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chocolatepotWas typesetting last night! It feels good to get back into it. The fic I was working on is COLDBLOODED, a kind of fusion of OFMD with Fleabag's style and fourth wall-breaking, written as a screenplay. I put it all in Courier New and then adjusted the formatting so that it meets screenplay conventions. Fun!
Personal writings to share: as promised, He That Plays The King, my H/C Exchange fic. Original m/m, rated M largely for the one sex scene; I am terrible at summarizing my own writing because I never know what's most important (and to be fair, that varies by reader), but basically it's the story of a young king (Edward) who has been dethroned and imprisoned until he's brought out to marry the man who's now king (Athelstan) at the behest of his (Athelstan's) villainous, manipulative uncle. The story is largely from Edward's POV and deals with him overcoming the obstacles between him and Athelstan, largely emotional ones like "stole my throne" and "can't trust him", as well as the fact that the villainous uncle persists in victimizing him. But also, there is my ongoing OFMD hurt/comfort WIP, Prisons of Our Own Perceptions, an AU based on the premise that a different pirate rescued the Revenge from the Spanish at the end of 1x03 (it's Izzy's fault), one more inclined to take advantage of the situation. It's ... if you read it and HTPTK, you will definitely come away with a strong impression of the shape of my id, I can't lie. I think I'm coloring in some of the same lines because I had to sit on HTPTK for so long (reveals were pushed back three weeks to get more pinch hits in) and so my brain wasn't finished with it yet.
I actually just found out today that there's a Patterns of Fashion 6 from checking in on my flist, and I have odd feelings about it. There's something about the fact that I didn't know because I've checked so far out of historical costuming, and that I don't even really feel the need to get it; there's also the memory of Batsford telling me in 2014 that they didn't want to publish the book I'd already written because they didn't think there was the demand for a book of 18th century patterns, but it's like, even if they had published it, it probably wouldn't have been at all successful because what makes these new PoF books is a) the title and b) the fact that the people putting them together really know what they're doing! The entire structure of my adult life has led to me not being part of an elite academic historical fashion team, it's just how it is and there's no real way I could be involved with them unless something had gone very differently like 15 years ago for me. I don't know what my point here is, I guess that it's an odd feeling to realize that something that once was EVERYTHING to me is now something I'm ambivalent about (lately I've been considering shutting down my Etsy shop because I am legitimately bad at grading patterns, and/or maybe just publishing the 1/8 scale originals Janet Arnold-style because I don't really care as much as I used to about people using them).
Things I need to do: make a list of remaining illustrations for D&D
Things I am doing: writing a one-shot exploring-without-naming Stede's queerness and probable autism pre-canon
Personal writings to share: as promised, He That Plays The King, my H/C Exchange fic. Original m/m, rated M largely for the one sex scene; I am terrible at summarizing my own writing because I never know what's most important (and to be fair, that varies by reader), but basically it's the story of a young king (Edward) who has been dethroned and imprisoned until he's brought out to marry the man who's now king (Athelstan) at the behest of his (Athelstan's) villainous, manipulative uncle. The story is largely from Edward's POV and deals with him overcoming the obstacles between him and Athelstan, largely emotional ones like "stole my throne" and "can't trust him", as well as the fact that the villainous uncle persists in victimizing him. But also, there is my ongoing OFMD hurt/comfort WIP, Prisons of Our Own Perceptions, an AU based on the premise that a different pirate rescued the Revenge from the Spanish at the end of 1x03 (it's Izzy's fault), one more inclined to take advantage of the situation. It's ... if you read it and HTPTK, you will definitely come away with a strong impression of the shape of my id, I can't lie. I think I'm coloring in some of the same lines because I had to sit on HTPTK for so long (reveals were pushed back three weeks to get more pinch hits in) and so my brain wasn't finished with it yet.
I actually just found out today that there's a Patterns of Fashion 6 from checking in on my flist, and I have odd feelings about it. There's something about the fact that I didn't know because I've checked so far out of historical costuming, and that I don't even really feel the need to get it; there's also the memory of Batsford telling me in 2014 that they didn't want to publish the book I'd already written because they didn't think there was the demand for a book of 18th century patterns, but it's like, even if they had published it, it probably wouldn't have been at all successful because what makes these new PoF books is a) the title and b) the fact that the people putting them together really know what they're doing! The entire structure of my adult life has led to me not being part of an elite academic historical fashion team, it's just how it is and there's no real way I could be involved with them unless something had gone very differently like 15 years ago for me. I don't know what my point here is, I guess that it's an odd feeling to realize that something that once was EVERYTHING to me is now something I'm ambivalent about (lately I've been considering shutting down my Etsy shop because I am legitimately bad at grading patterns, and/or maybe just publishing the 1/8 scale originals Janet Arnold-style because I don't really care as much as I used to about people using them).
Things I need to do: make a list of remaining illustrations for D&D
Things I am doing: writing a one-shot exploring-without-naming Stede's queerness and probable autism pre-canon
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Date: 2022-06-14 01:47 pm (UTC)I hear you. On one hand it feels like it should hurt and maybe you should feel bad about it but you don't and maybe you feel bad about THAT, and on the other hand it's sort of "eh".
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Date: 2022-06-19 01:18 am (UTC)no subject
Date: 2022-06-21 12:26 pm (UTC)