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Envinyatar (envinyatar15) wrote,
@ 2007-11-07 00:52:00

Current music:	Madonna [Die Another Day]
Entry tags:	exchanges, harry potter, supernatural, writing

i guess i'll die another day...
Huh. I have 20,000 words of finished ficcage lying around. That's... um. Er. Kinda much, for me? But I'm finally halfway done with the exchanges. (Mind you, those 20k are not spent on a single fic.)

I've been reading a whole lot of Supernatural fic these past ten days since I've been lured into it, and I'm asking you: why are at least 99% (judging from what I've read so far) of the fic in that fandom - SPN and related RPS - written in present tense? Not that I mind in the least because that tense, IMO, adds a kind of quiet intensity and/or urgency and/or sarcasm and/or deadpan voice, all of which I seriously adore, but. It's seriously troubling me. HP fic is probably 75% past tense or some such, which, granted, is probably because the book series it's based on is written in past tense and the "common" tense in novel-writing seems to be past tense (I'd kill for more published novels in present tense and/or more experimental technique of storytelling, like, say, The Virgin Suicides by Jeffrey Eugenides, or When I Was Five I Killed Myself by Howard Buten). Anyway. All I'm saying it's a real difference there, not that I mind it.

I'm also contemplating which exchanges I'm going to actively follow in December. I've come up with:
- due South Secret Santa
- harry_holidays
- merry_smutmas
- smutty_claus
- snupin_santa
- spn_holidays

Occasionally devoured will be snarry_holidays. And I'm sure I'm forgetting a couple or so.

Does that strike anyone as too much? *sigh* I'll really have to clear my December schedule... And all what I want posted this year (apart from my fic offer, and you can still request a ficlet from me a few entries down) will have to be posted by November 30, because there's going to be enough reading (and viewing!) material in December. That leaves a less over three weeks to write write write edit edit edit and post post post. Uh-oh.

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r_grayjoy
2007-11-07 12:42 am UTC (link)

Gack. The fic I'm currently writing is threatening to hit 20,000 words, but I sincerely hope it doesn't...

Does that strike anyone as too much?

Hahahahaha, yes. But I admire your ambition. :P

Last year I kept up completely with harry_holidays and mostly with merry_smutmas and Kinky Kristmas on daily_deviant (I fell behind toward the end), with occasional reading in Snupin Santa. That was honestly all I could manage. (Granted, I was at the end of my first semester in grad school at the time, but a lot of the Smutmas fics are also loooong.)

This year, I'd LOVE to keep up with merry_smutmas, harry_holidays, snarry_holidays, Snupin Santa, and Kinky Kristmas, but I KNOW it won't happen. I'll do what I can, though. ::sigh::

BTW, do keep up with daily_deviant in December. We're doing an entire month of collaborations for Kinky Kristmas this year, so the total number of postings will be smaller, but the awesomeness factor will be very high! :D

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envinyatar15
2007-11-07 08:20 pm UTC (link)

Now, the question is what are you currently writing? :D *curious*

Well, since my longest (posted) fic as of yet is 6,400+ words long, I don't think I'm going to break 20k with a single fic anytime soon. 'cause, y'know, I hate writing plot.

Ha, right! DD is on the "will occasionally be devoured" list. Because at DD I already know which writers' styles I'm not into that much, and which artists' art I'll just have to look at and stuff. And then there's kink and squick issue, and pairings. And stuff.

Well, you're not much less ambitious than I am, eh? That's five fests. And yes, I know I'm not going to be keeping up either - I'm going to end up skipping Harry/Draco anyway, so there are a couple of fics on harry_holidays and merry_smutmas I already know I won't read (art, as usual, is a different matter), and the rest... Well. You've got to have goals in life ;)

Last year? I completely failed towards the end, and I was only trying to keep up with harry_holidays and smutty_claus. Don't ask me why I wasn't following merry_smutmas that closely; I think it has to do with the fact that the word count kinda... discouraged me. I like shortish, well-done pieces, and often actually prefer them over the longer stuff because... I don't know. Because a) plot doesn't do much for me often (different with writers I really know, but I usually don't read long fic by someone whose style I don't know will totally capture me) and b) I'm looking for the emotional stuff, and you can't drag that out over 10s of Ks. Making sense? Probably not, but there you are. :)

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zebraspots05
2007-11-13 05:12 pm UTC (link)

Um, where are you going to find the time for all that reading? I barely get to read 2 or 3 fics a day right now. I don't actually know what comms I belong to anymore, since the lockdown, I can't always tell if I will be able to see the f-locked posts (as you found out with sexy_brilliance)

its funny, but I really like the longer stuff...I think we are pretty much opposite for all our fanfic preferences!

