Wednesday Addams/Joel Glicker = my OTP

[rispacooper]

soooo....Happy New Year. For the first time in years and years I actually watched New Year's Eve programming (and watched it sober) and wow is it obnoxious. Anyway...so what have I been up to writing/reccing-wise you might wonder. Or might not. Whatever. I was working my way through Without a Trace fics and noticing the serious lack of rapefic and good hurt/comfort fic-- and in a show with the hurt/comfort actually canon that's a disgrace. But then I got distracted by the holidays and then...YULETIDE. *sigh* I am currently working through Yuletide and being giggly and impressed and just pleased in general. It's always an awesome event. I will have recs eventually, even HET recs. Yeah, I know. Which brings me to my new love, the show Bones in all its cheesy tv straight couple sexual tension glory. BOOTH. reow. That's all I gotta say. Still, I could slash the two lab geeks if the occasion demanded.

Writing-wise...I've been plotting some WaT angsty porn in my spare moments, tapping away at a possible Ideas of Sin epilogue and, maybe, perhaps, returning to glare at the mess that is Rene at the moment. So...it's the New Year and one is supposed to make resolutions. I shall try to make mine easy to do...it'll make me feel accomplished.

Rispa's Writerly Resolutions: 2007

1. Finish IoS--not necessarily revise, although it could damn well use it.
2. Participate in one of the multi-fandom challenges. (The problem being I don't take part in any large fandoms, so I don't even know when these things are going on until it's too late. I am a slow writer and I need some warning. I don't know how to resolve this particular problem. Someone wanna clue me in?). Then I'll feel less guilty for only reading the results all the time.
3. Attend a fannish convention of some type if one happens near enough to where I live. I don't know if that would be a slash convention or a pirate convention or just one of the ST conventions that always comes to the Bay Area, but I need to see some sister-nerds. Of course, this will have the same problem as #2, as I won't know when or where the conventions are without knowing the ins and outs of the major fandoms.
4. Respond and post more in the comms I'm in.
5. Read and Rec more Original Slash (get pir8fancier to write Original Mystery Series based on her Slutty Grown-Up Draco Malfoy)
6. Poke around with a new Slashy Epic. ???? (Maybe that unfinished Robin Hood tragedy?)
7. Write more pr0n.


Anything I need to add?

and btw, THANK YOU FOR MY CLOVER, GRATEFUL IOS READER. *smiles*

Comments

[pir8fancier.livejournal.com]

1. Obviously meets with approval and wild clapping. I can see why you would want to edit, but maybe it's time to let Rene rest (and in my mind, spend eternity giving James the blow jobs that he so definitely deserves).

2. You're a due South hor. Why not participate in some of the ds_flashfiction challenges? It might be a good exercise for you. I know you agonize over fic and this would give you an idea and then a firm deadline that forces you to let go of something.

3. The only big fandom thing I've participated in was the Potter thing in Las Vegas last summer. It's set for early August this year, but it's in Toronto, which means big bucks. But I've done that trip before by flying into Buffalo, renting a car, and then driving to Toronto. It's about a 3-hour drive. Not sure I can make it this year because of family constraints. But if you can make the flight to Buffalo, you can crash my car ride and share my hotel room. I know it's not your fandom, but it should be INSANE with the publication of the last book. Plus, there were quite a lot of really freaky people that were more than worth of price of the air ticket.

5. I could so get into that and would read your recs with relish. The latest ugly wank in HP has me hankering for some original slash because the egos involved in fandom are SCARY. You know, I really find myself wondering about fandom because I've pretty much said everything I can possibly say in pirates because I hated DMC (did you see that Mick LaSalle of the Chron rated it the worse movie of 2006), and I've said pretty much all I can intelligently say (not of the crack variety) about HP. I anticipate that the HP fandom will completely implode with the publication of the last book. JKR will wrap up all major plot points, and the possibilities for slash will be nil.

6. Well, I remember wetting my panties when you mentioned Robin Hood fic a couple of years ago. I'm still way on board with that one. The history of that period lends itself to particularly blood-thirsty-ish-ness. However, if you did a Civil War epic with an Etienne like protag and a Deniau like protag, I wouldn't complain. No sir.

