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domarzione) wrote2013-08-20 12:34 pm
domarzione) wrote2013-08-20 12:34 pm
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stuff about stuff
* I think I'm prepared to call the cross-posting a success and commit to it. I've only had one mixup that got cleared up quickly and I've certainly been posting enough. So, if you are interested in the LJ-flist trimming, feel free to go ahead. Actually, you never need my blessings for that, but you know what I mean.
Also, if I am supposed to be following you at DW, let me know. My LJ flist is tiny because of permissions and my privacy twitchiness, but DW is far more flexible with that, so if you're interesting and you know it, clap your hands. :)
* Thaw is done and I'm at a bit of loose ends. I still want to write, but now there is nothing to write. I can't really ask for timestamps or missing scenes or POV shifts or questions or whatnots like I used to do in SGA because the bulk of the reading audience is on AO3, which isn't geared for that.
Not unrelated, I went back and made some tweaks to the story, since there are downsides to writing it as a posted WIP. Most of the corrections are stylistic and/or simple booboo fixes, but I did make one substantive change, which was go to back and make Clint's... sense of deja vu about the brain co-opting a little less understated, since I think I underplayed it too much before the last chapter. Anyway, the changes came out to less than a hundred words, but I think it's a subtle improvement.
* Watched The Losers the other week because Netflix won't give me what I really wanted -- what's up with the new releases and big releases suddenly being "very long wait"? -- and I really wish they'd done a better job there. I think I only ever read the first TPB of the comics, although I wonder why that was because the premise is totally up my alley, and I'm all for most of the changes they made with respect to the characters (especially everything to do with Roque, although turning him into a three-dimensional character without also updating his heel turn motivation made it worse), but the material itself didn't translate very well from one medium to the next. I've read some fic -- holy carp and other fish, there's a lot of it! -- and I've found a few good ones. I'll take recs there, though, because there is so much of it and I just dipped toes. And yes, I read the slash.
* The baseball team is in its working-for-next-season phase, which is why Travis d'Arnaud is now the starting catcher despite being oh-fer-MLB, and I am giddy that hockey players are now skating in organized groups large enough to merit reports from bored beat writers.
* RIP Elmore Leonard and thanks for all the fish.
Also, if I am supposed to be following you at DW, let me know. My LJ flist is tiny because of permissions and my privacy twitchiness, but DW is far more flexible with that, so if you're interesting and you know it, clap your hands. :)
* Thaw is done and I'm at a bit of loose ends. I still want to write, but now there is nothing to write. I can't really ask for timestamps or missing scenes or POV shifts or questions or whatnots like I used to do in SGA because the bulk of the reading audience is on AO3, which isn't geared for that.
Not unrelated, I went back and made some tweaks to the story, since there are downsides to writing it as a posted WIP. Most of the corrections are stylistic and/or simple booboo fixes, but I did make one substantive change, which was go to back and make Clint's... sense of deja vu about the brain co-opting a little less understated, since I think I underplayed it too much before the last chapter. Anyway, the changes came out to less than a hundred words, but I think it's a subtle improvement.
* Watched The Losers the other week because Netflix won't give me what I really wanted -- what's up with the new releases and big releases suddenly being "very long wait"? -- and I really wish they'd done a better job there. I think I only ever read the first TPB of the comics, although I wonder why that was because the premise is totally up my alley, and I'm all for most of the changes they made with respect to the characters (especially everything to do with Roque, although turning him into a three-dimensional character without also updating his heel turn motivation made it worse), but the material itself didn't translate very well from one medium to the next. I've read some fic -- holy carp and other fish, there's a lot of it! -- and I've found a few good ones. I'll take recs there, though, because there is so much of it and I just dipped toes. And yes, I read the slash.
* The baseball team is in its working-for-next-season phase, which is why Travis d'Arnaud is now the starting catcher despite being oh-fer-MLB, and I am giddy that hockey players are now skating in organized groups large enough to merit reports from bored beat writers.
* RIP Elmore Leonard and thanks for all the fish.
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The hockey news is getting marginally less trivial. I am enjoying it.
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Now if they'd just stop The Moral Cowardice of Henrik Lundqvist BS, I'd be a happy camper.
A few of my favorite losers
All You Have To Do Is Open Your Eyes (5055 words) by torakowalski
Chapters: 1/1
Fandom: The Losers (2010)
Rating: Explicit
Warnings: No Archive Warnings Apply
Relationships: Carlos "Cougar" Alvarez/Jake Jensen
Characters: Jake Jensen, Carlos "Cougar" Alvarez, Franklin Clay, William Roque, Linwood "Pooch" Porteous
Additional Tags: Pre-Canon, First Time, communication without words, Body Language
Summary:
“Okay, no,” Pooch says, holding up his hands, “there is no way I’m gambling for money against you and Cougar.”
Jensen frowns, leaning across the table to make wide, concerned eyes at Pooch. “Is it because we’re just that fucking good?” he asks.