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envinyatar15
2007-11-15 10:51 am UTC (link)

Don't ask me where I'll find the time, I seriously don't know. Hole myself up at home for the month, I suppose ;)

Haha, interesting with the opposing preferences. Just how do we work together??? LOL! But yeah, I used to love longer stuff, but... I don't know, a heavy emphasis on plot has never done much for me, so things always had to have a huge emotional component to keep me going. Over the years my impatience and ability to concentrate as well as my reading habits have changed more and more towards short, emotional stuff, though - by now I rarely read HP anymore, and if I don't want plot. There's only so much of it you haven't seen after so many intense years. I prefer stories up to 10,000 words :)

Yeah, the lock-down is kind of problematic, no? *sigh* There's so many links that I've lost because people are f'locking... It's sad, even though I see that it might be necessary.

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coerciveconsent
2007-11-15 12:20 am UTC (link)

Hey you. I have perverted german questions for you -snerk-

Is this the correct way to say: "Have you a heart?" "I have a big penis. I have no heart."

Hast du ein Herz?

Ich habe eine grosse Penis. Ich habe nicht ein Herz.

Would "Ein Herz habe ich nicht" place emphases on "A heart I do not have." ?

And what about slang- is "Ich habe gross pimmle" equiv to "I have a big cock"?

Lmao. I MUST KNOW PERVERSIONS!

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envinyatar15
2007-11-15 10:42 am UTC (link)

Haha, perverted German questions are awesome :D

"Hast du ein Herz?" - "Ich habe einenn großen Penis. Ich habe kein Herz."

Can you give me a context for "A heart I do not have"? As such I could interpret it in different ways, and I'm not quite sure what you mean with the emphasis.

Well, you'd usually say Schwanz for "cock". Pimmel is not as often used - I personally have a heavy dislike for that word because it doesn't sound, um, grown-up, I suppose. It's "Ich habe einen großen Schwanz."

YAY PERVERSION!

If you've got any more questions, just shoot away! I'll try to be as helpful as I can :)

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coerciveconsent
2007-11-15 11:11 am UTC (link)

That weird S [that looks like a B] that I don't know how to make is basically two s's right? Thank you for sparing me embarrassment should I ever speak pervertedly to a german individual about cocks x)

Is pimmle like the American equiv of calling a penis a "wee-wee" or something? LOL. "You have a large wee-wee" makes me choke on my spit x)

Can you give me a context for "A heart I do not have"?

No, I was just toying around with my limited knowledge of German sentence structure. My instructor says to place emphasis you'd put the noun/modifier first - or some such thing. Like "Heute brauche ich das Auto" For "Today I need the car" instead of "Ich brauche heute das Auto" - [I need the car today}

I won't comment on how weird you guys arrange your words, I am sure english appears the same way to everyone non-native xD

How might you say "I want to fuck you." or equiv in german?? Hahaaa.

Oh, another weird question ... I heard 14 is legal in Germany, but then a friend told me 16 - which is true? It's 18 here, but 16 in England - I like to make note of these things x)

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envinyatar15
2007-11-15 12:36 pm UTC (link)

"I want to fuck you." - "Ich will dich ficken." Though again, I personally dislike the word "ficken"... I think I've been handling the English language a little too much XD

Yeah, the ß is called, um, "esszett", I guess you'd write it. Like, "sz" when you pronounce both letters seperately. Basically it is "ss", yeah, with just the difference that when there are two of the same letters the syllable is spoken quickly, and with the ß that's not the case. It's one of those many weird things about German ;)

I don't think Pimmel is equivalent to wee-wee, although I kids people who use it. It's certainly not as clinical as Penis/penis, but not nearly as vulgar as Schwanz/cock. It's just a weird word ;) Now I'm thinking about kids usually use, but I'm coming up short. I need to ask someone! :D

As to the emphasis - now I get what you mean! Yeah, you'd say "Ein Herz habe ich nicht." Though I think usually you'd say "Ich habe kein Herz." With emphasis on the "habe". The other one is more written language, the other one more spoken.

I researched matters of legality regarding sex just recently because of the LJ kerfuffle. Truth is, 14, 16 and 18 all have a significance. If you're 14 you're allowed to have sex with someone who's under 16, under 18 if it's okay with the guardians. If you're 16 you're allowed to have sex with basically anyone, except if your partner is your teacher/guardian/what-have-you. With those you're only allowed to have sex once you've reached the age of majority - 18. 21 also has some kind of significance, but I'm not sure about that anymore... It's not that important.

Hm, yeah, when I learnt English some things were pretty weird. But not anymore, I'm too used to the language by now! :D Also, if you're German English is pretty easy to learn. I mean, we've got all those various declinations of nouns - don't know the English words, but Nominativ, Genitiv, Dativ, Akkusativ... for each of these declinations the Artikel (articles? XD) and nouns change their endings. And stuff. Those are, of course, also present in English, but you don't have to do anything with the nouns. English is kind of a lean-back language ;)

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	envinyatar15 2007-11-15 10:52 am UTC (link)
	typo: "Ich habe einen großen Penis." No two Ns there! Sorry about that. (Reply to this) (Parent)