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You know, I think I'd be happier about having just passed the 30,000 word mark if it hadn't come with the realisation that I need to go back and write Teyla's story as well, because it's so different from canon season 4, and I think it needs to be explicit, or it will come across as marginalising Teyla into a mother role, rather than exploring what it means to be a leader and a warrior and a potential mother in this context (although less pretentious than that sounds).
Not that I mind writing Teyla, but I really don't need this to start getting longer!
Also, adding in her point of view opens up the potential to write bits in Lorne's as well, and I'm not sure I can resist the opportunity to write him and Cadman.
On a brighter note, the angst v sex dilemma has been resolved by the handy use of neither of these in favor of John being kind of an idiot and Cam being very patient. Angst and sex to follow shortly (possibly very shortly, if I elide the next couple of weeks rather than writing them in detail, which ought to be doable).
I'd say that these things wouldn't happen if I had an outline, but that's a total lie.
In other news...
1. Interpreting Gender tutor continues to annoy me by writing a simultaneously really vague and really specific essay question (bodies matter - does this apply more to women than men?) which I intend to subvert since I know she wants us to talk about weight and appearance and I have nothing interesting or new to say on that topic, so am going to talk about medical technology and reproduction instead.
2. Work continue to fail at working out my pay month on month, and have simultaneously overpaid and underpaid me, and listed pay from a month ago as pay in advance, thus utterly confusing me.
3. I continue to come across as an idiot when commenting on a particular person's fics, without being entirely sure how I manage that. Anyone else do that - find that you just can't say the right thing, and trying to explain makes you sound even dumber, to the point that you just want to say 'I liked that, thank you,' and run away?
Note to self: don't forget to post lgbt fest fic on Sunday, or to write the other one. Fifty words in a notebook do not a fic make.
Not that I mind writing Teyla, but I really don't need this to start getting longer!
Also, adding in her point of view opens up the potential to write bits in Lorne's as well, and I'm not sure I can resist the opportunity to write him and Cadman.
On a brighter note, the angst v sex dilemma has been resolved by the handy use of neither of these in favor of John being kind of an idiot and Cam being very patient. Angst and sex to follow shortly (possibly very shortly, if I elide the next couple of weeks rather than writing them in detail, which ought to be doable).
I'd say that these things wouldn't happen if I had an outline, but that's a total lie.
In other news...
1. Interpreting Gender tutor continues to annoy me by writing a simultaneously really vague and really specific essay question (bodies matter - does this apply more to women than men?) which I intend to subvert since I know she wants us to talk about weight and appearance and I have nothing interesting or new to say on that topic, so am going to talk about medical technology and reproduction instead.
2. Work continue to fail at working out my pay month on month, and have simultaneously overpaid and underpaid me, and listed pay from a month ago as pay in advance, thus utterly confusing me.
3. I continue to come across as an idiot when commenting on a particular person's fics, without being entirely sure how I manage that. Anyone else do that - find that you just can't say the right thing, and trying to explain makes you sound even dumber, to the point that you just want to say 'I liked that, thank you,' and run away?
Note to self: don't forget to post lgbt fest fic on Sunday, or to write the other one. Fifty words in a notebook do not a fic make.