration :)

1. Do you only write fanfiction or do also write original fiction and or academic work? And do you write stories in Finnish also?

2. Grimm/Monroe

[kat-lair.livejournal.com]

Ooooh, good questions!

1) Yes I write both original fic and academic work. At the moment though, a lot of the original fic is kind of fanfic with serial numbers filed off type of stuff; aus in what are essentially small or non-existing fandoms, although there are a couple of completely original stories too. These tend to be co-written with pushkin666 and we have plans to bring some of them out just as long as I manage to do some proofreading and otherwise sort myself out. Watch this space!

My academic work tends to me assignments towards my MA, journal article drafts out of my PhD, report that I should be writing out of some research colleague and I did... stuff like that.

I also write poetry, mostly in English and very occasionally in Finnish. That tends to be the only Finnish writing I do nowadays unfortunately. Poetry can all be found at boneverse (it's all flocked so you need to friend the journal) if you are so inclined but rest assured that no offence is taken if not :D I moved poetry to a separate journal precisely because I knew it was only a portion of the flist that was interested.

2) Damn, I really need to a) watch season 3 and b) finish that damn trilogy! This pairing appeals to me immensely because it has the 'from friends to lovers' (this is my all time bulletproof trope) AND the power dynamics (second on the list of favourite themes) potential. Plus everything about werewolf/wolf lore/reality that you think to use! I really love the hierarchical society potential of wolves with everything that implies. When I write them I try to keep those things in mind, that Monroe comes essentially from a different culture, a Wesen and Blutbad one, from Nick and there in potential for misunderstandings on both sides.

One of my head-canon things for this pairing is that if power dynamics come into play, it's Monroe who'll be the more dominant one. I can understand the reasoning for a switched take on that but I just can't feel it as strongly that way.

[verdande-mi.livejournal.com]

I’ll watch the space and be on lookout for your work :) And in the meantime I’ll friend your poetry journal to get a sneak peek at your non-fandom writing.

I probably should have figured this out, but what is your academic field?

We’re very much in agreement what concerns Nick/Monroe. Friends to lovers is pretty much a bulletproof trope for me as well and I do tend to lean towards stories that portray an unevenness somehow, be it power or something else. And the fact that they do come from different cultures is an interesting factor and I love the moments on the show when this is showcased. I never seem to be fixed on my take of who would be dominant or who would top, I just simply don’t care about that and will read stories with both takes.

[kat-lair.livejournal.com]

My academic field is criminology, criminal psychology and police studies.

I'm totally with you on the friends to lovers and imbalance, such things provide frisson and that's interesting :D

I have finally managed to catch up with s3 of Sherlock so Grimm catch up is next on the line; after I'm back from Finland (mum's internet is veeeeeeeery slow)

[verdande-mi.livejournal.com]

Interesting!

Hope you like S3 of Grimm - I really did :)

Enjoy your trip to Finland :D

[monkiainen.livejournal.com]

And here I thought I was a multi-fandom writer, but you have beaten me to it :D I actually had a question for you...

Jack/Ianto?

[kat-lair.livejournal.com]

Heh, I believe the term you're looking for is 'fandom slut'... and proud of it :D

Oh man Jack/Ianto... This is a pairing that I actually feel I've said all I can in the single long fic I wrote about them which wrung me out emotionally: the odds are there to beat (http://kat-lair.livejournal.com/247387.html). I don't think I'll ever go back to that pairing, at least not in a serious way. The main thing for me about them is that this is a couple who did their best to live in the moment, to be happy with what they had, what time they had. And that's an important, hard, lesson for everyone.

[dreamersdare.livejournal.com]

Okay, I have one

Brendon/Jon/Tom as a relationship/proto-relationship (from Access All Areas) - what prompted that particular rare mix-up for you? I had (still have, really) an unreasonably strong fondness for that relationship as you wrote it which I've never been able to understand myself.

(Also, kudos on your MA awesomeness)

[kat-lair.livejournal.com]

Hah! There's a blast from the past. I almost wish I had some kind of deep and meaningful story to give you but alas... That mix-up just grew out of the writing process. The fic itself was very ensemble cast (how many bandom people can I fit in?) plus it is very focused on my second-favourite 'friends to lovers' pairing in bandom. I didn't want any of the Panic boys to be left out and since Spencer/Ryan was the main pairing that left Brendon with Jon. But of course Tom/Jon is another 'bff' pairing... The good thing about fanfic though is that one can have one's cake and eat it too. Also, the idea of Jon and Tom plotting to slowly woo clueless Brendon hits my adorability meter hard. Some day, I will go back to that 'verse and write that story. Some day.

[dreamersdare.livejournal.com]

I know, but it was always one that stuck with me (and I remain very fond of it). Iyt does seem very fitting to have grown out of the friends motif though :)

And some day, I shall read and enjoy it :)