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donutsweeper ([personal profile] donutsweeper) wrote2008-03-28 03:25 pm
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Because I am insane...

I have signed up for the bronze challenge at [profile] paliphrase  where you write in for the same prompt in ten different fandoms.  *eep*  I chose the prompt "pensive" because I can write deep, thinky stories... but ten fandoms?  What was I thinking?!?!?

[identity profile] aeron-lanart.livejournal.com 2008-03-28 08:58 pm (UTC)(link)
Make a list or 3! Look at your crossovers for a start, I think I count 6 fandoms off the top of my head...

[identity profile] donutsweeper.livejournal.com 2008-03-28 09:03 pm (UTC)(link)
Unfortunately you can only do one crossover... But I wrote my recent " It's Only Castles Burning" with it in mind and that's Doctor Who. I've written in 7 fandoms total (Discworld, Dresden Files, Doctor Who, Due South, NCIS, SGA and Torchwood) but only few have not been crossovers.

I think I could probably write something for SGA and NCIS and maybe Dresden Files without Jack- but it'll be a challenge.

But I guess that's why I signed up for it!

The scary thing is that I chose the "bronze" level with 10 fandoms, there is also silver (15) and gold (25)!!! Twenty-five!

[identity profile] chatona.livejournal.com 2008-03-28 09:08 pm (UTC)(link)
Wheeeeee, which fandoms are you going to write for? NCIS and Torchwood are part of the plan, right? Right? *bounces*

[identity profile] donutsweeper.livejournal.com 2008-03-28 09:10 pm (UTC)(link)
Of course! NCIS is so far the only other fandom (other than Who) that I've managed to write for without having to cross Jack over into it first.

Tony being all thinky and deep. That's totally doable, don't you think?
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[personal profile] unfeathered 2008-03-28 09:14 pm (UTC)(link)
Wow! I only have four fandoms I can write in!

[identity profile] chatona.livejournal.com 2008-03-28 09:14 pm (UTC)(link)
Tony being all thinky and deep is perfectly doable all right. He can even be all angsty and broken - as long as he's fighting it all the way or at least trying to hide it. a lot. at least that's what he does in my head every time.

Thinky!Tony. Oh, I know *falls over* If I were writing this, which I'm not and I will not *stomps at bunny*, I'd set it during the time that Gibbs is gone. Or maybe when he's in hospital. Or right after that scene in Requiem where Tony had to do CPR. Oh, the possibilities!

[identity profile] donutsweeper.livejournal.com 2008-03-28 09:17 pm (UTC)(link)
I didn't say I *had* 10 fandoms I could write in... *eep*

I've posted ones in 7 fandoms, and have been working on a crossover into a 8th (Jack/Logan Cale from Dark Angel) but that still leaves 2 more to pull from somewhere, and that's assuming I could manage to write in the previous fandoms without crossing Jack into them.

[identity profile] phoenix64.livejournal.com 2008-03-28 09:18 pm (UTC)(link)
Well, if you really do start to feel like you've gotten in over your head you can also do ten different pairings or characters within the same fandom. As you've already started with DW you'd be stuck with that, but I'm pretty sure that wouldn't be too hard.

Mind you, I think you could pull it off doing it the first way. I have faith in you!

[identity profile] donutsweeper.livejournal.com 2008-03-28 09:19 pm (UTC)(link)
thinky and deep and angsty and trying to hide it- absolutely. So many choices when to set it or how to write it. AS an episode tag it could tie into good wives club, chained, swak, twilight, kill ari, haitus, requiem.. etc... or just as a by itself story

[identity profile] donutsweeper.livejournal.com 2008-03-28 09:20 pm (UTC)(link)
I debated the pairings within the fandom, but even I can't slash Jack with that many people.

*crosses fingers* there's no rush *deep breath* and thanks!

[identity profile] chatona.livejournal.com 2008-03-28 09:23 pm (UTC)(link)
Oh God, yes! All of those! For a character who comes across as such a juvenile frat boy persona at the very first glance, Tony sure does thinky and deep and angsty very, very well - and, hell. The frat boy thing? Is so him trying to hide it.
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[personal profile] unfeathered 2008-03-28 09:25 pm (UTC)(link)
I'm sure you'll be fine! I just don't watch enough telly! :-)

[identity profile] donutsweeper.livejournal.com 2008-03-28 09:26 pm (UTC)(link)
it's all a mask. Which would make a good fic- did the mask slip? Is it time to let it slip? Can he show those he loves (aka GIBBS) who he really is inside? Shouldn't they already know?

Oh- you are EVIL. Now I must write that!

[identity profile] donutsweeper.livejournal.com 2008-03-28 09:27 pm (UTC)(link)
well, if you think of shows you've watched in the past... and DW, TW and SJA (if you've watched that) are each their own. Add in Angel and Buffy and that's already 5 for you.

[identity profile] chatona.livejournal.com 2008-03-28 09:30 pm (UTC)(link)
That would make a very good fic ♥ And, honestly, out of all those characters at NCIS, I think Gibbs and maybe Abby come closest to knowing that Tony is like inside.

Evil? Moi? *bats eyelashes and blinks innocently*
*rubs hands happily* Yay! Fic! Awesome!
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[personal profile] unfeathered 2008-03-28 09:32 pm (UTC)(link)
Yeah, but I barely know DW and TW well enough to write them. And I haven't seen SJA. I probably could write for other shows I've seen, but I'd have to sit down and rewatch a fair bit first, and I just don't have the time, nor the willingness to spread my attention when I still don't feel I know TW/DW well enough! :-)

It's all a time thing, unfortunately, these days.

