Super Duper Bowl
Feb. 5th, 2011 03:35 pmIt has just occurred to me that, though I am going to a Super Bowl party tomorrow, I have no idea which teams are playing. (Shh, don't tell me! I want to get there and annoy all the men by being completely clueless! Last year I won 30 bucks in a pool, despite having never heard of the player I chose! It was EPIC!)
In other news: QUIT SNOWING, GODDAMMIT! I want to go bowling! :P
In other news: QUIT SNOWING, GODDAMMIT! I want to go bowling! :P
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Date: 2011-02-06 10:17 pm (UTC)*sighs* All right, I give up! The blame is mine. I gladly accept it if the end result is more dark!fic in the world and a writing buddy with whom I can commisserate during the fest. ;)
Oh, you know you're going to end up writing that Glee prompt! (And you should!) Sure, someone else is writing it: but you have a unique spin on it. Anyway, the fest seems to be rather quirky and appreciative of out-there approaches, so I wouldn't worry about this being another Yuletide-esque situation. (If that is the worry.)
For Christ's sake, I am writing my fairy tale fic IN VERSE! Why am I writing something there's a very slim chance anyone will read/appreciate? Because my brain is like a dog with a bone, and just won't let this one go.
I have no idea who Rassilon is (I know, I know: I'm a bad Who fan! I'll self-flagellate later...) so I'm not quite sure if there's a big push to pair him/her/it up with anyone or not. (The Master, especially the Simm!Master, appears to be the fandom bicycle who gets paired with everyone. Oh, and Jack: The Master and Jack.) Anyway, you could probably assume a broad leeway for "pairing" the characters together: the prompt seems rather plotty, and doesn't really even seem to imply a desire for sexytiems and/or handholding, so I wouldn't be too worried.
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Date: 2011-02-06 11:52 pm (UTC)Dude, I am so looking forward to seeing this IN VERSE story of yours. And I think I may not be the only one who'd read anything someone had tried to write in verse.
Basically all you need to know about Rassillon is that he's more or less the founder of Time Lord society and is (was) a morally and existentially ambiguous figure (also something about the Matrix and vampires and all sorts of lovely nonsense pseudo-canon stuff). The only bit he's had in New Who is that they apparently resurrected him during the Time War. He's the guy in The End of Time played by James Bond, who put the drumming in the Master's head.
But anyway, my main worry is that they want twisted Master!sex and... I'd rather just not go in that direction because you're right, the Master is surpassed only by Jack as far as these things go. But mostly I just don't see it being a proper form of torture for Rassilon.
Blah blah random fanon blah blah pseudotimelordpsychology blah. (-;no subject
Date: 2011-02-07 02:01 am (UTC)I think I have about eight lines of verse at the moment. I've been doing some research, trying to get the hang of dactylic hexameter, and I think I'm finally making headway. I keep wanting to make iambs, though, and am finding it very hard to begin each line with a stressed syllable.
Oh yeah! THAT GUY was Rassilon! I don't wanna him sexing anybody, personally: I think it's the funny costumes that seem to rob the Time Lords of any sex appeal. (I'm doing my best here not to start ranting about that disastrous return. What a waste of a plot line! "OMG, the Time Lords made it! They're not dead after all! BUT WAIT THE DOCTOR'S GOING TO KILL THEM ALL OVER AGAIN!" Stupid emo bullshit...)
There is far too much 'the Master is evil and sexy' fic floating around out there. There needs to be more, 'the Master is just evil' fic. (Evil, and psychologically complex: we know dude's got issues.)
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Date: 2011-02-07 03:06 am (UTC)The compulsion to "branch out" is evil. (-; So far I've managed to channel mine into working in different genres, but it still doesn't completely shut up.
I've been doing some research, trying to get the hang of dactylic hexameter, and I think I'm finally making headway.
I love you. That is all.
Back when I was rping Simm!Master I had a hugely hard time playing him because of how very sexual he is (no doubt meant as a contrast to the Doctor's general (quasi-)asexuality). So I get nervous about writing him in a context that might require exercising that characteristic. But, I mean... revenge!fic. If there's any slashiness, it's going to be in the form of past hero-worship and the Master getting off a bit on being bloody evil, not... well, okay I guess I can see it in that context now that I think about it. But I don't see him going through with it. (I should probably spend some time writing tonight so I'm not sitting around entertaining ideas for these two prompts, the space opera, and my fic for the game is on all at the same time.)