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Beta Reader Appreciation Day
Oct. 13th, 2002 11:53 amToday is Beta Reader Appreciation Day.
I'd like to publically thank the following people:
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caraloupCara Loup. She took me from my rather lax beginnings and up to where I am today.
irene_heronIrene Heron. She's taken some work that's been good, and made it into something really well done.
jkbJoanna K. Blaidd. She's the one I go to when I write the darker stuff, since it's a research project of hers.
walkerminionAlex Jones. For beta work and fantastic illos, I salute you!
Anne Bonell who did the initial beta for "Illugi's Saga," alerting me to the fact not everyone has quite the background I do.
Likewise, Siduri Archanes for the same.
Diana Williams and everyone on Slash-Writers Workshop who tossed out comments when we workshopped "Matrix of Reality."
I like Te's question: "What do your 5 most recent fics say about you?"
Thanksdestina!
Three of my last 5 have been fairy tales and the other 2 have been het.
"Sources of Power." This is an original fairy tale, loosely based on "The Ogre who kept his heart outside his body." It's for the zine "Sanctuary Moon." I revived Domina Tagge, a very nasty lady from the old Marvel comic series, for the villain of the piece, and inflicted a little smuggler-abuse to get around the Passive Princess Problem (she sits and waits for her rescue), since Han Solo is nobody's idea of passive. Everyone has commented how much Luke is The Hero in this one (very Princess Bride style, too). I think is says I'm just blending my two favorite genres...
"The Coruscant Ball: a Slashy Star Wars Fairy Tale." This Fairy Tale is for "No Holds Barred" zine. It's basically a rewrite of Cinderella/Tattercoats/Cap o' Rushes, combining elements of all three. Using Jenkins, it also incorporates both genre switching and moral inversion. A lot of my work seems to use the last. I think that may say I'm questioning a lot of what good and evil really means.
"Illugi's Saga" is a fairy tale written for "Parallel Lives," the companion zine to Elusive Lover.
It starts in a semi-realistic 10th Century, moves into the "once upon a time" style, and then into the fantastic. There, it's just my SCA stuff bounding to the fore. I got to thinking it would be fun to try writing a Han/Luke story set in the Viking Era. After all, if "Alternate Visions" can incorporated everything from a sailor and a Knight Templar to a farmer and a barnstormer to a pair set in Phillip K. Dick's future, why NOT a Viking? (Besides it's about the only era I'm not writing the Simon Brothers into for "Forever Simon.")
A Last Taste of Vrlam. This is a het three-way set right after the Battle of Yavin. Luke is having nightmares, and leia offers him something better than the drugs. When she finds out he's a virgin, she brings Han into it to teach Luke all the niceties of love. But even when they're supposed to be enjoying the Princess, the boys still find a moment for themselves, even if it's just a kiss and a promise.
Not sure what that says, unless it's that "one isn't enough?"
The Vader/Leia piece (a work in progress). Another moral inversion piece, and a what-if. Leia isn't rescued and leaves Bespin as a permanent guest of Lord Vader. En route to Coruscant, he seduces her to the Dark Side of the Force, planning to use her as a weapon against the Emperor.
or
"Across Oceans of Space" which is an ongoing series of Han hopping the multiverse in search of Luke. Not all the universes are benign, and not all Lukes are still on the light side. Nor are all of them interested in him. More moral inversion, more AU. I guess I just don't like to stay close to canon.
I'd like to publically thank the following people:
caraloupCara Loup. She took me from my rather lax beginnings and up to where I am today.irene_heronIrene Heron. She's taken some work that's been good, and made it into something really well done.jkbJoanna K. Blaidd. She's the one I go to when I write the darker stuff, since it's a research project of hers.walkerminionAlex Jones. For beta work and fantastic illos, I salute you!Anne Bonell who did the initial beta for "Illugi's Saga," alerting me to the fact not everyone has quite the background I do.
Likewise, Siduri Archanes for the same.
Diana Williams and everyone on Slash-Writers Workshop who tossed out comments when we workshopped "Matrix of Reality."
I like Te's question: "What do your 5 most recent fics say about you?"
Thanks
destina!Three of my last 5 have been fairy tales and the other 2 have been het.
"Sources of Power." This is an original fairy tale, loosely based on "The Ogre who kept his heart outside his body." It's for the zine "Sanctuary Moon." I revived Domina Tagge, a very nasty lady from the old Marvel comic series, for the villain of the piece, and inflicted a little smuggler-abuse to get around the Passive Princess Problem (she sits and waits for her rescue), since Han Solo is nobody's idea of passive. Everyone has commented how much Luke is The Hero in this one (very Princess Bride style, too). I think is says I'm just blending my two favorite genres...
"The Coruscant Ball: a Slashy Star Wars Fairy Tale." This Fairy Tale is for "No Holds Barred" zine. It's basically a rewrite of Cinderella/Tattercoats/Cap o' Rushes, combining elements of all three. Using Jenkins, it also incorporates both genre switching and moral inversion. A lot of my work seems to use the last. I think that may say I'm questioning a lot of what good and evil really means.
"Illugi's Saga" is a fairy tale written for "Parallel Lives," the companion zine to Elusive Lover.
It starts in a semi-realistic 10th Century, moves into the "once upon a time" style, and then into the fantastic. There, it's just my SCA stuff bounding to the fore. I got to thinking it would be fun to try writing a Han/Luke story set in the Viking Era. After all, if "Alternate Visions" can incorporated everything from a sailor and a Knight Templar to a farmer and a barnstormer to a pair set in Phillip K. Dick's future, why NOT a Viking? (Besides it's about the only era I'm not writing the Simon Brothers into for "Forever Simon.")
A Last Taste of Vrlam. This is a het three-way set right after the Battle of Yavin. Luke is having nightmares, and leia offers him something better than the drugs. When she finds out he's a virgin, she brings Han into it to teach Luke all the niceties of love. But even when they're supposed to be enjoying the Princess, the boys still find a moment for themselves, even if it's just a kiss and a promise.
Not sure what that says, unless it's that "one isn't enough?"
The Vader/Leia piece (a work in progress). Another moral inversion piece, and a what-if. Leia isn't rescued and leaves Bespin as a permanent guest of Lord Vader. En route to Coruscant, he seduces her to the Dark Side of the Force, planning to use her as a weapon against the Emperor.
or
"Across Oceans of Space" which is an ongoing series of Han hopping the multiverse in search of Luke. Not all the universes are benign, and not all Lukes are still on the light side. Nor are all of them interested in him. More moral inversion, more AU. I guess I just don't like to stay close to canon.
