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After excitedly making a Dreamwidth account yesterday, I woke up today with an invite to archiveofourown. Which was cool. :) I don't know if someone sent me the code or not (I guess it's supposed to be anonymous?) or if it was the random generator, but if it was somebody, thanks! It's so shiny.
I went ahead and put up a fair number of my stories, and in the process re-read a lot of them. It made me remember just how much I love the Joker. Star Trek's been spinning around my head since May, and I've been loving every second of that, but I still don't feel like I have as strong a grasp on the characters as I did with the Joker.
It's not that I don't love writing Kirk and Spock--but it's harder. There's something about the distinctiveness of the Joker's voice, and the way his mind works that just clicked in my brain, and made it easier, somehow.
I get sort of the same feeling with the Jossverse characters I know best--like I don't have to sit and hunt for their voices, because Buffy and Xander and Spike and Dawn and Angel and Willow etc. are just so clearly themselves, and it's easier for me to hear what they would say, and how they would say it.
Maybe it's the difference in having a huge amount of canon to work from. I spent all of last year catching up on 7 seasons of Buffy, and 5 seasons of Angel, so that's 12 season, with about forty five minutes per episode and about 22 episodes per season. That's (I think, my math is horribly shaky) about 200 hours of just listening to how these characters talk. So maybe it makes sense that I'd "remember" their voices better? I've seen all the TOS movies and most of TOS itself, but it only sort of applies since what I mostly try to write is reboot. Also, the character whose voice I feel strongest on is Spock, and he's (to me) the most similar in terms of speech patterns etc. to his prime self.
With the Joker, it's only a 2 hour movie, but I also got into the huge canon of graphic novels that go along with it. So maybe it's got to do with digesting his voice in two separate mediums, and processing that separately in a way that made it more memorable? Or something?
Bah. I really don't know. I guess I'm just searching for a reason why I can love Trek, and love Jim, and love Spock, and have this urge to write about them, but not feel as easy about writing them.
But then I went back and read this this, and I just missed him, a lot.
Fine, don't thank me. But it's yours now, you know. Everything I've ever given you—lipstick kisses and death by dental drill. Tarot card suicides. Killer robots in acid green tights, poisoned stripper birthday cake, a pack of bloodstained playing cards with the sexy bits drawn back in and a couple of damn funny jokes.
*shrug* I don't know.
In closing, and because I just slightly depressed myself and he always cheers me up, Shatner. Includes such gems as "Shatner, asked about his position on guns and gun ownership, speaks instead of the day he wound up barreling down a California highway on his motorcycle with his clothes half torn from his body and blood pouring from his head (and several other parts of his body)—and with a teddy bear in tow."
I went ahead and put up a fair number of my stories, and in the process re-read a lot of them. It made me remember just how much I love the Joker. Star Trek's been spinning around my head since May, and I've been loving every second of that, but I still don't feel like I have as strong a grasp on the characters as I did with the Joker.
It's not that I don't love writing Kirk and Spock--but it's harder. There's something about the distinctiveness of the Joker's voice, and the way his mind works that just clicked in my brain, and made it easier, somehow.
I get sort of the same feeling with the Jossverse characters I know best--like I don't have to sit and hunt for their voices, because Buffy and Xander and Spike and Dawn and Angel and Willow etc. are just so clearly themselves, and it's easier for me to hear what they would say, and how they would say it.
Maybe it's the difference in having a huge amount of canon to work from. I spent all of last year catching up on 7 seasons of Buffy, and 5 seasons of Angel, so that's 12 season, with about forty five minutes per episode and about 22 episodes per season. That's (I think, my math is horribly shaky) about 200 hours of just listening to how these characters talk. So maybe it makes sense that I'd "remember" their voices better? I've seen all the TOS movies and most of TOS itself, but it only sort of applies since what I mostly try to write is reboot. Also, the character whose voice I feel strongest on is Spock, and he's (to me) the most similar in terms of speech patterns etc. to his prime self.
With the Joker, it's only a 2 hour movie, but I also got into the huge canon of graphic novels that go along with it. So maybe it's got to do with digesting his voice in two separate mediums, and processing that separately in a way that made it more memorable? Or something?
Bah. I really don't know. I guess I'm just searching for a reason why I can love Trek, and love Jim, and love Spock, and have this urge to write about them, but not feel as easy about writing them.
But then I went back and read this this, and I just missed him, a lot.
Fine, don't thank me. But it's yours now, you know. Everything I've ever given you—lipstick kisses and death by dental drill. Tarot card suicides. Killer robots in acid green tights, poisoned stripper birthday cake, a pack of bloodstained playing cards with the sexy bits drawn back in and a couple of damn funny jokes.
*shrug* I don't know.
In closing, and because I just slightly depressed myself and he always cheers me up, Shatner. Includes such gems as "Shatner, asked about his position on guns and gun ownership, speaks instead of the day he wound up barreling down a California highway on his motorcycle with his clothes half torn from his body and blood pouring from his head (and several other parts of his body)—and with a teddy bear in tow."
