Fics I've Been Meaning to Write
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osprey_archerMaking lists, because sometimes lists help me get things done:
Fanfics I Am Working On
1. The Sutcliff swap fic. Which I need to finish! Soon! And I don't know why I haven't, because I know basically what's going to happen, but I just...haven't written it.
2. "Vigil," Downton Abbey. In which Edith Crawley sits up with a wounded soldier and chats with Sybil.
Sybil smoothes the covers. “Why don’t you go to nurses’ training?” she asks.
“Oh, I couldn’t,” Edith blurts.
“Couldn't?” Sybil repeats. She looks up, a crusading spark burning the weariness out of her tired eyes. “Why can’t you? You’re ever so much better prepared than I was.”
3. "Five Great Escapes Chuck Never Made", Pushing Daisies, dealing with the weird dissonance between Chuck's stated love of adventure and desire to see the world, and the fact that she lives a terrifically isolated life in her aunts' house till she dies (she doesn't even seem to go to school, let alone away to college, and certainly doesn't get an out-of-the-house job), and then moves seamlessly into Ned's life.
It's a very Victorian progression, when you think about it; quite in keeping with the old-fashioned aesthetic of the show. This is probably why I didn't even notice the contradiction for ages.
I've been working on this fic for *mumblecough* a while, and it's not getting anywhere because I'm not actual sure how to reconcile these two things. What's stopping Chuck from having her adventures? She isn't a Victorian girl, so it's not societal pressure. And it doesn't seem to be pressure from her aunts; there's no resentment there. And Pushing Daisies sometimes seems to inhabit an alternative universe where money is never an issue, so she's not staying home purely out of poverty. (And if she was, wouldn't you expect her to get a job rather than an expensive bee-keeping hobby?)
4. An untitled Garrow's Law story, all about Silvester and his post-duel realization that Garrow does not, in fact, see Silvester as Silvester sees Garrow - to wit, as a professional colleague with whom he has a stimulating rivalry and witty repartee - but instead loathes and despises Silvester as the scum of the earth.
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Random thought for the day: haberdashery sounds way more swashbuckling than it actually is. There should be a steampunk superherione called The Haberdasher. By day, she seems like a mere button seller; but by night, she engineers robot spider buttons, which detach from waistcoats and make off with the family jewels when activated.
Fanfics I Am Working On
1. The Sutcliff swap fic. Which I need to finish! Soon! And I don't know why I haven't, because I know basically what's going to happen, but I just...haven't written it.
2. "Vigil," Downton Abbey. In which Edith Crawley sits up with a wounded soldier and chats with Sybil.
Sybil smoothes the covers. “Why don’t you go to nurses’ training?” she asks.
“Oh, I couldn’t,” Edith blurts.
“Couldn't?” Sybil repeats. She looks up, a crusading spark burning the weariness out of her tired eyes. “Why can’t you? You’re ever so much better prepared than I was.”
3. "Five Great Escapes Chuck Never Made", Pushing Daisies, dealing with the weird dissonance between Chuck's stated love of adventure and desire to see the world, and the fact that she lives a terrifically isolated life in her aunts' house till she dies (she doesn't even seem to go to school, let alone away to college, and certainly doesn't get an out-of-the-house job), and then moves seamlessly into Ned's life.
It's a very Victorian progression, when you think about it; quite in keeping with the old-fashioned aesthetic of the show. This is probably why I didn't even notice the contradiction for ages.
I've been working on this fic for *mumblecough* a while, and it's not getting anywhere because I'm not actual sure how to reconcile these two things. What's stopping Chuck from having her adventures? She isn't a Victorian girl, so it's not societal pressure. And it doesn't seem to be pressure from her aunts; there's no resentment there. And Pushing Daisies sometimes seems to inhabit an alternative universe where money is never an issue, so she's not staying home purely out of poverty. (And if she was, wouldn't you expect her to get a job rather than an expensive bee-keeping hobby?)
4. An untitled Garrow's Law story, all about Silvester and his post-duel realization that Garrow does not, in fact, see Silvester as Silvester sees Garrow - to wit, as a professional colleague with whom he has a stimulating rivalry and witty repartee - but instead loathes and despises Silvester as the scum of the earth.
***
Random thought for the day: haberdashery sounds way more swashbuckling than it actually is. There should be a steampunk superherione called The Haberdasher. By day, she seems like a mere button seller; but by night, she engineers robot spider buttons, which detach from waistcoats and make off with the family jewels when activated.
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Date: 2012-07-18 12:38 am (UTC)no subject
Date: 2012-07-18 01:27 am (UTC)I mean, Torchwood obviously. Everything fits in Torchwood. But could I fold into into a steampunk AU Downton Abbey? Make it a Pushing Daisies casefile? Does Emerson ever have a waistcoat with buttons that could turn on him?
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Date: 2012-07-19 12:20 am (UTC)YES Emerson certainlly has waistcoats. UNF.
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Date: 2012-07-19 01:45 am (UTC)I've been meaning to rewatch Pushing Daisies anyway for the Chuck story...I could kill two birds with one stone here. :)
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Date: 2012-07-27 03:35 am (UTC)no subject
Date: 2012-07-27 04:42 am (UTC)And poor Edith. No respect!