Fandom Link!Spam :-D

Hey, look!

A cool post about one woman's journey into feminism and the understanding of internalized misogyny via fandom! :-D


Y'all should go and read it, it's really neat! :-D




One thing the author talks about is the idea that boyslash was okay for her, while femslash (and sometimes even hetslash) wasn't because she was very uncomfortable with female sexuality.


This leads me to wonder about my own ficking and how I tend to stick to femslash (though I've been branching out a little, lately - go me!).

I mean, obviously, I have Issues with male sexuality, but I'm wondering why. I mean, someone who was raped/assaulted/etc? I can *totally* see why *they* would have issues with male sexuality. But me?
I really don't quite get it. :-\

Anyway. That just wandered through my mind so I thought I'd post it.

Off to Slashers' Brunch now. :-D


- TTFN,
- Amazon. :-)

Fanfic Whining...

Okay.

So, now that Nanowrimo is over for another eleven months, I've gone back to doing fanfic and am trying to pick up where I left off with "Live Truly, My Heart" (the Trin/Switch Matrix fic I'd been working on for months before Nano 07 turned up).

And I have done so. :-D


:-\


By which I mean "I'm in exactly the same predicament I was in at the end of October". :-P


Said predicament is this: I don't know what to do next.

I know there are things I want to include, and I know I've got a year and a half worth of time-line left to fill before Neo turns up on the scene to throw a wrench into Trinity's brain.

I know that, in the space of 18 months I need to fit the following in:

Three trips to Zion to recharge the Neb
Two or Three sex scenes (explicit or not)
One trip to the Oracle
One Frustrated Hissy Fit by Cypher
One introduction to the Lady in Red
One detailed chase scene between Trin (and possible others) and Agent Smith, which will involve Smith calling Trin by her plugged-in name.


You would think that I'd be able to break down the time-frame into two-month periods and stick one event into each period, wouldn't you?
But I seem to be having trouble getting going.

Also, while my first bunch of chapters covered a good month or two at a time, I've (foolishly or not) gotten into the habit of using one chapter to cover one afternoon (a paragraph by the MC on having extra time on her hands, followed by three pages that cover one run-through of the Sparring Program, for example) or one twenty-minute conversation, or something.
This is great for, say, character development, and it gives me the chance to, say, let Trinity learn something new and then think about it in a reasonable amount of time rather than have her spend two months sorting through her reaction to Mouse knowing about her triad-esque relationship with Switch and Apoc (for example).
Unfortunately, I think it might sound strange - and, possibly, like a bit of a cop-out - to have too many chapters start with "days turn into weeks, which blur into months. Thus and such happens, and yada yada yada goes on. One day..." Because that works beautifully, until it becomes a crutch. And I'm dangerously close to that happening, anyway.
<*shrug*>

So that's my issue. It's getting a bit frustrating.

I'm kind of hoping that - once the exhaustion wears off, at least - the routine of my new job will kick-start my creativity in my off-hours, the way being enrolled in an MA program did two and three years ago.
I can hope, anyway. :-)


- TTFN,
- Amazon. :-)