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All I care about is gay pirates
Apr. 24th, 2022 07:57 amWatched Our Flag Means Death a second time. The thing that keeps standing out to me is that basically up until they kiss, it is completely believable that they wouldn't, because that kind of queer subtext leading up to "we are such good friends" is so common ... I am really resistant to labeling stuff "queerbaiting" because it's more reasonable to me to expect that that's what will happen, it always seems somewhat delusional to me think that some network show or major studio movie is going to suddenly have two leads or even supporting characters of the same gender be romantically involved. (One of the few exceptions is Good Omens, where I was genuinely disappointed that they amped up the explicitness of A/C but cheated at the end with no outright declaration.) But at the same time, while I believe the motives are different - they're not trying to build up a slash fandom, they don't care about the intricacies of fandom beyond people liking a franchise = more money - they do deliberately take the "language" of romance and use it to develop supposedly platonic character relationships and I'm just so tired of it.
Anyway, studio meddling could have easily been like "take out the kiss" and left it all ambiguous and subtextual. And I'm so glad they didn't. (Taika would never have allowed it.)
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I've come to the end of my rough draft of my still-untitled H/C Exchange fic! Now I'm going back through to fill in the [write more here] bits - there are only a couple left; I also made a few notes for myself about concepts and characters that need to get introduced earlier or need to be thought about more on the page.
The [write more here] thing really works! I've always been resistant to it because I worry that if I skip things, a) I won't introduce stuff when it needs to be introduced and b) I won't be interested in coming back to fill it in. But what I'm finding is that once I've gone through everything I really want to write, my brain lets me write these transitions etc. It might mostly work because I only do it for short jumps - I don't know if I could competently write really disparate scenes and stitch them together. (A) is still potentially an issue but that happens with normal writing anyway.)
The one problem I do have with it is that I'm kind of good at writing scene openers, and I tend to write openers for whatever picks up after the [write more here] and you don't really want that a lot of the time if you intended for an actual transition rather than one scene ending and another beginning. So I sometimes have to scrap the initial sentence.
Anyway, studio meddling could have easily been like "take out the kiss" and left it all ambiguous and subtextual. And I'm so glad they didn't. (Taika would never have allowed it.)
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I've come to the end of my rough draft of my still-untitled H/C Exchange fic! Now I'm going back through to fill in the [write more here] bits - there are only a couple left; I also made a few notes for myself about concepts and characters that need to get introduced earlier or need to be thought about more on the page.
The [write more here] thing really works! I've always been resistant to it because I worry that if I skip things, a) I won't introduce stuff when it needs to be introduced and b) I won't be interested in coming back to fill it in. But what I'm finding is that once I've gone through everything I really want to write, my brain lets me write these transitions etc. It might mostly work because I only do it for short jumps - I don't know if I could competently write really disparate scenes and stitch them together. (A) is still potentially an issue but that happens with normal writing anyway.)
The one problem I do have with it is that I'm kind of good at writing scene openers, and I tend to write openers for whatever picks up after the [write more here] and you don't really want that a lot of the time if you intended for an actual transition rather than one scene ending and another beginning. So I sometimes have to scrap the initial sentence.