7. HUZZAH!

Sort of 5 redux. Honey, it's back to the book from hell for me. I'm going back to my critique group and finishing that fucking book if it kills me. I doubt my publisher even cares that I'm alive, but it's gotten to the point that if I don't finish it, self-hatred will, eventually, eat my insides. I need to get it done and THEN write my Original Mystery Series based on Slutty Grown-Up Draco Malfoy. You know, I am VERY curious how far I could take this. I mean, it's not like JKR has a monopoly on the concept of magic. I already sort of thought of a plot. Draco is the son of a wealthy developer. Harry is the son of a labor leader. Who gets murdered. In keeping with the food theme, restaurants need to figure in heavily. Draco owns (because he's a rich boy and restaurants are hip) a snooty, hip place where the clientele are S.F.'s finest. Harry runs a pub down in China Basin where you can grab a beer, eat a decent burger, and if you get toasted, Harry will let you spend the night on the floor. There's a contest and the two of them are to pick up awards for best S.F. restaurant...

You are evil, evil, evil.

[rispacooper.livejournal.com]

1. Revision annoys me. If I don't do it soon I never will.
2. Due South intimidates me. There's such great fic already...*shuffles feet*
3. Money would be an issue for travel. Plus, Buffalo?
5. There's several large original epics I have yet to read cuz I didn't want to give up the time. And the manga style artists...and...

And would there be magic in this restaurant-verse? Cuz the very idea of any sort of aristocratic family is intriguing, especially if it were in the Bay Area with our more democratic notions. Also, a friend of mine works at one of those snooty restaurants and lets us sample the $1,000 and up bottles of wine. woot! right up draco's alley.

[pir8fancier.livejournal.com]

Buffalo is the closest place I can get in the U.S. to make the drive to Toronto. I did it for a mystery conference a couple of years ago. It was a pain in the ass, but doable. The flight back takes AGES. You know, Southwest puddle jumping. But it's cheap.

Magic in restaurant-verse. MAIS OUI! In my pastry chef days, we dined out a LOT at uber expensive restaurants. Which is probably why I really like the down and dirty places these days. I would love to have a scene in some dive where fakeDraco is trying to hate the food because it isn't like Masa's quality, and yet loving the food. You know where we went for dinner, finally? Tiki Tom's in Walnut Creek. Have you ever been there? It's like the first non-chain restaurant I've eaten in (besides El Charro and the Great Wall) since I moved out here.

That's the kind of place I want Harry to own. Something with real tacky decor and good food. And he and Draco battle it out for best restaurant of 2007.

I have a good friend who is big in the wine business. Go figure. We were both history majors at Berkeley. I edit for pittance and he went to Davis and got a degree in enology and is now a millionaire. Anyway, he used to work crush at Mondavi and we went up to visit him and he took us in the back and was pouring cab reserves in the day when Mondavi really knew how to make wine. Fuck, it was like an orgasm in a glass. The best wine I've ever had.

[rispacooper.livejournal.com]

mmm. you know...not to sound all marketing-y, but with teh gay and the san francisco bay area tie-in...you kind of already have a market. if it was hot enough (and it would be) you could sell a lot even if it was only out of places like Good Vibrations.

it's been a long time since i've had good red wine. mmmm.

my friend's used to live within walking distance of tiki tom's yet we never went there. however, i hear they have a limo service to charter drunkass back to their homes safely. sounds like a plan.

[pir8fancier.livejournal.com]

I really enjoyed it. Did you ever eat at Siam Cuisine in Berkeley before they tarted it up? It was a semi-smarmy bar that served really good Thai food before it went up-scale. This is like that but pre-upscale. And I can believe the bit about the limos because it looks like the kind of place where you sort of morally obligated to get tanked.

Yeah, looked at crappy mystery novel last night. Oh the horror!

[rispacooper.livejournal.com]

Yeah, looked at crappy mystery novel last night. Oh the horror!

Sorry. How close is it to finished? Or should I not ask?

[pir8fancier.livejournal.com]

3/4 quarters done. But you know, the last fourth has to be killer to carry the reader forward. Kind of a must in mysteries. I suck at plots, and this has ended up being largely a character-driven story, which is okay if you're writing romances, but a little plot here would help. Groan. But moving forward.