Hmm, just thinking of possible shows and there are actually loads, if I had the time to refresh and then, well, write! Alias, Spooks, Press Gang *g*, Star Trek (original, Next Gen & Voyager), Bones, Scrubs, Third Rock (do people write fic for that?) - hell, that's ten even without DW, TW, Angel and Buffy! Oh, and Firefly, but again that would require rewatching.

Eh. Give me a few years. When Jack's at school, then I'll diversify. *g*

[identity profile] donutsweeper.livejournal.com 2008-03-28 09:33 pm (UTC)(link)
I think Abby's interesting for that. Most of the fanfic world makes her like a sister/best friend to Tony and there definitely is some of that on the show, but I think it's become fanon more than it is really canon. Like Ducky calling Tony "young Anthony" I actually haven't been able to find him saying that on the show, but it's in 90% of fics.

Gibbs is hard to judge. he'll say and do one thing, but then have this light look/smile that makes you think he's really seeing through that gruffness.

*babbles*

[identity profile] donutsweeper.livejournal.com 2008-03-28 09:34 pm (UTC)(link)
Yeah- I watch a lot of shows, but know the fandom enough to write for? That's harder. I SO hear you on the time thing. dang kids and work getting in the way!

[identity profile] chatona.livejournal.com 2008-03-28 09:39 pm (UTC)(link)
I think it's easy to interpret the relationship between Abby and Tony as seen in canon that way, or at least it is for me, because sometimes Abby will show some knowledge of Tony that other characters don't seem to have. Like, in One Shot To Kill, they have the following converstation
Abby: Tell me something I don't know
Tony: I dated my music teacher once
Abby: Really? What was his name?

And that his there? It's such a small thing, but for me it's things like that which make me think that Abby might know a lot more about Tony than Show lets on. I both love and hate that a lot of things related to Tony are so very understated. Mostly, I love it.

And yeah, it's true that Gibbs is hard to judge. It's part of the reason why there can be characterisations of him that are so incredibly different and still somehow all based in canon - he's a complex character and when you build your characterisation of him on just a few of those facets, it works and someone else will build the character based on other facets and it'll be the same character, but they'll be totally different.

Am I even making sense here?

[identity profile] donutsweeper.livejournal.com 2008-03-28 09:41 pm (UTC)(link)
ooh I missed that "his" bit in that conversation when I saw it! very interesting!!

And you *are* making perfect sense. He's very contradictory on screen. I can totally see why some people think there's a father/son relationship and others see a slash relationship (although not both in the same fic please)

[identity profile] chatona.livejournal.com 2008-03-28 09:45 pm (UTC)(link)
I watched that scene about five times because I couldn't believe she actually said his, but she must be saying that. I mean. I heard his every damn time and and and *flails* My English isn't that bad and she's not mumblinb or anything.

Yeah, I can see that as well. And, honestly. one of the things I love so much about NCIS is that just about every character has some kind of chemistry with every other character. It's so much love.

No, not in the same fic. That's just... *hides*

[identity profile] donutsweeper.livejournal.com 2008-03-28 09:51 pm (UTC)(link)
I checked the transcript- you are right
TONY: I once dated my high school music teacher.
ABBY: Really? What was his name?
TONY: Hah. Cute.

(I've read it in the same fic. *hides* it was terrible. It also randomly veered into mpreg. *shudder*)

[identity profile] chatona.livejournal.com 2008-03-28 09:56 pm (UTC)(link)
Wheeeeeeeeee! *falls over*

Oh noes! I can imagine that it must have been terrible :( I mean. I shuddered at the prospect - and I actually like mpreg. If it's well written, that is. And covers the reasons why I like it - which none of the mpreg in NCIS fandom does, really.
.. As a matter of fact, I only ever read.. well, maybe two or three mpreg stories that covered those reasons *headdesk*

[identity profile] donutsweeper.livejournal.com 2008-03-28 09:59 pm (UTC)(link)
mpreg isn't a favorite of mine. In scifi it can vaguely work, but when its NCIS and they don't change anything in the universe other than randomly adding in the 'oh yeah, guys can get pregnant' and then don't explain any of the how (I read one where Tony refused to get a c-section and Gibbs was afraid he'd die in childbirth and I kept thinking, where the hell is Tony pushing the baby? how's it's going to get out?)

[identity profile] chatona.livejournal.com 2008-03-28 10:06 pm (UTC)(link)
I don't like what you're describing at all, either. That's just wrong. I like mpreg for one reason and under one condition. The condition being that it doesn't focus on the physical aspect of it or, if it does, makes them believable. The reason is that male pregnancy is not, in no case, something a character would ever experience normally and it puts one hell of a lot of pressure on the character. I might have a thing for putting pressure on characters, stripping them bare of all protective layers and waiting to see if they break (and if so, if someone will put them back together and how) and mpreg does that. At least the kind of mpreg I like. Of which there really isn't a lot out there, I'll admit. But when I think of mpreg, I think of that - psychological and emotional pressure on two men and one of them especially. It's interesting to see them deal with it. That's what I like about it. It's such an unusual situation for a man to be in. And, sure. Unrealistic as hell. But. It affects them mentally, physically, it's not something they can escape. I like that.

*babbles*

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