I'm glad you're not like "eh, it was just something I threw together"
*snickers* Trust me, it was definitely NOT just thrown together. I worked on it for months. The only thing that actually saved it from the scrap pile was the idea of using those McSweeney's lists as section titles--because somehow those helped me tie it all together.
It makes me happy that Kara and Dee interacting is wish-fulfillment for people besides me. Sorry for the torment - I enjoyed the results!
Hee! I liked the results too, so thanks again. And it really does please me that people want to see those two working together, since there's an anti-Dee contingent out there. Gives me hope that not everyone in fandom is like that. (Well, most people aren't like that at all. But certain fans can get really vocal at times... as we both know, being fans of Cally.)
Bound: I know you took some criticism for that one, but it rang very true to me, and how I view the characters, so ... I was happy. :D (You, Lyssie and Mark Verheiden totally saved it. *g*)
Well, when I go back and reread it, it still works for me as well. But I can better recognize my own motivations, now that more time has passed.
But it's an interesting point - if I think about it, a lot of the time I write, it's because I want to 'fix' something, whether it's a character that I want to understand more or a scene that I feel *must* have happened to explain what came later or the relationship these characters have. Not all the time, but most - which is why BSG is such a perfect fandom for me, because it is so sloppy with characterization sometimes, and there are so many WTF moments. It's a little ironic. ;)
Hee! Yes to all of this. That and having a slightly different yet mostly familiar world--for me that helps. I think this same motivation works for the only non-BSG fic I've written, too.
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*snickers* Trust me, it was definitely NOT just thrown together. I worked on it for months. The only thing that actually saved it from the scrap pile was the idea of using those McSweeney's lists as section titles--because somehow those helped me tie it all together.
It makes me happy that Kara and Dee interacting is wish-fulfillment for people besides me. Sorry for the torment - I enjoyed the results!
Hee! I liked the results too, so thanks again. And it really does please me that people want to see those two working together, since there's an anti-Dee contingent out there. Gives me hope that not everyone in fandom is like that. (Well, most people aren't like that at all. But certain fans can get really vocal at times... as we both know, being fans of Cally.)
Bound: I know you took some criticism for that one, but it rang very true to me, and how I view the characters, so ... I was happy. :D (You, Lyssie and Mark Verheiden totally saved it. *g*)
Well, when I go back and reread it, it still works for me as well. But I can better recognize my own motivations, now that more time has passed.
But it's an interesting point - if I think about it, a lot of the time I write, it's because I want to 'fix' something, whether it's a character that I want to understand more or a scene that I feel *must* have happened to explain what came later or the relationship these characters have. Not all the time, but most - which is why BSG is such a perfect fandom for me, because it is so sloppy with characterization sometimes, and there are so many WTF moments. It's a little ironic. ;)
Hee! Yes to all of this. That and having a slightly different yet mostly familiar world--for me that helps. I think this same motivation works for the only non-BSG fic I've written, too.
Thanks for the LJ profile name!