guh, it's impossible!

[kaigou]

I had this brilliant notion that if you and I interact mostly on non-fandom interests, that I'd read your journal while logged into my other journal. And that if we're mostly in fandom things, then I'd read it here. Unfortunately, I think I've spent the past week dropping and adding people back and forth, trying to remember who's being read where and when and what and UUUUUUUUUUUUGGGGGGGGGHHHHHHHH.

There's a reason why I try to avoid organizing everything.

Alright. If we're discoursed in the past, I'm adding you back on. Screw this. I'll see duplicates of your journal everywhere I go if you're on both, and we'll just have to agree to politely ignore if I ever post via one login and then the next day in the other login with a confused "did I already make a comment on this?" expression. But if you've added this journal, and I don't know you, I'll add you back once you say hello. You don't have to say hello, or introduce yourself, of course; I don't mind if you lurk.

And, if you introduce yourself, here's a mild meme so you don't just have to say, "hello, I read, I feel like I dork," (which I always do when posting to introduce myself). Instead, tell me about a story -- fanfiction, original fiction, even nonfiction -- that you'd like to see in print (or another media?) which you haven't seen done. If it's fiction, tell me who's in it, what's the conflict, what's the genre? If it's nonfiction, what's the thesis? If it's some other media, do tell me more. Feel free to read through other comments, because maybe you've seen that story or movie or essay, and you might be able to fulfill someone else's dream of finding the only book out there on felting processes invented by bowling alley employees.

Comments

[windsorblue.livejournal.com]

Not so much a story, but someday I'd love to do a gallery exhibit on cosplay. Some sort of essay would have to be written to go along with it, so...I'd love to do an exhibit of fanart too, and I have a halfway decent start on that essay, but getting a space for it would be a much harder sell, I think.

[solitude1056.livejournal.com]

Unless you tied it into a sociological or anthropological thing -- haven't there been exhibits on the phenomenom of Star Trek and Star Wars fandoms?

[windsorblue.livejournal.com]

Exhibits that were specific to fandom? Not that I know of, at least not for Star Wars. I did one in grad school on Star Wars toys, and my thesis project was on Space Age sci-fi - we made mention of fandom but the exhibit wasn't centered around it.

[masqthephlsphr.livejournal.com]

Hello! No need to add me back if you don't read my LJ, but since I have yours on my flist, I thought I'd say Happy New Year.

[solitude1056.livejournal.com]

Same to you! :D

[miyabiarashi.livejournal.com]

If this has been done already, disregard it, but how about a story where a naked Heero lands at Duo's feet all of a sudden? The plot doesn't have to be in any way sordid; I just think it'd be an interesting starting point.

[solitude1056.livejournal.com]

O.O

...You mean like, out of thin air? Just...whoosh! Nekkid man! ...sort of thing?

[miyabiarashi.livejournal.com]

It's a possibility, but certainly not the only option you'd have. Like maybe a window, or maybe Heero somehow survives getting thrown out of a moving vehicle or something. Maybe even a dimensional vortex, though I dunno whether that counts as thin air...

[solitude1056.livejournal.com]

Okay, I'll make a note: another challenge. "Story begins when naked Heero lands in front of Duo. Reasons for sudden appearance are up to the author: thrown from car, dimensional vortex, etc."

Whaddaya think? Better than the 'write in the style of Georges Bataille'?

[miyabiarashi.livejournal.com]

I think both could work; the former 'cause it conveys an interesting image, and the second because, imitative writing style.

That said, given that I suck at doing imitative styles (Herodotus and Henry Fielding where the two authors I had to maul for assignments), I'm not so sure I could do Bataille. I actually need to read his stuff...any suggestions?

[ravensilver.livejournal.com]

Not intro-wise in any way, but I had to think about what kind of story I'd like to have seen written (past tense here, because I don't think it can ever be done). I'd call it: The Ladies of the Ring.