“No.” Pooch knocks the edge of the pack once, twice against the table. “It’s because I’m pretty sure you can read each other’s damn minds.”
This Side of Paradise (17031 words) by thefourthvine
Chapters: 1/1
Fandom: The Losers (2010)
Rating: Explicit
Warnings: No Archive Warnings Apply
Relationships: Carlos "Cougar" Alvarez/Jake Jensen
Additional Tags: Fake/Pretend Relationship, Undercover, Undercover As Gay
Summary:
"I'm a good boyfriend," Cougar said.
Impersonation (6152 words) by Resonant
Chapters: 1/1
Fandom: The Losers (2010)
Rating: Explicit
Warnings: No Archive Warnings Apply
Relationships: Carlos "Cougar" Alvarez/Jake Jensen
Characters: Linwood "Pooch" Porteous, Jake Jensen, Carlos "Cougar" Alvarez
Additional Tags: Romance, First Time, Undercover, Character of Color
Summary:
"This is a dream assignment, and I am not going to fuck it up just because my teammates aren't secure enough in their masculinity," he said to Pooch.
"You ever nibble on my earlobe again, they will find your body in eight places," Pooch said, but Pooch didn't share Jensen's commitment to self-improvement.
The Sniper at the Gates of Heaven (17029 words) by JoeLawson
Chapters: 1/1
Fandom: The Losers (2010)
Rating: Mature
Warnings: Author Chose Not To Use Archive Warnings
Relationships: Carlos "Cougar" Alvarez/Jake Jensen, Franklin Clay/William Roque, Jolene (Losers)/Linwood "Pooch" Porteous
Characters: Franklin Clay, William Roque, Carlos "Cougar" Alvarez, Jake Jensen, Linwood "Pooch" Porteous, Aisha al-Fadhil, Jolene (The Losers)
Additional Tags: Alternate Universe - Apocalypse, Angst, First Time, Hurt/Comfort, Family, Families of Choice
Summary:
It's like giving a gun to a six-year-old...
Pants, swagger, and other things to bring to a gunfight (2795 words) by storm_petrel
Chapters: 1/1
Fandom: The Losers, The Losers (2010)
Rating: Teen And Up Audiences
Warnings: No Archive Warnings Apply
Relationships: Carlos "Cougar" Alvarez/Jake Jensen, Jolene (The Losers)/Linwood "Pooch" Porteous
Characters: Jake Jensen, Franklin Clay, William Roque, Linwood "Pooch" Porteous, Carlos "Cougar" Alvarez, Jolene (The Losers)
Summary:
Five people who've seen Jensen naked. To be fair, it's mostly not his fault.
In Which Cougar Always Looks (2435 words) by Resonant
Chapters: 1/1
Fandom: The Losers (2010)
Rating: Explicit
Warnings: No Archive Warnings Apply
Relationships: Carlos "Cougar" Alvarez/Jake Jensen
Characters: Carlos "Cougar" Alvarez, Jake Jensen
Additional Tags: Romance, First Time, Character of Color
Summary:
There were many things Cougar would have liked to unsee, but the world didn't work like that.
Next of kin (we're all born renegades) (10703 words) by storm_petrel
Chapters: 1/1
Fandom: The Losers, The Losers (2010)
Rating: Mature
Warnings: Author Chose Not To Use Archive Warnings, Graphic Depictions Of Violence
Characters: Jake Jensen, Sarah Jensen Corwin, Emma Corwin, Franklin Clay, Aisha al-Fadhil, Linwood "Pooch" Porteous, Carlos "Cougar" Alvarez, Max
Summary:
The first time Jensen meets Max, he's cuffed to a chair with a dislocated jaw. Things don't improve significantly from this point onwards.
the antechamber of another world (11876 words) by kisahawklin
Chapters: 1/1
Fandom: The Losers (2010)
Rating: Explicit
Warnings: No Archive Warnings Apply
Relationships: Carlos "Cougar" Alvarez/Jake Jensen
Characters: Carlos "Cougar" Alvarez, Jake Jensen, Linwood "Pooch" Porteous, Jolene (The Losers), Aisha al-Fadhil, Jensen's sister (The Losers), Franklin Clay, William Roque, Jensen's niece (The Losers)
Additional Tags: Alternate Universe - Steampunk, Steampunk
Summary:
When Jensen went to the market that day, he didn't know what he'd been expecting - but it certainly wasn't Cougar.
