Told you I'd be posting on other computers a lot.

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First, a pimp: the_randomiser, a new community dedicated to writing challenges based on the Doctor Who Random Pairing Generator. Go take a few hits off the crackpipe, luv. :D

Also, wasn't there a random pairing generator for the CSI-verse? Or am I misremembering? If there was, would anyone care to tell me where it happens to be?

There are so many characters on the RPG that I don't know, guys. I may have to revise my "show first, spinoffs later" policy if I'm going to keep this up.

For example, on my next round on whoniverse1000 (of course I'm still writing for it), I'm thinking of requesting Jo Grant/Iris Widthyme. I know nothing about Iris; I've never heard any of her audios. The only reason I want it is because they Are Played By The Same Actor, Lols. And because from what I've gleaned of Iris from fic, she and Jo would get along absolutely great.

I feel a bit guilty requesting fic solely because of the actor gimmick, but hey, I've already requested Brigadier/Bret Vyon, which is not only random but also far more unlikely than Jo/Iris, given that the Brig and Vyon exist in completely seperate times and anyway Vyon's dead. At least Iris is a time traveller.

OH OH WAIT YOU KNOW WHAT COULD MAKE THIS WORK? The War Games. I mean, Vyon was kind of in a war in his own timeline, and the Brig...well, the SIDRAT used to pick up soldiers from World War II missed by a decade or three and grabbed the Brig by accident. AND THEN THEY MEET EACH OTHER ON THE BATTLEFIELDS AFTER ONE OF THEM CROSSES THE BARRIER OMG. I WOULDN"T EVEN HAVE TO BRING IN WAR CHIEF!BRIG AT ALL.

Or or or the Doctor somehow ends up in far-future Earth just before the events of The Dalek's Master Plan and maybe the Brigadier's with him? Oooh! Or ALTVERSES. Altverses solve EVERYTHING.

*ahem* Done with the capslock now. Really.

Still, though, is it bad form to fill your own request? Because, sad though it makes me, I'm pretty sure no one else will pick up Brigadier/Bret Vyon though you've a claim on one of my theoretical children if you do,  and now that I actually have sort of an idea how it might work I'd kind of like to give it a go.

Jo/Simm!Master, Harry/Vira and Something Other Than Het, Dammit take precedence, though. Also, someone's requested Three/Sarah Jane, and while I'd love to write it (hello, Invasion of the Dinosaurs post-ep), all the Three-fic on the meme so far is by me and I feel like I should give someone else a turn. If they want it, of course. If no one does, that post-ep is so going up there anyway.

Vaguely related to the above topic: I've noticed that, while I enjoy slash, femslash, and het in equal measure, the vast majority of my writing (for every fandom so far) has been het. And, when it isn't, it's usually femslash. My slash has this tendency to become very gen-flavored, and I'm not sure why that is. (Actually, I've got a few ideas, which will be explored in the Things I Never Blog About responses under a very tight flock, but that's for later.) Maybe I'm just used to the male/female dynamic? I mean, in my crime drama fandoms, I have kind of an excuse - very few of the male characters are openly gay or bisexual, and I honestly don't know how two men who think of themselves as heterosexual negotiate that kind of change in their relationship - or even how closeted homosexual or bisexual men negotiate such changes when there's no guarantee of reciprocation from the other party. Yes, yes, I know everyone negotiates it differently, but I always worry that the way I write it, it'll come across as false or contrived - or, worse, as wangsty.

To a degree, that kind of thing still applies to some of the Who characters I write, such as Harry, Ben, and the Brigadier - they're still rather firmly stuck in a heteronormative society, and would probably be discharged if they came out. But, dammit, it shouldn't be this hard to write slash about an alien omnisexual floozy who doesn't care who knows it. :(

(WARNING: This bit contains spoilers for the most recent seasons of CSI and CSI: Miami. I didn't think of it in time to put it under a seperate cut. Sorry...)

Speaking of crime dramas, I've found it sort of wierd writing CSI-verse fic at the moment. Most of the fic I write either ignores or takes place before the current seasons, and a whole lot of it either involves characters who are dead (Catherine/Warrick, Nick/Warrick, Horatio/Marisol) or characters that have changed majorly in the intervening seasons (Horatio/Ryan, Sara/anyone at all). It seems strange to go back to my happy H/M fluffland when there's all this ex-girlfriend angst floating around in the main series; it feels somehow inappropriate to write fic with Warrick that doesn't even vaguely foreshadow what happens to him at the end of Season 8, as if everything was normal and the finale never happened. And any Horatio/Ryan I write must by necessity have an element of fix-it fic to it, because I can't just write them the way they were in Seasons 3-4 anymore.

I feel like not being current makes me look oblivious, like the ficcing trends and tides have moved on and I haven't. Not that I followed the trends all that much to begin with, but...still. There's this disconnect. Suddenly the sandbox has changed, and I wasn't finished playing in the one I was used to yet.

Oh, and then there's the thing where I have to learn how to write New York right quick, which has always been more challenging for some reason. The dialogue comes easily enough once I have a go at it for a half-hour or so, but it's just that - stiff, dead, unconnected dialogue. No feeling. I can't slip in and out of the characters' heads the way I can with the Vegas and Miami crew. I'm just not certain why.

Sigh. I miss the old sandbox.

One last thing: I'm sort of tempted to look for my name on the who_anon meme. I know it won't be on there; I've only posted a few fics publicly, I stay away from the big comms, and generally I just sit here in my quiet fandom corner and don't make a fuss. Which is a pretty good way to go about it, don't get me wrong - I'm certainly not asking for fuss, and thus far I've been fortunate enough to have a complete lack of it in all my fandoms and am much happier for it. And besdes, looking for my name would mean actually reading the anonmeme, which I'd rather not do. Ever.

And yet I remain curious.

 
Farewell for now; back to the working world.