Self-Indulgence and Fic
Dec. 22nd, 2014 11:48 pm![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
morgynleriI think, at heart, most of my fic is self-indulgence. I want characters to live, I want to explore what might happen if I change one (or more) things in canon, I want to see relationships happen, I want to explore a (possibly repetitive) theme. I write because there is a story that wants to get out, and if I manage to actually finish the damn thing, so much the better (long-fic has become my bane, because I don't usually plot things out so much as set a scenario and let the muses have at... and when I do plot things out, my muses say "to hell with that, let's go this way instead").
On the other hand, I tend to have this thing where certain stories never get written down because they're... well, they're bedtime stories, or they involve tropes I don't usually use (or actively avoid, in some cases), or everyone and their sibling has written a variation on it, and I get skittish about it. When I do write them down, half the time they never see the light of the internet.
There is one of those I've been working on periodically that's Star Wars fic, and some day it will get posted to AO3 all in one piece, but mostly it's been posted as I get segments finished here and on tumblr. (Which reminds me, I need to go do something with tumblr and following someone, be back in a sec.)
Anyway.
I have another bit of fic that's not something that would typically get off my hard drive, and I think I shall be posting that here and on tumblr, because otherwise I never will. It is an AU of an AU of an AU.
Gaearon Rhûnen is an AU of Tolkien - mostly Lord of the Rings, but the rest has crept in around the edges. It goes AU sometime in the Second Age.
Flame of Durin is an AU of Gaearon Rhûnen - it is mostly Hobbit, however, with Lord of the Rings and other stuff creeping in around the edges. It splits from Gaearon Rhûnen in the Third Age, around a century before the events of The Hobbit.
No Shield For My Soul is an AU of Flame of Durin, and exists mainly so that I can prod at Miss Creepy (Cúnessa) and let her be her gloriously evil self without a redemption arc. It splits from Flame of Durin within a month of BoFA.
Yes, I have three AUs that all very explicitly share the same backstory and character list. Actually, all my AUs technically share the same cast of OCs, just their stories change and their level of importance to main story lines changes. This is not just with Tolkien stuff, but also my Star Wars AUs and other fandoms as well.
Anyway.
But so, those fics that get labeled self-indulgence in my head - the Star Wars one involves universe hopping, the Tolkien one involves letting one of my villains be evil and spell it out on screen, as it were. And not letting the good guys win. And details would be spoilers, which. Yeah. Anyway.
Rambling post is rambling and rather a lot like me talking someone's ear off, so. I am going to leave this where it is, and whatever.
Anyone want to read Fíli being the one kidnapped and at the mercy of someone whose definition of such is skewed rather more painful than most? (Instead of Kíli, who seems to be the Durin most likely to get kidnapped in stories that I don't skip for other reasons.)
On the other hand, I tend to have this thing where certain stories never get written down because they're... well, they're bedtime stories, or they involve tropes I don't usually use (or actively avoid, in some cases), or everyone and their sibling has written a variation on it, and I get skittish about it. When I do write them down, half the time they never see the light of the internet.
There is one of those I've been working on periodically that's Star Wars fic, and some day it will get posted to AO3 all in one piece, but mostly it's been posted as I get segments finished here and on tumblr. (Which reminds me, I need to go do something with tumblr and following someone, be back in a sec.)
Anyway.
I have another bit of fic that's not something that would typically get off my hard drive, and I think I shall be posting that here and on tumblr, because otherwise I never will. It is an AU of an AU of an AU.
Gaearon Rhûnen is an AU of Tolkien - mostly Lord of the Rings, but the rest has crept in around the edges. It goes AU sometime in the Second Age.
Flame of Durin is an AU of Gaearon Rhûnen - it is mostly Hobbit, however, with Lord of the Rings and other stuff creeping in around the edges. It splits from Gaearon Rhûnen in the Third Age, around a century before the events of The Hobbit.
No Shield For My Soul is an AU of Flame of Durin, and exists mainly so that I can prod at Miss Creepy (Cúnessa) and let her be her gloriously evil self without a redemption arc. It splits from Flame of Durin within a month of BoFA.
Yes, I have three AUs that all very explicitly share the same backstory and character list. Actually, all my AUs technically share the same cast of OCs, just their stories change and their level of importance to main story lines changes. This is not just with Tolkien stuff, but also my Star Wars AUs and other fandoms as well.
Anyway.
But so, those fics that get labeled self-indulgence in my head - the Star Wars one involves universe hopping, the Tolkien one involves letting one of my villains be evil and spell it out on screen, as it were. And not letting the good guys win. And details would be spoilers, which. Yeah. Anyway.
Rambling post is rambling and rather a lot like me talking someone's ear off, so. I am going to leave this where it is, and whatever.
Anyone want to read Fíli being the one kidnapped and at the mercy of someone whose definition of such is skewed rather more painful than most? (Instead of Kíli, who seems to be the Durin most likely to get kidnapped in stories that I don't skip for other reasons.)