I love LoTR. I re-read it on the average of once a year. And each time I do, I wonder about the *women* in the story. What did Arwen do in the last few thousand years *before* Aragon came along? Vegetate? Who are the women of the Dunedain and where did they live, in the woods? Tolkien calls the Dunedain the "Rangers of the North" - did they have houses? Villages? What was Aragorn's mother like? What about Eowyn? What did *her* mother teach her? What was the general perception of women throughout the different Ages? When did Galadriel take over her rule and why? Did she inherit it? Did she appear out of thin air and just grab it all?

What about all the other mothers, sisters, wives? The ones that had to produce all those Heroes throughout the ages? What did they feel and think? Were there women warriors? Did they fight glorious battles? Where are their songs?

And lots more along those lines.

*THAT* saga I'd *really* like to read. :)

[solitude1056.livejournal.com]

Hasn't someone in that fandom written something like that? That fandom is massive -- I'm sure it's got to be out there!

[muffiewrites.livejournal.com]

Well, it would probably help if some of us had two accounts, too, one for fandom and one for normal stuff. I would, but, well, I'm a little too disassociated as it is. And short. Squat would be a good word. Statuesque is in my antonym category. Which has nothing to do with anything.

Anyway.

I still feel like a dork.

A story? Remember in EW where Wufei held a sword to Trowa's throat and the scene pretty much intimated that he'd had something to do with Trowa's infiltration cover being blown? Trowa doesn't strike me as a forgive and forget kind of a guy. After EW, how would those two deal with each other? While I OCD adore yaoi, I'm not thinking 3x5. I'm thinking of the tension between the two who don't spend much face time together in fanon and how it would affect the dynamics of the group.

Honestly, though, I still feel like a dork. Maybe I should get fangirly or something.

[solitude1056.livejournal.com]

Then again, they also seemed pretty much in sync for the majority of the episode. Trowa offers a kind of shoulder to each of them but Duo; he shelters Wufei yet asks no questions, just giving Wufei a breather space. He keeps Heero at his side for much longer (or, more precisely, stays near Heero for much longer, but then Heero's suicidal tendencies have gone much farther than Wufei's did, earlier). Hunh, another mirror; surprised I missed that before -- the care for Wufei being foreshadowing of the care for Heero, I mean.

If only Mal didn't hate EW with a passion, because I betcha she'd write a great 3/5 conflict point there. Damn it.

[muffiewrites.livejournal.com]

Maybe I can convert her to the dark side. Or beg and whine a lot.

[solitude1056.livejournal.com]

I mentioned this to Windsor, and she said someone's written it -- she just couldn't remember who. Rumor has it that Anne should know, and that Windsor will remember to prompt Anne to tell us both. So, uh, at some point, you'll get to read it. Once I poke Windsor to poke Anne and so on.

[theotherdigit.livejournal.com]

How about something like this... A Heero/Duo contemporary AU get-together where Duo (who is actually Satan) comes down to Earth with a couple of minions on... err, a secret mission sort of thing?... secret to humans, anyway... on God's orders. Heero is either a human or an angel or some such who gets mixed up in the whole thing. And then interesting stuff happens, and there's some sort of a cool twist, and eventually they get-together and there's a happy ending ^______^.

[solitude1056.livejournal.com]

I think I've seen the first chapter of that one, several times. Heh. A few finished pieces in a variation on that -- Becca Abbot comes to mind, as does Ashkara's big epic -- but they do all have happy endings. Nyah. ;)

[theotherdigit.livejournal.com]

I'm guessing you mean 'Thanatos' and 'Darkness at Dawn'? Read and loved the first, but never did manage to finish the second ^_^;. Not quite what I meant though... *ponders* I'd be inclined to just say that I'd like to see a more romantic Duo/Heero version of 'The Master and Margarita' (http://www.amazon.com/gp/product/0679760806/qid=1136667006/sr=8-1/ref=pd_bbs_1/103-0078459-9614250?n=507846&s=books&v=glance), or something like it, but I doubt you've heard anything about it XP. *coughs* Yeh, anyway...