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sophinisba) wrote2010-01-02 09:31 am
sophinisba) wrote2010-01-02 09:31 am
Yuletide reveal
Yuletide authors were revealed yesterday so now I know who wrote my gifts. Thank you, no longer mysterious authors!
-izzybeth wrote Four Completely Unconnected Scenes In 1st c. Judea (Life of Brian).
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emiime wrote Rejoicing As An Integer (Harold/Kumar), as well as the wonderful Graceland fic that I recced a few days ago.
-jain wrote Harold and Kumar and Maria and Vanessa Go to Bed. Together.
I was so happy about this one because I'd requested Harold/Kumar but also said I didn't want girlfriend bashing, and then here was this great little fic with the girlfriends, and it turns out it's written by the person who's running![[livejournal.com profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/external/lj-community.gif)
ladies1st, the Star Trek Reboot Gynocentric Fic Exchange about women that went live yesterday. I'm not really into Star Trek but I'm in favor of stories about women.
Here are the fics I wrote:
-But This Is My Home Now, 5422 words, rated PG, for the 2007 movie The Visitor.
Summary: Five times Mouna Khalil was right where she wanted to be.
Writing this was a challenge for several reasons, the main one being that it mostly needed to take place in a part of the world that I've never visited and don't know much about. I went to the public library and checked out about ten books about Syria but then worried about my fic turning into "Things I learned about Syria at the public library".zeldaophelia requested a fic taking place after the end of the movie and I had trouble figuring out how to include more than two of the characters without minimizing the tragedy of the ending, which is something that happens to a lot of people in real life.
I was happy when I figured out I could do a five things story and move back and forth in time, and I ended up setting just one of the five things in the US. I'm glad that I did it that way and I think it turned out pretty well, though more as a character/mood piece than an actual story. Thanks toisis for helping me talk this out when I was stressing, schemingreader for the beta, and claudia603 for help with some Palestinian and Middle Eastern cultural details.
-On This Shore of the World, Alberto/Ernesto (or gen), 1100 words, rated PG, for the 2004 movie The Motorcycle Diaries.
This is one of my favorite movies. It's based on a true story of a road trip Ernesto Guevara (later called Che) and his friend Alberto Granado did around South America in 1952, and it's rather slashy. Last year at Yuletide Madness I saweruthros's request for a fic that would have a queer awakening to go along with the political awakening, and I started writing and made grand plans for a large and amazing New Year's Resolution. Then I looked at part of the movie again and realized I was remembering the scenes in the wrong order and I'd need to change things up, and then I got discouraged and distracted and I put it away.
Luckilyeruthros requested the same thing this year and I got to pick it up, but I didn't go back to work on it until the 24th and I wish I'd done more with it, including Alberto really coming to terms with how much he loves Ernesto. Thanks to zulu for looking it over despite not knowing the fandom.
-Sick, Kee and Miriam, 1007 words, rated PG-13, for the 2006 movie Children of Men.
This is another one of my favorite movies and it's the third time I've written fic for it. I'd always felt sort of bad that the huge fic I wrote two Yuletides ago only had white characters in it despite the movie having such fascinating black characters, Kee and Luke. (I did love that fic though!)smaragbird wrote me a Luke NYR last year and I was happy to see that futuransky was specifically requesting Kee because she felt cheated at not getting to see more of her story and her perspective in the movie. It was neat how it worked out - I wrote this short fic taking place before the movie (when Kee meets Miriam and finds out she's pregnant) and marina/sabrina_il took up the same prompt to write a short fic about Kee after the movie, After Tomorrow. (OMG Marina wrote 12 fics this Yuletide. Randomly, I betaed one of them despite not knowing her or the fandom.)
This fic got by far the most readers of the three I wrote for this year's Yuletide, and that's a teensy bit frustrating because I'm not really satisfied with this one and think the other two are a lot better written. But I figure it's mainly because people have seen the movie and they haven't seen The Visitor or The Motorcycle Diaries. I'm happy that people want to read about Kee and that they said my fic was true to her voice.
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izzybeth wrote Four Completely Unconnected Scenes In 1st c. Judea (Life of Brian).-
emiime wrote Rejoicing As An Integer (Harold/Kumar), as well as the wonderful Graceland fic that I recced a few days ago.-
jain wrote Harold and Kumar and Maria and Vanessa Go to Bed. Together. I was so happy about this one because I'd requested Harold/Kumar but also said I didn't want girlfriend bashing, and then here was this great little fic with the girlfriends, and it turns out it's written by the person who's running
ladies1st, the Star Trek Reboot Gynocentric Fic Exchange about women that went live yesterday. I'm not really into Star Trek but I'm in favor of stories about women.Here are the fics I wrote:
-But This Is My Home Now, 5422 words, rated PG, for the 2007 movie The Visitor.
Summary: Five times Mouna Khalil was right where she wanted to be.
Writing this was a challenge for several reasons, the main one being that it mostly needed to take place in a part of the world that I've never visited and don't know much about. I went to the public library and checked out about ten books about Syria but then worried about my fic turning into "Things I learned about Syria at the public library".
zeldaophelia requested a fic taking place after the end of the movie and I had trouble figuring out how to include more than two of the characters without minimizing the tragedy of the ending, which is something that happens to a lot of people in real life. I was happy when I figured out I could do a five things story and move back and forth in time, and I ended up setting just one of the five things in the US. I'm glad that I did it that way and I think it turned out pretty well, though more as a character/mood piece than an actual story. Thanks to
isis for helping me talk this out when I was stressing, schemingreader for the beta, and claudia603 for help with some Palestinian and Middle Eastern cultural details.-On This Shore of the World, Alberto/Ernesto (or gen), 1100 words, rated PG, for the 2004 movie The Motorcycle Diaries.
This is one of my favorite movies. It's based on a true story of a road trip Ernesto Guevara (later called Che) and his friend Alberto Granado did around South America in 1952, and it's rather slashy. Last year at Yuletide Madness I saw
eruthros's request for a fic that would have a queer awakening to go along with the political awakening, and I started writing and made grand plans for a large and amazing New Year's Resolution. Then I looked at part of the movie again and realized I was remembering the scenes in the wrong order and I'd need to change things up, and then I got discouraged and distracted and I put it away. Luckily
eruthros requested the same thing this year and I got to pick it up, but I didn't go back to work on it until the 24th and I wish I'd done more with it, including Alberto really coming to terms with how much he loves Ernesto. Thanks to zulu for looking it over despite not knowing the fandom.-Sick, Kee and Miriam, 1007 words, rated PG-13, for the 2006 movie Children of Men.
This is another one of my favorite movies and it's the third time I've written fic for it. I'd always felt sort of bad that the huge fic I wrote two Yuletides ago only had white characters in it despite the movie having such fascinating black characters, Kee and Luke. (I did love that fic though!)
smaragbird wrote me a Luke NYR last year and I was happy to see that futuransky was specifically requesting Kee because she felt cheated at not getting to see more of her story and her perspective in the movie. It was neat how it worked out - I wrote this short fic taking place before the movie (when Kee meets Miriam and finds out she's pregnant) and marina/sabrina_il took up the same prompt to write a short fic about Kee after the movie, After Tomorrow. (OMG Marina wrote 12 fics this Yuletide. Randomly, I betaed one of them despite not knowing her or the fandom.)This fic got by far the most readers of the three I wrote for this year's Yuletide, and that's a teensy bit frustrating because I'm not really satisfied with this one and think the other two are a lot better written. But I figure it's mainly because people have seen the movie and they haven't seen The Visitor or The Motorcycle Diaries. I'm happy that people want to read about Kee and that they said my fic was true to her voice.