Cry the Beloved Slash Fic

[x_los]

Chapter 5 is 5,688 words and not done at ALL. Not even 'send it to your roughest, readiest BETA' done. It has severe MPD-- and not just in the 'well, he IS crazy' way-- in the 'I'm a sex chapter! No, no, I'm an issues chapter, this are srs fanfic. But wait! I'm a chapter about his crazy!' way. The part that holds together best? The surreal section on bartering watching the cricket match for sex. I kid you not. I had to read about cricket. My god, what am I doing with my life?

I've wrestled the more crazy Master-Voice into a Chapter Five Part II and united I and II with a solid arc that links through to the sad 8 and 9 stuff and the whiz-bang 10 conclusion, thus committing myself to the kind of Plot I feared would come crawling into the fic.

This is soooo looooong. And I've never written a sex scene this, er, sex'd. And it's loooooooooong. I've been looking at it so long I don't even know if it's sexy anymore. I feel like assaulting random people on the street with snippets and, reading to them at lightening speed in a monotone before they can get away, screaming "Is this sexy?!?!" at the end. And then they'll say "Sorry, I don't like gay sci-fi porn, you strange, strange girl." And the experiment will thus have been moot.

But at the end of the day there's a blueberry muffin joke and the Master steals his cable. And isn't that what the holidays are all about? (Fuck you, Linus.)

Comments

[diatryma.livejournal.com]

I know this isn't exactly the place to ask, but I am awful at finding emails and I have a letter-game question (have for some weeks now). My email's diatryma, gmail, et cetera, so could you maybe email me? Thanks!

[x-los.livejournal.com]

I'm sorry, just spotted this, email forwarding didn't do the trick for some reason. Anyway, I haven't been keeping up w/ Last Letters. An at magistrata@gmail.com is really the woman to ask. I'll pass this on to your email in case you don't have forwarding enabled.

[diatryma.livejournal.com]

Thanks-- it doesn't seem like anyone's keeping up with the letter game. Sad sad.

[x-los.livejournal.com]

I know, such a cool prospect derailed by epic busyness.

[diatryma.livejournal.com]

That's why I've been so pushy (or at least I feel very pushy) about getting a letter to the one guy. Given that none of my letters have gotten answers, mostly due to said busyness, it feels weird to have one that was never delivered.

I think it would work better if we all knew each other already, or at least had a framework for accountability. And if there were more of us. With such a small group, any subgroups formed-- and there must be subgroups-- depend on the involvement of each person, so if one person drops for whatever reason, the entire subgroup falters.

And it is such a cool idea. I'm keeping Elisabeth, no matter what. There's so much there that no one else has found out yet.