Kindred (25872 words) by taibhrigh
Chapters: 1/1
Fandom: The Losers (2010), The Losers - All Media Types
Rating: Teen And Up Audiences
Warnings: No Archive Warnings Apply
Relationships: Carlos "Cougar" Alvarez/Jake Jensen
Characters: Carlos "Cougar" Alvarez, Jake Jensen, Franklin Clay, Linwood "Pooch" Porteous
Additional Tags: Alternate Universe - Sentinels and Guides Are Known, Alternate Universe - Sentinels & Guides, Soulmates, Alternate Universe - Fusion
Summary:
Jake Jensen had been hiding that he was a guide from most everyone for his entire life. Carlos "Cougar" Alvarez was a sentinel searching for his partner since he was thirteen. Now a software training session which isn't what it seems has thrown them together. Can this sentinel and guide come together in time to stop a group of smugglers that is hiding something not even the Losers could have thought possible?
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The others, however, I will try. Thank you!
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1. It's TheFourthVine. She does not do angst. Not real angst.
2. It's The Losers. Common consensus seems to be that they pay strict attention to military norms in order to ascertain how best to break them.
3. I just re-read it. Primary source of angst is Jensen's history of tears and maiming from all of his second dates, and his sincere desire not to have Cougar do that.
Frothy, frothy fic. Unrealistic out the wazoo, but then again: it's the Losers.
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The others, though, I have now read. Which started with a trippy adventure from the Apocalypse to the sentinels to the steampunk, so I thank you for that. :)
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Btw, I finished Thaw today and really, really enjoyed it! I love a gripping mission fic like that! The level of detail infused in the story really makes it come to life. And I really like Clint's POV.
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The movie made everyone ridiculously hot and significantly less effed-up in the head and generally funnier, so your basic Hollywood overhaul and better than making them all broody with thousand-yard stares. There are some nice tiny moments in the film, which is possibly why the whole was so disappointing.
Re: Thaw. Thank you so much! It was maybe not the story I set out to write, certainly not with so many action scenes (heh), but I'm pleased with how it came out. I am totally making up Clint's persona and backstory from the nonexistent movie canon, so I'm glad it works -- especially for a huge Clint fan. :)
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Also, I am pretty much a one-trick pony, but right now I'm watching all of SGA and reviewing it. There is snark.
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If you aren't, I'll apologize. I am on the far side of the SGA fannish cycle from you -- the one where you go from loving the show to loving the concept of the show but not the actual show itself -- and I don't mean to harsh your squee.
(Or, why my fic gradually started being more and more about my pretend version of Atlantis and less and less about the actual episodes. And hunh, I don't have my SGA OCs icon on DW.)
I shall check out the Pistol fic. Thank you.
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I do not love SGA. I love Stargate SG-1. I am *watching* SGA. Mostly with pained disbelief, actually. But I've never seen it. SGA is the Bad Boy/Girlfriend who is handsome and noble-looking from a distance and dumb as a box of rocks up close...
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SGA was mean and stupid and possibly a drunk up close. It took a dramatic concept of such promise and turned it into a screwball comedy and did despicable things to its characters (marginalization, making them unable to retain the lessons of their experiences, etc.), all while the producers and writers gloated boastfully on their blogs. I spent five years with this bad lover and I might still be a little bitter.
I loved SG-1, but in my usual fringe-y way. I loved Jonas (and wrote him a 30K word story). I loved Cam. I kind of didn't mind when Daniel was dead that week. I tried to write Jack as not a doofus. I would never have made it as a writer if it had been my primary Stargate. :)
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Oh god THIS.
They did the same thing to SG1 for S8-10. And I was very cranky, too. Especially over the gloating. It's bad enough TPTB are stupid and talentless. But then they gloat about it...
My opinion of SGU is, of course, widely known. But I'm the last person on earth to say something can't or shouldn't be loved. Or that it can't be fannishly retrofitted into something I would even read fic about. The most interesting thing about SGU, to me, is that its fannish demographics seem to skew strongly male. So that's a thing. And I kind of wonder what elements were present to bring out the guy vote, as it were, that SG1 and SGA either didn't have, or balanced with woman-appealing content....
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Maybe I liked SGU because my tastes in general skew exceptionally male. I was as prepared to hate it as much as anyone, especially with some of the plotlines they floated beforehand. But it was the Stargate that most closely fit the one I wrote -- a real sense of a military command structure (John Sheppard is military by pretext, not by anything he says or does or how anyone treats him or how he treats others), a real battle between the interests of exploration and survival and fights over power and control, a dark humor instead of silly yukks, actual prices paid for mistakes and hubris and main characters hurt and bled... It was everything I had wished SGA to be. I know it polarized everyone, but some of those episodes and arcs were brilliant.
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Since I only watched the pilot and a few random eps of SGU S1, I won't crit the show. Not for me, but apparently I only find a new fandom boyfriend every two decades or so, so that isn't surprising...
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Huma, for the record, is actually completely canon-compliant and requires no other QH reading. The entire reason Jonas is a main character in QH is because SG1 made the offhand remark about Langara, like it was just another planet that had fallen and they had no connection to it. So he got his own story because dammit, I cared.
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But OTOH, none of them was a member of SG1 for a year. So I think TPTB were just being pissy butthurt asshats again. Quelle surprise.